Tap into the far-reaching potential of InDesign styles—from simple drop cap formatting to cross-media export to XHTML. Styles have the power to transform how design and production professionals approach and accomplish any project. Adopting a style-centric workflow can reduce tasks that would normally take days to mere hours, and tasks that would take hours to minutes or even seconds. Less time spent on repetitive tasks means more time for creating your best work. This book explores every InDesign style to reveal its full potential. Throughout each chapter, you’ll pick up many tips and best practices gleaned from real-world experience. Two bonus chapters, “Stroke Styles” and “Project Planning with Styles in Mind” are available for download. For «figure it out as I go» designers, embracing styles still allow you to work intuitively on the page. And this guide helps break preconceptions and bad habits transferred from less powerful page layout applications that keep new InDesign users from working in far more satisfying and productive ways.
Author(s): Michael Murphy
Edition: 1
Publisher: Adobe Press
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 278
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TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 6
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
CHAPTER 1 THE FUNDAMENTALS: PARAGRAPH AND CHARACTER STYLES......Page 12
Character Style Attributes......Page 14
Paragraph Style Attributes......Page 19
Working with Paragraph and Character Styles......Page 37
CHAPTER 2 NESTING AND SEQUENCING STYLES......Page 50
Nested Styles......Page 51
Advanced Nesting Techniques......Page 59
Nested Line Styles......Page 65
Paragraph Styles in Sequence: The Next Style Option......Page 67
Establishing Relationships: Based-on Styles......Page 72
CHAPTER 3 AUTOMATIC STYLING WITH GREP......Page 78
GREP Styles vs. Nested Styles......Page 79
Metacharacters......Page 80
Creating a GREP Style......Page 90
Defining Expressions for GREP Styles......Page 91
CHAPTER 4 AUTO-STYLING IMPORTED WORD AND EXCEL FILES......Page 100
Working with Word Files......Page 101
Working with Excel Files......Page 110
CHAPTER 5 OBJECT STYLES......Page 112
One-stop Shopping for Attributes......Page 113
Default Object Styles......Page 116
Differences Between Object Styles and Text Styles......Page 118
Combining Paragraph Styles and Object Styles......Page 123
Flexible Object Styles Every InDesign User Should Have......Page 125
CHAPTER 6 TABLE AND CELL STYLES......Page 130
Table Styles vs. Cell Styles......Page 131
Working with Table Style Limitations......Page 144
Maintaining Links and Updating Tables......Page 146
CHAPTER 7 DROP CAPS, BULLETS, AND NUMBERING......Page 150
Drop Caps......Page 151
Bullets and Numbering......Page 156
CHAPTER 8 ADVANCED FIND/CHANGE WITH STYLES......Page 170
Finding and Changing Text Styles......Page 171
GREP Find/Change vs. GREP Styles......Page 175
Saving Queries......Page 177
Advanced Style-based Search Techniques......Page 178
Find/Change for Objects......Page 183
CHAPTER 9 GENERATING DYNAMIC CONTENT WITH STYLES......Page 186
Tables of Contents......Page 187
Running Header Text Variables......Page 194
Cross-references......Page 201
CHAPTER 10 STYLES, CSS, AND XML......Page 212
Export for Dreamweaver......Page 213
Styles and XML......Page 227
Importing XML......Page 232
XSLT: Styles on Steroids......Page 234
CHAPTER 11 STYLE MANAGEMENT......Page 236
Style Organization Basics......Page 237
Style Groups......Page 238
Quick Apply......Page 242
Managing Styles Across Documents......Page 244
INDEX......Page 248
C......Page 249
D......Page 250
G......Page 251
M......Page 252
P......Page 253
R......Page 254
T......Page 255
Z......Page 256
