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Adobe InDesign Training, For Print

2-day Course

Starting a new document

Setting document specifications and further options

Saving your document
Organising and managing files

Panels
Panel options
Preferences
Tools

Navigation

Zooming tool plus shortcuts
Using guides to help control layout

Creating shapes and lines

Specifying fill and other properties for shapes

Setting line style, colour and arrows for lines
Modifying shapes and images

Colour

Swatches panel, creating new colours

Colour types
The main colour models: RGB, CMYK and Spot colours

Colouring type, fills and borders

Tints and gradients
Importing colours
Applying colours from other objects

Imagery

Image frames
Quality issues
Image type, editing and importing
Scaling, cropping and rotating images
Borders
Previewing
Options on import
Text wrap

Text & Typography

Control bar
Text boxes: creating, editing, and properties
Type properties: size, font, style, alignment, hyphenation
Changing leading, tracking and kerning

Paragraph formatting
Importing, Jabber
wocky
Spellchecking
Text column control
Text flow
Find and replace

Shapes and Objects

Modifying shapes
Converting picture boxes to text boxes and vice versa
Spacing and aligning items
Duplicating objects

Step & Repeat

Object Grouping
Locking objects
Alignment

Style Sheets

Character v Paragraph Style Sheets – when to apply which
Applying and editing Style Sheets
Importing style sheets from other documents

Tables

Simple tables and using tables as ingenious solutions
Formatting cell properties

Adding images to cells
Resizing, merging, adding or removing row or column cells 

Importing table data from spreadsheets
Creating tables from selected text
Cell inset spacing

Applying Colour Management

Bridge
Set Up
Choosing Printer Device Profiles
Trapping Settings
Changing Image Profiles

Page Management

Adding new pages
Organising pages
Deleting pages 

Master page basics
Rotating
Preview quality
Adding content to the master page
Unlocking content

Production

Flattener preview
Separations Preview
Trap presets
Attributes
Layer overrides

Saving and Printing

Arranging pages
Basic colour management across devices
Bridge colour settings
Print options
PDF settings
Separations and how to handle them

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