InDesign CS4 Advanced Techniques

InDesign CS4 Advanced Techniques is a blended learning course which combines 1 day of instructor led InDesign training with additional online learning content covering a wide variety of advanced InDesign skills.

The classroom modules are covered over 1 day and can either be completed at our fully equipped London training centre or at your own facility, whilst the online modules combine high quality flash video presentations backed up with instructor led course discussion forums, exercises files, real world samples, and loads more.

Audience
This course is suitable for anybody who has attended the InDesign CS4 - Getting Started course or already has equivalent knowledge and wants to develop their InDesign skills to a more advanced level.

Summary of Topics Covered

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Basing masters on existing master pages
Applying master pages to multiple document pages
Different page sizes
Page shuffling and moving pages
Overriding page items
Sections

Advanced Styles
Local Overrides in Style
Basing One Style upon Another
Importing and Redefining Styles
Object styles
Nested styles
Line styles
GREP styles

Creating Interactive PDFs- Advanced

Buttons, Links, Movies - Techniques
Documents for Flash
Page transitions

Text Flow Control

Composition, Hyphenation, and Justification
Tracking and Kerning
Scaling Text
Anchoring objects
Story Editor

Page Elements and Graphics

Item Duplication
File Formats
Libraries
Placing multiple files
Placing InDesign files within InDesign files

Document Sectioning

Sectioned Documents
Sectioned Document Navigation
Footnotes
Indexing
Markers

Managing Long Documents

Tables of Contents
Indexing
Creating a Book

Print Settings

Print Presets
Colour Separations Print Settings
Colour Management
Colour Proofing

Advanced tables

Table styles
Cell styles

Transparency
Adding Transparency
Blending Colours
Flattening

 Using InDesign within CS4 - Advanced topics
InDesign with Photoshop CS4
InDesign with Illustrator CS4
InDesign with Flash CS4 - using XFL

Advanced Textual techniques
Cross-referencing
Conditional Text

InDesign and data
Datamerge with InDesign
Structuring InDesign Documents with XML
Importing XML

Customising
Important preferences
Customising the menus, palettes, and keyboard shortcuts
Text variables

Bézier Shapes
Bézier Paths
Compound Paths
Clipping Paths
Type Outlines

GREP
What is GREP
How to use it