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Prerequisites:
Experience in QuarkXpress. *** Other recommended courses: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, OSX

Platforms: Mac

Duration: 1 day
10:00am-5:00pm.

Further Details:
Learn To:
+ Make the transistion between these two DTP applications. You will look at setting up master pages, style sheets, colour issues, typographical control, transparency, layers and integration with other Adobe products.

Benefits:
Adobe Indesign CS looks to take over from Quark as the print designer's tool of choice, and has become an essential skill for any forward thinking designer. This course will give you the confidence to work in Indesign as you've worked in Quark. You will learn Indesign's equivalents of Quark's essential commands and shortcuts, and be shown new approaches that Indesign's many superior features offer you.

Who Should Attend?
Anyone with a good working knowledge of QuarkXpress who is looking to transfer their skills to Indesign CS.

Course Content:
An overview of Indesign
Key similarities and differences between Quark and Indesign
Which useful shortcuts are the same in both programs
Familiar features and concepts in both programs
Making best use of Indesign's palettes
Customising the workspace to suit your way of working
The context sensitive Control palette
New view options in Indesign
Working with objects:
Containers and contents
Indesign's choice of selection tools
Fills, strokes, colours, swatches
Fitting contents easily
Indesign's superior transformation options
Applying drop shadows in Indesign
Corner effects and feathering objects
Finding the resolution of a scaled image within Indesign
Word count feature for writers and subs
Working with text:
Important differences between Indesign and Quark
The Control palette
Character and Paragraph palettes
Text frame options
Easy insertion of special characters
Working with palettes and text
Indesign's text shortcuts
Using the eyedropper to copy text formats
Text flow:
New approaches to importing text
How to link and unlink boxes
Automatic, semi automatic or manual text flow
How Indesign handles runaround
Indesign's new typographic features:
Differences in working with style sheets
Using nested styles
The paragraph composer
Optical margin alignment
Indesign's new layout features:
Working with layers
Showing and hiding master items
Creating an island spread
Numbering and section names
Basing one master page on another
Print features:
Preflighting and packaging documents
A brief introduction to transparency
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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