Fiction Classic
Wrangle hundreds of pages like a pro
The Brief
Typeset a multi-chapter book with front matter, taking advantage of InDesign’s long document features
Trim Size
6 × 9 inches (152 × 229mm)
Learning Points
Managing text flow
Setting up hyphenation and justification
Fixing spacing problems
Tools
InDesign
Fonts Used
Tribute
Inspiration & Resources
The example public domain text — Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson — is available from Project Gutenberg (gutenberg.org). Nigel chose this particular text because he also found a PDF of an 1897 edition of the book and a complete set of high-resolution public domain illustrations (on the British Library Flickr page).
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