Adding Maps & Calendars To Interactive Documents In InDesign CC

Course contents
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Creative Cloud APP 5:45
SECTION: 12
Workflow Speed Tips 20:41
SECTION: 17
Photoshop & Illustrator 13:32
SECTION: 22
Exporting & Printing Tricks 8:17

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74 lessons / 9 hours Certificate of achievement

Overview

Hi there, my name is Dan. I am an Adobe Certified Instructor and an Adobe Certified Expert for InDesign and I work as a professional graphic designer. This course is about advanced features, productivity & workflow speed tricks using Adobe InDesign. 

This course is not for people brand new to InDesign. It’s for people who already know and understand the fundamentals. 

If you are already happy adding text & images to InDesign documents then this course is for you. Even if you consider yourself a heavy user, I promise there will be things in here that will blow your InDesign mind. 

You’ll learn advanced font tricks using Typekit & Opentype fonts, font grouping & font pairing. Mastering colour features like the colour theme tool and colour modes as well as professional proofing for colours for print. We’ll set permanent defaults for fonts, colours & will learn how to turn hyphenation off for good, once and for all.  

What would an advanced InDesign course be without all the tactics to fully control paragraphs, auto expanding boxes, spanning & splitting columns. You’ll become a Styles master, using nested styles, grep styles, next styles & advanced object styles.  

We’ll make beautiful charts & graphs for your InDesign documents. You’ll learn the pros & cons of various digital distribution methods including Interactive PDF’s, EPUBs & the amazing Publish Online. 

You’ll become a master of long, text heavy documents, autoflowing, primary text frames & smart text reflow, cross referencing, indexes, text variables & the InDesign book feature. There is entire section dedicated to how to speed up your personal workflow & how to speed up InDesign and get it running super fast. 

We look at interactive forms & scripts. There is just so much we cover and I want to share everything here in the intro but I can’t. Have a look through the video list, there is an amazing amount we cover here in the course. 

If you’re one of those people using InDesign and you know there is probably a better way, a faster way to work then this is your course. 

Daniel Walter Scott

What are the requirements?

  • You will need a copy of Adobe InDesign 2018 or above. But you find that 95% of all the features in this course will work with earlier version of InDesign (e.g. CS6). A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.

What am I going to get from this course?

  • 70 lectures 5+ hours of well structured content. 
  • Create PDF Forms
  • Master Long Documents.
  • Advanced Fonts
  • Master Styles
  • Shortcut Sheet
  • Create Charts & Infographics
  • Create Interactive Documents
  • Workflow Tactics
  • Shortcuts & Speed Tips
  • Advanced Creative Cloud Features
  • Tips for working with Photoshop & Illustrator
  • Using Scripts 
  • Exporting, Prepress & Printing tricks 
  • You will get the finished files so you never fall behind. 
  • Downloadable exercise files & cheat sheet. 
  • Forum support from me and the rest of the BYOL crew. 
  • Techniques used by professional graphic designers. 
  • Professional workflows and shortcuts. 
  • A wealth of other resources and websites to help your accelerate your career. 

What is the target audience?

  • This course is for people who already know InDesign and want to take their skills and speed to the maximum level. 
  • This is an advanced InDesign course, so you’ll need basic InDesign skills to find this course useful. 
  • This course is perfect for anyone that already knows how to insert images & add text. 
  • If you a completely new to InDesign try my InDesign Essentials course before starting this one.
  • This course is perfect for anyone that has completed my InDesign Essentials course.

Course duration 7 hours 45 mins + your study.
Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Transcript

Hi there, in this video we're going to look at Embed codes. Basically in this one, we're going to look at maps. You can see, I've got a page, it's in Publish Online and look, it's fully interactive. Cool, huh!

So let's look at how to do that now in Adobe InDesign. First thing to do is, I'm on Page A, don't want to make a new page. Not going to worry about the transitions. This is where I'm going to paste my map. So, to get the code that we need, we're going to jump to Google Maps. Find the place, I found-- this just happens to be the place below my office, because my office doesn't have a pin in Google Map, so I just picked him. This is where I get my lunch, so I had lunch today.

Information you did not need to know, or you do need to know, is click on 'Share', and click on this one that says 'Embed Map'. Now I'm going to pick the 'Large' size map. And I'm going to select all this code in here, and hit copy on my keyboard. So 'Command C', or 'Control C' on a PC. Back in here, I'm going to go to 'Object', and I'm going to going to 'Insert HTML'. I'll 'paste' it in there, click 'OK'. I'll drag it up here. I'll make it nice and big, give it a second. Hopefully… now it loads. You need to be connected to the net, this may take a while. One, two, three… I'll speed this up. I give up, just waiting for it to work.

I'm going to click on 'EPUB Interactivity', hit 'Play', and hope for the best. We got a tiny map, there it is there, we can see him. So, when I'm dragging this out, so it was there, that little gray dot there. So when I drag it out, I need to hold down the 'Command Shift' key, just to make it bigger. Maybe just the 'Command' key to resize it. Now, hopefully…

Let's go to 'EPUB Interactivity'. Hit 'Play'. There's my map. Don't worry if it doesn't load properly in InDesign. It's where the red appears here in EPUB, or double check in your Publish Online. That can be a little tricky sometimes, getting the right sizes, and getting it in. So, to resize it properly, hold down the 'Command' key rather than you just dragging the edges of it, because it stays in that little box there. So hold down 'Command Shift' if you want to do it proportionately squared, then check in here, hit 'Play', it's going to be a slightly different size now. So that is how to embed a map on your Publish Online document.

Now if you can find anything that has an embed code like a Twitter feed, or a Facebook feed, you can embed that as well. Google Calendars has a way to embed on sites. So depending on what you're using, have a look, see if it has an Embed. I know Eventbrite Ticketing does it there. I think PayPal has PayPal buttons that can be embedded. There's all sorts of things that can go into your Publish Online document by just copying and pasting the embed code, that's the key word, look for that. All right, next video.

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