InDesign Training: Advanced Adobe InDesign CS3

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Course Number: 368
Duration: 2 days
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Advanced InDesign Training Overview

Accelebrate's Advianced InDesign CS3 training teaches attendees the sophisticated techniques they need for producing polished InDesign documents.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. To receive a customized proposal and price quote, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/adobe.htm.

Advanced InDesign Training Prerequisites

Accelebrate's Introduction to Adobe InDesign CS3 or equivalent experience.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 20 minutes.

Advanced InDesign Training Materials

All students will receive a copy of Adobe Press' Adobe® InDesign® CS3 Classroom in a Book, as well as copies of the instructor's presentation and a CD-R with all files used in the class.

Software Needed on Each PC

Adobe InDesign CS3 or later (for Windows or Mac)

Advanced InDesign Training Objectives

To master importing and anchoring graphics
To discover how to create tables and populate them with entered or imported data
To learn how to work with long documents and complex text flows
To master preparing InDesign documents for print and PDF export
To discover how to dynamically generate InDesign documents based on XML data
To learn how to apply transparency effects

Advanced InDesign Training Outline

Importing and Linking Graphics

Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
Updating revised graphics
Adjusting view quality
Working with clipping paths
Importing a Photoshop file and alpha channels
Placing native files
Using a library to manage objects
Creating a library
Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics

Creating Tables

Importing and formatting a table
Using graphics within tables
Formatting text within a table

Working with Transparency

Importing and colorizing a black-and-white image
Applying transparency settings
Working with effects

Working with Long Documents

Defining a book
Working with a table of contents
Maintaining consistency across book files
Indexing the book

Output and PDF Exporting

Using Preflight
Using Package
Creating an Adobe PDF proof
Separation preview
Transparency flattener preview
Previewing the page
Printing a laser or inkjet proof

Using XML

About XML
Viewing XML tags
Importing and applying XML tags
Tagging images
Importing XML
Using XML snippets

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