InDesign CS6 Essential Training and New Features

InDesign CS6 Essential Training and New Features
InDesign CS6 Essential Training and New Features

Language: English | ~12hours | 960x540 | .Mov | aac - 96Kbps | 2.59 GB
: eLearning
InDesign CS6 New Features is dedicated to improving workflow, document distribution, and flexibility. This course provides in-depth exploration of the new features in InDesign CS6, showing not just where they are and how to use them, but also tips, workarounds, and practical applications of the features. Author Anne-Marie Concepcion introduces the Liquid Layout tools and Alternate Layouts for creating flexible layouts for both print and digital publishing; the enhanced tools for creating and updating linked objects within and between documents; the Content Collector and Content Placer tools; and the introduction of EPUB 3. The course also covers creating interactive PDF forms, using the new primary text frame, previewing and exporting color layouts to grayscale, and utilizing the new production aids such as aligning selections to a key object and using smart math in panel fields.
InDesign CS6 Essential Training is an essential tool for design firms, ad agencies, magazines, newspapers, book publishers, and freelance designers around the world. This course presents the core features and techniques that make this powerful page layout application fun and easy to use. Author David Blatner shows how to navigate and customize the workspace, manage documents and pages, work with text frames and graphics, export and print finished documents, explore creating interactive documents, and much more. He also covers popular topics such as EPUBs and long documents and includes advice on working with overset text, unnamed colors, and other troublesome issues that may arise for first-time designers.
InDesign CS6 New Features:
* Working with the Conveyor tool to link objects and map styles
* Applying Liquid Layout rules
* Using flexible columns
* Creating auto-sized text frames
* Accessing recently used fonts
* Fitting frames to more types of text content
* Exporting to EPUB 2 and 3 using new controls
* Inserting HTML and Edge content into a layout
* Creating a PDF form with interactive text, radio, and checkbox fields
* Mapping text styles in linked objects
InDesign CS6 Essential Training:
* Getting started in just 30 minutes: the quick start guide to InDesign
* Understanding your workspace
* Creating and setting up new documents
* Creating and applying master pages
* Entering and editing text
* Placing graphics
* Working with color and gradients
* Editing frame and path shapes
* Working with layers, objects, and groups
* Rotating and scaling objects
* Applying character and paragraph formatting
* Using styles
* Creating and formatting tables
* Exporting to EPUB and interactive PDF
* Packaging, printing, and exporting your final document