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Adobe InDesign CS5 software lets you explore more creative possibilities and experience new levels of productivity when creating documents for multiple media. Design compelling page layouts, that include transparency, creative effects and gradient feathers.
Intended Audience
For the beginner or intermediate publisher.
Courses
InDesign Advanced
Adobe InDesign CS5, provides precise control over typography and built-in creative tools for designing, preflighting and publishing documents for print, online, or to mobile devices. Include interactivity, animation, video and sound in page layouts to fully engage readers.
[+] Full course outline for InDesign Advanced
- Managing Pages
- Inserting, deleting, and moving pages
- Sections, page numbers, and chapter numbers
- Creating and applying master pages
- Overriding master page items
- Text
- Text frames
- Filling with placeholder text
- Special characters
- Importing text
- Threading text frames
- Text frame options
- Text on a path
- The Story Editor
- Spelling
- Auto Correct
- Finding and changing text
- Advanced Master Pages
- Using Multiple Master Pages
- Based on Master
- Override All Master Page Items
- Remove all Local Overrides
- Detach All Objects from Master
- Working With Styles
- Removing Overrides
- Redefining Styles
- Drop Caps
- Nested Styles
- Nested Line Styles
- Based On
- Next Styles
- Applying Next Styles
- Grep Styles
- Importing Styles
- Anchored Objects
- What are Anchored Objects?
- Inserting Anchored Objects
- Anchored Object Options
Inline or Above Line
- Custom
- Bullet and Numbered Lists
- Adding a Bulleted List
- Adding a Numbered List
- Modifying Bullet and Numbered Lists
- Adjusting Tabs
- Customizing Glyphs
- Restarting a Numbered List
- Object Layer Options
- Working with PS & AI Layers in InDesign
- Layers or Layer Comps?
- Placing Files with Show Import Options
- Update Link Options
- Links Panel Indicators
- Find/Change
- Why Use Find Change?
- Changing Text
- Changing Text Formatting
- Search Options
- What is Grep?
- Grep Searches
- Changing Glyphs
- Changing Objects
- Saving Queries
- Taking Advantage of Libraries
- The Benefits of Libraries
- Creating a New Library
- Adding Objects to a Library
- Naming Library Items
- Placing Library Items
- Item Information
- Deleting Library Items
- Library Options
- Snippets
- The Benefits of Snippets
- Creating a Snippet
- Placing a Snippet
- Sharing Snippets
- Snippets vs Libraries
- Text Wrap
- What is Text Wrap?
- Wrap Around Bounding Box
- Wrap Around Object Shape
- Jump Object
- Jump to Next Column
- Wrap Options
- Wrap Using a Photoshop Path
- Apply to Master Page Only
- Conditional Text
- What is Conditional Text?
- Creating Conditions
- Applying Conditions to Text
- Deleting Conditions
- Condition Options
- Conditions Sets
- Loading Conditions
- Loading Conditions and Set
- Table of Contents
- Understanding Table of Contents
- Being Smart with your Paragraph Styles
- Applying a Table of Contents
- Table of Contents Options
- Using Table of Contents to Create an Index
- Update Table of Contents
- Table of Contents Styles
- Index
- How to Set up an Index
- References
- Topics
- Creating a New Index Entry
- Editing an Index Entry
- Removing an Index Entry
- Generating an Index
- Kuler
- What is Kuler?
- Browsing Themes
- Searching for a Theme
- Viewing Themes
- Refreshing Themes
- Edit a Theme in the Create Panel
- Adding a Theme to the Swatches Panel
- Data Merge
- What is Data Merge?
