Adobe InDesign CS5 Advanced

Class length: 2 days
Hours: 10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Cost: $900

InDesign CS5 Advanced

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Adobe InDesign CS5 software lets you focus on your layout, with the flexibility to publish your pages to a wide range of media. Whether you’re creating print or digital documents, you can save time with online services that integrate with and are directly accessible from InDesign, as well as other substantial productivity enhancements. Whether you need to reposition an image within a frame or change the radius of a rounded corner, InDesign CS5 helps you work more efficiently.

A robust set of new tools let designers create interactive documents that capture readers’ attention both online and offline. Now you can include complex interactivity, animation, FLV video (a popular online video format), and MP3 audio files within InDesign documents. InDesign CS5 makes it easier to export documents in SWF format, hand off layouts to Adobe Flash® Professional CS5 software, and produce EPUB documents for use with popular eBook readers and devices. InDesign CS5 has everything you need to lay out memorable and engaging pages in print or digital format.

Our two day course will provide you with the core skills you need to make you an advanced InDesign user.


Course Outline:


Lesson 1: Advanced Editorial Controls

  • Using the Info panel
  • Using Notes
  • Creating custom Glyph Sets
  • Understanding White Space characters
  • Controlling paragraph, column, page, and word breaks
  • Using Balance Ragged Lines
  • Adding Discretionary Hyphens

Lesson 2: Advanced Typographic Controls

  • Using OpenType fonts
  • Optical vs. Mathematical alignment
  • Tracking to avoid widows and orphans
  • Useful tips for working with Tabs
  • In-depth look at type-related Preferences

Lesson 3: Advanced Find/Change options

  • Finding and changing character and paragraph formats
  • Finding and changing metacharacters
  • GREP overview

Lesson 4: Advanced Text Import Options

  • Text preparation strategy and workflow
  • Mapping Word Styles to InDesign Styles

Lesson 5: Using Bridge with InDesign

  • Interpreting Metadata
  • Leveraging Metadata to auto-caption images
  • Multiple Place
  • Making an InDesign contact sheet

Lesson 6: Advanced Text Wrap options

  • Adding and editing a clipping path
  • Using a Photoshop alpha channel
  • Text Wrap tricks

Lesson 7: Working with Tables

  • Importing tables from Word and Excel
  • Row strokes, column strokes, and fills
  • Adding graphics to table cells
  • Setting up and using Table and Cell Styles

Lesson 8: Advanced Paragraph & Character Styles

  • Styles review
  • Removing overrides
  • Parent and child Styles
  • Adding Paragraph Rules
  • Customizing Underlines to create text highlights
  • Setting up and using Nested Styles
  • Using Next Style to set up sequential Styles
  • Combining Character, Paragraph and Object
  • Styles for one-click formatting
  • GREP Styles

Lesson 9: Hyphenation and Justification

  • Setting the Hyphenation options
  • Understanding the Justification options
  • Using the Composition preferences
  • Using Optical Margin Alignment

Lesson 10: Working with complex, structured documents

  • Master Pages review
  • Section numbering
  • Creating and controlling Footnotes
  • Automatic Bullets or Numbered Lists
  • Adding running headers and/or footers
  • Adding Text Variables to a document slug
  • Generating and updating a table of contents