InDesign is a professional page layout and design program which redefines publishing software with inspirational tools to inspire creativity and yet maintains heavy-duty tools for workflow and production.

Exceptional features include transparency, feathered edges
and drop shadows, Adobe product integration, easy to use table production and layers and preflight control. Delegates will learn about master pages, page layout, style sheets, typographical features, drawing tools and colour handling.

Sample Course Outline - This can be customised to suit you!

Basic tools and palettes
Pages, Info, Control, Layers, Swatches, Links
Setting preferences

Typography
Typography using character palette
Linking text boxes
Setting Quark keyboard shortcuts
Paragraph styles - tabulation
Short cuts of hanging indents for bullets
Convert to outlines, scaling
Glyph palette
Find/change
Stroke - text
Type on a path
Story editor

Style sheets
Creating a table of contents from a style sheet
Font usage

Master pages
Page numbering
Setting multiple masters
Long document issues

Colour Issues
Creating pantone and CMYK colours, swatches
Colour printing

Exercises
Leaflets, Posters, Client's own design brief

Images
Colouring a greyscale tif image
Special effects - feather, drop shadows, transparency
Wrapping text - clipping paths

Tables
Creating tables
Importing data
Step and repeat of objects, space alignment

Views and previews
High display
Grids and guides
Separation preview

Creating a PDF
pdf settings

Other palettes
Scale and transform
Transform palette
Path finder features

Transparency issues
pass4press / distiller

Printing
Linking images
Embedding images
Preflight and Package
Artwork for printing