InDesign CC Developing Long Documents, Books, and Manuals
InDesign is the best application for producing long documents, books, and manuals. This course will teach you the required skills, help you to develop the strategies, and guide you through mastering the InDesign features to publish long documents.
What you'll learn
A unique set of skills, distinct strategies, and different features of InDesign are required to build, design, organize, and publish long documents like books, textbooks, manuals, or any long document. In this course, InDesign CC Developing Long Documents, Books, and Manuals, you will learn all the skills, develop the strategies, and master the InDesign features to produce creative long documents efficiently on your own or as part of a team. First, you will learn how to start the production on the right foot with a solid plan for the formats, editions, and media in which your book-length project will be published before creating the roadmap, structure, and templates for an effective single-person or team-based workflow. Next, you will discover the design considerations and functions of InDesign that are of greatest value to technical documents and book-length projects, including ways to automate and standardize repetitive and error-prone activities that would otherwise put your project at risk for out-of-sync design, typos, and unnecessary labor. Finally, you will explore how to solve content organization and navigation problems, and how to use InDesign’s automation features to significantly reduce the manual labor involved in listing, referencing, and connecting parts of your books, manuals, and other long documents. When you’re finished with this course, you will be able to collaborate effectively on a long document project, and then output your manual, book, or other long document. Software required: InDesign CC 2018.
Table of contents
- Introduction 5m
- Planning Long Documents 5m
- Starting a Long Document 2m
- Adding a Bleed Area 5m
- Creating and Using a Slug Area 1m
- Cascading Parent-child Master Pages 7m
- Layering Long Documents 1m
- Building InDesign Templates 3m
- Building Word Templates 4m
- Live Linking to Word and Excel Documents 3m
- Adding InCopy to the Workflow 2m
- Breaking into Chapters or Sections with a Book File 5m
- Wrap-up 5m
- Intro 5m
- Anchoring Images and Objects 4m
- Wrapping Text Around Anchored Objects 2m
- Captioning Images Automatically 5m
- Editing Image Caption Metadata 4m
- Working with Live and Static Captions 6m
- Automatically Fitting and Positioning Images 5m
- Adding Sidebars and Inline Boxes 2m
- Cascading Styles 4m
- Using and Applying Next Style 2m
- Learning the Secret of Apply Then Next Style 6m
- Synchronizing Book Documents 3m
- Wrap-up 4m
- Intro 4m
- Numbering Pages and Sections 5m
- Managing Page, Section, and Chapter Numbers in Books 4m
- Using Text Variables 6m
- Adding Running Headers and Footers 5m
- Numbering Figures, Captions, Tables, and More 6m
- Starting a Table of Contents 5m
- Completing a Table of Contents 5m
- Adding Per Chapters TOCs, Tables of Figures, and More 4m
- Looking at Index Entries 2m
- Creating Index Entries 6m
- Generating the Index 5m
- Working with Footnotes 3m
- Formatting Footnotes 6m
- Adding and Formatting Endnotes 4m
- Wrap-up 4m
About the author
Pariah Burke is a creative professional trainer and a design, publishing, and digital publishing workflow expert and consultant whose passion is empowering, informing, and connecting creative professionals around the world. As a freelance graphic designer with over 20 years' experience, Pariah sits on the Adobe Advisory Group, is an Adobe Freelancer, and is an Adobe Community Professional and a former trainer and technical lead for Adobe's technical support teams for InDesign, InCopy, Illustrato... more