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• • March 26, 2018 at 7:51 am #102634
    Jeff Kaiser

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    We publish yearbooks for school in Detroit area. We are trying to find yearbook style templates to give to our schools as a starting point. Does anyone know where to buy Templates that would work in a yearbook style book?

  • March 27, 2018 at 5:47 pm #102670
    Colleen Shannon

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    Jeff,

    I’ve worked on several yearbooks doing pre-press, and no two are alike! When it comes to organizing photos/names, I recommend using Tables and have them flow from page to page. This makes it really easy when you have to insert or delete a person. Keep any text .5″ away from the spine and ask your printer for specs before you get too deep. I can make you a sample page if that’ll help.

  • March 27, 2018 at 8:10 pm #102674
    Graham Park

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    Why not convert one or more of your existing yearbook files into a template. They should already have object styles, master pages (preface, index, section header pages, photo pages etc), paragraph styles etc.

  • March 28, 2018 at 10:38 am #102690
    Jeff Kaiser

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    Colleen thank you for your suggestion. If you could send me a sample that would be great. I am completely new to using InDesign so any help would be great.

  • March 28, 2018 at 10:42 am #102691
    Jeff Kaiser

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    Graham,
    We are new to using InDesign for our yearbook and in my case I have never used the program bur am in the process of leaning. Our schools have been using an online program through our publisher until this year. We have 3 new schools wanting to use InDesign so that would bring me to the answer of your question. We do not have a school that is using the program for us to export layouts.

  • March 28, 2018 at 1:26 pm #102693
    Colleen Shannon

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    Jeff, we can’t teach you how to use InDesign overnight, but I strongly suggest you learn Paragraph Styles, Character Styles and Object Styles immediately! They are crucial to managing long documents like this, and I set up some basic ones in this template.

    You gave me a good excuse to set up a folder of InDesign templates, etc.:

    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jm40mgkp2kk9v5n/AAAiJrgwEnm-D7d7iWsnvPXZa?dl=0

  • March 28, 2018 at 3:03 pm #102706
    Jeff Kaiser

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    Colleen,

    Thank you again for your help. Some of the files you sent said they are damaged or information missing when we tried opening them. We did get one to open one of them which had the text diagonal on the page.

    We are in deep but we always find our way. Thank you for all your help!!

    Jeff

  • March 28, 2018 at 3:25 pm #102707
    Colleen Shannon

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    Those are likely errors that you can ignore; you will have to replace Fonts and Links (photos, artwork, etc.) yourself. File->Package in the beginning and end of your InDesign projects. InDesign’s default is to keep Document fonts and Links separate from the .indd file. That’s to keep the file size down and keep you working faster. You need to activate any fonts you want to use, if you have access to typekit.com, try it out.

    If you need help with those files, let me know. I uploaded them in a hurry!

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