You are starting to familiarize yourself with print layout and design using Adobe Indesign CS3. You would like to learn about the tools and features available to you in Adobe Indesign CS3. In this course, you will work with some of the tools and features to create eye-catching printed documents using Adobe Indesign CS3.

Course Content


Managing the Adobe InDesign Environment
Preferences - Enhanced in CS3
Customize Your Workspace
Set General Preferences - Enhanced in CS3

Manage Document Presets
Workspace and Window arrangement - Enhanced in CS3
Designing Documents
Create a New Document
Alter a Document’s Layout
Create the Structure of a Document
Develop Master Pages

Manage Text and Graphic Placement
Develop Layers
Managing and Formatting Text
Add Text
Edit Text
Spell Check Text
Thread Text
Find/ Change - Enhanced in CS3
Change Text Threads
Format Characters
Format Paragraphs
Numbering paragraphs - New in CS3
Text variables - New in CS3
Manage Styles - New in CS3
Style Groups - New in CS3
Quick Apply - Enhanced in CS3
Text Wrap - Enhanced in CS3
Text on a path
Rules
The Glyphs panel - Enhanced in CS3

Objects
Arranging, Aligning and Distributing
Transforming Objects
Duplicating
Rotating
Scaling
Skewing
Mirroring
The Transform Again commands
Object Styles
InDesign Snippets
Links Panel

Utilizing Colours, Swatches, and Gradients
Utilize Colour
Utilize Swatches
Apply Fills, Gradients, and Strokes

Managing Transparency
Apply Transparency - Enhanced in CS3
Apply Transparency Flattener Presets

Graphics
File Types
Importing options
Image Frames simple, compound and custom
Fitting images Control Palette and shortcuts- Enhanced in CS3
Inline graphics
Clipping Paths, Alpha channels
Importing InDesign documents - New in CS3

Pen & Bezier tools
Path tools in InDesign

Effects - New in CS3
Inner Shadow - New in CS3
Bevel and Emboss - New in CS3
Gradient Feather - New in CS3
Inner Glow and Outer Glow - New in CS3

Tabs and Tables
Create a Table
Modify a Table
Format a Table
Table Styles - New in CS3

Libraries
Using InDesign libraries

Preparing for Handoff to a Service Provider
Check Documents for Problems
Print a Document
Package Files
Preview Output
Print, Separation, Flattening

Print options - Enhanced in CS3
PostScript, preflighting and Packaging

Creating Acrobat PDF Files
Prepare PDF Files for Web Distribution
Manage PDF Presets
Export PDF Files for Printing