Adobe InDesign CS4: Advanced Techniques - Blended Learning

London (N1)

14/04/10

£

350

London (N1)

09/06/10

£

350

Manchester (Greater)

Manchester

14/04/10

£

350

Manchester

23/06/10

£

350

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Course Overview

InDesign CS4 - Advanced Techniques is a blended learning course which combines 1 day of instructor led InDesign training with additional online learning content covering a wide variety of advanced InDesign skills.

The classroom modules are covered over 1 day and can either be completed at our fully equipped London training centre or at your own facility, whilst the online modules combine high quality flash video presentations backed up with instructor led course discussion forums, exercises files, real world samples, and loads more.

Audience

This course is suitable for anybody who has attended the InDesign CS4 - Getting Started course or already has equivalent knowledge and wants to develop their InDesign skills to a more advanced level.

Course Outline

More about Masters

• Basing masters on existing master pages
• Applying master pages to multiple document pages
• Different page sizes
• Page shuffling and moving pages
• Overriding page items
• Sections

Advanced Styles

• Local Overrides in Style
• Basing One Style upon Another
• Importing and Redefining Styles
• Object styles
• Nested styles
• Line styles
• GREP styles

Creating Interactive PDFs- Advanced

• Buttons, Links, Movies - Techniques
• Documents for Flash
• Page transitions

Text Flow Control

• Composition, Hyphenation, and Justification
• Tracking and Kerning
• Scaling Text
• Anchoring objects
• Story Editor

Page Elements and Graphics

• Item Duplication
• File Formats
• Libraries
• Placing multiple files
• Placing InDesign files within InDesign files

Document Sectioning

• Sectioned Documents
• Sectioned Document Navigation
• Footnotes
• Indexing
• Markers

Managing Long Documents

• Tables of Contents
• Indexing
• Creating a Book

Print Settings

• Print Presets
• Colour Separations Print Settings
• Colour Management
• Colour Proofing

Advanced tables

• Table styles
• Cell styles

Transparency

• Adding Transparency
• Blending Colours
• Flattening

Using InDesign within CS4 - Advanced topics

• InDesign with Photoshop CS4
• InDesign with Illustrator CS4
• InDesign with Flash CS4 - using XFL

Advanced Textual techniques

• Cross-referencing
• Conditional Text

InDesign and data

• Datamerge with InDesign
• Structuring InDesign Documents with XML
• Importing XML

Customising

• Important preferences
• Customising the menus, palettes, and keyboard shortcuts
• Text variables

Bezier Shapes

• Bezier Paths
• Compound Paths
• Clipping Paths
• Type Outlines

GREP

• What is GREP
• How to use it