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Training: InDesign CS - Basics
Two day course covering the work area, frames, importing text, typography functions, colour, graphic import, tables, graphic tools and transparency controls.

Training: InDesign CS - Advanced
Two day course, covering the more of the advanced features of InDesign CS, including vector graphics, transparency, interactive documents, book building, preflighting, PDF export, and colour consistentancy.

Top Ten for QuarkXpress Users

Top Ten for Professional Designers

Top Ten for Print Professionals

Top Ten for Production Artists

InDesign CS - Top Ten Features for Professional Designers

• Transparency - Apply editable drop shadows, feathering, and other transparency settings. Maintain soft edges when placing transparent Photoshop files.
  
  
• Tables - Import styled Microsoft Word and Excel tables or tab-delimited text files, and then refine them with table formatting such as color fills in alternating rows.
  
  
• Advanced typographical controls - Produce professional typography with ease using the Paragraph Composer, optical kerning and margin alignment, dynamic text preview, and other advanced type features.
  
  
• OpenType support - Access the full typographic potential of OpenType fonts, including smart fractions, discretionary ligatures, swash glyphs, and contextual alternates.
  
  
• Direct export of Adobe PDF files - Export Adobe Acrobat 6.0, 5.0, and 4.0 files directly from InDesign for electronic reviews and high-end printing. Maintain layers in exported Acrobat 6.0 files
  
  
• Smooth workflow - Enjoy greater efficiency through even tighter integration with the other Adobe applications you use every day, including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and GoLive.
  
  
• Unlimited undos - Experiment freely and retrace unlimited steps using the Undo and Redo commands.
  
  
• Layers - Organize text and graphics on documentwide layers, and then quickly hide, lock, and reorder layers to efficiently manage your page elements.
  
  
• Text on a path - Align text to any path with full typographical control, and apply special effects to create eye-catching designs.
  
  
• Flexible gradients - Create and apply gradients to the stroke and fill of graphics and text. The objects remain fully editable.