Adobe InDesign Introduction

Goals

Learn the essentials to create professional looking documents: flyers, leaflets, posters, catalogs…

Prerequisite

Knowledge of the Mac or Windows work environment, basic knowledge of text processing.

Contents

Introduction

• Presentation of the program: interface
• Working with blocs
• Text and image import
• Work flow

Working with text

• Add, delete, copy and paste
• Format characters
• Format paragraphs
• Text import
• Corrections and replacements
• Missing fonts
• Text flow
• Styles to uniform presentation

Working with images

• Importing images
• InDesign and Illustrator / Photoshop
• Image resizing
• Understanding image quality

Working with blocs

• Using colors
• Relationship between blocs
• Add lines, borders, circles
• Resize, copy, paste graphic elements

Layout

• Create a new document
• Visual layout: text and images
• Text wrap
• Creating structure: margins, columns, gutters
• Create and modify tables

Masters

• Go to Master pages
• Add elements to the master
• Apply a master on a page
• Pages without master

Save and export

• Save the work copy
• Create a package
• Create a PDF for print
• Create a PDF for the Web