2024 Solutions Providers

Our goal at CreativePro is to connect you with the best-quality HOW-TO information, experts, and solutions to help you thrive as a creative professional. That’s why we value our partnerships with these sponsors — companies that are dedicated to providing creative pros with tools, services, and solutions. We encourage you to explore how these companies can help superpower you and your organization.

Interested in becoming a sponsor for CreativePro Week 2024? Contact us!

Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. Great experiences have the power to inspire, transform, and move the world forward. And every great experience starts with creativity.

Creativity is in our DNA. Our game-changing innovations are redefining the possibilities of digital experiences. We connect content and data and introduce new technologies that democratize creativity, shape the next generation of storytelling, and inspire entirely new categories of business.

Cacidi Systems, since February 2000, offers a wide rage of plugin-based solutions for Adobe InDesign. From advanced solutions for catalogs, price lists and campaign papers, to plugins to create stunning charts and infographics or razor sharp bar codes.

Cacidi Extreme is the creative catalog robot that is able to create hundreds or thousand of pages in minutes. Extreme is supporting both data driven and design driven production with 13 built in pagination methods and a world of data sources.

If working with Extreme is going a little to fast, try Cacidi LiveMerge: the drag ‘n drop, one-by-one product-to-page solution so many customers use as the great companion to Extreme.

Get the full picture at: www.cacidi.com

​Accessibility Unraveled provides expert training and consulting on digital accessibility, led by renowned professionals Chad Chelius and Dax Castro. They offer comprehensive solutions for creating accessible documents, including training courses, one-on-one consultations, and resources like podcasts and reference guides. Their expertise ensures clients meet accessibility standards efficiently, reducing compliance risks and enhancing productivity. Trusted by many, their engaging presentations and practical advice make accessibility achievable for organizations of all sizes.

Circular Software has been making InDesign better for more than ten years.
Whether you are looking for a better way to securely publish PDFs and interactive InDesign files to the websites you choose, or to search and share your publications online with MasterPlan, or a better way to make stylish ebooks for Amazon, or to add interactivity and accessibility features including automatic ‘read aloud’ text highlighting to your digital publications with CircularFLO, or to take better control of yours and your coworkers workflow and create correct, complete & consistent InDesign files every time with GreenLight – visit circularsoftware.com to get in touch to find out more.
As used by dozens of smaller independent publishers and several major global publishers, and even CreativePro themselves! Circular Software. #InDesignBetter

Em Software, founded in 1990 (shipping plugins since the InDesign 1.0 beta in 1999), is a small, plucky, hands-on 4-man team who design, build and fanatically support both data publishing tools —

  • InData builds beautiful, finished InDesign documents, hands-off, from your raw data
  • InCatalog links InDesign document elements to your spreadsheets & databases, for painless and error-free bi-directional document and data updates

— and workflow automation tools —

  • WordsFlow provides file-based “live links” to Word/Excel documents from InDesign
  • DocsFlow provides online “live links” to Google Docs/Sheets documents from InDesign

— both featuring Em’s signature “magic merge” on link updates from external sources, with no loss of work from either side, for massive time savings and error-free updates.

With FontLab’s TransType universal font converter, you can make any font work when and where you want it to, from legacy Type 1 to OpenType, color and web fonts. With the FontLab 8 pro font editor, you can create and edit fonts from start to finish, from a simple design to a complex project, for any Unicode writing system from Latin to Arabic, Japanese or emoji. The FontLab apps are truly cross-platform: they work on macOS, Windows, and even Linux. Whether it’s an extra icon, accented glyph or logo, or a new weight or style, or an all-new font — with FontLab apps, you’ll get professional-grade fonts font print, web & digital.

Meet Lulu, a book publishing and print-on-demand platform that puts you in control. Since 2002, we have empowered over two million authors, creators, educators, and entrepreneurs worldwide to publish, print, and prosper. With Lulu’s global distribution network, direct sales solutions, and industry-leading print-on-demand technology, authors and creators can share their stories while growing their brand, audience, and bank account.

At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more through innovation, diversity and inclusion, corporate social responsibility, AI and trustworthy computing. The PowerPoint mission is to empower people and organizations to tell the world’s most compelling stories to anyone, anywhere, at any time.

