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However, this can result in some of the image being cropped off as shown in the following example. The Fit Content Proportionally command fills the whole content within the frame without cropping the image.

Fit Content to Frame scales the image to fit in the frame. However, use this only when needed as the scaling can be disproportionate. Image transparency or if you are an image editor, the alpha channel, is very important to ensure that the image you are inserting into the document blends with it instead of appearing like an amateur cut-and-paste job.

There are two ways to get the separate image or the alpha channel from the background and for both of these, we need to switch over to Photoshop. One of the ways is to use the Clipping tool in Photoshop to draw a path around the object we want to isolate from the background.

This method, although useful, can result in sharp edges and might not look professional especially when the clipped image is inserted into the document.

Hence, we will focus on the other way which is to isolate the alpha layer from within Photoshop to get a better anti-aliased object that blends with the document. In this example, let us say that you want to isolate the bird from the background. Place the image into InDesign and go to the Edit menu and select Edit with and in the submenu, choose Adobe Photoshop. You can also choose any other image editor you are accustomed to, if it shows up in the Edit with menu. In this case, the selection of the bird has been made using the Magnetic Lasso tool you can also use the Pen tool if you need more precise cut outs and loaded the selected part of the image as a new Alpha channel called Alpha1.

Now, click the Channels tab and drag this Alpha1 channel onto the Load channel as selection icon, which is the first icon from the left in the bottom of the panel. Next, go the Layers tab and click on Add layer mask icon to create a layer mask with the transparency be sure to unlock the layer if its locked.

Since the image is linked, any change that you do in Photoshop will reflect automatically in InDesign. If you zoom into the image, you will find less of sharp edges and a much more refined outline. You can now fit the image into the frame by applying the image fitting commands discussed in the previous chapter. QR codes are square blocks of graphical code that contain embedded information. QR codes are being increasingly used to condense all information into a single image.

QR codes can be read by smartphone cameras and a QR reader app. InDesign allows for creation of QR codes to contain virtually any information. It is most useful if you have contact details for a brochure and want to insert a QR code so that smartphone users can easily lookup your information without having to enter it.

This will open a dialog box where you can enter the information you want to generate a code. You can select the type of QR code you want. It can be a website, plain text, email message or even a business card. You can also change the color of the code to your liking. When you click OK, you will get a cursor similar to placing an image frame. Just drag it to the desired size to insert the code. You can also place QR codes in existing frames. In this chapter, you will learn about the various selection tools in Adobe InDesign and how to apply fill and strokes colors.

There are two types of selection tools in InDesign. The commonly used Selection tool black arrow selection tool and the Direct Selection tool. You will notice that the selection shows some frames in red and some in blue and even green. These indicate that these frames are in different layers which you will notice if you have the Layers panel open. The Direct Selection tool allows you to select a single point on a path and move just one point.

In the following example, just the vertex of the lower right of the frame has been dragged while keeping the other points intact. The contents of the frame reflow automatically. InDesign makes it very easy to change the background color or fill and the border color or stroke of any object — image or text. Let us discuss fill first. Let us say that you would like to change the background color of the object. First, make sure the object is selected.

Go to the Control Panel on the top and click the arrow next to the Fill function. The button directly below Fill is the Stroke.

You can select the available colors from here or create your own custom color value using RGB, CMYK, or any of the many available color profiles. Say, you want to apply a Red swatch. Select it from the menu to see the change. Now, if you want to change the stroke of the object, simply select the Stroke and decide on the color as before.

Let us make it black for this example. We see that the borders of the image have now become black. Of course, you can select or define any color you like and also customize the thickness of the border. You can add color to images just like you add to objects. However, there are a few caveats to keep in mind. Import any image using the Place command and either draw a frame or insert it into an existing frame.

You should double-click within the frame to select the image, otherwise whatever color you choose will apply to the frame but not to the image itself. Then go to the Swatches panel, make sure the foreground fill is selected and select the desired color to be applied. You can also reduce or increase the intensity of the color by adjusting the Tint value in the Swatches panel. It is easy to add transparency to objects in InDesign.

You can add transparency to images, text, or any other object. You can even change the transparencies of the fill and stroke. Select the object that you want to apply the transparency effect to. Remember to click inside the frame if you want to apply the effect to the image or text.

Otherwise, the effect will be applied to the frame. Drop shadows are a great way to make an object stand out and can give a sense of depth to the object. However, care must be taken not to overuse them else, the document can look too gaudy.

