Creating Interactive PDF

Friday, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Did you know you could super charge that plain old PDF right within InDesign? From adding simple links and other interactivity, to adding working forms, you can easily make that PDF a more interactive experience for your users. In this session, you’ll explore the different tools and methods both InDesign and Acrobat have for adding interactive elements to your PDF. You’ll also see the best ways to add some amazing functionality to that plain old PDF, like the following:

• Understand the interactive features you can add to a PDF in InDesign and Acrobat
• Best practices for optimizing PDF
• Work with scripts in InDesign to make creating PDF faster (and easier)
• Add a working form in InDesign
• Show and hide content and other tricks
• Make the PDF more interactive with video and sound
• Continue in Acrobat and get an idea for what’s possible beyond InDesign

HTML/CSS for Designers

Wednesday, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

You’re not a coder. You’re a designer. But you still need to understand how the language of the web works to make beautiful, interactive, animated content for a web browser, ebook, or tablet. We’ll walk you through the the basics of HTML and CSS, and how these two technologies go hand-in-hand to style and compose your content.

And the best part is, you already know the basics! Think of HTML as “content and structure” (think pages, graphic/text boxes, text), and CSS as “style and layout” (think paragraph, character, and object styles). You’ll walk away with a solid understanding, and the confidence, in how your design skills can be translated from print to digital.

We’ll also take a look at how your favorite graphic applications can create, style, and animate various types of web media… that is ready to use in your final publication.

• What is HTML and CSS, exactly?
• Basic HTML tags and how to write them
• Choosing a text editor for HTML and CSS
• Where can I put my CSS rules?
• Exporting HTML content from InDesign
• Working with web fonts
• Web media formats
• Extracting web assets from Photoshop and Illustrator
• Interactivity and animation with CSS
• Get free samples files

Build a Mobile App Without Breaking the Bank

Friday, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Creating mobile apps with InDesign content can be expensive, often requiring a subscription to a service such as DPS/AEM, Twixl, or Aquafadas. In this session you will learn how to build a complete “content-first” mobile app for less than $200, using InDesign to create the app content, screens, and interaction. This workflow would work well for a project such as a travel guide, a “how-to” app, or an interactive annual report. You will learn how to:

• Identify if your project is a good fit for this type of workflow
• Use Adobe XD to quickly prototype and test your app ideas
• Set up InDesign files for mobile content creation
• Add interactivity to InDesign files
• Create HTML output from InDesign using scripts or In5
• Use Adobe PhoneGap Build (included with Creative Cloud) to build apps for iOS and Android that include your InDesign-built HTML content
• Enroll as an Apple and Android developer and submit your app to App Stores