COURSE OUTLINE
Chapter 1: EXPLORING THE INTERFACE (28 min)
1. Start Screen, Application Bar & Workspace Menu
2. Panels, Application Frame & Tab View
3. Using the Control Panel
4. Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts & Menus
5. Exploring Workspaces
Chapter 2: CUSTOMIZING APPLICATION PREFERENCES (38 min)
1. Setting General & Interface Preferences
2. Setting Type & Composition Preferences
3. Customizing Units, Grids & Guides
4. Dictionary, Spelling, Autocorrect & Story Editor Display Preferences
5. Display Performance & Appearance of Black Preferences
6. File & Clipboard Handling
Chapter 3: WORKING WITH DOCUMENTS (21 min)
1. Setting Up a New Document & Saving a Preset
2. Working with Templates
3. Replacing Missing Fonts & Updating Links
4. Converting Documents for Backwards Compatibility
Chapter 4: NAVIGATING & VIEWING DOCUMENTS (21 min)
1. Navigating Pages & Layers
2. Links, Edit Original & Rotate Spread View
3. Zooming, Display Performance & Panning
4. Changing View Modes & Customizing a Proof
Chapter 5: MARGINS, COLUMNS, RULERS & GUIDES (18 min)
1. Setting Up Units, Margins & Columns
2. Using Rulers
3. Working with Guides
4. Using Smart Guides to Align & Place Objects
Chapter 6: ADDING TEXT TO YOUR LAYOUT (32 min)
1. Adding & Formatting Text in a Frame
2. Exploring Frame Types
3. Placing Text from a File
4. Threading Text Frames
5. Creating Text on a Path
6. Auto-Flowing Text
7. Using Smart Text Reflow
Chapter 7: TEXT FORMATTING OPTIONS (33 min)
1. Choosing Fonts
2. Controlling Font Size & Leading
3. Changing Text Color in the Swatches & Color Panels
4. Adjusting Alignment, Tracking & Kerning
5. Using the Eyedropper Tool to Sample Text Attributes
6. Finding & Replacing Fonts
7. Adding Indents & Spacing
8. Controlling Hyphenation & Justification
9. Creating Drop Caps
10. Using Optical Margin Alignment
Chapter 8: FORMATTING TEXT USING STYLES (20 min)
1. Creating Paragraph Styles
2. Applying Styles
3. Understanding Next Styles
4. Clearing Style Options
5. Redefining Styles
6. Importing & Managing Styles
Chapter 9: TABS, TABLES & LISTS (33 min)
1. Formatting Text with Tabs
2. Creating, Selecting & Navigating Tables
3. Formatting Tables & Cells
4. Saving Time with Table & Cell Styles
5. Working with Bulleted & Numbered Lists
Chapter 10: WORKING WITH PLACED GRAPHICS (28 min)
1. Exploring Bridge & Assigning Keywords
2. Placing & Scaling Images
3. Using the Free Transform, Position & Scale Tools
4. Frame & Content Fitting Options
5. Placing Multiple Files
6. Using the Links Panel
7. Building a Library
Chapter 11: CREATING SHAPES & USING TEXT WRAP (21 min)
1. Creating Shapes & Frames
2. Customizing & Transforming Shapes
3. Aligning & Distributing Shapes
4. Applying Text Wrap
Chapter 12: WORKING WITH COLOR & SWATCHES (41 min)
1. Introduction to Swatches
2. Choosing Colors & Creating New Swatches
3. Working with Gradients
4. Using the Kuler Panel
5. Using Transparency
6. Transparency Effects
Chapter 13: USING LAYERS (12 min)
1. Creating Layers
2. Placing Content on Layers
3. Moving Content between Layers
4. Managing Layers
Chapter 14: INTRODUCING OBJECT STYLES (12 min)
1. Creating New Object Styles
2. Applying Object Styles
3. Updating Object Styles
4. Defining Default Object Styles
Chapter 15: ADDING INTERACTIVITY (26 min)
1. Making a Table of Contents Interactive
2. Creating Hyperlinks
3. Adding Buttons for Navigation
4. Adding Page Transitions
5. Exporting for the Web Using SWF & PDF
Chapter 16: PREFLIGHT, PRINT & PDF (19 min)
1. Introducing New Live Preflighting
2. Packaging for Output
3. Understanding Printing Options
4. Printing Booklets
5. Exporting to Adobe PDF
6. Credits
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