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Oct29
Setting up Master pages is a crucial element of an Indesign template document, and will greatly increase the user’s efficiency and workflow. We demonstrate how in our Adobe Indesign training courses. Together with auto page numbering and the addition of paragraph styles and character styles, Master pages form the basic structure of the design. Basically anything on a Master page... Read more...
Sep27
Character styles in Indesign serve the purpose of consistency within your documents, and is a topic we look at in our Adobe Indesign training courses. Along with Paragraph Styles and Object Styles, Character Styles help us to keep our formatting consistent across either one document or many documents, and as such feature as one of the main ingredients of a... Read more...
Sep14
A significant feature of any Indesign template document is the inclusion of Paragraph Styles for consistency within your documents. This is one of the many techniques we explain in more detail in our Adobe Indesign training courses. First go to the Window drop-down menu and choose Styles, Paragraph Styles. There are two main ways of then creating a paragraph style.... Read more...
Aug25
As an additional design element adding glyphs to an Indesign document can enhance the look and feel of an otherwise mundane header or footer element. We demonstrate how to add glyphs in our Adobe Indesign training courses. In the case of a header or footer, we would first double-click to enter the Master-page environment. Then, after creating some suitable text... Read more...
Aug11
There are various options available when numbering multi-page documents in Indesign. We discuss these in our Adobe Indesign training courses. Firstly, we would add a number marker on our A-Master pages – this is covered in another blog post. Then we test on the local pages to ensure that it has worked. The standard numbering is from the first page... Read more...
Jul26
Another common addition to the Indesign template file would be Auto Page Numbers, a topic which we cover in full in our Adobe Indesign training courses. Firstly we open up our A-Master Page and zoom into the bottom left of the left hand page of the two-page spread. Next select the Type tool and click and drag to create a... Read more...
Jul16
In the world of publishing, the document masthead is the banner or name of a company, newspaper or magazine, together with its publication details in large type anchored to the top of the front page. This can be created in Indesign as we demonstrate in our Adobe Indesign training courses. The publication’s title should be short and to the point,... Read more...
Jun30
An easy method of adding interest to a page in Indesign is by adjusting the line weights and line types of the borders of images. We show you how in our Adobe Indesign training courses. First create a shape either by choosing one of the standard shape tools like Rectangle, Ellipse or Polygon. Or by using the Pen tool, which... Read more...
Jun15
The Pen tool in Indesign is used to create curved or angular shapes either for illustrative purposes or as frames for images. We show you how to use this clever tool in our Adobe Indesign training courses. In the example shown here we used the Pen tool to create a footer feature on the Master Page, which means that that... Read more...
May31
There are many methods for importing and adjusting images in an Indesign document, one of which is the Ellipse Frame tool. We show you a full range in our Adobe Indesign training courses. It’s possible just to go to File > Place (or Control +D; Mac Command +D) and browse to where your image is saved. However, for more control,... Read more...
