IntroductionWelcome| 00:00 |
mmm.
Hey, there.
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My name is Justin Seeley and I'm a staff
author here at lynda.com.
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I want to welcome you to InDesign
Creative Cloud Updates.
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This course is going to be a little bit
different than other our normal courses
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here at lynda.com because as Adobe
continues to add things to InDesign via
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its Creative Cloud subscription service,
we're going to continue to update this
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course to reflect those changes.
So far, Adobe's added some pretty nice
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new features to InDesign via the Creative
Cloud, and I'm excited to share some of
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those with you in this course.
We'll start off by talking about
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InDesign's all new Interface.
As you'll soon see it's a lot different
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than it used to be.
Next, we'll cover several UI and
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performance enhancements that have made
their way into InDesign including, the
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enhanced font menu and the revamped New
Document dialogue box.
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The latter portion of this course is
dedicated to ePubs.
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As Epubs continue to grow in popularity,
so does it's feature set inside of InDesign.
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And I'll show you some of the more
prominent changes that you can expect to see.
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As I said, if and when Adobe decides to
drop new updates to InDesign via the
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Creative Cloud, we'll be updating this
course as well.
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So, if you'd like to stay up-to-date on
all the latest InDesign happenings, be
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sure to add this course to one of your
playlists or your queue.
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It's an exciting time in the world of
creative software, and I'm glad that I
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get to be the one to help guide you
through it.
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If you're ready, let's jump right in and
begin our look at InDesign Creative Cloud Updates.
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| Using the exercise files| 00:00 |
If you have access to the exercise files
for this course.
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You may want to copy them to your desktop
as I've done here so that they're easily
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accessible to you at all times.
You'll find that inside this folder are a
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series of subfolders that correspond to
each chapter that has exercise files.
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And inside those chapter folders, are the
actual exercise files themselves.
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If you don't have access to the exercise
files, you can still follow along using
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your own files or simply sit back and
watch as I walk you through each
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individual exercise.
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1. User Interface and PerformanceExploring the new dark interface| 00:00 |
One of the most significant changes
that's happened to InDesign recently, is
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the New Dark Interface.
And then it's pretty evident when you
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open up the application for the first
time, because you're used to seeing this
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light gray interface and now it's
completely dark, because Adobe is
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starting to adopt this new darker
interface.
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They done it for Photoshop and
Illustrator, an they're sort of mimicking
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the video applications like Premiere and
After Effects.
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It's meant to sort of draw your eye
inwards towards the stuff that you're
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working on rather than focusing on the
chrome of the application around the outside.
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And InDesign is no different, if you do
not like this new dark interface, you can
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always change it though and I'm going to
show you how to do that in this movie.
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I'm going to start off by creating a
brand new document, going to File >New
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and just hitting OK to the defaults here,
that way when I get the new document open
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you can see the full ensemble of what it
looks like to have this new dark Interface.
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Everything is still in its same spot.
So, you don't have to worry about the
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Interface being rearranged or anything
like that.
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So, you notice over here on the left hand
side, your toolbar is still over here.
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You've still got a Control panel across
the top.
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You've still got menus and panels over
here on the right hand side, which can be
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collapsed or expanded.
Everything is essentially the same, it's
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just a different color.
If you don't like the color, you can
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certainly change that by going up to the
InDesign menu and going to Preferences on
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a Mac or you can go to the Edit menu and
choose Preferences on a PC and you can go
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to Interface.
And once you're inside of the Preferences
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dialogue box, you want to select
Interface from the left or if you chose
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Interface from the drop down menu it
should automatically take you here.
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You can change the color theme right here
at the very top.
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Now, by default it's set to Medium Dark,
you can also change it to Dark which is a
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little bit darker.
You can also change it to Medium Light,
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which sort of mimics the original
appearance of InDesign.
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And then, you can also go with a Light
interface, which is extremely light.
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Now, if you notice the difference between
that and the new interface, it's night
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and day so to speak.
And I just think that the dark interface
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is much more pleasing to the eye.
I think it helps me focus on the work
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that I'm working on, and I really enjoy
it.
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And I hope that they make this a sweet
wide transition for all of the creative
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clad applications.
But I understand there's some people that
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don't like it.
So, I'm glad that they at least give you
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the option to change it back, if you
don't like it.
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Now, you'll also notice underneath here
there's a check box that says match paste
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board to theme color.
