Adobe InDesign CS4 - Advanced Techiques — A 1-day course

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Synopsis

This InDesign course 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.

Suitable For

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.

Publicly scheduled dates, locations, and prices

Course Contents

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

Bézier Shapes

• Bézier Paths
• Compound Paths
• Clipping Paths
• Type Outlines

GREP

• What is GREP
• How to use it