BASIC APPLICATION TRAINING
Migration to Adobe InDesign CS
This ia a one day, hands-on, instructor-led course, designed for anyone migrating to Adobe InDesign CS from Adobe pageMaker or QuarkXPress. Delegates will be supplied with course notes pertinent to the application they are moving from.
A basic knowledge of Windows or Mac OSX computers and Adobe PageMaker 6.5 or 7 or QuarkXPress 4 or 5 is recommended.
The InDesign Interface
- Menu's and palettes
- Document navigation
- New document settings
- Creating text
- Working with graphics
- Creating masters
- Child masters
- Applying masters
- Importing text
- Manual, semi and autoflow
- Threading text
- Editing text threads
- Using the Story Editor
- Using the swatches palette
- Using the Colours palette
- Creating gradients
- Applying fills and strokes
- Character formatting
- Paragraph formatting
- Special characters
- Open Type
- Creating character styles
- Creating paragraph styles
- Using nested style sheets
Graphics and Layout Tools
- Placing and manipulating graphics
- Using the Pen tool
- Creating clipping paths
- Text Wrap
- Using Layers
- Applying transparency
- Drop shadows and feathers
- Applying blend modes
- Transparency Flattener presets
- Printing with transparency
- Creating tables
- Formatting tables
- Editing tables
- Importing data
- Preflighting documents
- Printing
- Packaging files
- PDF files for printing
- PDF presets
- PDF X1a and X3 files
