Course Outline
Workshop recap
Tips and tricks to get started
Power usage of keyboard shortcuts
Mastering master pages
Understanding linking and the automatic text box feature
Understanding and setting general, paragraph, character, tool preferences
Long document features
Using continued on & from counters
Numbering documents and sections using automatic counters
Finding and changing words, attributes, invisible characters, unwanted paragraph breaks, tabs
Advanced usage of style sheets
Managing styles across documents
Advanced typography
Using and understanding automatic, incremental and absolute leading
Setting and using a baseline grid
Controlling widows and orphans
Editing kerning & tracking tables
Understanding and using hyphenation and justification
Applying various hyphenation settings to paragraphs & styles
Specifying non-breaking hyphens, hyphenation exceptions and discretionary hyphens
Using em & en dashes, & spaces
Drawing
Specifying and manipulating types of points and segments
Converting and manipulating boxes and type into bézier paths
Adding and deleting bézier points
Advanced colour
Colour and the print process
Working with process and spot colour models
Creating multi inks
Advanced image settings
Creating clipping paths manually and automatically
Editing imported clipping paths
Exploring image runaround options
Customising TIFF images
Changing the contrast for different colour channels
Changing an image to a negative
Saving pages as an EPS file
Power usage of the merge and split options:
union
intersection
difference
reverse difference
exclusive or
combine
join endpoints
Working with the align palette
Creating inline graphics
Using Collect for Output
Using font usage and picture usage
Updating picture files
Long document features
Exploring & using the book feature
Generating and formatting a table of contents
Understanding the index palette
Understanding different scopes
Ordering levels of indices
Creating nested and run-in indices
Libraries
Creating, editing & using libraries
Using libraries to append elements in a document
Using the different line tools
Scalable custom dashes & stripes
Step and repeat objects
Creating an auxiliary dictionary
Editing an auxiliary dictionary
