TOTAL TRAINING™ FOR ADOBE® INDESIGN® CS2 QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE
PART 1 Design, Typography & Layout
1 QUICK START TOUR OF ADOBE INDESIGN CS2
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Creating Guides Using the Line Tool
Using Photoshop® Files in InDesign
Using Illustrator® Files in InDesign
Creating a Shadow & Adding a Logo
Placing & Stylizing Text
Entering Text & Images into a Table
Changing Display Quality & Multiple Text Layers
Exporting an InDesign File as a PDF
2 LETTING INDESIGN WORK FOR YOU
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Introducing Document Preferences
General, Type & Advanced Type Preferences
Units, Increments & Grids Preferences
Guides, Pasteboards, Spelling & Story Editor Preferences
Display Performance & Appearance of Black Preferences
File Handling Preferences & Type Tool Options
Grouping Palettes into Clusters
Setting Palette Options & Sliding Palettes
Showing/Hiding Palettes with Keyboard Shortcuts
Creating & Modifying Keyboard Shortcuts
Creating New Layer & Workspace Shortcuts
3 DOCUMENTS, PRESETS & DEPENDENCIES
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Creating a New Document
Saving & Editing Document Presets
Working with File Types & Extensions
Opening Files
Fixing Dependencies Automatically
Fixing Dependencies Manually
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Adjusting Page Size
Using the Zoom Tool
Scrolling the Page & Changing View Size
Using the Navigator Palette
Introducing Adobe Bridge
Viewing Files in Bridge
Saving a Workspace, Rating & Labeling
Filtering, Reordering & Sorting Files in Bridge
Viewing Images in a Slideshow
5 LETTING INDESIGN GUIDE YOU
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Creating Margins & Columns
Understanding Master Pages
Setting up Rulers
Creating Guides
Understanding Guides as Objects
1 COOL TEXT & IMAGE TABLES
2 TABLES FOR DESIGN
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Creating a Table
Merging & Splitting Cells
Adjusting Cell Stroke & Color
Placing Images & Snippets into a Cell
Image Placement & Formatting Tips
Correcting the Stroke Color
3 STORY EDITING & GLYPH SETS
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Adding an Accented Character
Using the Story Editor & Quick Apply
Adjusting Hyphenation & Justification Settings
Adjusting Overset Type in the Story Editor
Using Contextual & Swash Alternates
Adding Glyphs on the Fly & Creating a Glyph Set
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Creating an Assignment
Adding Stories to an Assignment & Updating
Identifying InCopy Stories inside InDesign
Editing in InDesign & InCopy Simultaneously
Checking Out Stories to Edit Them
Copyfitting & Checking Stories Back In
Editing in InDesign & Updating in InCopy
5 RULES, STROKES & TABS
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Saving a Document
When Not to Turn on Allow Pages to Shuffle
The Rectangle Tool vs. the Rectangle Frame Tool
Creating Frames for Text & Graphics
Organizing Elements in the Layers Palette
Changing the Basic Paragraph Style
Selecting, Adjusting & Filling Text Frames
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Activating Dynamic Spelling
Utilizing Next Style Sheets
Aligning Text Using the Tabs Ruler
Redefining a Paragraph Style
Drawing a Line Using Paragraph Rules
Editing Stroke Styles
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Hyphenating Text
Adjusting Paragraph Spacing
Creating a Bulleted List
Indenting Paragraphs Manually
Using Drop Caps
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Inserting Special Characters
Inserting White Spaces
Using Notes
Applying Optical Margin Alignment to Linked Frames
Applying Optical Margin Alignment to an Object Style
12 TRAPPING & OUTPUT PREVIEW
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17 POSTER DESIGN MAGIC
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Using the Preflight Dialog Box
Updating Links & Editing Original Images
Packaging a Document for a Printer
Setting Print Options & Presets
More Options & Outputting to a Printer
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Introducing PDF Presets
Exporting a PDF for Approval
