InDesign CS3 Training: Advanced

Class description

This 2-day, intensive InDesign training delves deeply into InDesign's capabilities and provides power-user productivity tips, tricks and techniques that are guaranteed to take you to a new level of efficiency. Learn to utilize the full capabilities of exchangeable styles to optimize your workflow with advanced GREP and nested styles, as well as tiered table styles to use over and over again. Incorporate smart anchored objects that enable context sensitive text and graphics to flow with related content. Explore the nuances of effects, gradient transparency, and black & white image colorization for added graphical effect. Speed your workflow with InDesign automation scripts, data merge, XML. Topics include:

Styling tables, objects & more
Managing long documents
Working with XML

Transparency & effects
Creating interactivity
Preparing for print

adobe course curriculum

Working with tables

Formatting borders and alternating row colors
Using graphics within tables
Creating cell styles and table styles

Drawing vector graphics

Setting up the document grid
Working with guides
Using the drawing tools
Changing the shape of existing segments
Creating compound paths

Working with character & paragraph styles

Review of character & paragraph styles
Creating complex nested styles
Saving and importing character & paragraph styles
Synchronizing styles across documents

Working with anchored objects

Inline anchored objects
Custom positioning
Text flow & anchored objects
Text-wrap

Working with object styles

Creating object styles
Saving & importing object styles

Combining files into books

Defining a book
Creating a book file
Setting the order and pagination
Creating the table of contents
Maintaining consistency across book files
Indexing the book

Working with transparency

Importing and colorizing black & white images
Using effects
The transparency flattener

Working with XML

XML basics
Importing XML into InDesign
Styling XML 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

Using InDesign scripts for automation

Harnessing the power of find/change

GREP (General Regular Expression Parser)
Searching with GREP Expressions
Saved queries
Metacharacters for searching
Searching for fonts, objects & glyphs

Preflighting & packaging your document

Exporting to PDF

Selecting PDF quality
Creating a layered PDF
Creating & applying a PDF preset

Generating Output Files

Determining output settings
Ensuring correct bleeds
Sending oversized pages

Selecting InDesign printing options

Mira Images

Adobe InDesign Training Advanced

2 day class, cost: $749

Students receive a course text, Adobe InDesign CS3: Classroom in a Book, which includes a CD of class files. These resources provide students with a valuable tool for post-training practice, using familiar files and lessons.

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.