InDesign CS3 Typography Training DVD

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Introduction

• Understanding how to use this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Getting Started

• Working with essential preferences and setup
• Dealing with missing fonts

2. Placing and Flowing Text

• Working with text frames
• Working with manual text flow
• Working with Autoflow
• Working with semi-automatic text flow
• Using Autoflow without adding pages
• Placing multiple text files
• Mocking up pages with placeholder text
• Working with text threads
• Stretching a headline across columns

3. Character Formatting

• Choosing fonts
• Sizing type
• Using italics
• Using condensed type
• Using the ALL CAPS feature
• Using small caps
• Underlining type
• Using superscript and subscript
• Doing a baseline shift
• Combining fonts in the same document

4. Leading

• Setting leading
• Understanding autoleading and why to avoid it
• Leading headlines
• Using Optical leading
• How leading affects readability

5. Kerning and Tracking

• Understanding the difference between kerning and tracking
• Understanding Metrics kerning vs. Optical kerning
• Using kerning to avoid character collisions
• Kerning a headline
• Tracking to fix widows and orphans
• Tracking and readability
• Using preferences and keyboard shortcuts
• Adjusting word spaces only

6. Working with Special Characters

• Using the Glyphs palette
• Using typographer's quotes
• Using fractions
• Using apostrophes
• Using ellipses
• Understanding your dashes
• Avoiding two spaces after a period
• Spacing characters
• Reducing punctuation size in headlines

7. Using OpenType Fonts

• Understanding OpenType fonts
• Understanding ligatures
• Understanding small caps
• Understanding numerals
• Understanding fractions
• Understanding other OpenType features

8. Aligning Your Type

• Aligning your type
• Setting Justification options
• Setting left alignment
• Setting Optical margin alignment
• Hanging punctuation
• Using Adobe Paragraph Composer
• Align to or away from spine
• Setting vertical alignment

9. Indents and Spacing

• Using first-line indents
• Using paragraph spacing
• Using indent alternatives
• Using last-line indents
• Establishing visual relationships

10. Break Characters

• Using line breaks
• Balancing ragged lines
• Using no-break and non-breaking characters
• Using column and frame breaks
• Defining Keep options

11. Mastering Tabs

• Understanding the different types of tabs
• Using tab leaders in a TOC
• Creating a Reply Coupon
• Using Flush tab
• Creating a bullet list
• Creating a numbered list

12. Hyphenation

• Setting Hyphenation options
• Using the Hyphenation Slider
• Adding discretionary and non-breaking hyphens
• Using the Optical hyphen
• Understanding the Hyphenation Zone

13. Using Drop Caps

• Understanding the purpose of drop caps
• Understanding the optical alignment of drop caps
• Navigating tricky drop caps
• Using a nested character style with a drop cap
• Understanding other uses of drop caps

14. Paragraph Styles

• Applying Paragraph Styles
• Creating Styles
• Editing and redefining Styles
• Using Parent and Child Styles
• Organizing Styles
• Loading Styles from another document
• Importing Styles from Word
• Applying Styles with the Eye Dropper
• Removing manual overrides
• Using Paragraph Rules creatively

15. Character Styles

• Creating and applying Character Styles
• Understanding “relative” Character Styles
• Using Find/Change to convert local formatting to Character Styles

16. Nested and Sequential Styles

• Creating a run-in head
• Creating a Contents page
• Creating complex Nested Styles
• Using Sequential Styles
• Combining Nested Styles, Sequential Styles, and Object Styles
• Combining even more

17. Working with Text Wraps

• Applying a Text Wrap
• Making items ignore the Text Wrap
• Using Text Wrap tricks
• Setting Text Wrap preferences

18. Working with Grids

• Understanding column grid strategies
• Setting up a baseline grid
• Aligning the first line only
• Determining the size of your type area
• Customizing baseline grids

19. Type Effects

• Typing on a path
• Typing on a circle
• Understanding offset outlines and gradients
• Creating a custom ligature
• Creating interlocking type
• Creating see-through letters
• Using type as picture frames
• Using type and transparency effects
• Using custom-shaped text frames
• Using effects on type

Conclusion

• Goodbye

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