And what that is referring to if you're
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not familiar and that's the area out
here, the paste board out here to the
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left, it's asking you, do you want me to
match that color to the theme color, or
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would you like to control that?
If I unchecked that box, watch what happens.
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It turns white, I actually find this to
be a little bit distracting, I lose track
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of where my pages start and stop.
It's not as evident where things need to
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go in my document.
So, I actually prefer to have that turned on.
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But, if you like the all white appearance
of the background, you can certainly
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leave that unchecked.
Once you've finished out of this dialogue
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box just hit OK.
Anything you've set up and that will
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automatically be applied and your
interface will have the current changes
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applied to it.
So, that's basically it for the all new
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dark interface here inside of Indesign
like I said, it's just a basic face lift
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for the application making it look a
little bit more updated, making it look
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like some of the other applications in
the create a sweet Photoshop Illustrator,
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et cetera.
And I understand it's going to be a
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little bit different at first.
But I think after some time and getting
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used to it, you'll be really glad that
you stuck with the dark interface,
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because not only will it look like the
rest of the applications in the creative
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cloud, it will also be a little bit more
pleasing to your eye and help you stay
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focused on what you're working on.
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| Understanding 64-bit support| 00:00 |
It seems there's a lot of confusion
whenever the term 64-bit is thrown around
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in relation to software.
So, exactly what does 64-bit mean to us
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as InDesign users?
Well, the truth is, a 64-bit version of
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InDesign means a lot.
Not necessarily because 64-bit is this
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ever impressive, awesome thing, but
because of what it takes to make an
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application go from 32 to 64-bit on the
back end.
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Let's start with the basics.
One of the most basic things your
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computer relies on is RAM or
random-access memory.
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RAM acts as sort of a throttling system
for your computer that determines exactly
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how fast you can go and how much you can
do at one time.
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In theory, the more RAM you have, the
faster you can go.
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So when software is 32-bit.
It can actually only leverage two
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gigabytes of RAM at a time.
In today's day and age, that's relatively low.
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Which means that this application is
going to be less stable, and it's
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going to crash more often because it's
more likely to run out of memory.
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Conversely, with a 64-bit application,
you could theoretically throw as much RAM
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as you want at it.
8, 16 or even 32 gigs if you're feeling
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crazy, which means that these apps are
more stable and they crash less.
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So, exactly what does this mean for us,
right now?
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This means that if your computer has more
than three gigabytes of RAM in it, you
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should expect to see some mild
performance enhancements when doing heavy
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tasks in InDesign.
So this means a better experience when
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you're processing long documents.
Easier exporting and batch processing,
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and faster effects.
Like blurs, drop shadows, et cetera.
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Anything basically that would make your
computer fan normally sound like it's
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about take flight.
This also means that InDesign should be a
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more stable application as well.
Most crashes occur when your computer
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runs out of memory or RAM.
Having software that can leverage more
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memory, providing you have more to
through at it, makes sure that it's able
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to run at peak performance without sort
of running out of air, basically.
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In the end the changeover to 64-bit is
just the groundwork.
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With this new architecture in place,
Adobe can now build more powerful
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features on top of what already exists in
InDesign.
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It's as if in InDesign, we went from a
dial-up connection to broadband overnight.
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This is just the beginning, and the
possibilities, literally, are endless.
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| Understanding HiDPI support| 00:00 |
Adobe recently updated Photoshop and
Illustrator with something called HiDPI Support.
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And now, that's also come to InDesign as
well, but what does it mean?
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Well, HiDPI is a fancy acronym for High
Resolution or Retina Displays like the
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ones that you find in Apple's Retina
Macbook Pro, Samsung Series 9 Ultrabook,
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and many other devices that are starting
to come to market today.
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And while high resoultion desplays are
still in their infancy, Adobe is making a
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big push to have all of their
applications ready for this new frontier
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of creative work.
Basically, by ensuring that their
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software is HiDPI compliant, Adobe is
creating software that will look it's
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best on any screen, at any resolution.
Thus, making it easier for us to find the
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tools that we need and hopefully
eliminating eye strain as well.
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Consider it more of a public service than
anything else.
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But if you have a high resolution monitor
or a laptop with a retina display, you'll
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definitely be able to appreciate this
one.
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| Exploring the enhanced Font menu| 00:00 |
Another great new enhancement to Adobe
Indesign is the fact that the Font Menu
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has been totally revamped, Now, I'm
going to create a new document by going
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up to the File> New to select document.
