Still hungry for more?! Watch eight presenters each take three minutes max to show off their best tip, trick, or technique! Which one will blow your mind? You get to vote and shower one lucky attendee in the room with prizes… it might be you!
At work, designers and editors are all so busy getting their projects out the door, there’s little time to look up and see what’s new out there. If you’re still flowing in badly-formatted Word documents into InDesign, fighting them into submission, then circulating umpteen PDF layout proofs to umpteen people, this is the session for you!
Anne-Marie’s specialty is helping publishing teams streamline their workflows with low-cost, easy-to-adopt solutions. You’ll be so encouraged and energized by what she shows in her session that you’ll be fixing your own workflows as soon as you get back to the office.
Sometimes it feels like we all have less time and money to make more creative designs! Well, what if you could make original and unique design solutions more efficiently and under budget? And what if that workflow actually brought you more joy in the process!
Join designer Mark Heaps as he helps you cut costs, keep your boss and client happy, and rediscover why you love design.
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Every so often, you have a task in InDesign that could handled easily using the powerful Data tools in Microsoft Excel. Join “MrExcel” (Bill Jelen) as he covers some of his favorite Excel tricks.
Publishing your InDesign documents on the web is truly just a click away using Publish Online. Go beyond the limits of PDF and publish your documents so they are readable by any browser on any device. Publish Online gives you the ability to easily publish your work online, complete with slideshows, buttons, video and other interactive elements. See how designers, photographers, non-profits, and corporations have used Publish Online to create engaging online documents.
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infographics
We will discuss the importance of data visualization in social change work and you will learn how to:
After a quick review of table basics, this session will dive deep into tables. We’ll look at importing and styling data from Excel, the common-sense aesthetics of making tables look good, how to use tables as a design element, and creative ways to make them do things they weren’t intended for.
We’ll also demystify those most unloved of styles: Table Styles and Cell Styles, and see how they can do the heavy lifting when you’re regularly working with tables.
It’s hard to put the words “InDesign” and “HTML” in the same sentence without grinding your teeth in frustration. But what if you could export an InDesign file as an HTML microsite or interactive document? Or export your text and graphics from InDesign directly into your website running WordPress (or a similar CMS)? In this session, we’ll explore several techniques to get HTML into and out of InDesign beyond the brute force method.
This session will address challenges such as:
