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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
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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 see the CS3 version of this course outline for any differences in training course content. Please contact DPA for more details or to have an instructor contact you.

Course Overview

This course is a comprehensive overview designed for those people who have little or no previous experience using Adobe InDesign or any other page layout software and those who are self-taught. From this course you will learn how to create a finished document using multiple elements such as text and graphics.

Course Content

  • The workspace: Toolbox panel, panels (nesting, viewing presets)
  • Basic Program Preferences: Type and Spell Check
  • Defining and saving Process and Pantone colours and gradients
  • Control panel views, document tabs
  • Ruler guides: measurements and point of origin
  • Create Guides command
  • Pages panel
  • Moving around a document page
  • Text frames: creating, placing and formatting text
  • Stroke panel
  • Text wrap
  • Tabs & indents
  • Bullets and numbering
  • Creating and editing Style Sheets
  • Paragraph rules
  • Importing and manipulating graphics and images
  • Master pages
  • Links panel
  • Preflight
  • Package

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(Note: Only the 10% discount applies to Microsoft Office or FileMaker Pro training)