Adobe InDesign (Advance)

In ThinkBIG’s two-day, hands-on Advanced Adobe InDesign training class, students will learn advanced tips, tricks, and techniques for publishing with InDesign. This course will expand on the concepts in Intro and will cover best practices and additional features.

Editing Text:

• Entering and importing text
• Finding and changing text and formatting
• Checking spelling
• Editing text by dragging and dropping
• Using the Story Editor
• Tracking changes
• Exploring on your own
• Review questions
• Review answers

Working with Typography:

• Adjusting vertical spacing
• Working with fonts, type styles, and glyphs
• Working with columns
• Changing paragraph alignment
• Creating a drop cap
• Adjusting letter and word spacing
• Adjusting line breaks
• Setting tabs
• Working with paragraph shading and rules

Working with Styles:

• Creating and applying paragraph styles
• Creating and applying character styles
• Nesting character styles inside paragraph styles
• Creating and applying object styles
• Creating and applying table and cell styles
• Globally updating styles
• Loading styles from another document

Creating Tables:

• Working with tables
• Converting text to a table
• Changing rows and columns
• Formatting a table
• Adding graphics to table cells
• Creating a header row
• Creating and applying table and cell styles

Importing and Modifying Graphics:

• Adding graphics from other programs
• Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
• Managing links to imported files
• Updating revised graphics
• Adjusting display quality
• Importing and sizing graphics
• Editing placed pictures
• Working with dropped backgrounds
• Importing native Adobe graphic files
• Using subject-aware text wrap
• Filling type with a graphic
• Using an InDesign library to manage objects

Working with Transparency:

• Creating a background graphic
• Applying transparency settings
• Adding transparency effects to imported vector and bitmap graphics
• Importing and adjusting Illustrator files that use transparency
• Applying transparency settings to text
• Working with effects

Printing and Exporting:

• Preflighting files
• Previewing separations
• Managing colors
• Previewing transparency effects
• Previewing the pages
• Creating an Adobe PDF proof
• Creating a press-ready PDF and saving a PDF preset
• Printing a proof and saving a print preset
• Packaging files
• Exporting graphics for the web and other digital destinations

Creating Adobe PDF Files with Form Fields:

• Setting up a workspace for forms
• Adding form fields
• Setting the tab order of the fields
• Adding a button to submit the form
• Exporting an interactive Adobe PDF file
• Testing your form in Acrobat Reader

Creating a fixed-Layout epub and publishing online:

• Creating a new document for fixed-layout export
• EPUB: Fixed-layout versus reflowable
• Adding animation
• Buttons
• Adding multimedia and interactive elements
• Exporting a fixed-layout EPUB file
• InDesign Publish Online