CS 72.1C [InDesign 3] Adobe Workflow Projects

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Week 1: August 19

Class introduction | Standard keyboard shortcuts

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• HANDOUTS
  Introduction (PDF: 196K)
  Q&A (PDF: 146K)
  Schedule (PDF: 100K)
  
• RESOURCES
  Lecture notes p 1-3 (PDF: 241K)
  Latest news on CS5
  Veer Activity Book for Designers
  
• WORK ASSIGNED
  Lab 1 Getting Started (PDF: 346K)
  puzzlepiece.ai (right-click to save to your computer)
• TURN IN
  Due August 26: print and submit Lab 1 in class

Week 2: August 26

Special guest speaker: Rufus Deuchler, Senior Adobe evangelist

• RESOURCES
  Lecture notes p 4-5 (PDF: 196K)
  Real World InDesign: Chapter 1, 7, 13
  
• WORK ASSIGNED
  Learning Styles Quiz
  Lab 2 PDF Workflow (PDF: 169K)
  Lab2.idpp (25K) -- right-click to download
  
• TURN IN
  Due September 2: submit Lab 2 at CATE

Week 3: September 2

Review cycles and virtual collaboration

• RESOURCES
  Lecture notes p 6-10 (PDF: 629K)
  Class profile catalog from Lab 2 (PDF: 2.4MB)
  Sign up for your free Adobe ConnectNow account
  ConnectNow documentation
  Acrobat.com User Guide (PDF:242K)
  Lecture webcast (2 hours)
  
• WORK ASSIGNED
  Lab 3 Collaboration (due in 2 weeks)
  Quiz 1
• TURN IN
  Due September 9: submit Quiz 1 at CATE

Week 4: September 9

Adobe Bridge and Version Cue

• RESOURCES
  Lecture notes p 11-16 (PDF: 488K)
  Real World InDesign: Chp 7 Importing & Exporting
• WORK ASSIGNED
  Lab 4 Data Merge (PDF: 234K)
  InD3profiles.zip (on acrobat.com)
  
• TURN IN
  Due September 16: print and submit Lab 3 in class
  Due September 16: print and submit Lab 4 in class

Week 5: September 16

InDesign on the move

• RESOURCES
  Lecture notes p 17-20 (PDF: 436K)
  Lecture notes p 21-24 (PDF: 413K)
  Adobe Help on Bridge/Version Cue (PDF: 3.7MB)
  
• WORK ASSIGNED
  Lab 5 On The Move (group assignment due in 2 weeks)
  Legacy files: abalonePageMaker.zip (2MB) InDesignCS2Folder.zip (1.7MB)
• TURN IN
  Due September 23: submit Quiz 2 at CATE
  

Week 6: September 23

Adobe integration

• RESOURCES
  Lecture notes p 25-30 (PDF: 2.3MB)
  Real World InDesign: Chapter 7 Importing and Exporting
  Lecture webcast (Connect) 2 hours
• WORK ASSIGNED
  Lab 6 Suite Integration (PDF: 132K)
  Lab6.zip from Acrobat.com (5MB)
  
• Skill Exam 1 due in 2 weeks (PDF: 188K)
• TURN IN
  Due September 30: print and submit Lab 5 in class
  Due September 30: print and submit Lab 6 in class (may be turned in the following week if needed)

Week 7: September 30

Adobe integration | Advanced text skills

• RESOURCES
  Lecture notes p 31-34 (PDF: 397K)
  Connect recording of lecture
  Real World InDesign: Chapter 3 Text
  Adobe InDesign Help on GREP
  Adobe InDesign Help on Metacharacters for searching
  GREP Resources from InDesign Secrets
  Adobe TV Applying Grep Styles
  Adobe TV Line Styles and Grep Styles
  
• WORK ASSIGNED
  Lab 7 GREP (PDF: 203K)
  Lab7.indd (977K)
• TURN IN
  Due October 7: submit Skill Exam 1
  Due October 21: print and submit Lab 7 in class

Week 8: October 7

InDesign and commercial printshops | Guest speaker Dan Johnston from AJ Printing

• RESOURCES
  Real World InDesign: Chapter 11 Printing
  Adobe TV: Caffe Fibonacci Stupid PDF Syndrome
  Adobe TV: The Printer is Served
  Dan Johnston's notes (PDF: 92K)
  
• WORK ASSIGNED
  Quiz 3
• TURN IN
  Due October 14: submit Quiz 3 at CATE

Week 9: October 14

InDesign styles | GREP styles | Table styles

• RESOURCES
  Lecture notes p 35-40 (PDF: 448K)
  Connect recording of lecture
  Connect recording of table styles
  Real World InDesign: Chapter 4 Type | Chapter 6 Where Text Meets Graphics
  Adobe TV Applying GREP Styles
  Adobe TV Tables, Notes and Story Editor
  Adobe TV Creating an Automatic Numbered List
  lynda.com Incopy CS4 and InDesign CS4 Essential Workflow Training
  
