What you’ll learn

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

More text formating

• space before, space after
• using rules, drop caps
• drop cap
• indent to here

Working with Text box

• splitting, merging text box
• multi-columns text box using column guides and text box option

Working with Objects

• types of frames, basic shapes
• selecting, altering, aligning
• step and repeat, transforming
• grouping and locking objects

Master Page

• master page setup
• overriding master page’s items
• applying master page to document to standardize the format
• section

Page Numbering

• insert auto page number
• adding jump line, sectioning
• manual page numbering, page number prefix

Style

• paragraph style, character style
• nested style, tips and techniques in using style to manage a project

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

Working with Graphics

• placing artwork or graphics
• image import options
• various kind of fits

Layers

• working with layers
• creating, duplicating and deleting layers

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