Course outline
Preferences• Detailed look at key options in Preferences
• Changing Application/Document defaults
• The tools hints panel
Navigation
• New Window options
• Shortcuts for quick navigation
Interface
• Control panel hidden options
• The Command Bar
• Spread rotation - including non-horizontal elements in your designs by temporarily rotating the spread view
• Normal, preview and presentation mode
Objects
• Combining/converting objects
• Quick tips for transforming objects
• Pasting objects within objects
• Creating Bezier paths
• Pathfinder Panel options
• Using Scripts to modify objects
• Compound paths
• Hiding objects
Object Styles
• Advanced Object Styles
• Picture fitting controls
• Activating paragraph styles in object styles
Strokes
• Creating custom strokes
• Pen/Pencil/Smooth/Erase tools
Text
• Text Import options
• MS Word to InDesign style sheets workflow
• Creating and using custom dictionaries
• Using the story editor
• Tracking text changes in Story Editor
• Options for turning text to outlines
• Find/Change options
• Basic GREP searches
• Using the Eyedropper Tool on text
Notes
• Using the Notes features
Advanced Typography
• Single Line/Paragraph Composers
• Working with OpenType
• Justification/Hyphenation controls
• Creating Custom Glyph sets
• Word space kerning
• Controls for Drop Caps
• Footnotes
• Paragraph rule options
• Optical Margin alignment
• Bullets and numbering
Text variables
• Using Slugs/Running Heads
• Using Text Variables in a workflow
Conditional Text
• Delivering multiple versions of a document for different users
• Hiding text at paragraph, word, and character level without relying on layers
Style Sheets Advanced
• Creating/using Nested style sheets
• Creating/updating Based On styles
• Creating/applying Next Style options
• Overriding style sheets
Images
• Working with native Photoshop files
• Options for image cut-outs
• Placing Illustrator files or passing Illustrator objects
• Object Layer options
• Re-linking based on file extension
• Live image captions
Colours
• Named and Unnamed Colours
• Multi-ink colours and groups
• Using the Separations preview panel
• Aliasing spot colours in the ink manager
Documents
• Document Presets
• Advanced Master Page options
• Working with Sections
• Specifying a start page number
• Tips for Working with Layers
• Document/object Baseline Grids
• Working with Libraries (advanced)
• Creating and placing Snippets
• Creating cross-references that dynamically update as content is changed or moved within a document
Tables
• Creating Cell and table styles
• Linking to Spreadsheets/updating information
Working with Transparency
• Using the Gradient Feather tool
• Advanced transparency effects
• Applying and overriding effects
• Blending modes
• Groups and transparency
• Isolating blending
• Using the Flattener Preview Panel/layers to avoid flattening problems when printing
Working with Interactivity
• Creating buttons and hyperlinks for interactivity
• The media panel
• Exporting with interactive elements to PDF and SWF
• Adding motion, sound and video for export directly to SWF
Working with CS Review
• Creating a shared review
• Understanding CS Live online services
