Institute Fee-Based Course DescriptionsRegister for a course here or contact the Institute at GPO at 202.512.1283 or theinstitute@gpo.gov Best Practices for Government Desktop Publishers: Preparing and Preflighting Files for Trouble-Free Printing more details This hands-on foundation course covers common technical problems with desktop publishing files and how to prevent them. Topics include:
This course gives the do’s, don’ts, and hands-on preflighting training that will help your agency procure quality printed materials, reduce technical problems with desktop publishing files, prevent scheduling delays, and keep your printing costs on budget. Note: this class is not a course in how to use Adobe InDesign or other desktop publishing software. Although Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Acrobat are used in this course, only skills for preflighting and checking files are demonstrated. It’s recommended that students have additional basic desktop publishing training (such as Adobe InDesign) either before or after this class to complete their knowledge of this subject. Prerequisites: None, other than basic computer skills. This class is designed for anyone involved in publishing government material, including: designers, desktop publishers, production managers, managing editors, printing specialists, visual information specialists, illustrators, prepress technicians, copyshop managers, and print procurement specialists. Mar 12 - 14, 2013, June 17 - 19, 2013 InDesign CS6 Basics for Federal Publishers (New!) This basic hands-on introduction to InDesign teaches you how to create desktop publishing projects from start to finish with an emphasis on government publishing requirements. Topics include: making master pages, creating style sheets for formatting text, importing text and graphics, setting up printing ink colors, preflighting, exporting press-quality and web-quality PDFs, and packaging files for the print shop, along with graphic design concepts and guidelines. Prerequisites: None, other than basic computer skills. This class is designed for anyone involved in publishing government material, including: designers, desktop publishers, production managers, managing editors, printing specialists, visual information specialists, illustrators, prepress technicians, copyshop managers, and print procurement specialists. June 26 - 27, 2013 Creating ePubs using InDesign 6.0 (New!) more details This new full-day, hands-on, how-to lab course is ideal for those looking to become proficient in creating ePubs. Students must possess intermediate level skills in InDesign 4.0. Specific areas covered in this class include:
December 17, 2012, February 12, 2013 and August 6, 2013 Creating Appealing ePub Pages (New!) more details This class is designed to help you take your ePub files to the next level. The class content focuses on building an understanding of how InDesign layouts translate into ePub format and how to avoid the most common pitfalls. Topics include typography, text alignment, formatting tables, adding metadata, and much more. Prerequisite: April 18, 2013 Tablet Publishing using InDesign (New!) more details Federal Publishers will learn to create books, long documents, magazines, newsletters or catalogs for use with iPad, Android, and other tablet devices. Create both print and digital editions using a single cross-media tool. Leverage the InDesign software you already own and the skills you already have. Add controls, slide shows, panoramas, and other exciting interactive features. Do it all without writing a single line of code. Bring your own tablet device to see your finished product! Prerequisite: March 7 - 8, 2013 Photoshop Web Graphics for Federal Publishers (New!) more details Photoshop's sophisticated tools can make quick work of many web site projects. This class shows you how to prepare photographs and drawn images for the web and to draw web page elements such as buttons, menu bars, typographic headlines, and tiled backgrounds. You will also learn how to use Photoshop to quickly mock-up web site designs. May 7, 2013 Color Correction in Photoshop for Federal Publishers (New!) In this two-day concentrated Photoshop course, you'll learn many ways to correct and improve photos. This is an intermediate-level class that focuses ONLY on color correction and editing techniques. This class is right on target for Federal web developers, print designers, photographers, and prepress specialists. Prerequisites: Must be familiar with Photoshop’s basic tools (selections, masks, layers, and channels). This is an intermediate-level course. Mar 19 – 20, 2013 508 Compliance Using Adobe Acrobat & MS Word for Federal Publishers more details Learn the federal guidelines for Section 508 compliant documents in this basic foundation course for accessible documents. Topics include:
Prerequisites: None, other than basic computer skills. This class is designed for anyone involved in creating government documents, including: designers, desktop publishers, production managers, managing editors, authors, website developers, visual information specialists, and accessibility specialists. April 8-9, 2013 508-Compliant Fillable Forms more details This concentrated hands-on course teaches how to properly create and edit Adobe PDF documents for access by users with disabilities. Students will learn:
Prerequisites: 508 Compliance Using Adobe Acrobat and MS Word or similar coursework. This is an introductory-level course and students must have knowledge of accessibility requirements, accessible PDFs, and accessible documents. This class is designed for anyone involved in creating government forms, including: designers, desktop publishers, managing editors, website developers, forms developers, and accessibility specialists. April 10-11, 2013 Printing Workflow: Process, Terminology, and Ordering Printing in the Federal Sector more details This course covers basic printing processes and terminology; digital and traditional prepress and printing processes; ink on paper and other substrates; paper, envelopes and the Government paper system; post-press finishing operations, binding and GPO print procurement. Dec. 3 – 6, 2012, March 18 – 21, June 10 – 13 2013 Superior Customer Service more details This fast-paced two-day course for government printing specialists will deal with customer service as it specifically applies to providing government publication and printing services. Through lecture, video, role playing, and class interaction, attendees will gain insight and knowledge into providing effective, proactive customer service. April 22 – 23, 2013 Digital Communications Management and Social Media Marketing (New) Federal Publishers will learn how to manage, market, and coordinate digital communication packages for your federal agency using social media, web sites, IPAD apps, device location apps, video, pod cast, and other new media. Topics include social media and mobile applications technology, types, and uses; developing online communities and coordinating social media strategies, and online marketing projects; Web analytics, results measurement, risk and benefits, targeting, tracking and ROI, all of which contribute to savings for any federal agency. This course is for IT professionals, web designers/developers, marketing communications and PR managers. Oct 22, 2013 Proofs and Press Sheet Inspections This course, taught by staff from the GPO Quality Control for Procured Printing section, includes a discussion of proofs and proofing systems and the relationship between proofs and press sheet inspections (PSIs). It covers what a PSI is and is NOT, scheduling of PSIs, PSI procedures, current proofs standards and examples, and advice for agency representatives. Mar. 12, 2013 |
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