Course Content
Setting and understanding Preferences
Setting Defaults and Presets for optimum performan
Text
- Automatic bullets and numbering
- Footnotes
- OpenType features
- Creating complex paragraph formatting with Nested and Next Styles
- Moving Styles between documents
- Using clear overrides and quick apply buttons
- Import options for MS Word and RTF text
- Using powerful Find & Change
Object Styles
- Creating, applying and redefining Object styles
Effects
- Looking at the new and improved Photoshop-like effects created within InDesign
Anchoring text/picture frames
Frame based baseline grids
Mastering picture boxes
- Importing Photoshop layers and layer comps and PDFs
- Image display performance settings - global and object level
- Using multi image and text placement
Snippets
- Understanding and using Snippets to streamline your workflow
Transparency Flattening and Preview
Output previews
- Overprint preview
- Separation Preview
- Total ink violation preview
- Trap presets
Tables
- Importing data from Excel and Text documents
- Using Tables as grids and other devices
- Saving Table & Cell Styles
Preflighting
- Packaging
- Printing creating print styles
PDF creation alternatives
Colour Management
TOCs and Book features
Snippets and intro to XML
Interactive PDFs
- Adding Hyperlinks and movies to PDFs
Troubleshooting, Questions and Answers
