ONLINE TRAINING CLASS INFORMATION

Avatar has been providing a variety of opportunities to receive training in using this dynamic and powerful plug-in for InDesign. Many satisfied students have benefited from the power tricks and advanced techniques we teach, and enrollment is open to anyone who wants to get a solid foundation in EasyCatalog methods and workflow. Students are responsible for meeting the class prerequisites.

The online training class teaches you how to use the base EasyCatalog module for page building and introduce you to simple template development. You will learn the basic concepts of importing data, using library items to build pages, and updating data.  Gaining the knowledge required to build simple EasyCatalog linked library items, you will discover how to unlock the power of pagination rules to make linked library items (LLI’s) even smarter.  Learning how to use tables to display multi-level data will introduce you to some of the advanced field options that EasyCatalog offers.

•    InDesign Essentials for Automation
•    Understanding Data
•    EasyCatalog Basics
•    Creating EasyCatalog Linked Items
•    Essential Pagination Rules
•    Automated Pagination
•    Leveraging Table Attributes
•    Leveraging Field Options


Online training runs four consecutive days. Each day's training consists of two daily sessions, with each session running 1-1/2 hours. During the break in-between, there are assignments to be completed that reinforces what was shown in the first session, and a second, larger assignment to be completed after the second session, to be turned in by the end of the business day.

Documentation for the course will be delivered digitally, providing sample and completed files, along with a link to the recorded sessions that can be reviewed at a later time.

If you have any additional questions about the training, or would like to be updated about upcoming class dates, please feel free to call Michele Williams at 412-921-7747 or send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .