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Adobe Indesign for Fiction Book Layout – Complete Guide

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Adobe Indesign for Fiction Book Layout – Complete Guide, available at $59.99, has an average rating of 4.8, with 103 lectures, based on 126 reviews, and has 539 subscribers.

You will learn about You will understand fiction book design in Adobe Indesign You will learn how to select fonts. Pro techniques other courses fail to teach. How to choose and set book margins. How to order sections of your book. Professional workflows and shortcuts. How to avoid amateur mistakes. Downloadable exercise files & check list. Learn how to create PDF files ready for printing. PDF formatting for digital printing. How to work efficiently with shortcuts. What you need for the task and not other stuff that doesn't matter. This course is ideal for individuals who are This course is for people completely new to InDesign. or No previous design or publishing experienced is necessary. or You want to make your fiction book look professional and have an error-free file. or This is well-paced course that will enable you to produce a final interior file to use for printing your fiction book. It is particularly useful for This course is for people completely new to InDesign. or No previous design or publishing experienced is necessary. or You want to make your fiction book look professional and have an error-free file. or This is well-paced course that will enable you to produce a final interior file to use for printing your fiction book.

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Title: Adobe Indesign for Fiction Book Layout – Complete Guide

Price: $59.99

Average Rating: 4.8

Number of Lectures: 103

Number of Published Lectures: 103

Number of Curriculum Items: 104

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 104

Original Price: $39.99

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What You Will Learn

  • You will understand fiction book design in Adobe Indesign
  • You will learn how to select fonts.
  • Pro techniques other courses fail to teach.
  • How to choose and set book margins.
  • How to order sections of your book.
  • Professional workflows and shortcuts.
  • How to avoid amateur mistakes.
  • Downloadable exercise files & check list.
  • Learn how to create PDF files ready for printing.
  • PDF formatting for digital printing.
  • How to work efficiently with shortcuts.
  • What you need for the task and not other stuff that doesn't matter.

Who Should Attend

  • This course is for people completely new to InDesign.
  • No previous design or publishing experienced is necessary.
  • You want to make your fiction book look professional and have an error-free file.
  • This is well-paced course that will enable you to produce a final interior file to use for printing your fiction book.

Target Audiences

  • This course is for people completely new to InDesign.
  • No previous design or publishing experienced is necessary.
  • You want to make your fiction book look professional and have an error-free file.
  • This is well-paced course that will enable you to produce a final interior file to use for printing your fiction book.

Do you need to make a layout for a fiction book for professional publication? Perhaps you are an author and want to learn how the book layout process works so you can make your own PDF. This course is for you! Most other Indesign courses teach lots of extra material that won’t help you. This course is specifically targeted at people who want to learn fiction and textbook layout without all the fluff.

  • Walter: “Your course was so helpful. My staff struggled for a month trying to learn Indesign from YouTube. We just wasted our time and missed critical opportunities. Your easy-to-follow teaching style literally hand-held us, taught my team time-saving skills, and saved us $1,000’s of dollars in lost revenue. Thank you!” Walter P., Orange and Blue Marketing

From Aaron: “Hi there, my name is Aaron and I’ve professionally taught Indesign to hundreds of students. I’ve created hundreds of layouts in Indesign, from simple fiction books to complex guides and textbooks. Together we’ll work through real projects will real manuscripts. You’ll learn everything you need to know to be successful. This course is filled with instruction that gets you to success fast.”

This course will save you from wasting $100’s if not $1,000’s of your hard-earned money. Many “pro” book layout designers learn from YouTube as they go, wasting your money. Other Indesign contractors charge insane amounts of money. That’s why I made this course. It’s for people who want to learn fiction book layout or need to do the job themselves.

  • Bethany: “What you just taught me almost made me cry. Before your class, my boss made me change the font in our company book twice. It took me a week. With what you showed me, I could’ve been literally done in a minute. One week cut down to one minute. I hope others find your course.” Bethany R., Outdoor Medical Training School

This course helps you avoid these mistakes:

  • Creating text that’s incorrectly spaced out and looks weird

  • Justified text that still looks jagged – pro tips

  • Overload of hyphen breaks

  • Orphans and widows – random text starting a page

  • Wrong hyphens – you probably used the wrong hyphens

It’s so easy to make mistakes and not see them during book layout. Aaron has seen books with beautiful covers but the inside looked like a hack job. Trying to do book layout in Microsoft Word will make your booklook terrible. Word just doesn’t have the right tools.

This course includes:

  • Sample complete manuscripts for practice

  • Sample copyright page text completely free to use

  • Sample word processing program files for challenge assignments

Aaron shares the tricks he’s learned over years of doing fiction book layout design. The goal of this course is to teach you how to make your own book PDF and not look like an amateur doing it. You’ll learn the necessary skills to make turn your manuscript into a pro PDF.

Manuscript software formatting guidelines include:

  • Microsoft Word

  • Google Docs

  • OpenOffice

  • Scrivener

  • Apple Pages

Even if you used a different program, the instructions for the above software will help you figure out what you need to do. Ask questions in the course forum and Aaron will do his best to help you out.

There are a lot of small but important details in fiction book layout. Avoid making errors with this course. You spent 100’s of hours perfecting your manuscript. Don’t make the rookie mistake of making your book look like it was prepared by a fifth-grader.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone wanting to create a professional PDF from their fiction manuscript

  • Aaron’s course is for people with no InDesign experience. No previous publishing knowledge required.

  • This course is relaxed and bite-sized. It’s broken down into small skills that won’t overwhelm you. You only need basic computer skills to succeed.

