Graphics and Web Design

Creating Items

• Drawing rectangular items
• Positioning Items
• Resizing Items
• Rotating Items

Text

• Inputting Text
• Viewing Invisibles
• Selecting Text
• Undo, cut, copy & paste
• Importing Text

Typography

• Selecting fonts and font sizes
• Scaling Text
• Kerning/tracking
• Leading
• Baseline shift

Formatting Text

• Indents
• Space before/after
• Working with drop caps

Positioning text within an item

• Text alignment
• Text insert
• First baseline
• Vertical Alignment
• Flipping text

Text Columns

• Multiple column boxes
• Linking/unlinking text boxes
• Controlling text flow

Tabs and Tables

• Inserting tabs
• Setting tab ruler markers
• Adding/deleting tabs
• Adding fill characters
• Using paragraph rules
• Applying Colour
• Adding frame
• Using the colour palette
• Modify for colour
• Graduated blends

Pictures

• Creating picture boxes
• Importing pictures
• Resizing/scaling
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Picture file formats

Basic Run-around Options

• Use of none & item modes
• Aligning to picture bounds

Working With Multiple items

• Duplicating
• Step & repeat
• Layers/select through
• Multiple selections
• Item lock

Library

• Copying to & from a library
• Listing library contents

Introduction to Style Sheets

• Creating character style sheets
• Paragraph styles
• Applying styles
• Duplicating styles
• Using based on styles

Introduction to Master Pages

• Single & spread masters
• Modifying master items
• Auto page numbering
• Multiple master pages