InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom Book with video training
Adobe InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom is like having a personal instructor guiding you through each lesson, while you work at your own pace. This InDesign CS4 book and DVD includes 13 self-paced lessons helping you learn essential skills and explore new features and capabilities of Adobe InDesign.
- Full color lessons with easy to follow step-by-step instructions
- Video tutorials highlight key topics in each lesson
- Covers all essential InDesign skills
- Gets you up-and-running quickly with included InDesign CS4 lesson files on DVD
- Written by expert InDesign instructors who regularly teach InDesign training courses – it's like having your own personal tutor
- Used by hundreds of schools and more than 100,000 readers
InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom Book with video training Contents
Starting Up
- About InDesign Digital Classroom
- Prerequisites
- System requirements
- Starting Adobe InDesign CS4
- Fonts used in this book
- Resetting the InDesign
workspace and preferences - Loading lesson files
- Working with the video tutorials
- Setting up for viewing the video tutorials
- Viewing the video tutorials
with the Adobe Flash Player - Additional resources
Lesson 1: InDesign CS4 Essential Skills
- Starting up
- InDesign tools
- The InDesign workspace
- The document window
- Using guides
- Viewing modes
- Working with panels
- The Tools panel
- Managing panels
- Working with the Control panel
- Saving your workspace
- Navigating through an
InDesign document - Using the Pages panel
- Changing the magnification of your document
- Working with type
- Entering and formatting type
- Placing and formatting type
- Flowing type
- Using styles
- Applying paragraph styles
- Applying character styles
- Apply styles using Find/Change
- Working with graphics
- Positioning graphics within a frame
- Applying text wrap
- Understanding layers
- Applying effects
- Resources for additional help
- In-product help
- On-line help
- Forums
- Conferences, seminars, and training
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 2: Building Documents with Master Pages
- Starting up
- Planning your document
- Creating custom page sizes
- Creating a new custom-sized document
- Creating and formatting master pages
- Formatting master pages
- Adding automatic page numbering
- Using text variables
- Basing master pages on other master pages
- Overriding master page items
- Adding layout pages
- Placing formatted text
- Creating the classified page
- Adding images and text to
the master frames - Applying master pages to multiple pages
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 3: Working with Text and Type
- Starting up
- Adding text to your document
- Creating a text frame
- Changing character attributes
- Changing font and type styles
- Adjusting size
- Adjusting line spacing
- Adjusting character spacing kerning and tracking
- Using a baseline shift
- Changing paragraph attributes
- Horizontally aligning text
- Changing the spacing before and after paragraphs
- Using tabs
- Adding rules above or below paragraphs
- Changing text color
- Creating drop caps
- Checking and correcting spelling
- Finding and changing text and text attributes
- Checking spelling
- Adding words to the dictionary
- Checking spelling as you type
- Automatically correcting spelling
- Editing text using the Story Editor
- Drag-and-drop text editing
- Special characters and glyphs
- Using the Glyphs panel and glyph sets
- Text frame options
- Adjusting text inset
- Vertically aligning text
- Importing text
- Flowing text manually
- Threading text between frames
- Using semi-autoflow to link several text frames
- Changing the number of columns in a text frame
- Baseline grid
- Viewing and changing the baseline grid
- Adding story jumps
- Using styles to format text
- Creating a headline and applying a style
- Importing styles from other documents
- Redefining styles
- Type on a path
- Importing text from Microsoft Word
- Missing fonts
- Finding and fixing missing fonts
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 4: Working with Styles
- Starting up
- Style types
- Applying a paragraph style
- Character styles
- Defining a character style
- Applying a character style Using nested styles
- Globally updating styles
- Loading styles from another document
- Quick Apply
- Organizing styles into groups
- Object styles
- Defining an object style
- Applying an object style
- Changing an object style
- Finishing up
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 5: Working with Graphics
- Starting up
- Understanding how InDesign
handles graphics - Locating missing images
- Working with the Links panel
- Customizing the Links panel
- Adding graphics to your layout
- Fitting an image within an existing frame
- Auto Fitting
- Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics
- Placing multiple graphics
- Using object styles for images
