IDCS2FT - Adobe InDesign CS2: Fast Track
In this Fast Track Adobe InDesign CS2 course students will learn the basics of creating documents, then move on to advanced features of creating sophisticated type, graphics, and cross-media publishing. After successful completion of this course students will have been shown how to identify and use InDesign environment elements and navigate through an InDesign document; create and modify text and graphic frames and import text and images from other applications; use master pages and guides to design a document's layout and to add automatic page numbering and apply masters to document pages; import text, thread text throughout a document, reflow text threads and change the number of columns; define colors and swatches and apply them to fills and strokes of frames; apply character formatting, apply paragraph formatting, create styles to streamline formatting and set text inset spacing; place and manipulate graphics, control text wrap around graphics and create and manage layers; apply transparency effects to native objects and placed images and graphics and work with Transparency Flattener settings; create sophisticated tables; prepare documents for handoff to commercial printers; create Acrobat PDF files for the Web and for print; manipulate text, pictures and web pages; control type formatting; create and edit graphics; create and modify layouts; base master pages on others and apply master pages to multiple pages; position graphics so they flow within text, control composition, hyphenation, and justification, track and kern types and scale text frames; drag items between document windows, import files from various formats and store and retrieve items in libraries; edit paths, create compound paths, edit clipping paths and convert text to outlines; create sections to change page numbering within a document and navigate in a sectioned document; create a table of contents, create an index a book consisting of multiple documents; save print presets and work with printing color separation; import XML tags and apply them to document content and import XML into a document's layout placeholders and into a blank document.
Getting started
The Adobe InDesign environment
Basic documents
Item position
Structuring multi-page documents
Multi-page documents
Master pages
Typesetting
Text frame threading
Paragraph formatting
Styles
Modifying items
Text frames
Graphics
Grouped items
Layers
Finalizing documents
Outputting documents
Commercial printing preparation
Adobe Bridge
Efficient layout
Document setup
Tint and gradient swatches
Object libraries and snippets
Item spacing
Vector paths
Vector path creation
Vector paths and pictures
Vector paths and type
Typography
Manual type resizing
Quick Apply
Nested styles
Graphics in typography
Precise leading control
Composition, hyphenation, and justification
Horizontal spacing
Typography shortcuts
Graphics
Layer comps
Transparency
Object styles
Transforming objects
Tables
Creating tables
Changing table structure
Formatting tables
Text editing
Story Editor
Special characters
Column, frame, and page breaks
Anchored objects
Long documents
Sectioning
Tables of contents
Indexing
Books
Footnotes
Appendix A: Preferences
InDesign preferences
Document settings
Appendix B: ACE exam objectives map
Comprehensive exam objectives