Part 1: A look at a ready-made InDesign Publication

• Starting Indesign
• Looking at the items on screen
• Publication v. design: the basic distinction
• Looking at the design
• Looking at the laid out publication

Part 2: Designing a Publication

• The Master Pages
• The Styles palette
• Defining styles

Part 3: Laying out a Publication

• Mark up
• Placing text and graphics
• Filters
• Fitting text and graphics to the design
• Some Additional functions

Part 4: InDesign and EPP in Publishing

• Publishing with the help of electronic means versus electronic publishing
• Electronic PrePres
• The traditional cut-and-paste method
• EPP in design, mark up, layout and typesetting

Appendices

Hypertext
Basic Macintosh Skills
Assignment
Index

InDesign Course: Introduction

This InDesign course teaches you the basics of the computer application InDesign 1.5.2. This is a page layout program, also called a desktop publishing program. You acquire InDesign skills by working your way through parts 1 to 3 of the course, each of which offers you a coherent set of instructions and demonstrations, which you are to carry out in the InDesign program. Completing the InDesign course is obligatory if you want to enroll in the Publishing Project course, where you will produce a publication for Academic Press Leiden. Part 4 of this course aims at giving you an understanding of the place of InDesign in Electronic PrePress (EPP) as a part of the modern publishing practice at Academic Press Leiden and elsewhere.

To follow the course, you need to have access to a Macintosh computer provided with an internet connection, a browser, and a copy of InDesign 1.5.2 or CS. These conditions are met in the Press Room in the Leiden University Arts Faculty main building (1175-152). To complete the course, you need to do the assignment which you can find at the end of this course, as well as a formal 1.5-hour examination, which involves the creation of a small InDesign publication. During the exam you are not allowed to use this hypertext course. For students not enrolled in a Boekwetenschap course, the examination must be arranged with the course organiser.

Because the course is offered in hypertext form and on Macintosh computers, you have to be able to work with hypertext documents in an Internet browser, and to use Apple Macintosh computers and its Operating System 9. A serious word of warning for Windows users: a number of Mac features may seem quite familiar to you, but the operating systems are not identical. If you do not feel confident about your knowledge of hypertext and/or your Apple Macintosh skills, please study the following section before you start on Part 1 of this course:

• Hypertext skills
• Basic Macintosh skills

Seasoned WWW-surfers and experienced Macintosh users continue below.

If you have lost your orientation during one of the following sections, remember that you can always return to this introductory page by clicking on the logo that you see at the upper and lower left corner of each page. Also remember that, if you come across any unfamiliar terms or functions, you can turn to the Index for help.

Book and Publishing Studies
English Department
Universiteit Leiden

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