Indesign Training

• Managing the InDesign Environment in Indesign
• Designing Documents in Indesign
• Managing Text in Indesign
• Utilizing Colors, Swatches and Gradients in Indesign
• Managing Transparency in Indesign
• Utilizing Tables in Indesign
• Preparing for Handoff to a Service Provider in Indesign
• Creating Acrobat PDF Files in Indesign
• Administering Advanced Styles in Indesign
• Controlling Text in Indesign
• Handling Page Elements and Graphics in Indesign
• Developing Bézier Paths in Indesign
• Managing Long Documents in Indesign
• Importing and Exporting Files in Indesign
• Adjusting Print Settings in Indesign

Adobe Indesign Training

Basics in Indesign

• InDesign in context
• General preferences in Indesign
• Bitmap vs vector, common file formats in Indesign
• Interpolation, resolution and quality issues in Indesign
• Import percentages (maximum) in Indesign
• Viewing/opening documents, browsing in Indesign
• Title bar info, new document specifications in Indesign
• Colour models in Indesign

Tools and Palettes in Indesign

• Tool bar, variations in Indesign
• Most commonly used palettes in Indesign
• Control palette in Indesign
• Properties in Indesign
• Document navigation in Indesign

Page usage in Indesign

• Pages in Indesign
• Viewing options in Indesign
• Rulers in Indesign
• Guides in Indesign
• Margins in Indesign
• Bleeds and slugs in Indesign
• Creating and deleting pages in Indesign
• Creating new documents in Indesign
• Master pages in Indesign
• Automatic page numbers in Indesign

Page contents in Indesign

• Item and page co-ordinates in Indesign
• Creating frames, objects, paths and lines in Indesign
• Frames: objects, text, pictures in Indesign
• Object grouping, scaling, modifications in Indesign
• Stacking order in Indesign
• Duplicating and re-using objects in Indesign
• Step and repeat in Indesign
• Alignment in Indesign

Attributes in Indesign

• Defining colours in Indesign
• Applying colours in Indesign
• Eyedropper styles ? click and drop in Indesign
• Strokes in Indesign
• Colour modes and extra resources in Indesign
• Process v spot colours in Indesign

Text in Indesign

• Placing in Indesign
• Text frame options, text wrap in Indesign
• Threading text frames in Indesign
• Find/change in Indesign
• Invisibles in Indesign
• Character formatting in Indesign
• Paragraph formatting in Indesign
• Introducing style sheets in Indesign
• Tabs in Indesign

Imagery in Indesign

• Various graphics formats, and integration issues in Indesign
• Links palette in Indesign
• Display performance in Indesign

Workflow in Indesign

• Layers in Indesign
• Printing and output in Indesign
• Legacy saving in Indesign
• Exporting to PDF in Indesign
• InBooklet in Indesign
• Keyboard shortcuts in Indesign

Project achievements:

• House ad/poster
• Section of a magazine
• Business card