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This course will familiarise you with the principles of typography and page layout and teach you a variety of the techniques for creating both simple newsletters and multi-page documents.
Course Outline
Day 1
An introduction to document construction
Creating and saving a document
Multiple page documents and moving between documents
Using the tools palette and understanding the measurements palette
Creating and linking text boxes
Formatting, positioning and importing text
Typographic preferences, font management
Leading, tracking and kerning
Manipulating items (rotating and skewing)
Using picture boxes, importing and modifying pictures,resizing and framing
Day 2
Flowing text around graphics, aligning text to paths, and producing irregular shaped cut-outs.
Grouped and locked items
Creating new colours
Colouring text and graphics
Working with the Pantone colour system.
Working with master pages, style sheets.
Exporting artwork as PDFs
Collecting files for Print
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