Aaron Linsdau Learning: Skills. Fast.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Overview of the course

Lecture 1: Course overview

Chapter 2: Getting Indesign Ready for You

Lecture 1: Overview of section 1 – Getting Indesign Ready

Lecture 2: Overview of mouse clicks and keyboard shortcuts

Lecture 3: Setting up Preferences in Indesign so Everything is Ready to Go

Lecture 4: Creating Your First Project

Lecture 5: Setting Up and Customizing the Indesign Workspace For Your Needs

Lecture 6: Creating and Saving Workspaces

Chapter 3: Creating your first Book Layout and Generating a PDF

Lecture 1: Overview of Your First Book Layout

Lecture 2: Adding the First Text Box to Your Layout

Lecture 3: Text Box Adjustments & Mini Exercise

Lecture 4: Font Selections and Adjustments

Lecture 5: Text horizontal and vertical positioning

Lecture 6: Snap and Smart Alignment

Lecture 7: Preview Your Layout, Bonus Pro Tip

Lecture 8: Zoom and Navigation Controls, Plus Shortcut Keys

Lecture 9: Pages Panel – Your Book Overview

Lecture 10: Create the Book's Title Page, Pro tips

Lecture 11: Creating the Basic Copyright Page, Bonus Content, Student Challenge

Lecture 12: Adding a Dedication Page, Common Book Standards

Lecture 13: Generate Filler Text to Start Your Book – Pro Tip

Lecture 14: Body Text Formatting Basics, Pro Critical Layout Tip

Lecture 15: Copying Text Boxes – Pro Tip For Speed

Lecture 16: Pages Panel: How to Manage Pages, Pro Tip to Avoid Errors

Lecture 17: Saving File Formats, Generating a PDF, Sample Included

Lecture 18: Handling Older or Incompatible Files, Samples Included

Chapter 4: Preparing a Microsoft Manuscript for Book Layout

Lecture 1: Overview of Preparing a Microsoft Word Document for Layout

Lecture 2: Paragraph styles

Lecture 3: Special Characters

Lecture 4: Manage and remove tabs from text

Lecture 5: Double and triple spaces, spaces before and after paragraphs

Lecture 6: Use a single font

Lecture 7: Paragraph style management

Lecture 8: Tracking and changes

Lecture 9: Grammar and spelling

Chapter 5: Preparing a Google Docs Manuscript for Book Layout

Lecture 1: Overview of Preparing a Google Docs Manuscript for Layout

Lecture 2: Paragraph formatting and styles

Lecture 3: Finding and removing special characters

Lecture 4: Removing tab indentation from Google Docs

Lecture 5: Remove spaces before and after paragraphs

Lecture 6: Use a single font

Lecture 7: Grammar and Spelling

Lecture 8: Exporting from Google Docs for Indesign

Chapter 6: Preparing an OpenOffice Manuscript for Book Layout

Lecture 1: Prepare an OpenOffice Manuscript for Book Layout

Lecture 2: Removing paragraph styles

Lecture 3: Finding and removing special characters

Lecture 4: Removing tab indentation

Lecture 5: Removing spaces before and after paragraphs

Lecture 6: Remove double, triple, etc spaces

Lecture 7: Set to a single font if possible

Lecture 8: Remove tracking and comments

Lecture 9: Using your spelling and grammar checker

Lecture 10: Exporting for Indesign

Chapter 7: Preparing a Scrivener Manuscript for Book Layout

Lecture 1: Overview of Preparing a Scrivener Manuscript for Layout

Lecture 2: Removing paragraph styles

Lecture 3: Finding and removing special characters

Lecture 4: Removing tab indentation

Lecture 5: Remove spaces before and after paragraphs

Lecture 6: Remove double, triple, etc spaces

Lecture 7: Set to a single font if possible

Lecture 8: Use your spelling and grammar checker

Lecture 9: Exporting for Indesign

Chapter 8: Preparing an Apple Pages Manuscript for Book Layout

Lecture 1: Overview of Preparing an Apple Pages Document for Layout

Lecture 2: Removing paragraph styles

Lecture 3: Finding and removing special characters

Lecture 4: Removing tab indentation

Lecture 5: Remove spaces before and after paragraphs

Lecture 6: Remove double, triple, etc spaces

Lecture 7: Setting a single font if possible

Lecture 8: Use your spelling and grammar checker

Lecture 9: Exporting for Indesign

Chapter 9: Adding a Manuscript to a Book Layout

Lecture 1: Overview of Placing a Manuscript Into Indesign

Lecture 2: Placing a manuscript

Lecture 3: Using File-Place to drop your manuscript into your book layout

Lecture 4: Using Copy – Paste to add a manuscript

Lecture 5: Linked Documents – Pros and Cons

Chapter 10: Layout editing fundamentals

Lecture 1: Overview of the Fundamentals of Indesign Layout

Lecture 2: Move the title and other text to another page

Lecture 3: Text threading

Lecture 4: Breaking up chapters

Chapter 11: Paragraph Styles for the whole layout

Lecture 1: Overview of the Paragraph Styles Panel

Lecture 2: Chapter title paragraph style, apply title style, pro tip and hacks

Lecture 3: Chapter body text paragraph style setup and alignment

Lecture 4: Second paragraph styles in the body

Lecture 5: Managing forced line break special characters

Lecture 6: Managing hyphenation

Lecture 7: Orphans and widow lines – more way to fix them

Lecture 8: Drop Caps, Character Styles

Chapter 12: Master pages for page templates

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