Certified Adobe InDesign Training
Course ID10
Adobe InDesign CS4
Users of Adobe InDesign CS3 can take this course to learn the functionality of InDesign.
Adobe© InDesign CS4 is the premiere page layout tool for both electronic and print publishing. Designed for seamless integration with other Adobe products, InDesign is changing the standards for magazine catalogue and advertisement publishing. In this hands on course, students will learn the fundamentals of producing high quality content for print and the web.
Course topics include:
- Understanding the work area, windows, palettes and tools
- Setting up a new document
- Navigation and Adobe Bridge
- Creating margins, columns, guides and setting up rulers
- Creating and editing master pages and templates
- Creating frames for graphics and text
- Feathering, shadows and corner effects
- Organizing elements in the layers palette
- Creating colours, tints and gradients
- Importing, Pouring, Flowing and Autoflow of type
- Editing and formatting type
- Typography basics and OpenType Fonts
- Creating paragraph and character styles
- Managing links and libraries
- Integration with Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat
- Importing content from Microsoft Office
- Creating functional and editable tables and forms
- Preflight, package
- Creating web and press ready PDF files
- Converting Quark Express and PageMaker files
Prerequisites: None
Duration: 2 days, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Fee: $695 + gst (CDN)
Course ID11
Adobe InDesign CS4 Large Document Publishing
Users of Adobe InDesign CS3 can take this course to learn the functionality of InDesign.
Adobe InDesign can be used to produce large-scale publishing projects. This course will introduce you to large-scale publishing techniques such as libraries, books, table of contents, indexes and working with XML documents. Printing and exporting large-scale documents will also be covered.
Course topics include:
- Sections, Books and Auto Pagination
- Grouping documents and generating book lists
- Generating an index and table of contents
- working with multi-page documents
- master items
- styles
- tabs
- sections and numbering
- libraries and snippets
- creating/opening/editing/deleting libraries
- adding/editing/deleting library items
- setting library display
- searching and sorting libraries
- creating and using snippets
- working with books
- books basics
- creating/opening/deleting books
- adding/removing/replacing documents
- synchronizing books
- printing/exporting books
- table of contents
- review document styles
- creating TOC entry styles
- generating the TOC
- saving the general TOC style
- updating the TOC
- TOC with books
- indexes
- creating index items
- modifying/deleting index items
- generating the index file
- indexes with books
- working with XML
- XML basics
- importing XML files
- linking/updating XML files
- viewing the structure of the document
- assigning styles to tags
- exporting XML files
- creating tagged PDF files
Prerequisites:ID10 or permission of the instructor
Duration: 1 day, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Fee: $395 + gst (CDN)
Course ID12
Adobe InDesign CS4 Interactive Documents
Users of Adobe InDesign CS3 can take this course to learn the functionality of InDesign.
This hands-on course will focus on interactive elements such as sound, movies, hyperlinks, bookmarks and buttons. Exporting to interactive PDF and Flash and viewing/editing the interactive PDF in Acrobat and Flash file will also be covered.
Course topics include:
- Creating Interactive Acrobat PDF forms
- Creating hyper-linked PDF files
- Creating Interactive PDF's, adding buttons, flash movie and sound files, assigning actions and rollover states to buttons
- working with images and text
- working with multi-page documents
- Types Of Interactive Elements
- hyperlinks
- bookmarks
- buttons
- Working With Multimedia
- working with sound
- working with movies
- Working With Hyperlinks
- defining hyperlinks
- creating destinations
- hyperlink appearance
- editing hyperlinks
- Working With Bookmarks
- creating bookmarks
- editing bookmarks
- Working With Buttons
- creating buttons manually
- creating buttons numerically
- creating buttons from objects
- typing/importing text to buttons
- button properties and states
- button behaviours
- Exporting Interactive Documents
- export options
- viewing/editing the PDF file
- export to Flash and Flash XFL format
Prerequisites:ID10 or permission of the instructor
Duration: 1 day, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Fee: $395 + gst (CDN)
