Introduction
Creating a book in InDesign
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What you should know
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1. Getting Started
Setting up a workspace
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2. Document Setup and Strategy
Creating a document and choosing a page size
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Setting margins and grid
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3. Choosing a Typeface
Choosing your typeface(s)
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4. Placing Text
Placing the text
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Preserving character formats
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Cleaning up text with Find/Change
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5. Text Formatting
Creating paragraph styles
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Applying paragraph styles
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Changing text casing
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Controlling text flow with Keep Options
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Hyphenation and Justification
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6. Parent Pages
Adding page numbers
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Adding running heads
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Adding (non-printing) line numbers
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7. Text Composition
Using a GREP style to fix short last lines
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Using a GREP style to fix kerning problems
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Fixing widows and orphans with styles
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Fixing widows and orphans with tracking
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Fixing hyphenation
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Last fixes
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8. Creating the Front Matter
Sections and numbering
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Designing the title and half-title pages
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Creating and applying additional parent pages
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Front Matter text
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Generating the table of contents
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10. Preparing for Print
Last clean up, preflighting, and archiving
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Exporting to print-ready PDF
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Ex_Files_Designing_a_Book.zip
(41.8 MB)