Adobe InDesign CC 2015 manuals

Adobe InDesign CC 2015 User Manual (643 pages)

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English

Table of contents

Legal notices

2

Contents

3

Chapter 1: What's New

8

Last updated 6/6/2015

10

• Character styles

10

• Paragraph styles

10

• Color themes

10

Color Themes

12

Color swatches

12

Paragraph shading

13

Images in Table Cells

14

Adobe Stock

14

Create new documents

17

Introduction

20

Sync settings at first launch

20

Workspace and workflow

21

Managing sync

22

What’s not supported

23

Toolbox overview

23

Display the toolbox

24

Display tool options

24

Tools overview

25

Gallery of selection tools

26

Sharing content

30

Assignments panel overview

31

Assignment files

32

Saving documents

36

Work with metadata

38

Edit metadata in image files

40

Managed files

43

Local server workflow

45

E-mail package workflow

45

Enter user identification

46

Workflow icons

46

Workspace basics

47

Workspace overview

48

Hide or show all panels

49

Display panel options

49

Manage windows and panels

50

Move panels

51

Add and remove panels

52

Manipulate panel groups

52

Stack floating panels

52

Resize panels

52

Save and switch workspaces

53

About view modes

54

Using the status bar

55

Control panel overview

55

About the Navigator panel

56

Use context menus

56

Change Interface preferences

57

Default keyboard shortcuts

58

Keys for transforming objects

60

Keys for tables

61

Keys for working with type

62

Keys for working with XML

66

Keys for indexing

66

Keys for panels

67

Keys for the Control panel

67

Keys for the Tabs panel

69

Keys for the Layers panel

69

Keys for the Pages panel

69

Keys for the Color panel

70

Keys for the Swatches panel

70

Set general preferences

72

Set defaults

72

Open InDesign documents

75

Adobe Version Cue

78

Use document templates

78

Reviewing InDesign documents

78

Customize menus

79

Missing menu commands

80

Use keyboard shortcut sets

81

Recovery and undo

83

Undo mistakes

84

Convert PageMaker documents

85

PageMaker menu commands

88

PageMaker Edit menu commands

89

PageMaker Type menu commands

90

PageMaker View menu commands

93

Assignment packages

94

Receive packages (InCopy)

95

Open a package (InCopy)

96

Adjusting your workflow

97

Correct mistakes

98

Working with managed files

99

Check out content

100

Update content

101

Update the InDesign layout

102

Check in content

103

Save changes (InDesign)

