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InDesign CS3 Migration
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Public scheduled course £435
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This course has been designed to provide a seamless transition from QuarkXPress to InDesign CS3, 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 CS3.
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DAY ONE
Key terms
• Differences in terminology between InDesign and QuarkXPress
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 panel
• Saving the workspace
• Tips for managing panels
Navigation and display
• Controlling display preferences
• Using the Navigator panel
• Multiple document previews
• 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 panel
• 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
• Creating character styles
• Working with Style Groups
Formatting paragraphs
• Paragraph-level formatting
• Choosing a composer
• Introducing nested styles
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DAY TWO
Working with graphics
• Placing graphics
• Scaling objects vs contents
• Introducing the Links panel
• 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 panel
Finessing text content
• Threading/unthreading frames
• Document baseline grids
• Frame-based baseline grids
• Using special characters
Introducing transparency
• Creating drop shadows
• Feathering edges
• The Flattener Preview panel
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
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If you'd like to book by phone, or discuss your requirements;
 Courses provided by partners Media Training.
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