BASIC APPLICATION TRAINING
Adobe InDesign CS
This two day instructor led training course covers the main areas of the InDesign application for production of a wide range of publications - from simple ads or stationery through to product brochures or newsletters - for pre-press or PDF consumption. This course can include VersionCue if required.
The outline below is presented as a general guide to the elements that will be covered however we will alwaystailor our courses include any special or additional requirements that are identified prior to the course.
Looking at InDesign
- About the work area
- Tools and Commands
- Using the palettes
- Navigating documents
- Opening, saving and converting files
- New document settings
- Margins and column guides
- Master text frames
- Page numbering
- Section starts
- Rulers, guides and grids
- Stacking order of objects
- The pasteboard
- Using layers
- Transparency and blend modes
- Flattening
- About paths
- Strokes and Fills
- Creating shapes
- Editing points and paths
- Pen and pencil tools
- Converting text to paths
- Compound paths
- Text on a path
- Drop shadows and feathers
- Pathfinder commands
- Transforming objects
- Adjusting frames and content
- Duplicating objects
- Moving and arranging objects
- Step and repeat
- Grouping and ungrouping
- Cropping and clipping paths
Typography
- Single and multi-line composers
- Optical margin alignment
- Tabs and rules
- Character formatting
- Using style sheets
- Paragraph formatting
- Open type fonts
- Glyphs and insert characters
- Linking and flowing text
- Text frames
- Threading
- Spell checking
- Text wrap
- The story editor
- Colour models
- Spot and process colours
- New colours, tints and gradients
- Colour libraries
- Colour separation and registration
- Separations palette
- Imported EPS and PDF spots
- Converting spot to process
- Importing images
- Placing PDF files
- Linked and embedded images
- EPS and prepress export
- PDF export
- Enhanced integration with Acrobat
- About printing
- Preflight and package
- Printing to a device or PS file