- How it Works
- Setting Criteria
- Selecting a Data Source
- Adding Data Fields
- Updating a Data Source
- Content Placement Options
- Preview
- Creating a Merged Document
- Exporting to PDF
- Tables
- Creating a Table
- Customizing a Table
- Table Options
- Cell Options
- Working with Text in a Table
- Working with Images in a Table
- Table Styles
- Cell Styles
- Long Documents
- Working with Books
- Adding Documents to a Book
- Replacing Documents
- Removing Documents
- Saving your Book
- Preflighting a Book
- Packaging a Book
- Exporting a Book
- Printing a Book
- Synchronizing a Book
- Preflight
- Preflight Panel Overview
- Resolving Preflight Errors
- Define a Custom Preflight Profile
- Embed a Profile Into Your Document
- Load and Export Profiles
- Preflight Options
- Error Reports
- Preflighting a Book
- Exporting to PDF
- Adobe PDF Presets
- Advanced PDF Options
- Compression
- Output
- Advanced
- PDF Standards and Compatibility
InDesign ePublishing
The ePub format is a free, open eBook standard that was developed by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). The MOBI file format is used by Amazon's Kindle device for publishing eBooks. The course is designed to instruct designers how to create ePub and MOBI files from InDesign and how to edit and optimise the output using a code editor.
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[+] Full course outline for InDesign ePublishing
- Defining eBook Formats
- Browsing / viewing platforms
- Previewing the ePub in Adobe Digital Editions
- Software simulation / Emulation
- EPUB File Structure
- Core requirements
- Asset management
- HTML & CSS overview
- Prepare InDesign Documents for Export as ePub
- Design considerations
- Reading order
- Text styling: headings and paragraphs
- Defining How Styles Will Map to HTML Tags
- Expanding an ePub File to See the Code
- Articles, page layout & XML structure
- Controlling Document Flow Using the Articles Panel
- Paragraph Rules, Background Colors & Margins
- Unzipping an ePub to Edit the Files
- Adding Paragraph Rules (Borders) Using CSS
- Adding Background Colors
- Re-Zipping an ePub
- Text Alignment & Embedded Fonts in iBooks
- Controlling Text Alignment in iBooks
- Getting Embedded Fonts to Work in iBooks
- How to use the com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml File
- Device Targeting
- Preparation for landscape / portrait viewing
- Accessibility
- Document Restructuring
- Metadata
- Image Optimisation
- Image Size: Fixed versus Relative to Page
- Controlling Image Position Using Anchored Objects
- Anchoring Images with Captions
- Fixing Tinted Color Problems
- Setting Custom Object Export Options
- Wrapping Images in a Span Tag
- Removing the HTML Image Size & Replacing with CSS
- Alt Text for Images
- Cover Art & Book Metadata
- Adding Important Metadata about the eBook
- Defining the Cover Art in the ePub Versus the Cover Thumbnail
- Letting InDesign Create a Cover
- Choosing Your Own Cover Art
- Creating Chapter Breaks Using the Book Feature
- Creating a Book in InDesign
- Adding Chapters to the Book
- How Book Chapters Turn into ePub Chapter Breaks
- Creating Links (Internal & External)
- Creating Links to External Websites
- Creating Internal Links Using Cross-References
- Creating Internal Links using Hyperlink Destinations
- Using Table of Contents to create links
- Create/ Edit an ePub File in Dreamweaver or Sigil
- Best practice HTML and CSS coding
- Search & Replace using GREP styles
- Recompiling ePub formats
- Creating mobi files for the Amazon Kindle
- Cleaning Up Code & ePub Validation
- Correcting the Doctype
- Fixing the Styling of Hyperlinks
- Validating and Preflighting ePub Files
- Deleting the iTunes/Metadata.plist File
- Dealing with Encrypted Fonts
- Adding Audio
- Adding Audio in InDesign
- Fixing InDesign's Code
- Customizing the Width of iBook's Audio Controls
- MP3 Versus M4A Audio Files
- Adding Video
- Adding Video in InDesign
- Determining the Proper Video Size
- Adding Poster Images
- Common ePub Publishing Gotchas
- Preventing Bad Breaks & Hyphenation
- Keeping Items Together (Avoiding Page Breaks)
- Master pages
- Nested Styles
- Hardware testing on iPad, Android & Kindle
- Backwards compatibility
- Tips for CS4 & CS5
- Reference Materials
- How to Load eBooks Onto eReaders
- How to Load eBooks Onto an iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Nook and Kindle
- ePub File Structure Explained
- The META-INF Folder
- The MIMETYPE File
- The OEBPS Folder
InDesign Essentials
Adobe InDesign CS5 provides precse control over typography and built-in tools for designing, preflighting and publishing documents for print, online or mobile devices.
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[+] Full course outline for InDesign Essentials
- Unit 1: Tools
- Palettes
- Toolbox
- Transform Palette
- Characters and paragraph palettes
- Swatches palette
- Style palettes
- Navigator palette
- Pages and Layers palettes
- Shortcuts
- opening, saving and automatic recovery
- Converting files
- Preferences
- New Control palette, customisable workspaces
- Unit 2: Page Setup and Layout
- New document settings
- Margins and column guides
- Master text frames
- Spreads and pages
- Select and target
- Pages, numbering and running heads
- Sections and section starts
- Master pages and island spreads
- Stacking order
- Pasteboard
- Rules, guides and grids
- Layers
- Flattening
- Auto adjustment
- Multiple document views
- Workgroup Servers
- Unit 3: Illustration/Drawing
- Path
- Stroke and fill
- Frame
- Bezier curves
- Anchors and handles
- Stoke attributes and corner effects
- Shapes
- Pen and pencil tools
- Editing points and paths
- Text to paths
- Compound paths
- Creating type along a path
- Drop Shadow and Feather
- Pathfinder commands
- Unit 4: Objects
- Transforming objects
- Moving items in and out of frames
- Adjusting frames and content
- Setting a point of origin
- Scaling and rotating
- Shear/skew and reflecting
- Moving and arranging objects
- Duplicating objects
- Step and repeat
- Align and distribute
- Stacking order
- Grouping and ungrouping
- Nesting
- Cropping and clipping paths
- Unit 5: Typography
- Hyphenation and justifcation
- Dictionary and language
- Single-line, multi-line composers
- Optical margin alignment
- Hanging punctuation
- Glyphs and insert character
- Leading and baseline grid
- Small caps and ligatures
- Tabs and rules. Cell-based tabs
- Character formatting, scaling
- Style sheets
- Nested styles
- Kerning and tracking
- Text to bezier path conversion
- OpenType
- Active fonts
- Unit 6: Text processing
- Linking and flowing text
- Text frames
- Threading
- Selecting and editing text
- Non-printing characters
- Inserting font characters and the Glyph Palette
- Linked files
- Find/change
- Spell checking
- Inline frames
- Wrapping text
- Text import filters
- Tagging text
- Adobe XMP
- Story Editor
- Unit 7: Colour
- RGB, CMYK and L*a*b colour
- Out of gamut colours
- Colour separation and registration
- spot colour
- Applying colour to objects
- New colours, tints, and gradients
- Swatchbook libraries
- Imported EPS and PDF spot colours
- Spot to process colours
- Trapping
- colour management
- Applying/exporting profiles
- Separations palette
- Unit 8: Import amd Export
- Images overview
- Importing images
- Placing PDF files
- Linked and embedded images
- PostScript export and virtual printer overview
- EPS and prepress export
- Web Hyperlinks export
- PDF for print and online
- Enhanced integration with Adobe Acrobat
- JPEG Export
- Unit 9: Printing
- Dots and pixels
- Page description languages
- Imaging
- Screening
- Resolution
- Dog gain
- Preflight and package
- Printing to a device or a PostScript file
- General page control
- Advanced output issues
- Unit 10: Cross Media Applications
- XML
- XML Workflow automation
- eBook Support
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Export
- Collaboration
- Unit 11: Long Documents
- Books
- Table of Contents
- Indexing
- Hyperlinks
InDesign Interactivity and Animation
Learn how to prepare your InDesign documents to include rich media elements, such as Flash movies, video content and animated graphics. Also learn to add interactive components such as hyperlinks, user-triggered buttons and movie panels to create animations and interactive presentations. This class is taught by a video and animation specialist. Students receive Chris Converse's "Create Interactive Documents Using Adobe InDesign CS5" as an after course reference.
