This course is designed for those interested to learn the basics of using InDesign to format nonfiction books, create print-ready PDF files, and manage multiple layers in a document.
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Who this course is for:
- Students who want to create a professional nonfiction book layout
- Anyone wanting to create a professional PDF from their nonfiction manuscript
What you’ll learn:Â
- Learn to create print-ready PDF files
- Nonfiction book layout
- Magazine layout techniques
- Resize, scale, rotate, 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 opacity
- Manage multiple layers in a document
- Save time with rapid techniques
- No time-wasting stories or anecdotes
- Nonfiction, memoir, history, guides, textbook layout
Requirements:Â
- Installed working CC version of Adobe InDesign
- No InDesign experience and 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.
Software version used in the course:Â
- Adobe InDesign 2019
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.
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.
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 book look terrible. Word just doesn’t have the right tools.
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 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.Â
If you’re interested in learning how to use Adobe InDesign to layout your Fiction book, you can check out my course: Adobe InDesign: A Complete Guide To Fiction Book Layout here on Skill Success.
Our Promise to You
By the end of this course, you will have learned using Adobe InDesign for your Nonfiction book layout.
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Course Curriculum
| Section 1 - Getting InDesign Ready For You | |||
| Overview | 00:00:00 | ||
| Downloadable Resources | 00:00:00 | ||
| Overview Of Mouse Clicks And Keyboard Shortcuts | 00:00:00 | ||
| Setting Up Preferences In InDesign So Everything Is Ready To Go | 00:00:00 | ||
| Creating Your First Project | 00:00:00 | ||
| Setting Up And Customizing The InDesign Workspace For Your Needs | 00:00:00 | ||
| Creating And Saving Workspaces | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 2 - Creating Your First Book Layout And Generating A PDF | |||
| Overview Of Your First Book Layout | 00:00:00 | ||
| Adding The First Text Box To Your Layout | 00:00:00 | ||
| Text Box Adjustments And Mini Exercise | 00:00:00 | ||
| Font Selections And Adjustments | 00:00:00 | ||
| Text Horizontal And Vertical Positioning | 00:00:00 | ||
| Snap And Smart Alignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Preview Your Layout, Bonus Pro Tip | 00:00:00 | ||
| Zoom And Navigation Controls, Plus Shortcut Keys | 00:00:00 | ||
| Pages Panel – Your Book Overview | 00:00:00 | ||
| Create The Book’s Title Page, Pro Tips | 00:00:00 | ||
| Creating The Basic Copyright Page, Bonus Content, Student Challenge | 00:00:00 | ||
| Adding A Dedication Page, Common Book Standards | 00:00:00 | ||
| Generate Filler Text To Start Your Book – Pro Tip | 00:00:00 | ||
| Body Text Formatting Basics, Pro Critical Layout Tip | 00:00:00 | ||
| Copying Text Boxes – Pro Tip For Speed | 00:00:00 | ||
| Adding An Image To A Page | 00:00:00 | ||
| Pages Panel: How To Manage Pages, Pro Tip To Avoid Errors | 00:00:00 | ||
| Handling Older Or Incompatible Files, Samples Included | 00:00:00 | ||
| Saving File Formats, Generating A PDF, Sample Included | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 3 - Preparing A Microsoft Manuscript For Book Layout | |||
| Overview Of Preparing A Microsoft Word Document For Layout | 00:00:00 | ||
| Paragraph Styles | 00:00:00 | ||
| Special Characters | 00:00:00 | ||
| Manage And Remove Tabs | 00:00:00 | ||
| Double And Triple Spaces, Spaces Before And After Paragraphs | 00:00:00 | ||
| Use A Single Font | 00:00:00 | ||
| Paragraph Style Management | 00:00:00 | ||
| Tracking And Changes | 00:00:00 | ||
| Grammar And Spelling | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 4 - Preparing A Google Docs Manuscript For Book Layout | |||
| Overview Of Preparing A Google Docs Manuscript For Layout | 00:00:00 | ||
| Paragraph Formatting And Styles | 00:00:00 | ||
| Finding And Removing Special Characters | 00:00:00 | ||
| Removing Tab Indentation From Google Docs | 00:00:00 | ||
| Remove Spaces Before And After Paragraphs | 00:00:00 | ||
| How To Set To A Single Font If Possible | 00:00:00 | ||
| Grammar And Spelling | 00:00:00 | ||
