Learning Adobe InDesign cs

Learning Adobe InDesign cs is suitable for use with Adobe InDesign cs and cs2 on Windows and Macintosh systems.

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Summary of the Chapters

Module 1

Chapter 1: Introduction to Adobe InDesign cs

Demonstrates how to set up a document, insert and format text, spell check text, insert and format graphics and create thumbnail sketches through the creation of simple flyers, such as:

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Chapter 2: Creating Greeting Cards

Demonstrates how to layout a page into quarters, use column and page guides, adding borders and rotate objects to produce a greeting card such as:

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Chapter 3: Using Indents and Tabs

Demonstrates how to create indents, hanging indents, use the Tab Ruler to insert left, right, centre and decimal tabs, add leader characters to tab stops, insert lines and multiple copies of lines to product tables such as:

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Chapter 4: Creating Newsletters Using Frames

Introduces the concept of frames. How to insert text and graphics into frames, how to format frames, use frames options, thread text from one frame to another, shade frames, align frames and add leader characters to text to produce newsletters such as:

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Chapter 5: Creating Menus Using Frames

Extension of the use of frames to create menu publications like:

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Chapter 6: Using Styles in Publications

Demonstrates how to use preset styles, create custom styles and applying them, copy styles from one document to another to create advertising publications like:

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Chapter 7: Multiple Page Newsletters

Multiple pages of different designs are created using wrap text around graphics, adding multiple columns to pages and layering page elements. The following multiple page newsletter is created:

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Chapter 8: Creating Publicity Pamphlets

Demonstrates the use of landscape orientation, setting pages into columns, adding page numbers and printing pages back to back to produce pamphlets such as:

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Chapter 9: Creating PDF Documents

Demonstrates how to use the Export feature of InDesign to export publications to PDF format so that they can be used outside InDesign. Students are shown how to create a table of contents and set bookmarks into the PDF document.:

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Chapter 10: Creating Interactive Products

Using the interactive capabilities of InDesign students build an interactive products that plays short movie clips on the click of inserted buttons.:

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Chapter 11: Using Tables

Demonstrates how to setup and manage tables, and how to incorporate them into publications. This includes adding text and graphics to tables. The following publication is created.

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Chapter 12: Master Pages and the Book Command

Demonstrates how to set up master page items to all pages in a document then how to link numerous files into a book so that they act as one file.

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