Advanced InDesign Creative Cloud (CC) Training

Advanced InDesign Creative Cloud (CC) Training (INDCC.2)

Course Length: 1 day
Delivery Methods: Available as private class only
Course Overview

This Adobe InDesign training class covers advanced features of InDesign, such as color management, using interactive media, creating fillable forms, creating digital folio editions and exporting to EPUB and HTML, and building InDesign books with table of contents and indexing. Students should have a solid base knowledge of InDesign before taking this course.

Course Benefits
  • Learn to understand how color management is used to control output.
  • Learn to learn to create multiple versions using layers.
  • Learn to learn to create hyperlinks, multi-state objects and add video.
  • Learn to create and use buttons to control interactive media.
  • Learn to learn to create form fields, radio buttons, and scrollable lists.
  • Learn to understand and use digital publishing platforms, such as EPUB and digital folios.
  • Learn to understand and work with XML to automate your workflow.
  • Learn to build an InDesign book from multiple files, with synchronized styles, table of contents and index.
Course Outline
  1. Digital Layout Variations
    1. Controlling Color for Output
      1. Color Management in Theory and Practice
      2. Define Application Color Settings
      3. Assign Color Settings to an Existing File
      4. Assigning and Converting Color Profiles
      5. Preview Separations
      6. Enable Track Changes
      7. Find and Change Text
      8. Find and Change Text Formatting Attributes
      9. Entering Special Characters in Dialog Boxes
      10. Find and Change Object Attributes
      11. More about the Find/Change Dialog Box
      12. Review Tracked Changes
      13. Soft Proofing to Custom Profiles
      14. Export a Color-Managed PDF File
    2. Creating Interactive PDF Elements
      1. Define Interactive Bookmarks
      2. Define Hyperlinks
      3. Create Text Form Fields
      4. Create a Radio Button Form Field
      5. Create a Combo Box Form Field
      6. Create Check Box Form Fields
      7. Create Form Control Buttons
      8. Export an Interactive PDF
    3. Exporting an HTML File
      1. Anchor Graphics to Text
      2. Define Articles
      3. Tag Styles for Exporting
      4. Export HTML
    4. Exporting an EPUB File
      1. Create Versions with Layers
      2. Controlling Text Wrap on Different Layers
      3. Create a Basic Animation
      4. The Animation Panel in Depth
      5. Define Object States
      6. Create a Multi-State Text Frame
      7. Create Buttons to Control the Animation
      8. Export a Fixed-Layout EPUB
      9. Using the Publish Online Service
  2. Repurposed-Content Layouts
    1. Working with XML
      1. Tag Frames for XML
      2. Tag Content for XML
      3. Review XML Structure and Attributes
      4. Understanding Options for Managing XML Files
      5. Place Unstructured XML Content
      6. Update Linked XML Data
      7. Import Structured XML
    2. Creating Alternate Layouts
      1. Create a File for Digital Publishing
      2. Use the Content Collector
      3. Manage Linked Object Options
      4. Defining Style Mapping Rules
      5. Create an Interactive Overlay
      6. Understanding Interactive Overlay Options
      7. Define Liquid Page Rules
      8. Understanding Column Options
      9. Understanding Liquid Page Rules
      10. Create an Alternate Layout
  3. Multi-Chapter Booklet
    1. Combining Documents into Books
      1. Build an InDesign Book
      2. Add Book Chapters
      3. Managing Book Chapters
      4. Control Section and Page Numbering
      5. Understanding Book Page Numbering
      6. Section and Chapter Numbering in Depth
      7. Synchronize Book Files
      8. Smart Matching Style Groups
    2. Building a Table of Contents
      1. Define a Table of Contents Style
      2. Build and Update a Table of Contents
    3. Building an Index
      1. Tag Basic and Reversed Index Topics
      2. Add Multiple Page References
      3. Add Page-Range References
      4. Add Multiple-Level References
      5. More About Defining Index Entries
      6. Build the Book’s Index
      7. Options for Generating an Index
      8. Export PDF Files for Print and Digital Distribution
    4. Merging Data into a Page Layout
      1. Create a Merged Document and Load Source Data
      2. Understanding the Data Source File
      3. Complete the Merged Document
      4. More about Working with Data Merge
Class Materials

Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following is required for this InDesign class:

  • Basic knowledge of InDesign
Live Private Class
  • Private Class for your Team
  • Live training
  • Online or On-location
  • Customizable
  • Expert Instructors
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