InDesign CS4
2 Day Course - Schedule and Locations

COURSE OUTLINE

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. Upon completion of this course you will be able to navigate and zoom in an InDesign document. Place text and graphics, apply paragraph styles, and create and apply character styles. Edit and apply master pages and override master page items and output an InDesign document to PDF. Learn to control margin, columns, and guides within a document; modify frames and apply the fitting commands to frames and their content. Define colors using the Swatches palette as well as create and apply gradients and tints.

Course Outline:

A Quick Tour of InDesign
What is InDesign?
Navigating in InDesign
Zooming a document
Place and flow text in frames
Working with styles
Placing graphics
Working with master pages

Working with Frames
Modifying text frames
Modifying graphics frames
Wrapping text around an object
Fitting the content to the frame
Modifying the stroke of a frame
Transforming a frame

Creating and Applying Colors
Adding colors to the Swatches palette
Applying colors to objects
Creating a spot color
Applying color to text

Tints and Gradients
Working with gradients
Creating a tint

Importing and Editing Text
Flowing text
Working with styles
Showing hidden characters
Threading text
Changing the number of columns
Creating and applying a character style
Finding and changing
Spell-checking a story

Working with Typography
Preparing and using a baseline grid
Changing type spacing and appearance
Adding special characters
Creating a table using tabs

Creating a PDF
Importing and Linking Graphics
Adding graphics from other programs
Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
Managing links to imported files
Using a library to manage objects

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