Adobe InDesign CS3 User Manual
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Getting started
- Chapter 2: Workspace
- Chapter 3: Layout
- Creating documents
- Creating custom page sizes
- Rulers and measurement units
- Grids
- Ruler guides
- Pages and spreads
- Masters
- About masters, stacking order, and layers
- Create masters
- Base one master on another
- Copy masters
- Apply master pages
- Unassign masters from document pages
- Edit the layout of a master
- Edit the options of an existing master page
- Delete a master from a document
- Override or detach master items
- Reapply master items
- Import a master from another document
- Layers
- About layers
- Create layers
- Specify layer options
- Assign a layer color
- Adding objects to layers
- Select, move, and copy objects on layers
- Paste objects into different layers
- Duplicate a layer
- Change the order of layers
- Show or hide layers
- Set a layer as nonprinting
- Lock or unlock layers
- Delete layers
- Merge layers in a document
- Laying out frames and pages
- Numbering pages, chapters, and sections
- Text variables
- Chapter 4: Working with documents
- Chapter 5: Text
- Creating text and text frames
- Adding text to frames
- Importing text
- Threading text
- Text frame properties
- Editing text
- Find/Change
- Glyphs and special characters
- Spell-checking and language dictionaries
- Check spelling
- Correct spelling errors as you type
- Use dynamic spelling
- Hyphenation and spelling dictionaries
- Create or add user dictionaries
- Set the default language dictionary
- Remove, relink, and reorder user dictionaries
- Add words to dictionaries
- Remove or edit words in dictionaries
- Import and export word lists
- Change dictionary preferences
- Change the default language
- Using dictionaries in a workgroup
- Footnotes
- Chapter 6: Styles
- Paragraph and character styles
- About character and paragraph styles
- Styles panel overview
- Define paragraph and character styles
- Base one paragraph or character style on another
- Import styles from other documents
- Convert Word styles to InDesign styles
- Apply styles
- Edit character and paragraph styles
- Redefine a style to match selected text
- Delete character or paragraph styles
- Override character and paragraph styles
- Break the link between text and its style
- Convert style bullets and numbering to text
- Find and replace character and paragraph styles
- Drop caps and nested styles
- Object styles
- About object styles
- Object Styles panel overview
- Define object styles
- Object style categories
- Apply object styles
- Use default object styles
- Clear object style overrides
- Rename an object style
- Edit object styles
- Delete an object style
- Break the link to an object style
- Redefine an object style
- Import object styles
- Working with styles
- Paragraph and character styles
- Chapter 7: Combining text and objects
- Chapter 8: Typography
- Formatting text
- Using fonts
- Leading
- Kerning and tracking
- Formatting characters
- Apply baseline shift
- Make characters superscript or subscript in a non-OpenType font
- Apply underline or strikethrough
- Change underline or strikethrough options
- Apply ligatures to letter pairs
- Change the color and gradient of text
- Add transparency effects to text
- Assign a language to text
- Change the case of type
- Scale type
- Skew type
- Formatting paragraphs
- Aligning text
- Indents
- Tabs
- 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
- Composing text
- 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
- Chapter 11: Drawing
- Chapter 12: Graphics
- Understanding graphics formats
- Importing files from Adobe applications
- Importing other graphics formats
- About other graphics formats
- Using Adobe Stock Photos in InDesign
- 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
- Object libraries
- Chapter 13: Frames and objects
- 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
- Working with swatches
- Importing 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 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
- Trap Presets panel overview
- Create or modify a trap preset
- Duplicate a trap preset
- Delete a trap preset
- Import presets from another InDesign document
- Assign a trap preset to pages
- Set up trapping page ranges
- Disable a trapping page range
- Trap preset options
- Set sliding traps
- About trapping black
- Set the trap width for colors next to black
- Printing books with conflicting trap presets
- Adjusting ink options for trapping
- Trapping documents and books
- Chapter 18: Creating Adobe PDF files
- 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
- Adding hyperlinks for PDFs
- Including bookmarks in PDFs
- Using movies and sounds in PDFs
- Creating buttons for PDFs
- Chapter 19: XML
- Chapter 20: Printing
- Printing documents
- Setting up a printer
- Printer’s marks and bleeds
- Printing thumbnails and oversized documents
- Printing in color
- Printing graphics and fonts
- Managing color
- Printing gradients and color blends
- Print presets
- Handing off files
- Creating PostScript and EPS files
- Creating PostScript or EPS files
- Choosing the right method for creating a PostScript file
- Create a device-independent PostScript file
- Create a device-dependent PostScript file using InDesign
- About device- and driver-dependent PostScript files
- Create a PostScript file using a PostScript printer driver (Windows)
- Create a PostScript file using a PostScript printer driver (Mac OS)
- Export pages into EPS format
- Printing booklets
- Chapter 21: Color separations
- Preparing to print separations
- Overprinting
- Previewing color separations
- 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 22: 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
- Merging records
- Chapter 23: Sharing content between InCopy and InDesign
- Chapter 24: Comparison of PageMaker and InDesign menus
- Chapter 25: 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 the Character and Paragraph panels
- 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 Links 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