Indesign Magazine Module
InDesign Magazine Module
Documents Available on Blackboard for this Module
Possible
Three Jobs of the Future by Robert Reich
Sidebars
Technical Communication Career Description
Benefits of a Career in Technical Communication
Technical Writers Code of Professional Experience
Images
city‐of‐future
edlogo
barcode
oldwork
blueback
Text
Editorial Text
Exercise 1: Preparing for the Magazine
Download images for this module from Blackboard Course Documents InDesign Magazine Module—Text &
Images Images.
Exercise 2: Creating the Modifications Magazine
This part of the module will take you through the front and back and first two pages of the eventual eight‐page
newsletter. You will be expected to complete the remaining four pages without guidance. These pages should
reflect the design choices demonstrated in the module. Of course, the text in all six articles, including your own,
may not fit completely within the newsletter. You may need to edit the content to ensure it will fit. Do not
simply cut off an article at a specified length. Before cutting text, consider carefully the article’s content and
make decisions accordingly. Some article content may be more appropriate as sidebars. Part of your grade will
be determined by these rhetorical choices.
Other than the essays, some additional text or images are available in Blackboard Course Documents
Magazine Module Additional Text or Images.
Creating the Masthead
1) Complete the Magazine Photoshop Companion Module.
2) DCVW: Review “Customizing the Workplace” and “Setting Up a New Document.”
3) Open InDesign (Start Adobe Design Premium CS3 Adobe InDesign CS3) and create a new document.
4) Set the number of pages at 8, the number of columns at 3, the height at 63p0, and the Slug at 2p0
and click OK.
With print documents, width is
normally set in picas. Pica
measurements in InDesign are
indicated with a “p” in the field
(e.g., “63p0” or 63 picas and 0
points). A pica is a printer's unit of
type size equal to 12 points or
about a sixth of an inch. One pica is
equivalent to ½ an inch.
5) Save your document as “lastname‐mag.indd.”
6) DCVW: Review “Working with Objects.”
7) Using the Rectangle tool, draw a rectangle that covers the entire area of the page including the slug.
8) DCVW: Review “Importing into InDesign.”
9) From the File Menu, scroll down to Place and locate the masthead and footer images you created in
Photoshop.
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10) Place the masthead image at the top of the page centered.
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11) Place the footer image at the bottom of the page centered.
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12) Place the “barcode.gif” image and place it in the lower right corner of the page.
13) Place “cityskyline” in the center of the page. The cursor will change to reflect the image is ready to place.
14) Click and drag the cursor from the lower left corner of the bottom of the masthead to the bottom right
corner of the footer.
15) From the Object Menu, Select Fit Fit Content to Frame. The image will resize proportionally with the text
frame.
16) Using the Text Tool, draw a rectangle about 2″ X 2″ and move it to the lower right corner of the city‐of‐
future image and type “Artist’s Rendering” in Lithos Pro 27 pt.
17) Create another text box and type “City of the Future” inLithos Pro 45 pt bold centered.
18) Center the text frame across the top of the image.
Finished Magazine Cover
You can see a full‐size
view of this page in
Blackboard Course
Documents Magazine
Module.
19) Save your document.
Creating the Editorial Page
This part of the tutorial will take you through steps that set up the master pages, the inside editorial page, and
the feature story page. You’ll be expected to finish the remaining four pages on your own.
20) In the Pages Palette, click on the master pages icon. Note that only the two inside pages are available in the
master view. Typically, master content is not applied to front and back pages of a document.
21) Design Center: Review “New Features: Working with Master Pages.”
22) Using the Text Tool, draw a text frame at the bottom of the left master page, dragging from the first column
margin to the third column margin.
23) Design Center: Review “Working with Text.”
24) Using the black arrow Selection Tool, move the text block so that the top of its frame aligns just below the
bottom of the column. Then, click twice in the text from to activate the cursor for typing.
25) Right click and scroll to Insert Special Character Markers Current Page Number. An “a” will appear in
the text frame, indicating automatic page numbering.
26) Click in the text frame and, on the Command Bar, click on the Tabs icon
If the Command bar is not
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visible, click on the Window
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Menu Object & Layout
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Command Bar.
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Command Bar
Tab Icon
27) In the Tabs window, click on the right aligned tab key (down arrow), then click above the ruler at the last
pica mark. Because the tab needs to go behind the margin arrow, you’ll need to click in the ruler and then
click on the Tab and drag it behind the black right margin arrow. Close the Tab window.
28) Click after the “A” in the text frame and press the Tab key once. The cursor should move to the right margin.
29) Type Modifications Magazine and format it as Calibri 10 pt bold.
Page number
is inserted
Right
automatically
click in
as indicated
text
with an A.
frame
Click on
Then click
to
third arrow.
above the last
reveal
pica mark on
the
the ruler.
context
menu.
30) Using the Text Frame Tool, create another text frame on the lower left side of the second page and in the
left margin type February 2010 and in the right margin, insert a right‐hand page number.
31) At the top of the left master page, create another text frame on the top left side of the page and type
“Special Issue on Literacy, Technology, and the Workplace” aligned on the left margin. Position the text box
above the top border of the columns as show in the screenshot.
32) Make another text frame on the right top side of the second page and type “Institute of Global Design”
aligned on the right. Position it in similarly.
Finished Master Pages
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33) In the Pages Palette, click on page 2.
34) Design Center: Review “Working with Text” and “Text Styles.”
35) Draw a text frame in the first column that is the width of the column and place the “edlogo.gif image at the top.
