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    Adobe InDesign

    Adobe InDesign 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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