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Moving to InDesign
(One-day workshop)
Date(s):
Aug 13 | Sep 20 | Oct 12 | Nov 14 | Dec 17
Instructor(s): Patti Scully-Lane
Description
This course is designed for those who are currently working with QuarkXPress and/or PageMaker and will be moving to InDesign. You will learn how to put your current knowledge to use in getting up to speed quickly and becoming a proficient user of InDesign.
Prerequisite
Current expertise with QuarkXPress and/or PageMaker is required to attend this course.
This class is taught on PCs. All participants should have a working knowledge of MS Windows prior to attending class.
Topics Include:
- Lesson 1: Top Ten Common Pitfalls
- Top ten Gotchas for QuarkXPress users
- Top ten Gotchas for PageMaker users
- Lesson 2: The User Interface
- The tools palette
- Views and navigation
- Keyboard shortcuts and context menus
- Lesson 3: Building Pages
- Creating frames
- Tools for selecting
- Creating and editing shapes
- Fills and strokes
- Moving and transforming objects
- Grouping, stacking, nesting, and locking objects
- Duplicating, deleting, and aligning objects
- Layers
- Lesson 4: Building Documents
- Creating, opening, and saving documents
- Adding, deleting, and arranging pages
- Creating and applying master pages
- Grids and guides
- Numbering and sectioning
- Lesson 5: Typography
- Importing and editing text
- Threading and unthreading text frames
- Checking spelling and using dictionaries
- Character formatting
- Paragraph formatting
- Text frame properties
- Find and change
- Lesson 6: Styles
- Paragraph and character styles
- Exporting text
- Lesson 7: Graphics
- Importing graphics
- Scaling graphics precisely
- Display options
- Clipping paths
- Lesson 8: Where Text Meets Graphics
- Inline objects
- Text wrap
- Text and graphics on a path
- Creating and importing tables
- Formatting tables
- Text and graphics in tables
- Lesson 9: Color and Transparency
- Creating and applying colors
- Transparency
- Lesson 10: Long Documents
- Managing book files
- Table of contents and index
- Lesson 11: Printing
- Preparing for print
- Printing
- Lesson 12: Exporting
- Exporting EPS and PDF
- Other export options
To learn more about nSight training programs and for assistance, please contact our Training department at 781-273-6300 or Training@nSightWorks.com.
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