InDesign gives you control over the layout of your body text and your headers by using ‘paragraph styles’. These offer you a great deal of control and automation. Time: 20 minutes Continue from the previous exercise Steps: Open your work from the previous exercise. Now that you have created a layout with some dummy content, …
When you create a design with images and text in InDesign you create a document that is depending on linked content. Any font or image you use is not saved in your working document, but instead is linked to from within your document. So when you wish to save everything as a transferable collection, you …
InDesign places images in your document as linked files. This means whenever you edit the image file outside of InDesign, it will be updated within InDesign. Indesign uses the relative file path to find linked files. If you change the location (path) between your INDD document and the linked files, these links break. They need to …
Masterpages let you handle elements that occur throughout your document, such as headers, footers and pagination. Time: 15 minutes Continue from the previous exercise Steps: Choose Window > Pages if the Pages palette is not showing Double-click the A master Use the Type Tool to drag a small text-frame that will contain the page number …
Whenever you start a new project in InDesign you need to set up your document. The right settings depend on whatever your document is for. In this exercise we will set up a small 8 page booklet for print. Time: 15 minutes Steps: Open InDesign an choose File > Open Click the Print tab. Click …
InDesign has a feature called ‘threading’, or flowing text from frame to frame. This ensures that when text is added somewhere halfway your document, the text below will move over to the next frame or the next page. Time: 15 minutes Tools used: Type tool This tool is used to create a frame that can …