Multimedia Application

Chapter Four
Adobe InDesign

Adnan Abdukadir Ahmed

Multimedia and Design Administrator
SIMAD University
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Introduction to Adobe InDesign
• Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing and page layout designing software
application produced by Adobe Inc. and first released in 1999. It allows you to
create professional-looking publications with relative ease. The design tool offers
both standard and advanced features that can be used by beginners and
professionals alike. Whether printing brochures for your business or creating an ad
campaign.

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Introduction to Adobe InDesign
• InDesign provides the tools necessary to design or create professional pages which
can be published and distributed in print or digital media.
• InDesign is especially useful for documents containing multiple pages, layouts
that combine text and images, and those containing significant amounts of
text.
• InDesign format (INDD) is the default file format which stands for InDesign
document, that InDesign uses for saving data.
• The general usages of InDesign is to create a variety of digital and printed material
such as stationery, resumes, pamphlets, annual reports, catalogs, Interactive
digital publications, electronic publication (EPUBs), books, magazines, & more.

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InDesign Workspace
• Adobe InDesign Workspace consists 8 main components which are:
• Application Bar.
• Workspace Switcher.
• Menu Bar.
• Options Bar (Control Panel)
• Tools Panel.
• Document Window.
• Panel Bar.
• Status Bar.

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InDesign Workspace
• Application Bar: It contains a bunch of icons that give us quick access to various
options and functionality and sits on the top of your InDesign window.

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InDesign Workspace
• Menu Bar: It contains various menu options for InDesign’s tools.

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InDesign Workspace
• Options Bar (Control Panel): It contains InDesign’s tool options and sits below
the menu bar.

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InDesign Workspace
• Tools Panel: It contains the major tools of InDesign and it sits to the left of your
InDesign’s window.

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InDesign Workspace
• Document Window: It’s where displays the file you’re working on which is the
large area in the center of the interface. The actual area where the file is visible is
known as the Page.

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InDesign Workspace
• Panel Bar: It hold information or options for working with your file and floats on
the right-hand side.

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InDesign Workspace
• Status Bar: Displays a variety of information about your project or your selected
tool.

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Toolbox
• The Toolbox can be divided as follows:

1. Selection Tools

2. Drawing & Type Tools

3. Transformation Tools
4. Modification & Navigation Tools

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Selection Tools

• Selection Tool (V): The Selection Tool allows you to

select a particular part of the object by dragging it
with your mouse or using your keyboard arrows keys.

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Selection Tools

• Direct Selection Tool (A): The Direct

Selection Tool allows you to select individual Anchor
points in a path/shape and manipulate it.

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Selection Tools

• Page Tool (Shift+P): The Page Tool is used when you

want to modify the size, orientation, or master item
placement within a page .

• Or when you want to create multiple page sizes within

a document.

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Selection Tools

• Gap Tool (U): The Gap Tool allows you to adjust the
space between adjacent objects or between objects
and page edges.

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Selection Tools

• Content Collector Tool (B): The Content Collector

Tool allows you to grab multiple pieces of content
and repurpose throughout the same or separate
documents.

• Is used to collect the content from the different pages

in a document.

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Selection Tools

• Content Placer Tool (B): The Content Placer Tool

allows you to place the content and keep it in the
conveyor while going to the next piece of content.

• Is used to easily and quickly place items.

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Transformation Tools

• Scissor Tool (C): The Scissor Tool allows you to cut a

path by clicking on the path.

• Is used to cut a paths at specified points.

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Transformation Tools

• Free Transform Tool (E): The Free Transform Tool

allows you to rotate, scale (resize), reflect (mirror
image), shear (slant), or distort an object.
• Rotate Tool (R): The Rotate Tool allows you to rotate
objects around a different reference point.

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Transformation Tools

• Scale Tool (S): The Scale Tool allows you to easily

resize objects in Illustrator.
• Shear Tool (O): The Shear Tool allows you to create a
slanted image of an object.

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Transformation Tools

• Gradient Tool (G): The Gradient Tool allows

you to create a gradual blend between multiple colors.

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Transformation Tools

• Gradient Feather Tool (Shift+G): The Gradient

Feather Tool allows you to fade the image from
opaque to transparent along a line controlled by the
user.

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Drawing & Type Tools

• Type Tool (T): The Type Tool allows you to create

and edit text.
• Type on a Path Tool (Shift+T): The Type on a Path
Tool allows you to follow the edge of an open or a
closed path with text.

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Drawing & Type Tools

• Line Tool (\): The Line Tool allows you to

create straight lines in any direction you want.

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Drawing & Type Tools

• Pen Tool (P): The Pen Tool allows you to create easy
to complex shapes by creating set of anchor points as
a basis for design.
• Add Anchor Point Tool (=): The Add Anchor Point
Tool allows you to add anchors and reshapes existing
vector shapes / paths.

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Drawing & Type Tools

• Delete Anchor Point Tool (-)

• The Delete Anchor Point Tool allows you to delete
anchors and reshapes existing vector shapes /
paths.

• Convert Point Tool (Shift+C)

• The Convert Point Tool allows you
to edit
• existing vector shape / paths.

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Drawing & Type Tools

• Pencil Tool (N): The Pencil Tool allows you

to create freeform shapes and lines.
• Smooth Tool: The Smooth Tool allows you to convert
the curvy and rough edges into smooth and glossy.
• Eraser Tool: The Path Eraser Tool allows you
to erase parts of objects.

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Drawing & Type Tools
• Rectangle Frame Tool (F): The Rectangle Frame
Tool allows you to creates Rectangular frame that can
hold images (image placeholder).
• Ellipse Frame Tool: The Ellipse Frame Tool allows
you to creates Elliptical frame that can hold images
(image placeholder).
• Polygon Frame Tool: The Rectangle Frame Tool
allows you to creates multisided frame that can hold
images (image placeholder) .

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Drawing & Type Tools
• Rectangle Tool (M): The Rectangle Tool allows you
to creates rectangular shapes and paths.
• Ellipse Tool (L): The Ellipse Tool allows you to
creates elliptical shapes and paths.
• Polygon Tool: The Polygon Tool allows you to draw
shapes with many sides as you need.

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Modification & Navigation Tools

• Hand Tool (H): The Hand Tool allows you to move

your document around its window by dragging.

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Modification & Navigation Tools

• Zoom Tool (Z): The Zoom Tool is used for

magnifying a selected part of the document

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Modification & Navigation Tools

• Note Tool: The Note Tool allows you to add text notes
to a file in InDesign.

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Modification & Navigation Tools

• Color Theme Tool (Shift+I): The Color Theme Tool

allows you to pick colors from elements in your
project to create color themes.
• Eyedropper Tool (I): The Eyedropper Tool allows
you to sample a color from an image to use this color
further.
• Measure Tool (K): The Measure Tool allows you to
measure distances and angles in the file.

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