• WORK ASSIGNED
  Lab 8 Advanced styles (PDF: 202K)
  Lab8Table.zip (55K)
  
• TURN IN
  Due October 21: print and submit Lab 7 in class
  Due October 21: print and submit Lab 8 in class
  

Week 10: October 21

InDesign and Acrobat

• RESOURCES
  Lecture notes p 41-48 (PDF: 3.7MB) -- check out the bookmarks and play the embedded movie. If you have trouble printing the page with the movie, use the Print as Image option in the File..Print menu
  Connect recording of lecture
  Real World InDesign: Chapter 13 Interactive PDF
  Adobe TV Calling Rufus about Interactive PDF Making (you've got to watch this 12 minute video -- he's teased about having fans!)
  Adobe TV Caffe Fibonacci on InDesign, interactivity, and Flash
  Adobe TV Creating Pitch Presentations and Proposals with InDesign CS4 (1 hour)
  
• WORK ASSIGNED
  Lab 9 Interactive PDFs (PDF: 110K)
• Skill Exam 2 (PDF: 80K due in 2 weeks) InD3Test2.zip (549K)
• TURN IN
  Due October 28: submit Lab 9 at CATE

Week 11: October 28

Automating text

• RESOURCES
  Recorded lecture at Adobe Connect
  
• Lecture notes p 49-54 (PDF: 451K)
  Real World InDesign: Chapter 3 Text
  SRJC Course List Folder.zip (251K)
  SRJC.txt (824K)
  InDesign white paper on tagged text (PDF: 863K)
  
• WORK ASSIGNED
  Lab 10 Tagged text (PDF: 142K)
• TURN IN
  Due November 4: print and submit Lab 10
  Due November 4: Skill Exam 2

Week 12: November 4

Cross-media export | Acrobat

• RESOURCES
  Lecture notes p 55-59 (PDF: 373K)
  Real World InDesign: Chapter 13 Interactive PDF and Chapter 7 Importing and Exporting
  Adobe TV Acrobat 9 Complete Forms Workflow
  Cyndi's Adobe Connect webcast: Forms Made Sexy (presentation for the North Bay Adobe User Group)
• WORK ASSIGNED
  Lab 11 Forms (PDF: 135K)
  Project (PDF: 124K)
  Project survey form (PDF: 141K) due Nov 13th with team preference
• TURN IN
  Due November 18: submit Lab 11 as instructed

Week 13: November 18

XML (Extensible Markup Language) | Dreamweaver | Flash

• RESOURCES
  Lecture notes p 60-62 (ADA compliant PDF: 677K )
  Real World InDesign: Chapter 14 XML
  Cyndi's Adobe Connect webcast of the lecture
  Adobe whitepaper: Creating Accessible PDF Documents with Adobe InDesign CS4 (PDF: 293K)
  Adobe TV Using InDesign Export to Flash
  Adobe Labs Flash Catalyst movies (you can download the beta for Flash Catalyst at Adobe Labs)
  Adobe TV The Designer to Developer Workflow With XML (Rufus Deuchler)
  Adobe TV Creating a XML-Ready Template
  Cyndi's presentation on ADA accessibility (Note: I have worked with disabled students for decades and will always go the extra mile for them -- this is a personal webcast that reflects my concerns about the practicality of the InDesign to PDF workflow in my SRJC workload)
  
• WORK ASSIGNED
  Lab 12 XML (PDF: 114K)
  Lab12files.zip (1.57MB)
• TURN IN
  Due November 25: print and submit Lab 12 in class

Week 14: November 25

Scripting | Cyndi's choice

• RESOURCES
  Lecture notes p 63-65 (PDF: 310K)
  Real World InDesign: Chapter 12 Scripting
  Adobe InDesign Scripting Home Page (also includes resources for XML and IDML)
  Adobe scripting forum
  InDesignSecrets
  Sample Project PDF from previous class (PDF: 8.5MB)
  Cyndi's Adobe Connect webcast of the lecture
  
• WORK ASSIGNED
  Quiz 4
• TURN IN
  Due December 2: submit Quiz 4 at CATE
  

Week 15: November 30 (Special NBAUG meeting on Monday night in Newman Auditorium at 7pm)

Color management | Jay Daniels of Black Cat Studio

• RESOURCES
  Real World InDesign: Chapter 10 Color
  Jay Daniel's PDF on color management (PDF: 1.7MB) and webcast presentation
  Clark Omholt's PDF on color management (PDF: 3.5MB)
  
• WORK ASSIGNED
  Metrics That Matter student evaluation to Adobe

Week 16: December 9

Project team presentations

• WORK ASSIGNED
  Quiz 5 (survey)
  Project evaluation form for student review (PDF: 67K)
  
• TURN IN
  Due December 16: submit Quiz 5 at CATE

FINAL EXAM: December 16 (Wednesday at 6pm)

Index (PDF: 105K)
Cumulative True/False Multiple Choice exam
Bring a Scantron and #2 pencil
Bring your lecture notes for reference