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Adobe InDesign CS2

$699, 2 days

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In this two-day course, you’ll learn the extensive and flexible features of Adobe’s flagship page layout program, from elegant typography to unequaled design capabilities. You’ll see how Adobe InDesign integrates with other Adobe Creative Suite applications and how its intuitive interface enhances the design process.

We offer this class only as a private class; please contact training@scriptorium.com for pricing and details.

Prerequisites

Students should have a solid working knowledge of a desktop publishing application (such as PageMaker or Quark XPress) or an illustration application (such as Illustrator).

Syllabus

The preliminary syllabus—provided by Claudia McCue—is as follows:

Lesson 1: Getting to Know the Work Area

• Customizing the workspace
• Using palette menus
• Changing document views
• Navigation
• Layers
• Using context menus
• Selecting objects
• Using online help

Lesson 2: Working with Frames

• Creating, modifying, and transforming text frames
• Creating, modifying, and transforming graphics frames
• Text wrap
• Text inset
• Duplicating frames
• Alignment controls
• Rotating an image within its frame
• Object Styles
• Repeating transformations

Lesson 3: Importing and Editing Text

• Managing fonts
• Creating and entering text
• Flowing text
• Working with paragraph and character styles
• Using Quick Apply
• Vertically aligning text
• Threading text
• Changing the number of columns on a page
• Changing horizontal and vertical text alignment
• Finding and changing
• Spell-checking
• Text on a path

Lesson 4: Typography

• Adjusting vertical spacing
• Using baseline grids
• Space before/space after paragraphs
• Changing fonts and type style
• Changing paragraph alignment
• Applying special font features
• Creating drop caps
• Applying a fill and stroke to text
• Kerning and tracking
• Working with tabs
• Adding a rule below a paragraph

Lesson 5: Working with Color

• Adding colors to the Swatches palette
• Applying colors to objects
• Creating dashed strokes
• Creating a tint
• Creating a spot color
• Applying color to text
• Working with gradients

Lesson 6: Importing and Linking Graphics

• Adding graphics from other programs
• Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
• Managing links to imported files
• Using Object Layer options
• Updating revised graphics
• Working with clipping paths
• Display settings for display performance
• Using a library to manage objects

Lesson 7: Creating Tables

• Importing and formatting a table
• Formatting borders and alternating row colors
• Placing graphics in table cells
• Formatting text within a table
• Working with tables within existing text frames

Lesson 8: Setting Up Documents

• Creating and saving a custom page size
• Starting a new document
• Editing master pages
• Creating a master for footers
• Creating a placeholder frame on the master
• Applying masters to document pages
• Overriding master-page items on document pages
• Editing master pages

Lesson 9: Working with Transparency

• Applying transparency settings
• Changing the opacity of solid-color objects
• Applying blending modes
• Applying feathering to the margins of an image
• Adjusting the transparency settings for EPS images
• Creating a drop shadow
• Successfully imaging transparency

Lesson 10: Creating Interactive Documents

• Bookmarks
• Hyperlinks
• Adding a navigational button
• Adding a movie
• Adding a button with rollover and down states
• Adding a play movie action to a button
• Exporting the final document as an Adobe PDF

Lesson 11: Combining Files into Books

• Creating a book file
• Setting the order and pagination
• Adding the table of contents
• Synchronizing book documents
• Updating the table of contents after editing
• Indexing the book

Lesson 12: Printing & Print Preparation

• Separation preview
• Transparency flattener preview
• Preflight
• Package
• Printing a laser or inkjet proof

Lesson 13: Exporting to PDF

• Getting started
• Selecting PDF quality
• Create PDF for emailing or web posting
• Viewing the PDF created from Adobe InDesign CS2
• Creating a PDF file with layers
• Viewing a layered PDF
• Creating and applying a PDF preset
• Using the PDF preset