[+] Full course outline for InDesign Interactivity and Animation
- Setup for Interactivity & Animation
- Interactive PDF workspaces
- Supported file formats: PDF, SWF, XHTML and ePub, SWFs
- Best Preferences for Interactivity
- Colour: CMYK vs RGB
- Interactive PDFs: Links, Buttons & Navigation
- Creating Hyperlinks
- Converting URLs to Hyperlinks
- Generating Bookmarks
- Creating Buttons
- Assigning behaviours using the Buttons Panel
- Events and Actions
- Creating Show / Hide buttons
- Using Sound & Video
- Controlling View and Zoom behaviour
- Buttons: Rollovers and States
- Hotspots and creating Tool tips
- Multi-State Objects
- Adding a button to enter Full Screen mode
- Including an animation in your PDF
- Adding Page Transitions
- Preview Panel
- Presentation Mode
- Interactive PDF Export
- Special Effects for Presentations
- Adding a drop shadow
- Creating a reflection
- Using effective page transitions
- Audio & Video
- Importing sounds and movies
- Linking to web videos
- Movie Options: Play on Page Load, Loop, include a poster, Appearance of Controller buttons, Add navigation points
- Sound Options
- Limitations with audio and video
- Animations
- Motion Presets
- Using the Animation Panel
- Create custom animations
- Edit Motion Paths
- Animation Buttons
- Creating complex animations
- The Timing Panel
- SWF Export
- When to use Flash
- Exporting content to use in Flash
- JPEG image quality
- Creating Digital Magazines using InDesign & Flash
- Preparing your SWF prototype for a Flash developer
- Exporting to XFL
- Opening the XFL file in Flash CS5
- Adding a stop action to the first frame
- Animating the masthead
- Testing the animation
- Create buttons for navigation
- Importing video content and formatting
InDesign to iPad and Tablets
Learn how to use InDesign and the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to produce interactive publications for tablet devices, such as the iPad. Techniques taught include: building panoramas, using 3D viewers, incorporating video and audio, animation, and linking to online content. Ideal for producing eMagazines, online Annual Reports, How-tos and Course Materials etc. for a range of screens and mobile devices.
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[+] Full course outline for InDesign to iPad and Tablets
- The Digital Publishing Workflow
- Storyboard your Magazine
- Collect your assets
- Create the InDesign Layout
- Add copy and media content
- Add navigation and interactivity
- Create portrait and landscape layouts
- Folder and file structuring
- Creating Folios
- Load and test your Folio files
- Distribution of your publication
- Document Planning
- Questions you need to ask
- Document Sketching and Mockup
- Defining asset needs
- Constructing the InDesign Document
- Page size considerations
- Device specific aspect ratio
- Horizontal and Vertical layouts
- Using Layout Adjustment
- Layer considerations with interactive content
- Creating a Folio
- Adding multiple articles
- Converting a print layout
- Uploading articles
- Previewing a Folio
- Gathering and Managing Assets
- Exporting images for digital publishing
- Converting graphics files to a usable format
- Sound effects
- Music
- Adding a large image with Pan and Zoom
- Using the Overlay Creator Panel
- Adding a Poster
- Adding Scrollable Content
- Adding Scrolling Text
- Establishing a Relationship Between Content & Placeholder Frame
- Adding Inset Spacing
- Adding a Scrollable Group
- Adding Video and Audio Files
- Adding a simple controller
- Adding a progressive controller
- Controlling Playback of Video and Audio
- Adding a 360° Panorama
- Setting initial zoom
- Changing the starting view
- Looping
- Adding a normal image sequence
- Creating a Slideshow
- Adding images for a slideshow
- Adding buttons
- Adding actions & states to buttons
- Adding Live Web Content
- Web content overlay
- Loading a webpage
- Adding a placeholder image
- Adding Hyperlinks
- Adding external links
- Having links open in the device's browser
- Adding email & iTunes links
- Adding Navigation
- Adding navigation links
- Linking to articles & pages
- Creating Custom Navigation Buttons
- Using Master Pages with navigation
- Swiping and scrolling with tablets
- Adding navigation control to your TOC
- Page Jumping
- Linking to other documents
- Adding Interactivity with Native Tools
- Multi-State Objects
- Creative Navigation with Multi-State Objects
- Roll Over Effects
- Popups
- Transitions
- Publishing for iPad, Android and other tablets
- Using Adobe's Digital Publishing plugins to package for devices
- Folder structuring for proper development
- File naming conventions for multiple orientations
- Publishing an Interactive PDF
- Limitations of PDF
- Benefits of PDF
- Why choose PDF?
- Testing & Distribution
- Testing content on local device(s)
- Using Adobe's Digital Editions
- Other Self Publishing resources