Course Description

You are familiar with the InDesign environment and managed text, tables, graphics, and colors in documents. You need to know the advanced features in InDesign to create catchy and attractive documents. In this course, you will use the advanced features in InDesign to create documents that are attractive and have the highest degree of perfection.

Course Objective: You will use Adobe InDesign CS2 to create and design content for print and web.

Target Student: The target student is any professional who would like to create and design print and web content. It may include graphic designers, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers, pre-press professionals, and marketing communications professionals

Prerequisites: To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following Element K course: Adobe InDesign CS2: Level 1.

 

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Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• administer advanced styles.
• control text.
• handle page elements, graphics, and paths.
• develop Bézier paths.
• manage long documents.
• import and export files.
• adjust print settings.
• work with XML.

 

 

 

 

 

Course Content

Lesson 1: Administering Advanced Styles
Topic 1A: Manage Style Overrides
Topic 1B: Base One Style on Another
Topic 1C: Import and Redefine Styles

Lesson 2: Controlling Text
Topic 2A: Create and Use Anchored Objects
Topic 2B: Flow Text and Inline Graphics
Topic 2C: Handle Text Layout
Topic 2D: Merge Data

Lesson 3: Handling Page Elements and Graphics
Topic 3A: Duplicate Items
Topic 3B: Locate Assets Using Adobe Bridge
Topic 3C: Place Items from Other Applications
Topic 3D: Align, Size, and Transform Images
Topic 3E: Manage Libraries

Lesson 4: Developing Bézier Paths
Topic 4A: Draw and Edit Bézier Paths
Topic 4B: Create Compound Paths
Topic 4C: Create Clipping Paths
Topic 4D: Create Type Outlines

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lesson 5: Managing Long Documents
Topic 5A: Create Document Sections
Topic 5B: Create a Table of Contents
Topic 5C: Generate an Index
Topic 5D: Insert and Format Footnotes
Topic 5E: Add and Edit Hyperlinks
Topic 5F: Create a Book

Lesson 6: Importing and Exporting Files
Topic 6A: Import Layered Files
Topic 6B: Export PDF Files

Lesson 7: Adjusting Print Settings
Topic 7A: Create Print Presets
Topic 7B: Preview Print Output

Lesson 8: Working with XML
Topic 8A: Integrate XML into a Document
Topic 8B: Import XML
Topic 8C: Export XML
Topic 8D: Integrate XML with Tables
Topic 8E: Create and Use a Snippet

Appendix A: ACE Objectives Map