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• • November 10, 2011 at 7:51 pm #61040
    Allseeingeye

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    I have been working hard for the past few months with indesign for an upcoming project I have in mind.

    So far, I really love this software, well, love and hate.

    I am 85% complete on my first book republication, however there are some frustrating things holding me back.

    1. I have set up a chapter header style, which automatically sets to start on the next page, however when I choose this style I want it to start at midway of the newpage as shown in the screen tagged immortal. Each time I set my chapter style, I have to “shift + enter” just before it, otherwise it remains at the top.

    2. Please could someone explain how the chapter creation process works, Adobe builds my chapter list but also keeps the same style as the chapter paragraph style I created, I just want it to show with simple “…”leading to the page number.

    3. I would love to know how to set up bookmarks to, so that the chapters become clickable if possible.

    4. Finally, I have noticed that with my settings, alot of the space to the right of my text boxes is not being used, is it a bad practice to use the full justification option for paragraph styling, or is there a more ethical approach.

    If anyone could help me, I would be very thankful, I would even pay someone to finetune my indesign template for me, as I will be using this for a handful of books I want to republish.

    Thanks in advance.

    ASE

  • November 11, 2011 at 5:59 am #61043
    Anonymous

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    1. For your Text Frame – create an object Style

    Go to – Text Frame Baseline Options

    Use Custom Baseline

    Set it at whereever you want the chapter to begin

    In the Chapter Heading Style, go to

    Indents and Spacing> Set the Align to Grid>All Lines

    Now the Chapter Heading will snap to Custom Baseline Grid you created.

    3. Bookmarks are set in the Layout>Table of contents

    It should be ticked alread – CREATE PDF BOOKMARKS

    4. I can't really tell without seeing it – doesn't look like your image uploaded… but generally it's not an issue.

    2. The Table of Contents will use the same style – unless you specify not to.

    The best thing to do is to get a few “sample” chapter headings, perhaps the longest chapter headings.

    Setup styles for these as in TOC Level 1 (e.g., TOC = “table of contents”), TOC Level 2, etc. (that is if you have more than one level).

    When you create the Table of Contents via the Layout menu – when you select the style for Chapter Headings, make sure that the “Entry Style” is set to the TOC Level 1, level 2 etc.

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