103

Viewing the workspace

104

Adjust the view

105

Turn pages

106

Work with additional windows

106

Greek type

107

Working with Tools

108

Setting preferences

109

Chapter 3: Layout and design

110

4 Click OK

111

Transform the QR code object

112

Add basic page numbering

113

Creating a table of contents

114

About tables of contents

115

Generate a table of contents

116

Create a TOC style

117

Footnotes

120

Create footnotes

121

Footnote layout options

122

Work with footnote text

123

Textwrap with footnotes

124

Delete footnotes

125

Text variables

126

Insert text variables

128

Creating an index

129

About indexing

130

Index panel overview

131

Add topics to the topics list

132

Add index entries

133

Layout and design

134

Page range options in indexes

136

Generate an index

138

Sort order of Chinese indexes

140

Manage an index

141

Creating type on a path

142

Edit or delete type on a path

143

Delete type from a path

144

Slide type along a path

145

Flip type on a path

145

Linked content

146

Content Collector tools

147

Place and link

148

Specify link options

148

Custom Style Mapping

149

About pages and spreads

150

Add new pages to a document

152

Recommended workflow

153

Liquid layouts

153

Liquid page rules

154

• Whitespace can be added

155

Alternate layouts

156

Create Alternate Layouts

157

Align panel overview

158

Align or distribute objects

158

More Help topics

161

Create a new document

162

New Document options

163

Document window overview

164

Create custom page sizes

164

Define document presets

164

Formatting grids

165

Create named grid formats

166

Apply a named grid to a frame

166

Edit named grids

167

Delete named grids

167

Creating text and text frames

168

Move and resize text frames

169

Change text frame properties

171

First baseline offset options

172

Creating book files

174

Add documents to a book file

175

Manage book files

175

Synchronize book documents

176

Synchronizing master pages

177

Creating documents

180

Change document setup

181

Clipping paths

182

Clipping path options

184

Linking Content

185

Reviewing the Forms tools

185

Chapter 4: Text

191

Unthread text frames

193

Cut a frame from a thread

193

Delete a frame from a thread

193

Flow text semi-automatically

194

Flow text manually

194

Use Smart Text Reflow

195

Wrapping text around objects

196

Create an inverted text wrap

198

Adobe World-Ready Composers

201

Text direction

201

Story direction

202

Automatic Kashida insertion

203

Ligatures

203

Diacritical marks

204

Default fonts

205

Legacy font support

205

Digit Types

205

Hyphenation

205

Find and replace

206

Justification Alternates

207

Table direction

207

Binding directions

208

Page and chapter numbering

209

Diacritical coloring

209

Anchored objects

210

Create an anchored object

211

Custom position options

213

❖ Do one of the following:

217

Articles (CS5.5)

218

Managing articles

219

Include articles for export

219

Bullets and numbering

220

Change bullet characters

222

Change numbered list options

223

Defining lists

224

Edit a defined list

225

Delete a defined list

225

Create multi-level lists

226

Find/Change

229

Common Find/Change techniques

231

Search using GREP expressions

232

GREP search examples

233

Metacharacters for searching

236

Find and change objects

240

Find and change glyphs

241

Find and change fonts

242

Search using queries

243

Save queries

243

Delete queries

243

Glyphs and special characters

244

Change the Glyphs panel view

245

Filter the glyphs that appear

245

Insert special characters

245

Insert a recently used glyph

246

Clear recently used glyphs

246

Create a custom glyph set

248

View a custom glyph set

248

Edit custom glyph sets

248

Use quotation marks

249

Insert white space characters

250

Formatting CJK characters

251

Rotate characters

252

Use tate-chu-yoko

252

Add Ruby to text

253

Ruby settings

254

Apply kenten

255

Align text of different sizes

256

Check spelling

257

Use dynamic spelling

258

Add words to dictionaries

261

Export a word list

262

Import a word list

262

Change dictionary preferences

262

Flexible width columns

263

Adding text to frames

265

Paste text

266

Drag and drop text

267

Place (import) text

268

About import filters

269

Text-file import options

270

Tagged-text import options

271

Import Buzzword documents

272

Editing text

273

List of hidden characters

275

Break options

277

Use the Story Editor

278

Story Editor preferences

279

Use conditional text

280

Create conditions

282

Apply conditions to text

282

Show or hide conditions

283

Use condition sets

283

Manage conditions

283

Captions

285

Specify caption setup options

286

Define caption variables

287

Track changes

287

Turn on change tracking

288

Show or hide changes

288

Turn off change tracking

288

Accept and reject changes

289

Set Track Changes preferences

289

Add editorial notes

290

Use Notes mode

290

Manage notes

291

Edit Notes preferences

291

Linked stories (CS5.5)

292

Update a linked story

293

Edit original story

293

Working with markers

294

Chapter 5: Styles

295

Define object styles

296

Object style categories

297

Apply object styles

298

Use default object styles

298

Clear object style overrides

299

Rename an object style

300

Edit object styles

300

Delete an object style

300

Redefine an object style

301

Import object styles

301

Styles panel overview

302

Introduction to export tags

305

Define style-tag mapping

305

Edit all export tags

305

Apply styles

306

Drop caps and nested styles

310

Create nested styles

311

Create nested line styles

313

Loop through nested styles

313

End a nested style

315

Create GREP styles

316

Working with styles

317

Move and reorder styles

318

Chapter 6: Typography

319

Specify a typeface size

320

Previewing fonts

320

OpenType fonts

321

Work with missing fonts

323

Document installed fonts

324

Formatting text

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Text formatting precedence

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Use Quick Apply

327

Text composition

328

Hyphenate text

329

Prevent unwanted word breaks

330

Change Justification settings

331

Formatting characters

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1 Select text

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Assign a language to text

336

Change the case of type

336

Scale type

337

Aligning text

339

Align or justify text

340

Create balanced headline text

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1 Do one of the following:

