You are here: Home / Archives for InDesign Show Below you'll find links to all the information about InDesign that’s available on the Book Design Made Simple website, book, videos, and blog. Get started with Part I of Book Design Made Simple, where you’ll learn how to lease and install Adobe InDesign, create a document, and import your manuscript from Word. Download Part I for free by subscribing to our blog—simply use the form below. Excerpts from Book Design Made Simple
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Blog postsBelow are all the blog posts in the InDesign category, starting with the most recent post. In Book Design Made Simple, we explain how to create paragraph styles for indexes, how to import an index from Word, and how to typeset an index. Here, we’ll explain the simplest way to create a live index in InDesign. Now think how useful text variables could be as navigational tools (i.e., running heads) in a nonfiction book. They can make the current chapter number and chapter title appear—presto!—on verso pages and the most recent internal heading appear on recto pages. And that’s exactly what I’m going to demonstrate in this article. Adobe’s official user guide instructions on the topic of text variables are a bit sketchy, so I’ve developed a detailed lesson for you. [Read more…] Before Word and InDesign added their automatic footnote features, and well before Fiona and I met each other, we both invented a way—interestingly, the same way—to lay out InDesign footnotes manually for print books. In this blog post, I’ll explain the layout method that we both used—it still works perfectly. [Read more…] How do I create a Book in InDesign?From the Welcome Window, select Book from the Create New list. You can also go to File > New > Book. You'll be prompted to give the Book a Name and to Save it. Find a suitable name and location, then click OK.
How do I create a printable Book in InDesign?Choose File > Print Booklet. If a printer preset has the settings you want, choose it in the Print Preset menu. To use the print settings (as they appear in the Print dialog box) of the current document, choose Current Document Settings from the Print Preset menu.
What is the difference between Book and document in InDesign?Book files are separate from document files. For example, when you choose the Save Book command, InDesign saves the changes to the book, not the documents in the book. Do one of the following: To save a book under a new name, choose Save Book As in the Book panel menu, specify a location and filename, and click Save.
Is InDesign good for writing books?InDesign was built for publishing and publishing design, which makes it a no-brainer for designing book covers. Although it doesn't allow for graphics creation like Photoshop or Illustrator, it's the perfect place to combine all of the design elements together in a finished product.
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