Lynda - InDesign Insider Training Beyond the Essentials with David Blatner

In this course David Blatner builds on his Essential Training series, bringing his knowledge of and passion for Adobe InDesign to lessons that show you how to harness its power and functionality. This installment covers a wide range of advanced topics from interface customization to cutting-edge layout and text-formatting techniques. Learn how to set key application and document preferences, format long documents, match swatches, use GREP styles, and much more.

Topics include:

Setting preferences

Working with parent and child master pages

Adding alternate layouts

Exporting and importing page snippets

Tracking text changes

Choosing other languages

Aligning to a baseline grid

Applying styles automatically with nested and line styles

Embedding links

Turning image layers on and off

Using the Pathfinder and compound paths

Power scaling and spacing