Learn how to design a book with Adobe InDesign. Find out how to place and style text, add images, create the book cover, and prepare your design for printing.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Creating a book in InDesign
- What you should know
- Using the exercise files
- Overview of the book
- Setting up a workspace
- Choosing a page size
- Setting margins
- Adding page numbers and running heads
- Placing the text
- Cleaning up text
- Choosing your typeface
- Creating and applying the body style
- Section paragraph styles
- Section paragraph styles: Using a nested style
- Creating and applying chapter number styles
- Automating chapter title formatting
- Align text to a baseline grid
- Additional formatting
- Adding and formatting a footnote
- Automating character styles
- Adding the running header
- Removing unwanted headers
- Preparing the images
- Placing the images
- Generating captions
- Using (or not using) the InDesign Book feature
- Placing the images as anchored objects
- Placing inline images
- Recomposing text
- Paying attention to small details
- Using a GREP style to fix runt lines
- Fixing hyphenation and justification violations
- Fixing widows and orphans
- What is the front matter?
- Sections and numbering
- Designing the title and half-title pages
- Formatting dedications
- Generating the table of contents
- Formatting the table of contents
- Creating a list of illustrations
- Setting up the cover document
- Designing the front cover
- Adding text to the front cover
- Designing the spine
- Designing the back cover
- Preflighting the finished book
- Exporting to print-ready PDF
- Archiving the project
- Next steps
Taught by
Nigel French