Adobe Indesign For Book Layout
Do you need to make a layout for a fiction book for professional publication? Perhaps you are an author and want to learn how the book layout process works so you can make your own PDF. This course is for you! Most other Indesign courses teach lots of extra material that won’t help you. This course is specifically targeted to people who want to learn fiction and textbook layout without all the fluff.
This course helps you avoid mistakes like:
- Creating text that’s incorrectly spaced out and looks weird
- Justified text that still looks jagged – pro tips
- Overload of hyphen breaks
- Orphans and widows – random text starting a page
- Wrong hyphens – you probably used the wrong hyphens
It’s so easy to make mistakes and not see them during book layout. Our instructor has seen books with beautiful covers but the inside looked like a hack job. Trying to do book layout in Microsoft Word will make your book look terrible. Word just doesn’t have the right tools.
WHY CHOOSE EDPLX?
- Internationally recognised accredited qualification
- Access to our free career advisors
- Approved UK Learning Centre
- 1 year accessibility to the course
- Attain PDF or hardcopy certificate to show employers
- Study at your own pace anywhere
- Employer has access to certificate validation
- Tutor Support available Monday-Friday
- Invitation to job fairs
COURSE CURRICULUM
This Course will cover some of the following topics:-
- Preparing a Google Docs Manuscript for Book Layout
- Preparing an OpenOffice Manuscript for Book Layout
- Preparing a Scrivener Manuscript for Book Layout
- Preparing an Apple Pages Manuscript for Book Layout
- Adding a Manuscript to a Book Layout
- Layout editing fundamentals
- Adding the First Text Box to Your Layout
- Text Box Adjustments & Mini Exercise
- Font Selections and Adjustments
- Text horizontal and vertical positioning
- Snap and Smart Alignment
- Preview Your Layout, Bonus Pro Tip
- Zoom and Navigation Controls, Plus Shortcut Keys
- Pages Panel – Your Book Overview
- Create the Book’s Title Page, Pro tips
- Creating the Basic Copyright Page, Bonus Content, Student Challenge
- Overview of Preparing a Microsoft Word Document for Layout
- Paragraph styles
- Special Characters
- Manage and remove tabs
- Double and triple spaces, spaces before and after paragraphs
And Much more
WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR
This course is suitable for beginner to advanced, Anyone looking to create a book layout or want to learn how to this course is perfect for you .
CAREER PATH
This training course will lead you to many different career opportunities, Here are few prospects:
- Designer- £36,921
- Graphic Designer- £28,022
- Web Designer- £34,751
- Digital Designer- £33,831
Course Features
- Lectures 102
- Quizzes 0
- Duration 5h 12m
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 279
- Certificate Yes
- Assessments Yes
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Overview of the course
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Getting Indesign Ready for you
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Creating your first Book Layout and Generating a PDF
- Overview of Your First Book Layout
- Adding the First Text Box to Your Layout
- Text Box Adjustments & Mini Exercise
- Font Selections and Adjustments
- Text horizontal and vertical positioning
- Snap and Smart Alignment
- Preview Your Layout, Bonus Pro Tip
- Zoom and Navigation Controls, Plus Shortcut Keys
- Pages Panel – Your Book Overview
- Create the Book’s Title Page, Pro tips
- Creating the Basic Copyright Page, Bonus Content, Student Challenge
- Adding a Dedication Page, Common Book Standards
- Generate Filler Text to Start Your Book – Pro Tip
- Body Text Formatting Basics, Pro Critical Layout Tip
- Copying Text Boxes – Pro Tip For Speed
- Pages Panel: How to Manage Pages, Pro Tip to Avoid Errors
- Saving File Formats, Generating a PDF, Sample Included
- Handling Older or Incompatible Files, Samples Included
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Preparing a Microsoft Manuscript for Book Layout
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Preparing a Google Docs Manuscript for Book Layout
- Overview of Preparing a Google Docs Manuscript for Layout
- Paragraph formatting and styles
- Finding and removing special characters
- Removing tab indentation from Google Docs
- Remove spaces before and after paragraphs
- How to set to a single font if possible
- Grammar and Spelling
- Exporting from Google Docs for Indesign
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Preparing an OpenOffice Manuscript for Book Layout
- Prepare an OpenOffice Manuscript for Book Layout
- Removing paragraph styles
- Finding and removing special characters
- Removing tab indentation
- Removing spaces before and after paragraphs
- Remove double, triple, etc spaces
- Set to a single font if possible
- Remove tracking and comments
- Using your spelling and grammar checker
- Exporting for Indesign
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Preparing a Scrivener Manuscript for Book Layout
- Overview of Preparing a Scrivener Manuscript for Layout
- Removing paragraph styles
- Finding and removing special characters
- Removing tab indentation
- Remove spaces before and after paragraphs
- Remove double, triple, etc spaces
- Set to a single font if possible
- Use your spelling and grammar checker
- Exporting for Indesign
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Preparing an Apple Pages Manuscript for Book Layout
- Overview of Preparing an Apple Pages Document for Layout
- Removing paragraph styles
- Finding and removing special characters
- Removing tab indentation
- Remove spaces before and after paragraphs
- Remove double, triple, etc spaces
- Setting a single font if possible
- Use your spelling and grammar checker
- Exporting for Indesign
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Adding a Manuscript to a Book Layout
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Layout editing fundamentals
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Paragraph styles for the whole layout
- Overview of the Paragraph Styles Panel
- Chapter title paragraph style, apply title style, pro tip and hacks
- Chapter body text paragraph style setup and alignment
- Adjust the rest of the chapter body paragraphs
- Second paragraph styles in the body
- Managing forced line break special characters
- Managing hypernation
- Orphans and widow lines – more way to fix them
- Drop Caps, Character Styles
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Master pages for page templates
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All About Fonts
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Getting rid of problems
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Generating the final PDF