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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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Using nested styles

Nested styles are a useful way of automatically applying character styles from within a paragraph style. If you apply a nested style, it will be applied from the beginning of each paragraph that the paragraph style has been applied to, through to a point that you have set in the nested style settings. If you do more than one nested style, each new nested style will continue from where the last one ended.

In this recipe, we will look at using nested styles to restyle the first word of a paragraph so that the first word and the first letter within it are styled differently from the rest of the paragraph.

Getting ready

In order to complete this recipe, simply open InDesign on your system and create a new document with 12 pages, as shown in the Creating a new document recipe in Chapter 1. You should be comfortable creating and applying paragraph styles as shown in the Creating paragraph styles recipe and character styles as shown in the Creating character styles...

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