Adobe InDesign Training

Adobe InDesign for QuarkXPress Users
- 2 days

Introduction

• Using the Navigator palette
• Simultaneous views of the same document
• The InDesign toolbox
• Using text and graphics frames
• Importing from Illustrator and Photoshop
• InDesign shortcuts

Text Controls

• Using the single-line and multi-line text composers
• Hyphenation and justification controls
• Using the Baseline grid
• Using Baseline shift
• Setting paragraph indents
• Precision kerning controls
• Creating in-line graphics
• Using stroke and fill on text
• Converting text to outlines
• Using the Story Editor

Working With Styles

• Creating paragraph styles
• Editing paragraph styles
• Using nested styles
• Basing one style on another
• Loading styles from other documents or templates

Working With Master Pages

• Creating and editing master pages
• Creating headers and footers
• How to unlock items on a page
• Automatic page numbering

Working With InDesign

• Creating tables in InDesign
• Importing tables from Excel
• Turning tab-delimited text into tables
• Using tables for layouts
• Formatting tables
• Using colour-fills for alternating rows

Customising Your Workspace

• Using the Control Palette
• Printing from InDesign
• Using the Separations Preview palette
• Using Preflight
• Exporting as a pdf
• A print checklist

Advanced Typographical Controls

• Using the Paragraph Composer
• Using optical kerning
• Using margin alignment
• Using dynamic text preview
• Working with transparency
• Creating drop shadows
• Using feathering
• Placing transparent Photoshop files
• Using soft edges
• Importing images with clipping paths
• Editing Photoshop clipping paths in InDesign
• Using the TextWrap tool