InDesign CS4: Basic

Course Outline

Duration: 1 Day

Description: This course will teach students fundamental concepts and terminology and the basic features of Adobe InDesign CS4. Students will learn how to create documents, place text and graphics, and create custom color swatches. Students will also learn how to work with master pages and multi-page documents. In addition, students will learn how to format text, apply styles, work with threaded text frames, position and group objects, and work with layers. Finally, students will print documents, create print presets, and package documents for commercial printing.

Course Content:

Unit 1: Getting started

• Topic A: The Adobe InDesign environment
• Topic B: Preferences and defaults
• Topic C: InDesign Help
  
  

Unit 2: Basic documents

• Topic A: New documents
• Topic B: Text frames
• Topic C: Graphics frames
• Topic D: Custom colors
  
  

Unit 3: Guides and master pages

• Topic A: Item position
• Topic B: Master pages
  
  

Unit 4: Typesetting

• Topic A: Text frame threading
• Topic B: Paragraph formatting
• Topic C: Styles
  
  

Unit 5: Modifying items

• Topic A: Text frame options
• Topic B: Graphics
• Topic C: Grouped items
• Topic D: Layers
  
  

Unit 6: Finalizing documents

• Topic A: Outputting documents
• Topic B: Commercial printing preparation
  
  

Appendix A: ACE exam objectives map

• Topic A: Comprehensive exam objectives