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Training Course Summary:

InDesign is Adobe's answer to the future of professional publishing for graphic designers, production artists, and prepress professionals. This popular new program for design and page layout combines smooth integration of text and graphics in a single powerful tool.

This two-day course will cover advanced text handling and text wrapping techniques, working with tables, drawing in InDesign, advanced methods of working with process and spot colours, using object libraries, InDesign's advanced transparency options and creating customised pdfs.

You will also explore InDesign shortcuts, workflow management issues and receive hints and tips from experienced InDesign professionals.

Training Course Overview/Content:

Advanced Text Controls
Determining word and
character counts
Inserting white space characters
Adding column, frame and
page breaks
Working with linked text files
Finding and changing
formatted text
Changing hyphenation and spelling preferences
Using type on a path
Using dictionaries in a workgroup

Creating Tables
Adding text to a table
Adding graphics to a table
Creating a table from existing text
Importing from Word and Excel

Editing Tables
Selecting cells, rows and columns
Working with headers and footers in a table
Breaking tables across frames
or pages

Formatting Tables
Resizing rows and columns
Distributing rows and columns evenly
Changing row height
Changing cell inset spacing
Inserting tabs in a table cell
Merging and splitting cells
Rotating text in a cell
Adding strokes and fills to a table

Advanced Type Formatting Options
Importing styles from Word
Applying complex nested styles to a paragraph
Controlling how headings align to a baseline grid
Creating balanced headline text
Adding rules above and below paragrapaphs
Controlling paragraph breaks
Working with composition
Setting composition preferences
Setting advanced hyphenation controls
Setting advanced justification controls

Advanced Text Wrap Controls
Justifying text next to an object
Choosing which text frames are
affected by text wraps

Controlling pages and spreads
Creating multiple page spreads
Controlling spread pagination
Adjusting layout objects

Drawing in InDesign
Using the Pencil, Smooth and
Erase tools
Drawing with the Pen tool
Adjusting path segments
Using the Scissors tool
Working with stroke styles
Creating and editing compound paths

Advanced Colour Options
Editing mixed ink swatches
and groups
Converting mixed inks to
process colours
Working with colours from EPS
or PDF files
Working with spot colour channels

Using Object Libraries
Cataloguing and finding objects

Advanced Transparency Options
Creating transparency knockouts
Flattening transparency artwork
Flattening individual spreads
Transparency flattener options
Guidelines for successful output

Creating Adobe PDF Files
Producing Adobe PDF files for a high-
resolution composite workflow
Using pre-defined PDF presets
Customising PDF options
Creating, editing and sharing PDF presets

Printing from InDesign
Setting output size and handling options
Printing the bleed and slug areas
Printing oversized documents
Viewing print settings
Saving print settings