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Contents
How This Book Was Produced ............................xi
Bonus Materials .........................................xi
Acknowledgments ...................................... xii
Chpt 1 Workspace .................................................1
Layout and Story Windows ................................
Managing Multiple Windows ..............................
InDesign’s Panels ........................................ 
Using the Tools Panel ....................................1
Other Panels ............................................
Context Menus ........................................ 
Keyboard Shortcuts ..................................... 
Customizing Menus .....................................3
Customizing the Control Panel ............................3
Saving and Loading Workspaces ...........................3
Setting Preferences ......................................3
Setting Defaults ........................................ 6
Publication Navigation .................................. 6
Managing InDesign’s Plug-Ins ............................ 6
Place Icons ............................................ 6
On with the Tour ....................................... 6
Chpt  Importing and Exporting ................................. 6
Creating a New Publication .............................. 
Opening Publications ....................................3
Saving Publications ......................................
Crash Recovery .........................................
Setting Basic Layout Options ..............................
Pages and Spreads ...................................... 
Adding Pages ...........................................
Arranging Pages ....................................... 
Creating pages of different sizes ...........................
Rotating Spreads ....................................... 
Defining Sections ...................................... 
v     c6
Numbering Pages ...................................... 
Adding Section Marker Text ..............................3
Working with Master Pages .............................. 
Applying Master Pages and Master Spreads .................
Overriding Master Items ................................1
Adjusting Layouts ......................................13
Liquid Page Rules ......................................16
Alternate Layouts ......................................11
Selecting and Deselecting ...............................11
Guides ................................................11
Grids .................................................13
Stacking Objects .......................................131
Layers ................................................133
Grouping Objects ......................................1
Locking Object Positions ................................13
Deleting Objects .......................................1
Finding and Changing Objects ...........................1
A Good Foundation ....................................16
Chpt 3 Text .....................................................1
Creating Text Frames ...................................1
Setting Text Frame Options ..............................1
Spanning and Splitting Columns .........................1
Linking and Unlinking Text Frames .......................1
Flowing Text ...........................................16
Entering Text ..........................................16
Text Variables ..........................................1
Cross References .......................................11
Importing Text .........................................1
Text Files and File Linking ...............................3
Exporting Text .........................................3
Editing Text ...........................................3
Story Editor .......................................... 6
Track Changes ........................................ 
Notes .................................................1
Using Adobe InCopy ...................................1
Checking Spelling ......................................13
Footnotes .............................................1
Conditional Text .......................................3
Find and Change ...................................... 6
Working with InDesign Tagged Text ..................... 
After Words .......................................... 
ctt v
Chpt  Type ................................................... 
Character Formatting ...................................1
OpenType Fonts ...................................... 
Find Font .............................................
Filling and Stroking Characters ......................... 6
Paragraph Formatting .................................. 6
Bullets and Numbering ................................ 36
Styles .................................................31
Copying Styles from Other Publications ...................331
Optical Margin Alignment ..............................333
An Old Typesetter Never… ..............................33
Chpt  Drawing .................................................33
Drawing Basic Shapes ...................................336
Points and Paths .......................................33
Drawing Paths with the Pencil Tool ...................... 3
Drawing Paths with the Pen Tool ........................ 3
Drawing Techniques ....................................3
Compound Paths .......................................3
Smoothing Paths ...................................... 3
Erasing Paths ..........................................3
Path Operations ........................................3
Corner Options ........................................3
Strokes ................................................3
Stroke Styles ...........................................36
Fills ................................................. 366
Gradients .............................................36
Transparency ..........................................3
Transparency Effects ....................................3
Drawing Conclusions ...................................3
Chpt 6 Where Text Meets Graphics ...............................3
Paragraph Rules ....................................... 3
Tables ................................................3
Creating a Table ....................................... 36
Editing Tables ........................................ 3
Table Shortcuts ........................................1
Formatting Tables ......................................13
Table and Cell Styles ....................................3
Text Wrap ............................................ 
Converting Text to Outlines .............................3
Inline Frames and Anchored Objects ..................... 3
v     c6
Object Styles .......................................... 
Placing Text on a Path ................................. 
Quick Apply .......................................... 6
Figure Captions ........................................63
Alternate Reality ...................................... 66
Chpt  Importing and Exporting ................................ 6
Importing ............................................ 6
Placing Anything ...................................... 6
About Graphic File Formats ............................ 
Image Resolution and Scaling ............................
Graphic Display Properties ............................. 6
Image Import Options ................................. 
Linking and Embedding ................................ 
Copying and Linking Objects ........................... 3
Working with Graphic Frames .......................... 
File Info and Metadata ..................................3
Object Layer Options ...................................
Working with Clipping Paths ............................
Applying Color to an Imported Graphic ...................1
Exporting Documents ..................................11
Exporting JPEG or PNG ................................11
Exporting EPS .........................................13
Exporting PDF for Printing ..............................1
InDesign Markup Language (IDML) ......................3
Snippets ..............................................3
Data Merge ............................................33
XML ................................................ 
The Best of All Possible Worlds .......................... 
Chpt  Long Documents .........................................
Books ............................................... 6
Table of Contents .......................................
Indexes (Or Indices) ....................................61
Putting It Together .....................................
Chpt  Transforming ............................................
Transformation Basics ..................................6
Numbers Are Your Friends ..............................
Moving Objects ........................................3
Scaling ................................................6
Rotating Objects .......................................
ctt x
Reflecting Objects ......................................1
Shearing Objects .......................................
Repeating Transformations ..............................3
Grid Mode ........................................... 6
Aligning and Distributing Objects ........................
Locking Objects ........................................61
Hiding Objects ........................................ 6
Transform Your Life!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chpt 1 Color ................................................... 63
Seeing Color, Printing Color ............................ 6
Color in InDesign ..................................... 6
InDesign’s Color Controls ..............................66
The Color Panel and the Color Picker .................... 6
Applying Colors and Gradients ...........................6
Kuler .................................................63
Ink Manager ...........................................6
Trapping ............................................. 66
Color Management .....................................6
InDesign’s Color Management Controls .................. 63
The Color “Done” ..................................... 6
Chpt 11 Printing .................................................6
The InDesign Print Dialog Box .......................... 66
General .............................................. 6
Setup .................................................6
Marks and Bleeds ......................................6
Output ................................................6
Graphics ............................................. 66
Color Management .................................... 666
Advanced ............................................ 666
Summary ............................................ 66
Print Presets .......................................... 66
Custom Printer Marks ................................. 6
Printing Booklets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
Separations Preview ....................................6
Printing Transparency ................................. 6
Preparing an InDesign File for Imagesetting .............. 66
Preflight and Package .................................. 6
All the News That Prints to Fit .......................... 6