This two-day, intensive InDesign training delves deeply into InDesign's capabilities and provides advanced productivity tips, tricks and techniques.
Learn to utilise the full capabilities of complex nested styles, table styles, and anchored objects. Explore the nuances of effects, transparency and black and white image colourisation. Take advantage of InDesign automation scripts, data merge and XML.
Topics include:
Styling tables, objects and more Managing long documents Working with XML Transparency and effects Creating interactivity Preparing for print
Below is an outline of the course curriculum:
Working with tables
Formatting borders and alternating row colors Using graphics within tables Creating cell styles and table styles Drawing vector graphics
Setting up the document grid Working with guides Using the drawing tools Changing the shape of existing segments Creating compound paths Working with character and paragraph styles
Review of character and paragraph styles Creating complex nested styles Saving and importing character and paragraph styles Synchronizing styles across documents Working with anchored objects
Inline anchored objects Custom positioning Text flow and anchored objects Text-wrap Working with object styles
Creating object styles Saving and importing object styles Combining files into books
Defining a book Creating a book file Setting the order and pagination Creating the table of contents Maintaining consistency across book files Indexing the book Working with transparency
Importing and colourising black and white images Using effects The transparency flattener Working with XML
XML basics Importing XML into InDesign Styling XML content Using data merge
Creating a target document Adding image fields to your data source file Working with the data merge panel Using data field placeholders on master pages Changing data source files Content placement options Merging records Overset text reports Using InDesign scripts for automation
Harnessing the power of find/change
GREP (General Regular Expression Parser) Searching with GREP Expressions Saved queries Metacharacters for searching Searching for fonts, objects and glyphs Preflighting and packaging your document
Exporting to PDF
Venue
Date: 22 May 2008 to 23 May 2008 Location: Johannesburg Cost: Please contact us