InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom E-Book

Christopher Smith

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Serie: Digital Classroom
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 453

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom is like having a personalinstructor guiding readers through each lesson, while they work attheir own pace. This book includes 12 self-paced lessons that letreaders discover essential skills and explore new features andcapabilities of Adobe InDesign CS4. Every lesson is presented infull color with step-by-step instructions. Learning is reinforcedwith video tutorials and lesson files that were developed by thesame team of Adobe Certified Instructors and Flash experts who havecreated many of the official training titles for Adobe Systems.Each video tutorial is approximately five minutes long anddemonstrates and explains the concepts and features covered in thelesson. This training package shows how to design, produce anddevelop a streamlined workflow for page layout. Jam-packed withinformation, this book and DVD takes users from the basics throughintermediate level topics and helps readers find the informationthey need in a clear, approachable manner. **** InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom contains a DVDwith both lesson files and video tutorials. The authors areconstantly working to improve the lesson files so that you have thegreatest experience with the Digital Classroom books, lesson files,and video tutorials. The most recent lesson files for the book areavailable at the Digital Classroom Books web site at:http://www.digitalclassroombooks.com/idcs4_update. zip Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials arenot included as part of eBook file.

Leseprobe

Adobe® InDesign® CS4 Digital Classroom

Christopher Smith and the AGI Creative Team

Table of Contents

Starting Up

Lesson 1: InDesign CS4 Essential Skills

Lesson 2: Building Documents with Master Pages

Lesson 3: Working with Text and Type

Lesson 4: Working with Styles

Lesson 5: Working with Graphics

Lesson 6: Creating and Using Tables

Lesson 7: Using Color in Your Documents

Lesson 8: Using Effects

Lesson 9: Advanced Document Features

Lesson 10: Document Delivery: Printing, PDFs, and XHTML

Lesson 11: Using XML with InDesign

Lesson 12: Creating Interactive Documents

Lesson 13: What’s New in Adobe InDesign CS4

About InDesign Digital Classroom

Adobe® InDesign® CS4 lets you create print layouts for brochures, magazines, flyers, marketing and sales sheets, and more. InDesign CS4 also provides tight integration with other Adobe products such as Photoshop® CS4, Illustrator® CS4, and Dreamweaver® CS4. You can even export your InDesign documents to Adobe® Flash®, as both an animation and as an editable file. The Adobe InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom helps you to understand these capabilities and to get the most out of your software so that you can get up and running right away. You can work through all the lessons in this book, or complete only specific lessons. Each lesson includes detailed, step-by-step instructions, along with lesson files, useful background information, and video tutorials.

Adobe InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom is like having your own expert instructor guiding you through each lesson while you work at your own pace. This book includes 13 self-paced lessons that let you discover essential skills, explore new ones, and pick up tips that will save you time. You’ll be productive right away, with real-world exercises and simple explanations. Each lesson includes step-by-step instructions, lesson files, and video tutorials, all of which are available at www.digitalclassroombooks.com/epub/indesigncs4. The Adobe InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom lessons are developed by the same team of Adobe Certified Instructors and InDesign experts who have created many of the official training titles for Adobe Systems, so you can be confident that you will discover useful skills quickly and easily.

Prerequisites

Before you start the Adobe InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom lessons, you should have a working knowledge of your computer and its operating system. You should know how to use the directory system of your computer so that you can navigate through folders. You also need to understand how to locate, save, and open files, and you should also know how to use your mouse to access menus and commands.

Before starting the lessons files in the Adobe InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom, make sure that you have installed Adobe InDesign CS4. The software is sold separately, and not included with this book. You may use the free 30-day trial version of Adobe InDesign CS4 available at the Adobe.com web site, subject to the terms of its license agreement.

System requirements

Before starting the lessons in the Adobe InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom, make sure that your computer is equipped for running Adobe InDesign CS4, which you must purchase separately. The minimum system requirements for your computer to effectively use the software are listed on the following page.

