InDesign

We had a session with Dolores in which she showed us how to use InDesign. Below are my brief notes from the session ...



InDesign

File - new - document [not book]

Add no. of pages, a multiple of 4 for print/ publishing

bleed - how far to edge of page

slug - area outside the bleed

Pages palette
zoom shortcut - alt makes it zoom out

file - place - picture is loaded onto mouse

click and drag to size image, let it go places


draw a frame with no image in it, file - place - open
image goes into empty frame.  elliptical tool works too

blue box for resizing goes around frame
select the image
object -  fill frame proportionately

pressing w previews the file

fit frame to content - if the frame is a circle it expands to fill as much as possible

use tools that say proportionately

A master in pages palette default
masters act like templates - whatever you put on it goes on everything
You can put page numbers on master pages

shift command as you click something copies it

put A's in each corner then current page, number - command shift - object - arrange - bring to front, number goes over everything else

Place - can be used on text document
insert image into text - place image on new page
window - text wrap
wrap type - detect edges

file - packages
everything gets saved together in folder