Adobe InDesign CC: Part 2

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9 hours 45 minutes
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Intermediate
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In Adobe® InDesign® CC: Part 1 you were introduced to the many features that help you create professional looking documents. Now you need to create much lengthier interactive documents that need to be accessed across a range of devices. In Adobe® InDesign® CC: Part 2, you will learn advanced InDesign techniques to enhance the look and functionality of your documents. Using Adobe InDesign, you can create interactive documents and export them for viewing in a web browser with various features such as buttons, page transitions, movies and audio files, hyperlinks, and animation. You have the ability to assign color profiles and establish print presets. In creating longer documents, you'll be able to include such features as a table of contents, footnotes, cross-references, and an index. This course is a great component of your preparation for the Adobe Certified Professional Print & Digital Media Publication Using Adobe InDesign CC exam. This course is intended for students who want to expand their entry-level knowledge of Adobe InDesign by using advanced features and collaboration tools. It's also for anyone interested in working toward the Print & Digital Media Publication Using Adobe InDesign certification. In this course, you will: prepare documents for multiple formats, manage advanced page layouts, manage styles, build complex paths, manage external files and create dynamic documents, manage long documents, and publish InDesign files for other formats and customize print settings. This course requires that you have Adobe InDesign installed on a Windows PC. The course setup instructions provided in the first module of the course go into more detail about the hardware and software requirements.

Syllabus

Preparing Documents for Multiple Formats

As technology advances, you'll find you have more and more ways in which you can deliver your documents. Gone are the days when print was the only option. Designers must take into account the various formats in which people will access the material. In this lesson, you will build layout versions and link content.

Managing Advanced Page Elements

Adobe® InDesign® CC: Part 1 introduced you to the software and got you started creating documents, but there's so much more to discover that can bring those documents to the next level. As a designer, you'll want to spend more time enhancing the formatting of the text in your document, as well as possibly include graphic motifs that repeat throughout the document. Additionally, the graphics in your documents can be adjusted to include transparency effects, such as drop shadows and embossing, and be anchored to flow with the text. Once you've created these graphics, you can build a library to use them in future documents. This lesson will discuss repeating elements, typography, building transparency, anchoring objects, and using a library.

Managing Styles

In Part 1 of this series, you learned how Adobe® InDesign® gives you the ability to create and save formatting for paragraphs, characters, and objects. It goes beyond these, of course. InDesign also lets you import styles from Microsoft® Word documents, build nested styles, apply styles in a sequence, as well as redefine and override styles. In this lesson, you will manage styles.

Building Complex Paths

As part of the Adobe® Creative Cloud® Suite, InDesign® offers designers some of the same advanced graphics creation tools that are built into Illustrator® and Photoshop®. The ability to work with paths within InDesign is a convenient, time-saving feature. In this lesson, you will build complex paths.

Managing External Files and Creating Dynamic Documents

As you build a document, you'll no doubt have to work with some external files. These may have layers or contain large amounts of data. Adobe® InDesign® allows you to manage the job of including content from these files efficiently. There are also features offered in Adobe InDesign that allow your documents to become dynamic. These include interactive behaviors, text variables, and automatic numbering, to name just a few. In this lesson, you will manage external files and create dynamic documents.

Managing Long Documents

Creating great looking documents is one thing, but building a book requires a whole different set of tools and Adobe® InDesign® has them. There are features for configuring the pagination, assembling the table of contents and the index, as well as footnotes and hyperlinks. In this lesson, you will manage long documents.

Publishing InDesign Files for Other Formats and Customizing Print Settings

As you develop your document, you must be cognizant of the various ways in which you may need to deliver it. Printers will require that you export it as a PDF file with printer marks and other necessary settings in place. If your document features interactivity, you'll need to know how to export it as an interactive PDF file. You should also consider that your document may need to be made available for e-readers in an EPUB format. As you make final preparations for printing your document, you have a wide range of print settings that you can choose from to customize the printing process to your specifications. You can manage color settings and profiles, preview the print output, and create print presets. In this lesson, you will publish Adobe® InDesign® files for other formats and customize print settings.