36) Place the content called “editorial box” into that text frame and click in one of the paragraphs.
37) In the Paragraph Styles Palette, hold down the ALT key and click on the Create New Style icon.
38) In the Paragraph Style Options, type “edbodytext” for the Style Name and select Calibri 10 pt font. Click OK.
Place logo image here
and align it with the
left margin.
After setting the
paragraph style,
bold all the
position titles
(e.g., “publisher”)
in the editorial
text box.
39) Using the Rectangle Tool, draw a box from the top of the second column to about 6 picas from the bottom
of the third column.
40) Fill this box with yellow. You can use the eyedropper tool in the Color Palette to click in the yellow area of
the logo if desired.
41) With the box selected, click on the Effects Palette.
42) In the Effects Palette, click on Transparency and then the Effects icon in the lower bottom of the palette.
43) In the Effects window, set the opacity at 20%.
Click on the Effects
Palette, then the
Effects icon.
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Set the
opacity at 20%
Select Transparency.
and click OK.
44) Right click on the yellow box and select “Fill with Placeholder text.” Placeholder text, what used to be called
Lorem Ipsum, will fill the box. (After you have written your own and identified other essays to include in this
journal, you will need to write an introduction to the special issue that provides a context for the essay in
your magazine.)
45) In the paragraph palette, format this text using “ltredtext” paragraph style.
46) Using the Rectangle Tool, create a box that spans the length of the middle and right columns and that is
about 3 picas tall.
47) Move this box so that the bottom margin is parallel with the bottom of the logo box in the first column.
48) Fill the box with purple. You can use the eyedropper tool in the Color Palette to click in the purple area of
the logo if desired.
49) Create a text frame and type “Introduction to Special Issue” in Calibri 24 pt bold and position it just above
the purple box.
50) Import the placeholder image “edimage.jpg” (available from Blackboard) and position it over the purple
box. Replace this image with your own picture of the same size and click on the image to select it.
51) From the Window Menu, select Text Wrap. Make sure the image is selected.
52) In the Text Wrap window, click on the second icon. The text should then wrap around the image.
Click on the second icon.
53) Save your document. See screenshot of finished editorial page, Step 71.
Creating the Feature Article Page
54) Create four new Text Styles: bodytext (Times New Roman 12 pt regular), byline (Times New Roman 12 pt
italic), continue (Times New Roman 12 pt italic right aligned), and head1 (Calibri 36 pt bold).
55) Using the Text Frame Tool, create a text frame about 6 picas tall across the top of the page from the upper
left of the first column to the upper left of the third column.
56) Type the title of your essay and apply “head1” style.
57) Return once and type “by Your Name” and apply the “byline” style.
58) Place your article in the three columns and apply the “bodytext” style. Again, if you are completing this part
of the module before the essay is written, you can insert placeholder text.
59) Using the Rectangle Tool, draw a box about 22 picas tall that spans the top of the middle and third columns.
Align the top of the boxes with the top of the columns.
60) With the box selected, place the image you created in the Photoshop Magazine Module. Fit the content to
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the frame.
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61) With the image selected, open the Text Wrap window and click on the second icon. Set the bottom of the
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wrap to 1p0.
62) Move the bottom of the third column text frame up about 2 picas.
63) Draw another text frame and type “continued on page #” and apply the “continue” style. Be sure to go back
and include the page number after placing the rest of the text on another page.
[See screenshot next page]
Finished editorial and feature article pages
64) Save your document.
65) Finish the remaining inside pages on your own using the feature article page as a style guide.
Creating the Back Cover
66) In the Pages Palette, click on the back cover.
67) Using the Rectangle Tool, draw a rectangle from the top left corner of the slug to the bottom right corner of
the slug.
68) Import the “blueback” image (available from Blackboard) and place it in this frame.
69) From the Object Menu Fit select Fit Content to Frame.
70) Import the “terrarium” image and place it in the center of the page.
71) In the Stroke Palette and then the Color Palette, set the border for the image at 4pt white.
Set the weight at 4 pts
and click the first icon in
the Align Stroke field.
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72) In the Color Palette, click on the fill‐stroke toggle switch, click on the small black arrow to reveal color picker
options, and then set the border color to white.
[See screenshot next page]
First: Color will
default to black and
white. Click on the
small black arrow
and select RGB.
Third: Move the
Second: Click
mouse over the RGB
the fill‐stroke
Spectrum area. The
toggle switch
mouse will turn to an
to make stroke
eyedropper. Click in
active.
white color area.
73) Using the Text Tool, type “Humanity’s Future Enclosure Exhibit” in Calibri 90 pt white bold centered and
center it above the terrarium image.
74) With the same tool, type “Opening June 2014.”
75) Import the “igdlogo” image and place it at the bottom of the page.
76) Create a textbox next to it with the following text:
INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL DESIGN
One Global Road
Portland, OR 97202
1‐877‐IGD‐SAFE
77) Save your document.
Finish Back Cover
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You can see a full‐size view of the
pages created in this module in
Blackboard Course Documents
Magazine Module.
78) If you have not already created the remaining two pages, do so now. When creating these pages, take care
not to simply create two or three columns filled with text. Strive for visual diversity.
79) Within the remaining four pages, use the following InDesign features: Creating Styles, Pagination, Drop
Shadow. Consult the Adobe DCVW for instructions.
80) Submit both a print and an electronic version of your work with this module on October 4, 2007. Print a
color copy of your newsletter and an electronic version burned to a CD.
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