I'll hit OK to the default, basically all
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I want to do is have some text on screen
here.
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So I'm just going to draw add a Text Box
and type out some text.
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I'm just going to make sure that the text
is big readable on screen so you can see it.
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And then I'm going to start exploring the
new Font Menu.
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In order to do that, I need to switch
over to the Type Tools.
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So I'm going to switch that over by
pressing the letter t on my keyboard.
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And once I do that, you'll notice on the
Control Panel I now have.
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Access to my fonts.
And you'll notice a little Search Icon to
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the left.
That's the first new enhancement.
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It's the ability to control how you
search for fonts inside of InDesign.
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And so now you have the ability to search
the entire font name or search only the
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first word.
Searching only the first word of a font
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is how InDesign previously worked, but
now, in this latest update, to Adobe
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InDesign, we now have the ability to
search the entire font name.
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As I start to type out a font, like let's
say, Arial, for instance, I just type out
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a, and continue to type out r, i, a, l,
you'll see that font list actually moves
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with me, and finds The font that I'm
looking for based on the criteria that I
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enter as I enter it in, it doesn't just
look for that first word, it finds it
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anywhere in that particular font.
So I could just go here and I could type
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out bold, and as I type out bold it finds
it for me, I can also start typing out
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condensed, and I could find all of the
fonts that are bold and condensed that
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are installed on my system.
Another new thing that you'll notice here
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is as I move down through these with my
arrow keys on my keyboard, look at the
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text on my screen it's actually changing
in real time, giving an updated preview
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of what this is going to look like if I
were to apply it.
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If I want to change fonts, like let's say
I want to go with Helvetica Neue
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Condensed Bold in this case, all I have
to do is press Enter or Return on my
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keyboard and it changes for me.
So I can now cycle through really quickly
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with my keyboard, press Enter or Return,
and I can commit to a font change at any
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time I can also come up here to the top
and I can clear the search field again by
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clicking that x, and I can start a new
search.
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So, I can type out something like time
and then new roman.
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And then I can find it and once I find it
I can either click on it to apply it or I
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can simply press the Enter or Return key.
Again, to apply that.
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Now it's not just here in the Control
Panel.
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You also have access to these new type
controls from the Window Menu> Type and
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Tables >Character Panel.
This way you have it as a free floating
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panel that you can have access to any
time you want out here in the main area
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of your document.
You'll also notice when you drop down
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this menu, that the look an feel of the
font list has totally changed.
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You'll notice that any font families that
have sub-fonts listed in them, will be
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denoted with a black arrow which you can
twirl open at any time to see the
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different versions, of a font that you
have, like condensed bold, ultralight,
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regular, medium etcetera; an you can
expand those out any time you want.
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You'll also notice here at the top you
get a list of the most frequently used
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fonts and to the left had side you get a
small star.
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This small star indicates favorite font.
So if you were to have favorite fonts as
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I tend to do when I work inside of many
documents I would go through and I would
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just mark those, lets say Arial is one of
my favorite.
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And I'll continue to scroll down and look
for other favorites that I might have.
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So, let's just pick a few.
Doesn't matter which ones you pick.
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Just pick a few.
In this case I'll do something like maybe
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Cambria and let's look for something like
Courier and then let's scroll way down
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here and do Helvetica another great Sans
Serif Font.
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And, we might even do something like,
Meriad Pro, and then we'll wrap it up
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with, Seraf fonts, like Times New Roman
and Trajon Pro.
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And, once I have those, I'll select it,
I'll scroll back up to the top, and
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you'll notice, that Times New Roman,
which is listed in my recently used
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fonts, up here at the top, is also
denoted with a black star, indicating
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it's one of my favorites.
If you have a lot of fonts installed on
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your machine as I tend to do, it can be
really difficult to sift through those to
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find just that right font that you're
looking for.
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And chances are even though we have
hundreds of fonts installed on our
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machine, we're only using a small subset
of those for each one of the design or
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documents that we create.
So it makes sense to create these, sort
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of favorites that we have.
To be able to easily access them is
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actually going to be a really good thing
as well that's why they include this
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little check box up here to show favorite
fonts only.
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When I do that it lists only the fonts
that I've marked as my favorites, Ariel,
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Cambria, Courier, Helvetica, Myriad Pro,
Times New Roman, Trojan Pro, all of those
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are now listed there.
