Great tutorial! Many thanks! Wish it was taught like this at my institute. Currently working on a client project and this is exactly what I needed. Thank you so much, again. From India
I want to thank you for the bottom of my heart! I am an author and was trying to design my first book. I was having a hard time when it came to format the book into Indesign. This video was key to make it possible. I am extremely happy! Thank you for publishing these kind of videos. My dream finally came true and I see my book the way I wanted. Blessings!
This is so valuable! I can’t understand why there are upwards of 2.2k views, and only a few likes and comments. People have forgotten how to be appreciative and just even say thank you. This will make book layout exponentially faster for anyone that watches it. Thank you so much! -MikeO
I want to thank you for the bottom of my heart! I am an author and was trying to design my first book. I was having a hard time when it came to format the book into Indesign. This video was key to make it possible. I am extremely happy! Thank you for publishing these kind of videos. My dream finally came true and I see my book the way I wanted. Blessings!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤💋💋💋💋💋💋
What great content! So much new InDesign knowledge in under an hour! Thank you Becky! I need to be checking your other videos now. I'm also really liking your teaching style.
Great lesson - I learned a lot! (I haven't even used the Eyedropper Tool yet!). Tip: There's an easier way to locate the Scripts folder: open the Script panel, right-click on any script or script folder and select "Reveal in Finder / Explorer". And there you are!
This video is so low key and at the same time demonstrating with ease extremely high level skills in ID. The things you can do when you know how to use the right tool can seem like magic to the uninitiated. Thank you for sharing. You are an absolute boss.
Thank you so much for sharing your skills and knowledge Kayla. I am going to use all of the tips and techniques you have shown us in my book projects from now on. The pace and tone of your presentation is great.
Love ya Kayla, you just helped me immensely on many inDesign challenges. You give clear, concise instruction with a sweet knowledgeable disposition. Thank you, with much appreciation!
Sneaky trick with the rule above and below styling combo, kinda neatly satisfying even though it feels like it's not really the intended use of the tool. Great video!
Thanks so much for your well-organized video. I am a seasoned book designer and I still picked up a few tips. I watched the whole thing, though, partly just because I thought you presented it so well and in such an orderly fashion. I look forward to exploring your channel. :)
Hi! It is nice what you presented. I'm an ACI and ACE for InDesign with more than 20 years in book design and page layout. Most of what you said is good. I may say that there is a faster way of work, but for presentation purposes, these things are good. Obviously, you are not very familiar with a Book concept. First, in Book Numbering options, you can set that every chapter starts on Odd, Even number or as it comes. In your case, setting the start on the Odd page number will do. Second, you said and that is good that you are waiting until the end of work to add that last blank page if needed. What you don't know is that in the same Book Numbering options there is an option insert Blank page, which will automatically add a blank page where it is needed. One more small thing, InDesign is offering a special kind of text alignment called Away from Spine and Towards Spine. In your case, page numbers should have alignment. Towards Spine, and that will automatically work on your Parent pages. Keep working. It is a good tutorial. 👍
This is nothing short of *amazing*!!! You cover so much, with just the right of detail, so clearly. Fantastic and fabulous. I would go on, but I have run out of superlatives. Thank you for all your hard work on this video.
This was so helpful. I have a 750k work novel I wanted to try laying out and didn't know where to start. Got through it in a few hours with all these tips!
This is so helpful. Bless you I have made my book soooooo much nicer. Also figured how to split the text frames. Maybe do I vid on that. For the peeps. Thanks again
This is so good and so helpful! Thank you! One question (so far)... when I go in to find and replace the italics style there is no character style to choose from. Do I need to create one first? No clue how to do that! Ha.
Yes! You make your own Character Styles to select from. You can name them whatever you like. If you wanted, you could assign a format of "italic" but name it "Sparkle Kitty"!
