Adobe InDesign Intermediate
Short course
In London and Cardiff Cardiff
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Short course
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1 Day
Extend your existing knowledge of Indesign in one day. Explore more creative possibilities and experience new levels of productivity using Adobe® InDesign® page layout software. Suitable for: This course is intended for graphic designers, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers, pre-press professionals, and marketing communications professionals.
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About this course
Basic computer knowledge.
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Jon Bessant
Adobe Certified Expert Acrobat
Jon Bessant is an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor in Acrobat 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 along with Livecycle Designer 7, InDesign CS2, CS3, InCopy CS2 and he also holds Enfocus Certified Expert status. He is the technical consultant specializing in Adobe Acrobat, PDF/X, Enfocus products, PDF Workflows a
Course programme
Adobe InDesign - Intermediate
1. Adobe Bridge
- Preview objects
- Preview with loupe tool
- Rotate, delete, move, copy
- Different workspaces
- Filter based on file type
- AI, PDF, PSD, TIFF, Snippet etc.
- Display fonts and swatches inside metadata
- IPTC core
- Favourite places
- Bridge caching
- Preview PDFs and InDesign templates
- Star ratings and labels -filtering
- Templates
- Adobe Stock Photography
2. Preferences
- Workspace, menus and show/hide
- Panels auto-collapse
- Drag and drop text editing
- Text and spreadsheet links
- Story editor
- Appearance of black
- Preview sizes, clipboard handling of pasted info
- Settings onwards defaults
3. Designing Documents
- Save as a Master
- Load Master Page
- Moving Masters
- Disabling a spread to shuffle
4. Threading and Flowing Text
- Manual, semi and autoflow
- Change from text to selection tool
- Text threading tricks
5. Bullets and Numbered Lists
- Exploring bullets and numbering options
- Paragraph panel or paragraph styles
- Character styles now available
- Modify distances
- Re-start numbering
- Aligning numbered lists
- Generating list commands
- Numbered lists in the same document and across multiple documents
- Book feature and synchronisation
6. Text variables Setup running headers and footers
- Develop text variables
- Changing text variables
- Formatting variables
- Nested Styles
- Manage Styles /Style Groups
7. Search and Replace Text
- GREP
- GlyphsObjects
8. Objects
- Arranging, Aligning and Distributing
- Object Styles
- InDesign Snippets
- Links Panel
9. Managing Transparency
- Apply Transparency Flattener Presets
- Inner Shadow
- Bevel and Emboss
- Gradient FeatherInner Glow and Outer Glow
- Effective ways of handling transparency for print production
- Flattening techniques
10. ColoursPantone colour creation
- CMYK colour creation
- Multi ink group (Pantone)
11. GraphicsMultiple image placement
- Frame Fitting options
- Adobe PDF layer support
- Selectively display layers and layer comps
- Importing InDesign documents
12. Tabs and Tables
- Headers and footers
- Placing graphics in cells Table and Cell Styles
- Creating a cell styleApplying cell styles
- Creating a table style
- Import options
- Format Once
13. Checking content and creating Acrobat PDF Files
- Check Documents for Problems
- Package Files
- Print, Separation, Flattening
- PostScript, preflighting and Packaging
- Prepare PDF Files for Web Distribution
- Export PDF Files for Printing
- PDF/X-4 - new addition
14. Workflows
- Export to XHTML
- Control CSS styles
- Maintaining object effects
- Export to Digital Editions
Adobe InDesign Intermediate