Adobe InDesign CS2: Production Study Guide

1-4188-6134-0 © 2006 Publish date: December 6, 2005

 

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CBT Planet presents the Adobe InDesign CS2: Production study guide. This advanced course uses the skills you learned in the InDesign CS2: Basic course and teaches you how to use InDesign for the printing of professional layouts using a commercial printer. This is one of our computer training books aimed at teaching you advanced skills such as creating document presets, using spot and process colors, preparing and packaging documents for commercial printers, exporting your content as XML, importing DTDs, and more.

The InDesign CS2: Advanced course is not a prerequisite for this Adobe InDesign CS2: Production courseware though it doesn't hurt if you've taken it.

Seven logical units with exercises and review questions take you from setting up your documents all the way to exporting them as XML files. You'll learn everything in between too including color management, pre-flighting, and color separations.

This Adobe InDesign CS2: Production courseware is a course that will assist you as you create documents that must be sent to a commercial printer for printing. You can use this study guide as a helpful addition to your bookshelf after the course. When ever you need to create a document for printing, you can refer to this book for answers. By taking this course, you'll understand how to more efficiently create great looking documents that will print beautifully.

Course Contents

Unit 1 covers efficient document setup

• Document presets
• Using grids and guides
• Using templates and master pages
• Merging data

Unit 2 covers color printing basics

• Desktop printing versus commercial printing
• Spot color separations
• Half toning

Unit 3 discusses working with color

• Process colors and spot colors
• Mixed inks
• Colorizing

Unit 4 goes over Preventing printing problems

• Links palette
• Potential printing problems
• Pre-flighting

Unit 5 goes over print settings

• Composite print settings
• Print presets used for color separations

Unit 6 covers color management

• Color management systems
• Image profiles

Unit 7 covers XML

• Exporting documents as an XML file
• Importing an XML file