Adobe InDesign – Basic Course

Basic concepts

• vectors and bitmaps
• typographic units
• font
• paragraph

Program control

• working environment
• application preferences
• keyboard shortcuts
• rulers, guides, document grids
• display modes
• layers

Creating documents

• create a new document
• document properties
• pages and spreads
• page designs

Working with text and typesetting

• text frames
• concatenation of text frames
• text editing
• inserting spaces, special characters
• delimiters
• text flow
• glyphs
• Open Type options

Text formatting

• local character formatting
• local paragraph formatting
• character styles
• paragraph styles
• tabs

Colors in InDesign

• color mixing
• swatches
• fill
• stroke

Graphics and effects

• import and export formats
• drawing in InDesign
• transformation and duplication of objects
• transparency
• effects (shadows, blends, bevel and embossing…)

Combination of graphics and text

• text wrapping
• clipping path

Tables

• table creation
• table import
• table formatting and editing

Outputs from InDesign

• Preparing for printing
• Export to pdf