Adobe InDesign CC 2015 User Manual
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Legal notices
- Contents
- Chapter 1: What's New
- Chapter 2: Workspace and workflow
- Create new documents
- Sync Settings using Adobe Creative Cloud
- Toolbox
- Sharing content
- Saving documents
- Understanding a basic managed-file workflow
- Workspace basics
- Default keyboard shortcuts
- Keys for tools
- Keys for selecting and moving objects
- Keys for transforming objects
- Keys for editing paths and frames
- Keys for tables
- Keys for finding and changing text
- Keys for working with type
- Keys for navigating through and selecting text
- Keys for viewing documents and document workspaces
- Keys for working with XML
- Keys for indexing
- Keys for panels
- Keys for the Control panel
- Keys for type panels and dialog boxes
- Keys for the character and paragraph styles
- Keys for the Tabs panel
- Keys for the Layers panel
- Keys for the Pages panel
- Keys for the Color panel
- Keys for using the Separations Preview panel
- Keys for the Swatches panel
- Keys for the Transform panel
- Keys for resolving conflicts between Mac OS 10.3x and 10.4
- Setting preferences
- Working with files and templates
- Customize menus and keyboard shortcuts
- Recovery and undo
- Converting QuarkXPress and PageMaker documents
- PageMaker menu commands
- Assignment packages
- Adjusting your workflow
- Working with managed files
- Viewing the workspace
- Creating and saving your own workspace
- Working with Tools
- Setting preferences
- Toolbox
- Chapter 3: Layout and design
- Generate QR codes
- Add basic page numbering
- Creating a table of contents
- Footnotes
- Text variables
- Creating an index
- Creating type on a path
- Linked content
- About pages and spreads
- Liquid Layouts and Alternate Layouts | CC, CS6
- Aligning and distributing objects
- Create new documents (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean only)
- Formatting grids
- Creating text and text frames
- Creating book files
- Creating documents
- Clipping paths
- Linking Content
- Reviewing the Forms tools
- Testing a form in Acrobat
- Working with Frames
- Creating cross-references (video 5:45)
- Generating image captions with metadata (PDF, 148 KB)
- Grid Mode and Live Distribute (video 2:48)
- Live captions (video 3:04)
- Making shiny graphics (PDF, 203 KB)
- Managing documents with multiple page sizes (PDF, 136 KB)
- Mini Bridge: Getting access to your assets (PDF, 180 KB)
- Mixing page sizes with the new Page tool (video 8:03)
- Paragraphs that span and split columns (video 2:01)
- Rotating Spread view (video 3:31)
- Spanning and Splitting columns (video 6:15)
- Formatting grids
- Frame grid properties
- Grids
- Grouping, locking, and duplicating objects
- Importing files from other applications
- Layers
- Laying out frames and pages
- Layout grids
- Managing graphics links
- Managing pages and spreads
- Master pages
- Numbering pages, chapters, and sections
- Placing graphics
- Reusing graphics and text
- Ruler guides
- Rulers and measurement units
- Transforming objects
- Understanding graphics formats
- Working with files and templates
- Working with frames and objects
- Chapter 4: Text
- Threading text
- Wrapping text around objects
- Arabic and Hebrew features | CC, CS6
- Adobe World-Ready Composers
- Text direction
- Story direction
- Automatic Kashida insertion
- Ligatures
- Diacritical marks
- Copy-paste from Microsoft Word
- Default fonts
- Legacy font support
- Digit Types
- Hyphenation
- Find and replace
- Glyphs
- Justification Alternates
- Special Middle East characters insertion
- Table direction
- Binding directions
- Right to Left writing preferences
- Page and chapter numbering
- Writing direction in Gallery view and Story Editor
- Diacritical coloring
- Anchored objects
- About anchored objects
- Create an anchored object
- Position a custom-positioned anchored object
- Working with anchored objects using drag-and-drop (CS5.5)
- Selecting and copying anchored objects
- View anchored object markers on the page
- Reposition an anchored object on the page manually
- Resize an anchored object
- Release an anchored object
- Articles (CS5.5)
- Bullets and numbering
- Create bulleted or numbered lists
- Format a bulleted or numbered list
- Change bullet characters
- Change numbered list options
- Defining lists
- Create a paragraph style for running lists
- Create multi-level lists
- Create running captions for figures and tables
- Restart or continue numbering for a list
- Convert list bullets or numbers to text
- Find/Change
- Glyphs and special characters
- Formatting CJK characters
- Spell-checking and language dictionaries
- Check spelling
- Hyphenation and spelling dictionaries
- Create or add user dictionaries
- Set the default language dictionary for the current document
- Set the default language dictionary for all new documents
- Remove, relink, and reorder user dictionaries
- Add words to dictionaries
- Remove or edit words in dictionaries
- Export a word list
- Import a word list
- Change dictionary preferences
- Using dictionaries in a workgroup
- Text Frame fitting options | CC, CS6
- Adding text to frames
- Editing text
- Captions
- Tracking and reviewing changes
- Adding editorial notes in InDesign
- Linked stories (CS5.5)
- Creating bullets and numbering (video 12:16)
- Creating conditional text (video 6:48)
- Creating footnotes (video 2:44)
- Linking text stories (PDF, 217 KB)
- Track text changes (video 2:01)
- Working with markers
- Chapter 5: Styles
- Object styles
- Paragraph and character styles
- About character and paragraph styles
- Styles panel overview
- Add paragraph and character styles
- Map styles to export tags | CC, CS6, CS5.5
- Convert Word styles to InDesign styles
- Apply styles
- Edit character and paragraph styles
- Delete character or paragraph styles
- Override character and paragraph styles
- Convert style bullets and numbering to text
- Find and replace character and paragraph styles
- Drop caps and nested styles
- Working with styles
- Applying GREP styles (video 4:46)
- Chapter 6: Typography
- Using fonts
- Formatting text
- Text composition
- Formatting characters
- Aligning text
- Formatting paragraphs
- Leading
- Tabs and indents
- Kerning and tracking
- Document installed fonts (video 2:29)
- Chapter 7: Tables
- Formatting tables
- Creating tables
- Table and cell styles
- About table and cell styles
- Table/Cell Styles panels overview
- Define table and cell styles
- Load (import) table styles from other documents
- Apply table and cell styles
- Base one table or cell style on another
- Edit table and cell styles
- Delete table and cell styles
- Redefine table or cell styles based on current formatting
- Override table and cell styles
- Break the link to table or cell styles
- Selecting and editing tables
- Table strokes and fills
- Chapter 8: Interactivity
- Forms | CC, CS6
- Hyperlinks
- Buttons
- Cross-references
- Interactive web documents for Flash
- Animation
- Dynamic PDF documents
- Structuring PDFs
- Page transitions
- Movies and sounds
- Bookmarks
- Creating and editing motion presets (video 5:23)
- Creating documents with Interactive features (video 8:06)
- Creating interactive documents in a snap (PDF, 201 KB)
- Creating multistate objects (PDF, 203 KB)
- Creating rich interactive documents (PDF, 6.7 MB)
- Exploring new FLA export options (video 6:26)
- Chapter 9: Drawing and painting
- Drawing with lines and shapes
- Applying line (stroke) settings
- Editing paths
- Drawing with the Pen tool
- Understanding paths and shapes
- Drawing with the Pencil tool
- Compound paths and shapes
- Change corner appearance
- Chapter 10: Color
- Applying color
- Apply color
- Select a color with the Color Picker
- Apply the last used color
- Remove fill or stroke color
- Applying colors using drag-and-drop
- Apply a color or gradient swatch
- Apply color using the Color panel
- Create a swatch from a color in the Color panel
- Cycle through color modes
- Generate color themes using the Color Theme tool
- Apply colors using the Eyedropper tool
- Apply colors to grayscale images
- Adding and managing color groups
- Create a color group with selected page item(s)
- Load and save swatches from an ASE file
- Importing themes from Color app
- Understanding spot and process colors
- Tints
- Mixing inks
- Gradients
- Working with swatches
- Using colors from imported graphics
- Applying color
- Chapter 11: Transparency
- Adding transparency effects
- Flattening transparent artwork
- About flattening
- About transparency flattener presets
- Apply a flattener preset for output
- Create or edit a transparency flattener preset
- Export and import a custom transparency flattener preset
- Rename or delete a custom transparency flattener preset
- Flatten an individual spread
- Ignore the flattener preset on an individual spread
