InDesign Part 3

Our InDesign Part 3 will cover importing and modifying graphics, creating clipping paths, working with transparency and enhancing graphics with special effects, working with advanced text techniques, adding interactive elements for creating E-books, creating animation, setting page transitions, adding sound and movies, adding hyperlinks and advanced navigation techniques, working with form fields, and more.

Class Outline

Importing and Modifying Graphics:

• Getting started
• Adding graphics from other programs
• Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
• Managing links to imported files
• Updating revised graphics
• Adjusting display quality
• Importing and sizing graphics
• Editing placed pictures
• Working with dropped backgrounds
• Importing native Adobe graphic files
• Filling type with a graphic
• Using an InDesign library to manage objects

• Importing and colorizing a grayscale image
• Applying transparency settings
• Adding transparency effects to imported vector and bitmap graphics
• Importing and adjusting Illustrator files that use transparency
• Applying transparency settings to text
• Working with effects

Creating Adobe PDF Files with form Fields:

• Setting up a workspace for forms
• Adding form fields
• Setting the tab order of the fields
• Adding a button to submit the form
• Exporting an interactive Adobe PDF file
• Testing your form in Acrobat Reader

Creating a Fixed-Layout EPUB:

• Creating a new document for fixed-layout export
• EPUB: Reflowable versus fixed-layout
• Adding animation
• Buttons
• Adding multimedia and interactive elements such as movies, sound, animations, hyperlinks
• Exporting an EPUB file
• InDesign Publish Online