Adobe Certified Professional - InDesign case studies
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The Adobe Certified Professional credential is Adobe's certification program for people who want to demonstrate working proficiency in Adobe creative applications. For InDesign, the product Adobe describes as the tool to "Design and publish elegant layouts for print and digital," the certification targets designers, production artists, marketing and communications staff, and students building a portfolio of verifiable skills. The Adobe Certified Professional - InDesign case studies are 5 cases and about 2,367 words.
1The Bleed That Vanished in the Print Shop
You deliver a 32-page saddle-stitched booklet to a printer as a PDF. The designer set up the document at 210 × 297 mm with facing pages, but the bleed was left at the default 0 mm because the background art was placed as a full-page image frame snapped to the page edge.
467 words, about 2 min2Hyphenation Chaos in a Narrow Column
A four-page newsletter uses a two-column grid with columns 58 mm wide. Body text is 9/12 pt in a serif face.
445 words, about 2 min3The Logo That Printed Muddy
A client supplies a logo as a PNG with a transparent background, 600 × 200 px at 72 ppi, in RGB. You place it on a business card at 40 mm wide.
498 words, about 2 min4Spot Color That Multiplied Into Five Plates
A packaging insert uses a brand orange defined as a Pantone spot color, plus a CMYK image with a gradient, plus black body text. The document was set up with the swatch named 'PANTONE 021 C' but the designer also created a second swatch named 'Brand Orange' as a process CMYK build for a web banner reused in the same file.
479 words, about 2 min5Interactive PDF That Fails on the Client's Tablet
You produce a 24-page product brochure as an interactive PDF for the client's sales team to use on iPads. The file includes hyperlinks, a few buttons, and a short embedded video.
478 words, about 2 min