- Transparency Flattener options
- Preview which areas of artwork will be flattened
- Refresh the preview in the Flattener Preview panel
- Best practices when creating transparency
- Blending colors
- Chapter 12: Exporting and publishing
- Publish Online (Preview)
- Export content for EPUB
- Adobe PDF options
- Adobe PDF option categories
- About PDF/X standards
- PDF compatibility levels
- General options for PDFs
- Compression and downsampling options for PDFs
- Marks and Bleeds options for PDFs
- Color management and PDF/X output options for PDFs
- Font, OPI, and flattening options for PDFs
- Adding security to PDF files
- Security options for PDFs
- Font embedding and substitution
- Preparing a document for on-screen viewing
- Export content to HTML
- Exporting to Adobe PDF
- Export to JPEG format
- Export content for EPUB | CS5.5
- Export content for EPUB | CS6
- Export content to HTML | CS6 & CS5.5
- Exporting XML
- Build digital magazines with InDesign CS5.5 and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (video 09:06)
- Adding audio and video content to EPUB (video 02:46)
- Controlling order of content export from InDesign to EPUB without changing your layout (video 04:54)
- Creating covers and title pages for EPUB (video 05:50)
- Exporting documents to EPUB (PDF, 265 KB)
- Exporting to EPUB for the Apple iBookstore (PDF, 2.5 MB)
- Setting object export options (PDF, 160 KB), CS5.5 and later
- Styles mapped to tags in InDesign for improved EPUB export (video 05:13)
- Using Object Export options to customize how objects and images export to EPUB ( video 05:18)
- Chapter 13: Printing
- Printing booklets
- Printing thumbnails and oversized documents
- Preparing PDFs for service providers
- Preflighting files before handoff
- Printer’s marks and bleeds
- Preparing to print separations
- Printing documents
- About printing
- Print a document or book
- Printing documents with multiple page sizes
- Specifying pages to print
- Specify paper size and page orientation
- Choose which layers are printed or exported to PDF
- Printing to non-PostScript language printers
- Print as bitmap
- Preview documents
- Setting up a printer
- Use print presets
- Creating PostScript and EPS files
- Creating PostScript or EPS files
- Choosing the right method for creating a PostScript file
- About device- and driver-dependent PostScript files
- Create a device-independent PostScript file
- Create a device-dependent PostScript file using InDesign
- Create a PostScript file using a PostScript printer driver (Windows)
- Create a PostScript file using a PostScript printer driver (Mac OS)
- Export pages in EPS format
- Trap presets
- Trapping documents and books
- About ink trapping
- Trapping methods
- About automatic trapping
- Automatic trapping requirements
- Differences between built-in trapping and Adobe In-RIP Trapping
- Trapping imported bitmap images
- Trapping imported vector graphics
- Trapping text
- Maximizing trapping performance
- Setting aside disk space for built-in trapping
- Trap a document or book
- Printing graphics and fonts
- Overprinting
- Adjusting ink options for trapping
- Inks, separations, and screen frequency
- Ink Manager overview
- Specify which colors to separate
- Separate spot colors as process
- Create an ink alias for a spot color
- Display or output spot colors using Lab values
- About halftone screen frequency
- Specify a halftone screen frequency and resolution
- About emulsion and image exposure
- Specify emulsion
- Specify the image exposure
- Checking separation and document settings
- Proofing color separations
- Producing in-RIP separations
- Print or save separations
- Printing booklets using your desktop printer
- Adobe Creative Suite 5/5.5 Printing Guide (PDF, 21 MB)
- Chapter 14: Digital publications
- Chapter 15: Automation
- Data merge
- About data merge
- Basic steps for merging data
- About data source files
- Add image fields in the data source file
- About target documents
- Select a data source
- Insert data fields
- Adding data field placeholders to master pages
- Update, remove, or replace data source files
- Preview records in the target document
- Switching preview on or off
- Edit data field placeholders
- Set content placement options
- Merge records
- Update data fields
- Overset text reports
- Content placement options
- Enhanced Datamerge
- Plug-ins
- Scripting
- Data merge
- Chapter 16: Accessibility
- Chapter 17: System requirements