InDesign Fundamentals

Duration:................ 12 hours

Description:.......... You can design and produce professional print documents and layouts. Learn how to manipulate text, shapes, colors, and frames to create eye-catching print products using Adobe InDesign.

Objective:.............. Students will learn how to manipulate text, shapes, colors, and frames to create eye-catching print products. Students will learn how to manipulate page layout, control the appearance of text and tables, and create books, tables of content, and indices. They will also learn how to convert documents to PDF, HTML, and XML format, work with XML features and tags, and apply a variety of print options.

Course Content:

Unit 1 : Getting started with InDesign Topic A: Exploring the InDesign environment Topic B: Create, modify, and save documents Topic C: Master pages Unit 2 : Text Topic A: Text frames Topic B: Text formatting Topic C: Editing text Unit 3 : Objects Topic A: Creating objects Topic B: Transforming objects Topic C: Working with multiple objects Unit 4 : Paths Topic A: Creating paths Topic B: Editing paths Unit 5 : Colors, gradients, and strokes Topic A: Fill and stroke colors Topic B: The Eyedropper tool Unit 6 : Frames Topic A: Introducing frames Topic B: Special effects Unit 7 : Tables Topic A: Introducing tables Topic B: Editing tables Topic C: Table formatting

Unit 8: Page layout Topic A: Guides and grids Topic B: Layout options Topic C: Master pages Unit 9: Layers Topic A: The Layers palette Topic B: Objects and layers Unit 10: Text, links, and table features Topic A: Text Topic B: The Links palette Topic C: Tables Unit 11: Books, TOC, and indices Topic A: Books Topic B: TOC Topic C: Indices Unit 12: PDFs and Web documents Topic A: Creating PDFs Topic B: Adding interactivity to a PDF Topic C: Generating Web documents Unit 13: XML Topic A: XML features Topic B: Working with XML tags Topic C: Editing XML Unit 14: Print options Topic A: Printing types Topic B: Print options