InDesign Advanced
Pre-requisites
Delegates for the InDesign Advanced course should be familiar with either the MAC or Windows environment. This course would be relevant to those who have covered the InDesign Introduction or gathered DTP experience in the work place.
Objectives
Build on their introductory knowledge of InDesign and work on longer, more complex document design and construction.
This Advanced course gives delegates the opportunity to build on InDesigns basic functions. It is a course that primarily focuses on long document handling and all the techniques involved in the production of text and graphic rich long layouts.
Practicalities
InDesign preferences, setting up and adapting the baseline grid attributes.
Long document handling
Creating and applying style sheets, benefits of using style sheets, generating and formatting tables of contents, generating and formatting indexes, libraries and snippets, book palette, synchronising styles and colours, page numbering across books/chapters.
Master Pages
Creating and using master pages, breaking master page links, multiple master pages, page numbering, section breaks.
Layers
working with layers, layer order and options, layer adjustment options.
Graphics
Using compound paths and shapes, text to frames, image import options, using clipping paths, alpha channels (from Photoshop) best practice for importing and using transparent images, graphic formats.
Whizzy Effects
Text on a path, text path options, drop shadows, rounded corners, transparency palette, gradient editing.
Printing & Exporting
Print options, packaging for print, pre-flight options, exporting to pdf.