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Course
Length: Two Days
Fees: Training at Client Offices:
One
delegate: £495 per-day + VAT
Additional delegates attending: £100 each per-day + VAT
Overview:
InDesign is Adobe’s flagship page
layout programme and probably the most advanced page layout software
available. As well as being an introduction for complete
beginners, this course is designed to enable
delegates currently using either PageMaker or QuarkXpress to
switch to InDesign without any loss in productivity or work
quality.
InDesign combines powerful type, graphics and printing
controls with an ability to work seamlessly with Illustrator
and Photoshop. As well as offering controls common to other
page layout programmes it contains many advanced features
which will not be found elsewhere.
Day One
The Basics
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Creating a new document - understanding the page settings |
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Getting around on the page - zooming in and out, the grabber
hand |
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The
navigator palette |
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Multiple views of a document |
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The
toolbox |
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Converting PageMaker or quark documents |
Working with text and graphics
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Creating and using text frames |
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Importing and formatting text |
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working with paragraph styles (tabs; indents; working with
character styles; spell checking) |
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search
and replace |
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Linking text frames |
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Resizing, rotating and moving frames |
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Nesting frames |
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Hyphenation controls |
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Alignment controls |
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Kerning controls |
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Colouring text - using stroke and fill |
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Colouring frames |
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Converting text to outlines |
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Importing from Illustrator and Photoshop |
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Generating transparency in created and imported objects |
Master pages
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Creating, editing and applying master pages |
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Headers and footers |
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Automatic page numbering |
Shortcuts
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The
keyboard shortcut editor |
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Applying Quark Express keyboard shortcuts |
Day 2
Working with paths
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Creating different kinds of path shapes |
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Combining paths |
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The
scissors tool |
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Filling paths |
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Clipping paths (importing clipping path images; creating new
clipping paths; tolerance and threshold) |
Layers
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How
layers work |
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Creating new layers (naming layers; hiding and displaying
layers; locking layers) |
Working with colour
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Using
the colour palette |
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Creating and editing colours |
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Colour
management systems (ICC systems; keeping colours consistent;
RGB vs. CMYK) |
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The
swatches palette |
Other controls
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The
links palette |
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Setting up and using grids |
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Ruler
guides |
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Layout
adjustment |
Printing
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A
printing checklist |
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Smart
font mapping |
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Trapping settings |
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Creating PDF documents |
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InDesign and the web
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