Requirements
Good Mac or PC skills. Knowledge of word processing and graphics would
be advantageous.
Overview
This course gives delegates a foundation in layout and design features
of InDesign. At the end of the course delegates will feel confident to
produce basic single and multi-page documents.
The Interface
Using tools, palettes and contextual menus, Customising keyboard shortcuts,
Changing view sizes and navigating through a document
Creating documents
Creating a new document, Using guides, rules and grids, Changing defaults
and preferences
Creating
Objects
Selecting moving and duplicating objects, The Selection and Direct selection
tools, Using the transform palette, Changing the size, proportions or
orientation of an object,
Working with Text
Importing text, Text frame options, Threading text frames, Character and
paragraph formatting, Using the eyedropper tool, Creating and applying
paragraph and character styles
Graphics
Understanding graphic formats, Placing vector and bitmapped graphics,
Fitting graphics in frames, Placing PDF files, Managing links, Wrapping
text around graphics
Colour
Understanding spot and process colour, The swatches palette using swatch
libraries, Creating tints and gradients, Applying colour to fills and
stokes, Using the gradient tools on fills, strokes and text.
Working with Objects
Using layers, Stacking objects, Duplicating objects, Aligning and distributing
objects
Tables
Working with indents and tabs
Outputting Documents
Setting up documents for printing, Printing options and styles, Exporting
PDFs