Adobe InDesign CS2: Basic Study Guide

1-4188-6115-4 © 2006 Publish date: September 6, 2005 194 pages

 

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CBT Planet brings you another one of our exciting computer training books to help you master the basics of Adobe's InDesign CS2. The Adobe InDesign CS2: Basic study guide teaches you how to design professional documents and print layouts using InDesign CS2.

The Adobe InDesign CS2: Basic courseware covers a wide range of topics and gives you a general overview of the program so that you can get to work using InDesign to create professional looking documents right away. You will learn about creating documents, adding text and graphics, using master pages, adding columns, threading frames, creating and applying styles, working with layers, and preparing files for printing.

The study guide is a well written training manual that you can use alone or in combination with another training product. After completing your studies, you can refer to the book as needed as a handy reference tool. If you are familiar with Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP and have basic word processing skills, you will get the most out of this self-study guide.

The Adobe InDesign CS2: Basic courseware is broken down into five comprehensive units and contains challenging exercises and reviews to make sure you understand each major topic.

Course Objectives

After following the study guide, you will be comfortable with InDesign and its environment. You'll be able to create new documents, add basic elements to layouts, and position them with guides and the Control palette. You'll learn about creating facing pages documents, master pages, and applying master pages to a document.

We'll show you how to thread text between text frames, how to add jump lines, and about adjusting columns in a text frame. You'll learn to apply formatting to paragraphs, replace formatting using "Find-change", work with paragraph and character styles, and work with text frames.

Other topics include adding Photoshop images, adjusting text wraps, modifying graphics, and nesting frames. We discuss how to group and manipulate items, how to work with layers, how to create print styles, export to PDF, and how to prepare your documents for printing using a commercial printer.

Course Contents

Unit 1 covers getting started

• Adobe's InDesign environment
• Basic documents
• Positioning items

Unit 2 covers structuring multi-page documents

• Multi-page documents
• Master pages

Unit 3 discusses typesetting

• Threading
• Formatting paragraphs
• Styles

Unit 4 goes over modifying items

• Formatting text frames
• Graphics
• Grouped items
• Layers

Unit 5 goes over finalizing documents

• Outputting your documents
• Preparing for commercial printing

Appendix A details preferences

• InDesign's preferences
• Document settings