Today in class, we are:

Looking at book comps

Talking about making proofs

Talking about these Indesign skills:

  • Master Pages
  • Paragraph and Character Styles
  • Space Before / Space After
  • First Line Indent
  • Accented characters
  • Glyphs Palette and other OpenType features
  • more skills

Working

For next time: (updated!)

Create a 15 page proof of your book

  • Format the first 15 pages, starting at the first chapter (or the first chapter you’re doing)
  • Don’t worry about title page, table of contents, etc. for now
  • If you get to a part where you don’t remember what we did or are unsure, you can skip that part for now and go on with the rest of the tasks/pages

List of skills we’re covering:

  • Master Pages
  • Paragraph and Character Styles
  • Space Before / Space After
  • First Line Indent
  • Accented characters
  • Glyphs Palette and other OpenType features
  • Optical Margin Alignment
  • New Document/Document Setup
  • Margins and Columns
  • Place vs Copy/Paste
  • Import Options
  • Smart Text Reflow
  • Leading
  • Kerning/Tracking
  • First Line Indent
  • Space Before
  • Insert Column Break
  • Insert Current Page Number
  • Discretionary Hyphen
  • Optical Margin Alignment
  • Em & En Dashes
  • Accents
  • Glyphs Panel
  • Master Pages
  • Paragraph & Character Styles