Adobe InDesign CS4 Tips & Tricks

249 Courtland Avenue, Vaughan, On L4K 4T2
Feb 23 2010 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Whether you're a novice or a vet, InDesign wants you to start to think outside the box (or in the world of InDesign, the frame), exploring the flexibility of it's features.

  • powerful new find features in action, including GREP and object-based searches
  • the virtues of GREP and GREP styles, doesn't have to be intimidating
  • adding some useful keyboard shortcuts to your repertoire, 1300 and counting
  • organized chaos of InDesign styles, their parent-child relationships, their naming conventions
  • creative stroke techniques, including paragraph rules, corner-based strokes
  • text variables, making campaign-wide changes, auto-updating tabs and footers
  • flexible contact sheets, much better than Photoshop's offerings
  • dynamic effects and staying in the "zone" without needing Photoshop
  • non-printing elements and how they can help guide the user
  • intelligent InDesign libraries and inheriting document attributes dynamically