Adobe InDesign

Course Content

Getting Started

• Creating a New Document
• Preferences
• Opening and Converting a QuarkXPress document
• Different Views
• New Window and Tiling Windows
• The Toolbox
• The Control Palette
• Text and Graphics Frames
• Importing Text and Graphics
• Showing, Hiding and Docking Palettes

Formatting text

• Character and Paragraph Palettes
• The Story Editor
• Change Case and all Caps
• Find Font
• Inter-Paragraph Rules
• Character and Paragraph Styles
• Styles
• Nested styles for advanced character formatting
• Tabs
• Text Frame Options
• Vertical Alignment
• Text Inset
• Formatting with the Eyedropper

Page Setup

• Using Ruler Guides
• Creating Guides
• Print Preview
• Layout
• The Transform Palette with Objects/guides
• Step and Repeat with Objects/Guides
• Distributing Guides
• Printing Guides and Grids
• Layers
• Creating Layers
• Moving and Copying Layers
• Deleting and Merging Layers
• The Links Palette
• Embedding Relinking/updating Links
• The Free Transform Tool
• Named Workspaces Using the Info Palette with Text and Images

Typographic control

• Kerning
• Hyphenation and Justification
• The Glyphs Palette
• Using Glyph Sets
• Hanging Punctuation
• Using Open Type Fonts

Linking text frames

• Manual, Semi-automatic and Automatic text flow
• Inserting and Removing Linked Text Frames
• Selecting/Deleting Overmatter
• Automatic Jump-line Page Numbers
• Fill with Placeholder Text Command
• The Baseline Grid

Master pages

• Creating a Master Page
• Automatic Page Numbering
• Adding/removing Document Pages
• Applying Master Pages

Text Effects

• Text with a Path
• Type Outlines
• Inline Graphics