I'm almost finished with my graphic memoir of how I used my health and fitness knowledge to stop my mother with mild dementia from forgetting me, and it worked. I tricked her off caffeine, then no prescription meds, forced her/tricked her/incentivized her to drink water, kept her away from high fructose corn syrup and other poison, because they made her mean and delusional, and kept her away from gluten. I labeled layers by text vs. images, and then by page number, and all of that is linked through word. When I add in pages, it becomes all scrambled. I thought writing this memoir digitally would be faster, but I don’t think so anymore. I did spend time going through all of my layers in every document in my 250-page book, renumbering the layers according to the new page number, but now reviewing all of my journals, I need to add in more. Do you have any suggestions for organizing?
You used Word to write the memoir and now are trying to transpose it to InDesign? If you're trying to add pages in InDesign, right--click on the desired location, and then tell it to "Insert Pages" before or after the desired page. I suggest using a Parent of "None," which should have no formatting and should bump right into the rest of your content.
Amazing video and tutorial! Thank you for your great job! Can you please help me in one thing? When I put the option "put 2 lines together" in the body style, it can happens that the even page has, for example, 40 lines, and the odd page only 39. How can I fix it to avoid this gap in the last line? Shouldn't we have exactly the same lines of text in both pages?
You've got two options-always keep the last two lines together. OR, don't force the last two lines to stay together, and use strict No-break settings to prevent orphans, but sometimes allow one line to rest by itself on the bottom of a page. It depends on how the author wrote the paragraphs. Sometimes, there's just not the same number of lines on each page.
@@beckysgraphicdesign Thank you for your response and your wonderful job! I found your channel these days and I am watching all the vídeos! I work with book design for more than 20 years and I learned a lot of tips with you! God bless you! Hugs from Brazil
It may help to turn on the invisible characters as well as normal view instead of preview mode. Also, having information for IOS as well as Windows OS would be helpful.
Have you made sure that you have the correct "parent" document chosen in your book? The whole book will sync based on one document, whichever one has the little icon next to it. Second, are your paragraph styles overridden locally?
OI, I need help. This large document, between one page and the next, appears in this large space in white, PB. I can't solve the problem. The text threads will also disappear.
Does this happen when you apply a new style to a line of text, or immediately upon importing the text? And you're meaning that all the text becomes "overset"?
Thank you sooo much for this video, it's been super helpful! I do have a question. For some reason, when I try to create the No Break GREP, it immediately deletes or makes the majority of the text disappear, what am I probably doing wrong?
Ah! Yes, I am familiar with this problem. This is because "No Break" has been applied to your body (or main) text as a Character Style. You never want to apply it as such, only in the GREP area of the Paragraph Style.
Great information here. I took lots of notes. My only question is how to get the drop cap on the first letter of each chapter? I'm thinking GREP but don't know how.
I'm a semi-retired graphic designer of 50 years and have just been asked to design my first Ebook from an existing InDesign print book. The process of converting from InDesign to an Epub doc is infuriating and senseless. Forget keeping the style of the original book and text spacing. Is there a tutorial about this problem? I've told my client that her book is readable on KDP but it is nearly impossible to make it look like the paperback version. No logic whatsoever for assigning certain text to specific pages. Losing my mind ... what's left of it anyway. I'm also in Nashville.
If you're working with a book (like a textbook or cookbook) which needs to maintain images and styles and visual order, use Kindle Create: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bbVmW-H-I0s.html If you're simply looking to make your eBook look and work better, check out my tutorial on converting a print book to an eBook: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fsP43buKWhg.html
amazing info here! Quick questions: 1) my book already has chapter titles (that start on new page with space using the blank paragraph rule hack) how do I retroactively find the first character of chapter and make the rule for the drop cap? Could I search for this with grep? could i do a next style kind of rule? 2) Most of the fantasy novels i am basing my design off have no paragraph space with the usual indent and left justification with last line normal... is it always the rule to have no space between paragraphs? Thanks again...
