Extend your existing knowledge of Indesign CS3 in one day. Explore more creative possibilities and experience new levels of productivity using Adobe® InDesign® CS3 page layout software.

Course Content

1. Adobe Bridge

• Preview objects
• Preview with loupe tool
• Rotate, delete, move, copy
• Different workspaces
• Filter based on file type
• AI, PDF, PSD, TIFF, Snippet etc.
• Display fonts and swatches inside metadata
  IPTC core
• Favourite places
• Bridge caching
• Preview PDFs and InDesign templates
• Star ratings and labels -filtering
• Templates
• Adobe Stock Photography

2. Preferences

• Workspace, menus and show/hide
• Panels auto-collapse
• Drag and drop text editing
• Text and spreadsheet links
• Story editor
• Appearance of black
• Preview sizes, clipboard handling of pasted info
• Settings onwards defaults

3. Designing Documents

• Save as a Master
• Load Master Page
• Moving Masters
• Disabling a spread to shuffle

4. Threading and Flowing Text

• Manual, semi and autoflow
• Change from text to selection tool
• Text threading tricks

5. Bullets and Numbered Lists

• Exploring bullets and numbering options
• Paragraph panel or paragraph styles
• Character styles now available
• Modify distances
• Re-start numbering
• Aligning numbered lists
• Generating list commands
• Numbered lists in the same document and across multiple documents
• Book feature and synchronisation

6. Text variables

• Setup running headers and footers
• Develop text variables
• Changing text variables
• Formatting variables
• Nested Styles
• Manage Styles /Style Groups

7. Search and Replace

• Text
• GREP
• Glyphs
• Objects

8. Objects

• Arranging, Aligning and Distributing
• Object Styles
• InDesign Snippets
• Links Panel

9. Managing Transparency

• Apply Transparency Flattener Presets
• Inner Shadow
• Bevel and Emboss
• Gradient Feather
• Inner Glow and Outer Glow
• Effective ways of handling transparency for print production
• Flattening techniques

10. Colours

• Pantone colour creation
• CMYK colour creation
• Multi ink group (Pantone)

11. Graphics

• Multiple image placement
• Frame Fitting options
• Adobe PDF layer support
• Selectively display layers and layer comps
• Importing InDesign documents

12. Tabs and Tables

• Headers and footers
• Placing graphics in cells Table and Cell Styles
• Creating a cell style
• Applying cell styles
• Creating a table style
• Import options
• Format Once

13. Checking content and creating Acrobat PDF Files

• Check Documents for Problems
• Package Files
• Print, Separation, Flattening
• PostScript, preflighting and Packaging
• Prepare PDF Files for Web Distribution
• Export PDF Files for Printing
• PDF/X-4 - new addition

14. Workflows

• Export to XHTML
• Control CSS styles
• Maintaining object effects
• Export to Digital Editions