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Fiction Book Layout Using Adobe Indesign - Complete Guide

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About Fiction Book Layout Using Adobe Indesign - Complete Guide

Introduction Skillshare

Left and Right Mouse Click

Setup Adobe Indesign

First Book Project Setup

Configuring up the Interface

Managing Workspaces

Adding a Text Box

Text Box Manipulation

Font Basics

Text Alignment

Snap and Smart Alignment

Presentation Mode Preview

Navigating the Display

Page Navigation

Title Pages and Nomenclature

Copyright Pages

Dedication Pages

Generated Text

Basic Text Formatting

Text Box Duplication

Pages Panel

Generating PDFs

Removing Paragraph Styles in MS Word

Handling Special Characters in MS Word

Removing Tabs in MS Word

Remove Extra Spaces in MS Word

Single Fonts in MS Word

Paragraph Management in MS Word

Tracking and Comments in MS Word

Grammar and Spelling in MS Word

Paragraph Formatting in Google Docs

Special Characters in Google Docs

Tab Removal in Google Docs

Removing Spaces in Google Docs

Setting Single Fonts in Google Docs

Spelling and Grammar in Google Docs

Export for Indesign from Google Docs

Placing Manuscript Files

Fixing Overset Text

Adding Text with Copy Paste

Linking Files

Moving Manuscript Text

Threading Text

Adding Chapter Page Breaks

Editing Chapter Titles

Optical Margin Alignment

Additional Paragraph Styles

Forced Line Breaks

Hyphenation Orphans

Fixing Orphans and Widows

Adding Drop Caps

Creating Master Pages

Adding Page Numbers

Parts of a Book

Managing Fonts

Font Tools

Font Family Types

Fixing Hyphens

Fixing Special Characters

Creating a Final PDF

What You Will Learn?

  • 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 to 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 Adobe 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 when you pay them. Other Adobe 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 a book layout in Microsoft Word will make your book look 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.
  • Even if you used a different program, the instructions for the above software will help you figure out what you need to do..
  • There are a lot of small but important details in a 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 Adobe 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..
  • Thank you for checking out this course..