Adobe InDesign - Advanced
Adobe InDesign - Advanced
This one day course is designed for individuals who know the fundamental features of InDesign and need to understand the more advanced capabilities. This course helps you master the text-handling capabilities of InDesign, the advanced graphic and colour features, document layout and template building, long document features and preparation for print.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This one day course is designed for individuals who know the fundamental features of InDesign and need to understand the more advanced capabilities. This course helps you master the text-handling capabilities of InDesign, the advanced graphic and colour features, document layout and template building, long document features and preparation for print.
Prerequisites
Delegates should have a good knowledge of InDesign or have attended the New user course.
For more information on suitability, please give us a call on 0151 650 6907.
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Adobe InDesign - Advanced
Training Course Content
Master Pages
- Making master pages work
- Creating and editing master pages
- Applying master pages
- Setting page numbering
- Using hierarchical master pages
- Working with text
Working with Layers
- Moving items between layers
- Setting layer options
- Changing the stacking order
- Using layers with master pages
- Automatic layout adjustment
- Setting options for layout adjustment
- Using clipping paths
Typography
- Typographic shortcuts
- Using the Single Line Composer
- Using the Paragraph Composer
- Highlighting composition problems
- Creating hanging punctuation
- Manual kerning
- Using optical kerning
- Inserting special characters
- Creating drop caps
- Hyphenation and justification
Longer Documents
- Creating a table of contents
- Creating an index
- The Book palette
- Creating a book list
- Synchronising styles and colours
- Printing a book list
- Exporting a book list as PDF
- Page numbering across books
Drawing
- Using the drawing tools
- Creating freehand shapes
- Creating bezier curves
- Manipulating shapes
- Using the Transform palette
- Aligning objects
Special Effects
- Placing text on a path
- Creating drop shadows
- Working with transparency
- Exporting transparency
- Using Blend modes
- Using Feathering
- Creating multi-colour gradients
- Converting text to path