The document provides an overview of using Adobe InDesign to design print layouts. It discusses setting up files in InDesign, creating new documents, and using various tools like rulers, grids, guides, frames, and text tools. It also covers working with pages, windows, colors, strokes, placing images, and making backgrounds and shapes. The purpose is to create a PowerPoint documenting the tools and features in InDesign to use for designing ancillary texts.

1. Adobe InDesign
L/O: to know how to use the tools in
InDesign in order to create and
design ancillary texts

2. Task -
• As you learn this, make a powerpoint which
documents the tools/features
• Screen grabs with arrows and annotations!
Like this!

3. Powerpoint
• Due next week
• I will give you a grade, no drafts
• You will be able to use this as evidence for
technology
• (for evaluation)

4. Purpose
• InDesign is a program to design print layouts
such as:
– Posters
– Brochures
– Magazine spreads
– Leaflets
– Stationary
– etc

5. Location on network
• Start
• All programs
• Media
• InDesign CS3

6. Setting up files
– Opening files/setting up
– Saving files
– Exporting PDF
–…
–…

7. Creating a file
• Choose create new
document
• (don’t ever need to
choose book/library)
• Or you can open an
existing file

8. Creating/setting up a new file
• -click off facing pages
• Page size = A4 (just leave on this – or A3)
• Orientation – portrait or landscape
• Leave columns
• Leave gutter
• Can change margins if you wish
• (chain icon means to keep proportion)

9. Once open, it will look like…

10. Rulers/grids/guides Grids/guides on page
Options Quick tools
(file, edit, (such as text
Layout, stuff, opacity,
Notes etc.) Effects etc.
toolbar
windows
How to view whole
page

11. To discuss…..
• Windows & dock
– Expanding dock/windows
– Moving windows
• Multiple pages (master/none)
– Shortcuts and trashcan
• Using rulers/grids/guides
– Right click
– View = hide frame edges/hide grids
– Grids & guides

12. Toolbar and it’s tools
• Black arrow (direction selection tool)
• White arrow (indirect selection tool)
• Pen tool
• Text tool
• Pencil tool
• Line tool
• Rectangle/ellipse/polygon frame tools (placing images)
• Rectangle/ellipse/polygon tools
– Alignment
– transform
– arrange
– grouping
– locking
• Rotate tool
• Scale tool
• Eyedropper tool
• Hand tool
• Zoom tool

13. Other stuff with toolbar
You will see little black
arrows, click and hold
and you will get more
options

14. Other stuff with toolbar
Fill colour
Switch pages
outlines
Red line through
something means
Switch the not visible
pages (i.e. = this means
no fill colour)
text

15. Text tools
– Titles
– Paragraphs
– Size
– Style
– Colour of text
– Tracking/Kerning
– Creating outlines

16. Other stuff…
• Stroke
• Placing images
• Making backgrounds
• Making shapes

17. Colours
• Anything print = printers are CYMK (called a 4 colour process)
Cyan (blue)
Yellow
Magenta (pink)
Black
You MUST make all colours CMYK before printing….
• Using colours
– Choosing
– Changing
– CMYK