MU Software Training

Adobe InDesign CS3

We recommend that participants take the Adobe InDesign CS3 courses in the following order: Introduction & Typesetting first, Modifying & Finalizing Basic Documents second; Layout & Advanced Typography third; Tables & Long Documents fourth; Advanced Setup & Advanced Color fifth; and Publishing last.

InDesign is one of the preferred software programs by MU Printing Services. For more information on preferred workflow with documents, please visit the MU Printing Services Preparing Jobs Web page.

InDesign CS3 1: Introduction & Typesetting

Recommended Prerequisite: General knowledge of the Windows or Macintosh operating environment

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Understand printing workflow
• Use the Adobe InDesign environment
• Create a new document
• Add basic elements to a layout
• Specify and apply custom colors
• Position elements precisely
• Thread text between text frames
• Add jump lines
• Modify columns in a text frame
• Use the Paragraph Formatting Controls
• Create and edit paragraph and character styles

0.3 CEU's available for this course for an additional $25.

InDesign CS3 2: Modifying & Finalizing Basic Documents

Recommended Prerequisite: InDesign CS3: Introduction & Typesetting

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Create a facing-pages document
• Create and apply master pages
• Position text in text frames
• Add Photoshop images to documents
• Adjust text wraps
• Modify graphics
• Create and use layers
• Print documents
• Export documents to PDF
• Prepare documents for commercial printing
• Use Adobe Bridge
• Set preferences and defaults

0.3 CEU's available for this course for an additional $25.

InDesign CS3 3: Layout & Advanced Typography

Recommended Prerequisite: InDesign CS3: Modifying & Finalizing Basic Documents

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Create tint and gradient swatches
• Create and place library items
• Create and edit vector and clipping paths
• Wrap type on a path
• Manually resize type
• Create a nested style
• Create text wraps for graphics
• Create a type mask
• Precisely control leading
• Control hyphenation and justification
• Adjust tracking and kerning
• Create shortcuts for fonts

InDesign CS3 4: Tables & Long Documents

Recommended Prerequisite: InDesign CS3: Layout & Advanced Typography

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Define and use object styles
• Transform objects
• Convert text to a table
• Create a table
• Modify table structure
• Format a table
• Create column, frame, and page breaks
• Section a document
• Automatically generate table of contents
• Automatically generate index
• Combine documents into a book
• Insert and format footnotes

InDesign CS3 5: Advanced Setup & Advanced Color

Recommended Prerequisite: InDesign CS3 4: Tables & Long Documents

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Use Document Presets
• Create guides
• Create placeholder objects
• Save a document as a template
• Create customized versions of a document by merging data
• Define a spot color
• Create process and spot colors
• Delete and replace swatches
• Create mixed inks
• Colorize a grayscale TIFF or JPEG image

InDesign CS3 6: Tables & Long Documents

Recommended Prerequisite: InDesign CS3 5: Advanced Setup & Advanced Color

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Use the Links panel
• Preflight and package a document for commercial printing
• Create composite print settings
• Create color-separations print presets
• Add interactivity to an InDesign document
• Add movies and sounds to documents
• Export documents as interactive PDF files
• Export documents as XHTML for Web use