This training’s goal is to help attendees to acquire the basic skills to produce documents for professional publishing. Basic skills are defined as follows: setting up a basic document, understanding Pages and Frames logic, being able to import and edit images and texts, being able to use and apply Master Pages and Paragraph Styles, knowing how to export a “package” and how to use PDF presets.
Participant profiles
Graphical designers and layout artists
Anyone in charge of the creation and modification of corporate documents (marketing and communication departments) with Adobe Creative Cloud softwares
Objectives
Understand and save Workspaces
Inspect and edit an existing document
Create documents with a spine and facing pages, set a “bleed” and a “slug”
Understand how to import versatile text files
Choose images files to place in a document according to their types
Use Master-Pages and how to deal with dependent pages
Use effectively typographic formatting
Thread long articles across pages
Use basic frames and the Text-Wrap options
Prerequisites
Good knowledge of Office softwares (Word, Open Office) or of any other softwares from the Adobe Creative Cloud suite
Course content
Module 1: InDesign’s intents; user interface
Module 2: The Extra mode: inspecting an existing document
Module 3: Text files importation and text threading
Module 4: Picture files importation and picture-frames modifications
Module 5: Setting up a new document, working with Master-Pages
Module 6: The Text-wrap panel and the Object Styles panel
Module 7: Typographic formatting and text Styles
Module 8: Saving and exporting for print and web
Documentation
Digital courseware “Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book” included
ITTA is a partner of Temptraining, the continuing education fund for temporary workers. This training fund can subsidize continuing education for anyone who works for an employer subject to the Collective Work Agreement (CCT) Rental of services.
