What is the trick to typesetting poetry in a book? This video shows you how to get each poem to be centered on the page without resorting to centering each line of each poem. This video shows how to make and use a great looking page with one wide column and one narrow column. Also read our blog post on how to typeset math in InDesign. Here are three videos that show you how to use columns and typeset poetry. What could be more helpful than being able to put things in front of and behind each other? Also read an excerpt from Book Design Made Simple about how to use layers with text and shapes. Once you discover layers, you’ll start using them right away. Sometimes simply grabbing an object or some type is not as easy as you think it should be, so find out which tool does what and how to use each one. Getting from page to page can be done in several ways. Don’t let that hold you back! Check out these videos that guide you through some of the actions you’ll use most often. If you’re just starting out with InDesign, you might find some aspects a little daunting. However, it can be handy to have InDesign point out if there is any text that doesn’t conform to the paragraph and character styles applied to it. The highlighting can be turned on or off, depending on your preferences. You may have noticed some new colors of text highlighting in InDesign. Also read an excerpt from Book Design Made Simple about how to create lines and arrows using the Stroke panel. You’ve always been able to add arrowheads to the start and end of a line or path, however now you can scale each end independently. None of the changes affect the instructions in Book Design Made Simple however, there are a few new features you might find useful! Scaling arrowheads in InDesign CC2017 The InDesign video tutorials are divided into topics:Īdobe released their 2017 update for Creative Cloud, and there are a few changes to InDesign. If you’d like to be notified whenever a new video is posted, please feel free to subscribe to our YouTube channel and turn on notifications. Our video page is a work in progress as we continue to add videos to our YouTube channel.

Below are InDesign video tutorials that Glenna created to demonstrate things you can do in Adobe InDesign to help with designing and typesetting your book.

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