Mastering Adobe InDesign Layouts

A Practical Guide to Multi-Page Design, Interactivity, and Cross-Platform Output
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 979-8-8688-3475-2
Verlag: APRESS L.P.

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

Master the art of professional page design with Adobe InDesign and take your layouts from concept to publication across print and digital platforms. This practical guide introduces you to the essential tools, workflows, and techniques required to create visually compelling multi-page documents while working seamlessly with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

Through hands-on examples and structured projects, you will learn how to design and format text, images, and tables; manage layouts with parent pages and styles; and build dynamic documents with interactivity, including hyperlinks, forms, bookmarks, and multimedia. The book also explores modern production workflows such as AI-assisted features, Creative Cloud integration, and efficient collaboration practices. From newsletters and magazines to interactive PDFs and EPUB publications, you will gain the skills needed to produce professional-grade outputs.

Whether you are a designer, student, or creative professional transitioning into layout design, this book equips you with the confidence and expertise to deliver polished, publish-ready documents for both print and digital environments.

You Will

Integrate images and graphics using frames, layers, and Creative Cloud assets

Apply parent pages and styles to manage consistency across complex documents

Create interactive PDFs with links, forms, bookmarks, and multimedia elements

Export files for print, web, EPUB, and HTML5 with appropriate settings

Who Is This Book For

Beginner–intermediate designers, students, and professionals using Photoshop/Illustrator who want to master InDesign layouts.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harder, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Grafikprogrammierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Creating a New Document and Setting up the InDesign Workspace.- Chapter 2: Layout of Text within Text Frames: Part 1.- Chapter 3: Layout of Text within Text Frames: Part 2.- Chapter 4: Layout of Images in Frames, working with Objects, and Shapes: Part 1.- Chapter 5: Layout of Images in Frames, working with Objects, and Shapes: Part 2.- Chapter 6: Layout of Images in Frames, working with Objects, and Shapes: Part 3.- Chapter 7: Working with Parent Pages.- Chapter 8: Editing and Applying Styles to Text, Objects and Tables.- Chapter 9: Layout of Advanced and Interactive Features, Part 1: Hyperlinks, Bookmarks, Table of Contents, Indexes and Automation.- Chapter 10: Layout of Advanced and Interactive Features, Part 2: Animations, Forms, EPUB, and HTML5 Options.- Chapter 11: Export InDesign Files Part 1: PDF for Print.- Chapter 12: Export InDesign Files Part 2: PDF for Web Interactivity.- Chapter 13: Export InDesign Files Part 3: Tips for Interactive EPUBs and HTML5.- Chapter 14: Creative Cloud Applications Beyond InDesign.

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Harder has worked in the graphic design industry for over twenty years. She has a degree in graphic communications and has taught Acrobat, and Adobe Creative Cloud courses at Langara College. She is also author of several Apress books and related videos.