CS 72.11C InDesign 3: The "liquid" ever-changing schedule

CATE Gradebook | Adobe Connect "Live" Virtual Lecture Wednesday 6-8 pm | Best of Class Labs

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LECTURE FOR WEEK 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17

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Week 1 Course Intro and power-user skills | January 18

Standard keyboard shortcuts | Custom keyboard shortcuts and menus | Other ways to customize InDesign

• COURSE INTRODUCTION
  Introduction (PDF: 196K)
  Q&A (PDF: 146K)
  
• LECTURE NOTES AND RESOURCES
  Lecture notes pg 1-8 (PDF: 664K) Cover page to lecture notes (optional PDF: 443K)
  Test your computer for Adobe Connect compatibility
  InDesign 3 Week 1 files from acrobat.com (includes keyboard shortcut PDFs)
  
• RECORDED WEBCASTS
  CATE Lecture Webcasts
  InDesign Power Shortcuts from Max 2011 (1 hour) optional
• LAB ASSIGNED
  Lab 1 Getting Started (PDF: 306K)
  
• TURN IN
  Due January 25: submit Lab 1 at CATE

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Week 2 Adobe cloud and other services | January 25

acrobat.com | CS Live | Adobe Labs | Adobe TV

• LECTURE NOTES AND RESOURCES
  Lecture notes pg 9-18 (PDF: 731K)
  Agenda below from acrobat.com embedded Flash preview -- check it out!
  
  Acrobat.com Help documentation (PDF: 5.8 MB 75 pages)
  Acrobat.com | Acrobat.com pricing comparison of services
  Adobe Creative Cloud (coming in 2012!)
  
• RECORDED WEBCASTS
  CATE Lecture Webcasts
• LAB ASSIGNED
  Lab 2 Student Advertisement (PDF: 187K) Group project
  
• TURN IN
  Due Feb 1: submit Quiz 1 at CATE
  Due Feb 1: submit Lab 2 (Part 1) at CATE

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Week 3 Bridge, metadata and data merge | February 1

Adobe Bridge | XMP metadata and captions | Data merge with images

• LECTURE NOTES AND RESOURCES
  Lecture notes pg 19-25 (PDF: 444K)
  Real World InDesign: Chapter 6 (captions) | Chapter 7 (data merge/snippets/metadata)
  
• RECORDED WEBCASTS
  CATE Lecture Webcasts
• LAB ASSIGNED
  Class survey (you also received an email invitation to fill out this survey)
  Lab 3 Data Merge (PDF: 280K)
  Lab 3 Sample (PDF: 1.5MB) -- best viewed in Acrobat/Reader so you can see the helpful comments
  InDesign 3 Lab 3 Data from acrobat.com (all student info is complete)
• TURN IN
  Due Feb 8: submit Lab 2 narrative at CATE
  Due Feb 8: submit Lab 3 at CATE
  

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Week 4 InDesign on the move | February 8

Taking a document between Windows and Mac | Fonts | Legacy documents | Adobe SendNow

• LECTURE NOTES AND RESOURCES
  Lecture notes pg 26-27 (PDF: 465K) you received an email to download this file from the SendNow cloud service
  Lecture notes pg 28-32 (PDF: 612K)
  sendnow.acrobat.com
  
• RECORDED WEBCASTS
  CATE Lecture Webcasts
  Choose the desired webcast for installing fonts (optional): Macintosh webcast or Windows XP webcast or Windows 7
• LAB ASSIGNED
  Lab 4 On the Move (PDF: 368K) Group project
  Team Assignment (PDF: 76K)
  Legacy files for Part 1 from Acrobat.com
• TURN IN
  Due Feb 15: submit Quiz 2 at CATE
  

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Week 5 Adobe integration | February 15

Sharing content between InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator | Live Objects, Smart Objects, Layers, Kuler swatches, .ase files and metadata

