Creating Long Documents with InDesign

Creating Long Documents with InDesign

with Mike Rankin

 


Creating Long Documents with InDesign shows designers how to create book-length documents in workflows with multiple users—using both InDesign features and third-party plug-ins. Publishing veteran Mike Rankin focuses on long document elements such as page and chapter numbering, table of contents, cross-references, and indexes. The course also provides an overview of document construction, from creating master pages and applying consistent formatting with styles to placing text and images and outputting to both print and interactive PDF.
Topics include:
  • Using text variables
  • Creating templates for InDesign, InCopy, and Word
  • Employing nested styles
  • Creating GREP styles
  • Managing color with swatches
  • Building page elements with libraries and snippets
  • Performing GREP find/changes
  • Using InCopy workflows
  • Tracking changes
  • Adding footnotes and indexes
  • Using InDesign book files
  • Versioning documents with conditional text or object styles
  • Preflighting documents
  • Archiving a project
  • Finding and installing useful scripts and plug-ins for frequent challenges

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author
Mike Rankin
subject
Design
software
InCopy , InDesign CS5, CS5.5, CS6
level
Intermediate
duration
4h 59m
released
Jan 13, 2012

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Mike Rankin

Mike Rankin

Mike Rankin is the editor in chief of CreativePro.com and InDesign Magazine. Since 1995, Mike has enjoyed working in nearly every aspect of publishing production, including design, project management, layout, illustration, and prepress. Mike is a contributing author at InDesignSecrets.com and has written many ebooks on InDesign, including The InDesignSecrets Guide to the Adobe InDesign ACE Exam and The InDesignSecrets Guide to Graphic Effects. Mike has spoken at a variety of conferences and groups including PePCon: The Print & ePublishing Conference, InDesign user groups, and the O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference.
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