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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

Saving and loading swatches

When you are working with InDesign, it is quite common that you will want to use the same colors on more than one document. For example, the colors that appear in corporate brand guidelines should always be the same and shouldn’t change every time they are used in a different document. Reusing your color swatches across multiple documents is a good way to ensure this consistency.

In this recipe, I’ll show you how to export your color swatches from InDesign as an Adobe Swatch Exchange File (.ase) and how to reload the .ase file back into another document. We will also look at a useful trick for setting up default swatches that appear in every new document by default.

In addition to their use for quickly loading and sharing colors, ASE files can also be useful for keeping a backup of your brand colors, which can be useful should you ever have system issues.

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To complete this recipe, simply open InDesign on your system...

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