PageProof is an ingeniously simple, yet powerful online proofing tool that makes reviewing and approving work feel effortless. Files of any kind – Adobe CC, Microsoft Office, web banners, movies, websites and more – can be securely shared with your team in just a few clicks.

With smart tools to automate workflow, review work and make sure everything is pixel perfect, providing feedback becomes an easy and welcome part of every day.

But it’s more than just a better way to review and approve work. It’s a way to give everyone in your team a voice, harnessing the brilliant diversity of thought within your organization and strengthening every piece of work it creates.

Peachpit offers unique learning experiences in the fields of photography, graphic design, Web design and development, digital video, and more. Since 1986, our award-winning products have featured step-by-step explanations, timesaving techniques, savvy insider tips, and expert advice for all ages or levels of experience. Peachpit is the home of the internationally recognized Classroom in a Book series, the design imprint New Riders and its highly popular Voices That Matter series, and is the publishing partner for Adobe, Apple, and The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). Whether online or in print, Peachpit is committed to developing new ways to share information and make lifelong learning as accessible and engaging as possible.

​priint:Suite is an enterprise platform that reduces the time to create marketing publications up to 80% and enables creative marketers to focus on being creative. The platform eliminates the need for data exports, copy/paste, and other mundane repetitive tasks by allowing real time drag and drop to/from InDesign or Illustrator from/to any corporate data system like PIM, eCommerce, CMS, DAM and more. Automate layouts following business/layout rules without limits on creative freedom. Instantly create personalized or language variants. One can layout sections or entire publications in seconds as well as enable complete headless and on-demand rendering. Over 500 global and enterprise customers rely on priint:suite’s automation to create publications faster and more cost-effectively.

Recosoft: Inspiring Creativity Through Innovative Solutions

As pioneers in the confluence of design and innovation, we reshape possibilities for creative professionals. Our expertise, honed through the years, revolves around seamless integration with Adobe InDesign and Illustrator, fostering efficiency and sparking inspiration.

Our suite of leading-edge solutions, encompassing ID2Office, PDF2ID, IR2Office, and DecksMoveIn, empowers designers to bring their visions to life. ID2Office bridges InDesign and Microsoft Office, effortlessly converting files while preserving design integrity. PDF2ID transforms PDFs into editable InDesign documents, liberating creativity. IR2Office enhances collaboration by converting Illustrator files to Office formats. DecksMoveIn transforms presentations, streamlining PowerPoint-to-InDesign workflows.

Santa Cruz Software offers a suite of tools to connect Adobe applications to other Cloud Services, enabling teams to collaborate seamlessly on projects without ever leaving their applications. Enjoy simplified version control, easy asset search, and seamless connection between your shared team assets. Santa Cruz Software features are designed to streamline brand compliance, empower collaboration between teams, and increase productivity. Our solutions range from integratable Dynamic Templates based upon Adobe InDesign (PrintUI), DAM connectors for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator,Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects (LinkrUI), and turnkey collateral/campaign portals (BrandingUI).

TRUMATCH is the easy, accurate standard for 4-color matching integrated within Adobe products. Our patented system gives designers the choice of lighter or darker colors without shifting color cast. TRUMATCH applies the logic and organization of hue/saturation/brightness (HSB) to 4-color space. Process hues are displayed in the order of the spectrum, with 40 smooth, perfectly proportioned tints and shades of each hue, plus 4-color grays. In 1991, both TRUMATCH and Adobe Photoshop were recognized for breakthrough technology, each winning the prestigious GATF InterTech Award for Innovative Excellence. The TRUMATCH Colorfinder fanguide is available in coated and uncoated paper editions.

Walsworth is a top-five book and magazine printer, a catalog printer, and the only family-owned printer of yearbooks. Started in 1937 by Don Walsworth and in its 86th year of business, current leadership is under the second and third generations: Don O. Walsworth, CEO, and his son, Don Walsworth, president. The company operates from administrative offices and book printing and binding facilities in Marceline, Missouri; a prepress facility in Brookfield, Missouri; a sales and marketing office in Overland Park, Kansas; and magazine and catalog printing facilities in Saint Joseph, Michigan; Ripon, Wisconsin; and Fulton, Missouri. Additionally, Walsworth owns the Donning Company Publishers, a specialty book publisher.