IDCS3FT - Adobe InDesign CS3: Fast Track
In this Fast Track Adobe InDesign CS3 course students will learn the basics of creating documents, then move on to advanced features of creating sophisticated type, graphics, and cross-media publishing. After successful completion of this course students will have been shown how to identify and use InDesign environment elements and navigate through an InDesign document; create and modify text and graphic frames and import text and images from other applications; use master pages and guides to design a document's layout and to add automatic page numbering and apply masters to document pages; import text, thread text throughout a document, reflow text threads and change the number of columns; define colors and swatches and apply them to fills and strokes of frames; apply character formatting, apply paragraph formatting, create styles to streamline formatting and set text inset spacing; place and manipulate graphics, control text wrap around graphics and create and manage layers; apply transparency effects to native objects and placed images and graphics and work with Transparency Flattener settings; create sophisticated tables; prepare documents for handoff to commercial printers; create Acrobat PDF files for the Web and for print; manipulate text, pictures and web pages; control type formatting; create and edit graphics; create and modify layouts; base master pages on others and apply master pages to multiple pages; position graphics so they flow within text, control composition, hyphenation, and justification, track and kern types and scale text frames; drag items between document windows, import files from various formats and store and retrieve items in libraries; edit paths, create compound paths, edit clipping paths and convert text to outlines; create sections to change page numbering within a document and navigate in a sectioned document; create a table of contents, create an index a book consisting of multiple documents; save print presets and work with printing color separation; import XML tags and apply them to document content and import XML into a document's layout placeholders and into a blank document.
What's New in Adobe InDesign CS3
Enhanced workspace
Customizable user interface
Productivity enhancements
Expanded layout features
Improved text handling
Enhanced graphics handling
Long Document enhancements
XHTML exporting
XML features
A Quick Tour of Adobe InDesign CS3
Threading text in frames
Working with styles
Working with graphics
Getting to Know the Work Area
Looking at the work area
Changing the magnification of a document
Navigating through your document
Working with Frames
Working with Layers
Creating and editing text frames
Creating and editing graphics frames
Working with Frames
Importing and Editing Text
Creating and entering text
Vertically aligning text
Flowing text
Working with styles
Flowing text automatically
Adding a page continuation note
Using semi-autoflow to place text frames
Changing the number of columns on a page
Loading styles from another document
Flowing text into an existing frame
Finding and changing
Checking spelling of a story
Adding words to a dictionary
Checking spelling dynamically
Automatically correcting misspelled words
Drag and drop text editing
Using the story editor
Working with Typography
Adjusting vertical spacing
Changing fonts and type style
Changing paragraph alignment
Creating a drop cap
Adjusting letter and word spacing
Working with tabs
Adding a rule below a paragraph
Working with Color
Defining printing requirements
Adding colors to the Swatches panel
Applying colors to objects
Creating dashed strokes
Working with gradients
Creating a tint
Creating a spot color
Applying color to text
Using advanced gradient techniques
Ensuring consistent color
Color management: An overview
Setting up color management in InDesign CS3
A look at the Adobe Bridge
Color-managing imported graphics in InDesign CS3
Assigning a profile after importing an image
Embedding a profile in a Photoshop image
Assigning a profile while importing a graphic
Working with Styles
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
Importing and Linking Graphics
Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
Updating revised graphics
Adjusting view quality
Working with clipping paths
Importing a Photoshop file and alpha channels
Placing native files
Using a library to manage objects
Creating a library
Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics
Creating Tables
Importing and formatting a table
Using graphics within tables
Formatting text within a table
Working with Transparency
Importing and colorizing a black-and-white image
Applying transparency settings
Working with effects
Working with Long Documents
Defining a book
Working with a table of contents
Maintaining consistency across book files
Indexing the book
Output and PDF Exporting
Using Preflight
Using Package
Creating an Adobe PDF proof
Separation preview
Transparency flattener preview
Previewing the page
Printing a laser or inkjet proof
Using XML
About XML
Viewing XML tags
Importing and applying XML tags
Tagging images
Importing XML
Using XML snippets