InDesign CS4 Adobe certified Training: Advanced

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Hands-on InDesign CS4 Adobe certified training: Advanced

This 2-day, intensive InDesign training delves deeply into InDesign's lesser known capabilities and provides power-user productivity tips, tricks and techniques that are guaranteed to take you to a new level of efficiency. Learn how to incorporate and style XML content for scalable documents, add variable and conditional text, optimize your workflow with advanced GREP and nested styles, use table styles to maximum advantage, and create custom snippets & object libraries containing assets you use over and over again. You'll learn to create anchored objects and sidebars that flow along with related content, maximize the nuances of effects, gradient transparency, and black & white image colorization for added graphical effect, create custom preflight profiles to troubleshoot your documents and even how to add interactivity for PDF or Flash output. Topics include:

Advanced styling techniques
Creating dynamic documents
InDesign to Flash & PDF

Color and swatch secrets
Preflight for perfect output
Buttons, hyperlinks & bookmarks

adobe course curriculum

Got style? Nested, GREP, object, and table styles

Style it once, then share between documents
Automate complex formatting with nested styles
Super styling with regular expressions (GREP)
Time saving table styles

Stay in the flow with anchored objects

About anchored objects
Inline vs. custom positioning
Sidebars that flow with related content
Anchoring graphics, groups and text

Save tons of time with InDesign effects and transparency

Using effects in InDesign to save time in Photoshop
Adding, editing & removing effects
Importing and colorizing black & white images
Saving effects settings in object styles
Working with blending modes and transparency

Setting up for auto formatting with XML

XML basics
Importing XML into InDesign
Styling XML content
Updating document content

Using data merge

Creating a target document
Adding image fields to your data source file
Working with the data merge panel
Using data field placeholders on master pages
Changing data source files
Content placement options
Merging records
Overset text reports

Conditional and Variable text: making InDesign do the work

Add chapter numbers, dates, last page number and more
Inserting, importing and deleting text variables
Planning conditional documents
Creating, applying & removing conditions

Using built-in InDesign scripts for common tasks

Find/change as a powerful reformatting tool

Understanding GREP (General Regular Expressions)
Using GREP for patterned searches
Saving search parameters
Searching for fonts, objects & glyphs
Automated reformatting with find/change

Preflight profiles for perfect output

Creating a custom profile
Checking image resolution, color mode and more
Never worry about overset text again
Print vs. screen-based document profiles

Creating interactive documents for output to Flash and PDF

The sample buttons library
Creating, adding and editing buttons
Button interactivity: adding triggers and actions
Adding hyperlinks, cross-references and bookmarks
Adding page transitions
Creating & applying a preset for an interactive PDF
Exporting to SWF and XFL: when, which one and why

Mira Images

Adobe InDesign Training Advanced

Hands-on InDesign CS4 Adobe certified training: Advanced

2 day class, cost: $749

Students receive a course text as a valuable tool for post-training reference and practice.

All Mira Images Adobe authorized training is provided by certified instructors at our location or yours. Because we know your time is valuable,

We will never cancel your class.

The Mira Images Classroom is located just outside of Philadelphia, PA and is convenient to Harrisburg, PA, New York, NY, New Jersey, Baltimore, MD, Wilmington, DE, & Washington DC.