Indesign advanced

Overview
The course is designed for people who with sound page-layout knowledge who want to explore more in-depth features of InDesign.

Prerequisites
A working knowledge of the chosen computer operating system (i.e Mac or Windows on PC), together with a good working knowledge of Adobe InDesign or to have taken our InDesign Introduction ot InDesign for QuarkXPress Users course.

Course Content Setting and understanding Preferences Setting Defaults and Presets for optimum performan Text

• Automatic bullets and numbering
• Footnotes
• OpenType features
• Creating complex paragraph formatting with Nested and Next Styles
• Moving Styles between documents
• Using clear overrides and quick apply buttons
• Import options for MS Word and RTF text
• Using powerful Find & Change

Object Styles

• Creating, applying and redefining Object styles

Effects

• Looking at the new and improved Photoshop-like effects created within InDesign

Anchoring text/picture frames Frame based baseline grids Mastering picture boxes

• Importing Photoshop layers and layer comps and PDFs
• Image display performance settings - global and object level
• Using multi image and text placement

Snippets

• Understanding and using Snippets to streamline your workflow

Transparency Flattening and Preview Output previews

• Overprint preview
• Separation Preview
• Total ink violation preview
• Trap presets

Tables

• Importing data from Excel and Text documents
• Using Tables as grids and other devices
• Saving Table & Cell Styles

Preflighting

• Packaging
• Printing creating print styles

PDF creation alternatives Colour Management TOCs and Book features Snippets and intro to XML Interactive PDFs

• Adding Hyperlinks and movies to PDFs

Troubleshooting, Questions and Answers