Overview InDesign

Basics

• Creating and saving a document
• The InDesign approach to page -layout
• Overview of features
• InDesign compared to QuarkXPress
• Exploring the interface
• Overview of tools
• Overview of palettes
• Navigating through documents
• Zooming in and out
• Print Preview and Print

Working with text

• Text frames
• Importing text
• Character formatting
• Paragraph formatting
• Indentation of text
• Working with tabs
• Find and replace and Spell-checker
• Running text around an image
• Creating threads

Master pages

• How master pages work
• Creating master pages
• Applying master pages
• Setting page numbering
• Using hierarchical master pages
• Making master pages work
• Creating and editing master pages
• Applying master pages
• Setting page numbering
• Using hierarchical master pages
• Working with text

Styles

• Benefits of using styles
• Creating character styles
• Creating paragraph styles
• Setting parent and child styles
• Applying styles
• Importing styles
• Document and default styles

Working with graphics

• Graphic frames
• Overview of graphic formats
• Importing graphics
• Resizing graphics
• Cropping graphics
• Using the Links palette
• Using in-line graphics
• Wrapping text around graphics
• Using clipping paths

Working with Layers

• Moving items between layers
• Setting layer options
• Changing the stacking order
• Using layers with master pages
• Automatic layout adjustment
• Setting options for layout adjustment
• Using clipping paths

Longer documents

• Creating a table of contents
• Creating an index
• Using the Book palette
• Creating a book list
• Synchronising styles and colours
• Printing a book list
• Exporting a book list as PDF
• Page numbering across books
• Creating libraries
• Adding and using library elements
• Searching libraries
• Creating a table of contents
• Creating an index
• The Book palette
• Creating a book list
• Synchronising styles and colours
• Printing a book list
• Exporting a book list as PDF
• Page numbering across books

Special effects

• Placing text on a path
• Creating drop shadows
• Working with transparency
• Exporting transparency
• Blend modes
• Feathering
• Corner effects
• Creating multi-colour gradients
• Converting text to paths
• Placing text on a path
• Creating drop shadows
• Working with transparency
• Exporting transparency
• Using Blend modes
• Using Feathering
• Creating multi-colour gradients
• Converting text to path

Tables

• Creating tables
• Formatting tables
• Imported tab delimited text
• Importing Word tables
• Importing Excel tables
• Filling alternating rows or columns

Page layout

• Setting margins
• Using a layout grid
• Creating custom guides
• Multi-columns layouts
• Using frame-based columns
• Using page-based columns

Interactivity

• Automatically generating links
• Generating bookmarks
• Using the button tool
• Button options
• Choosing events
• Creating web links
• Embedding Flash video
• Exporting interactive PDFs

Typography

• Typographic shortcuts
• Using the Single Line Composer
• Using the Paragraph Composer
• Highlighting composition problems
• Creating hanging punctuation
• Manual kerning
• Using optical kerning
• Inserting special characters
• Creating drop caps
• Hyphenation and justification
• Typographic shortcuts
• Using the Single Line Composer
• Using the Paragraph Composer
• Highlighting composition problems
• Creating hanging punctuation
• Manual kerning
• Using optical kerning
• Inserting special characters
• Creating drop caps
• Hyphenation and justification