Adobe InDesign Advanced (Level 2)
One hundred pages, one style change, one afternoon.
A twenty page brochure is a document. A two hundred page catalog is a system, and the difference is that everything you did by hand on the brochure is now impossible. This class is about the systems.
Participants work on long, structured documents and learn where the automation lives: nested styles that format a run of text from one rule, data merge that builds a hundred variations from a spreadsheet, and book files that keep numbering and styles synchronized across separate documents.
In-house teams take this when publications got long enough that someone is losing days to formatting. Agencies take it to standardize production. It counts toward the Graphic Design Certificate.
Content and exercises are built around real work, and private group sessions are built around your own brand, templates, and files. Classes are delivered live online, and on-site delivery is available across the Colorado Front Range. This class sits alongside our other Adobe Creative Cloud classes.
This course includes
- Live, instructor led class delivered across four sessions
- Restructuring a real long document from your own work
- Automation with nested styles, GREP styles, and data merge
- Interactive PDF and accessibility tagging for reading order
- Digital learning materials and take home reference guides
- Certificate of completion for every participant
Description
The first sessions are long document architecture. Book files, synchronized styles across documents, sections and numbering that behave, and tables of contents that build themselves and stay right. Participants restructure a real long document and stop maintaining by hand what the application will maintain for them.
The middle is automation. Nested and GREP styles that format a whole pattern from one rule rather than one selection at a time. Data merge for anything that exists in variations. Object styles and libraries so a component is defined once and reused. This is where the days come back.
The final sessions are interactivity and production. Interactive PDFs with navigation, links, and form fields. Then preflight, packaging, transparency flattening, and the production checks that catch a problem before it becomes a print run. Participants also work on accessibility, tagging structure and reading order so the PDF works for the people who need it to.
What You'll Learn at a Glance
- Structure a book or catalog so it stays consistent across documents
- Build a table of contents that maintains itself
- Use nested and GREP styles to format a pattern from one rule
- Automate variations with data merge
- Define components once with object styles and libraries
- Build an interactive PDF with navigation and form fields
- Preflight, package, and produce accessible, print-ready output
Details
Duration
Prerequisites
Participants should be comfortable with master pages, paragraph and character styles, and placing and flowing content. Those without that foundation should start with Adobe InDesign Beginners (Level 1). InDesign must be installed before the first session.
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Tuition
Adobe InDesign Advanced (Level 2) runs 14 hours across four live sessions. Enroll as an individual or book private training for your team.
- Individual enrollment: $895 per participant. Book a seat on a scheduled class directly. If no date is listed, request information and we will tell you when one opens
- Private group training: request a custom quote. Built around your own brand, templates, and files, and scheduled around your team
- Certificate credit: this class counts toward the Graphic Design Certificate
- Employer funding: we provide invoices, purchase order documentation, and certificates of completion on request
Register above for the next scheduled class, or request a quote for group pricing and scheduling.