Stylistic Sets, the Dotless i, and Discretionary Ligatures: Advanced Typography in InDesign

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Nigel French

Stylistic Sets, the Dotless i, and Discretionary Ligatures:
Advanced Typography in InDesign

Wednesday, 2:15 pm – 3:00 pm

You already know how to set good type in InDesign—but so too does your competition. It’s time to up your game and get familiar with the difference between metrics and optical, lining and oldstyle, slash and solidus. These techniques will help your typography stand out from the crowd.

  • Add personality with contextual alternates
  • Add flair with real small caps, fractions, and stylistic sets
  • Metrics or Optical kerning, which is better?
  • Avoid widows, orphans, and runts
  • Adjust Hyphenation and Justification settings for optimum type color

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Importing and Exporting HTML5

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Justin Putney


David Blatner

David Blatner

Importing and Exporting HTML5

Wednesday, 2:15 pm – 3:00 pm

It’s hard to put the words “InDesign” and “HTML” in the same sentence without grinding your teeth in frustration. But what if you could import HTML into InDesign? Or export your text and graphics from InDesign directly into your website running WordPress (or a similar CMS)? In this session, we’ll explore several techniques to get HTML into and out of InDesign, including the brute force method and using techniques that help automate the process.

This session will address challenges such as:

  • Understanding your options and building your own workflow
  • Getting text, graphics, and interactivity from InDesign to WordPress (and elsewhere)
  • Automating the translation process using InDesign add-ons, including iziExport and in5

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Top Ten Free “Must Have” InDesign Scripts

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Erica Gamet

Erica Gamet

Top Ten Free “Must Have” InDesign Scripts

Wednesday, 2:15 pm – 3:00 pm

Are you getting the most out of InDesign, making it work for you? If you really want to be efficient, you need to take advantage of helpful scripts that expand InDesign’s functionality. Fortunately, there are dozens of useful scripts that are free and ready for you to use right now.

  • Tame your text and smooth your styles
  • Make your documents bend to your will
  • Get text frames and objects to behave the way you want
  • Add fun effects and introduce a little whimsy to your workflow

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You Can Do It! XML for Designers

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Sean Harrison

You Can Do It! XML for Designers

Wednesday, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Using XML and InDesign for simple data publishing: it doesn’t have to be that hard! Got long lists of data that all need to be consistently formatted? Perhaps you’re building a directory or catalog? XML and InDesign to the rescue! Just a few simple steps of document preparation and InDesign can work its magic to make your information look nice and uniform. See examples of how easy using XML and InDesign can be.


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Creating Amazing Publications with Publish Online

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Diane Burns

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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An InDesign Users Guide to Creating, Editing, and Using Video and Photography

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Roberto Blake

An InDesign Users Guide to Creating, Editing, and Using Video and Photography

Thursday, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Video editing can feel overwhelming, especially if you open Adobe Premiere Pro and look at all the options in the interface. But if you have experience in InDesign, Photoshop or Illustrator, translating that experience into using Premiere Pro is not as difficult as it seems, you just need to know what to focus on and what to ignore.

In this session, you will learn the fundamentals of editing in Premiere Pro and should leave feeling confident to start a video project and even how to use assets from Photoshop or Illustrator in your video presentations!


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Automating InDesign with Simple Tools You Already Have

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Chad Chelius

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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Designing Forms in InDesign and Acrobat

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Claudia McCue

Designing Forms in InDesign and Acrobat

Wednesday, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

InDesign offers flexibility in PDF forms creation beyond what you will find in Acrobat; it’s a much more dynamic solution than creating artwork, then adding fields in Acrobat. However, you may find that you still need both programs, working in concert, to create truly great forms. As you’re planning a forms project, it’s helpful to know what each program does best, to maintain your sanity. In this session, you’ll learn how to tailor your approach, with topics including:

  • Best practices for creating forms projects in InDesign
  • What InDesign can do that Acrobat can’t do
  • What Acrobat can do that InDesign can’t do
  • How to do math in Acrobat

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Cleaning up Broken and Problem Layouts

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Chad Chelius

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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Great Tools, Services, and Assets You Already Have That You Didn’t Know About

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Bill Carberry

Great Tools, Services, and Assets You Already Have That You Didn’t Know About

Wednesday, 11:00 am – 11:45 am

Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) has so many assets, services, tools, and resources that almost no one knows them all!. Managing the CC Desktop App is a core competency. Learn how to take advantage of many of these awesome benefits in your CC workflow:

  • Activating and Troubleshooting Typekit Fonts
  • Finding Free Assets from the Creative Cloud Market
  • Accessing Free InDesign Templates from Adobe Stock
  • Adobe Portfolio and Behance Community
  • Finding and Acquiring Free Add-ons
  • More Tips and Tricks for Free Assets

Bill Carberry is an Adobe Certified Instructor for InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat, in good standing since 1999. You will learn how to work smarter, not harder, and how to get the most out of your CC subscription services and assets.


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