Topic 1 The InDesign Interface

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The Welcome Screen
The Tools panel
An Overview of the Tools panel
Using context menus
The Control panel
Displaying InDesign’s panels
Panel menus

Resizing panels
Moving panels
Using Workspaces
Zooming in and out
Scrolling the view
Turning pages in a document
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Topic 2 InDesign Preferences

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Modifying keyboard shortcuts
Setting preferences
Application defaults and documents defaults
Where preferences are saved

Restoring InDesign’s preferences and defaults
Using Adobe Version Cue
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Topic 3 Creating Documents

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Creating a new document
Examining the document window
Modifying document setup
Modifying the margins and columns
Making unequal column widths
Using ruler guides
Defining document presets
Preview mode
Opening documents
The Adobe dialogue box
Using templates

Saving documents
Saving to previous InDesign versions
Adding file metadata
Opening QuarkXPress and PageMaker files
Recovering documents after system failures
Undoing and reverting
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Topic 4 Drawing Paths, Lines and Shapes

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Parts of a path
Drawing with the Pen tool
Drawing curved segments with the Pen tool

Drawing lines and basic shapes
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Topic 5 Adding Text and Graphics

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Typing or pasting text
Placing text
Adding placeholder text
Making the frame fit the text
Placing graphics
Placing multiple graphics
Fitting a graphic to its frame
Resizing graphics

Placing InDesign documents
Moving a frame and its content
Grouping objects
Selecting objects
Stacking objects
The reference point locator
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Topic 6 Master Pages

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About master pages
Editing master pages
Creating a master page
Using automatic page numbering
Applying master pages to document pages

Customising master objects
Preventing a master item from being overridden
Restoring master objects
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Topic 7 Using Layers

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The Layers panel
Creating layers
Putting objects on to layers
Rearranging layers

Hiding or showing a layer
Locking layers
Deleting a layer
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Topic 8 Working with Text

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Text frames
Creating text frames
Moving and resizing text frames
Connecting text frames
Threading
Unthreading
Word and character count
Methods for flowing text
Setting text frame options

Displaying hidden characters
Text selection techniques
Using Glyphs
Using special characters
Using white space characters
Inserting break characters
Linked text files
Text import filters
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Topic 9 Formatting Text

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Fonts and Typefaces
Using the Control panel to format text
Using the the Character panel
Choosing a font and style
Setting type size
Leading
Kerning and tracking
Setting kerning and tracking values
Using Optical Kerning
Scaling Type
Baseline shift
Skewing or distorting text
Capitalisation

Making characters superscript or subscript
Underline and strikethrough
Paragraph formatting
Text alignment
Setting space above or below
Indenting text
Drop caps
Hyphenation
OpenType fonts
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Topic 10 Text Wrap

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Wrap To options
Making a frame ignore text wrap
Changing the shape of a text wrap

Changing preferences for text wrap
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Topic 11 Colours and Gradients

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Process colours
Spot colours
Named and unnamed colours
Applying fill and stroke colour to objects
The Swatches panel
Using the Swatches panel to create colours

Pantone and other colour libraries
Using colours from other InDesign documents
Gradients
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Topic 12 Paragraph and Character Styles

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Using styles
The Paragraph and Character Styles panels
Creating styles “by example”
Working with style groups
Importing styles from another document
Applying paragraph and character styles

Clearing style overrides
Editing styles
Deleting paragraph and character styles
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Topic 13 Using Images

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Vector images
Bitmap images
Choosing a graphics format
Resolution
Controlling display quality of images

Managing placed graphics
The Links panel
Link information
Replacing and relinking links
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Topic 14 Transparency Effects

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The Effects panel
Applying transparency effects
Overview of transparency effects
Editing a transparency effect
Copying transparency effects

Clearing effects from an object
Screen display of transparent objects
Transparency flattening
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Topic 15 Preflighting, Packaging and Printing

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Preflighting a document
Checking problems with fonts
Checking problems with colours and inks
Checking problems with links and images

Packaging files
The Print Dialogue Box
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Topic 16 Outputting to PDF

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Producing PDF files for approval
Producing press quality PDF files
Exporting to PDF format
InDesign’s PDF Presets
Using PDF presets
PDF General options

PDF Compression options
PDF Marks and bleeds options
PDF Colour management options
PDF Advanced options
PDF Security options
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Appendix A Colour Management in Adobe Creative Suite 3

Appendix B Adobe Bridge

Appendix C Keyboard Shortcuts

Appendix D Index