Assembling and Working with Long Documents in InDesign
In this InDesign tutorial, we will learn about the process of assembling multiple files into an InDesign book and then managing and implementing features across this book. Software required: InDesign CS5.
What you'll learn
In this InDesign tutorial, we will learn about the process of assembling multiple files into an InDesign book and then managing and implementing features across this book. We'll begin this process by learning how to quickly create files for our book using a document template. From there, we'll break down what an InDesign book file is, looking at both book page numbering as well as synchronization. Next, we'll shift our attention to several features that can be implemented across our book file that will really add to our long document. We'll learn how to create a table of contents, footnotes and endnotes, as well as an index for our book. To wrap things up, we will explore some of the batch processing options available to us when we are ready to output our book file. After completing this InDesign tutorial, you will have expanded your knowledge of InDesign so that you can work on larger, more complex projects and do it more efficiently. Software required: InDesign CS5.
Table of contents
- Creating and Using Document Templates 11m
- Creating a Basic Book File 12m
- Synchronizing Book Documents 14m
- Building a Table of Contents for a Book File 14m
- Additional Table of Contents Features 11m
- Manually Adding Footnotes to Indesign Files 10m
- Placing Microsoft Word Files with Footnotes 8m
- Getting Started with Indexes 9m
- Creating Index Topics 13m
- Creating Index Page References 14m
- Creating Index Cross References 11m
- Generating an Index 10m
- Creating Endnotes 13m
- Pre-flighting, Packaging, and Exporting a Book File 8m
About the author
Eddie began teaching creative professionals over ten years ago for Digital Tutors. In 2014 Digital Tutors was acquired by Pluralsight and he continued his focus on creating high quality training for artists in both the film and games industries. With a background in graphic design and illustration Eddie has always been focused on visual appeal. This can be seen through his courses in which he shares secrets for achieving production level quality for concept art, illustrations, textures, mater... more