Course Content
Introducing the Workspace
- Looking at the workspace
- Working with panels
- Customizing the workspace
- Changing the magnification of a document
- Navigating through a document
- Using context menus
InDesign
- Preflighting as you work
- Viewing guides
- Adding text
- Styles
- Graphics
- Objects
- Object styles
Setting Up a Document and Working with Pages
- Creating and saving custom document settings
- Creating a new document
- Switching between open InDesign documents
- Master pages
- Applying master pages to document pages
- Adding new document pages
- Rearranging and deleting document pages
- Changing the size of pages
- Adding sections to change page numbering
- Placing text and graphics on document pages
- Overriding master page items on document pages
- Viewing the completed spread
- Creating a template (open normal, copy, and original)
Objects
- Layers
- Creating and modifying text frames
- Creating and modifying graphics frames
- Adding metadata captions to graphics frames
- Placing and linking graphics frames
- Changing the shape of a frame
- Wrapping text around a graphic
- Modifying the shape of frames
- Transforming and aligning objects
- Selecting and modifying grouped objects
- Using the Content Collector Tool
Flowing Text
- Flowing text into an existing frame
- Slowing text manually
- Creating text frames while flowing text
- Flowing text automatically
- Creating threaded frames automatically
- Resizing text frames automatically
- Adding a jump line page number
Editing Text
- Finding and changing a missing font
- Entering and importing text
- Finding and changing text and formatting
- Checking spelling
- Editing text by dragging and dropping
- Using the story editor
- Tracking changes
Typography
- Adjusting vertical spacing
- Changing fonts and type styles
- Fine-tuning columns
- Changing paragraph alignment
- Creating a drop cap
- Adjusting letter and word spacing
- Setting tabs
- Adding a rule above a paragraph
Color
- Managing color
- Synchronizing color settings in Adobe Bridge
- Specifying color setting in InDesign
- Displaying images at full resolution
- Proofing colors onscreen
- Creating and applying colors
- Working with gradients
- Creating a tint
- Creating a spot color
- Applying colors to text and objects
- Using advanced gradient techniques
Styles
- Creating and applying paragraph and character styles
- Nesting character styles inside paragraph styles
- Creating and applying object styles, tables, and cell styles
- Globally updating styles
- Loading styles from another document
Importing and Modifying Graphics
- Adding graphics from other programs
- Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
- Managing links to imported files
- Updating revised graphics
- Adjusting display quality
- Clipping paths
- Alpha channels
- Importing native Adobe graphic files
- Using a library to manage objects
- Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics
- Snippets
Creating Tables
- Converting text to a table
- Formatting a table
- Creating a header row
- Adding graphics to a table cells
- Creating and applying table and cell styles
Printing and Exporting
- Preflighting files
- Packaging files
- Creating and Adobe PDF proof
- Previewing separations
- Previewing how transparency effects will be flattened
- Previewing the page
- Printing a laser or inkjet proof
- Using the ink manager
