Presentation Animation Techniques

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Jole Simmons

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Presentation Animation Techniques

Friday, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Central

When you’re designing presentations, you need to think outside the box and function more like a filmmaker. In this focused session, veteran presentation designer Jole Simmons will teach you how! Plus, you’ll learn why you don’t need to be afraid to animate… in fact, you’ll actually start looking for places to use these tools.

We’ll explore:

  • Ways to add subtle touches to your decks to really make them look polished
  • How to use animation to create rhythm and continuity in your presentations
  • and perhaps most importantly: How to have fun with presentation design again!

Creating Learning Presentations

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Creating Learning Presentations

Friday, 11:15 am – 12:00 pm Central

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Just Say No: Alternatives to Boring Slides

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Julie Terberg

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Just Say No: Alternatives to Boring Slides

Friday, 10:15 am – 11:00 am Central

Bullet points. Walls of text with tiny pictures. Predictable slide arrangements. Same size, same color, same layouts, over and over and over. You’ve lost their attention by slide three. How can you break the monotony of boring and bland presentations? How can you create visual excitement and design interesting slides that captivate audiences? This session will show you a variety of ways to lose the snooze with slides that are designed that capture visual attention.

Topics will include:

  • Using a grid to create a variety of compositions
  • Scaling an image, graphic, or metric for emphasis
  • Adding interest with a different text style or typeface
  • Taking advantage of contrast and color
  • Other ways to add visual variety to your slide designs

Crafting Visual Stories for Presentations

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Richard Goring

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Crafting Visual Stories for Presentations

Friday, 9:00 am – 10:00 am Central

There’s much research that shows people remember more from presentations when visuals are used. Yet most of the time we all experience “bullet point hell.”

This session looks at ways to improve your slides visually and get away from Death by PowerPoint (or any other presentation tool). Learn how to make your content more visual, using the right diagram to illustrate and bring your points to life. That means your audience starts paying attention and understands what you want to tell them, even when it’s pretty complicated. And ultimately, it means that your communication is more effective.

Building Rich PDF Forms with InDesign and Acrobat

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Richard Turner-Jones

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Building Rich PDF Forms with InDesign and Acrobat

Thursday, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Central

Adobe InDesign and Adobe Acrobat are the dynamic duos of interactive PDF forms creation. While you can create great-looking, fillable forms in InDesign, integrating Adobe Acrobat into your workflow will lead to a better experience for the user and yourself. Going beyond its paper predecessor, Adobe Acrobat Forms (AcroForms) will help you collect the right information, the first time and save a few trees along the way.

Whether you work in government, education, or need to create rich interactive forms this session is for you.

In this session, you will prepare interactive PDF forms using InDesign and add further interactivity and styling via Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, including:

  • Automated field styling
  • Dynamic fields based on user’s choices
  • Adding In-form navigation
  • Working with special field types like the calendar and image fields
  • Reducing user errors with field validations and calculations
  • One-click document attachments
  • Distribute, track and manage your forms and their responses
  • Create and use Acrobat Actions to automate repetitive tasks
  • Learn best practices along the way and gain an understanding of AcroForm’s possibilities!

Acrobat and PDF Power Techniques

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Leonard Rosenthol

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Acrobat and PDF Power Techniques

Thursday, 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm Central

During this session, Adobe’s Senior Principal Architect for PDF and the Document Cloud will take you on a tour of some of Acrobat’s secret passageways. Learn about a variety of features that you probably never knew were hiding behind the scenes and techniques that will make you more productive with your PDFs. We’ll look into editing, preflighting, working with multi-page documents, and more.

And because most users are also heavy users of mobile devices, a look into Adobe Acrobat for Mobile and Adobe Scan will also be featured.

PDF Commenting with InDesign, Acrobat, and Document Cloud

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Kelly Vaughn

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PDF Commenting with InDesign, Acrobat, and Document Cloud

Thursday, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Central

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.

Topics include:

  • Choosing an appropriate commenting workflow
  • Understanding the range of commenting tools
  • Running a Document Cloud online review
  • Viewing PDF comments in InDesign
  • Tips for running a PDF review efficiently and effectively

Digital Documents: What’s Possible

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David Blatner

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Digital Documents: What’s Possible

Thursday, 11:15 am – 12:00 pm Central

PDF and EPUB are two examples of stand-alone digital documents — files that you can email to someone, play on a device even when not connected to the internet, sell as a downloadable product, or archive. Let’s learn about the pros and cons of these two formats, as well as explore other ways to build digital documents.

Topics include:

  • Creating digital magazines and journals
  • Members-only: how to build documents for a sales team, subscribers, or private audience
  • Building digital docs that complement real-world print documents
  • Amazon Kindle, HTML, FXL, apps, and more

Affinity: New Kid on the Block

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Mike Rankin

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Affinity: New Kid on the Block

Thursday, 10:15 am – 11:00 am Central

Can Affinity Publisher, Designer, and Photo successfully compete against industry standards InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop? With a traditional low-cost, high-value business model, Affinity is already making waves and gaining followers. Learn why Affinity may (or may not!) be for you.

This Is Your Brain on Print

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Daniel Dejan

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This is Your Brain on Print

Thursday, 9:00 am – 10:00 am Central

Sure, digital is great, but in many situations, print is far more effective! Join us as we explore when and why print excels, as well as how best to take advantage of new (and old!) print techniques for phenomenal results and visual impact.

Topics include:

  • Bringing your designs to life with coatings and varnishes that replicate the look and feel of any texture
  • Building instant brand memorability
  • Increasing perceived value through haptic response
  • How digital presses can create amazing analog experiences