Adobe InDesign CS2 Advanced

In this two-day workshop participants learn how to use InDesign s precise typographical control, long document tools, and color controls. They create vector drawings with InDesign s drawing tools and specify transparency options. They use XML to tag document elements according to their content, and they create and export XML files.

After taking this class you will be able to:

• Work with Transparency
• Create Interactive Documents
• Combine Files into Books
• Export to PDF

Learn with other InDesign professionals who are extending their skills. You'll need to have taken InDesign Fundamentals and have experience using the software (or equivalent experience). This class is not for someone who has only used InDesign occasionally.

Lesson 1: Drawing Vector Graphics

• Setting up the document grid
• Applying color to a path
• Drawing with the Pencil tool
• Drawing curved segments with the Pen tool
• Drawing combinations of curved and straight segments
• Changing the shape of existing segments
• Creating a compound path
• Creating a perfect semicircle
• Slicing a path with the Scissors tool
• Adding an end shape to an open path
• Creating a texture effect using a colorized image
• Creating and adding an inline graphic

Lesson 2: Working with Transparency

• Applying transparency settings
• Changing the opacity of solid-color objects
• Applying the Multiply blending mode
• Applying feathering to the margins of an image
• Adjusting the transparency settings for EPS images
• Creating a drop shadow

Lesson 3: Creating Interactive Documents

• Bookmarks
• Hyperlinks
• Adding a navigational Button
• Adding a movie
• Adding a button with rollover and down states
• Adding a play movie action to a button
• Exporting the final document as an Adobe PDF

Lesson 4: Combining Files into Books

• Defining a book
• Creating a book file
• Setting the order and pagination
• Adding the table of contents file
• Maintaining consistency across book files
• Synchronizing book documents
• Updating the table of contents after editing
• Indexing the book

Lesson 5: Printing and Print Preparation

• Preflight
• Package
• Separation preview
• Transparency flattener preview
• Printing a laser or inkjet proof

Lesson 6: Exporting to PDF

• Viewing the PDF created from Adobe InDesign CS
• Creating a PDF File with layers
• Viewing a layered PDF
• Creating and applying a PDF preset