Course Content

Managing the Adobe InDesign CS Environment
Preferences - Enhanced in CS3
Customize Your Workspace
Set General Preferences - Enhanced in CS3
Manage Document Presets
Workspace and Window arrangement - Enhanced in CS3
Visual pages Panel - New 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

Type and Text
Add Text
Edit Text
Spell Check Text
Bullets and Numbering - Enhanced in CS3
Find/ Change - Enhanced in CS3
Change Text Threads
Format Characters
Format Paragraphs
Numbering paragraphs - New in CS3
Text variables
Nested Styles - Enhanced in CS3
Manage Styles /Style Groups - New in CS3
Quick Apply - Enhanced in CS3
Improved Text Wrap - Enhanced in CS3
Text on a path
Rules
The Glyphs panel - Enhanced in CS3
Flexible dictionary management

Layers
Layers Panel
Moving across layers

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
Multiple image placement- New in CS3
Importing options
Adobe Photoshop support
Adobe PDF layer support
Selectively display layers and layer comps
Image Frames simple, compound & custom
Fitting images Control Palette and shortcuts - Enhanced in CS3
Anchored Objects
Clipping Paths, Alpha channels
Importing InDesign documents - New in CS3

Libraries
Using InDesign libraries

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
Creating a table
Adjusting rows and columns
Adding and deleting rows and columns
Formatting a table
Formatting cells
Headers and footers
Table styles - New in CS3
Placing graphics in cells
Working with Microsoft Word and Excel tables

Long Documents
Page Palette and working with pages
Text Flow and Links
Multple Master Pages
Numbering Pages
Making & Packaging Books
Table of Contents
Indexes

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

Workflows
Export to XHTML - New in CS3
Emai lbased assignments for InCopy workflow - New in CS3
Automatically generated layouts from XML - New in CS3

Adobe Bridge
Improved performance - Enhanced in CS3
Filter panel - New in CS3
Compare and preview images - Enhanced in CS3
Compare multiple images in the Preview panel and use the Loupe tool to zoom in on image previews - Enhanced in CS3
Workspace flexibility - Enhanced in CS3