InDesign - Introduction

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The aim of this course is to familiarise you with the basic principles of typography and page layout and guide you through a variety of the techniques used for creating both simple newsletters and multi-page documents. As well as page layout and text handling features you will also be shown time saving shortcuts and professional tips.

Working with multi-page documents
Typographic controls
Save files in different formats
Preparing files for print

Course Outline

Day 1

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An overview of Desktop Publishing
How Quark, Indesign, Illustrator and Photoshop fit together
An overview of Indesign's interface
About structure
Creating a simple document
How to use guides
Aligning objects easily
Fills, strokes, colours, swatches

Importing text
How to link and unlink boxes
Running text around pictures
Containers and contents
Indesign’s choice of selection tools

Sampling colours from pictures
Working with layers
Applying drop shadows in Indesign
Corner effects and feathering objects
Other transparency effects within Indesign

Day 2

Making best use of Indesign’s palettes
Customising the workspace to suit your way of working
Working with multi-page documents
About Master Pages
Automatic Page Numbering

Inserting special characters
Character formatting
Paragraph formatting
Creating and applying Styles to text

Preparing an Indesign file for print
Preflighting and packaging documents
Creating PDFs from Indesign

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