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Design and produce professional page layouts using InDesign CS3.

We have had great success with our instructor led classes. Most of our classes are based around the Adobe Classroom In A Book series. Our instructors begin with the first seven to ten chapters depending upon the experience of our students. From that point it is more of an instructor led custom course than a typical of the shelf course.

Why do we take this approach? Well, that is simple. We understand that our students may come from different backgrounds and have different needs. For instance, in a class we just finished our students were trying to migrate or convert their Quark files into InDesign files. This can be a daunting but not impossible task and that is where an instructor led class truly has an advantage over many online tutorials for Adobe programs like Photoshop and InDesign. Our custom approach allows each class to leave with all of the topics they need covered.

We understand it may be a heavy up front investment but it is an investment that pays off long term.

Register today for one of our 2009 Adobe instructor led InDesign CS3 classes.

Explore more creative possibilities and experience new levels of productivity using Adobe® InDesign® CS3 page layout software. Built for demanding workflows, InDesign integrates smoothly with Adobe Photoshop®, Illustrator®, Acrobat®, InCopy®, and Dreamweaver® software; offers powerful features for creating richer, more complex documents; and reliably outputs pages to multiple media. With its sophisticated design features and enhanced productivity tools for streamlining repetitive tasks, InDesign CS3 lets you work faster and better than ever.

Let's take a look at the InDesign CS3 highlights:

• Design professional page layouts using rich creative options.

• Boost efficiency through productivity enhancements and tight integration.

• Automate workflows and processes, including long-document publishing.

Graphic designers—Discover new levels of creative freedom and productivity with Adobe® InDesign® CS3 software. Tightly integrated with the Adobe applications you use most, InDesign CS3 delivers efficient production workflows and a more fluid creative environment for designing professional layouts with sophisticated graphics and typography.

Adobe® PageMaker® users—There’s never been a better time for PageMaker users to switch to Adobe InDesign® CS3 software. With its built-in support for familiar PageMaker features, such as multiple undo, robust style support, flexible gradients, easy table creation, and more, InDesign CS3 brings you a new level of creative freedom and productivity. It’s also packed with features to help smooth your transition, including support for converting PageMaker 6.0–7.x files, a set of PageMaker compatible keyboard shortcuts, and popular PageMaker features such as Data Merge and Print Booklet for imposition. With an exclusive upgrade price for licensed PageMaker users, InDesign CS3 delivers superb functionality at a compelling value.

Print service providers—Adobe® InDesign® CS3 software addresses the needs of print professionals worldwide for reliable, consistent output controls. Encourage your customers to preflight and package their InDesign projects to help ensure smoother handoffs. Prevent costly errors on press by evaluating and adjusting separations, overprint, and transparency flattener settings onscreen. Then use print presets to output files more efficiently. Easily set up high-end Adobe PDF-based print production workflows, automate processes using JDF, and provide Adobe PDF export presets to customers to get the best results. With InDesign CS3, you can exercise exacting control over your print production workflow.

IT professionals and developers—Invest in Adobe® InDesign® CS3 software for professional page layout to help streamline production, reduce costs, and increase quality in your publishing workflows. Tight integration with other Adobe applications and built-in support for native Adobe file formats helps shorten production cycles while better supporting all-digital workflows. InDesign snippets, style sets, custom workspaces, and other resources allow teams to work more efficiently and consistently. Flexible XML import and export controls, plus robust scripting support, lay a strong foundation for automating workflows and efficiently publishing to multiple media. Join leading publishers and design organizations worldwide in achieving higher productivity with better quality and lower costs using InDesign CS3.

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The Adobe® InDesign® CS3 family of products includes InDesign CS3 software for professional page layout, Adobe InCopy® CS3 software for collaborative editorial workflows, and Adobe InDesign CS3 Server software for customized, server-based publishing solutions.

Additional selling points
When you order Adobe® InDesign® CS3, you get more than just a design tool. InDesign offers a robust partner network that includes a community of trainers who can help you learn the program, consultants who can help you optimize InDesign for your workflow, and developers who can satisfy custom needs. An extensible application, InDesign CS3 provides a solid foundation for your publishing platform.

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Adobe® InDesign® CS3 delivers powerful new features and enhancements that allow you to easily explore creative possibilities and streamline production processes in demanding workflows. Adobe® InDesign® CS3 for PageMaker® users Adobe InDesign CS3 PageMaker Upgrade software offers an exclusive upgrade path for licensed users of Adobe PageMaker. The inclusion of popular PageMaker tools eases the transition to InDesign CS3, while enhanced typographical and graphics support helps you take your page layout to the next level.

Top ten new features of Adobe InDesign CS3

• Creative effects and controls—Design compelling page layouts that include transparency, creative effects, and gradient feathers. Since effects are live and nondestructive, you can experiment with ease. Apply effects independently to an object’s stroke, fill, or content.
  
  
• Productivity enhancements—Perform a variety of tasks more efficiently using new and enhanced productivity features, including Multi-file Place, Quick Apply, faster frame fitting, and the visual Pages panel.
  
  
• Table and cell styles—Quickly and consistently format tables using table and cell styles. Even use regional cell styles to apply unique formatting to specific areas of a table, such as its header, footer, and body.
  
  
• Robust long-document support—Maintain consistency and streamline the production of long documents using advanced bullets and numbering, running headers and footers, and synchronized master pages.
  
  
• Advanced Find/Change on text and objects—Apply changes to text and object attributes across one or more documents. Include master pages, footnotes, and locked or hidden layers in a search; save search settings for easy reuse; and perform grep pattern-based searches on strings of text.
  
  • XHTML export—Enable multiformat publishing, including print-to-web workflows, by exporting Adobe InDesign® content as XHTML. Edit the exported content in Adobe Dreamweaver® CS3 software (available separately) and automatically format it using cascading style sheets.
  
  • Intuitive and customizable workspace—Work in an environment that makes it easier to be productive. Keep just the tools, panels, and menus you use most at your fingertips, and dock self-adjusting panels out of the way when not in use to free up your workspace.
  
  
• Placed InDesign files—Reuse layouts by placing INDD files in another InDesign document. Links remain intact, and InDesign automatically notifies you of updates to the linked INDD file.
  
  
• Rule-based layouts from XML—Use scripts that apply rules to automatically build page layouts and format text and graphics from XML content.
  
  
• Automation through scripting—Automate tasks by writing scripts in JavaScript, AppleScript, and VBScript. Attach a JavaScript to a menu command so it runs automatically when the command is chosen, and protect scripts for commercial use through enhanced JavaScript.