Course Overview
This course teaches the fundamental principles of page layout design. Basic typography measurement and terminology will be explained. Students will construct single and multi-page documents with imported text, graphics and images. Students will examine good and bad typography and learn prepress terminology. Using page layout software students will prepare industry standard documents that incorporate the rules and practices of high quality typesetting. Files will then be exported to postscript and PDF formats utilizing a variety of production methods to prepare students for electronic PDF workflows.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
5.0
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to:
- Set up single and multi-page documents with master pages and libraries.
- Work with different measurement systems including picas and points.
- Precisely position text, graphics and images on a page based on an origin point.
- Edit text and change character and paragraph formatting.
- Create and apply paragraph and character style sheets.
- Create threaded and unthreaded text from column to column and page to page.
- Demonstrate the difference between good and bad typography.
- Create and utilize tabular composition to build tables from database files.
- Describe type terminology including: point size, leading, tracking, and kerning.
- Determine repurposing file format requirements for both printed and electronic documents.
- Create PDF and postscript files including electronic forms.
- Create variable data documents from databases for custom marketing campaigns.
Effective as of Fall 2015
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