InDesign is an essential tool for design firms, ad agencies, magazines, newspapers, book publishers, and freelance designers around the world. This course presents the core features and techniques that make this powerful page layout application fun and easy to use. Author David Blatner shows how to navigate and customize the workspace, manage documents and pages, work with text frames and graphics, export and print finished documents, explore creating interactive documents, and much more. He also covers popular topics such as EPUBs and long documents and includes advice on working with overset text, unnamed colors, and other troublesome issues that may arise for first-time designers.

Topics include:

Getting started in just 30 minutes: the quick start guide to InDesign
Understanding your workspace
Creating and setting up new documents
Creating and applying master pages
Entering and editing text
Placing graphics
Working with color and gradients
Editing frame and path shapes
Working with layers, objects, and groups
Rotating and scaling objects
Applying character and paragraph formatting
Using styles
Creating and formatting tables
Exporting to EPUB and interactive PDF
Packaging, printing, and exporting your final document

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