Adobe InDesign Intermediate:

An easy to use design and layout program and a worthy challenger to Quark. During this course you will learn how to create documents of many types, from single page advertisements and flyers, to complex multi-page colour publications.

Course Outline
InDesign Intermediate 1 - 2 Days

Who is it for?

Anyone looking to exceed their current knowledge of InDesign using more advanced features.

Master pages & Advanced Styles

• Creating & applying master pages & using hierarchical master pages
• Setting page numbering
• Setting, editing and local overrides in styles
• Basing one style on another, Importing and redefining styles

Typography & Text Flow

• Typographic shortcuts, Inline graphics & special characters
• Creating drop caps, Hyphenation and Justification
• Tracking and scaling text, Using the Single Line & Paragraph Composer
• Manual and optical kerning

Drawing & Special Effects

• Using the drawing tools & creating freehand shapes
• Creating bezier curves, manipulating shapes & aligning objects
• Using the Transform palette & eye-dropper tool
• Using clipping paths, creating and editing compound paths
• Placing text on a path, Converting text to paths
• Creating drop shadows
• Working with transparency and exporting transparency
• Blend modes, Feathering & creating multi-colour gradients

Page Elements, Graphics & Print Settings

• Dragging items between documents
• File formats, Libraries & Creating type outlines
• Printer styles, colour separations print settings & print presets

Optional Modules

• Creating a table of contents & index
• Using the book palette, creating and printing a book list
• Synchronising styles and colours
• Exporting a book list as PDF
• Page numbering across books
• Using XML to build documents, creating documents from Imported XML