Summary

Course Aim:

The InDesign Level 3 comprehensive course builds on the skills developed in the InDesign Level 2 course and includes more advanced page layout techniques, including re-purposing content, alternate and liquid layouts, interactivity and animation techniques, and will also allow you to integrate interactivity, video, and audio for playback on tablets (iPad), smartphones (iPhone), and computers.

Course Prerequisites:

The prerequisites for this course is that you have completed the InDesign Level 1 and Level 2 courses or have equivalent knowledge.

Course Duration:

One day 9:00am – 4:30pm

Classroom courses include:

• Adobe Certified instructors (with min 10 yrs experience)
• Alpha prepared comprehensive coursenotes with tutorials and exercises (updated frequently to reflect industry trends)
• Certificates
• eLearning DVD Package (FREE at course registration where available, see our SPECIALS)
• After course support, unlimited HELP DESK (via email, to reinforce the learning), helpdesk@alphacc.com.au
• Training guarantee
• FREE repeat of public course within 6 months (where required, and on same version), see terms & conditions

Content

Course Content

During this course you will learn about:

Topic 1 Footnotes

• Topic Objectives
• Creating a footnote
• Changing footnote numbering and layout
• Options for footnote numbering and formatting
• Options for Footnote layout

• Deleting footnotes
• Tips for using footnotes
• Importing footnotes from Microsoft Word
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 2 Justification, Hyphenation & Spelling Dictionaries

• Topic Objectives
• Paragraph composition
• Controlling spacing in justified text
• Hyphenation and spelling dictionaries
• Creating user dictionaries
• Managing user dictionaries
• Adding words to a dictionary
• Removing and editing words in a dictionary

• Exporting word lists
• Importing word lists into an InDesign dictionary
• Dictionary preferences
• Tips for sharing dictionaries in a workgroup
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 3 Tips for Layout and Typography

• Topic Objectives
• Rotate the spread view
• Using the Control panel to create structured layouts
• Automatically Adjusting Layout (pre CS6)
• Guidelines for using layout adjustment
• Enabling layout adjustment (pre CS6)
• Layout Adjustment options
• Leading and the baseline grid

• Baseline grid
• Setting baseline grids for text frames
• Other strategies to avoid badly aligned text
• Setting up the document grid
• Snapping objects to the document grid
• Linked Text Frames (CS5.5)
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 4 Liquid & Alternate Layouts, Primary Text Frame & Linked Content

• Topic Objectives
• Liquid Layouts and Alternate Layouts (CS6)
• Recommended workflow
• Liquid layouts
• Liquid page rules
• Alternate layouts
• Create Alternate Layouts
• Split Window
• Primary Text Frames

• Text Frame Fitting Options (CS6)
• Flexible width columns
• Persistent text frame fitting options
• Linked content (CS6)
• Place and link
• Custom Style Mapping
• Update a linked item
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 5 Text Variables, Captions, Conditional Text & Snippets

• Topic Objectives
• About text variables
• Creating or editing text variables
• Inserting text variables
• Variable types
• Creating variables for running headers/footers
• Deleting text variables
• Converting text variables to text
• Importing text variables from other documents
• Creating Captions from Image Metadata
• Static Captions

• Live Captions
• Setting Caption Options
• Use Conditional text
• Create conditions
• Apply conditions to text
• Show or hide conditions
• Use condition sets
• Creating snippets
• Adding snippets to a document
• Controlling where snippets are placed
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 6 Overprinting and Trapping Colours

• Topic Objectives
• About overprinting
• Overprinting a stroke or fill
• Changing the black overprint setting
• About trapping
• Trapping strategies
• Automatic Trapping
• Differences between In-RIP and Built-in trapping

• About Trap Presets
• Creating or modifying a trap preset
• Assigning a trap preset to pages
• Creating a composite trapped PDF file
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 7 Printing Colour Separations

• Topic Objectives
• Define a preflight profile
• Select a profile for preflighting
• Set Preflight options
• Save error report
• Two common print separation workflows
• Colour separating gradients
• Previewing colour separations
• Previewing colour separation plates

• Previewing ink coverage
• Returning to normal view
• The Ink Manager
• Separating spot colours as process
• Creating an alias for a spot colour
• Printing or saving separations
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 8 Adding Interactivity and Animation

