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Indesign CS3 - Producing Long Documents |
Course Description
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This Bigrockdesigns training course will demonstrate the time saving features ideal for the Indesign user who wished to focus on workflow automation and how to complement these workflow's with other applications. We will demonstrates scripts and plug-ins that can enhance InDesign's capabilities.
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Course Outline |
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Introduction
Getting Started
- Long document overview
- Scripts and resources
Planning Your Project
- Working with templates
- Preparing text Managing files with
- Bridge
- Using keywords and metadata with Bridge
- Integrating Bridge and InDesign
Setting Up and Applying Master Pages
- Setting up master pages
- Working with text variables
- Adding line nuers
- Working with section markers
Working with Booked Documents
- Book feature overview
- Creating books
- Nuering across booked documents
- More nuering tricks
- Synchronizing across a book
- Adding a table of contents
Getting the Most from Global Formatting
- Planning and managing styles
- Creating a style based on another
- Printing style sheets
- Using object styles
- Working with inline images
- Nested and sequential styles
- Table and cell styles
- Libraries and snippets
- Using swatches
The Story Editor and Editing Tools
- Preferences and usage
- Working with the Info palette
- Using the depth ruler
- Troubleshooting with the Story Editor
- Auto correction
- Using notes
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Footnotes and Endnotes
- Working with footnotes
- Importing footnotes from Word
- Converting footnotes to endnotes
- Working with endnotes
Indexing
- Indexing terms
- Adding index entries
- Generating an index
- Using a concordance list
- Using Word to create index entries
Understanding GREP Searches
- GREP overview
- Finding text between
- Using GREP to find text in all caps
- Using GREP to fix last lines
- Fixing the end of a story
Generating a Table of Contents
- Generating a table of contents
- Styling a table of contents
- Generating a table of figures
Automating Layouts
- Layout automation overview
- Applying XML tags
- Exporting XML
- Importing data
- Using Data Merge
- Using FileMaker with InDesign
- Using FileMaker with Automator
Repurposing Material
- Exporting stories
- Saving for use with CS
- Creating interactive PDFs
- XHTML and Dreamweaver
Summary |
who should do this course |
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| This course is ideal for the learner with sound PC or MAC skills. You wish to learn the concepts and technique required to make complex print publications |
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Course Duration:
-1-2 days
Course Level:
-Inter/Adv |
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recommended reading
Adobe InDesign CS3 Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team |
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20 Adelaide Street, Belfast, BT2 8GB, Tel. 02890 517048, Fax 02890 950833, VAT No. 921 6991 07
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