Adobe inDesign CS

Advanced Level 

inDesign excels in advanced typographic arrangement and design precision. Seamlessly integrated with Illustrator and Photoshop it handles imagery and text expertly and intuitively; through layers and fine controls, it produces superior literature with print specifications as complex as you will ever need.

Useful to you if:

you need to design professional literature such as books, magazines, posters, newsletters, brochures, or if you work at the print or production end of the literature design chain.

Before the course, you should:

have a working knowledge of inDesign.

At the end of the day’s course you will:

• have produced an advertisement, and a brochure with spot colour separations;

• be comfortable with print specifications;

• know some advanced keyboard shortcuts to improve workflow.

Course contents (may vary slightly):

Basics

InDesign basics recap

General preferences

Customising InDesign

Bridge and version cue

Tools and Palettes

Tool bar, variations

Less commonly used palettes

Control palette – options

Workspace

Page usage

Facing pages

Setting footnotes

Layout options

Sectioning

Objects

Pathfinder

Effects

Runaround/wrap

Tables

Attributes

Colour management

Transparency

Gradients

Text

Story editor

Table of contents and index tools

Special characters and spaces

OpenType fonts

Glyph palette

Importing Word using style sheet mapping

Advanced style sheets

Setting tables and importing Word, Excel and other

tab-delimited data

Anchoring shapes and lines into text

Imagery

Editing and creating clipping paths

Working with alpha channels

Display performance

Import options, eps. Photoshop, layers etc

Workflow

Layers and separations

Printing separations

File info

Separations preview

Ink manager

Snippets

Libraries

Trap presets

Interactive options

Video

Bookmarks

Buttons

Hyperlinks

Legacy saving

Exporting to PDF, universal standards

InBooklet

Preflight

Package

Story palette

Keyboard shortcuts

Project achievements:

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Brochure with spot colour separations

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