Adobe InDesign: Intermediate and Advanced Topics

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COURSE LENGTH: 1 Day

COURSE COST: $345*

COURSE TIMES: 8:30am - 4:00pm


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COURSE OVERVIEW

Professionally designed multi-page documents reflect a qualified, trustworthy business. Building on the prerequisite InDesign page layout basics, we will learn powerful and time saving tools for consistent looking multi-page documents. Many types of business documents will benefit from professional looking design: employee handbooks, catalogs of products, forms for client information and newsletters.

We will learn to apply Character, Paragraph and Object "Styles" to speed up page layout, including skillful text and paragraph formatting. We will automate the look of image frames, including consistent borders and drop shadows. Also covered are incorporating formatted Word docs into InDesing, Master Pages, auto page numbers, combining documents into a full length "Book" with consistent Styles and page numbers applied throughout, and output for interactive PDF files, Web pages and offset printing.

This course is intended for students who want to expand their entry-level knowledge of Adobe InDesign by using advanced features and collaboration tools.

CS3 and CS4, PC and Mac users are encouraged to attend this course.

*Course Cost does not include books. Please contact a VTEC Account Manager for details.

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PREREQUISITES: To ensure your success in this course, it is strongly recommended that you take the Prerequisite Course listed below or have the equivalent knowledge.

• Adobe InDesign: Introduction to Creating Documents

COURSE TOPICS:

Layout text professionally to communicate clearly

Use Transparency Blend Modes to overlap colors

Link Anchored Objects to specific locations in text

Create a Library of commonly used pieces

Import Styles from Microsoft Word Documents

Create Nested Styles

Apply Styles in a Sequence

Manage Style Overrides

Redefine Styles

Break the Link Between Styles

Create Clipping Paths for wrap-around type

Create Type Outlines

Utilize graphics, placeholders and auto page numbers on the Master Pages

Merge Data

Create a Book document for consistent and automatic Styles and page numbers in multiple Chapter documents

Create an automatic Table of Contents that also creates hyperlinks for PDF files

Export PDF Files for different purposes

Manage CMYK Colors for Offset printing

Preview the Print Output

Export PDF using Print Presets

Export Files for Web viewing

Create Hyperlinks for PDF documents

Renaming Batches of images

Utilizing Metadata