DTP and layout

The aim of this course is to provide the students with the full range of skills to be able to create professional page layouts and take them to print.

Adobe Indesign is a page layout program, used extensively in the print industry, it can be used to create interactive pdf documents, books, magazines, brochures and annual reports and even corporate identities.

Course outlines
• Desktop publishing concepts
• Create a multi-page document
• Add & position ‘box” elements
• Palettes
• Menus and dialog boxes
• Managing links
• Using the navigator
• Using the control palette
• Tool box
• Changing defaults and changing and creating keyboard shortcuts

Page Layout

• Creating and saving documents
• Opening and editing documents
• Using the frame tools
• Using guides
• Displaying hidden characters
• Using text frame options
• Working with tables
• Changing document setup
• Changing margins and columns
• Creating master pages
• Page numbering and sections
• Setting the baseline grid
• Using layers
• Saving document presets
• Creating templates
• Creating guides
• Creating interactive documents
• Combining files to books

Typography

• Importing text with or without formatting
• Modifying character attributes
• Modifying paragraph formats
• Creating paragraph/character styles
• Tracking/kerning and leading
• Changing case
• Text threading
• Linking text frames
• Tabulation
• Editing paragraph/character styles
• Using the story editior
• Creating and modifying tables
• Adding text to a path
• Using find and change
• Replace and insert characters
• Linking text frames
• Hyphenation and justification
• Hanging punctuation
• Applying rules
• Applying anchored objects
• The spell checker
• Creating dictionaries
• Converting text into outlines

Venue

Date: 02 June 2008 to 30 June 2008
Location: City Varsity Newtown, Johannesburg
Cost: R3500

Contact: Oyama Dyosiba - Brand Manager
Company name: CityVarsity Newtown
Telephone number: +27 11 634 9840
Email address oyamad@cityvarsity.co.za