Instructor David Blatner teaches the intricacies of creating, editing, and publishing professional layouts with InDesign CS3, from setting preferences to employing advanced typography and transparency effects. InDesign CS3 Beyond the Basics covers each step in the publishing process, and explores such topics as structuring InDesign content to use XML; setting up preferences for composition, type, and units of measure; avoiding problems with transparency, managing and producing long documents; and exporting files for print. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:
Working with column guides
Scaling objects to a specific size
Using Illustrator and InDesign together
Building a multi-document book
Constructing a Data Merge document
Setting up swatch and style defaults
Working with CMYK and RGB images
Exporting files
Creating interactive PDFs with movies and buttons
Using the scripts that come with InDesign
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