Overview

Adobe InDesign seamlessly intergrates with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InCopy, and Dreamweaver. InDesign allows you to be more productive by using shared presets and colour settings. InDesign CS3 will allow you to work more efficiently with native file format support and effortless publishing to multiple media.

Creative effects and controls

Design compelling page layouts that include transparency, creative effects, and gradient feathers. Since effects are live and nondestructive, you can experiment with ease. Apply effects independently to an object’s stroke, fill, or content.

Reliable prepress and printing

Have confidence in your output. Get accurate, consistent results every time you print using sophisticated preview capabilities, exporting reliable Adobe PDF files, and sharing custom presets.

Productivity enhancements

Perform a variety of tasks more efficiently using new and enhanced productivity features, including Multi-file Place, Quick Apply, faster frame fitting, and the visual Pages panel.

XHTML export

Enable multiformat publishing, including print-to-web workflows, by exporting InDesign content as XHTML. Edit the exported content in Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 software (available separately) and automatically format it using cascading style sheets.

Professional typographical controls

Compose beautiful typography using professional controls including the Paragraph Composer, OpenType fonts, drop caps, glyphs, and optical kerning and margin alignment.

Full-featured tables

Create richly formatted tables. Import tab-delimited text files and styled Microsoft Word or Excel tables, or build tables in InDesign. Apply a wide variety of formatting options manually or using table and cell styles.

Robust long-document support

Maintain consistency and streamline the production of long documents using advanced bullets and numbering, running headers and footers, and synchronized master pages.

Smart text handling

Control your text with intelligent text-handling features including the ability to import styled text from Microsoft Word files, apply complex text wraps around objects, and comprehensively replace fonts.

Scripting and extensibility

Accelerate and simplify workflows by automating processes using scripts and extending the capabilities of InDesign using the ExtendScript toolkit.

Course Summary

This is a course specifically designed for those who need to produce more complex documents and so bring all the components of InDesign together.

Audience

This course is aimed at people who have attended the InDesign Introduction course and now wish to produce complex layouts, such as books, magazines, tenders etc.

On Completion

You will discover the more advanced features offered by this Industry Standard page layout software, in order to produce a wide range of print material.

Course Content

Master pages

What are master pages?
Working with masters
Solo masters
Multiple masters
Locking / unlocking master pages
Page numbering

Long document handling

Table of contents
Indexing
Using the Book palette
Creating a book list
Synchronising styles and colours
Page numbering across books
Table of contents across books

Using the pen

Creating freehand shapes
Creating bezier curves
Manipulating shapes
Using the Transform palette
Aligning objects
Using the eye-dropper tool

Whizzy effects

Text on a path
Text path options
Drop shadows / rounded corners
Transparency palette
Transparency and filters
Gradient palette
Creating / editing gradients
Blending

Advanced graphic handling

Clipping paths
Alpha channels (from PhotoShop)
Graphic formats

Print output

Preflight
Print to .PDF
.PDF security

Dates

Duration: 2 days
Price: £495