System requirements for Adobe InDesign CS4

These are the minimum system requirements for using the InDesign CS4 software:

Windows OS

• Intel® Pentium® 4, Intel Centrino®, Intel Xeon®, or Intel Core™ Duo (or compatible) processor

• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista™ Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise (certified for 32-bit editions)

• 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)

• 1.8GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)

• 1024x768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card

• DVD-ROM drive

• QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features

• Internet or phone connection required for product activation

Macintosh OS

• 1GHz PowerPC® G4 or G5 or multicore Intel® processor

• Mac OS X v10.4.8–10.5 (Leopard)

• 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)

• 1.6GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)

• 1024x768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card

• DVD-ROM drive

• QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features

• Internet or phone connection required for product activation

Menus and commands are identified throughout the book by using the greater-than symbol (>). For example, the command to print a document appears as File > Print. This indicates that you should click the File menu at the top of your screen and choose Print from the resulting menu.

Starting Adobe InDesign CS4

As with most software, Adobe InDesign CS4 is launched by locating the application in your Programs folder (Windows) or Applications folder (Mac OS). If you are not familiar with starting the program, follow these steps to start the Adobe InDesign CS4 application:

Windows

1 Choose Start > All Programs > Adobe InDesign CS4.

2 Close the Welcome Screen when it appears. You are now ready to use Adobe InDesign CS4.

Mac OS

1 Open the Applications folder, and then open the Adobe InDesign CS4 folder.

2 Double-click on the Adobe InDesign CS4 application icon.

3 Close the Welcome Screen when it appears. You are now ready to use Adobe InDesign CS4.

Fonts used in this book

Adobe InDesign CS4Digital Classroom includes lessons that refer to fonts that were installed with your copy of Adobe InDesign CS4. If you did not install the fonts, or have removed them from your computer, you may substitute different fonts for the exercises or re-install the software to access the fonts.

If you receive a Missing Font warning, replace the font with one available on your computer and proceed with the lesson.

Resetting the InDesign workspace and preferences

To make certain that your panels and working environment are consistent, you should reset your workspace at the start of each lesson. To reset your workspace, choose Window > Workspace > Typography. The selected workspace determines which menu items display, which panels display, and which options display within the panels. If menu items that are identified in the book are not displaying, choose Show All Menu Items from the menu in which you are working to locate them, or choose Window > Workspace > Advanced to show all panel options.

You can reset the settings for InDesign at the start of each lesson to make certain you match the instructions used in this book. To reset the InDesign preferences, start Adobe InDesign, and immediately press Shift+Alt+Ctrl (Windows) or Shift+Option+Command+Control (Mac OS). In the dialog box that appears, press OK to reset the preferences.

Loading lesson files

The InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom book includes files that accompany the exercises for each of the lessons. You may copy the entire lessons folder from the supplied DVD to your hard drive, or copy only the lesson folders for the individual lessons you wish to complete. If you are reading the ePub version, you will need to download these files from www.digitalclassroombooks.com/epub/indesigncs4.

For each lesson in the book, the files are referenced by the name of each file. The exact location of each file on your computer is not used, as you may have placed the files in a unique location on your hard drive. We suggest placing the lesson files in the My Documents folder (Windows) or at the top level of your hard drive (Mac OS).

Copying the lesson files to your hard drive:

1 Insert the InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom DVD supplied with this book. ePub users go to www.digitalclassroombooks.com/epub/indesigncs4.

2 On your computer desktop, navigate to the DVD and locate the folder named idlessons. If you downloaded the files, you will need to unzip (expand) the files before working with them.

3 You can install all the files, or just specific lesson files. Do one of the following:

• Install all lesson files by dragging the idlessons folder to your hard drive.

• Install only some of the files by creating a new folder on your hard drive named idlessons. Open the idlessons folder on the supplied DVD, select the lesson(s) you wish to complete, and drag the folder(s) to the idlessons folder you created on your hard drive.

Macintosh users may need to unlock the files after they are copied from the DVD. This only applies to MacOS computers. After copying the files from the DVD to your computer, select the idlessons folder, then choose File > Get Info. In the idlessons info window, click the You can drop-down menu labeled Read Only, which is located in the Ownership section of this window. From the You can drop-down menu, choose Read & Write. Click the arrow to the left of Details, then click the Apply to enclosed items... button at the bottom of the window. You may need to click the padlock icon before the Mac OS allows you to change these permissions. After making these changes, close the window.