There is a direct and easy way to create a drop shadow in InDesign. Just go to the Control Panel and click the Drop Shadow icon.

This will instantly create a drop shadow for the object under selection. You will see that a drop shadow has been applied to the image. If you notice carefully, there is a fx written beside the object in the Effects panel circled in red. You can double-click the fx icon to gain more control over the drop shadow which we will see next. Hovering over the fx icon gives a tooltip that tells you the effect applied to the object.

Double-clicking the fx icon opens up a dialog box to further fine tune the shadow characteristics. Here, you can change various parameters such as the spread, angle, and offset of the shadow.

You can also add a custom color to the shadow. InDesign allows you to add a whole range of effects to objects in your document. For this example, we will look at some text effects such as Bevel and Emboss. Remember that you however cannot apply effects to individual letters in the text but only to the entire text frame. In this example, we see that the Bevel and Emboss function creates a beveling effect to the text. Like any other effect, you can adjust the intensity, angle, offset, and other parameters.

The Eyedropper tool is an easy way to apply formatting from one object or text to the other. Select the Eyedropper tool from the toolbar and click any formatting or style that you want. You will notice that the Eyedropper which showed an empty icon, now shows a partially filled one. You can now take this partially filled Eyedropper and apply it on to any text or image. You can also customize what styles the eyedropper should copy by double-clicking the Eyedropper icon in the toolbar.

This opens a dialog box where you can select which properties of the item to eyedrop and which ones to exclude. The same can be applied to objects. For example, you can find an object with specific features such as fill or stroke and change all objects matching this criterion to properties that you wish to change to.

You can specify the criteria that you want to find within this box such fill, stroke, weight of the stroke, etc. Here, you will need to specify the resulting criteria.

This feature is much more efficient than the Eyedropper tool, especially if you are working on a large document. The Swatches panel or the colors panel is the main place to define colors or swatches for your objects. You can change colors or define custom colors based on the objective of your document.

Changing the color of an object, be it text or image if it is non-transparent and in grayscale is simply a matter of selecting it and applying a desired color from the Swatches panel. If you want to edit a color, you can right-click on the color and select Swatch Options… This opens the Swatch Options dialog box. In this dialog box, you can manually adjust the CMYK values to get the target color you want.

In the Color Type dropdown menu, there are two options — Process and Spot. Process is used when working with on-screen documents and is usually the default. Spot is used if you want to define colors for printing. In addition to editing an existing swatch, you can also create new swatches with the appropriate color values. Once you are done creating or editing the swatch, you can select any frame and click the desired swatch to apply the color to the frame.

In addition to the Swatches panel, you can also use the Color panel to select and define colors. The Color panel can be invoked by going to the Window menu, then to the Color submenu and finally selecting the Color panel or simply press F6 on the keyboard. Hovering over this tint ramp or spectrum, turns the cursor into the Eyedropper tool , which you can use to select the desired color. You can play around with the Color panel just like you would on the Swatches panel but make sure you add color to your existing swatch collection by clicking Add to Swatches in the Color panel options.

Doing so, will enable you to reuse the color within, as well as outside the document. Otherwise, it might be difficult to exactly reuse the same color as the color selection from the Color panel is unnamed. Using gradients can lend some great effects to the document.

For using gradients, create an empty gradient swatch by going to the options of the Swatches panel and selecting New Gradient Swatch and click Ok. Right-click the new gradient swatch, which you will see now and select Swatch Options to open the Gradient Options dialog box.

In this case, the default gradient color is from white to black. Clicking the first stop the small white icon in the Gradient Ramp allows you to define the CMYK color which you want as the starting point of the gradient. The Stop Color dropdown menu also allows you to select an existing swatch as your gradient color.

You can also add a multi-stop gradient by clicking the Gradient Ramp. If you notice, you will see a diamond shaped handle on top of the Gradient Ramp. That allows you to define the extent of the gradient. You can fine tune the gradients you have created to have a more consistent look with the rest of the document. For this, let us create two gradient swatches — one will be a radial gradient and one will be a linear one. Select the frames that you want these gradients to be applied. You can also select the Gradient Swatch Tool from the toolbar and simply drag a line within the frame in the direction you want the gradient to be applied.