Have a look at this video! This easy-to-use script will REALLY speed up your workflow: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aeE-IFQvJaE.html
For a whole book? Make sure you have all the corresponding .indd files combined into an .indb book file, then when you generate the TOC, make sure "Include Book Documents" is checked in the options.
Becky, you have pure text in this tutorial, do you have a tutorial of a book with lot's of images (text wrapping around them), lot's of shapes, lots of colorful subheadings, tables, arrows and so on????????? Like a textbook
I have this tutorial about making images flow with your text, though they won't be wrapped exactly as you're imagining: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AVK1Wq7wlqo.html
Hi and thanks a lot for this tutorial! I am having trouble synchronizing paragraph styles. I have added/removed some styles from one document within the book and selected it as the style source to sync with the rest of the documents. However I do not see the other documents reflecting the changes to the paragraph styles. Any idea what may be happening?
When you "synchronize styles" from your book document (making sure to select only Paragraph and Character Styles!), it will update/add styles from the selected source document. However, it will not delete any styles.
When you add something to the document, you select the plus sign at the bottom of that window. Right? How did you get that window? I don't have one. It occurs to me that you've made this video for people who already know how the program works.
Why should I use the Book Function on a large book if it's not gonna be printed in booklets but on single pages? Is it just for convenience and comfort? Thanks for the super useful advanced tips, and clarity.
It all depends on what workflow is best for you. In highly complex books (where I'm unable to use much of my reflowable options, say, with lots of full-page images), then using the Book function is an easier way to separate the chapters. But, if I'm doing a shorter Children's Book that's only 32 pages, I'll keep everything in the same document. Just find what's the fastest, best way for you! :)
I have a question, some people have told my that I should be using New Document for a printed book and the Book option it's more for ebooks. Is this true? When I create the book for printing can I use the Book options instead of "New Document"?
I have used Book Docs (basically containers that hold multiple .indd docs) for both eBooks and Print Books. I have also used single .indd docs to contain both a whole Print Book or eBook. So, any way you personally want to go about it, it can happen!
In your Book Numbering Options, you can set the footnotes to restart, or to remain continuous. Sometimes, you won't see the result of this unless you have all related documents open OR until you actually export and compile them into one PDF doc.
I am brand new to iD and I'm following tutorials for how to format my first book. (got to save money somehow) This is probably such a newb question, but the window that shows all the chapters you added is gone and idk how to get it back. 😅any help or places that would tell me these sorts of features would be appreciated! Google isn't much help bc idk what the window is even called.
I believe you are looking for your "Book Document." This is a file that needs to be re-opened and will hover above your InDesign window in its own little sidebar. Try looking for it under File > Open Recent, then look for a file that has an extension of .indb If that's not what you're looking for, leave me a timemark (0:00) from the video when it's on-screen.
@@beckysgraphicdesign wow mam i am feeling very great honor to find a tutor like this you have a mind blowing amazing knowledge in book design, i use to watch Kayla RU-vid channel also😊
Mam, could you please tell me how can I arrange my paragraph format using style sheet like bellow. 1. Introduction 1.1. ********* 1.2. ********* 1.3. ******** 2. ********* 2.1. ******** 2.2. ******** 2.3. ******** I specifically want to know the settings of 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 ......
Don't you think that starting chapters on the right side and adding pages if they naturally flow to the left side just add to the print cost, while giving really nothing in return? Some might even complain being ecologically reckless.
In the instance of a large book, yes, I'd agree. Often, we get small manuscripts that we're trying our best to stretch. Generally, you need AT LEAST 100 pages in your book to allow enough room to print words on the spine. Also, having all title pages on the right-hand makes for ease of thumbing through and navigating the book.
We have a default grep feature in the find and replace panel that detects and cleans double returns and multiple spaces. Does that script do more than that?
This is the bible😂❤ no2, if I may ask, I was looking for a way to add spaces where two characters got stuck together, for example a word and a (. Is there a way to make sure every letter has its space? Can anyone help me?🥺💓