Adobe Indesign for Nonfiction Book Layout – Complete Guide

Adobe Indesign for Nonfiction Book Layout – Complete Guide, available at $79.99, has an average rating of 4.75, with 111 lectures, based on 201 reviews, and has 834 subscribers.

You will learn about Learn to create print-ready PDF files Professional nonfiction book layout and design Resize, scale, rotate, and adjust images Professional nonfiction book layout techniques Earn money with your Indesign nonfiction book layout skills Create table of contents, headers, footers, and book structure Importing manuscripts from multiple sources How to manage and choose fonts Create color swatches and manage colors Professional shortcuts and workflows Adjust object opacity Manage multiple layers in a document Save time with rapid techniques No time-wasting stories or annectdotes Nonfiction, memoir, history, guides, textbook layout This course is ideal for individuals who are Students who want to create a professional nonfiction book layout It is particularly useful for Students who want to create a professional nonfiction book layout.

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Summary

Title: Adobe Indesign for Nonfiction Book Layout – Complete Guide

Price: $79.99

Average Rating: 4.75

Number of Lectures: 111

Number of Published Lectures: 111

Number of Curriculum Items: 111

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 111

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Learn to create print-ready PDF files
Professional nonfiction book layout and design
Resize, scale, rotate, and adjust images
Professional nonfiction book layout techniques
Earn money with your Indesign nonfiction book layout skills
Create table of contents, headers, footers, and book structure
Importing manuscripts from multiple sources
How to manage and choose fonts
Create color swatches and manage colors
Professional shortcuts and workflows
Adjust object opacity
Manage multiple layers in a document
Save time with rapid techniques
No time-wasting stories or annectdotes
Nonfiction, memoir, history, guides, textbook layout

Who Should Attend

Students who want to create a professional nonfiction book layout

Target Audiences

Students who want to create a professional nonfiction book layout

Do you need to make a layout for a nonfiction book for professional publication? Perhaps you are a guide book 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 nonfiction 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 nonfiction 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 nonfiction 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:

Incorrectly layering images
Improperly typesetting pages
Classic manuscript import errors
Incorrectly setting colors
Making a hard-to-manage table of contents

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 mess. Trying to do a 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
Ideas for graphic objects and integration with Illustrator

Aaron shares the tricks he’s learned over years of doing nonfiction 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

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 a nonfiction 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 an amateur.

Who this course is for:

Anyone wanting to create a professional PDF from their nonfiction manuscript
Aaron’s course is for people with no InDesign experience. No previous publishing knowledge is 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.

Save time wasted on huge “master classes” that cover a lot of what you don’t need. This course gives you exactly what you need to get the job done. You won’t wade through endless discussions and stories that aren’t relevant to your nonfiction book layout. Save time and get the job done faster with Aaron’s courses.

Aaron Linsdau Learning: Skills. Fast.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Getting Indesign Ready for You

Lecture 1: Overview – Preparing Indesign for Nonfiction Layout

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 2: 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: Adding an image to a page

Lecture 17: Pages Panel: How to Manage Pages, Pro Tip to Avoid Errors

Lecture 18: Handling Older or Incompatible Files, Samples Included

Lecture 19: Saving File Formats, Generating a PDF, Sample Included

Chapter 3: 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

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 4: 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: How to set to a single font if possible

Lecture 7: Grammar and Spelling

Lecture 8: Exporting from Google Docs for Indesign

Chapter 5: 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: Removing extra double spaces from text

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 6: 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 7: 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 8: 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

Lecture 9: Numbered Lists and Bulleted Lists

Chapter 9: Master pages for page templates

Lecture 1: Overview of Master Pages and What They Do For You

Lecture 2: Creating running headers with master pages

Lecture 3: Page numbers – creating and positioning

Lecture 4: Book Structure – What is in it and what's the order?

Chapter 10: All About Fonts

Lecture 1: Overview of Fonts and Their Impact

Lecture 2: Looking at fonts on your system

Lecture 3: Searching your layout for different fonts

Lecture 4: Choosing a font for your book – serif and sans serif fonts

Chapter 11: Pictures and Objects

Lecture 1: Adding images overview

Lecture 2: Adding images, Illustrator objects, PDFs

Lecture 3: Linked versus embedded images

Lecture 4: Anchoring pictures in text

Lecture 5: Manipulate objects reflect, mirror, rotate, angles

Lecture 6: Opacity and effects on objects

Lecture 7: Create stroked borders on pictures

Lecture 8: Text wrap and spacing of objects

Lecture 9: Adjust layer positions

Lecture 10: Image Bleed

Lecture 11: PPI vs DPI, Actual versus Effective, image print resolution

Instructors

Aaron Linsdau
Professional Instructor

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 1 votes
2 stars: 4 votes
3 stars: 11 votes
4 stars: 59 votes
5 stars: 126 votes

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