InDesign Introduction

The InDesign interface
• Creating a new document
• Creating and using frames
• Selecting frames and content
• The N-up View

Working with text
• Placing text
• Selecting and editing text
• Handling missing fonts
• Drag and drop text
• Smart text reflow
• Smart guides and smart spacing

Formatting characters
• Character-level formatting
• Choosing a composer
• Hyphenation and justification
• Using the Eyedropper tool
• Creating drop caps

Working with styles
• Character and paragraph styles
• Creating styles
• Editing and applying styles
• Introducing nested styles
• Removing style formatting
• Organising styles using Style Groups

Importing graphics
• Different file formats
• Placing graphics
• Placing multiple graphics
• Manipulating graphics
• Understanding fitting options
• PSD and PDF layer options

Combining text and graphics
• Wrapping text around graphics
• Introducing snippets

Understanding colour
• Spot and process colours
• Loading swatches
• Working with swatches
• Using stroke and fill options
• Creating tints
• Sampling colours from images

Laying out pages accurately
• Using rulers, grids and guides
• Using the Info panel
• Creating grids
• Working with layers

Multi-page documents
• Using the Pages panel
• Targeting pages and spreads

Editing copy
• Using the Story Editor
• Using Find/Change
• Using the Spell Checker

Introducing transparency
• Creating drop shadows
• Feathering edges
• The Flattener Preview panels

Transforming objects
• Scaling objects vs contents
• Transforming objects
• Grouping and ungrouping

Finessing text content
• Threading/unthreading frames
• Flowing text through frames
• Multi-column text frames
• Setting text frame options
• Document baseline grids
• Redefining styles
• Hanging punctuation
• Using special characters
• Viewing composition options

Working with Master Pages
• Master Page guidelines
• Creating and editing Masters
• Applying Master Pages
• Auto-numbering pages
• Basing one Master on another
• Overriding Master objects
• Reapplying Master objects

Combining text and graphics
• Image import options
• Images with clipping paths
• Creating a new clipping path
• Removing image backgrounds
• Editing clipping paths
• Tolerance and threshold options
• Advanced text wrap options

Exporting and printing
• Exporting as a PDF
• Performing a pre-flight check
• Packaging files for handoff

Questions and answers