Adobe InDesign CS2: Advanced Study Guide

1-4188-6118-9 © 2006 Publish date: October 13, 2005 168 pages

 

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CBT Planet brings you the comprehensive Adobe InDesign CS2: Advanced study guide. By following this course, you will build on the foundation, concepts and techniques you acquired in the InDesign CS2: Basic course. We'll show you how to use this program application to more efficiently create your professional looking layouts.

The Adobe InDesign CS2: Advanced courseware teaches you how to set up multi-page spreads, how to work with vector paths, how to use advance features for formatting type, how to create lighting effects, how to adjust transparency, how to define object styles, how to work with tables, how to use the Story Editor, and how to manage long documents.

Our computer training books deliver high-quality instruction in an easy-to-use format. Seven comprehensive units make up the Adobe InDesign CS2: Advanced courseware. It comes complete with exercises and section reviews so that your learning is ensured.

This self-study training manual can be used on its own for complete training in advanced techniques for InDesign CS2, or you can use it as a complement to your other training materials. You'll learn advanced techniques and be able to use the study guide as a handy reference tool whenever you are working with InDesign documents.

Course Objectives

After reading this courseware, you will be able to work with multiple-page spreads, use tint and gradient swatches as well as object libraries, align and space items, work with vector paths, clipping paths, and be able to wrap type on a path. You will also know how to resize type, work with Quick Apply, convert type to outlines, use shortcuts for fonts, control leading, hyphenation, justification, and horizontal spacing, create lighting effects, and adjust transparency.

This course explains how to work with object styles, tables, headers and footers, Story Editor, characters, anchored objects, sections, tables of contents, indexes, inserting column, frame, and page breaks and how to combine multiple documents into book files for printing.

Course Contents

Unit 1 covers efficient layout

• Setting up documents
• Tint and gradient swatches
• Using object libraries
• Spacing items

Unit 2 covers vector paths

• Creating vector paths
• Pictures and vector paths
• Type and vector paths

Unit 3 discusses typography

• Resizing type manually
• Quick Apply
• Graphics
• Precision leading control
• Composition, hyphenation, and justification
• Setting horizontal spacing
• Typography shortcuts

Unit 4 goes over graphics

• Transparency
• Object styles

Unit 5 goes over tables

• How to create tables
• How to change table structure
• How to format tables

Unit 6 covers type editing

• The Story Editor
• Using special characters
• Column, frame, and page breaks
• Anchored objects

Unit 7 covers long documents

• Creating sections
• Tables of contents
• Indexes
• Books