Scripts Every InDesign User Needs

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David Blatner

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

Scripts Every InDesign User Needs

Tuesday, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

If you’re not using scripts with InDesign, you are not being efficient. And scripts are really easy! In fact, a bunch of useful scripts even ship with InDesign—you just need to know where to look for them.

Join InDesign guru David Blatner in this fast-paced session to learn:

  • Where to find must-have scripts
  • The fastest and easiest way to install a script and run it
  • Free scripts for managing your layouts, building calendars, and
  • How to use a free script to build a useful font… honest!

Plus: Enter your script idea… winner will have a professional scripter write a script for you!


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Engaging Interactive Documents

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Diane Burns

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

Engaging Interactive Documents

Tuesday, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

InDesign has several different features for adding interactivity to your documents, including buttons, slideshows, and animation. But these features have been around a long time, and sometimes you need to think outside the box to use them effectively. In this session, we’ll take a look at the “trickery” involved in producing a series of interactive effects, using some obvious, and not-so-obvious techniques. If you’ve tried InDesign’s interactive features and found them lacking, join this session and look again.

We’ll cover techniques for creating:

  • animated bar charts
  • a hamburger menu for navigation
  • “panning” image stills
  • pop-up windows

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The Adobe Trifecta: InDesign + Photoshop + Illustrator

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Tony Harmer

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

The Adobe Trifecta: InDesign + Photoshop + Illustrator

Tuesday, 10:30 am – 11:30 am

Creative Cloud’s design apps are a trio that has many similarities to a musical ensemble—and InDesign is the rhythm section that brings it all together harmoniously. Tony Harmer has a deep specialism in CC interoperability and can show you how it all meshes together, how to get the most out of your production files and what you can use for greater flexibility and efficiencies. This subject is the key to the most powerful features that can be used in document production workflows—automation—and even if you’re working in isolation there’s benefit to be realised in this way of working smarter, not harder.


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InDesign Power Tips

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Erica Gamet

Erica Gamet

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

InDesign Power Tips

Tuesday, 9:15 am – 10:15 am

Let’s kick off the InDesign Conference with a bucket full o’ tips to boost your productivity! Erica will zip through a ton of handy tricks that she’s pilfered from the best of the best, from trainers and speakers to designers and production artists. Whether you’re new to InDesign or a seasoned professional, you’ll come away with a new trick (or five!) to put into action. Plus you’ll get amped to soak up all the InDesign goodness the rest of the conference will bring.


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Welcome

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David Blatner

David Blatner


Anne-Marie Concepcion

Anne-Marie Concepción

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Welcome to The InDesign Conference

Tuesday, 9:00 am – 9:10 am

Join Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner for a few important messages and the commencement of the 15th annual InDesign Conference!


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Accessibility and InDesign

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Dax Castro

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Accessibility and InDesign

Monday, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

“Access to information is a fundamental human right”

—George Kerscher, DAISY Consortium

Ensuring that the PDF files you produce are accessible to all is not only a good idea, it’s the right thing to do! In this session, learn about what accessibility means and how you can ensure that the PDF documents that you create from Adobe InDesign are accessible to everyone! In this session, you’ll learn:

  • What is Section 508, and how can you get compliant?
  • How to build an InDesign document the right way
  • Optimizing your documents so that accessibility can be accomplished more easily
  • Controlling content order
  • Using features that already exist in InDesign
  • Best resources to rely on

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Superpowered InDesign Production Techniques

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Erica Gamet

Erica Gamet

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Superpowered InDesign Production Techniques

Monday, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

In this 3-hour workshop, Erica will share some of her production techniques for setting up and working in InDesign documents. She’ll cover workflow ideas, organization techniques, as well as automation features.

We’ll cover:

  • Using GREP styles and Find/Change to speed up work
  • Sorting styles, layers, and swatches to stay organized
  • How to build hierarchies of styles, pages, and more
  • Using one document for multiple outputs
  • Other techniques to speed up workflow and work more efficiently

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Welcome Reception and CreativePro.com 20th Anniversary Party

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Welcome Reception and CreativePro.com 20th Anniversary Party

Monday, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Join us for drinks, nibbles, and a fun opportunity to meet the speakers and fellow attendees! Plus don’t miss this opportunity to fill out your bingo card and win.

Bonus: 2019 is the 20th anniversary of CreativePro.com — Join us for a special celebration!


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Real World Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dimensions

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Mark Heaps


Jesus Ramirez

Jesús Ramirez

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Real World Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dimensions

Tuesday, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

During this session Mark and Jesús will recap some of their favorite real world projects from the past year. Deep diving what they project was about, what were they trying to accomplish, and how they built the final result. This is a focus on design, production, execution, through the lens of deconstruction. In the end, Mark and Jesus will show how they have been collaborating for a client using a mix of new 3D tools (Dimension) in conjunction with Photoshop and Illustrator.


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Illustrator Deep Dive

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Laurie Ruhlin

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Illustrator Deep Dive

Tuesday, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

You might be thinking… I know the basics of Illustrator, but I just don’t get it, there are so many tools! You can draw shapes, select objects and change colors, but you know there’s so much more.

In this 3 hour session, we’ll expand on the basics and explore some elusive Illustrator tools and tricks. Learn to draw and modify shapes more efficiently with shortcuts, combine shapes together, and really control the fill and stroke of objects. We’ll use the Appearance Panel to add multiple strokes, effects and more to your type and shapes. We’ll draw and edit paths with the many drawing tools, including the sometimes puzzling pen tool. We’ll create real logos & infographics using the shape builder tool, pathfinder, join commands and other tools in Illustrator that you’ve poked around with, simply hoping that they would work. Selecting and modifying an illustration or logo can be tricky, especially if you didn’t originally create the graphic. We’ll dig into the many selection tools, commands and methods to make modifications to any graphic more understandable.

Other topics:

  • Ace the align and distribute panel
  • Transform tool tricks
  • Select & recolor objects quickly
  • Demystify clipping masks
  • Appearance panel – why it should always be in reach
  • and more!

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