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New Era Technology Training ~ Excel, Adobe, Sharepoint training in Calgary Cancellation Policy
Description: InDesign is covered comprehensively, including basic layout, text and graphics manipulation, drawing tools (bezier curves), color creation and application, paragraph, master pages, multiple pages, baseline grid, libraries, and much more. Essential typography rules are also covered.
Introduction
- New features in InDesign CS
- InDesign workflow overview
Workspace
- The Document window
- Navigating your document
- Rulers and measurements
The Tools
- The Tool panel
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Contextual menus
Creating a Document
- New documents
- Margin and column guides
- Layout adjustment
- Ruler guides
- Libraries and snippets
- Saving for CS2 or CS3
Managing Pages
- Inserting, deleting, and moving pages
- Sections, page numbers, and chapter numbers
- Creating and applying master pages
- Overriding master page items
Text
- Text frames
- Importing text
- Threading text frames
- The Story Editor
- Spelling, Auto Correct
- Finding and changing text
Graphics
- Importing graphics
- Frame fitting options
- The Links panel
- Embedding links
Formatting Objects
- Selecting objects
- Basic strokes and fills
- Object Effects
- The Eyedropper tool
- Finding and changing object formatting
Managing Objects
- Stacking objects
- Nesting objects
- Editing frame and path shapes
- Grouping and locking objects
- Aligning and distributing
- Text wrap
Transforming Objects
- Duplicating, Rotating, Scaling and Skewing
- The Transform Again command
Character Formatting
- Basic character styling
- Finding and changing text formatting
- The Find Font command
Paragraph formatting
- Drop caps, Hyphenation, Justification, Tabs
- The Align to Baseline Grid button
- The Keep Options command
- Paragraph rules
- Automatic bullets and Numbering paragraphs
Styles
- Character styles
- Paragraph styles
- Object styles
- Load styles
Color
- Creating color swatches
- Gradient swatches
Exporting
- Exporting a PDF JPG EPS
- Exporting stories
Printing
- Preflight
- Packaging for output
- The Print dialog box
Certificates offered: A certificate of completion will be provided to participants who complete this course.
Duration Details: 2 days
9:00 am - 4:30 pm.
Facility Location: New Era Technology Centre
#300, 633 - 6th Ave S.W., Ford Tower
Calgary
Alberta
Canada
T2P 2Y5
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