Adobe Indesign Level 1
For those of you switching from QuarkXPress to InDesign you'll learn how use InDesign to do all the things you used to do in Quark. We have even created numerous pages of guides, comparisons, and tips and tricks that will help you understand how InDesign differs from Quark so you'll get up and running faster and easier
- The InDesign Tool Palette
- Creation of InDesign Document
- Basic Text Attributes:
- font, size, leading
- Creation of Letter
- Creation of Additional Documents
- Typography Basics:
- Character & Paragraph options (such as Paragraph spacing and indents)
- Tabs
- Hidden Characters
- Typography Essentials (More Complex Formatting):
- hanging bullets
- hyphenation
- kerning/tracking: metrics, optical, manual with keystrokes
- Rotating Text/Objects
- Transform Palette
- Flipping Horizontal/Vertical
- Multiple Page Documents
- Controlling Page Numbers (Section Start)
- Color:
- Creating and Application of Color Swatches
- Color palette versus Swatches palette
- CMYK (Process) versus Pantone (Spot) Colors
- Bezier Drawing Tools
- Type on a Path
- Multiple Text Columns
- Baseline Grid
- Text Wrap
- Paste in Place
- Graphics (including Transparency)
- Style Sheets:
- Paragraph Styles
- Character Styles
- Nested Styles
- Baseline Grid
- Hyphenation and Justification Settings
- Tables:
- creating new or importing from Excel
- formatting
- auto repeating headers
- Anchoring Images/Objects in Text
- Multiple Page Documents
- Master Pages
- Manual Linking of Text frames (across pages)
- Controlling Page Numbers (Section Start)
- Automatic Page Numbering
- Libraries
- Find/Change
- Spell Checking
- Advanced Keyboard Shortcuts
- Creating a Book:
- setting up and using Master Pages
- automatic flowing of text
- using style sheets to style text
- using Find/Change to speed things up
- Paragraph Rules
- Automatic Table of Contents
- Indexing
- Book Compiling & Synchronization
- Collecting Files for Output (Package feature)
- Printing Methods and Media
- Print Styles