I can change those any time I want by
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unclicking, the star, making it, hollow
again.
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An then once I do this, to refresh it,
just click it on an click it off, then
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Trajan Pro is now being removed from that
list of fonts.
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So these are just some minor enhancements
to the font panel but I think at the end
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of the day it goes a long way to making
this much more easy to use and a lot more
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user friendly because now we can navigate
our fonts easier, we can search for our
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fonts in a much easier manner.
And we can find the fonts that we need
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based on the favorites that we create a
whole lot faster as well.
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So take some time to get familiar with
the new font menu options that are
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available to you inside of Adobe
InDesign.
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And hopefully this is just the tip of the
iceberg.
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And they'll continue to get even better
down the road.
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| Using the New Document dialog box| 00:00 |
One of the more basic things that we do,
almost every single day as InDesign
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users, is create files.
And the process for creating files has
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actually been the same for quite some
time now.
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However, in the latest update to Adobe
InDesign, the new document dialogue box
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sees some significant changes, an we're
going to explore that in this movie.
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I'm going to go up to the File menu and
choose New, and select Document.
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You can also get to there by pressing Cmd
or Ctrl > N on your keyboard.
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When you first open up the New Document
dialog box, you're not going to
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immediately notice what has changed in
here, but there are some subtle things
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that make some really big differences.
First, and foremost, is going to be the
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Live Preview button, at the bottom left
of the screen.
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If I check this box, you'll notice that
an actual document is created directly
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behind my new document dialogue box.
As I make changes to this, for instance
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if I select something like Digital
Publishing, and I select something like
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an iPad, the screen automatically changes
in the background to show me exactly what
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this document's going to look like.
I can change the orientation.
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I can also change the presets.
Something like iPhone, or Kindle Fire.
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I can make any of these changes that I
want, and the Live Preview updates in the background.
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I can also make custom changes to this.
So if I wanted this to be something like,
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630 pixels, wide.
That's okay, it makes an adjustment
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automatically for me on the fly.
You'll also notice, as I do that, that I
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see Custom appear in the top for the
Document Preset and also for the Page Size.
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So, if I'm doing this for a specific
device, maybe it's some sort of
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specialized device, I could then set this
up as its own Preset.
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And I now have the ability to Save that
Preset using this button right here.
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So, I could save this Document Preset as
something like Mobile Device, for
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instance, and hit OK.
Once I do that, I now have a new document
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preset called Mobile Device.
If I ever need to navigate back to it I
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can just choose that from the drop down
list.
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If I switch back to default it goes right
back to the default letter document
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preset that we started off with.
So again inside of the new document
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dialogue box I really think this is a
great lead forward because we get a live
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preview of what the document's going to
look like, all parameters.
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Columns, margins, bleeds, slug, whatever
it is, everything's going to show up and
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give you a full preview of what it looks
like before you ever create the document.
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And then you also have the ability now to
save any custom presets that you want as
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a document preset, and then instantly
jump back to that any time you want
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Inside of this Dialog Box.
It's going to save you time and going to
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save you some headaches when you're
setting up new Documents.
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2. EPUB ChangesExporting without CSS| 00:00 |
Epub documents are taking the publishing
world by storm these days.
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With deices like Amazon's kindle and
Apple's Ipad, more and more people are
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starting to consume the written word via
these digital documents.
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One of my favorite things about Epub
documents is that they are at their core,
| | 00:14 |
just html and CSS.
As someone with some web experience in my
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background, this makes me extremely
happy, because I know that I can go in
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and I can work with that code and make
these ePubs truly unique and really
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fulfill my creative vision.
One of the new features of In Design that
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makes this even easier, is the fact that
I can now export an ePub without CSS,
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which gives me full control over the CSS
and allows me to use either my own style
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sheet that I've styled myself, or I can
contract it out to a web designer to make
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it look just exactly like I want to.
Let's take a look at how to do this.
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I'm going to go to the File menu here,
and I'm going to choose Export, and once
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I go into the export dialog box, I want
to make sure that my format is set to
| | 00:52 |
EPub and I'm just going to stick this on
my desktop.
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Then I'm going to hit save.
Once I hit Save, it's going to take me
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into the EPub Export options and inside
the EPub Export options, you want to go
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over here to the left hand side and chose
the Advanced tab.
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And inside of the Advanced tab, you're
going to look about mid-way down for
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something called CSS Options.
