Course Overview
Create compelling print content, immersive Flash publications,
and interactive PDF documents all with beautiful typography and
stunning design. InDesign CS5 gives you the tools you need to create
sophisticated layouts for traditional and online media. Work faster
and more efficiently with intuitive new tools that streamline
tedious production tasks.
Job Profile
Graphic Designers, Production Staff, Print &
Interactive Designers.
Course Outline
1 INTRODUCING THE WORKSPACE
Lesson overview
Getting started
Looking at the workspace
Working with panels
Customizing the workspace
Changing the magnification of a document
Navigating through a document
Using context menus
Finding resources for using InDesign
Review questions and answers
2 GETTING TO KNOW INDESIGN
Lesson overview
Getting started
Viewing the lesson document
Prelighting as you work
Viewing guides
Adding text
Working with styles
Working with graphics
Working with objects
Working with object styles
Exploring on your own
Review questions and answers
3 SETTING UP A DOCUMENT AND WORKING WITH PAGES
Lesson overview
Getting started
Creating and saving custom document settings
Creating a new document
Switching between open InDesign documents
Working with master pages
Applying master pages to document pages
Adding sections to change page numbering
Adding new pages
Arranging and deleting pages
Placing text and graphics on the document pages
Overriding master page items on document pages
Changing the size of pages
Viewing the completed spread
Exploring on your own
Review questions and answers
4 WORKING WITH OBJECTS
Lesson overview
Getting started
Working with layers
Creating and editing text frames
Creating and editing graphics frames
Adding metadata captions to graphics frames
Changing the shape of a frame
Wrapping text around a graphic
Modifying the shape of frames
Transforming and aligning objects
Selecting and modifying grouped objects
Finishing up
Exploring on your own
Review questions and answers
5 FLOWING TEXT
Lesson overview
Getting started
Flowing text into an existing frame
Flowing text manually
Creating text frames while flowing text
Flowing text automatically
Creating threaded frames automatically
Adding a jump line page number
Exploring on your own
Review questions and answers
6 EDITING TEXT
Lesson overview
Getting started
Finding and changing a missing font
Entering and importing text
Finding and changing text and formatting
Checking spelling
Editing text by dragging and dropping
Using the Story Editor
Tracking changes
Exploring on your own
Review questions and answers
7 WORKING WITH TYPOGRAPHY
Lesson overview
Getting started
Adjusting vertical spacing
Changing fonts and type style
Fine-tuning Columns
Changing paragraph alignment
Creating a drop cap
Adjusting letter and word spacing
Setting tabs
Adding a rule above a paragraph
Exploring on your own
Review questions and answers
8 WORKING WITH COLOR
Lesson overview
Getting started
Defining printing requirements
Creating and applying colors
Working with gradients
Creating a tint
Creating a spot color
Applying colors to text and objects
Using advanced gradient techniques
Exploring on your own
Review questions and answers
9 WORKING WITH STYLES
Lesson overview
Getting started
Creating and applying paragraph styles
Creating and applying character styles
Nesting character styles inside paragraph styles
Creating and applying object styles
Creating and applying table and cell styles
Globally updating styles
Loading styles from another document
Exploring on your own
Review questions and answers
10 IMPORTING AND MODIFYING GRAPHICS
Lesson overview
Getting started
Adding graphics from other programs
Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
Managing links to imported files
Updating revised graphics
Adjusting display quality
Working with clipping paths
Working with alpha channels
Importing native Adobe graphics files
Using a library to manage objects
Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics
Exploring on your own
Review questions and answers
11 CREATING TABLES
Lesson overview
Getting started
Converting text to a table
Formatting a table
Creating a header row
Adding graphics to table cells
Creating and applying table and cell styles
Exploring on your own
Review questions and answers
12 WORKING WITH TRANSPARENCY
Lesson overview
Getting started
Importing and colorizing a grayscale image
Applying transparency settings
Adjusting transparency settings for EPS images
Adding transparency effects
Importing and adjusting Illustrator files
that use transparency
Applying transparency settings to text
Working with effects
Exploring on your own
Review questions and answers
13 OUTPUT AND EXPORTING
Lesson overview
Getting started
Preflighting files
Packaging files
Creating an Adobe PDF proof
Previewing separations
Previewing how transparency
effects will be flattened
Previewing the page
Printing a laser or inkjet proof
Using the Ink Manager
Exploring on your own
Review questions and answers
14 CREATING RICH INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTS
Lesson overview
Getting started
Setting up an online document
Adding buttons, page transitions, and hyperlinks
Exporting as Flash Player (SWF)
Exporting as Adobe PDF (Interactive)
Converting a print document for online use
Adding advanced interactivity, animation, and video
Exploring on your own
Review questions and answers