Book I Chapter 8 Printing Documents 77 Printing Your Work Figure 8-2: The Print dialog box in Photoshop CS5 for Windows. 2. From the Printer drop-down list, choose Adobe PDF. If you want to choose the settings for an installed printer, you can also select it here. 3. If necessary, scale the image to fit the paper and then click the Print Settings button. A second Print dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 8-3. Figure 8-3: The secondary Print dialog box in Photoshop CS5. 12_607466-bk01ch08.indd 7712_607466-bk01ch08.indd 77 5/24/10 10:02 PM5/24/10 10:02 PM 78 Printing Your Work 4. Choose the quality of PDF that you want to create from the Default Settings drop-down list. 5. (Optional) If you want to see your PDF file right after it’s created, choose View Adobe PDF Results and then click OK. You return to the Print dialog box. 6. Click Print. The Save PDF File As dialog box appears. 7. Enter a name for the PDF, navigate to the location where you want to save the file, and click Save. The document is saved as a PDF file. Because most printers have custom interfaces for defining settings, you may need to consult your printer’s documentation for detailed information on using the printer’s features. 12_607466-bk01ch08.indd 7812_607466-bk01ch08.indd 78 5/24/10 10:02 PM5/24/10 10:02 PM Book II InDesign CS5 13_607466-pp02.indd 7913_607466-pp02.indd 79 5/25/10 9:16 AM5/25/10 9:16 AM Contents at a Glance Chapter 1: What’s New in InDesign CS5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Chapter 2: Introducing InDesign CS5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Chapter 3: Working with Text and Text Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Chapter 4: Drawing in InDesign. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Chapter 5: Understanding Page Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Chapter 6: Clipping Paths, Alignment, and Object Transformation . . . 169 Chapter 7: Understanding Color and Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Chapter 8: Integrating InDesign with Other Creative Suite Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Chapter 9: Exporting Documents for Printing and as Graphics. . . . 201 13_607466-pp02.indd 8013_607466-pp02.indd 80 5/25/10 9:16 AM5/25/10 9:16 AM Chapter 1: What’s New in InDesign CS5 In This Chapter ✓ Creating content for print or Web ✓ Creating interactive documents ✓ Using multiple page sizes in the same document ✓ Tracking changes to an InDesign document ✓ Working with layers ✓ Taking a look at minor productivity enhancements B efore the CS5 version existed, InDesign was used almost exclusively for print publishing. But in InDesign CS5, Adobe has added all sorts of new features for creating Web pages and interactive documents. Interactive documents that used to be created only in Flash, or Web pages that used to be created using only Dreamweaver, can now be developed using InDesign. Of course, you can still create print documents, but one big change between CS4 and CS5 is the addition of new types of files you can create. If you’re new to InDesign, you should know that your initial designs for any type of project can be created using InDesign. Because Adobe is just starting to add Web and interactive design tools to InDesign, you’re better off using Dreamweaver to create Web pages or Flash to build most interactive proj- ects. Interactive documents are just starting to get used, and because the iPad does not support the Flash format to which InDesign exports, you’ll be limited primarily to PDF as the export option. In this chapter, you’ll discover some new features added to InDesign CS5 and references to chapters within this minibook where you can find more details. We haven’t included every single new feature so that this chapter doesn’t become a laundry list. Instead, we picked out the biggest changes and describe them here, and you’ll find references to smaller changes in rel- evant chapters throughout this minibook. 14_607466-bk02ch01.indd 8114_607466-bk02ch01.indd 81 5/24/10 10:03 PM5/24/10 10:03 PM 82 Creating Web Content Creating Web Content The first time you create a new document, you see that InDesign lets you create more than print documents. In the New Document dialog box, shown in Figure 1-1, you specify whether you’re creating content for Web or print and, if you’re creating for the Web, you can specify measurements in pixels (the measurement used on computer displays) rather than inches or centi- meters, which you might use in print. Figure 1-1: The New Document dialog box now lets you specify whether you’re creating for print or the Web. If you plan to create for the Web, you can have InDesign create Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) when you export to XHTML. Creating Interactive Documents InDesign CS5 provides three new panels you can use to create and work with interactive documents: ✦ Media panel: When you create interactive documents, you want to be able to include movies, so Adobe now lets you import FLV and MP3 files into an InDesign layout. After you import the movies, you can use the new Media panel to specify which frame from the video is displayed as the placeholder — the poster — and you can set options, such as whether the video plays only one time or should loop continuously. ✦ Animation panel: You can use the new Animation panel, shown in Figure 1-2, to create animations, or if you want to animate an object in your layout using a preset option, you can take advantage of the new motion presets. You can also animate objects along a path by creating a motion path. 14_607466-bk02ch01.indd 8214_607466-bk02ch01.indd 82 5/24/10 10:03 PM5/24/10 10:03 PM Book II Chapter 1 What’s New in InDesign CS5 83 Choosing from Multiple Page Sizes ✦ Timing panel: The new Timing panel lets you set the time when objects play, and the States panel lets you create buttons that look different when the mouse rolls over them or when they’re clicked. Figure 1-2: Animate an object along a path or use motion presets. Export selected items on a page to Adobe Flash Player, and when exporting to Flash, choose more options such as resolution and background color. Choosing from Multiple Page Sizes Before this version of InDesign, all page sizes within a document had to be the same. It didn’t matter if you needed a smaller size for a document such as a fold-out panel of a brochure, you could select and use only one size. But Adobe has decided to trust you with more than one size in your docu- ments. Using the Pages panel, you can select specific pages and change the page size, as shown in Figure 1-3. Master pages, which act as templates for document pages, can be of varying sizes as well. As a designer, you might want to create a business card, letterhead, and envelope all in the same file — even though they’re different sizes. Or, bro- chures and publications may have a gatefold that allows for a page to fold out from a design. 14_607466-bk02ch01.indd 8314_607466-bk02ch01.indd 83 5/24/10 10:03 PM5/24/10 10:03 PM 84 Tracking Changes to Your Documents Figure 1-3: Set the size of individual pages from the Pages panel. Tracking Changes to Your Documents When several people are working on the same document, determining what they have modified can be difficult. Adobe, borrowing an idea from Microsoft Word, now lets you track the changes made to the text of an InDesign docu- ment by each user. Change to Story Editor view to look at your text and you can see any proposed edits, such as deleting, moving, or inserting text, as shown in Figure 1-4. You can then accept or reject proposed edits by using the Track Changes panel. Figure 1-4: Tracking changes made to text. 14_607466-bk02ch01.indd 8414_607466-bk02ch01.indd 84 5/24/10 10:03 PM5/24/10 10:03 PM Book II Chapter 1 What’s New in InDesign CS5 85 Exploring Minor Productivity Changes Working with Layers The Layers panel has been updated in InDesign CS5, making it similar to the one used in Illustrator. Here are some of the ways you can use this panel: ✦ View the stacking order of documents on a layer by clicking the triangle next to the layer name in the Layers panel, shown in Figure 1-5. Figure 1-5: The Layers panel in InDesign CS5 lets you work with individual objects within a layer. ✦ Expand groups, buttons, and multistate objects to see the stacking order of objects and select them. ✦ If you don’t like the default names of the program’s more generic objects, such as the shape type or text frames, which are named by the first few words within the frame, you can rename the objects. ✦ Just as with layers, you can move objects vertically within a layer to change their stacking order so that one object can appear on top of or below another object. ✦ You can change the visibility of individual items on a page and lock or unlock them. Locked objects cannot be edited without first unlocking them. Exploring Minor Productivity Changes Adobe changed or added many smaller features in InDesign CS5. Some of the more noteworthy changes include: ✦ Color swatches have been added to the Control panel. You can still access from the Swatches panel any color swatch used in a document. ✦ Pouring content into your layouts is easier. If you frequently place many objects at a single time, merely select several items to place — either text or graphics — and put them on the page. 14_607466-bk02ch01.indd 8514_607466-bk02ch01.indd 85 5/24/10 10:03 PM5/24/10 10:03 PM 86 Exploring Minor Productivity Changes ✦ You can now more easily access the metadata and have it used as cap- tions in documents. You can print lots of images and use their metadata as captions, such as the photographer name, product name, caption, or copyright information. ✦ Mini Bridge makes it possible to locate and place images into docu- ments without leaving InDesign. Mini Bridge provides a small panel in which you can navigate your computer or network, locate items you might want to use in the layout, and place them into your document. The window is rather small, and you might still find it easier to simply click and drag items from your operating system, or you can use the Place command. ✦ Adobe has added new review and commenting features. You can share your designs across the Internet so that other people can provide feed- back and input if you initiate them by using the new Review panel. 