Adobe InDesign Bootcamp

Section 1

Letter Creation

• Setting preferences
• The Control panel
• Text frames
• Basic text attributes
• Basic keyboard shortcuts

Large Type Letter

• More text attributes

More Text Styling

• Baseline shift
• Small caps
• The Line tool
• Making proper fractions

Magazine Ad

• Setting up a document bleed
• Placing images
• Combining text & images
• White type on a black background

Advanced Word Processing/Formatting

• Paragraph spacing
• Tabs

Section 2

Kerning/Tracking

• Optical vs. metric kerning
• Kerning vs. tracking
• Manual kerning

2-Page Magazine Ad

• Facing pages
• Color swatches
• Defining colors

Sporktown Brochure

• Placing text, photos, & illustrations
• Gradient swatches
• Drop shadows
• Alignment
• Text wrap

Section 3

Professional Typesetting Techniques

• Bulleted lists
• Hanging bullets
• Hyphenation
• Discretionary hyphens
• Special break characters

Drawing Bézier Curves

• The Pen tool
• Segments, anchor points, & curves

Multiple Column Ad with Text Wrap

• Multiple text columns
• Drop caps
• The baseline grid
• Text wrap

Magazine Cover

• Placing transparent art
• Defining & using color swatches
• Type on a path

Section 4

Style Sheets in a Magazine Article

• Paragraph styles
• Character styles
• Nested styles

Tables

• Placing Excel tables (with their formatting)
• Table headers
• Formatting tables (fills, strokes, etc.)
• Reordering table cells

Anchored Frames

• Anchoring frames so they reflow with text
• Positioning anchored objects

Section 5

Leaders Magazine: Master Pages & 1st Article

• Master pages
• Spanning columns
• Step & repeat
• Paragraph & character styles

Leaders Magazine—Libraries & More

• Libraries

Leaders Magazine: Searches & Spell Check

• Spell checking
• Find/change

Section 6

The Lawyer Joke Book: Setup

• Master pages
• Automatic page numbering
• Automatic text flow
• Running heads

The Lawyer Joke Book: Styling the Text

• Paragraph rules
• The baseline grid
• Find/change with paragraph formatting

Creating a Table of Contents

• Defining & building a table of contents
• Formatting & updating a table of contents

Books: Creating

• Using multiple files to create a book
• Synchronizing files

Books: Auto Page Numbering

• Auto page numbering across files