Adobe InDesign – Print & Digital Publishing

Module 1: Introduction to Adobe InDesign

• InDesign overview: professional page layout for print and digital
• InDesign workspace: pages panel, tools, and control bar
• Document setup: page size, margins, columns, and bleed
• Master pages: creating consistent layouts across multi-page documents

Module 2: Text and Typography

• Text frames: creating, linking, and threading text across pages
• Character styles: applying consistent font formatting with one click
• Paragraph styles: defining heading, body, and caption styles
• OpenType features: ligatures, swashes, and alternate characters

Module 3: Images and Graphics

• Placing images: frame fitting and image import settings
• Links panel: managing placed images and updating modified files
• Image cropping and scaling within frames
• Wrapping text around images and custom shapes

Module 4: Colour and Swatches

• Swatch panel: creating process and spot colour swatches
• Tints and gradients: applying colour variations in InDesign
• Colour themes: importing colour palettes from Adobe Color
• Overprint and knockout settings for professional print production

Module 5: Tables and Data

• Table creation: inserting and formatting data tables
• Table and cell styles: consistent table formatting across documents
• Importing tables from Excel into InDesign
• Tabs and tab leaders: creating structured text alignment

Module 6: Long Document Features

• Table of contents: automatically generating and updating TOC
• Index: creating and cross-referencing an index
• Footnotes and endnotes: academic and reference document formatting
• Book panel: managing multi-file long documents as a single book

Module 7: Interactive and Digital Publishing

• Interactive PDF: buttons, hyperlinks, and form fields
• Animations: adding simple animations to InDesign objects
• EPUB export: reflowable and fixed layout EPUB for e-readers
• Adobe Publish Online: sharing digital documents via browser

Module 8: Capstone Project and Assessment

• Multi-page magazine or annual report layout project
• Interactive PDF brochure with navigation buttons and hyperlinks
• Print-ready export with bleed, colour profiles, and preflight check
• Final assessment and course certification

Experience in the Industry Learn from InDesign specialists who have designed magazines, annual reports, corporate brochures, books, and interactive digital publications for publishers, corporations, and design agencies.

Backgrounds at the Top Our Adobe InDesign trainers have worked at publishing houses, corporate communications teams, and print design agencies where InDesign is the professional standard for page layout and publication design.

Clear & Effective Teaching InDesign document setup, master pages, typography, text threading, image management, colour, tables, long document features, interactive PDF, and EPUB export are explained with real publication design examples.

Hands-On Learning Focus Students design multi-page magazines, create interactive PDFs, build long documents with TOC, format tables, and export print-ready files through structured hands-on InDesign project labs.

Up-to-Date Knowledge Trainers keep content current with the latest Adobe InDesign releases, generative AI layout suggestions, digital publishing standards, and evolving print and digital publication design best practices.