As I was preparing for my session on long documents for the InDesign Conference earlier this month, I realized that 2014 is my 20th year making books and other long docs. And it has been a blast making all those pages on everything from gardening to geometry to fruit to football. So it feels like perfect timing that I get to share some of the stuff I’ve learned along the way with a new lynda.com course, Creating Long Documents With InDesign CC.
The course is composed of 52 movies in all, covering the whole process of working with long documents, from the initial planning and templating to final output.
Here’s the official course description:
Creating Long Documents with InDesign shows designers how to plan, create, and output book-length documents using InDesign CC features and third-party plug-ins. Publishing veteran Mike Rankin focuses on long-document elements such as page and chapter numbering, tables of contents, cross-references, and indexes. The course also provides strategies and best practices for document construction, from creating master pages and applying consistent formatting with styles, to placing text and images and outputting to both print and interactive PDF.
- Using automatic numbering for pages, sections, and chapters
- Using text variables for running headers
- Creating templates for InDesign, InCopy, and Word
- Formatting page elements with object styles
- Automating text formatting with nested styles and GREP styles
- Controlling color with swatches
- Building page elements with libraries and snippets
- Performing GREP find/changes
- Tracking changes
- Adding footnotes and indexes
- Using InDesign book files
- Preflighting documents
So if you need to work with long documents, check out the course and let me know what you think!
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This article was last modified on April 13, 2023
This article was first published on November 20, 2014
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