InDesign Tutorial

by Jon Shan
 Your
Workspace
 The Menu

• File: Save (⌘+S), Print (⌘+P), Place (⌘+D)

• Edit: Undo (⌘+Z), Cut, Copy, Paste (⌘+X,C,V)

• Layout: Margin and Columns… Ruler Guides…

• Type: Character Styles, Insert Special Character

• Object: Transform, Display Performance (individual)

• View: Display Performance, Hide Rulers (⌘+R)

 The Toolbox

V
A
 Selecting and Clicking Stuff
Selection Direct Selection
• Black arrow • White arrow
• Objects and their box • Content within a Frame
– Frames – Moving pictures
– Pictures without frames – Resizing or skewing pictures

• Shortcut: V • Shortcut: A
Using Frames
Creating a Text Frame
Frame Fitting for Photos
Margins and Columns
Guides
Spellcheck
 Importing Your Stuff

rop

+
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Note: If you drop your files and pictures, you don’t need
to create text and graphic frames. If you already created
text and graphic frames, you can drop your files into
those.
Paragraph Styles
The Campanile

MANIPULATING
PHOTOS AND OBJECTS
Photos: Mirroring
The
subject
faces
inward
towards
the
text
 Photos: Scaling

Original NO! NO!

Doing it proportionally

•Select the photo

•Hold Shift key down
•Drag photo from corner

YES!
Display Performance
(why photos may look blocky)

Fast Display
Image is grayed out to max performance

Typical Display (Default)

Image is pixelated to speed
zooming performance.

Similar to a thumbnail photo.

High Quality Display

Displays the original, accurate
image, but slows InDesign.
If your toolbars are missing items
 InDesign Shortcuts

• Drop +D Bold + Shift + B

• Save +S Italics + Shift + I
• Undo +Z Normal + Shift + Y
• Redo + Shift+Z
• Spell-check +I Zoom in +
To scale pictures Zoom out -
proportionally, hold “shift” Fit to Window 0
and drag a corner. Switch Windows ~
The Campanile

FREE TOOLS
FOR HOME USE
Instead of Word, Powerpoint, Excel…
Google Docs
Buzzword
Open Office

Instead of Photoshop…
GIMP
Paint.NET

Resize your photos

http://vectormagic.stanford.edu
http://rsizr.com
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