Adobe InDesign CS4 User Manual
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Resources
- Chapter 2: Workspace
- Workspace basics
- Customize menus and keyboard shortcuts
- Toolbox
- Viewing the workspace
- Manage connections to web services
- Working with ConnectNow
- Setting preferences
- Recovery and undo
- Common InDesign error messages
- Chapter 3: Layout
- Creating documents
- Rulers and measurement units
- Grids
- Ruler guides
- Pages and spreads
- Master pages
- Layers
- Laying out frames and pages
- Numbering pages, chapters, and sections
- Text variables
- Chapter 4: Working with documents
- Working with files and templates
- Saving documents
- Converting QuarkXPress and PageMaker documents
- Exporting
- Chapter 5: Text
- Creating text and text frames
- Adding text to frames
- Threading text
- Editing text
- Find/Change
- Glyphs and special 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
- Footnotes
- Chapter 6: Styles
- Paragraph and character styles
- About character and paragraph styles
- Styles panel overview
- Add paragraph and character styles
- 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
- Object styles
- Working with styles
- Paragraph and character styles
- Chapter 7: Combining text and objects
- Anchored objects
- Wrapping text around objects
- Creating type on a path
- Chapter 8: Typography
- Formatting text
- Using fonts
- Leading
- Kerning and tracking
- Formatting characters
- Formatting paragraphs
- Aligning text
- Tabs and indents
- 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
- Text composition
- Chapter 9: Tables
- Creating tables
- Selecting and editing tables
- Formatting tables
- Table strokes and fills
- 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
- Chapter 10: Long document features
- Creating book files
- Creating a table of contents
- Creating an index
- Working with markers
- Chapter 11: Drawing
- Understanding paths and shapes
- Drawing with the line or shape tools
- Drawing with the Pencil tool
- Drawing with the Pen tool
- Editing paths
- Applying line (stroke) settings
- Compound paths and shapes
- Chapter 12: Graphics
- Understanding graphics formats
- Importing files from other applications
- Importing Adobe Illustrator graphics
- Importing Adobe Photoshop (.PSD) files
- Importing PDF pages
- Importing InDesign (.indd) pages
- Importing other graphics formats
- TIFF (.tif) files
- Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) files
- JPEG (.jpg) files
- Bitmap (.bmp) files
- Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) files
- Desktop Color Separations (.dcs) files
- Macintosh PICT (.pict) files
- Windows Metafile Format (.wmf) and Enhanced Metafile Format (.emf) files
- PCX (.pcx) files
- Portable Network Graphics (.png) files
- Scitex CT (.sct) files
- Placing graphics
- Managing graphics links
- About links and embedded graphics
- Links panel overview
- Embed an image within the document
- Update, restore, and replace links
- Choose how relinked graphics are scaled
- Update modified links
- Replace a link with a different source file
- Restore missing links
- Find missing links
- Specify a default Relink folder
- Copy links to a different folder
- Relink to a different folder
- Replace an imported file using the Place command
- Copy the link pathname
- Edit original artwork
- Reusing graphics and text
- Chapter 13: Frames and objects
- Selecting objects
- Transforming objects
- Aligning and distributing objects
- Grouping, locking, and duplicating objects
- Working with frames and objects
- Clipping paths
- Chapter 14: Transparency effects
- Adding transparency effects
- Blending colors
- 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
- Chapter 15: Color
- Understanding spot and process colors
- Applying color
- Apply color
- Select a color with the Color Picker
- Apply the last used color
- Remove fill or stroke color
- Applying colors by dragging and dropping
- 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
- Apply colors using the Eyedropper tool
- Apply colors to grayscale images
- Working with swatches
- Tints
- Gradients
- Mixing inks
- Using colors from imported graphics
- Chapter 16: Color management
- Understanding color management
- Keeping colors consistent
- Color-managing imported images
- Color-managing documents for online viewing
- Proofing colors
- Color-managing documents when printing
- Working with color profiles
- About color profiles
- About monitor calibration and characterization
- Calibrate and profile your monitor
- Install a color profile
- Embed a color profile
- Embed a color profile (Acrobat)
- Changing the color profile for a document
- Assign or remove a color profile (Illustrator, Photoshop)
- Assign or remove a color profile (InDesign)
- Convert document colors to another profile (Photoshop)
- Convert document colors to Multichannel, Device Link, or Abstract color profiles (Photoshop)
- Convert document colors to another profile
- Color settings
- Chapter 17: Trapping color
- 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
- Trap presets
- Adjusting ink options for trapping
- Trapping documents and books
- Chapter 18: PDF
- Exporting to Adobe PDF
- 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
- Preparing PDFs for service providers
- Structuring PDFs
- Chapter 19: Dynamic documents
- Dynamic web documents for Flash
- Dynamic PDF documents
- Bookmarks
- Hyperlinks
- Cross-references
- Movies and sounds
- Page transitions
- Buttons
- Chapter 20: XML
- Working with XML
- Importing XML
- Tagging content for XML
- Structuring documents for XML
- Exporting XML
- Chapter 21: Printing
- Printing documents
- Printer’s marks and bleeds
- Printing thumbnails and oversized documents
- Printing graphics and fonts
- Managing color
- Preflighting files before handoff
- 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
- Printing booklets
- Chapter 22: Color separations
- Preparing to print separations
- Overprinting
- 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
- Chapter 23: Automation
- Scripting
- Plug-ins
- 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
- Chapter 24: Sharing content between InCopy and InDesign
- Understanding a basic managed-file workflow
- Sharing content
- Assignment packages
- Working with managed files
- Adjusting your workflow
- Chapter 25: Comparison of PageMaker and InDesign menus
- Chapter 26: Keyboard shortcuts
- 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
- Default keyboard shortcuts
- Index