There are many ways to create paths or Bezier curves in InDesign much similar to what can be done in Adobe Illustrator or any vector graphics software. Select the Pen tool from the toolbar and draw on the document. You will notice that you can start a new curve from the end vertex of the previous curve. If you hover the Pen tool over any of the vertex points, the cursor will change to a Pen with a minus symbol, which means that the vertex can be deleted. The Pen tool can be used for basic Bezier curve drawing, however, if you want a finer control over the geometry, you need to use the Pathfinder panel.

The Pathfinder panel can be found by going to the Window menu, then to Objects and Layout and finally selecting Pathfinder. The Pathfinder consolidates all the path tools under one panel. You can close open paths or convert paths into known shapes. For example, if you want to convert the earlier drawn path into a triangle, simply select the Converts shape to triangle in the Convert shape section and you will have a perfect triangle.

If you find the need to frequently work with paths, it is a good idea to dock the Pathfinder panel along with the other panels for easy access. Creating text outlines is an easy and fun way to add some effects to text and change the characteristics of individual letters or words without needing to change the whole font.

To create an outline of a shape or letter, select it using the Selection tool and go to the Type menu and select Create Outlines. This will create an outline path of the selected text, in this case, the letters, O and K. There will be a lot of vertices which are the paths along this outline. You can selectively add effects to it such as transparency or drop shadows or just fill these outlines with an image or color to enhance the effect. To do that, use the Place command or select a color swatch to change the O and K part of the letter.

The outline of the object is treated like a frame within a frame. You can also select a group of objects and create outlines for them. All objects are arranged as stacks in the InDesign workspace. Every object has a X, Y, and Z coordinate which will pinpoint the location and orientation of the object with respect to the rest of the stack. You can bring the objects forward or move them backward as needed. To do this, select the object that you want to move forward or backward, go to the Object menu, then to the Arrange submenu and select the appropriate option.

Note that sometimes, the object might appear as though it has disappeared when you bring it to the front or back. It has not gone anywhere. There could be another object layer in between which is causing the object to visually disappear. This is because of the presence of another layer between the car image and the text object. As seen before, working directly with object stacks can get confusing.

Therefore, the ideal way is to use layers to determine how the objects are actually stacked upon each other. Layers can be used to create better organized objects. You can access layers from the Layers panel.

Clicking the Layers panel will reveal the layers in the document. You can create a new layer by clicking the Create New Layer at the bottom on the Layers panel, which will directly create a new layer or you can also hold down the Alt key on Windows or Option key on the Mac and click on Create New Layer to get the New Layer dialog box. You will notice that each layer is color coded and has an active square beside its name. That square is an indication that elements of that layer are being worked on currently.

You can click and drag the square to another layer, which will reveal items belonging to that layer. In the following example, clicking and dragging the blue square from the Background layer to the Main layer, changes the square to red and highlights the elements in the document belonging to the Main layer. Clicking the eyeball icon in front of the layer name will hide or reveal the layer. Clicking the box just beside the eyeball will lock the layer and prevent you from making edits to it.

Sometimes, you might want to see the layer on screen but need not have to print the objects in that layer. Then remove the checkmark beside the Print Layer option. This will show the layer on screen but will not print it on paper or when exported to PDF. Every layer is composed of objects which can be rearranged within the layer or even between the layers. Each object is given a name within a layer. For example, collapsing the Background layer will reveal the objects within it.

Images if any, will be shown by their file names. If there is some text within a text frame, the starting words of the text will be shown so as to easily identify it. It is possible to rearrange these objects by simply clicking and dragging the object for multiple object select by holding Ctrl on Windows or Command on Mac into the desired layer.

You can simply rename the object name by clicking once, pausing for a second and clicking again. This will enable you to rename the object to something more recognizable. In this chapter, you will learn how to nest objects within frames. It is possible to nest one frame within another frame or one object within another using the Paste Into command in the Edit menu. Nesting frames offers a lot of possibilities to create some good effects and the nesting can continue even further.

Create polygon frames by selecting the Polygon tool from the toolbar and draw as many polygons as needed. You can get as creative as possible. Select each polygon and go to the Edit menu and select Paste Into to paste the relevant parts of the image into each polygon.

You can add some effects to this to make it stand out. To add effects to all the polygons at once, click and drag along all the polygons with the Selection tool to select all of them and go to the Objects menu and select Group to group them as a single object. Now, go to the Effects panel and apply the desired effect, say a little bit of Bevel and Emboss effect.

