Course Aims:

Gain total control over advanced word processing, typography and multiple page layout for advertising, magazines, brochures, catalogues, books and more. InDesign now even allows you to create interactive electronic PDFs!

The InDesign course sets you up for a role in publishing, a huge industry in South Africa and indeed the rest of the world.

Curriculum Outline:

• The InDesign work area
  
• Setting up your document
  
• Rulers and coordinates
  
• The control palette
  
• Properties of boxes & frames
  
• Basic shape operations
  
• Creating custom guides
  
• Vector based tools
  
• Creative transforming
  
• Basic text formatting
  
• Using colour, colour flow
  
• Links
  
• Orienting objects in space
  
• Controlling display quality
  
• Outlining text for effects
  
• Raster based effects
  
• Sequenced copy formatting
  
• Stepping objects
  
• Managing swatches
  
• Clipping paths & wraps
  
• Compound pathfinders
  
• Automated page management
  
• Style sheet applications
  
• Library, replace text, spellcheck
  
• Layers, linking, tabs, dropper forms
  
• Creating formatted tables
  
• Books & selections
  
• Controlling output effectively

Course Aims:

Optimise your workflow by taking advantage of the advanced features of InDesign. Understand your growing asset library better with Bridge. Get to grips with advanced objects and styles. Deal with unwieldly long documents. Sort out your Propress workflow, integrate InCopy and even include Multimedia features in your documents.

Curriculum Outline:

• Bridge
  
  • View assets with Adobe Bridge
    
  • Apply metadata and keywords to assets in Adobe Bridge
    
  • Set options for the Creative Suit colour settings
    
  • Creating and using alternatives
    
  • Setting up a version cue project and creating versions
    
  • Installing and accessing scripts
• Advanced objects
  
  • Create and use snippets
    
• Create and use anchored objects
  
• Creating libraries
  
• Advanced Styles
  
  • Create and use object styles
    
  • Create and use nested styles
    
  • Create and use table and cell styles
    
• Long documents
  
  • Sectioned documents
    
  • Creating and printing books
    
  • Insert footnotes
    
  • Format footnotes
    
  • Table of contents
    
  • Indexing
    
  • Using data merge
    
• Prepress Features
  
  • Exploring colour management
    
  • Printing with transparency
    
  • Transparency flattener styles
    
  • Output preview
    
  • Proof setup
    
  • Fixing fonts and image links
    
  • Separations and colour separation print settings
    
  • Trapping
    
  • Plug-ins
    
  • Exporting PDFS and EPS
    
  • Preflighting
    
  • Packaging Files (Print & Web)
    
  • Save in the interchange file format
    
  • Inbooklet plug-in
    
• Preparing InDesign for incopy workflow
  
• Multimedia and Interactivity
  
  • Importing video, flash and sound files
    
  • Creating buttons
    
  • Creating bookmarks and hyperlinks
    
  • Applying actions