InDesign Class in Boston on September 24, 2018 Advanced

Advanced Adobe InDesign Training Class: Complete Topics Covered

InDesign Productivity Enhancers

• Customizing keyboard shortcuts
• Using Smart Guides
• Importing and pasting text
• Using the Eyedropper on text
• Applying styles efficiently
• Nested and next styles
• Updating styled text
• Using libraries and snippets
• Enabling Layout Adjustment
• Proportionally placing graphics

Helpful Preferences

• Applying leading to entire paragraphs
• Enabling Smart Text Reflow
• Controlling text wrap
• Setting up a baseline grid
• Changing units and increments
• Choosing the appearance of black
• Viewing and changing the baseline grid
• Restoring preferences and defaults
• Resetting warning boxes
• Clipboard Handling

Building InDesign Templates

• Advantages of template use
• Creating a template layer
• Loading swatches
• Loading styles
• Creating master pages
• Basing masters
• Overriding and detaching master objects
• Creating styles
• Basing styles
• Clearing style overrides

Using Color and Transparency in InDesign

• Adjusting gradients
• Using the Eyedropper with colors
• Copying swatches between documents
• Previewing color separations
• Connecting effects and transparency
• Feathering graphic margins
• Blending mode options
• Solving printing issues
• Transparency flattener options
• Understanding stitching

Working with Long Documents using InDesign

• Combining files into books
• Setting the page order
• Creating a table of contents
• Specifying a style source
• Synchronizing long documents
• Creating an index
• Adding topics and cross-references
• Generating an index
• Exporting a book file
• Print Booklet

Harnessing InDesign's XML capabilities

• Viewing XML
• Importing XML tags
• Applying tags to text
• Applying tags to graphic
• Using the Structure pane
• Exporting a document to XML
• Importing XML data
• Mapping tags to styles and styles to tags
• Understanding DTD files
• Validating XML structure

Using InDesign Data Merge

• Merging steps
• Choosing a data source
• Inserting a text data field
• Adding image fields
• Previewing records
• Updating data fields
• Removing data fields
• Replacing data fields
• Merging records
• Using data fields on master pages

Creating Interactive Documents using InDesign

• Adding TOC bookmarks
• Arranging, grouping and sorting bookmarks
• Creating a hyperlink
• Creating a button
• Action types
• Changing button appearance
• Adding a movies or sound
• Choosing a poster frame
• Changing movie options
• Selecting an Acrobat format