Available Start Dates:
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Price: see custom ratecard
Duration: 2 Days
Platforms: PC & Mac
Benefits:
This two day course
will look at indepth the key similarities and differences between QuarkXPress
and Adobe Indesign.
• Adobe Indesign CS2
• InDesign's typographic features
• Advanced transformation options
Course Outline
Day 1
An overview of Indesign
Key similarities and differences between Quark and Indesign
Familiar features and concepts in both programs
The context sensitive Control palette
New view options in Indesign
Aligning objects easily
Fills, strokes, colours, swatches
Transformations
Repeat Transformations
New approaches to importing text
How to link and unlink boxes
How Indesign handles runaround
Containers and contents
Indesign’s choice of selection tools
Fitting contents easily into frames
Working with the Document Grid
Simple vector graphics within Indesign
Improving display performance
Copying graphics from Illustrator Working with captions on pictures
Working with complex guides
Sampling colours from pictures
Text placement options for long documents
Working with layers
Indesign’s Superior transformation options
Applying drop shadows in Indesign Corner effects and feathering objects
Other transparency effects within Indesign
Tables in Indesign
Day 2
Making best use of Indesign’s palettes
Customising the workspace to suit your way of working
Showing and hiding master items
Easy insertion of special characters
Automatic Page Numbering
Libraries and Snippets
Working with Section Markers
Text and the Control palette
Character and Paragraph palettes
Differences in working with style sheets
Character styles
Using nested styles
The paragraph composer
Optical margin alignment
Text frame options
Finding the resolution of a scaled image within Indesign
Preflighting and packaging documents
A brief introduction to transparency
Understanding Flattening
Creating PDFs from Indesign
For more information or a tailored quotation on any of our listed courses, please contact MAVCOM Training by e-mail: training@mavcom.co.uk or telephone: 0845 644 0843
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