Adobe InDesign
Course
Inhouse
Description
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Type
Course
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Methodology
Inhouse
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Duration
2 Days
Gives a comprehensive introduction to InDesign and its features. Suitable for: All users
Reviews
Course programme
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
Additional information
Adobe InDesign