Adobe InDesign Advanced

Business Benefit

Use the skills learnt on this course to expand your knowledge of content creation features and advanced control techniques.

Who Should Attend

Use the skills learnt on this course to expand your knowledge of content creation features and advanced control techniques.

Understand Layouts
Manage document set-ups
Creation features
Layers & colours
Controlling Placed Images

Course Content

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