• LECTURE NOTES AND RESOURCES
  Lecture notes (PDF:)
  Lab 5 Task 1 from Acrobat.com
  Lab 5 Task 5 from Acrobat.com
• RECORDED WEBCASTS
  CATE Lecture Webcasts
• LAB ASSIGNED
  Lab 5 Suite Integration (PDF: 223K)
  
• TURN IN
  Due Feb 22: submit Lab 4 at CATE
  Due Feb 22: submit Lab 5 at CATE
  

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Week 6 Advanced text and variables | February 22

Microsoft Office | Mapping styles | Footnotes | Fixed column text frames, straddle heads and splitting columns | Numbered lists | Tracking changes and InDesign Notes | Variables | InCopy

• LECTURE NOTES AND RESOURCES
  Lecture notes (PDF:)
  Real World InDesign: Chapters 3 and 4
  Lynda.com tutorial Collaborative Workflows with InCopy CS5
  
• RECORDED WEBCASTS
  CATE Lecture Webcasts
• LAB/EXAM ASSIGNED
  Lab 6 Text (PDF: 209K) | Lab 6 Sample of Cyndi's page 1 (PDF: 82K) | Lab 6 Alice in Wonderland from Acrobat.com
• TURN IN
  Due Feb 29: submit Lab 6 at CATE
  

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Week 7 Tables and GREP | February 29 (Happy Leap Year Day)

GREP expressions for high-end text editing | GREP styles | Table styles and acrobat.com tables

• LECTURE NOTES AND RESOURCES
  Lecture notes (PDF:)
  InDesign Help on GREP and metacharacters
  Real World InDesign: Chapter 3
  Table styles: Elluminate webcast from InDesign 2 Fall 2011 (1 hour)
  
• RECORDED WEBCASTS
  CATE Lecture Webcasts
• LAB AND MIDTERM ASSIGNED
  Lab 7 GREP (PDF: 219K) | Lab 7 from Acrobat.com
  Skills Test
• TURN IN
  Due Mar 7: submit Lab 7 at CATE
  

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Week 8 Acrobat forms, portfolios and digital signatures | March 7

Acrobat X features | Creating a PDF form based on an InDesign document | Acrobat portfolio | Acrobat.com FormsCentral | EchoSign

• LECTURE NOTES AND RESOURCES
  Lecture notes (PDF:)
  FormsCentral Help (PDF: 1MB)
  Tables Acrobat.com documentation
  Alice in Wonderland portfolio from acrobat.com (PDF: 15.6MB)
  
• RECORDED WEBCASTS
  CATE Lecture Webcasts
• LAB ASSIGNED
  Lab 8 Tables and Forms group project (PDF:)
  
• TURN IN
  Due Mar 21: Skills test (no class that week)
  

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Week 9 Interactive PDFs | March 14

Creating an interactive PDF | Acrobat slide shows | PDF presets | Cross-references and hyperlinks | Bookmarks

• LECTURE NOTES AND RESOURCES
  Lecture notes (PDF:) -- includes the complete version of text and interactive elements
  Lecture notes (PDF:) -- includes more samples of interactive features and is best viewed in Reader/Acrobat
  Real World InDesign: Chapter 13 Interactive Documents
• RECORDED WEBCASTS
  CATE Lecture Webcasts
• LAB ASSIGNED
  Lab 9 Interactive PDF group project (PDF:)
• TURN IN
  Due Mar 28: submit Lab 8 at CATE

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SPRING BREAK

Week 10 eBooks for CS5.5 | March 28

What is an eBook? | Preparing for the .epub file format | eBook validation

• LECTURE NOTES AND RESOURCES
  Lecture notes (PDF:)
  Real World InDesign: Chapter 7 Importing and Exporting
  InDesign Magazine Making eBooks from InDesign Part 1 (for InDesign CS5 PDF:4MB)
  InDesign Magazine Making eBooks from InDesign Part 2 (for InDesign CS5 PDF: 1.8MB)
  ePubcheck validation
  Sample projects from the previous InDesign 3 class at Acrobat.com
  
