Subtitles of the Movie

Here we are at our splash screen or welcome screen and I'm going to create a new document. I'll just click on this here and I'll type in eight pages and accept all the other defaults. Click on OK. Now, In this movie we're going to look at some of the basics of our window. You may be familiar with most of this, but sometimes just looking at it again helps. First of all, we're in a Windows environment here, so I know that those of you who use a Mac will see things a little bit differently, but there's so little that's different these days that most things that I'm going to be talking about here are valid. At the top of the screen, we've got the program name and then the document name. The document is untitled at the moment because I haven't saved it and down here it tells me it's showing at 79 percent of actual size. So what actual size tries to mean is one inch on the screen is equal to one inch on your document, so it's kind of accurate but not particularly accurate. Down here at the bottom, we have, at the top, sorry, we have our menus. Standard menus - file, edit, layout, type, et cetera Now, as we go down here, you have the arrow for where we have other menus and you'll have an ellipsis, like this, if you're going to pull out into a new menu, like this one here. I'll cancel out of that. Also we have our shortcut case down here. Now, of course this is something that will definitely be different on the Mac than the PC. Control is usually command on the Mac and alt is usually option. I do my best, when I'm going through this tutorial, to point out the differences when I use the shortcut case, but if you need to check them out, just look on the menus here. It will tell you what the actual ones are. Below that, we have our control palette. This is a very powerful, interactive tool and we'll be looking at it separately, but at the moment it's up here at the top. It's not floating; it's docked at the top. You have a choice here. You can dock it at the top, dock it at the bottom here. Now, in my day to day work, I like mine docked at the bottom. For the tutorial, I'll probably keep it at the top because that's where most people will probably have it, or you can float it. That means you can just float it out in the screen, use it anywhere, like that. So let me go back to the default and it's just, I can't see it here, so I've got to drag it over a little bit here and dock at the top. This changes, depending on what you have selected and what mode you're in, but we'll look at that. Here we have the standard toolbar. Now, one thing Adobe has done in this version is to change it so that it's one single line. Previously, these were lined up together, so this gives us a little bit more space. However, if you're familiar with the buttons stacked beside each other, simply click on this double arrow here and there it gets back to the way it was before. Click on this one and it goes back to where it was. Drag it out, it floats on the screen. Drag it back there, it's one single line. I like one single line because it gives me more space for my document. Now, if you click here, like this, you'll see this item come out. Now, this is to do with XML, if you're dealing with web pages within the InDesign, so it's not really something you're going to use for most designs, but it comes out and it can be confusing, so you just look for the gray bar area, click there and it disappears again for you. Let's go down to the bottom of our screen here and here we can see the size that we are viewing the document at. As we said before, 79 percent. You can change this to 300 percent, zoom out, zoom way out there like that. We can see multiple pages and I'll just go back to 75 percent, like that. Over on the right hand side, we've got a scroll bar so I can scroll the page back into the middle and of course we have the vertical one over there. I can scroll through multiple pages as well. Moving back here again, we have our pages. You can see that I'm on page 1. Come over to the right arrow here, I can mov to page 2, 3, 4, just scroll through it. There's two buttons, one at either side. This one, with the bar across it, takes me to the last page in the document, which is page 8, as you can see and the one over on the left hand side takes me to the first page, page 1. We go there one page at a time, like this, back or forward or the end, the beginning, or simply just type in the number. If you want to go to page 6, type it in there and it moves you to the page like that. Here we have a status icon here. It tells us this has never been saved, but if you had saved it, it would give you the name, the size and everything that you needed there. Let's move on to this side here and here we have our palettes. We deal with the palettes later on in this chapter, but suffice it to say we can expand the dock and close the dock like that and we can even close them up even more, like that, to get more space. As I said, we'll be dealing with these individually in another movie. So that's the basics of the screen and getting around it and of course we'll be going into these in a lot more detail as we mov long.