And so in order to export out an EPub
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without CSS, you're going to un check
this box labelled Generate CSS.
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And so, if you decide not to generate
CSS, only the classes associated within
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design styles in the document, are marked
in the HTML tags, and no overriding
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classes are created in the EPub at all.
Basically this makes your file much
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cleaner, upon export, and it lends itself
very well, to external style sheets,
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meaning you could add your own style
sheet or contract out, as I said, to have
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a style sheet attached to it, after the
fact.
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Now, you can, also, of course, add a
style sheet from this box here, and you
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can also delete and manage CSS style
sheets from within this panel, as well.
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Once you do this, hit OK, InDesign is
then going to export out your Epub, and
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then, you could launch something like
Adobe Digital Additions, to actually view
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the Epub, and see exactly what it is that
you've exported.
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Now like I said, this is just a feature
that helps you create a nice, clean
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document that lends itself well to
external style sheets and once you know a
| | 02:13 |
little CSS you can really start to take
full control of your Epub documents and
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take them to the next level.
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| Exploring support for index stories| 00:00 |
Another great new feature that's been
added to Adobe InDesign is the fact that
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index stories are now supported in the
exported ePub file.
| | 00:08 |
Which basically means that there's
going to be a live hyperlink to index
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terms that are displayed inside of the
exported ePub file.
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And so, if you have an index in an ePub
document, like the one that I have here,
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all you have to do is go File Export.
Go to the Normal Export options, so I'll
| | 00:25 |
just name this index stories, ePub
format, hit Save.
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I'm not going to worry about any of the
settings in here, and I'm just going to
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hit OK.
And once I hit OK, that is going to save
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that out onto my desktop.
I can then, navigate out to my desktop,
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and I can open this up with Adobe Digital
Editions.
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And, once I get to Digital Editions, I
can cycle through, all the way to the
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end, where the index is, and you'll
actually see that there are live
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hyperlinks, here at the end, that link to
the different areas, where these index
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terms live, inside of my ePub document.
I could then tap on one, like the
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cathedral, and it takes me to the page
where that indexed word is located.
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So again, all yo have to do is set up
your indexes just like you normally would
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inside of Adobe InDesign, and then when
you export this out to ePub, you
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automatically get these page links built
into the document.
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Now, if you're not sure exactly how to
create an index inside of your InDesign
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documents, my suggestion is to take a
look at the InDesign insider training
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course with David Blatner and
specifically chapter six.
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Chapter six deals with long document text
techniques and it actually has a movie on
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indexing a document.
So, if you need help doing that, I
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suggest watching that course.
Otherwise just generate your standard,
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indexes the way you normally would, an
then you can now, view those exported,
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linked, indexed stories in your exported
ePub documents.
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| Using object style export options| 00:00 |
As someone who has to deal with alot of
InDesign documents, especially long
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InDesign documents, I'm a huge proponent
of using Styles, whether that's Character
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and Paragraph Styles or Object Styles.
And, one of the new features, inside of
| | 00:12 |
InDesign, happens to be the fact that you
can, actually, now, add export options
| | 00:16 |
for Object Styles and specify different
Object Styles to have different export
| | 00:20 |
options when you're going out to things
like EPUB.
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And so in this movie I'm going to be
showing you exactly how to set up object
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Style Export Options.
I'm going to take the Zoom tool really
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quick and zoom in on this image on this
page right here, and then we'll grab my
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Selection tool, and just select it.
I'm going to add some attributes to this
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image and then save it as an Object
Style.
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And by the way, if you don't have the
Object Styles panel over here on the
| | 00:44 |
right hand side go to your Workspace Jump
Menu> Advanced, and it will jump you into
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this workspace where you can then have
access directly to the Object Styles
| | 00:49 |
Panel which is what we're going to be
working with.
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In this movie.
I'm going to have this object selected on-screen.
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I'm going to first, give it a stroke, so
I'm just going to give it, like a one
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point stroke, then I'm going to round the
corners a bit.
| | 01:03 |
So, I'm going to click right here, to
edit the corners, and then you can just
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drag this, inward a little bit, to round
the corners off.
| | 01:10 |
And, once you get it like you like it,
just go ahead and release your mouse.