Nesting is very useful to create high impact content. You can also nest a text frame into this new nest. InDesign offers a lot of flexibility when it comes to aligning objects. There are two ways in which you can align objects with respect to each other — one is by using alignment guides and the other is by using the Align panel. When you click and drag objects to position them with respect to other objects, you will see green lines which serve as alignment guides. In the above example, it can be seen that the green box is being aligned with respect the text box above and the vertical green line is the alignment guide, which shows the center of the text box.

The Align panel makes it easy to align multiple objects at once. To access the Align panel, go to the Window menu, then go to the Object and Layout submenu and click Align to open the Align panel. The top row of the Align panel has options to align everything left, right, top, or bottom. You can also use the Align panel to distribute objects within a given distance or align other objects with respect to a reference object or the key object. In the above example, it can be seen that all the selected objects could be aligned to the left with one click instead of relying on alignment guides.

Text wrapping is making the text reflow along the boundaries of the frame or the object. Text wrapping options can be set using the Text Wrap panel from the Window menu. Let us take an example of text wrapping around an object. When you insert an image over text, the text normally wraps itself around the frame of the image which is usually rectangular but not the image itself which can have a contour.

The Text Wrap panel allows you to define the image around which the text should wrap itself. Place the image in the document and open the Text Wrap panel. With the image frame selected, select the third option to wrap the text around the object.

It is better if the imported image has some transparency or alpha channel applied to it. Anchored objects tell InDesign to keep the positioning of the object, while moving the other objects around it. To do this, first we must anchor the object. The easiest way to anchor or make an object in-line is to select the object and cut it into the clipboard. Then use the Text tool to place the cursor in the original position of the cut object and paste the object from the clipboard back again. You will notice that the object is now placed on top of the text.

To restore it back to its original place, go to the Control Panel and select the Leading value to Auto as shown. This will tell InDesign to allocate as much area as required by the object. You will see the object being properly inserted. If you change the text above or below the object, the object also flows along with the text as it is now anchored or in-line with the text. In this page, even if we choose to edit or delete the text above the car, the car will follow the edit instead of jumping above or below the text.

InDesign allows for a lot of object transformations such as duplication, rotation, scaling, skewing, and mirroring. We will discuss each in the subsequent sections. There are many ways to duplicate objects in InDesign but the simplest way is to press Alt on Windows or Option on Mac and drag the object to create a duplicate. You will notice that the object is duplicated in exactly the same proportions as the original.

You can also go to the Edit menu and select Duplicate to duplicate the object with the same offsets. It is very easy to rotate an object within InDesign. You can either use the Rotate tool on the toolbar or use the rotate option in the Control Panel. The rotate options allow you to also specify the precise angle of rotation and also the axis of the rotation. The preset rotate options in the Control Panel allow you to rotate the object at 90 o angles. You also flip the images vertically or horizontally using the Flip Horizontal and Flip Vertical icons below the rotate icons.

There are many ways to scale objects in InDesign. You can use either the Free Transform tool or the Selection tool from the toolbar. Click the Free Transform tool and select the edge of the object and drag it to scale to the desired size.

You can hold down the Shift key while dragging to constrain the proportions. You can also use the Selection tool for the same effect. It is easy to skew the image or object to the precise required value. A straightforward way is to use the Shear X Angle command in the Control Panel and enter a desired skew angle.

You can also use the Shear tool in the toolbar to skew an object. Select the Shear tool and click within the object to set a reference point. Then simply turn the object till you get the desired skew angle. It is important to pay attention to the reference point at the far left of the Control Panel to ensure that the image does not go off the document. This makes a duplicate of the image while flipping. InDesign offers a lot of choices for working with characters.

Most of these options are in the Control Panel. Whenever you edit any text or want to change properties of the text, make sure that 1 is always selected.

When you install InDesign, you will also be installing fonts apart from the ones that come default with Windows or Mac OS. All the fonts installed and their samples are listed here. You can change the typeface between regular, bold, italics, etc. The exact properties depend on the font chosen. You can choose from an available list of sizes or input your own size.

The leading is a measurement of the space between the baseline of the text and the line above it. Be sure to change the leading by selecting the whole paragraph, otherwise you will have an uneven leading within the paragraph.

The kerning is the font space between individual characters. You can now use it to change the formatting across documents instead of having to manually search and replace them yourselves. You can then specify the parameters you want the text to change into by clicking the Change Format box and specify the changes that you want.

