Duration 1 Day
Learning Objectives
- Understand Layouts
- Manage document set-ups
- Creation features
- Layers & colours
- Controlling Placed Images
Course Content
- Re-purposing Layouts
- Understanding Liquid Layout rules
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- Applying Liquid Layout rules
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- Automatic layout adjustments
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- Using the Content Collector and Content Placer Tools
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- Creating Alternate Layouts
- Advanced document set-up
- Working with different sized pages
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- Controlling spread pagination
- Working with Grids
- Creating custom Grid layouts
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- Working with baseline grids
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- Using Frame-based baseline grids
- Automating Copy Formatting
- Setting Hyphenation controls
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- Creating and applying Nested styles
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- Working with Advanced List Numbering options
- Useful content creation features
- Anchored versus In-line objects
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- Formatting Anchored Objects
- Advanced Object Styles
- Creating Object Styles for Text and Graphic frames
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- Combining Text and Graphic frame attributes in a single Object style
- Captions on placed images
- Creating Static Captions
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- Creating Live Captions
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- Using Adobe Bridge to add relevant Metadata for caption.
- Advanced control of placed images
Using images with in-built Photoshop clipping paths
- Using images with pre-defined Photoshop Channels
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- Removing image backgrounds
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- Tolerance and threshold options
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- Layer visibility options of native (.psd and .ai) files
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- Colour swatches from placed artwork
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- Loading colours from ASE files
- Drawing in InDesign
- Adjusting path segments
- Using the Pen Tools
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- Combining shapes
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- Creating compound paths
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- Working with stroke styles
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Using Transform Again options
- Adding interactivity
- Using Sample Buttons
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- Creating Buttons
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- Adding actions to buttons for interactive PDFs
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- Exporting interactive PDFs
- Using Scripts
- Accessing the Scripts panel
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- Using scripts
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- Installing additional scripts
