fast track to indesign

audience: Beginner - Intermediate
course duration: 2 days
delivery method: On-site / In-house

description

Adobe Illustrator CS3, the industry-standard illustration program for creating vector graphics allows you to create professional-level graphics and provides tools to lay out web pages. Initially, you will be using Illustrator to create page layout sketches for your web pages, but as you become more familiar with the power of Illustrator, you will begin creating and editing high-quality graphics.

course outline

Unit 1: Tools
- Palettes
- Toolbox
- Transform Palette
- Characters and paragraph palettes
- Swatches palette
- Style palettes
- Navigator palette
- Pages and Layers palettes
- Shortcuts
- opening, saving and automatic recovery
- Converting files
- Preferences
- New Control palette, customisable workspaces
Unit 2: Page Setup and Layout
- New document settings
- Margins and column guides
- Master text frames
- Spreads and pages
- Select and target
- Pages, numbering and running heads
- Sections and section starts
- Master pages and island spreads
- Stacking order
- Pasteboard
- Rules, guides and grids
- Layers
- Flattening
- Auto adjustment
- Multiple document views
- Workgroup Servers
Unit 3: Illustration/Drawing
- Path
- Stroke and fill
- Frame
- Bezier curves
- Anchors and handles
- Stoke attributes and corner effects
- Shapes
- Pen and pencil tools
- Editing points and paths
- Text to paths
- Compound paths
- Creating type along a path
- Drop Shadow and Feather
- Pathfinder commands
Unit 4: Objects
- Transforming objects
- Moving items in and out of frames
- Adjusting frames and content
- Setting a point of origin
- Scaling and rotating
- Shear/skew and reflecting
- Moving and arranging objects
- Duplicating objects
- Step and repeat
- Align and distribute
- Stacking order
- Grouping and ungrouping
- Nesting
- Cropping and clipping paths
Unit 5: Typography
- Hyphenation and justifcation
- Dictionary and language
- Single-line, multi-line composers
- Optical margin alignment
- Hanging punctuation
- Glyphs and insert character
- Leading and baseline grid
- Small caps and ligatures
- Tabs and rules. Cell-based tabs
- Character formatting, scaling
- Style sheets
- Nested styles
- Kerning and tracking
- Text to bezier path conversion
- OpenType
- Active fonts
Unit 6: Text processing
- Linking and flowing text
- Text frames
- Threading
- Selecting and editing text
- Non-printing characters
- Inserting font characters and the Glyph Palette
- Linked files
- Find/change
- Spell checking
- Inline frames
- Wrapping text
- Text import filters
- Tagging text
- Adobe XMP
- Story Editor
Unit 7: Colour
- RGB, CMYK and L*a*b colour
- Out of gamut colours
- Colour separation and registration
- spot colour
- Applying colour to objects
- New colours, tints, and gradients
- Swatchbook libraries
- Imported EPS and PDF spot colours
- Spot to process colours
- Trapping
- colour management
- Applying/exporting profiles
- Separations palette
Unit 8: Import amd Export
- Images overview
- Importing images
- Placing PDF files
- Linked and embedded images
- PostScript export and virtual printer overview
- EPS and prepress export
- Web Hyperlinks export
- PDF for print and online
- Enhanced integration with Adobe Acrobat
- JPEG Export
Unit 9: Printing
- Dots and pixels
- Page description languages
- Imaging
- Screening
- Resolution
- Dog gain
- Preflight and package
- Printing to a device or a PostScript file
- General page control
- Advanced output issues
Unit 10: Cross Media Applications
- XML
- XML Workflow automation
- eBook Support
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Export
- Collaboration
Unit 11: Long Documents
- Books
- Table of Contents
- Indexing
- Hyperlinks