This Adobe InDesign training class covers advanced features of InDesign CS4. Students will learn to work with variables and cross references, to create books with a table of contents and index, to output documents in multiple formats, to work with XML and to create interactive PDFs.

Class Goals

Learn to work with variables, cross references
Learn to build a table of contents and index
Learn to publish documents in different formats
Learn to work with XML
Learn to create interactive PDFs

Class Outline

Advanced Document Features
1. Adding text variables
2. Creating a book from multiple files
3. Defining pagination and document order
4. Synchronizing attributes across a book file
5. Creating a Table of Contents
6. Building an index
7. Adding topics
8. Adding cross-references
9. Generating the index
10. Creating PDFs and printing from the Book panel
11. Creating PDFs
12. Printing
Document Delivery: Printing, PDFs, and XHTML
1. Package inventory
2. Preflight checks
3. Packaging your document
4. Creating an Adobe PDF
5. Generating XHTML
6. Adding CSS formatting
7. Separation preview
8. Printing a proof
Using XML with InDesign
1. XML basics
2. XML tags in InDesign
3. Importing and applying XML Tags
4. Using a DTD
5. Viewing and organizing structure
6. Viewing and applying attributes
7. Exporting XML
8. Importing XML
9. Preparing the document template
10. Applying an XSLT on import
11. Mapping tags to styles
12. Using data merge
Creating Interactive Documents
1. Interactive design considerations
2. Importing multimedia content
3. Creating buttons to control multimedia content
4. Adding more buttons
5. Creating page transitions
6. Creating an interactive PDF
7. Viewing an interactive PDF
8. Creating a Flash .swf file
9. Viewing a Flash file

Class Materials

All students receive a course manual or book and all the class examples.

Students in private onsite classes will also receive:

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