Administrative stuff

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• All our lectures, the syllabus, and detailed instructions for lab exercises and projects are posted here

Syllabus

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Required Text

Adobe InDesign CC Classroom in a Book
2019 Release
Adobe Press, 2019
ISBN-13: 978-0135262153
ISBN-10:0135262151 At Amazon.com
You must get the Paperback printed version and not the Kindle. Used version is OK, but you've got to have a physical version in-hand for this class.

Required Tool

C-Thru AccuSpec II Designer's Ruler Set
Available in most any art store, or online from
dickblick.com for $8.45

This is a MUST HAVE tool for this class!

Lab requirements

Completely out the window, last I heard

Graphic tablets, even Cintiqs, are available in the cabinets at the back of the room for use in the lab during class time and monitored lab hours.

Adobe Product Guide

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History!

In 1439 Johannes Guttenberg becomes the first European to use moveable type

If you're interested, here's a great BBC documentary on the whole thing,
The Inventor Of The World's First Printing Press | Absolute History

The world of: Paste-up

Paste-up example using tape and paste to create camera-ready artwork for printing

Drafting Machines

T-Squares

Spray Mount, Rubber Cement and Rubber Cement Thinner

Hot-Waxers

X-Acto Knives & Blades

The world of: Typesetting

Wooden Type

Metal Type

Hand-Set Type

Linotype Hot-Lead Typesetter Machine
(Wikipedia article )

Photo-Typesetting

The world of: Inking

Straight-Edges & Triangles

Templates

French Curve Sets

Flexible Curves

Ruling Pens

Instrument sets

Rapidograph Pens

Hand Mask-Cutting

Rubylith

Camera Sizing

Photostat Camera
& Processor

Luci Camera

Proportion Wheel

Weird Types of Measurement

Typesetting is measured in Points, Picas and Agates

• Points invented by French printers in the early 18th Century
• Agates used by newspapers (about 5.5 points in one agate)
• 72 points (pt.) per inch (.01386 inch)
• 1 pica = 12 points, 6 picas per inch
• Don't worry, the only one that matters anymore in points...(although Picas do come in handy)

Digital Page Layout History

1984

Apple introduces the Apple Macintosh and creates "Desktop Publishing" and everything changes...

1985

Aldus Corporation introduces PageMaker 1.0

1987

QuarkXPress released.

1990's

• Pagemaker and Quark duke it out for marketshare
• Everyone benefits from the competition

21st Century

• PageMaker and Quark still exist
• Both have minimal marketshare
• Adobe creates InDesign
• Adobe buys PageMaker and has buried it
• Adobe offers cross-upgrade discount from PageMaker to InDesign, essentially killing PageMaker
• InDesign is essentially the only game in town...(except for maybe Affinity Publisher)

Introduction to InDesign Creative Cloud 2019

Resetting defaults

1. Quit InDesign
2. Do one of the following:
• (Windows) Start InDesign, and then press Shift+Ctrl+Alt. Click Yes when asked if you want to delete preference files.
• (Mac OS) While pressing Shift+Option+Command+Control, start InDesign. Click Yes when asked if you want to delete preference files.

Homework

Get your computer set up with InDesign and get the required materials: Adobe InDesign Classroom In A Book 2019 version, and the C-Thru AccuSpec II Designer’s Rule set

Read Adobe InDesign Classroom In A Book Introduction, Chapter 1: Introducing the Workspace, Chapter 2: Getting to Know InDesign, Chapter 3: Setting up a Document and Working with Pages