InDesign CS4 Fundamentals Lodestone Live
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InDesign CS4 Fundamentals Lodestone Live
Lesson 1: Getting to Know the Work Area
- Looking at the work area
- About the Tools panel
- The Control Panel
- The Document Window
- Multiple document windows
- Viewing and arranging panels
- Customizing your workspace
- Using panel menus
- Changing the magnification of a document
- Using the view commands and magnification menu
- Using the Zoom tool
- Navigating through your document
- Turning pages
- Scrolling through a document
- Using the Navigator panel
- Using context menus
- Selecting Objects
Lesson 2: Setting Up Your Document
- Creating and saving custom page settings
- Creating a new document
- Working with master pages
- Dragging guides from rulers
- Creating a text frame on the master page
- Renaming the master page
- Creating additional master pages
- Creating a placeholder master
- Wrapping text around a graphic
- Drawing colored shapes
- Creating text frames with columns
- Applying the masters to document pages
- Adding sections to change page numbering
- Arranging and deleting pages
- Placing text and graphics on the document pages
- Overriding master page items on document pages
Lesson 3: Working with Frames
- Working with Layers
- Using the Position tool
- Rotating an object
- Aligning multiple objects
- Scaling grouped objects
- Selecting and modifying a frame within grouped objects
Lesson 4: Importing and Editing Text
- Managing tools
- Creating and entering text
- Flowing text
- Working with styles
- Adding a column break
- Adding a page continuation note
- Changing horizontal and vertical text alignment
- Loading styles from another document
- Finding and changing
- Checking spelling of a story
- Adding words to a dictionary
- Drag and drop text editing
- Using the story editor
Lesson 5: Working with Typography
- Adjusting vertical spacing
- Using a baseline grid to align text
- Changing the spacing above and below paragraphs
- Changing fonts and type style
- Adding a decorative font and special character
- Creating a drop cap
- Applying a fill and stroke to text
- Adjusting the drop cap alignment
- Adjusting letter and word spacing
- Adjusting the kerning and tracking
- Applying the paragraph and single-line composers
- Working with tabs
- Adding a rule below a paragraph
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