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
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Introduction to InDesign Publishing
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Customise Your Workspace
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Tools Overview
Creating a Document
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Creating a New Document
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Managing Document Pre-Sets
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Altering a Document’s Layout
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Creating the Structure of a Document
Managing Objects
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Managing Text and Graphic Placement
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Creating Pictures and Text Boxes
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Stroke and Fill
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Inserting Text
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Importing Images
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Viewing / Zooming
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Managing Alignments
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Scaling / Resizing / Rotating
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Guides / Measurements
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Layers / Layer Palette
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Master Pages
Creating Complex Shapes
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Vector vs. Bitmap Images
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Creating Paths
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Compound Paths
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Pathfinder
Colours
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Utilising Colour
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Utilising Swatches
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Using Gradients
Updating a Project
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Recording Additional Slides
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Importing PowerPoint Slides
Managing Text
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Editing Text
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Formatting Characters
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Formatting Paragraphs
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Managing Style Sheets
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Spell-Checking Text
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Thread Text
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Outline Text
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Text Wrap
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Special Characters
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Glyphs
Tables
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Creating a Table
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Modifying a Table
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Formatting a Table
Special Effects
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Transparencies
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Other Effects
Preparing for Handoff to Service Provider
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Using Links
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Checking Documents for Problems
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Printing a Document
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Packaging Files
Creating Adobe Acrobat PDF Files
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Manage PDF Pre-Sets
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Prepare PDF Files for Web Distribution
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Export PDF Files for Printing