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Once I'm finished with that, I'm also
going to add a drop shadow, to this.
| | 01:18 |
And so, when I add the drop shadow, I'm
going to make sure that I have Preview
| | 01:20 |
turned on, so I can see it, and then I'll
move this out of the way a little bit.
| | 01:24 |
I think the shadows a little too big, so
I'll decrease the distance, I may also
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take down the opacity, just a little bit,
something like 60%.
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And then, you can also adjust the size.
Of the drop shadow as well until you get
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it dialed in exactly like you want it.
Then once you have that done, just go
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ahead and hit OK.
And then I'm going to open up the Object
| | 01:44 |
Styles panel, because let's say I'm
working on a book here, and I want to add
| | 01:47 |
this particular effect to all of my
images throughout my document.
| | 01:52 |
Well, it doesn't make sense for me to go
through every image and then have to set
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up these parameters each time, the one
point stroke, the rounded corners, and
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the drop shadow.
So what I want to do is save that as an
| | 02:02 |
objects style.
And so in order to do that, I bring up
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the Objects Styles Panel> New button, or
I can go to the Panel Menu> New Object
| | 02:08 |
Style which actually gives me all of
these options here.
| | 02:14 |
So once you have the New Object Style
Panel open, go ahead then and type out a
| | 02:18 |
name in this case I'll type out this
image style and then look towards the
| | 02:22 |
bottom you will actually see export
options for this particular graphics style.
| | 02:29 |
It starts off with alternate text this is
acessability Feature which makes your
| | 02:33 |
document more accessible to people with
disabilities.
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And so, you have the ability to set
something called the Alternate Text Source.
| | 02:40 |
This means exactly where does the
alternate text that's associated with
| | 02:43 |
this come from?
Does it come from the structure of the document?
| | 02:46 |
Does it come from the XMP title,
description or headline?
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Is it a custom setting?
Where does it come from?
| | 02:52 |
So, that's totally up to you what you
pick there.
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And then you also have the ability to
change the tagge PDF settings o if you're
| | 02:58 |
used to using tagged PDF's you can
actually specify different tag settings
| | 03:01 |
for different object styles that you
create in InDesign and then probably the
| | 03:05 |
most powerful feature in this new export
options is the EPUB html options which
| | 03:09 |
give you customization in custom layout
options for each individual.
| | 03:16 |
Object style that you create.
So I could set a custom rasterization for
| | 03:20 |
just this Object Style here.
And so I could say, alright, the size, I
| | 03:23 |
want that to be just relative to the page
width.
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I want the format to be in JPG, GIF, or
PNG.
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In this case, I think JPG works well.
I can set the resolution for this,
| | 03:32 |
depending on where this file is
ultimately going.
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That would determine the resolution that
I set here.
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And then of course we could also change
the JPEG quality.
| | 03:40 |
And the method for which the JPEG is
loaded as well.
| | 03:43 |
Directly underneath that we have the
Custom Layout option which allows us to
| | 03:46 |
specify a layout for this, either we use
Alignment and Spacing so we line it up
| | 03:50 |
left, center and right and then we give
it before and after spacing if we want.
| | 03:56 |
We can also just float it to the left.
We could float it to the right, either
| | 03:59 |
one is fine.
If you choose Allignment and Spacing, you
| | 04:02 |
also get, like I said, space before and
space after options, directly underneath that.
| | 04:06 |
And then, underneath here, you get to
check the box, whether or not you want to
| | 04:09 |
insert in a page break, before or after,
or before and after, the image.
| | 04:14 |
So, if you have several different images
throughout your EPUB document that you
| | 04:17 |
think you need to be on their own page,
you could actually just create an object
| | 04:21 |
style for that type of image and then
insert a page break before and after the
| | 04:24 |
image and that way when this is exported
out, to epub, it would then create a page
| | 04:27 |
break where that image just lives on the
page by itself.
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You can un-check that box to turn that
off.
| | 04:37 |
Once you are finished inside of this
Dialog Box just simply hit OK.
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All of those are now going to be a part
of this Objects Style which is listed in
| | 04:44 |
your Objects Style Panel as Image Style
and any time you need to apply either the
| | 04:47 |
effects that you've added or those export
options to an image.
| | 04:52 |
In your document, or any other object for
that matter, you can apply this object
| | 04:56 |
style and it will automatically take on
all of those attributes that you set
| | 04:59 |
forth in the object style panel, a few
moments ago.
| | 05:03 |
So again, this is just another way to
give you more control over individual
| | 05:07 |
objects in your document and also to make
sure that your EPUBs look really, really
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good and exactly like you want them to.
