Beginning Data Merge with Adobe InDesign CC


Book Description

Discover how to create a data merge in easy steps and avoid making basic mistakes using this video. You will take each section step by step to gradually advance your skill level. First, you'll learn how to do a single page data merge that you can send to clients or a print house to be part of a mailer. You'll easily build your first data merge file and acquire all the skills you need to use for your own projects. If you have already designed a form letter for a client mailer in Adobe InDesign, you'll see that you don't need to convert it to a Microsoft Word document to create a mail merge. Instead it's easier to use InDesign's Data Merge panel to save you time and money. Here you'll use data from a Microsoft Excel spread sheet, turn it into a CSV file, and do your data merge. Through this video, you'll see how each step is accomplished through sub-menus and dialog boxes in InDesign and Excel. What You Will Learn Preview linked information fields using the Data Merge panel in InDesign Work with special characters Link data using InDesign's Data Merge panel Merge the data of the form letter into one document Export a created PDF Use the same CSV data for other related InDesign documents Who This Video Is For Students, graphic designers, and corporate administrators who need to create documents for events. You should have some experience in basic layout in InDesign.




Data Merge and Styles for Adobe InDesign CC 2018


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Harness the power of Adobe InDesign's data merge and style panel. Whether you're creating custom mail-outs or other mail-merge needs, familiarize yourself with this powerful InDesign panel in this in-depth, step-by-step guide. This book shows you how to easily create, edit, and print data merged documents that match specific branding and style guidelines. You'll learn how to combine MS Excel to create a faster workflow and quickly turn your Adobe InDesign CC 2017 files into printer-ready files. In this book, we'll also take a look at how to apply paragraph and character styles to your text and how you can alter formatting using Global Regular Expressions Print (GREPs). With Data Merge and Styles for Adobe InDesign CC 2017 as your guide, you'll see how to save time and money by learning all the peculiarities and powerful features of Adobe InDesign data merge. By the end of this book, you'll be able to streamline your workflow and avoid using MS Word's mail merge and back-and-forth edits. What You'll Learn Create custom print media with text styles using Adobe InDesign CC 2017 Work with GREPs in conjunction with Character and Paragraph Styles to customize data Build a numbering sequence for tickets Create single and multiple data merges Who This Book Is For Students, graphic designers, and corporate administrators who need to create documents for events.




EPublishing with InDesign CS6


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Here's the designer's guide to creating excellent e-books with InDesign Creative professionals are designing more and more e-books and e-zines as digital publishing increasingly gains market share. This book pulls together a wide range of essential information to help them maximize the versatility of InDesign for e-publishing. If you need to know how to build, deploy, and manage digital publications using InDesign, here's your guide to the process, from understanding the platforms and devices and how best to design for them to creating media-rich content for multiple formats using a variety of technologies. Designers are seeking to sharpen their skills to compete in today’s e-publishing market, and this book is packed with necessary information about creating and adapting content for e-publication Explains how to plan a new digital publication, convert a print publication to digital, add multimedia and interactivity, and publish and distribute the finished product Covers platforms, devices, and formats; creating media-rich content; designing for different devices; and managing digital publications Examines Adobe's Digital Publishing System, CSS, HTML5, and other commercial vehicles available for e-publishing on multiple platforms, including iPad, Kindle, NOOK, and other tablets and e-readers ePublishing with InDesign is a valuable tool for designers seeking to boost their skills and create cutting-edge e-publications.




GREP in InDesign


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Updated: June 2015. Author Peter Kahrel updated this Short Cut to cover InDesign CC. Several examples have been added, and most examples are now analysed in more detail. Updated: August 2010. Author Peter Kahrel updated this Short Cut to cover InDesign CS5. Updated: November 2009. Author Peter Kahrel updated this Short Cut to address typos and reader comments. GREP (short for "General Regular-Expression Print") is a powerful tool that lets you use wildcards ("jokers") to search and replace text. InDesign's GREP implementation can be used for text and also for formatting codes, finding patterns in text as well as literal text. GREP moves beyond the restrictions that hampered earlier InDesign search features, but unfortunately it does have the reputation of being difficult to master. As with many things, it can be challenging to learn, but, fortunately, a lot can be done with surprisingly simple expressions. The aim of this Short Cut is to show how to create simple but powerful regular expressions.




