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Overview: This three-day course teaches participants to use InDesign effectively. Students will build a basic multi-page document, and develop the skills to control type placement and formatting, place and edit graphics, and create and modify layouts with efficiency and accuracy.
Duration: 3 days
Fee: $1,190.00 per person
Upcoming Dates:
Nov. 3-5
Prerequisite: Microsoft Windows, Introductory or equivalent experience.
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Delivery: Instructor-led, hands-on, classroom delivery training.
Materials: Participants receive reference materials related to course topics. Sample files used in class are available by email, or on disk. Follow-up support for topics covered is available to participants via e-mail or phone for 90 days after the course.
Client Testimonial:
“Excellent training course - instructor was amazing at answering all my questions and even making suggestions as to what to look for. Very impressed also with the course material and the friendliness of the staff.
Thanks again for a great experience - look forward to returning in future and will certainly recommend the instructors and your company for all future requirements.”
Liz Webster, Adobe InDesign®, May 2006
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Outline: Upon successful completion, attendees will able to create professional looking documents by learning the skills to:
- layout an InDesign document, using menus, palettes and tools
- define a workspace and set preferences
- work with margins, guides, bleeds and slugs
- edit, create and modify master pages, and set up headers and footers
- base master pages on other masters and apply masters to multiple pages
- create, modify and flow text frames across pages
- import and edit text
- format type with character and paragraph style sheets
- place and manage graphics in a variety of formats
- place and edit native Photoshop and Illustrator files
- import files from various formats and create libraries to store and retrieve them
- choose when to retain the formatting of imported text, base one style on another, and how to import and redefine styles
- set a graphic’s attributes so text flows around it
- control composition, hyphenation and justification, set leading, and track and kern type
- drag items between document windows
- edit paths, create compound paths, edit clipping paths and convert text to outlines or tables
- create a table of contents, an index and a book consisting of multiple documents
- understand different colour models and work with color separations
- create or import XML tags and apply them to document content
- create a PDF version of an InDesign document for printing or posting on a website
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