As you export them out of Adobe InDesign.
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3. Other EnhancementsCreating QR codes| 00:00 |
The world is going mobile, there is no
doubt about it, and with this mobile
| | 00:03 |
revolution comes a need for business and
people to connect with each other in the
| | 00:06 |
mobile space.
One of the ways that businesses have been
| | 00:10 |
doing that, is through something called
QR codes.
| | 00:13 |
Now, if you're not sure what a QR code
is, you've probably, actually have seen
| | 00:15 |
one and just didn't know it.
A QR code looks very similar to this
| | 00:18 |
little square that I have on screen.
QR stands for quick response, and these
| | 00:23 |
images are a kind of barcode that is
readable by QR scanners or mobile phone
| | 00:26 |
cameras, and is then processed using
underlying software which then does
| | 00:29 |
something with the QR code like take the
user to a specified website, for instance.
| | 00:36 |
Businesses use QR codes to drive traffic
to their website, send out promotional
| | 00:39 |
emails and text messages, and even give
out coupons to their patrons.
| | 00:44 |
In short, a QR code is simply, making it
easier for you to convey a message to
| | 00:47 |
someone using a mobile device, and now
you can create these little gems right
| | 00:51 |
here in InDesign.
So let me show you how to do that.
| | 00:56 |
I've got one on screen right now, but I'm
going to create a new one.
| | 00:58 |
So, I'll just click away from this
object, and then go to the object menu,
| | 01:01 |
and choose, generate QR code.
Once I do that, I'm going to come in to
| | 01:06 |
the generate QR dialog box, and by
default, you may see something like Plain
| | 01:09 |
Text, which allows you to add in some
Plain Text, which means when someone
| | 01:12 |
scans this, it's read back to them and it
shows them the plain text message that
| | 01:16 |
you have.
So, this could be something like a
| | 01:20 |
promotional welcome message, thanks for
visiting our bakery today, or whatever it
| | 01:24 |
might be.
This plain text message is just going to
| | 01:27 |
be read by some sort of software and
displayed to the user on their mobile
| | 01:29 |
device or whatever they happen to be
using to read the QR code.
| | 01:33 |
You could also do things like a web
hyperlink, for instance.
| | 01:36 |
So, if I wanted to drive traffic to my
website, I could type in my website
| | 01:39 |
address here, or add in another website
address.
| | 01:42 |
So, for instance, I could change this to
lynda.com, and once I do that, hit OK,
| | 01:46 |
anytime somebody scans the QR code, it
would automatically take them to the
| | 01:50 |
lynda.com website, each time they scanned
it.
| | 01:55 |
You can also do things like a Text
Message so you can specify a phone number
| | 01:58 |
and a message which has a maximum of 165
characters, a little bit more than you
| | 02:02 |
would get with like a standard tweet on
Twitter, but this is a great way to
| | 02:05 |
actually send out messages to mobile
devices.
| | 02:11 |
You can also send email addresses.
You need to specify an email address, a
| | 02:14 |
subject line, and a message here in order
to do that, and then, also, you can set
| | 02:17 |
up a business card so it can be read back
in.
| | 02:20 |
So, basically, you could put a QR code on
your resume, or put it on some sort of
| | 02:23 |
flyer, or something like that, and then
when somebody scans it, it brings in all
| | 02:26 |
of your personal information.
This is going to be great for things like
| | 02:31 |
conferences, when you go to network with
other people having QR codes on your
| | 02:33 |
materials there, so that they can
instantly grab all of your information
| | 02:36 |
without having to write it down or take a
business card or something.
| | 02:41 |
So again, these are just ways to convey
ideas to people via a mobile device.
| | 02:46 |
The person is going to have to have a
phone with a camera, scan it over a QR
| | 02:49 |
scanning device.
They are also going to have to have some
| | 02:53 |
sort of app on their phone or some sort
of device to actually read the QR code
| | 02:56 |
and tell their device what it's doing.