343

5 Click OK

343

Formatting paragraphs

344

Remove a drop cap

345

Remove a paragraph rule

346

Create hanging punctuation

347

About leading

349

Change leading

350

Tabs and indents

351

Set tabs

352

Repeat tabs

353

Add tab leaders

354

Insert right indent tabs

354

Set indents

355

Reset indents

356

Create a hanging indent

356

Use Indent To Here

357

Kerning and tracking

358

Apply kerning to text

359

Adjust kerning between words

360

Chapter 7: Tables

362

Break tables across frames

363

Add text before a table

364

Format text within a table

364

Merge and split cells

365

Work with overset cells

365

Creating tables

366

Create a table from scratch

367

Using the Insert Table option

367

Using the Create Table option

367

Embed a table within a table

368

Add text to a table

369

Add graphics to a table

369

Add table headers and footers

369

Working with rows and columns

370

Remove header or footer rows

371

Table and cell styles

372

Define table and cell styles

373

Apply table and cell styles

374

Edit table and cell styles

375

Delete table and cell styles

375

Clear table or cell overrides

376

Selecting and editing tables

377

Insert rows and columns

378

Navigate within a table

379

Move or copy a table

380

Convert tables to text

380

Combine tables

381

Table strokes and fills

382

Add diagonal lines to a cell

384

Table stroke and fill options

384

Chapter 8: Interactivity

386

Specify tab order

387

Hyperlinks

388

Create hyperlinks

389

Create a hyperlink to a file

390

Create a hyperlink to a page

391

Manage hyperlinks

393

Interactivity

394

Create buttons

395

Create a button

396

Make buttons interactive

397

Add actions to buttons

398

Event types

398

Action types

398

Edit or delete button actions

399

Create jumps to text anchors

399

Change button appearances

400

Create multi-state objects

401

Create button hot spots

402

Set the button tab order

403

Cross-references

404

Using cross-reference formats

406

Manage cross-references

409

Relink cross-references

410

Edit cross-references

410

Delete cross-references

410

SWF export options

413

Create FLA files for the web

414

FLA export options

415

Flash export issues

416

Animation

418

Motion preset options

419

Manage motion presets

420

Edit a motion path

421

Dynamic PDF documents

422

Preview interactive documents

424

Structuring PDFs

425

Adding structure to PDFs

426

Tag page items

428

Tag page items manually

429

Page transitions

430

Apply page transitions

431

Clear transitions

431

Movies and sounds

432

Change sound settings

433

Poster options

433

Place a video file from a URL

434

Bookmarks

435

Manage bookmarks

436

Drawing with lines and shapes

439

Draw a placeholder shape

440

Specify polygon settings

440

Set strokes

441

Stroke panel options

441

Add start and end shapes

442

Define custom stroke styles

443

Save custom stroke styles

444

Editing paths

445

Adjust path segments

446

Delete a segment

447

Extend an open path

447

Connect two open paths

447

Add or delete anchor points

448

Split a path

450

Smooth out paths

450

Drawing with the Pen tool

451

Draw curves with the Pen tool

452

Finish drawing a path

454

Types of paths and shapes

456

About paths

456

Drawing with the Pencil tool

458

Draw with the Pencil tool

459

Compound paths and shapes

460

About compound paths

461

Create a compound path

461

Break up a compound path

462

Create compound shapes

463

Drawing and painting

464

Change corner appearance

465

Use Live Corners

466

Chapter 10: Color

468

Apply the last used color

469

Remove fill or stroke color

470

Cycle through color modes

471

Adding color groups

475

Load swatches

477

Save swatches

477

About spot and process colors

478

About spot colors

478

About process colors

479

About tints

480

Mixing inks

481

Create a mixed ink swatch

482

Create a mixed ink group

482

Manage mixed ink groups

483

Gradients

484

Modify gradients

486

