Course Outline

Duration
2 x half days

Prerequisite
Competence with InDesign Introductory features.

Objectives
To provide a thorough understanding of the comprehensive concepts and skills that will enable the participant to effectively use InDesign.

Methodology
Group and individual instruction, hands on practical exercises, visual aids, comprehensive course documentation.

Confirmation of Assessment Plan
This will be issued to the trainee at commencement of training session.

Expected Outcome
By the end of the course the participant should be able to use the following functions and features of InDesign.

CONTENT

Introduction to Publishing

• Setting your expectations
• Re-keying the course
  
  Getting Started
• The Adobe InDesign environment
• Basic documents
• Item position
  
  Structuring Multi-Page Documents
• Multi-page documents
• Master pages
• Structuring multi-page documents
  
  Typesetting
• Text frame threading
• Paragraph formatting
• Styles
  
  Modifying Items
• Text frames
• Graphics
• Grouped items
• Layers
  
  Finalizing Documents
• Outputting documents
• Commercial printing preparation
  
  Preferences
• InDesign preferences
• Document settings