Course Overview
This Adobe InDesign CS4 course
gives you everything you need to design professional layouts for
print and digital publishing, and is required
to prepare for the Adobe Certified Expert, ACE, certification exam
for Adobe InDesign CS4.
Course Outline
GETTING STARTED
About Classroom in a Book
Prerequisites
Installing the software
Additional resources
1 INTRODUCING THE WORKSPACE
Getting started 8
Looking at the workspace
Working with panels
Customizing the workspace
Magnification of a document
Navigating through a document
Using context menus
2 GETTING TO KNOW INDESIGN
Getting started
Viewing the lesson document
Preflighting as you work
Changing the View mode
Viewing guides
Adding text
Threading text in frames
Fine-tuning the layout
Working with styles
Working with graphics
Exploring on your own
3 SETTING UP A DOCUMENT AND WORKING WITH PAGES
Creating and saving custom page settings
Creating a new document
Switching between open InDesign documents
Working with master 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
Viewing the completed spread
Exploring on your own
4 WORKING WITH FRAMES
Getting started
Working with layers
Creating and editing text frames
Creating and editing graphics frames
Working with frames
Transforming and aligning objects
Selecting and modifying grouped objects
Finishing up
Exploring on your own
5 IMPORTING AND EDITING TEXT
Getting Started
Creating and entering text
Vertically aligning text
Flowing text manually
Working with styles
Flowing text automatically
Adding a jump line page number
Using semi-auto flow to place text frames
Changing the number of columns in a frame
Loading styles from another document
Flowing text into an existing frame
Adding pages while flowing text
Finding and changing text and formatting
Checking spelling
Editing text by dragging and dropping
Using the Story Editor
Exploring on your own
6 WORKING WITH TYPOGRAPHY
Getting started
Adjusting vertical spacing
Changing fonts and type style
Changing paragraph alignment
Creating a drop cap
Adjusting letter and word spacing
Setting tabs
Adding a rule above a paragraph
Exploring on your own
7 WORKING WITH COLOR
Getting started
Defining printing requirements
Creating and applying colors
Working with gradients
Creating a tint
Creating a spot color
Applying color to text
Using advanced gradient techniques
Setting up color management in InDesign CS4
A look at Adobe Bridge
Color-managing imported images in InDesign CS4
Exploring on your own
8 WORKING WITH STYLES
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
9 IMPORTING AND MODIFYING GRAPHICS
Getting started
Adding graphics from other programs
Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
Managing links to imported files
Updating revised graphics
Adjusting view quality
Working with clipping paths
Working with alpha channels
Placing native files
Using a library to manage objects
Creating a library
Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics287
Exploring on your own.
10 CREATING TABLES
Getting started
Importing and formatting a table
Using graphics within tables
Formatting text within a table
Exploring on your own
11 WORKING WITH TRANSPARENCY
Getting Started
Importing and colorizing a grayscale image
Applying transparency settings
Adjusting transparency settings for EPS images
Adjusting transparency to images
Importing and adjusting Illustrator files
that use transparency
Applying transparency settings to text
Working with effects
Exploring on your own
12 WORKING WITH LONG DOCUMENTS
Getting started
Starting a book
Creating a running footer
Adding a footnote
Adding a cross-reference
Synchronizing a book
Generating a table of contents
Chapter Title paragraph style is applied to the name of the
table of contents (Contents)
Indexing a book
Exploring on your own
13 OUTPUT AND EXPORTING
Getting Started
Preflighting files
Packaging files
Creating an Adobe PDF proof
Previewing separations
Previewing how transparency will be flattened
Previewing the page
Printing a laser or inkjet proof
Exploring on your own
14 CREATING RICH INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTS
Getting Started
Setting up an online document
Adding buttons, page transitions, and hyperlinks
Exporting as Flash
Exporting as Adobe PDF
Converting a print document for online use
Exploring on your own