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Adobe Training Overview
Adobe® InDesign® 2.0 is a robust and easy-to-use design and layout program. With it you can create documents of many types, from single page advertisements and flyers, to complex multi-page color publications. In this course, you will learn the basics of creating documents with InDesign.
Adobe Training Certification
InDesign® 2.0: Level 1 is one of two courseware titles that address the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Program objectives for the InDesign 2.0 exam. The ACE Program is for graphic designers, Web designers, developers, systems integrators, value-added resellers, and business professionals who seek recognition for their expertise with specific Adobe products. Certification candidates must pass a product proficiency exam in order to become an Adobe Certified Expert.
Adobe Training Prerequisites
In order to be successful with this course, a basic understanding of the operating system and of using applications in general is needed.
Delivery Method
Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Benefits
In this course, you will learn how to create and lay out documents of all sorts to suit your personal or business needs.
Target Student
Anyone who needs to use InDesign to create documents such as ads, flyers, brochures, or newsletters, but has little to no experience doing so, would be an ideal student for this course.
Hardware/Software Requirements
You will need
- Intel Pentium II, III, or 4 processor.
- Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition, Me, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation (with Service Pack 6), 2000 (with Service Pack 2), or XP operating system.
- A hard disk with at least 105 MB of available hard disk space to install the InDesign 2 software, and an additional 10 MB of free hard disk space for the course data files.
- At least 128 MB of random-access memory (RAM).
- A CD-ROM drive.
- Monitor resolution of at least 256 colors at 1024-by-768 pixels.
- Adobe® InDesign® 2.0.
Performance-Based Objectives
Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Use InDesign's palettes, tools, and navigation features to examine and alter documents.
- Create and modify text and picture frames.
- Use master pages and guides to design a document's layout and to add automatic page numbering.
- Import text from other applications, and create multiple-column documents with independent stories flowing throughout.
- Apply colors and gradients to text, lines, and frames.
- Format text (using fonts, sizes, type styles, and leading) and align text (using alignments, tabs, and indents).
- Place and manipulate graphics, wrap text around those graphics, and create layers to keep your page items organized.
- Apply transparency effects to native objects and placed images and graphics.
- Create and apply formatting to sophisticated tables.
- Prepare documents for handoff to commercial printers.
- Create Acrobat PDF files for the Web and for print.
What"s Next
LiveMotion™ 2.0: Level 2 is the last course in LiveMotion training series. If you are interested in using another Adobe Web creation tool to enhance your Web design skill set, you may also be interested in GoLive courses. The first course in the series is GoLive® 6.0: Level 1.
Adobe Training Course duration
1 Day
Adobe Training Course outline
Lesson 1: InDesign Environment
- Topic 1A: InDesign Environment Elements
Topic 1B: Navigating
Lesson 2: Basic Documents
- Topic 2A: Picas Measurement System
Topic 2B: Document Setup
Topic 2C: Creating Text
Topic 2D: Working With Graphics
Lesson 3: Master Pages
- Topic 3A: Creating Masters
- Topic 3B: Applying Masters
Lesson 4: Importing and Threading Text
- Topic 4A: Importing Text
- Topic 4B: Threading Text
- Topic 4C: Changing Text Threads
Lesson 5: Colors, Swatches, and Gradients
- Topic 5A: Colors and Swatches
- Topic 5B: Gradients
- Topic 5C: Applying Fills and Strokes to Frames and Type
Lesson 6: Formatting Type
- Topic 6A: Character Formatting
- Topic 6B: Paragraph Formatting
- Topic 6C: Styles
- Topic 6D: Text Inset Spacing
Lesson 7: Graphics and Layout
- Topic 7A: Placing and Manipulating Graphics
- Topic 7B: Text Wrap
- Topic 7C: Layers
Lesson 8: Transparency
- Topic 8A: Applying Transparency
- Topic 8B: Transparency Effects and Blending Modes
- Topic 8C: Printing With Transparency
Lesson 9: Using Tables
- Topic 9A: Creating Tables
- Topic 9B: Formatting Tables
Lesson 10: Preparing for Handoff to a Service Provider
- Topic 10A: Commercial Printing Overview
- Topic 10B: Preflighting
- Topic 10C: Printing
- Topic 10D: Packaging Files
Lesson 11: Creating Acrobat PDF Files
- Topic 11A: PDF Files for the Web
- Topic 11B: PDF Styles
- Topic 11C: PDF Files for Printing
Appendix A: Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Program
- InDesign® 2.0 ACE Exam Objectives
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