• Topic Objectives
• About InDesign's interactive features
• Exporting interactive PDF files
• Hyperlinks
• Hyperlink Sources
• Hyperlink destinations
• Creating a hyperlink to a Page destination
• Creating a hyperlink to a text anchor destination
• Create a hyperlink to a URL
• Create a hyperlink to any shared destination
• Appearance options
• Editing or deleting a destination
• Editing or deleting a hyperlink
• Going to a hyperlink source or destination
• Bookmarks
• Creating a new bookmark
• Renaming and Deleting Bookmarks
• Arranging, grouping, and sorting bookmarks
• Creating buttons
• Converting an object to or from a button
• Add actions to buttons
• Add a button from the Sample Buttons panel

• Multi-State objects
• Page transitions
• Apply page transitions
• Clear transitions
• Viewing page transitions
• Placing Video and Sound files
• Placing a movie or sound file into InDesign
• The Media panel
• Linking to a video on the Internet
• PDF options
• Creating Motion in InDesign
• The Animation panel
• Applying motion to an object
• Editing a Motion Path
• Creating a Motion Path
• The Preview panel
• Creating a button trigger to play an animation
• The Timing panel
• Managing Motion Presets
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 9 PDF Forms

• Topic Objectives
• Forms workflow
• Add a form field
• Specify tab order

• Use Articles to specify tab order
• Use Structure to specify tab order
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 10 ePubs (eBook) & HTML Documents

• Topic Objectives
• Exporting for Digital Editions, the EPUB format
• Export to EPUB
• EPUB Export options

• Export content to HTML
• HTML export options
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 11 Creating an Index

• Topic Objectives
• About indexing
• Adding index markers

• Generating an index
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 12 Transparency

• Topic Objectives
• Blending modes
• Isolating blending modes to a group
• The Knockout Group option

• Using the Gradient tools
• About Transparency Flattening
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 13 Data Merge

• Topic Objectives
• About data merge
• Basic steps for merging data
• Selecting a data source for the target document
• Creating the target document

• Previewing records in the target document
• Merging records
• Add image fields in the data source file
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 14 Introduction to Creating an Accessible InDesign Document

• Topic Objectives
• What is accessibility?
• Why make PDF files accessible?
• What makes a PDF accessible?
• Reading Order
• Articles
• Object export options
• Map styles to export tags

• Tagging objects (Alt Text and Artefacts)
• Creating the PDF file
• Working in Acrobat Professional
• InDesign elements that need fixing in Acrobat
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Appendix A Automating InDesign Using Scripting

• Topic Objectives
• What is scripting?
• Why use scripting?
• Scripting requirements

• Installing scripts
• A Sample Script
• Additional Scripting Resources

Appendix B Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts

• Export and proof greyscale PDFs
• Detaching objects from their master
• Adjust Scaling Percentage
• Creating a custom glyph set
• Adding file metadata
• Allowing for stroke weight when measuring objects
• Mixed ink swatches
• Creating a mixed ink group
• Editing mixed ink swatches
• Custom Placeholder Text
• Typing a Tab in a Table
• What's That Override?
• Quick Tints of Colours
• Quick Word Replacement
• Place a Guide with a Click
• Fast Story Navigation

• Switching between windows
• Look Back at History
• Split Stories
• Maintain Vectors from Illustrator or FreeHand
• Fix Problem Files
• Setting display quality for one object
• Working with ConnectNow (CS5 only)
• CS Review (CS5 only)
• Complex calculations in panels and dialogue boxes
• Pathfinder panel path editing buttons
• Convert Point menu commands
• Placing multiple graphics as a contact sheet
• Transparency Flattener Presets

Appendix C Advanced searching using GREP expressions

• Topic Objectives
• Using GREP expressions
• Tips for constructing GREP searches
• GREP search examples

• Metacharacters for Searching
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Appendix D Introduction to XML

• Topic Objectives
• What is XML?
• Example of XML and InDesign workflow
• Exporting tags to an XML File
• Importing XML Files into Tagged Templates

• Automatically Formatting Tagged Text
• Additional XML Training
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Appendix: Index

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Packages

Packages Available

Adobe InDesign Level 3 is offered as part of the following packages, designed for users who want to attend multiple courses to achieve in depth knowledge:

InDesign Package

• InDesign Levels 1, 2 and 3
• 5 days

Publishing Level 3 Package

• Acrobat Advanced, InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop Level 3
• 4 days

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Specials

2012 Training Specials for Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra Centres

eLearning DVD

When you attend any of the following scheduled courses, you will receive a FREE eLearning DVD:

• Acrobat for Business and Advanced
• PhotoShop Level 1, and Level 2
• Illustrator Level 1, and Level 2
• InDesign Level 1, and Level 2
• Dreamweaver Level 1, and Level 2
• Flash Level 1, and Level 2

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