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Typography - InDesign CS2 Training DVD
Take your skills to the next level. This Typography - InDesign CS2 training DVD is the ultimate in comprehensive learning for the discerning professional.
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1. Getting Started
- Where to find stuff
- Typography workspace
- Viewing your page
- View options
- Working around missing fonts
2. Going with the Flow
3. Character Reference
- Choosing fonts and sizing type
- Character formatting options
- Scaling type
4. Getting the Lead Out
- What is leading?
- Leading in action
5. Kern Baby, Kern
- Kerning and other optical illusions
- Tracking
- Kerning preferences
6. Sweating the Small Stuff
- Special characters and typographers' quotes
- Spaces galore! Ens, ems and more
- En and em dashes
- Using the Glyphs Palette
- Beautiful fractions
- Hanging punctuation
- Using small caps
- How and when to use italics
- InDesign measurement units
- Ellipses
- Superscript/Subscript
- Baseline shift
7. Open Type
- Where are OpenType fonts?
8. Justify Your Text
- Resist the temptation to center
- Pros and cons of justified text
- Balancing ragged lines
- Optical margin alignment
9. Indents and Spacing
- First line indents
- Space before and after paragraphs
- Indent alternatives
10. Creating Great Opening Paragraphs
- The purpose of initial caps
- Tricks with drop caps
- Optical alignment of drop caps
- Tricky drop caps
11. Don't Fear the Hyphen
- Hyphenation settings
- Multilingual documents
- Discretionary and non-breaking hyphens
12. Mastering Tabs
- Dot, dot, dot... using tab leaders
- Aligning numbered lists with tabs
13. Your Table Is Ready
- Creating a table from scratch
- Importing tables from Word and Excel
14. Longer Vacations with Style Sheets
- Paragraph and character styles
- Paragraph style options
- Editing styles
- Based on
- Importing styles from Word
- Working with manual overrides
- Copying styles between documents
- Using Quick Apply
- Paragraph rules
15. Nested Styles and Object Styles
- Automating first paragraphs
- Nested styles in action
- Object styles
- Anchored objects
- More nested style tricks
16. Text Wrap
- Applying text wraps
- Wraparound transparency
- Text wrap overrides
- Silly text wrap tricks
17. Type Effects
- Type on a path
- Type on a circle
- Stroked type
- Transparency effects
- Type masks
18. Working with Text Columns
- Setting margins
- Column grid strategies
- Using fixed column width
- Vertical justification
- First baseline options
19. Baseline Grids
- Working with baseline grids
- Text frames with different grids
20. Making It Fit
- Copy fitting
21. Using Find/Change
- Find/change tips
- Wild card characters
- Formatting attributes
- Cleaning up email text
22. Project
- Setup
- Text flow
- Pictures
- Tables
- Inline
- Captions
- Headline
- Fine tuning
Conclusion
- Goodbye
InDesign CS2 Professional Typography
Title Information.
InDesign CS2 is the world's most sophisticated page layout program, offering a degree of typographic complexity and precision that graphic designers could until now only dream of. InDesign CS2 Professional Typography guides you through the program's type features, beginning with the basics of character and paragraph formatting, then progressing to the advanced features, such as paragraph and character styles, nested styles, and baseline grids. In addition, Nigel French emphasizes timeless typographic principles throughout the training, using real-world design scenarios and examples. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace. Close »
Format : DVD
Price : $99.95 | £49.95 | €64.95
Publisher : lynda.com, Inc.
Duration : 7 hours - 92 lessons
Platform : PC or Mac
Closed Captioning : No
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