Adobe InDesign Advanced

Book Documents

Building a Book

• The Book Panel
• The advantages for splitting a project into separate documents
• Creating a Book file
• The Master Document
• Updating the book
• Synchronising options
• Synchronising a book
• Applying Master Page changes to a synchronisation
• Sectioning and Numbering
• Adding chapters
• Rearranging the chapters
• Controlling Page Numbering in a Book
• Creating a PDF of the entire book
• Creating a package of the entire book

Section Options

• Giving files a Section Marker
• Advantages/disadvantages of using Section Markers
• Using several Markers in the same document

Advanced Master Pages

• Shortcuts for Working with and Navigating Pages
• Multiple Master Pages and Based on Master
• Shuffling Pages
• Creating Island Spreads
• Creating Different Sized Pages
• Overriding Master Items
• Removing Local Overrides
• Enable Layout Adjustment

Advanced Tables of Contents

• Setting up a Table of Contents
• Table of Contents using Styles
• Using Right Indent Tab characters Generating a Table of Contents
• Disadvantages of making local changes in the active Table of Contents
• Rebuilding Table of Contents
• Automatic navigation through the Bookmarks Panel
• Automatic navigation through Bookmark in a PDF
• Indexing overview

Libraries, Snippets & CC Libraries

• Creating and Saving Libraries
• Name and Add Library items
• Re-using Library items
• Library Options
• Creating and Using Snippets
• The advantages and the differences between Libraries and Snippets
• The new CC Libraries Panel
• CC Libraries in Illustrator and Photoshop
• Sharing Libraries

Advanced Text Formatting

• Convert Text to Outlines
• Type on a Path

Paragraph Rules

• Paragraph Rule options
• Paragraph Shading
• The differences between Paragraph Rules and Underline
• Using Rule Above and Rule Below together

Advanced Text Frame Options

• Primary Text Frame
• What the Master Text Frame option used to do
• Main Text Frame and text flow
• Text Autoflow
• Multiple columns in a text frame
• Column options: fixed number, fixed width, flexible width
• Text Frame Justification
• Balancing columns in a Text Frame
• Baseline options
• Autosize options

Advanced Character & Paragraph Styles

• Styles for Character & Paragraph Text Overview
• Editing style settings
• Loading Styles
• Finding Style Overrides
• Clearing Overrides
• Next Styles
• Live typing and mouse click application of Next Style
• Grep Styles
• Importing Word Styles
• Typekit fonts
• Filter fonts

Using Quick Apply

• Customizing Quick Apply settings
• Quick Apply
• Using the shortcut for Quick Apply
• Categories and inclusion list

Find/Change

• Using Find/Change
• Find and Change Spelling
• Find and Change Character Formatting
• Search Options
• Find/Change by style
• Glyphs and Object Find categories
• Saving Search Queries

GREP

• What is GREP is (General Regular Expression Parsing)
• Using GREP to find and Change text formatting
• Wildcard classes in GREP searches
• Using GREP to remove unwanted characters and spacings
• Using GREP to format repetitive categories of text
• Escaping characters in searches
• Saving Search Queries

Preflight

• Preflight Panel Overview
• Defining a Preflight Profile
• Performing a Preflight Check
• Embedding Preflight Profiles
• Preflight Reports and Fixing Errors
• Preflight Options

Data Merge

• Setting up the Data
• Setting up the Template
• Setting Criteria and adding Data Fields
• Merging the Data
• Data Merge Layout Options
• Updating your Data
• Previewing your Merge
• Using images
• Setting up a folder for the images
• Setting up the Excel file to use images

Object Styles

• Object Styles options
• Creating Object Styles
• Setting a Default Object Style
• Applying Object Styles
• Clearing Local Formatting
• Breaking the Style link
• Scaling effects

Nested Styles

• Creating Nested Style
• Multiple nested styles on one Paragraph
• Using hidden characters
• Line Styles

Inline Frames and Anchored Objects

• Creating an Inline Frame
• Inline Frames and Leading
• Creating Hanging Side Heads
• Creating Above Line Objects
• Creating Anchored Objects
• The Anchored Object options
• Drag and Drop Anchored Objects

Printing Transparency

• The Flattener
• Transparency Tricks
• Creating a Flattener Preset
• Raster / Vector Balance
• Line Art & Text Resolution
• Gradient & Mesh Resolution
• Convert All Text to Outlines
• Applying Flattener Presets
• Flattener Preview
• Live Transparency in a PDF
• The difference in PDF versions (1.3 vs 1.4) and flattening
• Transparency Flattener Presets

Separations Preview

• Previewing Overprinting
• Checking separations and ink limits
• Adding a Pantone color
• The Ink Manager
• The All Spots to Process and the Ink Alias options

Conditional Text

• The Conditional Text Panel
• Creating Conditions
• Applying Conditions
• Creating Condition Sets
• Cross References
• Using GREP to Automate the conditions