Adobe InDesign Intermediate

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