What you’ll learn

Course Topics:  

• The Document Window - rulers, margins, guides, X and Y coordinates, ruler origin, pasteboard and page views.
• Using Palettes - align, attributes, character, colour, layers, library, links, navigator, pages, paragraph and character styles, story, stroke, swatches, table, tabs palettes.
• Document Setup - layout options, grids, zoom and hand tools, controlling windows and saving documents.
• Working with Text - creating text frames, typeface, point size, line, character spacing, alignment, indents, hanging indents, kerning, tracking, leading.
• Working with Objects - types of frames, basic shapes, selecting, altering, aligning, step and repeat, transforming, grouping and locking objects.
• Working in Colour - creating Pantone (spot) and CMYK (process) colours, appending, swatches, gradients, tints, defining, storing, swatch libraries
• Styling Objects - fills, strokes, corner effects, transparency, drop shadows, feathering, using the eyedropper.
• Text Effects - wrapping text, text on a path, paragraph rules.
• Imported Graphics - placing artwork, specialty _frames, image import options, fitting, clipping paths, applying effects to images.
• Layers - working with layers, creating, duplicating and deleting layers, layer options. overprint preview features
• Tabs and Tables - tab characters, tab stops, leaders, creating tables, table options, cell options, strokes and fills.
• Exporting - file options, creating PDF files, PDF styles, exporting text.
• Keyboard Shortcuts - Macintosh and PC
• Menu Items and Preferences overview.

Module 2: Advanced InDesign

Using baseline grid

• setting the baseline grid distance
• locking paragraphs to the baseline grid
• grid threshold

Advanced settings on justifications and hyphenation

• word spacing – minimum, desired and maximum
• letter spacing – minimum, desired and maximum
• single word justification
• hyphenation options – after first, before last, hyphen limit
• hyphenation zone

Keep options

• widnow and orphan control
• keeping title and body text together
• start paragraphs
• widow and orphan control

Paragraph rules

• rule before and after
• using rule to create title text effect

More about find and change

• changing text attributes
• wildcard searching
• changing styles

Graphics

• using pen tool
• using pathfinder – add, substract, overlap

Automation

• data merge

Text variable

• define variable
• insert variable

More on styles

• objects styles
• table styles

Libraries

• create your own libraries
• using libraries
• storing objects and retrieving objects

Managing long document

• using book function
• how to synchronize styles and colour swatches in different documents
• table of contents
• numbering and section
• creating index

Printing

• using printer styles function
• preflight and package

Customization

• keyboard shortcuts
• menu