Requirements:Some previous use of Quark Xpress or other DTP / page layout programme. Before taking this course, the student must have basic PC skills, including a basic understanding of a computer's operating system, how to launch an application and create and save files, as well as how to copy files from CDs and other media.
Course Summary
This training course provides the InDesign user or QuarkXPress converter the ability to hone their skills and increase their knowledge of Adobe InDesign CS3 to an advanced level.
Using prior InDesign or QuarkXPress knowledge, students will create complex documents and work with a variety of palettes and tools to further understand and utilize the capabilities of this high-end design application. We recommend this course for those planning to migrate from QuarkXPress to InDesign or to obtain the Adobe Certified Expert status.
This Indesign training course allows you to take desktop publishing and design to a ne- level, combining extraordinary production power and creative freedom with tight integration with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat software. Create simple documents and prepare them for print or export as a PDF. Topics in this training course include learning the work area, working with text and graphics, creating simple vector based graphics, and the basics of design.
Through this training course, you can join the growing ranks of creative professionals discovering ne- levels of creative freedom and productivity using Adobe InDesign software. Tightly integrated with the Adobe applications you use most, InDesign delivers faster production workflows and a more fluid creative environment for designing professional layouts with sophisticated graphics and typography.
Course Content
- Converting legacy Quark files
- Procedures, pitfalls and considerations when converting
- Setting InDesign to use Quark keyboard shortcuts
- Tools and Floating palettes, hiding/ showing palettes, contextual menus
- Document recovery after a crash
- Adobe Bridge, managing assets
- Creating and using Snippets
- Multiple undos
- Preferences and defaults
- Text frame tool, create/resize text frames. Text frame options
- Creating/modifying/Importing text. Type attributes - font, typestyle, typesize, leading, alignment, tracking, kerning, horizontal/vertical scaling, baseline shift
- Undo, Copy, Cut, Paste, Select All, Deleting frames/frame contents
- Hidden (non-printing) characters
- Inserting glyphs and special characters e.g. bullets, odeg, v, ®, ©, TM,>
- Text overflow, threading/unthreading text frames
- Paragraph styles - Indents, (hanging/1st line), drop caps, paragraph rules, paragraph spacing. Eyedropper to tool to copy text attributes. Adobe paragraph/single line composer
- Hyphenation and Justification
- Basic character/paragraph styles
- Smart styles
- Object styles
- Selection and Direct Selection Tools
- Creating picture frames, importing pictures, resizing and cropping, filling/ stroking frames. Embedding and Linking Pictures
- Drawing shapes, modifying, filling/ stroking, Beziér shapes with Pen Tool
- Revert to saved command
- Find/Change (search and replace)
- Spell checking
- Tabular setting. Defining tab positions, tab alignment, leadered lines, aligning figures, modifying tabs
- Tables - creating, modifying, converting text to tables, gridlines
- Grouping/ungrouping, Locking and Unlocking items, duplicating, constraining, transform/arrange items
- Basic use of colour, setting up and defining colours
- Creating gradients
- Master pages, page and layout options
- Working with Layers
- Transparency, blending, feathering, drop shado- effects, Transparency Flattening
- Setting up and using InDesign Libraries
- Preflighting and Packaging
- Creating/Importing PDFs
- Printing simple/complex documents
- Questions and Answers
