How To Publish Your Adobe InDesign Publish Online Documents

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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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So let's go through the publishing a little bit more in depth. Let's go to 'Publish Online'. Couple of things you can do is, I've made some changes. What I want to do is, instead of publishing a new document every time I can go to 'Update Existing Document', and I'd like to update that first one that I made. The reason this is good is that I can make changes to a catalog, let's say I find a typo, or I want to change an image out, I can do that, and I don't have to change the link I've given everybody. Other options we can play around with, we can allow people to download a PDF version if they want. So I'm going to have all the interactivity, but it can be handy for people. You can turn this off, so people can't share or take their own kind of copy of your document, you can keep it a bit more super secret. It makes it harder for people to grab. Let's have a look at some of the advanced features.

We can decide on which pages we want. We can decide on what Thumbnail. You can see, it just picked the cover from my Thumbnail. I can choose an image, and replace that and make one design specifically for being a Thumbnail. And when this thing exports down here, we can decide on what quality it is. '96' looks great. You can make it HiDPI, which is 144. The file size gets bigger, and it takes a lot longer to download. It's up to you, whether you want a-- basically, you're looking after things like Retina displays, like my MacBook Pro here, but, really uncommon, and I think, taking a long time to download is more important than looking is, best as it can, on a really limited number, on laptops. So, it's a good standard.

That's it for this window, you click 'Publish' and it's going to update, that's great. What I want to show you now is some of the analytics that are in the background. So back into InDesign, if we go to 'File' and then go to one that says 'Publish Online Dashboard'. It opens up this website here. This one is for my Publish Online Dashboard. These are all my other publications. And what I really like about them is this Analytics tab. This Analytics tab tells me things like how many times the document's being viewed. How many readers? So you can have a reader who maybe watch it 40 times and that accounts for the views, but this is specific people, the Average Read Time. Total Read Time.

So, what's really handy about this, check that you're looking at hours and minutes, can you see? Sometimes you get a bit confused by the numbers, I do at least, along the top there. What I find that it's really useful for, especially if you're thinking-- we're going to give this a go, this Publish Online. I wonder if it's going to work for our readership-- is to do a test, and then you can come back to it once you've done it, and say, nobody read it or loads of people are reading it for a long time. So gives you some sort of data and metrics. And you can also compare month to month. The people who read the January one are not longer than the February newsletter that we did. So it gives you trackable analytics.

Now the thing is, when you kind of, maybe send out an email with a link, just give it a second, it takes about 90 minutes to actually refresh. So if you've sent that out, and you're like, "Nobody's reading it," give it an hour and half or so to just refresh all of this. So it takes a little while for this data to get collected. You can click on, over here, we're on Overview page, you can click on 'Document Trends', and you can actually see these are the ones I've just been practicing with, you can see, it's only had two views. That can be a bit disappointing. I'm not sure who these two readers are, because it's just me watching it, but it's really useful to kind of see this sort of stuff that-- it's one of the things that I find really hard with the traditional printers. You send things out, and, did they work, did they not work? Really hard to track reliably, but with something like Publish Online, super easy. So that's more advanced publishing. Let's go through and look at all the features you can do with Publish Online.

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