Creating New Documents
- Creating a new document from scratch
- Working with rules and basic graphic elements to create interesting layouts
- Effectively working with style sheets to cut down production time
Working with Templates and Master Pages
- Creating a new document from a template or document presets
- Working with templates whether created from your file or from pre-existing templates
- Setting up single or multi-master pages
- Modifying master page items on layout pages
- Basing one master page on another, creating an ongoing relationship between them
- Using the automatic text box
- Numbering pages throughout document
Working with Text
- Creating, sizing, positioning and working with text frames
- Importing text from word processing packages
- Threading text frames
- Formatting characters and paragraphs
- Setting tabs and indents
- Controlling hyphenation and justification
- Creating drop caps, and designing type effects using leading, kerning and point size
- Inserting special characters and glyphs
- Utilizing Open Type fonts, including swashes, discretionary ligatures, and other features without switching fonts
- Editing copy in the Story Editor
Working with Images
- Importing and positioning images
- Linking rather than embedding images
- Managing linked files and updating modified images
- Determining cropping and sizing needed and re-importing images accordingly
- Creating object runarounds/ text wraps
- Placing and working with inline images and graphics
- Creating clipping paths or frames to mask out portions of an image
Working with Graphics
- Applying editable drop shadows, feathering and transparency settings to text, graphics, and images
- Drawing shapes and applying attributes
- Grouping, aligning, duplicating, transforming, and moving items
- Using the pencil, pen, and scissors tool to create and edit paths
- Working with compond shapes and paths
- Creating paths from text outlines
Working with Documents & Color
- Defining, importing, editing and deleting colors
- Creating and modifying color of graphics or text
- Defining color blends for gradients on fills, strokes and text
- Basic trapping techniques required for color printing
- Creating postscript print files and doing pre-flight checks
Working with Style Sheets & Layers
- Creating and defining style sheets vs. paragraph overrides
- Importing, editing, applying and deleting style sheets
- Using layers for control on complex page layouts
Using Text Utilities
- Checking spelling with an auxiliary dictionary
- Finding and changing text, its attributes, special characters and wild cards
Working with Longer Documents
- Working with long documents vs. grouping multiple documents into a book list.
- Creating, and using the libraries for frequent graphics
- Working with books to add, paginate, sort, and delete chapters
- Managing lists in books
- Building indexes, cross-references and table of contents
Creating Tables
- Creating, formatting and editing tables
- Creating a table from existing text
- Importing tables and converting tab-delimited text from Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and database applications.
- Selecting and modifying cells
- Setting up running headers and footers in tables
- Breaking tables across frames
- Converting tables into text
Working Efficiently
- Using keyboard shortcuts
- Setting the preferences and defaults on tools
- Using the library palette for heavily used graphics
- Copying items and pages between documents
- Entering value in the control palette vs. dialog boxes
Printing Documents and Controlling Color
- Pre-flight checking images, color and font usage
- Preparing a document for a commercial printer by packaging
- Exporting to PDFs
- Defining printing options
- Color managing and assigning profiles
- Trapping properly to define overprints, knockouts, colors and preferences
Creating Web Pages
- Creating a new web layout and adding content
- Repurposing print layouts
- Adding hyperlinks and anchors
- Preparing a file for PDF output, add hyperlinks, and bookmarks
- Importing and exporting XML tags
Information compiled and updated by Design Desk on 01/10/10.