Real World Adobe InDesign CC


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Annotation The definitive InDesign resource allows you to produce great content for print or digital publishing.**InDesign Creative Cloud is an impressive update. This guide provides our most complete coverage of the new features for intermediate and advanced users, whether they're publishing to an iPad, mobile phone, or traditional print publication.*The book that the Adobe InDesign product team uses for their reference.*Authors Kvern/Blatner/Bringhurst are 'the InDesign experts.' All are visible and extremely active in the InDesign community. Sharpen your InDesign skills with this definitive resource created specifically for design professionals who need to layout out, proof, export, and publish pages with Adobe InDesign Creative Cloud.Complete coverage of InDesign CC's new features and enhancements includes: improved epub exporting, new font menus, ability to generate and edit high quality QR code graphics, new document dialog box with preview option, and much more. Real World Adobe InDesign is brimming with insightful advice, illustrations, and shortcuts that will have you quickly and professionally producing your work in no time. This is the book that experts open to find real answers to their questions about InDesign. It's written in a friendly, visual style that offers accurate information and creative inspiration for intermediate to expert users.




XML and InDesign


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Discover the power of XML publishing with InDesign, and create content for multiple applications—including digital-first publishing workflows. With this book, XML evangelist Dorothy Hoskins teaches you several techniques for working with the built-in XML capabilities of InDesign CS6, using real examples from a college course-catalog project. Learn how to import database content into InDesign, and tag existing InDesign content as XML for export to other applications. InDesign also lets you apply attractive styling to XML content that can’t be done with XSL-FO. Through step-by-step instructions, code examples, and lots of screen shots, you’ll discover how using XML with InDesign increases the value of your content. Get an overview of structured (XML) content Learn InDesign’s XML import options, including XML image information Mingle XML and non-XML content in a text flow Use InDesign as an XML "skin" by making templates with new style definitions Put content in "XML order" for export to EPUB, with InDesign CS5.5 and CS6 Dive into advanced topics, such as how to transform XML with XSL Understand InDesign’s potential and limitations with complex content models such as DocBook and DITA




Adobe InDesign CC on Demand


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Includes * Online Workshops * Online Adobe Certified Exam (ACE) Resources * More than 500 of the most essential InDesign CC tasks Need answers quickly? Adobe InDesign CC on Demand provides those answers in a visual step-by-step format. We will show you exactly what to do through lots of full color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions. Inside the Book * Improved publishing and productivity with Adobe Creative Cloud * Create layouts for print, web, tablets, and mobile devices * Browse, organize, and process files using Adobe Bridge or Mini Bridge * Create, link, and manage content, pages, and books * Create text and apply style to display artistic text * Create QR code graphics * Use track changes to review content * Create interactive PDFs, EPUB ebooks, and HTML web pages * Create publications for use with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Numbered Steps guide you through each task Did You Know alerts you to tips and techniques See Also points you to related information in the book Tasks are presented on one or two pages Illustrations with matching steps Bonus Online Content Register your book at queondemand.com to gain access to: * Workshops and related files * Keyboard shortcuts Visit the author site: perspection.com




InDesign: Data Merge and Database Publishing


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When faced with large amounts of information, the designer's challenge is to make it clear and easy to understand. Adobe InDesign can help. With its Data Merge command, you can take raw data from spreadsheets or databases and quickly apply formatting with an InDesign template. In this course, author David Blatner takes you through the data merge capabilities of InDesign, two example projects (name tags and a catalog), and some third-party solutions that extend InDesign's data handling power.




Adobe InDesign CC


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Your guide to building publications great or small, this book provides step-by-step lessons and exposes you to all of InDesigns features in practical contexts and its best practices for publishing workflows. --




Adobe Indesign CC Beginners Guide


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This Adobe InDesign Book by Infinite Skills is an indispensable resource for anyone wanting to learn this powerful, often intimidating page layout and design program. Including a complete chapter on the latest techniques to InDesign - EPUB, this computer software training program is designed to teach the absolute beginner how to use the industry standard Adobe InDesign Starting with the basics in this video training tutorial, this course teaches you how to use Adobe InDesign, covering topics ranging from setting up your workspace, to using grids, the new layers panel , working with text, paragraph formatting, creating and using styles, and combining text and objects. New to in-design is the EPUB export capabilities, and the course goes in-depth with this new feature, as well as exporting your finished work in a variety of formats, from print, to interactive documents.Learning InDesign is not optional. For the past several years, every working print designer has been expected to learn InDesign. With the explosion of digital publishing, mastering InDesign is even more critical. This InDesign book for beginners will get you up and running, and give you a solid foundation upon which to build your skills. Once you're done, you'll be able to build layouts that contain graphics and large amounts of text that flows between multiple pages., but everything covered works in even the most current version of the software, and Adobe developed InDesign for the desktop publishing market, and it's primarily used to layout newspapers, magazines, books, posters and flyers. Pretty much anything with large amounts of text should go straight into InDesign. Time to put it all together So Buy This Book Now And Be Master In Adobe in-Design CC