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Adobe InDesign CS4

Application Overview:
Adobe InDesign CS4

Adobe InDesign CS4 is a professional industrial-strength publishing program which combines page layout and the ability to create graphic intensive documents.

Adobe InDesign is capable of producing full-color output on high-volume color printing presses and also supports a wide range of output devices and formats such as desktop printers, PDF and HTML files.

Adobe InDesign utilizes Adobe Bridge to browse, organize, label, and preview graphics, as well as InDesign documents, templates, and snippets. You can drag and drop assets from Adobe Bridge into layouts easily and efficiently and search for files using metadata, such as keywords, colors, and fonts used.
Object styles allow you to apply and globally update object-level formatting more efficiently using object styles. You can save a wide range of graphic, text, and frame-level attributes as object styles to create more consistent designs and speed up production tasks.

Adobe InDesign also allow you to control visibility of layers and layer comps in Photoshop files, and layers in Adobe PDF files, to experiment with different design options or use multiple variations of a file in your layout - all while linking to a single file.

Users: Creative, Web, Engineering, Finance, IT, Legal, Marketing and Admin Professionals as well as anyone who needs to create, edit, assemble, publish and distribute electronic documents, imagery and illustration.

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Adobe InDesign CS4
Intermediate/Advanced

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Course Information

Duration: Two-Day Course
Platform: Windows and Macintosh
Fee: $765 CDN (+HST)

This class is limited to eight people.

*As of April 2009 DPA Communications will offer Adobe Acrobat, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Flash courses on version CS4 (Creative Suite 4).
If you are currently using previous versions of InDesign contact DPA for more information or to have an instructor contact you to insure you will benefit from this training course.

Course Overview

Enhance your current skills with this amazing page layout program by discovering more powerful and automated features. This course is designed for those individuals already accomplished using the program and who are looking for creative and quicker ways to use some of Adobe InDesign CS4's more enhanced features.

Course Content

  • Deleting program preferences: Preference settings: Document and printing presets
  • Library set-up
  • Enhanced Typography Controls: hyphenation, optical margin alignment, paragraph composer
  • Using the eyedropper tool, quick apply feature, open type and glyph sets, special characters, text variables
  • Nested Paragraph Styles
  • Advanced Bullets and Numbering
  • Advanced Text linking
  • Tables: Creating and Formatting with Table and Cell Styles
  • Rotating a spread
  • Applying effects to images, colouring grayscale images, anchoring objects, nested graphics
  • Clipping Paths
  • Outline Type
  • Type on a path
  • Anchoring objects
  • Pen tools, Pencil tools and Scissors
  • Effects: object styles, drop shadows, feathering, corner effects, transparency effects
  • Converting Shapes and Corner Options
  • Paths & Shapes: Using the Pen tool, working with the Pathfinder panel
  • Adobe InDesign CS4 Prefliighting: Package and Links panels

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