| Exporting From Google Docs For InDesign | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 5 - Preparing An OpenOffice Manuscript For Book Layout | |||
| Prepare An OpenOffice Manuscript For Book Layout | 00:00:00 | ||
| Removing Paragraph Styles | 00:00:00 | ||
| Finding And Removing Special Characters | 00:00:00 | ||
| Removing Tab Indentation | 00:00:00 | ||
| Removing Spaces Before And After Paragraphs | 00:00:00 | ||
| Removing Extra Double Spaces From Text | 00:00:00 | ||
| Set To A Single Font If Possible | 00:00:00 | ||
| Remove Tracking And Comments | 00:00:00 | ||
| Using Your Spelling And Grammar Checker | 00:00:00 | ||
| Exporting For InDesign | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 6 - Adding A Manuscript To A Book Layout | |||
| Overview Of Placing A Manuscript Into InDesign | 00:00:00 | ||
| Placing A Manuscript | 00:00:00 | ||
| Using File-Place To Drop Your Manuscript Into Your Book Layout | 00:00:00 | ||
| Using Copy-Paste To Add A Manuscript | 00:00:00 | ||
| Linked Documents – Pros And Cons | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 7 - Layout Editing Fundamentals | |||
| Overview Of The Fundamentals Of InDesign Layout | 00:00:00 | ||
| Move The Title And Other Text To Another Page | 00:00:00 | ||
| Text Threading | 00:00:00 | ||
| Breaking Up Chapters | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 8 - Paragraph Styles For The Whole Layout | |||
| Overview Of The Paragraph Styles Panel | 00:00:00 | ||
| Chapter Title Paragraph Style, Apply Title Style, Pro Tip And Hacks | 00:00:00 | ||
| Chapter Body Text Paragraph Style Setup And Alignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Second Paragraph Styles In The Body | 00:00:00 | ||
| Managing Forced Line Break Special Characters | 00:00:00 | ||
| Managing Hyphenation | 00:00:00 | ||
| Orphans And Widow Lines – More Way To Fix Them | 00:00:00 | ||
| Drop Caps, Character Styles | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 9 - Master Pages For Page Templates | |||
| Overview Of Master Pages And What They Do For You | 00:00:00 | ||
| Creating Running Headers With Master Pages | 00:00:00 | ||
| Page Numbers – Creating And Positioning | 00:00:00 | ||
| Book Structure – What Is In It And What’s The Order? | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 10 - All About Fonts | |||
| Overview Of Fonts And Their Impact | 00:00:00 | ||
| Looking At Fonts On Your System | 00:00:00 | ||
| Searching Your Layout For Different Fonts | 00:00:00 | ||
| Choosing A Font For Your Book – Serif And Sans Serif Fonts | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 11 - Pictures And Objects | |||
| Adding Images Overview | 00:00:00 | ||
| Adding Images, Illustrator Objects, PDFs | 00:00:00 | ||
| Linked Versus Embedded Images | 00:00:00 | ||
| Anchoring Pictures In Text | 00:00:00 | ||
| Manipulate Objects Reflect, Mirror, Rotate, Angles | 00:00:00 | ||
| Opacity And Effects On Objects | 00:00:00 | ||
| Create Stroked Borders On Pictures | 00:00:00 | ||
| Text Wrap And Spacing Of Objects | 00:00:00 | ||
| Adjust Layer Positions | 00:00:00 | ||
| Image Bleed | 00:00:00 | ||
| PPI Vs DPI, Actual Versus Effective, Image Print Resolution | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 12 - Colors And Graphics | |||
| Colors And Graphics Overview | 00:00:00 | ||
| Color Swatches | 00:00:00 | ||
| Create Shapes Boxes, Circles, Lines, Stroke, Fill Colors | 00:00:00 | ||
| Color Profiles | 00:00:00 | ||
| Ink Density Checks | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 13 - Book Structure | |||
| Book Structure Overview | 00:00:00 | ||
| Table Of Contents | 00:00:00 | ||
| Linking Threading Unlinking Text Boxes | 00:00:00 | ||
| Columns | 00:00:00 | ||
| Footnotes | 00:00:00 | ||
| Navigation Tabs | 00:00:00 | ||
| Tables | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 14 - Getting Rid Of Problems | |||
| Overview Of Managing Problems With InDesign Fiction Layouts | 00:00:00 | ||
| Using Find-Replace To Eliminate Problems From Special Characters | 00:00:00 | ||
| Hyphens, En Dashes, And Em Dashes | 00:00:00 | ||
| Font Checks | 00:00:00 | ||
| Package Checks | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 15 - Generating The Final PDF | |||
| Overview Of The PDF Creation Process | 00:00:00 | ||
| Spell Check And Generate A PDF | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 16 - Conclusion | |||
| Congratulations On Your Course Completion! | 00:00:00 | ||
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