Adobe InDesign 2.0 page-layout software has the tools to inspire your creativity and simplify elaborate design tasks. Version 2.0 offers object transparency, long-document management options, one-step table creation, XML import and export, improved performance, and more. InDesign 2.0 delivers tight integration with other Adobe graphics applications, easy-to-use tools that reduce elaborate design tasks to a few steps, and built-in support for publishing pages anywhere--in print, on the Web, to Adobe PDF, as e-books, and more.

Capture inspiration with the ability to apply drop shadows, feathering, and other editable transparency settings to any object. Use Overprint Preview for proofing spot-color effects and overprint settings. Flexible table creation tools let you turn tab-delimited text into tables in one step. Plus, get faster performance when opening, saving, and closing documents and placing high-resolution images.

InDesign's integration with other Adobe products allows you to work more efficiently. You can directly export Adobe PDF files in Acrobat 4.0 or Acrobat 5.0 format. You'll have the ability to place native Photoshop and Illustrator files with the transparency preserved. InDesign 2.0 also features support for importing and exporting well-formed XML and easier tracking, management, and retrieval of InDesign documents through Adobe's new XML-based metadata framework.

THE NEW DESIGN

   Creativity Features

   Productivity Features

   Integration Features

   Cross-Media Publishing

 

WORKSPACE

   The Workspace

   Working With Palettes

   Preferences

   Getting Help

 

THE MENUS

   File/Open/Save/Print

   Edit/Cut/Copy/Paste

   Layout/Pages Guides

   Type/Font Style

 

MORE MENUS

   Object/Arrange Group

   Table/Creating Tables

   View/Zoom Rulers

   Windows & Help

 

CREATING A DOCUMENT

   Open & New

   Templates

   Master Pages

   Using Text

 

IMPROVING AND SAVING

   Text Formatting

   Inserting Pictures

   Saving

   Printing

 

TEXT

   Placing Text

   Column Guides

   Paragraph Alignment

   Bullets & Numbering

 

FORMATTING

   Formatting Text

   Tabs & Indents

   Hyphenation

   Type Styles

 

IMAGES

   Placing Images

   Text Wrap

   Image Objects

Duration: 3 Sessions

   Editing Images

SHAPES

   Creating Shapes

   Modifying Shapes

   Fill & Stroke

   Placeholder Shapes

 

LINES & PATHS

   Line & Pencil Tools

   Pen Tool

   About Paths

   Type On A Path

 

LINKS & PRINTING

   Object Links

   The Link Palette

   Save To Service Bureau

   Printing Options

 

TABLES

   Inserting a Table

   The Table Palette

   Table & Cell Options

   Excel Tables

 

LAYERS & MASTER PAGES

   Using Layers

   Placing & Layers

   Using Master Pages

   New Master Pages

 

WORKING WITH COLOUR

   The Colour Palette

   Colour Libraries

   Gradients

 

OBJECTS

   Position & Alignment

   Arrange & Group

   Masking

   Image Controls & Effects

 

XML

   About Sml

   Creating Tags

   Creating Structure

   Saving & Exporting

 

LONG DOCUMENTS

   Creating A Book

   Table Of Contents

   Index

   Library Files