14_607466-bk02ch01.indd 8614_607466-bk02ch01.indd 86 5/24/10 10:03 PM5/24/10 10:03 PM www.zshareall.com [...]... publication: 1 Choose File➪New➪Document The New Document dialog box opens, as shown in Figure 2- 2 Figure 2- 2: Setting up a new document with InDesign Getting Started with InDesign CS5 89 2 Select whether you’re designing for Print or Web from the Intent drop-down menu 3 Enter a value in the Number of Pages text field for the number of pages in the document This value can be between 1 and 9999 If you want... requires a particular predesigned format For example, a company may use a template for its official letterhead because every new letter requires the same page format and design InDesign templates use the indt file extension Introducing InDesign CS5 The custom workspace is saved 1 02 Working with Documents Importing new content You can use many different kinds of content in an InDesign document because... each image before it’s placed You can also scroll through the loaded images by pressing the arrow keys on your keyboard Working with Documents 103 For general information about importing and exporting using the Adobe Creative Suite, check out Book I, Chapter 5 For more information on importing different kinds of file formats, such as text, images, spreadsheets, and PDFs, see Chapters 3 and 5 in this... This minibook shows you how to use InDesign to make creative page layouts In this chapter, you discover the InDesign interface and start your first publication Getting Started with InDesign CS5 InDesign is used for creating page layouts that include type, graphics (such as fills and strokes), and images The InDesign document you see in Figure 2- 1 includes elements from Adobe Illustrator (logos) and Photoshop... resolution sizes such as 1 024 x 768, which is helpful if you’re creating a Web page or an interactive PDF You can enter page sizes using most common forms of measurement or just use the appropriate abbreviation For example, you enter 8 in for 8 inches or 15 cm for 15 centimeters You can use most forms of measurement in all InDesign dialog boxes and panels; just make sure to specify the form of measurement... sections, you get familiar with creating and opening documents in InDesign In Chapters 3 through 9 in this minibook, you see how to add various elements to your pages 88 Getting Started with InDesign CS5 Figure 2- 1: A sample page layout created using InDesign CS5 Creating a new publication After you launch InDesign, you can create a new InDesign document Just follow these steps to create a new publication:... InDesign They also allow you to open and close panels used to edit and make settings for the publication InDesign menu commands such as New, Open, and Save are similar to most other applications you’re probably familiar with The InDesign menus also include commands that are especially used for page layout, such as Insert with Placeholder Text For more information on using menus, see Book I, Chapter 2. .. Figure 2- 8 Introducing InDesign CS5 You can find out more about the different kinds of guides and how to use them in page layout in Chapter 5 of this minibook Book II Chapter 2 100 Setting Up the Workspace Figure 2- 8: Click and drag one shape around another to see the interaction with Smart Guides As a default, pink guides appear when you align an object with the center of the page, as shown in Figure 2- 9... discover these specific panels as you create layouts For now, we briefly show you two general InDesign panels: Control and Pages Control panel The Control panel is used to edit just about any element in InDesign, as shown for the Type tool in Figure 2 -5 This panel is context sensitive, so it changes depending on which element you’ve selected on a page For example, if you have selected text on the page,... Chapter 2 96 Touring the Workspace Figure 2 -5: The Control panel, when the Type tool is active Figure 2- 6 shows the Control panel when a frame is selected using the Selection tool The Control panel menu allows you to select options for the frame Figure 2- 6: The Control panel, when a frame is selected using the Selection tool Pages panel You can control pages by using the Pages panel, as shown in Figure 2- 7 . Figure 2- 2. Figure 2- 2: Setting up a new document with InDesign. 15_ 607466-bk02ch 02. indd 88 15_ 607466-bk02ch 02. indd 88 5/ 24 /10 11:40 PM5 /24 /10 11:40 PM Book II Chapter 2 Introducing InDesign. shape. 15_ 607466-bk02ch 02. indd 951 5_607466-bk02ch 02. indd 95 5 /24 /10 11:40 PM5 /24 /10 11:40 PM 96 Touring the Workspace Figure 2 -5: The Control panel, when the Type tool is active. Figure 2- 6. as a text field or an image. 15_ 607466-bk02ch 02. indd 94 15_ 607466-bk02ch 02. indd 94 5/ 24 /10 11:40 PM5 /24 /10 11:40 PM Book II Chapter 2 Introducing InDesign CS5 95 Touring the Workspace ✦ Table: