Class overview :

Class goals :

Learn to work with variables, cross references
Learn to build a table of contents and index
Learn to publish documents in different formats
Learn to work with XML
Learn to create interactive PDFs

Content of Training InDesign CC / Advanced

Class Outline

1. Advanced Document Features
   1. Adding text variables
   2. Creating a book from multiple files
   3. Defining pagination and document order
   4. Synchronizing attributes across a book file
   5. Creating a Table of Contents
   6. Building an index
   7. Adding topics
   8. Adding cross-references
   9. Generating the index
   10. Creating PDFs and printing from the Book panel
   11. Creating PDFs
   12. Printing
2. Document Delivery: Printing, PDFs, and XHTML
   1. Package inventory
   2. Preflight checks
   3. Packaging your document
   4. Creating an Adobe PDF
   5. Generating XHTML
   6. Adding CSS formatting
   7. Separation preview
   8. Printing a proof
3. Using XML with InDesign
   1. XML basics
   2. XML tags in InDesign
   3. Importing and applying XML Tags
   4. Using a DTD
   5. Viewing and organizing structure
   6. Viewing and applying attributes
   7. Exporting XML
   8. Importing XML
   9. Preparing the document template
   10. Applying an XSLT on import
   11. Mapping tags to styles
   12. Using data merge
4. Creating Interactive Documents
   1. Interactive design considerations
   2. Importing multimedia content
   3. Creating buttons to control multimedia content
   4. Adding more buttons
   5. Creating page transitions
   6. Creating an interactive PDF
   7. Viewing an interactive PDF
   8. Creating a Flash .swf file
   9. Viewing a Flash file