Before clicking Change All , just make sure to define the scope in the Search dropdown menu as Story or Document to ensure that the change is reflected across the entire document.

Otherwise, the formatting change will be limited only to the selected text. We see that there are a total of 11 changes made within the document along with the initial word that was copied. Just like character formatting, you can format paragraphs too with a wide range of options. The different options have been labeled in orange so that you can easily follow. To adjust paragraph formatting options, select the Paragraph Formatting Controls 1 icon.

You can align paragraphs left, right, top, or bottom and even align them along the spine of a book if you are creating a facing pages document. The difference is that, when you click Left Indent, the entire paragraph is indented according to the indent value you set. But that does not always look good, hence it is a good idea to indent only the first line of the paragraph, which is when you will need to use First Line Left Indent.

They do a similar job like 3 and 4 , this time, on the right side of the paragraph. It is always a recommended practice to use Space Before and Space After instead of manually using tabs, spaces or Enter key for paragraph spacing.

This is a unique effect, which allows you to extend the first letter which is usually in caps along the specified number of lines for a more elegant and professional look as shown in the above example. Styles are useful in applying multiple formatting options at once with a single click. Styles can be applied to paragraphs, characters, and even tables. It is easy to apply a set of styles to an entire paragraph with paragraph styles. To reveal the paragraph styles in the current document, open the Paragraph Styles panel.

Here, you will see a list of styles in that document. Simply click any paragraph on the page and choose the desired paragraph style to apply the formatting.

You can double-click on any paragraph style to edit it. This opens the Paragraph Style Options dialog box in which you can specify the parameters you want to change. The Style Settings area shows a summary of the different parameters for this style. Unlike the paragraph style, a character style can be set to define a single parameter such as font, color, size, or a combination of any of these. Character styles can be set by opening the Character Styles panel and choosing the desired style.

Similar to the paragraph style, you can simply double-click any character style to open the Character Style Change dialog box. Even there, the Style Settings area shows a summary of the different parameters for this style.

Although technically possible, character styles should be applied only to a word or two or at the maximum, a sentence but never to a complete paragraph. InDesign provides several ways of working with tables. You can create a table from scratch within a text frame or convert an existing data into a table. Note that the table created will be an anchored object for the text frame. To create a new table, simply select the Text tool and draw an area that you want to create as a table.

Here, you can specify the number of rows and columns that you want in your table and also specify if you need headers and footers for the table. Clicking OK will create the table within your text frame. You can now enter data within this table. Moving the cursor over any of the rows or columns will allow you to resize the row or column.

Use Shift and drag outside of the table to adjust the entire table proportionally. Remember that to drag the rows or columns, you need the Type tool selected on the toolbar as the table is considered to be a text frame. If you use the Selection tool, it will move the whole text frame instead of just the row or column. Most of the time, it makes sense to convert an existing data into a table.

You can import a Word, Excel, Access database file, or even a text document and convert the contents into a table. Use the Text tool to create the text frame for your table. Then, use the Place command to place your data into the text frame. In the following example, we will use a simple text file containing information about websites of some pharma companies and convert this into a table. You need to tell InDesign what it should consider as a row and column separator.

For now, the defaults will work. Click OK to create the table. You can edit the contents of each cell just like how you would edit a regular text frame. If you want an even distribution of rows and columns, you can simply select the rows or columns and go to the Table menu and select either Distribute Rows Evenly or Distribute Columns Evenly or both. All table formatting options are accessible from the Table Options dialog box. To access this, simply go to the Table menu, then go to the Table Options submenu and choose Table Setup….

From here, you can choose how your borders should look like and what should be their stroke, how you want individual rows and columns to be colored and a whole lot more.

It is easy to explore the options and change the necessary settings. For this example, let us see the final output after doing some basic formatting. Before doing this, it would be a good practice to define the first row of the table as the header. This is useful when you have a table spanning multiple pages and it helps to have the header on all the pages for easy reference. Now, we have a table that is reasonably well formatted. You can explore further options in the Table Options dialog box to adjust the formatting to your liking.

It is always easier to break a long document which often runs into several hundred pages into smaller chunks that are individual InDesign documents file extension. How many chunks you break is entirely up to your liking. You can combine all these individual InDesign documents into an InDesign book file extension.

To create a book, open the File menu, go to the New submenu and select Book… This will open the Save dialog box and ask you to save the book file. Give it a name and click OK. This will create the book and open the Book panel. In the following example, we have taken two.

