2-Day Course Content
- What is desktop publishing
- Why InDesign.
- Overview of the interface
- Creating customised workspaces
- Organising panels
- Customising menu
- Changing default settings.
- Creating a new document
- Bleed
- Slug and margins
- Facing pages
- Columns and gutter
- What are frames
- Creating frames
- Moving frames
- Aligning frames
- Sizing and positioning
- Rounded corner
- Anchoring frames
- Rotating and skewing
- Creating frames from text
- Creating text frames
- Using placeholder text
- Inserting special characters
- Glyphs
- Threading text frames
- Viewing threads
- The story editor
- Text frame options
- Inset spacing
- Hyphenation
- Paragraph shading
- Importing from Word
- Leading
- Kerning and tracking
- Drop caps
- Baseline shift
- Justification and alignment
- Lowercase
- Sentence case and title case
- Indents
- Bullets
- Formatting bullets
- Grouping and ungrouping
- Change object shape
- Rotating a spread
- Arranging objects
- Layers panel
- Different file formats
- Placing images
- Frame fitting options
- Text wrap options
- Resizing and positioning images
- Select vs direct select
- Content grabber (and how to turn it off)
- Display performance
- Clipping paths
- Creating layouts
- Guides and smart guides
- The gap tool
- Liquid layout
- Alternate layout using the page tool
- Live distribute
- Merging frames
- Compound shapes
- Working with masters
- Creating masters
- Importing masters
- Applying masters
- Master options
- Page numbering
- Numbering and sections
- Understanding colours: CMYK, RGB, pantone etc.
- Creating colours
- Saving colours as swatches
- Sampling colours from images
- Exporting and importing colours
- Applying colours to strokes and fills
- Adobe colour themes panel
- Creating gradients
- Saving gradients as swatches
- Applying gradients to items
- Linear vs radial
- Angle and location
- Creating a new table
- Convert text to table
- Strokes and fills
- Alternating row and column strokes
- Adding rows and columns
- Deleting rows and columns
- Merge and unmerge
- Placing images into tables
- Drop and inner
- Shadow
- Inner and outer
- Glow
- Bevel and emboss
- Satin
- Transparency
- Character styles
- Paragraph styles
- Style priority
- Creating styles
- Applying and removing styles
- Overrides
- Redefining styles
- Importing styles
- Removing unused styles
- Nested styles
- Why preflighting
- Detecting errors
- Identify and correct errors
- Custom profiles
- Packaging all files
- PDF presets (print ready, small size etc.)
- Including printers marks/bleed
- Compression
- Export to interactive PDF
- Page transitions (fade, blind, etc.).
- Brief overview of related technologies and features
- Publish online (technology preview)
- CC libraries
- Adobe Comp
- Adobe Muse.