Adobe InDesign – Introduction Level Training

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Introduction Level Training

Duration: 2 days

InDesign Environment
  • InDesign environment elements
  • Document navigation
Basic Documents
  • Document setup
  • Creating text
  • Working with graphics
Graphics and Layout
  • Placing and manipulating graphics
  • Text wrap
  • Layers
Importing and Threading Text
  • Importing text
  • Threading text
  • Changing text threads
Colours, Swatches, and Gradients
  • Colours and swatches
  • Gradients
  • Applying fills and strokes to frames and type
Master Pages
  • Creating masters
  • Applying masters
Formatting Type
  • Character formatting
  • Paragraph formatting
  • Styles
  • Text inset spacing

Advanced Level Training

Duration: 1 day

Master Page Setup
  • Basing masters on existing master pages
  • Applying master pages to multiple document pages
Advanced Styles
  • Local overrides in styles
  • Basing one style on another
  • Importing and redefining styles
Text Flow Control
  • Inline graphics
  • Composition, hyphenation and justification
  • Tracking and kerning
  • Scaling text
Page Elements and Graphics
  • Item duplication
  • File formats
  • Libraries
Bezier Shapes
  • Bezier paths
  • Compound paths and Clipping paths
  • Type outlines
Document Sectioning
  • Sectioned documents
  • Sectioned document navigation
Managing Long Documents
  • Tables of contents and Indexing
  • Creating a book
Print Settings
  • Print presets
  • Colour separations