Once all the. The icon next to the first document in the Book panel indicates the style source. It means, this document is a source for whatever paragraph or character style changes that you make. You can select any document as a style source. The best part about using the Book panel is that this style source can be synchronized with all other documents in the panel by clicking the double arrow icon in the bottom of the panel. This will tell InDesign to look for style elements in the first document and implement them in the subsequent documents.

The Table of Contents ToC is a very useful feature in InDesign not just to create a chapter-wise ToC, but also to list out basically anything that has a paragraph style. You might need to click More Options to reveal additional options in the dialog box. There are a lot of options in here but the most important thing is to add the paragraph style that resembles the chapter headings. In the above example, we have selected the ch.

Next, define the entry style by selecting the appropriate style for your ToC in the Entry Style dropdown menu. The entry style defines how the ToC labels look like. Select the After Entry option in the Page Number dropdown menu to keep the page numbers after the chapter entry. You also need to specify the code between the chapter entry and the page number. The Right Indent Tab ensures that the page numbers align perfectly at the end of the right side of the text frame.

Review the options and click OK to see the ToC. The above example shows a very basic ToC. You can of course go ahead and customize the paragraph styles that you want as discussed earlier and use them in the ToC to get all sorts of custom ToCs. InDesign makes it easy to add hyperlinks and bookmarks to make your document interactive. However, keep in mind that the interactivity you add will not be evident in the InDesign workspace but will be seen in the exported PDF.

We will discuss a few interactive elements in this chapter. It makes sense to set the workspace from Advanced to Interactive for PDF to enable easy access to interactive panels.

You can add hyperlinks to an object so that clicking the object in the PDF will take the user to the website or you can add hyperlinks to text to get the same result.

In the following example, we have selected the text to point to a hyperlink. Go to the Hyperlink panel and click the Create new hyperlink at the bottom of the panel to open the New Hyperlink dialog box. InDesign now creates the URL for the text selected.

Similar to hyperlinking a URL, it is also possible to hyperlink an object or text to a specific page in the document. Clicking the text or object will take the user to the linked page. In the following example, let us consider a text called Introduction, clicking which we want the user to go to Chapter 1. Select the text and click the Create new hyperlink at the bottom of the panel to open the New Hyperlink dialog box.

We know Chapter 1 of this book starts from page a1, so in the Page dropdown menu, select a1. We want the contents of the chapter to zoom to fit inside window, so we will select Fit in Window in the Zoom Setting. Click OK to add the hyperlink to the document.

Now, whenever this is exported as a PDF, any user who clicks on the Introduction text will go directly to Chapter 1. Bookmarks are also hyperlinks which make it easier for the user to navigate the document. You can create a bookmark for every page or simply create a ToC to insert bookmarks. Bookmarks are automatically created when you insert a ToC. In this example, we have already created the ToC from the earlier chapter. You can access the bookmarks from the Bookmarks panel present in the same Hyperlinks panel.

As discussed in the beginning of this chapter, you cannot view the interactivity within the actual InDesign workspace. You have to export it as a PDF. There are several options available when you export it as a PDF. For all intents and purposes, you need to select the Adobe PDF Print unless you have multimedia content such as movies or audio in the document.

Click Save. In the Include section, make sure Bookmarks and Hyperlinks checkboxes are turned on. The EPUB format is the standard format for publishing eBooks which can be read on a variety of mobile devices.

If you want your book to have a wide audience, you should definitely consider publishing it in the EPUB format. This will open the EPUB export options dialog box.

But doing so, might not give you the document with the correct layout. To do this, go to the Window menu and select Articles to open the Articles panel. Here, click the Create New Article button to add an article. Now, use the Selection tool to drag a frame onto this created article. This will make sure that InDesign follows the exact same order you have specified in the Articles panel. Preflighting is the process of ensuring that all aspects of the document are perfect before going to print.

InDesign constantly preflights the documents every time you work with them. The above document shows it has 8 errors in the status bar. Double-clicking this message in the status bar will open the Preflight panel, which lists all the errors that InDesign has found. You can directly jump to the page in which the error has been discovered. Once all the errors are corrected, the red error light changes to green, indicating, No errors. It is possible to define your own preflight profile so that you get to determine the errors you should be alerted to.

