A Quick Tour of Adobe InDesign CS3
- Viewing the lesson document
- Changing the View mode
- Viewing guides
- Adding text
- Threading text in frames
- Placing and flowing text
- Threading text
- Adding a pull-quote
- Wrapping text around an object
- Adding a stoke to the frame
- Changing the frame and text position
- Adjusting the size of an image
- Working with styles
- Applying paragraph styles
- Formatting text for the character style
- Creating and applying a character style
- Applying object styles
- Working with graphics
- Positioning graphics within a frame
- About the Position tool
- Targeting layers when placing
- Cropping and moving the photograph
Getting to Know the Work Area
- Looking at the work area
- About the tools panel
- The Control Panel
- The Document Window
- Multiple document windows
- Viewing and arranging panels
- Customizing your workspace
- Using panel menus
- Changing the magnification of a document
- Using the view commands and magnification menu
- Using the Zoom tool
- Navigating through your document
- Turning pages
- Scrolling through a document
- Using the Navigator panel
- Using context menus
- Selecting Objects
- Using InDesign Help
- Using keywords, links, and the index
- Locating a topic using the index
Setting Up Your Document
- Creating and saving custom page settings
- Creating a new document
- Switching between open InDesign documents
- Working with master pages
- Adding guides to the master
- Dragging guides from rulers
- Creating a text frame on the master page
- Renaming the master page
- Creating additional master pages
- Creating a placeholder master
- Adding a title placeholder frame
- Adding placeholder frames for graphics
- Wrapping text around a graphic
- Drawing colored shapes
- Creating text frames with columns
- Applying the masters to document pages
- Adding sections to change page numbering
- Adding new pages
- Arranging and deleting pages
- Placing text and graphics on the document pages
- Overriding master page items on document pages
- Viewing the completed spread
Working with Frames
- Working with layers
- Creating and editing text frames
- Creating and resizing text frames
- Creating multiple columns
- Adjusting text inset within a frame
- Vertically aligning text within a frame
- Creating and editing graphics frames
- Drawing a new graphics frame
- Placing graphics within an existing frame
- Resizing a graphics frame
- Resizing and moving an image within a frame
- Replacing the contents of graphics frames
- Changing the shape of a frame
- Wrapping text around a graphic
- Working with frames
- Working with Pathfinders
- Converting shapes
- Using the Position tool
- Rotating an object
- Rotating an image within its frame
- Aligning multiple objects
- Scaling grouped objects
- Scaling grouped objects
- Selecting and modifying a frame within grouped objects
- Finishing up
Importing and Editing Text
- Managing fonts
- Finding and changing a missing font
- Creating and entering text
- Creating a headline and applying a style
- Vertically aligning text
- Flowing text
- Flowing text manually
- Working with styles
- Applying a style
- Flowing text automatically
- Resizing a text frame
- Adding a column break
- Adding a page continuation note
- Changing horizontal and vertical text alignment
- Using semi-auto flow to place text frames
- Changing the number of columns on a page
- Loading styles from another document
- Flowing text into an existing frame
- Finding and changing
- Finding text and changing formatting
- Checking spelling of a story
- Adding words to a dictionary
- Adding words to a document-specific dictionary
- Checking spelling dynamically
- Automatically correcting misspelled words
- Drag and drop text editing
- Using the story editor
Working with Typography
- Adjusting vertical spacing
- Using a baseline grid to align text
- Viewing the baseline grid
- Changing the spacing above and below paragraphs
- Changing fonts and type syle
- Changing paragraph alignment
- Adding a decorative font and special character
- Creating a drop cap
- Applying a fill and stroke to ext
- Adjusting the letter and word spacing
- Adjusting the kerning and tracking
- Applying the paragraph and single-line composers
- Working with tabs
- Creating a hanging indent
- Adding a rule below a paragraph
Working with Color
- Defining printing requirements
- Adding colors to the Swatches panel
- Applying colors to objects
- Creating dashed stokes
- Working with gradients
- Creating and applying a gradient swatch
- Adjusting the direction of the gradient blend
- Creating a tint
- Creating a spot color
- Applying color to text
- Applying colors to additional objects
- Creating another tint
- Using advanced gradient techniques
- Creating a gradient swatch with multiple colors
- Applying the gradient to an object
- Applying a gradient to multiple objects
- Ensuring consistent color
- About the device-independent color space
- About ICC profiles
- About color management engines
- Components of a CMYK press –orientated workflow
- Setting up color management in InDesign CS3
- Specifying the Adobe ACE engine
- Setting up default working spaces
- Assigning source profiles
- Specifying the rendering intent
- Using full-resolution display with color management
- Color-managing imported graphics in InDesign CS3
- Assigning a profile after importing an image
- Embedding a profile in a Photoshop image
- Setting up color management in Photoshop CS3
- Embedding the profile
- Updating the image within InDesign CS3
- Assigning a profile while importing a graphic
- Embedding a profile in an illustrator graphic
- Setting up color management in Illustrator CS3
- Embedding a profile in a graphic from illustrator
- Placing a color-managed Illustrator file into InDesign CS3
- Other information resources for color management
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