• RECORDED WEBCASTS
  CATE Lecture Webcasts
• LAB AND PROJECT ASSIGNED
  Lab 10 eBook (PDF:)
  Team Project (PDF:)
  Project team assignment survey from FormsCentral
• TURN IN
  Due Apr 4: submit Lab 9 at CATE
  Due Apr 4: submit Lab 10 at CATE
  Due Apr 4: submit project team assignment survey
  

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Week 11 Digital publishing | April 4

Introduction to digital publishing

• LECTURE NOTES AND RESOURCES
  Lecture notes (PDF:)
  Adobe Digital Publishing White Paper (PDF: 689K)
  Digital Publishing Technology Center
  
• RECORDED WEBCASTS
  CATE Lecture Webcasts
• LAB ASSIGNED
  None
  
• TURN IN
  Due Apr 11: submit Quiz 3 at CATE
  

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Week 12 Digital publishing | April 11

More digital publishing | Dreamweaver | Flash

• LECTURE NOTES AND RESOURCES
  Lecture notes (PDF:)
• RECORDED WEBCASTS
  CATE Lecture Webcasts
• LAB ASSIGNED
  Lab 11 Digital Publishing
  
• PROJECT TEAMS
  
• TURN IN
  Due Apr 18: submit Lab 11 at CATE
  

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Week 13 Cross-media workflows | April 18

Guest Speaker: Patti Sokol from Adobe

• LECTURE NOTES AND RESOURCES
  Lecture notes (PDF:)
  Real World InDesign: Chapter 7 Importing and Exporting | Chapter 13 Interactive Documents
• RECORDED WEBCASTS
  CATE Lecture Webcasts
• LAB ASSIGNED
  Lab 12 Cross-media (PDF:)
• TURN IN
  Due Apr 25: Submit Lab 12 at CATE
  

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Week 14 Accessible PDFs and scripting | April 25

Creating an accessible PDF in CS5.5 | Using InDesign scripts

• LECTURE NOTES AND RESOURCES
  Lecture notes (PDF:)
  Real World InDesign: Chapter 12 Scripting
  InDesign CS5 Scripting Tutorial (for the coders in the class)
  JAWS and Semantic Structures from YouTube (3 minutes)
• RECORDED WEBCASTS
  CATE Lecture Webcasts
• LAB ASSIGNED
  None
  Questions for AJ Printing from FormsCentral.com
• TURN IN
  Due May 2: submit Quiz 4 at CATE

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Week 15 InDesign and commercial printshops | May 2

Guest speaker: Dan Johnston from AJ Printing | Variables | Tagged text

• LECTURE NOTES AND RESOURCES
  Lecture notes (PDF:)
  InDesign Magazine: Will It Print? (PDF: 1.72MB)
  Slideshow from Dan's presentation (PDF: 227K)
  
• RECORDED WEBCASTS
  CATE Lecture Webcasts
• LAB ASSIGNED
  None
• TURN IN
  Nothing is due
  

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Week 16 Wildcard lecture | May 9

Cyndi's pick

• LECTURE NOTES AND RESOURCES
  Lecture notes (PDF:)
  
• RECORDED WEBCASTS
  CATE Lecture Webcasts
• LAB ASSIGNED
  None
• TURN IN
  Submit official Adobe survey at Metrics That Matter
  Due May 16: submit Quiz 5 at CATE

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Week 17 Project presentations | May 16

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FINAL EXAM | May 23

Cumulative True/False Multiple Choice exam
Bring a Scantron and #2 pencil
Bring your lecture notes for reference

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Best of Class Labs

Lab 1 Cover (Flash preview)
Lab 2 Advertisement (Flash preview)
Lab 2 Team Narratives (PDF:718K )

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