So, in this case I think we're good with
| | 03:00 |
a web hyperlink, this time pointing to
lynda.com.
| | 03:03 |
You also have the ability to control the
color from here.
| | 03:06 |
So, if I wanted to make this a yellow QR
code, for instance, I could do that, or I
| | 03:09 |
could do it as cyan, magenta, yellow,
black, whatever I wanted to do.
| | 03:13 |
I could also load in any spot colors that
I have currently being used in my
| | 03:16 |
document, and once I select the color, I
just hit OK.
| | 03:20 |
It is now placed onto my loaded cursor,
which I can place into any frame on my
| | 03:24 |
document, or I can simply click anywhere
in my document to release it and it
| | 03:28 |
automatically generate a thirty by thirty
centimeter square with the QR code in it.
| | 03:35 |
Now, what makes these so interesting is
the fact that you get full control over
| | 03:38 |
them after the fact.
You have full control over the frame as
| | 03:41 |
well as the QR code itself.
So, anytime you want to modify the QR
| | 03:45 |
code, you just go up to the object menu
and choose Edit QR Code.
| | 03:49 |
You can change the hyperlink, you can
change it to a different type of QR code.
| | 03:52 |
You can also specify a new color for the
QR code, if you wish.
| | 03:56 |
You can select the frame of the QR code
and you can change the fill and the
| | 03:59 |
stroke of that frame right here inside of
InDesign, the same way you can any other
| | 04:03 |
frame, and you can also take this object
and style it even further by taking it
| | 04:06 |
into other applications like Adobe
Illustrator, for instance.
| | 04:12 |
So, I'm going to select this larger qr
code here on screen and I'm just going to
| | 04:15 |
copy it using my Cmd or Ctrl+c keyboard
shortcut, and then I'll just over into
| | 04:19 |
Illustrator for a moment.
Once I'm over inside of Illustrator, I'm
| | 04:25 |
going to create a new document.
Size doesn't necessarily matter here.
| | 04:28 |
Just create a brand new document.
And, once you're inside of Illustrator
| | 04:32 |
just go ahead and hit Cmd or Ctrl+v on
your keyboard, or go to Edit > Paste.
| | 04:35 |
When you do that, you'll notice you get a
vector object on screen that is this QR code.
| | 04:40 |
And so now, I can scale it up or down,
make changes to it.
| | 04:44 |
I can also go in here and select
individual objects, and then, I can go up
| | 04:47 |
to the select menu, I can choose Same,
and then select something like Fill Color.
| | 04:52 |
It will select all of the objects in the
QR code that are the same fill, so in
| | 04:56 |
this case, all of the black objects, and
I can change that color to something like
| | 04:59 |
red or dark blue.
Whatever I want the QR code to look like,
| | 05:04 |
I have full control over it, now, inside
of Illustrator.
| | 05:08 |
Then, I can take this back into Indesign
and place it in my file and it has all of
| | 05:11 |
my color attributes that I set forth
here, inside of Adobe Illustrator.
| | 05:16 |
So again, QR codes are a great way to
convey messages from your business or
| | 05:20 |
from yourself to someone or to a customer
via a mobile device.
| | 05:26 |
The customer has to have something to
read it, but as long as they do these QR
| | 05:29 |
codes are a great way to continue the
conversation or start a conversation
| | 05:32 |
about you or your product and you now
have the ability to have full control and
| | 05:36 |
full generating capabilities with these
things inside of Adobe InDesign.
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ConclusionGoodbye| 00:00 |
Well, that about wraps up our look at
InDesign Creative Cloud updates, for now.
| | 00:04 |
But remember, we'll be updating this
course whenever Adobe decides to update
| | 00:07 |
the features of Adobe InDesign via the
Creative Cloud subscription.
| | 00:11 |
If you want to stay current on all a that
kind of stuff, be sure to add this course
| | 00:14 |
to one of your playlists or to your
lynda.com queue.
| | 00:18 |
If you'd like to take your InDesign
knowledge to the next level, I've created
| | 00:21 |
an ultimate InDesign playlist for you,
that's loaded with great courses.
| | 00:25 |
Like up and running with InDesign with
Deet McLellen.
| | 00:28 |
InDesign CS6 essential training with
David Blatner.
| | 00:30 |
InDesign style and depth, InDesign
typography.
| | 00:33 |
Creating long documents with InDesign.
InDesign CS6 to ePub, Kindle, and iPad.
| | 00:39 |
And also great courses like eDesign for
Web Design.
| | 00:42 |
Up and running with Adobe Digital
Publishing Suite.
| | 00:44 |
And the InDesign FX and InDesign secrets
weekly series.
| | 00:48 |
If you want to check this out, just
follow the link that you see on the screen.
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Again my name is Justin Seeley.
Thanks for joining me and I hope to see
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you again real soon.
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