Adobe InDesign CS2: Level 2

Course Specifications

Course Length:  1 Day, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm

Location: Entre Technology Services, LLC  1501 N. 14th St. West, Suite 1511

Registration: Call your Account Manager at 406.256.5700 or use our Registration Forms

Course Description

You are familiar with the InDesign environment and managed text, tables, graphics, and colors in documents. You need to know the advanced features in InDesign to create catchy and attractive documents. In this course, you will use the advanced features in InDesign to create documents that are attractive and have the highest degree of perfection.

Course Objective

You will use Adobe InDesign CS2 to create and design content for print and web.

Target Student

The target student is any professional who would like to create and design print and web content. It may include graphic designers, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers, pre-press professionals, and marketing communications professionals

Prerequisites

To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following Element K course:

Adobe InDesign CS2: Level 1.

Delivery Method

Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Performance-Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Administer advanced styles.

Control text.

Handle page elements, graphics, and paths.

Develop Bézier paths.

Manage long documents.

Import and export files.

Adjust print settings.

Work with XML.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Administering Advanced Styles

Topic 1A: Manage Style Overrides

Topic 1B: Base One Style on Another

Topic 1C: Import and Redefine Styles

Lesson 2: Controlling Text

Topic 2A: Create and Use Anchored Objects

Topic 2B: Flow Text and Inline Graphics

Topic 2C: Handle Text Layout

Topic 2D: Merge Data

Lesson 3: Handling Page Elements and Graphics

Topic 3A: Duplicate Items

Topic 3B: Locate Assets Using Adobe Bridge

Topic 3C: Place Items from Other Applications

Topic 3D: Align, Size, and Transform Images

Topic 3E: Manage Libraries

Lesson 4: Developing Bézier  Paths

Topic 4A: Draw and Edit Bézier  Paths

Topic 4B: Create Compound Paths

Topic 4C: Create Clipping Paths

Topic 4D: Create Type Outlines

Lesson 5: Managing Long Documents

Topic 5A: Create Document Sections

Topic 5B: Create a Table of Contents

Topic 5C: Generate an Index

Topic 5D: Insert and Format Footnotes

Topic 5E: Add and Edit Hyperlinks

Topic 5F: Create a Book

Lesson 6: Importing and Exporting Files

Topic 6A: Import Layered Files

Topic 6B: Export PDF Files

Lesson 7: Adjusting Print Settings

Topic 7A: Create Print Presets

Topic 7B: Preview Print Output

Lesson 8: Working with XML

Topic 8A: Integrate XML into a Document

Topic 8B: Import XML

Topic 8C: Export XML

Topic 8D: Integrate XML with Tables

Topic 8E: Create and Use a Snippet

Appendix A: ACE Objectives Map