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Course Title:

Adobe InDesign Migration

Duration:

2 days

Prerequisites:

Go to contentExisting QuarkXpress 4.1 or above knowledge is assumed, but no prior knowledge of InDesign is required

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Objectives:

This course has been designed to provide a seamless transition from QuarkXPress to InDesign, Adobe’s widely acclaimed desktop publishing application. The course will transfer your existing skills to the new InDesign environment as well as providing a comprehensive, practical understanding of the wide range of new features in InDesign

You will also explore InDesign’s superb integration with both Illustrator and Photoshop

This is an Adobe authorised course designed to enable you to create professional, creative and typographically excellent documentation using InDesign

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Key Terms

An overview of the major differences in terminology between the two applications

Setting defaults and preferences

Setting application preferences
Setting document preferences
Customising the toolbox
Setting tool defaults
Creating document defaults
Customising shortcuts

Interface differences

Using palettes, tools and menus
Introducing the Control palette
Saving the workspaces
Tips for managing palettes

Navigation and display

Controlling display preferences
Using the Navigator palette
Multiple document views
Dynamic graphics preview
Dynamic text preview
Overprint preview
Separations preview

Creating objects and building pages

Creating a new document
Picture and text boxes
Linking text boxes
Introducing layers
Selecting frames and contents
Using the Pages palette
Creating and editing masters
Overriding master objects
Reapplying master objects

Text and typography

Placing and flowing text
Selecting and editing text
Handling missing fonts
Working with glyphs
Drag and drop text

Formatting characters

Character level formatting
Introducing Open Type fonts
Using optical kerning
Assigning languages
Creating character styles

Formatting paragraphs

Paragraph level formatting
Choosing a composer
Introducing nested styles

Questions and answers

Working with graphics

Placing objects
Scaling objects vs contents
Introducing the Links palette
Manipulating graphics
Understanding Fitting options
PSD and PDF layer options

Combining text and graphics

Wrapping text around graphics
Introducing snippets
Creating inline graphics
Converting text to outlines
Image import options
Images with clipping paths
Creating a new clipping path

Laying out pages accurately

Using rulers, grids and guides
Using the Info palette

Finessing text content

Setting text frame options
Document baseline grids
Frame-based grids
Using special characters

Introducing transparency

Creating drop shadows
Feathering edges
The Flattener Preview palette

Introduction to tables

Creating basic tables
Modifying tables
Importing tables

Editing copy

Using the Story Editor
Using Find/Change

Understanding colour

Loading swatches
Using stroke and fill options
Sampling colours from images

Preflight, package, PDF and printing

Exporting as a PDF
Performing a preflight check
Packaging files for handoff

Opening Quark documents

Tips for opening QuarkXpress documents

Questions and answers

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