Adobe InDesign CS4 Styles: How to Create Better, Faster Text and Layouts
Tap into the far-reaching potential of InDesign styles—from simple drop cap formatting to cross-media export to XHTML. Styles have the power to transform how design and production professionals approach and accomplish any project. Adopting a style-centric workflow can reduce tasks that would normally take days to mere hours, and tasks that would take hours to minutes or even seconds. Less time spent on repetitive tasks means more time for creating your best work.\ This book explores every...
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Tap into the far-reaching potential of InDesign styles—from simple drop cap formatting to cross-media export to XHTML. Styles have the power to transform how design and production professionals approach and accomplish any project. Adopting a style-centric workflow can reduce tasks that would normally take days to mere hours, and tasks that would take hours to minutes or even seconds. Less time spent on repetitive tasks means more time for creating your best work.This book explores every InDesign style to reveal its full potential. Throughout each chapter, you’ll pick up many tips and best practices gleaned from real-world experience. Two bonus chapters, “Stroke Styles” and “Project Planning with Styles in Mind” are available for download.For “figure it out as I go” designers, embracing styles still allow you to work intuitively on the page. And this guide helps break preconceptions and bad habits transferred from less powerful page layout applications that keep new InDesign users from working in far more satisfying and productive ways.Where InDesign is concerned, styles truly do equal substance.
Introduction ixPart 1 Text StylesChapter 1 The Fundamentals: Paragraph and Character Styles 1Character Style Attributes 3Paragraph Style Attributes 8Working with Paragraph and Character Styles 26Chapter 2 Nesting and Sequencing Styles 39Nested Styles 40Advanced Nesting Techniques 48Nested Line Styles 54Paragraph Styles in Sequence: The Next Style Option 56Establishing Relationships: Based-on Styles 61Chapter 3 Automatic Styling with GREP 67GREP Styles vs. Nested Styles 68Metacharacters 69Creating a GREP Style 79Defining Expressions for GREP Styles 80Chapter 4 Auto-Styling Imported Word and Excel Files 89Working with Word Files 90Working with Excel Files 99Part 2 Styles Beyond TextChapter 5 Object Styles 101One-stop Shopping for Attributes 102Default Object Styles 105Similarities Between Object Styles and Text Styles 107Differences Between Object Styles and Text Styles 107Combining Paragraph Styles and Object Styles 112Flexible Object Styles Every InDesign User Should Have 114Chapter 6 Table and Cell Styles 119Table Styling 120Table Styles vs. Cell Styles 120Working with Table Style Limitations 133Maintaining Links and Updating Tables 135Part 3 Combining Styles with Other FeaturesChapter 7 Drop Caps, Bullets, and Numbering 139Drop Caps 140Bullets and Numbering 145Chapter 8 Advanced Find/Change with Styles 159Finding and Changing Text Styles 160GREP Find/Change vs. GREP Styles 164Saving Queries 166Advanced Style-based Search Techniques 167Find/Change for Objects 172Chapter 9 Generating Dynamic Content with Styles 175Tables of Contents 176RunningHeader Text Variables 183Cross-references 190Chapter 10 Styles, CSS, and XML 201Export for Dreamweaver 202Styles and XML 216Importing XML 221XSLT: Styles on Steroids 223Chapter 11 Style Management 225Style Organization Basics 226Style Groups 227Quick Apply 231Managing Styles Across Documents 233Index 237
