Advanced InDesign: Productivity Techniques

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Bart Van de Wiele

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[1] Introduction

[1] Welcome to this course.mp4

00:48

[2] Course prerequisites.mp4

00:58

[3] Understanding the challenges.mp4

00:45

[2] 1. Building Better Long Documents

[1] Long documents.mp4

01:37

[2] Creating running headers.mp4

05:51

[3] Adding a last page number.mp4

03:35

[4] Adding page color labels.mp4

05:26

[5] Challenge Create your own running header.mp4

01:40

[6] Solution Create your own running header.mp4

03:09

[3] 2. Preflighting Your Document

[1] Preflighting documents.mp4

01:24

[2] Knowing what to look for.mp4

02:56

[3] Building a preflight profile.mp4

05:46

[4] Fixing errors.mp4

05:54

[5] Exchanging profiles.mp4

05:16

[6] Challenge Creating a custom preflight profile.mp4

01:21

[7] Solution Creating a custom preflight profile.mp4

03:26

[4] 3. Laying Out an Interview

[1] Laying out interviews.mp4

01:31

[2] Building styles for the speakers.mp4

02:52

[3] Changing the prefix.mp4

03:41

[4] Challenge Changing the interviewee.mp4

00:54

[5] Solution Changing the interviewee.mp4

03:07

[5] 4. Merging Data and Layout

[1] Merging data.mp4

00:57

[2] Preparing the data in Excel.mp4

07:04

[3] Placing placeholders.mp4

05:06

[4] Merging the document as a single-record layout.mp4

03:46

[5] Merging a multi-record layout.mp4

04:31

[6] Challenge Creating personalized mailing.mp4

01:12

[7] Solution Creating personalized mailing.mp4

03:21

[6] 5. Creating Mixed Ink Swatches

[1] Mixed ink swatches.mp4

01:17

[2] Creating a mix ink swatch.mp4

04:11

[3] Creating a mix ink group.mp4

05:57

[4] Challenge Mixing your own colors.mp4

01:03

[5] Solution Mixing your own colors.mp4

03:47

[7] 6. Linking Images to Text

[1] Linking images to text.mp4

01:00

[2] What is an anchored object.mp4

05:34

[3] Using image frames as anchored objects.mp4

05:23

[4] Setting options.mp4

05:48

[5] Duplicating the frames across your document.mp4

07:07

[6] Challenge Adding anchored objects on your own.mp4

01:01

[7] Solution Adding anchored objects on your own.mp4

02:15

[8] 7. Content-Aware Text Formatting

[1] Content-aware formatting.mp4

01:17

[2] Preparing character styles.mp4

03:24

[3] Using GREP to highlight negative numbers.mp4

05:50

[4] Using GREP to highlight a specific range of numbers.mp4

06:30

[5] Challenge Adding your own content-aware expression.mp4

01:27

[6] Solution Adding your own content-aware expression.mp4

04:32

[9] 8. How to Link Text to the Same Source

[1] Linking text to same source.mp4

01:04

[2] Placing and linking text.mp4

05:11

[3] Updating text.mp4

04:23

[4] Preserving overrides.mp4

06:47

[5] Challenge Defining your own text variables.mp4

01:22

[6] Solution Defining your own text variables.mp4

02:29

[10] 9. Creating Cool Knock-Out Effects

[1] Knock-out effects.mp4

00:58

[2] Creating knock-out groups with shapes.mp4

04:34

[3] Creating knock-out groups with placed artwork.mp4

04:10

[4] Challenge Try and recreate artwork.mp4

00:46

[5] Solution Try and recreate artwork.mp4

01:30

[11] 10. Creating a Duotone Postcard

[1] Duotone postcards.mp4

01:36

[2] Creating a monotone postcard.mp4

05:09

[3] Creating a duotone postcard.mp4

04:34

[4] Challenge Recreate a duotone postcard.mp4

01:46

[5] Solution Recreate a duotone postcard.mp4

03:29

[12] 11. How to Combine Images with Tables

[1] Combining images with tables.mp4

01:13

[2] Converting to graphic cells.mp4

05:25

[3] Setting padding and scaling.mp4

05:51

[4] Challenge Placing your own images in a table.mp4

01:44

[5] Solution Placing your own images in a table.mp4

03:00

[13] 12. Creating Multi-Sized Ads

[1] Multi-sized ads.mp4

02:18

[2] Duplicating and scaling ads.mp4

06:07

[3] Updating content across all versions.mp4

06:21

[4] Challenge Create additional sizes.mp4

01:57

[5] Solution Create additional sizes.mp4

03:24

[14] 13. How to Alphabetically Sort Lists

[1] Sorting lists.mp4

00:56

[2] Sorting the text alphabetically.mp4

03:30

[3] Challenge Sort an alphabetical list in a table.mp4

01:06

[4] Solution Sort an alphabetical list in a table.mp4

03:54

[15] Conclusion

[1] Goodbye.mp4

00:21

Description

Do you consider yourself a seasoned Adobe InDesign user, but sometimes feel that you’re stuck in your InDesign work habits or wasting precious time completing everyday tasks that you suspect could be handled faster or easier? Join Bart Van de Wiele in this course, where he shows you how to tackle common design problems using advanced InDesign functionality. Bart draws from real-life situations that he’s encountered as a professional print designer to show you how you can do more with InDesign. He details scenarios for the automation of common projects like catalogs, business cards, and brochures using style automation, shortcuts, and regular expressions. Bart also covers common sources of frustration like combining images and tables, creating multiple sizes of an ad, and sorting lists alphabetically.

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