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Course Program
Class 1. Introduction
- Basic information about publishing systems, terminology, basic concepts;
- Features of Adobe InDesign: installation and customization of the system, features of the new version of the system;
- General information about fonts and font technologies;
- Customizing the interface of the Adobe InDesign system;
- Layout and layout. Basic concepts;
- Tools for creating and managing layout elements;
- Creating a document based on a ready-made template;
Class 2. Magazine layout
- Peculiarities of magazine layout and layout. Composition of the magazine. Typical layouts;
- Using multiple master templates to create multiple layouts in one publication;
- Creating a modular grid;
- Multi-column layout;
- Using the built-in text editor;
- Developing magazine style design. Using styles;
- Creating blocks with complex shapes. Using Bezier curves;
- Creating and using clipping paths. Distinguishing an image with clipping from an image with a transparent background;
- Aligning and distributing blocks;
- Text clipping using a complex path;
- Using transparency and visual effects;
- Managing print quality of elements with transparency;
- Working with tables. Creating tables, importing a ready table. Table styles;
- Practical work: magazine design using visual effects.
Class 3. Working with a newspaper
- Features of layout and layout of the newspaper. Composition of the newspaper. Typical layouts;
- Features of the design of text and graphic material of the newspaper;
- Practical work: layout of a newspaper fragment of A3 format;
- Anchored Blocks (Anchored Block);
- Television program layout, layout techniques;
- Printing with pagination in printer’s format;
- Export to PDF.
Class 4. Book layout
- Features of layout and layout of long documents. Elements of the book. Typical formats of book products;
- Book layout using styles and master templates;
- Typesetting footnotes and endnotes;
- Using text variables. Sliding footers;
- Practical work: book layout.
Class 5. Prepress layout preparation
- Setting up the overprint mode. Controlling the results of overprinting;
- Using the Separation Preview panel for early detection of printing problems (overprinting, text rasterization, etc.);
- Managing page placement in the layout. Creating layouts with non-standard layout;
- Adobe Acrobat technology: purpose and use. Creating Acrobat PDF files;
- Performing striping with the help of InDesign.