Working with the video tutorials

Your InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom book comes with video tutorials developed by the authors to help you understand the concepts explored in each lesson. Each tutorial is approximately five minutes long and demonstrates and explains the concepts and features covered in the lesson.

The videos are designed to supplement your understanding of the material in the chapter. We have selected exercises and examples that we feel will be most useful to you. You may want to view the entire video for a lesson before you begin. ePub readers can view these video tutorials online at www.digitalclassroombooks.com/epub/indesigncs4.

Additional resources

The Digital Classroom series goes beyond the training books. You can continue your learning online with training videos, or at seminars, conferences, and in-person training events.

Book series

Expand your knowledge of creative software applications with the Digital Classroom training series which includes books on Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, and more. Learn more at digitalclassroombooks.com.

Seminars and conferences

The authors of the Digital Classroom seminar series frequently conduct in-person seminars, classes, and speak at conferences, including the annual CRE8 Conference for creative professionals. Learn more about their seminars and classes at agitraining.com and about the annual conference for creative professionals at CRE8summit.com.

Resources for educators

Visit digitalclassroombooks.com to access resources for educators, including instructors’ guides for incorporating Digital Classroom into your curriculum.

Lesson 1: InDesign CS4 Essential Skills

This lesson helps to get you started with InDesign right away, covering the essential skills necessary for creating and editing documents. In this lesson, you will discover essential skills for working efficiently with InDesign documents. You’ll start by understanding how to navigate within an InDesign document; you’ll then place graphics and add formatting to text, creating a finished newsletter.

What you’ll learn in this lesson:

• Understanding the InDesign workspace

• Working with panels and tools

• Navigating through InDesign documents

• Flowing text

• Using Styles to format text and objects

Starting up

Before starting, make sure that your tools and panels are consistent by resetting your preferences. See “Resetting the InDesign workspace and preferences” on page 3.

You will work with several files from the id01lessons folder in this lesson. Make sure that you have copied the idlessons folder onto your hard drive from the supplied DVD. ePub users go to www.digitalclassroombooks.com/epub/indesigncs4. See “Loading lesson files” on page 3. If you are new to InDesign, it may be easier to follow the lesson if the id01lessons folder is placed on your desktop.

InDesign tools

InDesign uses tools for creating or modifying everything that appears in your document. You’ll also use tools for navigating around the document. Tools are all located in the Tools panel, located along the left side of your screen.

Many tools have related tools available for selection by clicking and holding on the tool that is displayed. You can identify the tools that offer additional functionality by the small arrow in the lower-right corner of these tools. You can also right-click (Windows) or Ctrl-click (MacOS) to access hidden tools without waiting.

If you place your cursor over any tool in the Tools panel without clicking, a tooltip appears, displaying the tool’s name and keyboard shortcut. You can use the keyboard shortcut to access a tool instead of clicking it.

The Tools panel.

The InDesign workspace

InDesign documents are displayed in the center of the work area, while panels that let you control objects or perform specific tasks are displayed along the right side of the workspace in the panel docking area. InDesign has many panels that are critical to the editing and design work you perform. InDesign includes various workspaces that provide easy access to the panels and tools you’ll use for specific tasks. Let’s take a closer look at the InDesign workspace, including the document window and panels.

The document window

InDesign pages are displayed within a black border. Anything positioned within this area appears when the page is finished. The area outside of the black border is referred to as the pasteboard. Anything that is placed completely outside this black border on the pasteboard is generally not visible when the final document is distributed.

You can use the pasteboard to temporarily hold elements while designing your project. You can move design elements such as images from the pasteboard to the page, trying different layout variations. The pasteboard can also be useful for placing notes to colleagues—or even yourself—regarding the project. To get a better understanding of the InDesign workspace, you’ll open up the completed project, reset the workspace, and look at the work area.

1 Choose File > Open. In the Open dialog box, navigate to the id01lessons folder and select the id01_done.indd file. Press Open.

2 Choose Window > Workspace > Typography. Panels containing controls that help you work with type are now displayed.

You can also use the dedicated Workspace switcher, located in the Application bar above the Control panel. The Workspace switcher displays the name of the current workspace and can also be used to change between workspaces or to reset the current workspace. The selected workspace controls which panels display and which menu items are available. Fewer or more panels and menu choices are available based upon the selected workspace.