Compressing Images & Other Export Options
Adding Security & Exporting the File
Exporting a PDF for Print
Setting Color & Security Options
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Adding Hyperlinks to Interactive Buttons
Working with Flash® Movies in InDesign
Working with QuickTime™ Files in InDesign
Creating Interactive Text Buttons
Assigning Actions to Buttons
Creating a Rollover State for a Graphic Button
Previewing Media Files in Bridge
Adding Sound Files to an InDesign Document
Exporting to PDF
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Setting Transparency Options
Applying a Drop Shadow
Using the Redefine Object Style Command
Working with Compound Paths
Using the Pathfinder Palette
Bonus
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Creating, Assigning & Saving Tags
Exporting XML & Loading Tags
Mapping Tags to Styles & Importing XML
Creating & Opening a Package
Modifying Packaged Text Styles in GoLive
Modifying Packaged Graphics in GoLive
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Importing Style Sheets
Snapping to Baseline Grid
Creating Character Style Sheets
Creating Nested Style Sheets
Adjusting the Optical Margin Alignment
Introducing Snippets
Working with Snippets
21 COMPOUNDS, SHADOWS & TRANSPARENCY
Introducing Trapping
Knowing When to Use Trapping
Creating a Trap Preset
Using the Flattener Preview
Dealing with Flattening Issues
Using the Separations Preview
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Creating an Image Box & Placing the Image
Importing & Placing a Layered PDF File
Using the Paste In Place Command
Dragging & Dropping Images from Bridge
Introducing Document & Baseline Grids
Setting Grid Preferences & Snapping into Alignment
20 POWERFUL NESTED STYLES & SNIPPETS
15 XML WORKFLOW & ADOBE GOLIVE® PACKAGES
Performing a Local Override
Exploring Override Rules & Options
Working with Multiple Master Pages
Distributing Objects & Applying Object Styles
Importing Multiple Images from a PDF
1 Numbering Pages & Creating Sections
2 Assembling a Book
3 Synchronizing Styles
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Adding & Positioning a Text Frame
Formatting & Aligning Text
Creating Paragraph Styles
Editing Style Sheets for Automation Using Next Styles
Duplicating a Text Frame & Replacing the Text
Creating a Tint Swatch to Change Text Color
19 BASELINE GRID CONTROL
Importing & Adjusting Photoshop Images
Utilizing the Links Palette
Drag & Drop from Bridge & Fill Frame Proportionally
Adjusting Display Performance
Placing a Background Image
Drawing a Line & Adding an Illustrator Title
Nudging an Image with the Arrow Keys
Accessing Layers Using Object Layer Options
Cropping & Viewing Layers
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Introducing to the Swatches & Color Palettes
Creating Color & Tint Swatches
Working with Spot Colors
Creating Mixed Ink Swatches & Groups
Using Gradients & Making a New Gradient Swatch
Adding Small Color Reference Frames to Images
18 INTELLIGENT TYPE STYLES
Importing Illustrator Files
The Main Selection Tool vs. the Direct Selection Tool
Scaling an Image Numerically
Moving an Anchor Point, Rotating, Scaling & Moving
Fitting Content Proportionally
Using Shortcuts to Scale a Graphic
Importing an Illustrator File from Bridge
Importing an Image & Changing Its Transparency
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Creating a Folio Layer & Importing a Folio Style
Creating a Folio on a Master Page
Duplicating & Deleting Folios
Creating a Folio Library
Applying Saved Folios to Other InDesign Files
Creating a Table of Contents
Adding Titles & Descriptions
Pasting Into Specific Layers
Applying Table of Contents Styles
Affecting the Visibility of Type
Updating the Table of Contents
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13 PREFLIGHT, PACKAGE & PRINT
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Learning to Use the Pen Tool
Drawing a Closed Path
Subtracting One Path from Another
Modifying a Path
Creating & Modifying a Feathered Edge
Using the Paste Into Command
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Bringing in Separate Images Defined by One Image
