Adobe InDesign

Objectives: The course teaches students how to use Adobe InDesign to design professional looking documents and print layouts.

Pre Requisites: Attendees should be familiar with PCs and have a basic of graphics

Duration: 2 day

The topics covered are as follows:

1 Getting Started
• The Adobe inDesign environment
• Basic Documents
• Item Position
• Using the Control Palette

2 Structuring multi-page documents
• Multi page documents
• Master pages

3 Typesetting
• Text Frame Threading
• Paragraph Formatting
• Styles
• Using Find/Change
• Character Formatting

4 Modifying items
• Text Frames
• Graphics
• Grouped items
• Layers

5 Finalising documents
• Outputting Documents
• Commercial Printing Preparation

6 Preferences
• InDesign Preferences
• Document settings

7 Efficient Layout
• Document setup
• Object Libraries
• Item Spacing

8 Vector Paths
• Vector path creation
• Paths / Pictures / Type on a Path

9 Typography
• Manual type re-sizing
• Graphics in Typography
• Precise leading Control
• Composition / Hyphenation
• Justification / Horizontal Spacing

10 Graphics
• Transparency
• Object styles

11 Tables
• Creating Tables
• Changing Table Structure
• Formatting Tables

12 Type Editing
• Story Editor
• Columns / Frames
• Anchored Objects

11 Long Documents
• Sectioning
• Table of Contents
• Indexing / Books

microcomputing serves the Tyne & Wear, Northeast England region, with software training courses arranged for all types of companies in Sunderland, Washington, Gateshead and Newcastle as well as County Durham, Northumberland and the Teeside area with courses for organisations in Middlesbrough, Darlington and Stockton.