Course Overview
TOPIf you understand the basics and want to master the application, improve your skills, increase your productivity, and create interactive and dynamic documents, this advanced Adobe InDesign two-day class is for you. This InDesign class helps you master the advanced features for text handling, document layout, and template building. This class includes information to help you build long documents and introduces you to InDesign s XML capabilities. You will also discover how to create interactive documents for online distribution.
Scheduled Classes
TOPWhat You'll Learn
TOP- Discover how to use templates and re-use assets for efficiency and consistency
- Add interactive features and multimedia to create enhanced digital documents
- Find out how to use advanced color and transparency effects
- Merge data into your InDesign layouts to create variable data
- Discover productivity enhancers, tips, and helpful preferences to work efficiently
- Harness XML capabilities to repurpose content across platforms
Outline
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Viewing outline for:
Building InDesign templates
- Advantages of template use
- Creating a template layer
- Loading swatches
- Loading styles
- Creating master pages
- Basing masters
- Overriding and detaching master objects
- Creating styles
- Basing styles
- Clearing style overrides
Creating interactive documents using InDesign
- Adding TOC bookmarks
- Arranging, grouping, and sorting bookmarks
- Creating a hyperlink
- Creating a button
- Action types
- Changing button appearance
- Adding a movies or sound
- Choosing a poster frame
- Changing movie options
- Selecting an Acrobat format
Advanced interactive options with InDesign
- Creating motion paths
- Using existing objects as a motion path
- Working with motion presets
- Using Timing to change animation sequences
- Using Layers for interactive elements
- Building and organizing animations
- Creating animation effects: type, slideshows, color transitions, and scrolling text.
- Importing animations
Sharing InDesign documents using Adobe Publish Online
- Understanding InDesign's Publish Online capabilities and limitations
- Design considerations for Adobe publish online
- Using Spreads in Digital Documents
- Creating multi-page documents
- Designing InDesign pages with different sizes
- Understanding InDesign's Publishing settings
- Sharing options: social media, email
- Setting default view
- PDF download option
- Setting Image quality
- Creating document thumbnail image
- Updating previously published documents
- Viewing analytics for published documents
- Viewing published documents online: navigating the interface
- Embedding Adobe Publish Online documents within a website
Using color and transparency in InDesign
- Adjusting gradients
- Using the Eyedropper with colors
- Copying swatches between documents
- Previewing color separations
- Connecting effects and transparency
- Feathering graphic margins
- Blending mode options
- Solving printing issues
- Transparency flattener options
- Understanding stitching
Working with long documents using InDesign
- Combining files into books
- Setting the page order
- Creating a table of contents
- Specifying a style source
- Synchronizing long documents
- Creating an index
- Adding topics and cross-references
- Generating an index
- Exporting a book file
- Print Booklet
Harnessing InDesign's XML capabilities
- Viewing XML
- Importing XML tags
- Applying tags to text
- Applying tags to graphic
- Using the Structure pane
- Exporting a document to XML
- Importing XML data
- Mapping tags to styles and styles to tags
- Understanding DTD files
- Validating XML structure
Using InDesign data merge
- Merging steps
- Choosing a data source
- Inserting a text data field
- Adding image fields
- Previewing records
- Updating data fields
- Removing data fields
- Replacing data fields
- Merging records
- Using data fields on master pages
InDesign productivity enhancers
- Customizing keyboard shortcuts
- Using Smart Guides
- Importing and pasting text
- Using the Eyedropper on text
- Applying styles efficiently
- Nested and next styles
- Updating styled text
- Using libraries
- Creating and using snippets
- Enabling layout adjustment
- Proportionally placing graphics
Helpful preferences
- Applying controlled leading in your text
- Enabling Smart Text Reflow
- Controlling how text raps around graphics and other objects
- Setting up a baseline grid
- Changing units and increments
- Choosing the appearance of black
- Viewing and changing the baseline grid
- Restoring preferences and defaults
- Resetting warning boxes
- Clipboard handling
The course topics serve as an outline for the course. Instructors may adjust content based on the specific needs of each class, such as to answer your InDesign questions.
Prerequisites
TOPYou must have the Adobe InDesign software to attend this class. Virtual labs are not provided. You can purchase the software or obtain a trial version from the Adobe website.
