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Designing the Adobe InDesign Way

Designing the Adobe InDesign Way

By : Andy Gardiner
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Designing the Adobe InDesign Way

Designing the Adobe InDesign Way

4.6 (10)
By: Andy Gardiner

Overview of this book

Adobe InDesign is the leading desktop publishing and layout software for producing brochures, magazines, flyers, books, posters, and a wide range of digital documents. It allows you to rapidly draft your documents with precise control over typography, images, positioning, alignment, color, and other interactive features. However, InDesign’s interface, tools, and workflows can be a bit challenging to get to grips with. This cookbook will assist you in building unparalleled InDesign workflows with tried and tested recipes. With Designing the Adobe InDesign Way, you’ll learn how to add and edit content, create color swatches, and use features such as tables, all while applying software best practices and techniques to ensure that your work is fast, efficient, and easily maintained. Additionally, you’ll explore advanced InDesign features such as text styles, parent pages, tables of contents, and pre-flighting. Finally, you’ll take a closer look at the many export options in InDesign and ways to truly maximize its capabilities. By the end of this book, you’ll be well equipped to draft and design your own projects while ensuring your work is compatible with industry standards for print and digital documents.
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Appendix: InDesign Tools Panel at a Glance

Technical requirements

To complete this chapter, you will need a PC or Mac with a copy of Adobe InDesign installed. Depending on the device you are working on, it may be necessary to either hide the home screen that appears or disable the touch interface that is enabled by default on some touchscreen devices. We will cover those two points now, but if it does not apply to you, feel free to jump straight to the recipes.

Temporarily hiding the home screen

When you open InDesign on a regular PC or Mac for the first time, the more recent versions of InDesign present you with the home screen. The home screen is designed as a quick-access interface that lets you see your recent documents and quickly access presets. You can see an example of this in Figure 1.1:

Figure 1.1: The default home screen on opening InDesign

Figure 1.1: The default home screen on opening InDesign

While the home screen can be useful, it can sometimes get in the way; when it first appears, it can hide the panels, tools, and other functionality...

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