Adobe InDesign: documents for web and print
Duration
1 day (introduction) or 2 days (advanced) (delivered in half-day or full-day chunks)
Objectives
Upon completion, participants will be able to successfully create a document for web or print using Adobe InDesign.
Prerequisites
- None
Recommended pre-knowledge
- Familiarity with a word processing software is helpful
- Familiarity with PDF documents is helpful
Course Outline
- Introduction
- What is InDesign used for?
- Author once, publish many
- The typical InDesign workflow
- Document setup
- Page size and margins
- Working with multiple pages
- Guidelines, grids, and other helpful tools
- InDesign preferences and typical settings
- Creating your document
- Working with text
- Importing, authoring, and editing text
- Text formatting options
- Text flow
- Using style sheets
- Text preferences, spell check, and other editorial tools
- Working with images
- Importing images
- Text flow around images
- Advanced image options
- Working with colour
- Choosing a colour mode and model
- Creating colours
- Applying colours to items
- Exporting to various media
- Determining the purpose of your final document
- Exporting to PDF and other formats
- Export options (publishing many)
- From here
- Introduction to editorial workflows
- Introduction to accessible PDFs
- Advanced tips and tricks
- Q&A
What You Get
When David Berman Communications hosts this course*, regular ticket holders receive:
- a complimentary, comprehensive 160+ page learning guide, (also available separately for $89, with optional 1-on-1 distance coaching)
- a thirty-minute one-on-one personal coaching tele-session with David’s team within a month
- a money-back guarantee: if, after coaching, you don’t think you’ve got your money’s worth, we’ll refund your entire fee
(*If you are attending one of our courses hosted by another organization, confirm which of these items apply.)
About the Course Developer
David Berman is the principal of David Berman Communications. He has over 25 years of experience in graphic design and strategic communications. He has worked extensively in adapting the printed word for electronic distribution, including software interface development.
David is a member of the ISO committee for accessible PDF (PDF/UA).
David was appointed a high-level advisor to the United Nations on how design and accessible IT can help fulfill the Millennium Development Goals more rapidly.
He has extensive experience as a senior consultant in applying accessibility and standards to government Web sites, as well as to private sector clients such as IBM, both as a strategist and compliance testing leader. He regularly teaches accessibility principles as part of his professional development workshops, and developed a custom two-day workshop for the National Research Council on common look and feel. His plain writing, design, and accessibility work include award-winning projects for the City of Ottawa, the Ontario government, and Canada’s federal government.
Clients include IBM, Justice Canada, HRDC, Canada Revenue Agency, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, the Region of Ottawa-Carleton and the Ontario Literacy Coalition.
David has been featured in the Financial Post, the Globe And Mail, the Ottawa Citizen, the Montreal Gazette, Marketing, Applied Arts, HOW, and Communication Arts magazines, as well as ABC and CBC.
David is currently Ethics Chair of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada, was named a Fellow (the highest professional honour for graphic designers in Canada) in 1999, and has served as a director and sustainability chair of Icograda, the world body for graphic and communications design.
Who Should Attend
This course is targeted to all writers, editors, and designers involved in developing documents using Adobe InDesign.
Language:
English (French available upon request)
“I love David’s approach.”
-Carole Dubuc, Canadian Armed Forces
“Clear, concise, and very useful.”
-Annette Kallevig
“Excellent, eye-opening, and not preachy!”
-Carrie Walker-Boyd, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
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