The Past, Present, and Future of InDesign: Special Event with Adobe

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The Past, Present, and Future of InDesign: Special Event with Adobe

Wednesday, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

It was 20 years ago that Adobe released InDesign 1.0 and the design and publishing industry was changed forever. Join us for a “birthday party,” as we celebrate 20 years of innovation, and learn what’s next for the world’s most-popular page-layout app.

Featuring: Terry White, Michael Ninness, Maria Yap, Marsha Rivera, and David Blatner


Sponsored Breakfast Session: Modern Self-Publishing with Blurb and Adobe

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Bruce Watermann

ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle.

Sponsored Breakfast Session:

Modern Self-Publishing with Blurb and Adobe

Wednesday, 8:15 am – 8:45 am

Over the past decade, self-publishing has seen tremendous change. Modern self-publishing, through platforms like Blurb and Adobe, has opened up a range of new possibilities, but what are these specific new avenues and what are the most strategic ways of taking advantage? Blurb’s Senior Vice President, Operations, Bruce Watermann, will walk attendees through the full range of Blurb options as well as several case studies highlighting intelligent, creative uses of the modern, self-publishing toolset.



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Sponsored Breakfast Session: Making Maps…Easy, Powerful and (kinda) Fun!

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Clint Loveman

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Sponsored Breakfast Session:

Making Maps…Easy, Powerful and (kinda) Fun!

Monday, 8:15 am – 8:45 am

Great designs share information more effectively and we know mapping can be a challenge…. ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud allows you to design with data-driven maps inside of Illustrator or Photoshop. Access cloud-hosted content, local files, or search to add locations by name, categories or address. You can visualize travel times and distances and add them as well-organized vector layers or raster images. Grab breakfast and join us for some easy map-making on your Monday morning!



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Sponsored Breakfast Session: eLearning Tips & Tricks

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James Fritz

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Sponsored Breakfast Session:

eLearning Tips & Tricks

Tuesday, 8:15 am – 8:45 am

Think all eLearning is the same? Well, think again. While self-paced learning can help you learn a new skill or solve a tricky problem, it isn’t a one-size fits all solution. Join LinkedIn Learning’s Senior Manager of Creative Content as he takes you through a variety of innovative ways to learn online.



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Creative Wow 2019

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Creative Wow

Thursday, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Come see and/or share amazing software demos from around the world! CreativeWow is an informal and fun evening event where designers and developers can connect and find ways to make magic.*

Designers: Do you enjoy finding ways to become more efficient and productive? Do you like seeing amazing technology? Grab some dessert and see what cool things the devs have been up to!

Developers: Do you have a software challenge that you’ve been working on in your spare time? Or some feature, tool, or service that you’ve developed that is just so cool you have to share it? Come show it at the CreativeWow! reception, Thursday night. The rules are simple: You have 5 minutes to fire up and demo your stuff in front of an audience of your peers. To sign up, contact David.

*Author and futurist Arthur C. Clark once wrote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”


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RGB and CMYK: Making Colors Match From Screen to Print and Digital

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Steve Laskevitch

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RGB and CMYK: Making Colors Match From Screen to Print and Digital

Thursday, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Today, we prepare documents for a variety of media, and, no, despite the rumors, print is not dead. In a world of both RGB and CMYK, when and how should you convert from one to the other? And what should be converted and what shouldn’t? And when some content shouldn’t appear in some media but is necessary in another, how do we “author once, publish for many?”

If you care about managing your time, minimizing the juggling of files, and maximizing quality, this is a session you need.


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Building Books, Journals, and Other Long Documents

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Chad Chelius

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Building Books, Journals, and Other Long Documents

Thursday, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Building long documents in InDesign can be a challenging process… dare we say a chore in some instances! That is, if you don’t use the tools in InDesign that are designed for these types of projects. If you’d like the ability to break long documents apart so that multiple users can work on the same project at the same time, and you want the ability to keep the formatting consistent between all of those documents, you’ll want to attend this session. Learn some best practices that will ease the process of building long documents as well as some tips that can save your bacon when trouble arises. In this session you’ll see a real life example of how one might go about building a long document from start to finish.

Topics include:

  • How the Book panel in InDesign works
  • How to leverage the functionality in the Book panel to make edits quickly and consistently
  • Some tricks to help you avoid common problems
  • Best practices to make the process more efficient and faster
  • Building a Table of Contents for the book
  • Tips for importing Word content into InDesign
  • Leveraging Text Variables

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InDesign: Three Minutes Max

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David Blatner

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InDesign: Three Minutes Max

Wednesday, 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Eight world-famous experts… Three minutes each… Only one winner! Watch as our presenters vie for the best 3-minute InDesign tip. One lucky audience member will win our grand prize!

This is one of the top-rated sessions at CreativePro Week. Don’t miss it!


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Mastering PDF Commenting and Review with InDesign

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Conrad Chavez

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Mastering PDF Commenting and Review with InDesign

Wednesday, 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm

Adobe PDF is a natural format for doing document reviews, because it’s easy to read on many platforms and supports annotation tools. The Acrobat review workflow is even more flexible than ever with support for easier reviews online, on mobile devices, and now integrating InDesign itself. Compare different types of PDF review cycles, and learn how to take advantage of the latest reviewing features such as processing PDF comments in Adobe InDesign, and using Document Cloud online reviews.
  • Choose an appropriate commenting workflow
  • Understand the range of commenting tools
  • Run a Document Cloud online review
  • View PDF comments in InDesign
  • Tips for running a PDF review efficiently and effectively

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Data Merge Zero to 60

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Colin Flashman

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Data Merge Zero to 60

Wednesday, 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm

Data Merge is InDesign’s built-in, go-to tool for creating direct mail campaigns, business cards, sequential stationery, and many other “data publishing” documents. Using techniques already present in InDesign, it is possible to take a regular “stencil” to another level and provide a truly unique experience for each recipient.

Topics include:

  • Best practices for preparing Data Merge projects
  • Harnessing InDesign’s features to make projects more dynamic
  • Advanced techniques such as changing colors or layouts during a merge
  • Scripts and other methods of adding data to a project

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