How do I create a brochure in InDesign?

How do I start a brochure in InDesign and are there pictures I can use online for free or do I have to buy them?

MadisonPike wrote:
How do I start a brochure in InDesign and are there pictures I can use online for free or do I have to buy them?
One really useful tool I've used (and still do) for learning InDesign (and lots of other stuff) is to search Google with a concise question and the word InDesign in it. You may get more than you want, need, or can deal with, but you'll be seeing responses from this forum's posts and other Adobe.com resources, as well as from lots of other non-Adobe sources "out there."
Here's an example: how to create a brochure in InDesign
HTH

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Next we'll want folding pieces represented on a screen that represents the unfolded piece of paper behaving like a pdf, behaving like a folded piece of paper.
It's like inception!
I use BoxShot 4 - you can save a 3D pdf.
It doesn't allow folding - but gives it a good idea.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17210757/test.pdf

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I then went in and set up the hyperlink as a URL. This worked on any computer, but then the pdf opens in an internet browser.
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Josh,
Got your email with added question related to this user to user forum post. As others might have the same question, answering it here.
If you want to point to PDFs that are in a subfolder of the root-directory that holds the pdf containing all the links, you'd need to add the subfolder to the path-specification for the link..
For example:
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a 'subfolder' contains 'desitnation.pdf'
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www.twitter.com/carijansen

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Hello,
This forum is for questions about Adobe FormsCentral (http://formscentral.adobe.com). Please re-post your question to the InDesign forum:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/indesign
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Hi, Rebecca.
Your question is better suited to the InDesing forum, which deals with general InDesign-related issues. This forum is intended mainly to deal with issues arising from the Getting Started video tutorial on creating a brochure in InDesign CC.
I hope you find the help you need there. I'm moving it this for you.
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The reason Bob has to ask is because 'ebook' is a pretty vague concept. It's an "electronic book", i.e., a text that can be read on an electronic device.
PDF is a *pretty* safe bet, because that will ensure all people have to do is make sure they can read a PDF on their e-device.
It's also non-reflowable, just like a regular PDF (not entirely true, by the way, but pretty much).
"E-Pub" is the common format for dedicated devices such as the Kindle and the Sony reader, and is what iBooks on iPhone and iPad use. This *is* a reflowable format, and (depending on the device and software) usually you can change the font size and type to taste.
DPS is Adobe's own version, and you can do lots of interesting things with it. It requires Adobe's own DPS reader. Search the Adobe web site for more information on this.
You can produce a PDF right away with InDesign (don't use "Press Quality" settings for obvious reasons). You can export to the common e-pub format as well, but in that case you'd better investigate a bit deeper than can be answered in this forum, because all you get in that case is a pretty basic layout. Using other software, you can edit and enhance ID's output -- you cannot create any e-pub right away with InDesign any way you like it, it's not "an epub editor".
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hmmm....guess I should make this a feature request, now that I think of it.
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Good afternoon.
I have created a Form in Indesign, imported into FormsCentral.
I would like to post this onto a webpage. It is currently an iPDF.
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