You are a graphic designer or professional who is already very experienced in Freehand and you have heard of or dabbled in Indesign and want more in-depth training of the application and the management of complex documents, without stunting your existing workflow.

Description
The new palettes, tools and menu items will be thoroughly investigated, and likened to the Freehand equivalents to further understand and utilize the capabilities of this high-end layout application. Using prior Freehand knowledge, students will tackle complex theoretical examples and work with a variety of examples of document scenarios that ease the leap from Freehand to Indesign. We recommend this course for those planning to migrate from Freehand to InDesign or to obtain the Adobe Certified Expert status.

Course contents
‹ The User Interface
‹ Indesign Custom Preferences
‹ Working with Graphics
‹ Text editing tools and Guides,
‹ Text Composition and Hyphenation problems
‹ Building Pages, Master Pages
‹ Multiple Document projects and Book files
‹ Converting Freehand files to InDesign
‹ Colour and Transparency
‹ Drawing tools, similiarities and differences
‹ Typography
‹ Working with InDesign Text and Object Styles
‹ Prepress and Printing From InDesign
‹ Exporting to PDF and HTML
‹ Interactivity from Indesign for E-zines (electronic magazines) and electronic brochures

Venue

Date: 09 July 2008 to 10 July 2008
Location: Friends of Design, Cape Town
More info: 60 Sir Lowry Road, Cape Town 8001

Contact: Moritz Fritsche
Company name: Friends of Design - Academy of Digital Arts
Telephone number: +27 21 461 09 71
Email address info@friendsofdesign.net