Creating Amazing Publications with Publish Online

Wednesday, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

What better way is there to present your portfolio, design or company brochure than through an interactive online experience? InDesign’s Publish Online gives you the ability to easily publish your work online, complete with slideshows, buttons, video and other interactive elements. During this session, you’ll learn the best ways to use Publish Online and take advantage of InDesign’s powerful interactive features. We’ll cover things like:

• Examples of how Publish Online is used
• How to publish and manage your online work
• Best design practices for online documents
• Tips on working with images and video
• How to create custom thumbnails

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Automating InDesign with Simple Tools You Already Have

Thursday, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

You know your way around InDesign, but you know you could be more efficient… more productive… if only you knew how to take advantage of InDesign’s awesome automation features! This is your chance to uncover the secrets of the InDesign power users and learn how to supercharge your workflow. There’s so many powerful tools in InDesign that you can harness to save you time and make you more productive!

• Taking advantage of variables
• How captions and metadata can save you time
• Master Page tips
• Building and customizing a Table of Contents
• Conditional Text
• Secret style formatting tricks
• Finding and using scripts and add-ons (including the ones that ship with InDesign)
• …and more!

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Cleaning up Broken and Problem Layouts

Wednesday, 11:00 am – 11:45 am

There are fast ways to turn an ugly duckling layout into a shining swan of clean styles, master pages, and library items. Take the time to clean it up and never have to do it again! In this session, Chad will show you the techniques that he uses when dealing with poorly-built layouts.

• Applying styles to manually formatted text
• Using Master Pages to their fullest to avoid detaching items from the master pages
• Dealing with color applied to objects inconsistently

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Converting Your InDesign Files to Powerpoint and Word

Wednesday, 10:15 am – 10:45 am

Let’s face it! Microsoft Office is one of the biggest software systems on the planet, the most common tool used by clients, managers, and organizations. Yet many design and production pros avoid it like the plague, sticking with Adobe programs, and if a client wants something to distribute, they can use the PDF you provided.

I’ll show you how you can bridge the gap, by taking your beautifully- and thoughtfully-designed InDesign projects and converting them into usable, editable Microsoft Word and Powerpoint files that your clients can run with. My methods don’t require any extra third-party software, all conversions are done natively using the features already built into the software.

• The main similarities and differences “under the hood” of Adobe InDesign and Word/Powerpoint
• Font and image format considerations
• What to do with master pages
• Maintaining text formatting

If you have to create or convert your designs for business clients, this might be the session that gets rid of your stress and improves your output!

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I Didn’t Know InDesign Could Do That

Wednesday, 9:15 am – 10:00 am

Learn how to boost your productivity and super-charge your InDesign workflow with these cool tips and hot techniques for getting the most out of InDesign.

• You can use the Table of Contents feature for that?!
• Four helpful InDesign features you’ve probably never even heard of
• (Almost) Magic linking turns objects into symbols
• Page and item numbering tricks ever InDesign user needs to know

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