InDesign Day 2 of 5

Objectives

• Review of Day 1 principles
• Links and Relinking 
• Inserting, deleting, and moving pages
• Parent pages

Lesson Outline:

• Review of Day 1 principles/tools
  • Try to incorporate these principles/tools as review questions when teaching this day
  • Graphics/Images
    • Place command, placing multiple images
      • cmmd/ctrl+d
    • Free Transform Tool
    • Fitting options 
    • Overprint preview mode
• Links and Relinking 
  • How links function
  • Links panel
  • How to fix linking issues and why it’s important 
  • Show students how to fix the broken link on the cover page
    • Window>Links, Relink button or double click on red question mark, select missing file and re-establish the link (this link was broken because I renamed the file but links can be broken from moving, renaming or deleting a file)
• Inserting, deleting, and moving pages
  • Pages vs. spreads
  • How to add and delete pages
  • How to move pages and spreads
  • Pages panel
• Parent pages
  • “A parent page (previously known as master page) is like a background that you can quickly apply to many pages. Objects on a parent page appear on all pages applied. Parent page items that appear on document pages are surrounded by a dotted border. Changes you make to a parent page are automatically applied to associated pages that commonly contain repeating logos, page numbers, headers, and footers. They can also contain empty text or graphic frames that serve as placeholders on document pages. A parent item cannot be selected on a document page unless overridden.”
  • CTRL-Shift or CMD-Shift to edit parent page items
  • How to add and edit parent pages
    • Make sure students are aware that you have to double click on the parent pages in the pages panel to edit them
      • If frames placed on the master page aren’t showing up and students want to see them, they need to go to View>Extras>Show Frame Edges. (However, they won’t be able to edit these frames unless they go directly to their parent pages or press cmmd/ctrl-shift.)
• Optional: If you have some extra time you need to fill at the end of class, you can introduce manual text threading (but don’t worry if you don’t get to it, it’s apart of day 3 content)
  • Manual text threading 
    • In ports and out ports on text frames
    • How to show text threads
      • View > Extras > Show Text Threads
    • How to break the threading 
    • How to cut a frame from a thread

**Pink Highlight: If placed text has a pink highlight means InDesign doesn’t know what’s going on with the font/how to display certain characters. It can be fixed a few different ways including making sure your computer has the specific font and font type downloaded, and/or changing the font. 

Files: Travel mag.indd and images 

Suggested Activity: Demonstrate how to fix the broken link on the travel mag .indd file. Practice placing images into the gray placeholder squares in the file to review the place command and go over the Links panel. After placing graphics, use the magazine file to go over managing pages, and parent pages. Have students add elements to their parent pages, like a running header, lines, etc. Give students time to customize the file and practice with tools from day 1 and 2.