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

EPUB from InDesign: An Overview

Wednesday, 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm

You want to take your InDesign document (that you are so used to preparing for PDF) and turn it into an EPUB. Or perhaps your boss or customer is asking you if you can produce an EPUB. Don’t put off learning this important skill any longer! In this session we’ll be talking about the pro’s and cons of EPUB, so you can best advise your client or company. And we’ll also unleash our inner geek with a peak at the power of CSS.

Topics will include:

• What is EPUB, and why should you build one?
• What does and doesn’t work in EPUB
• The pro’s and con’s of using InDesign as a vehicle for EPUB
• How to set up your InDesign document for maximum success

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

Taking Advantage of Advanced Font Features

Wednesday, 2:30 pm – 3:15 pm

We all love fonts, and InDesign makes it easy to do awesome things with fonts… as long as you know which fonts can do what! Fonts can also be the foundation of much frustration, but Thomas will tell you how to tame your tricky text!

• how to tell which fonts support which OpenType features and more with the Glyphs panel
• the wonders of Stylistic Sets, the ever-changing grab-bag feature
• the magical Adobe font folders: avoiding activation woes, and a surprising secret
• tricks with the “Find Font dialog”
• how Adobe Typekit just got a zillion times better for InDesign and CC users, even if you aren’t using web fonts

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

Advanced Styles: Nested, Line, and GREP Styles

Wednesday, 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm

Everyone knows that using styles in InDesign is key for efficient formatting of text and objects in a document. Not only do they save time and allow us to format content quickly and efficiently, but they also facilitate easily making changes in a document as well. Let’s not forget that they’re also a requirement if you want to take advantage of some powerful features in InDesign that help you to automate tasks. With styles however, there’s a lot more beneath the surface that can help you take your text formatting to the next level by automating specific formatting within a paragraph.

In this session, you’ll learn how to…

• Specifically format every instance of a word or phrase in a document
• Leveraging Nested Styles to apply text formatting
• Isolate and format text using GREP Styles
• Understand the order of operation when using automated and manually applied styles
• Thinking creatively with styles

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

Working Smarter with Long Documents

Wednesday, 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm

With 16 published books written in InDesign under his belt, Brian Wood has learned a thing-or-two about working with longer documents in InDesign! In this session, he’ll share some of the valuable tips and techniques he’s learned over the years to make designing and producing long, repetitive, or complex documents easier, faster, and with less headaches.

Topics will include:

• General shortcuts for speed you should be using
• Really useful Master Page tricks
• Why “Keep Options” should be your best friend
• Tips for anchoring objects to the text flow
• Table of content tips
• Best practices for creating and applying styles
• Using Object styles, Snippets, and Libraries for repetitive page elements

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

Learning Grids in InDesign

Wednesday, 11:00 am – 11:45 am

If you’re the kind of designer whose creativity is sparked by constraints, then grids are for you. Providing a framework for your content, grids take the guesswork out of where to put stuff, and in doing so, free up your creativity and boost your design efficiency. Grids are rules based—but the good news is that you get to make (and occasionally break) those rules. This session is about InDesign’s three types of grid—document, layout, and baseline—and how to use them, separately or in combination, effectively and without frustration.

• Setting up a layout grid
• Adding a baseline grid
• Common challenges of working with grids
• When to break the grid