- Wrapping text around images
- Wrapping text around the bounding box
- Using graphics with clipping paths
and alpha channels - Removing an image background
using InDesign - Using anchored objects
- Advanced importing
- Importing layered Photoshop files
- Importing InDesign layouts as graphics
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 6: Creating and Using Tables
- Starting up
- Creating a table
- Designing a table from scratch
- Copying and pasting table information
- Converting text to table and table to text
- Importing a table
- Editing tables and table options
- Changing row width
- Editing the border
- Formatting rows and columns
- Using fills
- Formatting cells and text
- Resetting the cell styles within a table
- Text alignment and inset within a cell
- Formatting text within a cell and
saving paragraph styles - Formatting text in tables by column
- Working with tables in Story Editor
- Merging cells
- Defining a header cell
- Setting column and row dimensions
- Setting a fixed row height
- Setting column width
- Using graphics in tables
- Placing graphics in cells
- Cell styles and table styles
- Cell styles
- Applying cell styles
- Creating table styles
- Applying table styles
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 7: Using Color in Your Documents
- Starting up
- Applying colors to frames and text
- Applying color to text
- Applying color to frames
- Creating and saving a new swatch
- Applying strokes to text
- Creating a tint reduction
- Making a dashed stroke
- Creating and saving gradients
- Linear gradients
- Saving a gradient
- Adjusting fill opacity
- Radial gradient
- Adjusting the direction of a radial gradient
- One-click edits
- Using the Eyedropper tool to copy frame attributes
- Applying colors to multiple objects
- Updating and editing colors
- Using and saving spot colors
- Colorizing a grayscale image
- Setting up color management
- Color management essentials: about
color models CMYK, RGB, and spot - About the device-independent
color space - About profiles
- About color management engines
- Setting up color management
- Saving color settings
- Changing a source profile
- Assigning a new source profile
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 8: Using Effects
- Starting up
- Creative effects
- Applying opacity to objects
- Apply effects to stroke or fill only
- Drop shadow
- Adjusting effects for objects
- Bevel and Emboss
- Object styles with effects
- Basic Feather
- The Gradient Feather tool
- Converting text to a path
- Applying blending modes to objects
- The Screen blending mode
- The Multiply blending mode
- Working with imported files that use transparency
- Applying an alpha channel selection
- Applying a path selection
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 9: Advanced Document Features
- Starting up
- Adding text variables
- Creating a book from multiple files
- Defining pagination and document order
- Synchronizing attributes across a book file
- Creating a Table of Contents
- Building an index
- Adding topics
- Adding cross-references
- Generating the index
- Creating PDFs and printing from the Book panel
- Creating PDFs
- Printing
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 10: Document Delivery: Printing, PDFs, and XHTML
- Starting up
- Package inventory
- Preflight checks
- Packaging your document
- Creating an Adobe PDF
- Generating XHTML
- Adding CSS formatting
- Separation preview
- Printing a proof
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 11: Using XML with InDesign
- Starting up
- XML basics
- XML tags in InDesign
- Importing and applying XML Tags
- Using a DTD
- Viewing and organizing structure
- Viewing and applying attributes
- Exporting XML
- Importing XML
- Preparing the document template
- Applying an XSLT on import
- Mapping tags to styles
- Using data merge
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 12: Creating Interactive Documents
- Starting up
- Interactive design considerations
- Importing multimedia content
- Creating buttons to control
multimedia content - Adding more buttons
- Creating page transitions
- Creating an interactive PDF
- Viewing an interactive PDF
- Creating a Flash .swf file
- Viewing a Flash file
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 13: What’s New in Adobe InDesign CS4
- Starting up
- Improved navigation and user experience
- Scrolling with the Hand tool
- Hidden tools
- Additional cursor information
- Nudge buttons
- New method for creating styles
- The Edit With command
- Gone but not forgotten
- Joining objects
- Guides and rulers
- Delete all guides
- Ruler origin on spine
- Images and Contact sheets
- Placing a constrained image
- Creating a grid and placing images
- Dynamic autoflow
- Smart guides and Smart object alignment
- Smart dimensions and Smart spacing
- Smart dimensions
- Smart spacing
- Enhanced preflight capabilities
- Links panel
- Kuler panel
- Page transitions
- SWF export
- XFL export
- Self study
- Review