Course duration
- 3 days
Course Benefits
- Understand the InDesign workspace.
- Create basic page elements.
- Place images and text.
- Learn about typography and formatting text.
- Learn to manage fonts.
- Understand and work with InDesign templates.
- Learn about styles, and how they impact productivity.
- Use Master Pages to create design consistency.
- Learn how to work with tables.
- Learn about color management.
- Learn to define bulleted and numbered lists.
- Learn to control hyphenation.
- Learn to preflight files before output.
- Understand PDF options.
- Learn to package an InDesign file for hand-off.
Public expert-led online training from the convenience of your home, office or anywhere with an internet connection. Guaranteed to run .
Private classes are delivered for groups at your offices or a location of your choice.
Learn at your own pace with 24/7 access to an On-Demand course.
Course Outline
- Getting to Know the Environment
- Menus and Navigation
- Panels
- Tools
- Workspaces
- Rulers and Guides
- File Management
- Display Performance
- Exercise: InDesign Environment
- Creating a Project
- Creating a Project
- Adding Page Elements
- Edit Elements with Control Panel
- Exercise: Create a New Project
- Duplication
- Arrange Objects
- Exercise: Arrange Objects
- Complex Objects
- Edit Complex Objects
- Exercise: Complex Objects
- Text Objects
- Placing Text
- Exercise: Working with Text
- Print Preview
- Working with Multiple Pages
- Working with Graphics
- Workplace Setup
- Working with Color
- Exercise: New Color Project
- Working with Gradients
- Abstract Frames
- Anchored Objects
- Exercise: Gradients and Frames
- Organizing with Layers
- Working with Effects
- Object Styles
- Exercise: Special Features
- Working with Video
- Working with Text
- Text Placeholders
- Import Text from Word
- Text Threading
- Frame Breaks
- Exercise: Place Text
- Missing Fonts
- Typography
- Character Formatting
- Paragraph Formatting
- Text Wrap
- Text Alignment
- Exercise: Building a Page Layout
- Type on a Path
- Glyphs Panel
- Exercise: Advanced Text
- Master Pages
- Working with Master pages
- Creating Master Pages
- Working with Position
- Exercise: New Master Pages
- Import/Export Master Pages
- Setting Defaults
- Master Page Tools
- Flow of Text on Master Pages
- Set Defaults for Text Frames
- Set Page Numbers
- Exercise: Edit Master Pages
- Working with Templates
- Create a Project from a Template
- Replace and Fix Missing Objects
- Using the Links Panel
- Exercise: New Project from a Template
- Create Structure Using Master Pages
- Place Files
- Exercise: Add Content and Master Pages
- Working with Styles
- Bullet and Number Lists
- Place and Create Tables
- Exercise: Work with Styles and Objects
- Save as a Template
- Advanced Techniques
- Types of Variables
- Hyperlinks
- Exercise: Variables and Hyperlinks
- Object Stacking Order
- Find/Change Options
- InDesign Libraries
- Exercise: Libraries
- Forms
- Exercise: Forms
- Printing and Proofing a Project
- Spell Check
- Convert Text to Outline
- Save and Package
- PDF Bookmarks
- Exercise: Proof and Send
- Table of Contents
- Exercise: Table of Contents
- Printing
- Save as PDF
- Save as EPUB
- Exercise: Printing Variations
- Design Principles
- Page Layout Principles
- Terminology
- Designing for Web
- New Document Setup
- Create Buttons with Actions
- Adding Animation
- Export to HTML
Class Materials
Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.
Instructor-led courses are offered via a live Web connection, at client sites throughout Europe, and at our Geneva Training Center.