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InDesign: Creating Long Documents

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Adobe InDesign Courses Document Layout Courses

Course Description

Overview

Learn the full process to plan, create, and output a book or other long document in InDesign.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Build long documents with InDesign
1. Long-Document Construction
  • Understanding long-document workflows
  • Setting up preferences
  • Creating a long-document workspace
  • Creating a document
  • Using parent pages
  • Using layers
  • Using text variables
  • Using section markers
2. Implementing a Workflow
  • Preparing InDesign templates
  • Using Word templates
  • Using InCopy
3. Using Styles
  • Using Based On styles
  • Using nested styles
  • Using GREP styles
  • Using object styles
  • Using tables and cell styles
  • Using swatches
  • Using Quick Apply
4. Building Layouts
  • Understanding Word import options
  • Placing text
  • Placing images
  • Creating static captions
  • Creating live captions
  • Using GREP Find/Change command
5. Collaboration
  • Using notes
  • Tracking changes
  • Creating a production manual
  • Creating a bookmap
6. Long-Document Infrastructure
  • Creating tables of contents (TOCs)
  • Alternative uses for the TOC feature
  • Working with cross-references
  • Creating custom cross-references
  • Creating footnotes
  • Creating endnotes
  • Importing footnotes
  • Importing endnotes
  • Converting endnotes to footnotes
  • Converting footnotes to endnotes
7. Indexing
  • Understanding index topics and references
  • Creating page references
  • Creating index cross-references
  • Generating an index
8. Working with InDesign Books
  • Creating InDesign book files
  • Numbering book documents
  • Synchronizing book documents
  • Preflighting book documents
  • Outputting book documents
9. Outputting Long Documents
  • Using the Preflight panel
  • Exporting to print PDF
  • Exporting to interactive PDF
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Mike Rankin

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