Placing a Background Image & Changing Text Color
Organizing Layers & Placing a Title
Customizing a Title Layout Design
Creating an Advanced Layered Design
Using Photoshop Clipping Paths
Using Text Wrap
17 CREATING & STORING COLOR
Creating Basic Graphic Frames
Adding & Aligning a Stroke to a Graphic Frame
Saving a New Object Style
Saving a Thin Line as a New Object Style
Arranging & Aligning Objects
Copying Shapes & Applying Rich Black
Editing the Shape & Size of Objects in Sequence
Transform Again Individually to Duplicate Frames
Converting Shapes
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10 SECTIONS, BOOKS & AUTO PAGINATION
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Inserting Footnotes
Numbering & Formatting Footnotes
Customizing a Footnote Layout
Working with Multiple Footnotes
Using the Check Spelling Dialog Box
Adding Words to the Dictionary
11 TABLE OF CONTENTS SECRETS
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15 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP® IMPORT & CREATIVITY
9 MULTIPLE MASTERS, OVERRIDES &
PDF IMPORT 18min
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Selecting a Font
Adjusting Type Size & Leading
Exploring More Character Options
Adjusting Tracking
Introducing Kerning & the Eyedropper Tool
Adjusting Kerning & Baseline Shift
7 FEATHERING MAGIC
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Creating a New Style Sheet
Linking Style Sheets
The Advantages of Linked Style Sheets
Importing Style Sheets from Other Documents
Redefining a Style
14 IMPORTING VECTOR GRAPHICS
6 FLEXIBLE FOOTNOTES & SPELL CHECKING
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Setting up Microsoft® Word Import Options
Setting Options for Placing Imported Text
Placing & Directing Overflow Text
Adding Pages to the Document
Creating a Layout & Duplicating Text Frames
Setting up Text Links Across Multiple Frames
Pre-Linking & Adjusting Text Frame Options
Using Autoflow for Automatic Documents
9 PARAGRAPH FORMATTING & DESIGN
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16 LAYERED DESIGN & TEXT WRAP
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Using Ligatures
Exploring OpenType Fonts
Using Discretionary Ligatures & Fractions
Using Proportional Oldstyle & Ordinals
Using Small Caps & Force Line Break
Exploring Glyphs
Glyph Palette Options & Applying Glyphs
13 GRAPHIC FRAMES & OBJECT STYLES
8 FOLIOS, MASTER PAGES & LIBRARIES
4 ADOBE INCOPY® ASSIGNMENTS
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7 IMPORTING, POURING, FLOWING & AUTOMATION
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Introducing Image Tables
Creating & Working with Tables
Formatting Cells in a Table
Using the Cell Options Dialog Box
Editing Text & Importing Snippets
Adjusting Alignment & Color
Rules for Importing Images
Adjusting the Size & Crop of Imported Images
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12 BASIC PARAGRAPH STYLE SHEETS
6 BEGINNING YOUR LAYOUT DESIGN
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11 OPENTYPE® & TYPOGRAPHY
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Creating Margins & Columns
Understanding Master Pages
Setting up Rulers
Creating Guides
Understanding Guides as Objects
Using Control Palette Calculations
Customizing Guide Colors
Placing Guides on Layers
Placing Guides on Multiple Pages
Using Preview Modes
10 THE BASICS OF TYPOGRAPHY
PART 2 Production Magic &
Streamlined Output
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5 LETTING INDESIGN GUIDE YOU
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8 TYPE FORMATTING
4 NAVIGATION & ADOBE BRIDGE
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Creating Presets & Drawing Guides
Drawing Rules & Using Step and Repeat
Loading Swatches & Drawing a Shape
Aligning Type & Rotating an Image
Extending a Gradient & Creating Drop Shadows
Creating an Overlay Gradient
Converting a Text Snippet to a Table
Applying Styles & Swatches to a Table
Formatting Text around a Graphic
Placing a Logo & Scaling Objects
Joining & Subtracting Paths & Fitting Images
Placing a Graphic inside Type
Creating a Lens Effect with Text
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