Adobe InDesign
Contact details
Cari Jansen
Adobe Certified Instructor
Member Adobe Influencer (Australia/New Zealand) and Training Partner Programs
Public Speaker
Print and Electronic Publishing Consultant
Founder & Chapter Representative of Perth InDesign User GroupEmail: inquiry ‘at’ carijansen.com
Mobile: +61 417 972 883
Twitter: http://twitter.com/carijansen
Adobe InDesign Training and Support
Cari Jansen is Australia’s leading Adobe InDesign Expert and Instructor. Based in Perth, she’s the founder and chapter representative of the Perth InDesign User Group, and frequent speaker at (e)Seminars and workshops and frequently posts InDesign tips and tricks both US-based InDesign Secrets blog and her own blog. She delivers InDesign training with absolute passion throughout Australia (Perth, Canberra, Hobart, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Darwin etc.).
As an instructor, she specialises in delivery of on-site tailored training and workshops. From one-on-one training, train-the-trainer training, to group training. Contact her to arrange short-session training (minimum length 3-hrs) or one-day or multiple-days training or even a company workshop.
The following are just a range of topic areas that can be covered during your InDesign training.
What’s new in InDesign CS5.5
Upgrading to CS5.5? and looking to get your staff up to speed with what’s new in InDesign CS5? Consider booking a ‘fast-forward’-workshop … delivery on-site, flexible hours.
- Get up to speed with Design and Layout tool changes such as Column Spanning and Splitting, Gap Tool, new methods for image handling, transformation and Corner Option enhancements and much more
- Working on Interactive documents in InDesign? InDesign CS5 contains a major upgrade to the interactive toolset. Adding a number of new panels that enable you to build fully interactive layouts.
Layout for corporate and business
- Learn how to build your business marketing materials in Adobe InDesign
- Learn how to build some cool design effects with Images and Text
- Learn how to build Annual Reports in InDesign
- Learn how to create company brochures, flyers and newsletters in InDesign
- Learn how to build advertising material in InDesign
- and much more
Layout for magazine and newspapers
InDesign is THE tool to use for developing your newspaper or magazine layout.
- Learn how to build templates that can be re-used.
- Learn how to most efficiently build=up pages with ‘articles’ with multiple column layout and spanned headers
- Learn how to make access to content easier through use of InDeign’s Layers feature.
- Learn how to add styles to your documents that ease the pain of formatting text and images and even ‘boxed’-text
- Learn how to add images to your pages, resize them, mask them and more.
- Learn how to most effectively work with Microsoft Word content in InDesign or
- Learn how to work with an InDesign / InCopy workflow for Editors
- Learn how to get XML into InDesign and … get XML out of InDesign
- and much more
Layout for book publishing
InDesign makes book publishing effortless…
- Learn how to build templates that can be re-used for various publications and control page-numbering types
- Learn how to automatically add chapter numbering, heading numbering etc.
- Learn how to most effectively construct your documents, chapter by chapter
- Learn how to add styles to your documents that ease the pain of formatting text and images
- Learn how to add boxed text objects that format with the click of a button, through use of Object styles
- Learn how to automatically add images that ‘flow’ with the text when you edit the publication text later on
- Learn how to most effectively work with Microsoft Word content in InDesign or
- Learn how to work with an InDesign / InCopy workflow for Editors
- Learn how to get XML into InDesign and … get XML out of InDesign
- and much more
Dynamic Document creation (PDF, SWF)
Whether you’re building a highly Interactive Magazine, or just want to add some navigational controls to PDF or SWF files… InDesign is the tool for you.
- Learn how to add navigational Buttons and Bookmark controls to your documents
- Learn how to add Animations to your document and define Motion Paths and Timing
- Learn how to build super cool roll-over effects, Object State changes and more
- Learn how to automatically and manually add bookmarks to your document
- Learn how to add Media such as movies and sound effects to your documents
- Learn how to add page transitions including the famous Page Curl to your artwork.
- and more
Electronic Book and Magazine creation
EBooks and Interactive Digital Magazine are the hot topics for todays publishers. If you’re an InDesign user you are in luck. You’ve got a tool-set at your fingertips that will help you get started with EPUB development and with the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite you’re up and running with digital magazine publishing.
- Learn how to develop an EPUB from InDesign, recommendations for InDesign document set-up, post EPUB editing and more.
- Learn how to build books for Kindle EReader
- Learn how to build interactive digital magazines for iPad and Android tablets using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite
InDesign CS5.5/Acrobat X Pro Accessibility workshop
A lot of people working for Government or in Education, are aware of the legislative requirements towards making our publications accessible. From InDesign CS5.5 building Accessible PDFs has now become easier than ever. Contact me if you’re interested in running an Accessibility workshop at your organisation. This workshop will take you through the practical Dos and Don’ts for your InDesign document design and creation – covering InDesign best-practices that will help you create Accessible PDFs more easily. Topics covered include:
- Building document templates (all about Master Pages, document structure, use of styles).
- How to Add Searchable Metadata to an InDesign document
- Looking at InDesign document designs… What’s an Artefact, what’s not?
- Adding Alt Text to images (including using Adobe Bridge to add XMP metadata)
- Assigning tags to paragraph styles
- How to build and structure our Tables
- How to build our bulleted and numbered lists
- How to work with footnotes
- How to export an InDesign document to an Accessible PDF
- Opening the PDF in Adobe Acrobat X and going through some post PDF creation fixes:
- Running an Accessibility Check
- Reading Order, editing Reading Order
- Turning an object into an Artifect
- Content Order
- and more…