Adobe

InDesign

0 1

Document

Setup

Architecture

SKILLS

Document

presets

custom

page

geometry

—

Configuring

page

size

orientation

bleed

slug

and

margin

guides

for

web

and

large

format

output

Facing

pages

columns

baseline

grid

—

Building

multi

column

grids

with

locked

baseline

for

consistent

vertical

rhythm

across

spreads

Alternate

layouts

—

Deriving

tablet

and

web

page

variants

from

single

source

file

without

duplication

Liquid

layout

rules

—

Applying

scale

center

and

object

based

rules

content

reflows

correctly

when

page

size

changes

Sections

page

numbering

document

structure

—

Setting

numbering

styles

section

prefixes

and

start

page

offsets

for

multi

chapter

documents

Workspace

panel

configuration

—

Building

task

specific

workspaces

for

typesetting

prepress

and

interactive

work

0 2

Typography

Typesetting

SKILLS

Character

level

formatting

—

Leading

tracking

kerning

horizontal

and

vertical

scale

and

baseline

shift

control

OpenType

feature

management

—

Enabling

discretionary

ligatures

small

caps

old

style

figures

fractions

and

stylistic

sets

Hyphenation

justification

settings

—

Tuning

word

spacing

letter

spacing

and

glyph

scaling

alongside

Adobe

Paragraph

Composer

for

even

rag

GREP

styles

—

Writing

regular

expression

rules

that

auto

format

prices

callouts

measurements

code

inline

Nested

line

styles

—

Styling

the

first

word

sentence

delimiter

within

paragraph

automatically

import

Optical

margin

alignment

hanging

punctuation

—

Visually

aligning

quotes

hyphens

and

bullets

justified

columns

read

flush

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Drop

caps

raised

caps

—

Setting

multi

line

initial

capitals

with

precise

depth

and

baseline

offsets

Text

path

text

wrap

—

Flowing

copy

along

curved

paths

and

wrapping

around

complex

compound

inverted

shapes

Glyphs

panel

special

characters

—

Inserting

non

breaking

spaces

dashes

thin

spaces

and

alternate

glyphs

correctly

0 3

Styles

Style

Management

SKILLS

Paragraph

character

styles

—

Building

hierarchical

style

systems

with

based

relationships

and

style

chaining

Object

styles

—

Standardising

frame

fills

strokes

corner

options

text

wrap

and

transparency

effects

Table

cell

styles

—

Applying

consistent

header

body

and

footer

formatting

across

long

tabular

documents

Style

groups

organisation

—

Structuring

large

style

libraries

for

editorial

handoff

and

team

wide

consistency

Redefine

reset

clear

overrides

—

Auditing

local

overrides

and

enforcing

style

fidelity

before

final

output

Quick

Apply

style

mapping

—

Applying

styles

keyboard

and

mapping

Word

import

styles

the

InDesign

style

sheet

0 4

Layout

Frames

Composition

SKILLS

Modular

grid

construction

—

Designing

multi

column

modular

and

baseline

aligned

grid

systems

for

editorial

layouts

Frame

fitting

content

control

—

Fill

frame

proportionally

fit

content

auto

fit

and

frame

fitting

options

for

placed

imagery

Text

threading

across

frames

and

pages

—

Managing

story

flow

overset

text

and

story

jumps

long

form

layouts

Smart

Guides

Align

Distribute

—

Precision

alignment

using

gap

tool

distributed

spacing

and

live

measurement

guides

Pathfinder

compound

shapes

—

Building

complex

vector

frames

and

silhouettes

directly

InDesign

2 / 7

Layers

layer

management

—

Separating

content

artwork

and

annotation

onto

controlled

layers

with

lock

and

visibility

states

Effects

transparency

styling

—

Applying

drop

shadow

inner

glow

feather

and

directional

blur

without

flattening

issues

Step

Repeat

and

anchored

objects

—

Generating

repeated

elements

and

pinning

sidebars

captions

specific

text

anchors

0 5

Master

Pages

Templates

SKILLS

Master

page

creation

inheritance

—

Building

master

through

master

hierarchies

for

front

matter

body

and

back

matter

Master

overrides

detaching

—

Selectively

overriding

master

items

for

chapter

opener

and

special

page

treatments

Running

headers

footers

—

Wiring

text

variables

into

master

frames

for

automatic

chapter

and

section

running

heads

Reusable

INDT

template

files

—

Packaging

styles

swatches

layers

and

masters

into

locked

team

template

Library

files

asset

reuse

—