To do this, go to the Define Profiles… option in the Preflight panel menu to open the Preflight Profiles dialog box. InDesign ships with two built-in preflight profiles — Basic and Desktop Publishing with the option of adding your own profiles. You can choose the errors that InDesign should look for when preflighting the document. Remember that the Basic profile cannot be edited. We have seen how InDesign links images and objects into the document instead of embedding them directly.

This works well most of the time till you want to share the document, say, with your printing press. Most of the time, they will not be having access to your image assets or fonts and might get linking errors or missing font errors. In order to avoid these hassles, InDesign provides a way for you to package the document.

The packaged document contains all the required assets, fonts, and also instructions to the printing press in one folder along with the. To prepare a document for packaging, open the document, do the required preflighting and go to the File menu and select Package… This will open the Package dialog box. The Package dialog box shows a summary of various components of the documents and any of the errors it has found. You can export the reports if you wish by clicking Report… and saving it as a text file.

If not, you can simply select the Package… option and select a file name and location for the document on your hard drive.

This is not the actual packaging yet. Once you save the package, you will get the Printing Instructions dialog box where you can give your contact information and any instructions you want to tell the printing press. Most printing presses ignore this information, unless you specify to look at it. It is always better to have a correspondence with the press either by phone or email instead of using the Printing Instructions dialog box.

Click Continue when done and give a location for the package. You might get a warning box about the use of copyrighted fonts. Be careful when you package fonts that you have purchased separately as they come with usage and distribution restrictions. Click OK to continue. InDesign will show the progress of the packaging. Once it is completed, you will be able to find the package along with the instructions file in the destination you have selected.

Printing documents is easy with InDesign. To print a document, go to the File menu and select Print… This will open the Print dialog box which gives you a lot of fine control over the printing. The bottom left of the box shows a preview of the document and how it fits into the printed page.

The Setup group allows you to set options such as page orientation, page size, position of the content, etc. It would be a good idea to set all the possible and required print options in this dialog itself if the same options are available in your printer driver as well. Doing so will avoid a lot of potential conflicts between InDesign and your printer driver.

The Marks and Bleed group allows you to print the bleed and slug marks, the color bar, crop marks, etc. An important thing to note before high quality printing is to go to the Advanced group and select the High Resolution preset in the Transparency Flattener area.

For less complex jobs like printing booklets on your own, you can use the Print Booklet… command from the File menu. The Print Booklet… command is very useful to sample your booklet before giving it to the press so that you can have a real idea of how it would look on paper. There are however, a few caveats to using this feature. The first thing to remember is that Print Booklet always prints the 1 st and last page on one spread, followed by the 2 nd and last but one and so on until all the pages are printed.

This is because of how the booklet will fold when you stitch it. The other important caveat to remember is the number of pages in the document should be divisible by 4 you can fold a paper in half to understand why. You can leave most of the options in the Print Booklet dialog box as defaults. However more often than not, you will find a yellow exclamation near the Preview page indicating that something is wrong; most probably the page will not be fitting inside the booklet.

To rectify this, simply select the Preview page, go to Print Settings… and in the Print Settings dialog box, adjust the settings in the Setup group to make the content scales to the page and click OK to return to the Preview page in the Print Booklet dialog box. You will notice that the yellow exclamation is gone and the document has correctly fit into the page. You will also notice that InDesign adds extra blank pages if you have excess or less number of pages that are divisible by 4 to ensure that the booklet format is printed properly.

You will also notice page number watermarks are on in the preview. These are just for indication and will not be printed on the final booklet. Click Print to print the booklet. You might have to consult with your printing press before deciding on the format. For all other purposes, including on-screen ones, it is recommended to use the High Quality Print preset.

It is better to avoid the Smallest File Size preset as much as possible as it can affect the resolution and colors of the images to reduce the file size. This function allows you to tag keywords in the PDF, which makes indexing by search engines possible. It also allows for accessiblity options for the disabled as screen reader software can read the tagged data in the PDF. Anything can be done with its powerful features and tools inside the Adobe InDesign.

Therefore, it is no wonder that if this software used by many professionals around the world. In fact, many large companies have also used this application for their business needs. Besides having abundant features, the latest Adobe InDesign is also extremely fast and stable. Although it is such a huge application, however that does not make this software heavy-resources at all. On the contrary, its performance when designing and exporting project file is stunningly faster than any other similar application.

More than that, in the latest updates, Adobe InDesign equipped with advanced capabilities.

 

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