Applying gradients to text

488

Working with swatches

489

Create color swatches

490

Manage swatches

491

Edit a swatch

492

Control swatch names

492

Delete individual swatches

492

Import swatches

493

Chapter 11: Transparency

498

Display Effects panel options

499

Apply transparency effects

500

Transparency effects

501

Drop Shadow

503

Inner Shadow

503

Outer Glow

503

Inner Glow

503

Bevel and Emboss

503

Basic Feather

504

Directional Feather

504

Use Global Light

505

Set the opacity of an object

505

Stop displaying transparency

507

About flattening

507

Transparency

509

Flatten an individual spread

510

Blending colors

515

Blending mode options

516

Isolate blending modes

517

Publish Online (Preview)

519

Output of online document

521

Recently published documents

522

Export content for EPUB

523

EPUB General options

524

Adobe PDF options

531

About PDF/X standards

532

PDF compatibility levels

532

General options for PDFs

533

Adding security to PDF files

538

Security options for PDFs

538

Export content to HTML

541

Exporting to Adobe PDF

543

About Adobe PDF

544

Export to PDF for printing

544

Export a book to PDF

545

Reducing the size of PDFs

545

Adobe PDF presets

546

Customize Adobe PDF presets

547

Load Adobe PDF presets

548

Export to JPEG format

549

EPUB resources

551

EPUB General export options

551

EPUB Images options

552

Export content for EPUB

553

Export to EPUB

554

EPUB Export options

554

EPUB Image options

555

EPUB Advanced options

556

Exporting XML

560

Save tags only as XML

562

Edit an exported XML file

562

Chapter 13: Printing

565

Booklet types

566

Understanding creep

568

Print thumbnails

569

Printing oversized documents

570

Tile a document

570

Scale documents

571

Printing

572

PDF pass-through printing

573

Preflight panel overview

574

Define preflight profiles

575

Embed and unembed profiles

576

Export and load profiles

576

Delete a profile

576

Resolve errors

577

Select a different profile

577

Set Preflight options

577

Preflight books

578

Package files

579

Correct font errors

580

Printer’s marks and bleeds

581

Print the bleed or slug areas

582

Creating separations

583

Outputting spot colors

584

Printing a composite

585

Preview color separations

586

Preview ink coverage

587

Return to normal view

587

Printing documents

588

Print a document or book

589

Page printing options

590

Specifying pages to print

591

Specify a custom paper size

593

value B Gap C Film saved

594

Print as bitmap

595

Preview documents

595

Setting up a printer

596

Use print presets

597

Create print presets

598

Apply print presets

598

Edit print presets

598

Delete print presets

598

Export pages in EPS format

602

Trap presets

604

Assign a trap preset to pages

605

Set up trapping page ranges

605

Trap preset options

606

Trap thresholds

607

Trapping imported graphics

607

Set sliding traps

608

About trapping black

608

Trapping documents and books

609

Trapping methods

610

About automatic trapping

610

Trapping text

612

Printing graphics and fonts

613

PostScript printing options

614

Overprinting

615

Overprinting page items

616

Overprint a paragraph rule

617

Adjust the trapping sequence

620

Ink Manager overview

620

Open the Ink Manager

621

Specify emulsion

624

Specify the image exposure

624

Proofing color separations

624

Producing in-RIP separations

625

Print or save separations

625

Based on Master

628

Chapter 15: Automation

629

About data source files

630

About target documents

631

Select a data source

632

Insert data fields

632

Automation

633

Switching preview on or off

634

Edit data field placeholders

634

Set content placement options

635

Merge records

635

Update data fields

636

Overset text reports

636

Content placement options

637

Enhanced Datamerge

637

Plug-ins

638

Scripting

639

Running sample scripts

640

Chapter 16: Accessibility

642

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