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Adobe InDesign Level 1 - Course Information

Name: Adobe InDesign Level 1
Category: Adobe Creative Suite
Length (Days): 2
Course Price (CAD): 590

Description:
InDesign is covered comprehensively, including basic layout, text and graphics manipulation, drawing tools (bezier curves), color creation and application, paragraph, master pages, multiple pages, baseline grid, libraries, and much more. Essential typography rules are also covered.

Prerequisites: Before taking this course, the student must

have basic PC skills, including a basic understanding of a
computer's operating system, how to launch an application
and create and save files, as well as how to copy files
from CDs and other media.

Outline:

Introduction
New features in InDesign CS
InDesign workflow overview

Workspace
The Document window
Navigating your document
Rulers and measurements
The Tools
The Tool panel
Keyboard shortcuts
Contextual menus

Creating a Document
New documents
Margin and column guides
Layout adjustment
Ruler guides
Libraries and snippets
Saving

Managing Pages
Inserting, deleting, and moving pages
Sections, page numbers, and chapter numbers
Creating and applying master pages
Overriding master page items

Text
Text frames
Importing text
Threading text frames
The Story Editor
Spelling, Auto Correct
Finding and changing text

Graphics
Importing graphics
Frame fitting options
The Links panel
Embedding links
Formatting Objects
Selecting objects
Basic strokes and fills
Object Effects
The Eyedropper tool
Finding and changing object formatting

Managing Objects
Stacking objects
Nesting objects
Editing frame and path shapes
Grouping and locking objects
Aligning and distributing
Text wrap
Transforming Objects
Duplicating, Rotating, Scaling and Skewing
The Transform Again command

Character Formatting
Basic character styling
Finding and changing text formatting
The Find Font command
Paragraph formatting
Drop caps, Hyphenation, Justification, Tabs
The Align to Baseline Grid button
The Keep Options command
Paragraph rules
Automatic bullets and Numbering paragraphs

Styles
Character styles
Paragraph styles
Object styles
Load styles

Color
Creating color swatches
Gradient swatches

Exporting
Exporting a PDF JPG EPS
Exporting stories
Printing
Preflight
Packaging for output
The Print dialog box

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