Adobe InDesign Course Titles

InDesign Intermediate

Duration:  2 days | Book this course
Cost: $850.00 + GST

Course Description

Using Adobe InDesign, you can create interactive documents and export them for viewing in a web browser with various features such as buttons, page transitions, movies and audio files, hyperlinks, and animation. You have the ability to assign colour profiles and establish print presets. In creating longer documents, you'll be able to include such features as a table of contents, footnotes, cross-references, and an index.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites
Participants should have completed the InDesign Introduction level or have equivalent experience. If you are unsure, please complete a Training Needs Assessment form by clicking here or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Who Should Take This Course
The target student is any professional who would like to create and design print and web content. It may include graphic designers, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers, pre-press professionals, and marketing communications professionals.

Course Objectives

Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, you will have learned how to:

  1. Prepare documents for multiple formats
  2. Manage advanced page layouts
  3. Manage styles
  4. Build complex paths
  5. Manage external files and create dynamic documents
  6. Manage long documents
  7. Publish InDesign files for other formats and customise print settings

Course Outline

Course Outline

Preparing Documents for Multiple Formats

  • Build layout versions
  • Link Content

Managing Advanced Page Elements

  • Create repeating content
  • Change text layouts
  • Create transparency
  • Anchor objects and manage a library

Managing Styles

  • Import styles from Microsoft Word documents
  • Manage styles

Building Complex Paths

  • Create bezier paths
  • Create clipping paths
  • Create compound paths

Manage External Files and Creating Dynamic Documents

  • Import external files
  • Create document sections
  • Insert text variables
  • Create interactive documents

Managing Long Documents

  • Create a book
  • Build a table of contents
  • Create hyperlinks and cross-references
  • Generate an index and insert footnotes

Publishing InDesign Files for Other Formats and Customising Print Settings

  • Export PDF files for print
  • Export interactive PDF files and files for animation
  • Export files for the web
  • Manage colours
  • Preview print output
  • Create print presets