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Adobe® InDesign®  Introductory Course

Next scheduled courses: Thursday 4th & Friday 5th March 2010, Guildford, Surrey

Price: £415 now only £395 + vat (£464.13 incl vat) including course notes, lunch and unlimited e-mail support.

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This Adobe InDesign course is aimed at new users who have little or no previous experience of desktop publishing and who wish to learn Adobe InDesign. Starting from first principles, delegates will be led through the procedures for creating new documents and modifying existing ones, and will consolidate their knowledge by means of a series of carefully constructed exercises at each stage. The course may also be suitable for users of QuarkXPress or Adobe PageMaker wishing to transfer their skills to Adobe InDesign.

At the end of the course, delegates should feel confident and enthusiastic about using Adobe InDesign and will learn how to create a range of simple but well laid-out documents including short, design-intensive publications such as flyers, leaflets and newsletters, through to longer single chapter books, catalogues and brochures.

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This Adobe InDesign training course can be tailored to a clients particular needs.

During this Adobe InDesign training course you will learn about:

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Overview of Desktop Publishing

The Traditional Publishing Process

The Desktop Publishing Process using Adobe InDesign

Understanding the User Interface

The Adobe InDesign Views – Story Editor & Layout

The Adobe InDesign Toolbox

The Control Palette

Docking, Undocking and Floating Palettes

Setting Adobe InDesign Document and Application Preferences

The Adobe InDesign Selection Tools

Creating, Opening and Saving Documents

Converting QuarkXPress and Adobe PageMaker Documents

Opening Existing Documents

Saving your Work

Creating a New Document

Adobe InDesign Document Setup

Working with Graphics

Importing (Placing) Pictures and other Graphic Elements

Understanding the Difference between Bitmap and Vector Graphics

Maintaining Image Quality – Avoiding the "Jaggies"

Using Rectangular, Elliptical and Polygonal Frames as Containers for Graphics

Cropping, Sizing & Scaling Images

Wrapping Text Around Frames & Graphics

Moving & Transforming Frames & Graphics

Applying Fills & Strokes

Drawing Lines & Boxes

Colour Issues

Applying, Editing and Creating Colour Fills & Strokes

Using Pantone and Other Colour Matching Standards

Converting Pantone Colours to Process CMYK Colours

Formatting & Editing Text

Adding Type to a Page with the Type Tool

Importing (Placing) Text

Formatting Text

Working with the Story Editor

Spell Checking, Search & Replace

Linking and Unlinking Text Frames

Drop Caps and Bullets

Printing & Typesetting Terminology Explained

Choosing and Using Typefaces Effectively

Understanding Leading, Kerning, Tracking etc.

Typesetting for maximum readability

Working with Tables

Inserting a Table in an Adobe InDesign Document

Adding Text to a Table

Adding Pictures to a Table

Formatting Text in Tables

Merging & Splitting Table Cells

Inserting/Deleting Rows & Columns

Setting the Grid & Border Properties

Longer Document Handling Features

Autoflowing text through multiple pages

Creating and Using Paragraph Style Sheets

Creating and Using Character Style Sheets

Automatic Page Numbering

Headers & Footers

Printing & Output

Print Options

Package a Document to send to an External Print Provider

PDF Output Options

Some Common Output Problems explained – Fonts and Picture Formats

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This course is offered by PPA Education & Training, an independent training organisation which is in no way connected with the trading entity known as Adobe Systems Incorporated. No attempt is made herein to represent PPA as an agent or representative of Adobe Systems Inc., and the courses described on this website are not endorsed or authorised in any way by Adobe Systems Incorporated.