Maintaining

shared

INDL

libraries

for

recurring

logos

bylines

rules

and

units

0 6

Color

Swatches

Prepress

SKILLS

Color

mode

swatch

management

—

Defining

CMYK

RGB

Lab

and

spot

swatches

with

correct

naming

conventions

for

press

Spot

Pantone

libraries

—

branded

spot

colours

and

managing

inks

for

two

and

four

colour

runs

Tints

gradients

mixed

inks

—

Building

gradient

swatches

and

multi

ink

builds

while

staying

within

press

tolerances

Separations

Overprint

Preview

—

Checking

plate

output

and

overprint

behaviour

before

sending

files

press

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Rich

black

total

ink

coverage

control

—

Setting

builds

that

hold

density

without

exceeding

300–320%

TAC

limits

Transparency

flattening

presets

—

Managing

live

transparency

blend

modes

and

flattening

for

legacy

RIP

workflows

Color

management

policies

—

Assigning

ICC

profiles

and

convert

open

rules

for

consistent

cross

device

rendering

0 7

Images

Graphics

Links

SKILLS

Placing

linked

embedded

assets

—

Importing

PSD

TIFF

PDF

and

EPS

files

with

correct

import

options

Links

panel

management

—

Relinking

updating

modified

files

and

resolving

missing

link

errors

before

output

Effective

PPI

resolution

auditing

—

Catching

low

resolution

placement

before

reaches

printed

proof

Clipping

paths

alpha

channels

—

Using

Photoshop

paths

and

transparency

channels

silhouette

placed

imagery

Layer

comps

PSD

layer

visibility

—

Toggling

Photoshop

layer

states

directly

from

InDesign

without

exporting

Native

Illustrator

artboard

placement

—

Placing

multi

artboard

files

and

selecting

the

correct

artboard

layer

0 8

Tables

Data

Presentation

SKILLS

Table

creation

structured

import

—

Building

tables

from

scratch

importing

formatted

tables

from

Word

and

Excel

Cell

merging

spanning

splitting

—

Handling

complex

merged

headers

and

vertical

spanning

across

threaded

frames

Header

footer

rows

repeating

headers

—

Carrying

table

headers

across

page

breaks

long

data

tables

Row

column

cell

strokes

—

Applying

stroke

hierarchy

—

heavy

rules

headers

hairline

rules

body

rows

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Text

table

conversion

—

Converting

delimited

text

into

tables

and

back

again

for

data

cleanup

Table

styles

applied

financial

documents

—

Formatting

statements

schedules

and

rate

cards

with

tabular

figures

and

decimal

alignment

0 9

Long

Documents

Book

Features

SKILLS

Books

panel

management

—

Assembling

multi

chapter

books

and

synchronising

styles

swatches

and

masters

across

files

Table

contents

generation

—

Building

and

updating

multi

level

TOCs

driven

paragraph

styles

and

entry

styles

Indexing

cross

references

—

Creating

topic

lists

index

entries

and

live

cross

references

that

survive

editing

Footnotes

endnotes

—

Configuring

numbering

style

separator

rules

and

endnote

placement

chapter

end

Text

variables

—

Defining

running

heads

chapter

numbers

file

names

and

custom

variables

Conditional

text

—

Producing

teacher

student

and

regional

variants

from

one

master

document

Document

preflight

book

wide

checks

—

Running

live

preflight

across

all

chapters

before

packaging

for

Automation

Data

Driven

Production

SKILLS

Data

Merge

—

Generating

certificates

badges

labels

name

cards

and

catalogue

pages

from

CSV

TXT

sources

XML

import

structure

tagging

—

Mapping

tagged

content

InDesign

stories

and

styles

for

structured

publishing

pipelines

GREP

Find

Change

—

Running

pattern

based

cleanup

for

spacing

quote

styles

dashes

and

placeholder

strings

Object

glyph

Find

Change

—

Locating

and

replacing

formatting

frames

and

special

characters

document

wide

Scripting

—

ExtendScript

(

JSX

)

—

Writing

and

running

scripts

for

repetitive

layout

export

and

tagging

tasks

5 / 7

Scripting

—

UXP

—

Building

modern

panel

based

plugins

for

the

current

InDesign

scripting

environment

Keyboard

shortcut

sets

—

Creating

production

shortcut

sets

that

map

style

application

single

keystrokes

Digital

Publishing

Interactive

Output

SKILLS

Reflowable

EPUB

export

—

Mapping

paragraph

styles

CSS

and

export

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