Advanced Solutions with GREP

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Erica Gamet

Erica Gamet

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

Advanced Solutions with GREP

Tuesday, 4:45 pm – 5:30 pm

Take your knowledge of GREP in InDesign even further with this session. Erica will share some in-depth GREP expressions to put into your SuperDesigner’s toolkit. When it comes to automating text in your InDesign documents, using GREP can give you that boost you need to improve your accuracy, consistency, and productivity. We’ll look at some design samples and learn—among other things—how to:

  • Find a range of characters
  • Find all of specific category, such as currency
  • Learn how to master the lookaround
  • Automatically style fractions, figures, and recurring product names

Plus, learn why Erica calls this feature “unicorns and rainbows”!


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Adding Magic to Your Interactive Documents

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Chris Converse

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

Adding Magic to Your Interactive Documents

Tuesday, 4:45 pm – 5:30 pm

We all know that HTML content is king — but how to we leverage this technology in your digital publciations? Check out this session where the “web” technologies are broken down, examined, and reassembled into workflows we can all use to create compelling, interctive, and animated content suitable for ePubs, Digital Magazines, Blogs and websites. Learn how web-based content is conceived, developed, and delivered to millions of outlets everyday.

What you’ll learn:

  • How HTML content is created
  • What role CSS plays with HTML
  • How JavaScript enhances both HTML and CSS
  • Frameworks to simplify animation
  • Animation techniques for HTML and CSS

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InDesign Tables

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Jason Hoppe

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

InDesign Tables

Tuesday, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Tables in InDesign make for a great layout tool when formatting large amounts of information and data. Setting up a Table and using the tools efficiently will no longer make a table a daunting task.

In this class you’ll learn:

  • Setting tabs in a Table
  • Working with inline graphics and graphic frames inside a table
  • Understanding Table and Cell Styles
  • Rearrange and duplicate columns and rows

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Solving Big Projects with Custom Automation

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Dana Kendall



Kris Coppieters

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

Solving Big Projects with Custom Automation

Tuesday, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Need to produce 50+ different books per year, in five different output formats? Creating digital or print catalogs? Making custom bespoke documents for thousands of people? While humans will always have a part in designing and creating, we too often forget why we use computers in the first place: Because they’re good at doing things that we’re not so good at, including:
  • Automation with precision
  • Managing huge amounts of data efficiently
  • Creating PDFs on the fly, without InDesign or any other traditional apps
  • Multi-formatting content for tablet, phone, print, PDF, EPUB, MOBI, web, and more

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InDesign to HTML

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Keith Gilbert

Keith Gilbert

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

InDesign to HTML

Tuesday, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

There are all kinds of reasons why you might want HTML output from an InDesign file. Perhaps you want to create a microsite or an interactive document. Or export text and graphics ready to be added to a CMS-based web site. In this session, we’ll explore several techniques to get useful HTML out of InDesign. You will learn:
  • The various options available for HTML export
  • Real-world case studies
  • How to get clean text, formatted graphics, and interactivity from InDesign to WordPress (and elsewhere)
  • How to automate the workflow with scripts and plug-ins

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Object Styles: Your Secret Weapon for Productivity

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Laurie Ruhlin

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

Object Styles: Your Secret Weapon for Productivity

Tuesday, 2:15 pm – 3:00 pm

You ask, why would I bother to create and use an object style? My answer: why would you not?! Object styles tell a frame how to look — stroke & fill, effects, size, position, etc and can also format what’s inside, both text and graphics. Object styles can save you an enormous amount of time applying formatting and especially when you or the client makes a change. We’ll create an Object Style for a simple photo frame, then step it up to create an organizational chart, complete with paragraph styles and box sizes, making the frames easy to create and modify. We’ll explore cool positioning tricks, as well as how to apply effects and text wrap and save them all in an Object Style.

In this session you’ll learn:

  • How to make and apply an Object Style
  • Resize the photo that’s inside a frame
  • Apply text frame attributes and multiple paragraph styles in one click
  • Anchor a frame into text, then use an Object Style to precisely position it
  • Cool tricks & shortcuts for creating and applying an Object Style
  • You’ll leave wondering why you haven’t created more Object Styles!

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Understanding Master Pages and Primary Text Frames

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Brian Wood

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

Understanding Master Pages and Primary Text Frames

Tuesday, 2:15 pm – 3:00 pm

When it comes to headers, footers, logos, guides, and other design elements that appear across the pages our documents, using master pages and primary text frames are a powerful way to maintain consistency and work smarter. In this session, you’ll explore what primary text frames are and learn when to use them. You’ll also see how you can harness the power of master pages to successfully and more easily manage the design content in your documents.

Topics will include:

  • Exploring primary text frames—when to use them and when not to
  • Basing one master page on another for faster updates
  • Easily syncing changes across documents
  • Making your master pages work harder for you
  • General master page tips and tricks

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Designing Forms in InDesign and Acrobat

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Chad Chelius

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

Designing Forms in InDesign and Acrobat

Tuesday, 2:15 pm – 3:00 pm

Fillable PDF forms let your readers enter information on desktop and mobile devices, regardless of whether they have an internet connection. In addition, you can capture information from those PDF forms and utilize that information without having to set up a server or other complicated technology. In this session, you’ll learn how to leverage the capabilities of Adobe InDesign (including a new PDF forms feature) to build PDF forms and then how to refine those forms in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. When planning a forms project, it’s helpful to know which program gives you the features that you need to perform the job at hand and how editing can be achieved most easily. You’ll also learn some tips to make the process easier, not found in the native applications!

In this session you’ll learn:

  • Best practices for adding form fields in InDesign
  • Tricks for adding form fields in Adobe InDesign
  • Tasks you’ll need to perform in Adobe Acrobat
  • Tips & tricks to help you build flexible and robust forms
  • Dealing with changes to forms

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Impactful Typography for Print and Digital Design

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John D. Berry



Nigel French

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

Impactful Typography for Print and Digital Design

Wednesday, 1:15 pm – 4:15 pm

A careful use of typography is critical for successful design. Our digital tools make it easy to choose a font and set text on a page, but to take your design from good to great you need a deeper understanding of how even incredibly small adjustments to type can make a huge difference in how it affects the audience.

This half-day tutorial brings together two of the world’s top typographic experts: John D. Berry (past president of ATypI and former editor & publisher of the renowned U&lc magazine) and Nigel French (author of the bestselling InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign). This is an excellent opportunity to learn not just type knowledge, but type wisdom!

Topics will include:

  • When looking for impact, avoid Impact
  • Building trust through type
  • Top 10 Gotchas of Typography
  • Learning how to look at type

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InDesign Typography: Finessing Beyond the Defaults

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Nigel French

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

InDesign Typography: Finessing Beyond the Defaults

Tuesday, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

InDesign’s default settings will only take you so far. They might help you avoid bad typography, but for good typography, you’ll need to go beyond the defaults to understand and take charge of InDesign’s wealth of typographic settings. If you’re ready to take your typography to the next level and set your work aside from the work of your competitors, this session is for you. You’ll learn how to adjust Hyphenation and Justification settings for optimum type color, how to use a light touch to fix common problems like short last lines (runts) and widows and orphans., and how to get the most out of OpenType features.

  • H&J Settings
  • Widow and orphan control
  • Optical Margin Alignment
  • Type Contextual Controls

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