Table of Contents
Getting Started viii
1 Getting Started with InDesign 3
Stepping into InDesign 4
Customizing Your Workspace, Shortcuts, and Menus 25
Before You Begin 32
2 Designing an Event Poster 35
Starting the Project 35
Adding Design Elements 52
Submitting Your Poster 73
3 A Colorful Magazine Cover Design 79
Starting a Magazine Cover Design 80
Capturing Color and Creating Color Themes 81
Fine-Timing Text Formatting and Text Frame Options 94
Editing Shapes 101
Adding Transparency and Effects 104
Preflight and Packaging for Print Delivery 109
Creating Alternate Layouts 116
4 Designing a Magazine Layout 121
Mastering a Multicolumn and Multipage Layout 122
Using Spot Colors in Print Designs 135
Creating Stories 138
Paragraph Formatting Controls 152
Creating an Interactive Form 162
5 Styling a Recipe Book 173
Styling a Recipe Book 173
Object Styles 179
Adding Text from Other Applications 183
Faster Text Formatting with Paragraph and Character Styles 188
Beautiful Tables 198
Working with Cross-References 212
Creating a Table of Contents 216
Combining InDesign Documents 220
6 Creating a Comic Book Page 225
Creating Grid-Based Designs 226
Placing and Linking Content 232
Making Text Changes 238
Working with Libraries 241
Creating Freeform Shapes and Lines 249
Working with Hyperlinks 256
Exporting to a Web Image Format 259
7 Creating an Interactive Digital Media Publication (included in ebooks and Web Edition*)
8 Leveling Up with Design (included in ebooks and Web Edition*)
9 Working with Outsiders (included in ebooks and Web Edition*)
A Anchoring Objects (included in ebooks and Web Edition*)
B Form Elements (included in ebooks and Web Edition*)
C Adjusting Master Pages (included in ebooks and Web Edition*)
D Building an Index (included in ebooks and Web Edition*)
E Understanding SWF Export (included in ebooks and Web Edition*)
ACA Objectives Covered (printable PDF available with lesson files, also included in ebooks and Web Edition*)
Glossary 262
Index 269
