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Adobe Captivate

Course Duration: Two Days

Target Audience:

This course is intended for graphic designers, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers, pre-press professionals, and marketing communications professionals.

Course Objectives:

To familiarise course participants with the basic techniques of desktop publishing, including page layout design and typesetting.

Course Outline:

The Adobe InDesign Environment

  • Introduction to InDesign Publishing
  • Customise Your Workspace
  • Tools Overview

Creating a Document

  • Creating a New Document
  • Managing Document Pre-Sets
  • Altering a Document’s Layout
  • Creating the Structure of a Document

Managing Objects

  • Managing Text and Graphic Placement
  • Creating Pictures and Text Boxes
  • Stroke and Fill
  • Inserting Text
  • Importing Images
  • Viewing / Zooming
  • Managing Alignments
  • Scaling / Resizing / Rotating
  • Guides / Measurements
  • Layers / Layer Palette
  • Master Pages

Creating Complex Shapes

  • Vector vs. Bitmap Images
  • Creating Paths
  • Compound Paths
  • Pathfinder

Colours

  • Utilising Colour
  • Utilising Swatches
  • Using Gradients

Updating a Project

  • Recording Additional Slides
  • Importing PowerPoint Slides

Managing Text

  • Editing Text
  • Formatting Characters
  • Formatting Paragraphs
  • Managing Style Sheets
  • Spell-Checking Text
  • Thread Text
  • Outline Text
  • Text Wrap
  • Special Characters
  • Glyphs

Tables

  • Creating a Table
  • Modifying a Table
  • Formatting a Table

Special Effects

  • Transparencies
  • Other Effects

Preparing for Handoff to Service Provider

  • Using Links
  • Checking Documents for Problems
  • Printing a Document
  • Packaging Files

Creating Adobe Acrobat PDF Files

  • Manage PDF Pre-Sets
  • Prepare PDF Files for Web Distribution
  • Export PDF Files for Printing

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