Quark to Indesign for Magazines - Intermediate

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Price: see custom ratecard Duration: 3 Platforms: PC

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This unique course is designed to make a magazine's transition from Quark to Indesign as smooth as possible. It's a 3 day course, with each day building on the understanding of the previous day. As we anticipate the needs of a Sub being different from an Art Director, they would only come on the first day. Designers would come on the first two days, and people needing an input into the whole process (like Art Directors and Editors) would need to come on the third day.

This course can be customised to suit your particular requirements.

Day 1 - Subs, Writers and Designers
Day 2 - Designers, Editors, Art Editors
Day 3 - Art Directors and Editors

Course Outline

Day 1

The Intro course is aimed with subs and writers in mind, focusing mainly on their needs, but also giving a broader view of Indesign's approach to magazine layout.

Overview of Indesign
Working with Indesign's palettes
Creating a new document from a template
Understanding Master Pages
Changing the number of columns on a page

Placing text into Indesign
Linking and unlinking text frames
Dealing with overmatter
Using duplicate windows
Using the story editor
Finding and changing text
Checking spelling
Word counts in Indesign

Preventing problems when importing text from Word
Applying styles to paragraphs and characters
Removing unwanted styles
Navigating through text
Basic character formatting
Basic paragraph formatting
Applying kerning and tracking
Controlling space between paragraphs
Controlling hyphenation
Inserting white space
Inserting special characters
Changing text colour
Working with multiple pages
Controlling page order
Text frame options

Introduction to Layers
Importing graphics
Resizing and repositioning graphics
Running text around graphics

Day 2

The Advanced course builds on that understanding, filling out knowledge of the program and providing more ways of working creatively. It's more specifically intended for designers, editors, art editors etc.

Using workspaces
Zoom and navigation shortcuts
Using context sensitive menus
Display performance
Using Preview mode

Editing master pages
Automatic page numbering
Overriding master items
Creating guides
Finding custom tracked text
Creating styles

Different ways of placing pictures
Advanced transformation options
Colours and swatches
Sampling colours from a picture
Changing text in multiple boxes simultaneously

Applying rounded corners to frames
Creating drop shadows in Indesign
Working with cut out images
Clipping paths in Indesign
Cut outs without clipping paths
Placing text on a path
Masking with type
Drawing with the pen tool

Importing Photoshop documents
Importing Illustrator documents
Moving items across layers
Copying items across layers

Finding an image's resolution within Indesign
Using the links palette
Preflighting documents
Collecting for output
Introduction to creating PDFs

Additional days

The Troubleshooting course is for those who might be making more overall decisions on how Indesign will be used across the magazines. There will be time to explore some of the more complex and powerful features of the program so that their use and implementation can be properly considered. In addition there will be time to look at common problems that users face, and ways to solve them.

Preferences
Useful shortcuts
Solving common problems
Customizing shortcuts
Copying workspaces and shortcuts across machines
Sharing colours between documents
Using libraries
Using measurements and proxies

Master page setup options
Basing master pages on master pages
Working with sections
Working with section markers
Master Pages and overrides
Making best use of layers

Advanced style options
Nested styles
Optical margin alignment
The Adobe paragraph composer
Opentype features
Glyph Sets

Tables
Understanding transparency and flattening
Transparency Flattener
Creating PDF export presets

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