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Revision as of 13:45, 17 April 2013
Intro to InDesign
InDesign is used to combine text and images in preparation for print.
File Management
- Saving files to local computer
- Creating project folder
Document Setup / Margins and Guides
- Create a flyer. Set width and height to 8.5 X 11
- Add a Guide to help you place and align objects on your document
- With the black arrow select tool, click and drag from the ruler area into your document
Add an image
By default, images placed into InDesign are only linked. It is important to have a good file management strategy to keep your images properly linked to your InDesign document.
- Make sure nothing is selected in your document before you place your graphics!
- Go File > Place to place your image
- Locate the image on your local hard drive that you want to place and click Open
- Your cursor changes to the "Image Loaded" cursor. Click your cursor where you'd like the image placed.
To resize your image
With the black arrow select tool 
selected
- hold down the Command AND Shift key then grab a corner of the bounding box and drag to resize.
- Note what happens if you forget to hold down these keys...
To crop your image
With the black arrow select tool selected
- click and drag the bounding box (without holding down CMD+shift).
Move your image
- To move a frame together with its content, use the black selection tool
to click the image outside the content grabber. - To move imported content without moving the frame (that is, to pan content behind its frame), drag the content grabber.
- You can also use the Direct Selection tool
to select and drag the image.
- You can also use the Direct Selection tool
Editing your image
- how to edit in Photoshop without leaving inDesign
Adding Text
- Select the Text tool and drag diagonally to create a frame on your document, start typing.
- You can also Copy and Paste text from other applications
- Using the black arrow tool select a corner of the bounding box to resize
Formatting Text
- Select the text you want to format (Command A to Select All is a useful shortcut here)
- Change your type using the character and paragraph options in the top property bar
Text Flow (for brochures)
You can flow text between multiple text boxes
- Text boxes that are too small to contain all of the text will have a red + box in the lower right corner
- Click this box and the cursor changes to the "Text Loaded" cursor
- Click anywhere on your document and a new text box will be created flowing text from the previous text box
- Use Guides and your Margins to snap text boxes into alignment
Text wrap around an image
- Select the image and from the top properties bar choose the text wrap option you'd like
- Move a text box near/over and image to see the text wrap around the object
Wrapping it up
Placed images in InDesign are by default only linked to the original image files. There are advantages to this but it can create problems when moving files around. You must move your graphics and images together (see File Management strategies above).
Packaging your project for print
Your final step is to "package" your InDesign document. This should be done when you are finished editing your document. This process creates a new project folder, a copy of your inDesign project file, a subfolder called "Links" for all of your linked images and folder called Document fonts for your fonts.
- Save your work File > Save
- Go File > Package
- Click Package
- Add any special instructions and click Continue
- Create the package folder.
- Note the package options. You can accept the default of packaging the top three options from the list.
- Name your folder yourlastname_partnerlastname_final. Save locally first, you will eventually copy this over to Orca/programs.
- Click Package.
- Click OK at the copyright warning
- InDesign will now create a new folder that contains a copy of your project as well as all linked images in a Links folder.
- Copy the entire folder back to Orca/Programs/between-word-image/workspace/Book-final-versions.
