InDesign is an essential tool for design firms, ad agencies, magazines, newspapers, book publishers, and freelance designers around the world. In this course, InDesign expert David Blatner presents a thorough explanation of the core features and techniques that make this powerful page layout application fun and easy to use. He provides a foundation upon which advanced skills and workflows can be built. David shows you how to navigate and customize the workspace, manage documents and pages, work with text frames and graphics, export and print finished documents, explore creating interactive documents, and much more. You can also use the example files and challenges that accompany the course to practice what David explains.

In this course, learn how to create an ebook in Adobe InDesign and convert your InDesign publication to a reflowable EPUB, the open-source ebook format that is the standard for most distribution channels. Instructor Anne-Marie Concepción explains exactly what an EPUB is (and the distinction between the terms EPUB and ebook), and then takes you through the process of editing and proofing in easy-to-follow stages. Learn how to prepare your InDesign file for EPUB conversion, convert Word manuscripts, optimize text and images, embed fonts, use free scripts, and add special features for accessibility and cleaner HTML and CSS. Anne-Marie covers the many different export options, providing recommendations on which to choose, and shows how to validate and proof your final export on mobile ereaders.