We will discuss the power motion infographics and you will learn how to:
Learn valuable tips and techniques to make designing and producing long, repetitive, or complex documents easier, faster, and more enjoyable. Topics will include:
To be really efficient in InDesign, you need to take advantage of additional resources that expand its capabilities and functionality. Scripts are a big part of that equation and—fortunately for us—there are so many that make our jobs easier. This session will look at some of these time-saving and indispensable scripts, without breaking the budget. (Spoiler: Most of them are free!)
Fillable PDF forms let your readers enter information on desktop and mobile devices, regardless of whether they have an internet connection. Using Adobe InDesign and Adobe Acrobat together can help you to build PDF forms faster and with more control than with Adobe Acrobat alone. 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. In this session you’ll learn:
Did you know that InDesignSecrets premium members get free InDesign template every month to create sophisticated layouts? Did you know that there are free templates you can access from Adobe Stock right from InDesign? But you may not know how to unlock the secrets of working with these templates. In this session Sandee Cohen will use her many years of production work to show you
Take InDesign to the next level by creating rich, interactive documents. InDesign allows you to add buttons, multi-state objects, media, and animations that can really make your projects pop. This fast-paced session will include tips and strategies for using InDesign’s interactive features effectively.
Starting with typical static files like newsletters, presentations, and instruction manuals, you’ll learn how to engage your online audience by incorporating attractive and useful animations, along with the buttons that can start and stop them — all from within InDesign, no coding required!
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We always get there in the end, but do we always get there in the best way? If we looked under the hood, would your InDesign documents stand up to scrutiny? Are your styles in order, your threads unbroken, your layers logical?
This session is for novices as well as seasoned users who secretly suspect there’s a better way to do things. How can we really make Paragraph, Character, and Object Styles work for us? How do we use features like grids, Master Pages, Find/Change, and Layers to do the heavy lifting? And how do we avoid repetitive drudgery and efficiently build documents that, as well as being great looking, are robust and easy to edit?
Presentation design has, for decades, been owned by PowerPoint and, more recently, Keynote. These days there are many options for presentation design, and one of the most excellent tools is right in front of us: InDesign has grown into far more than just a print layout application. With the addition of animation tools, online publishing, fixed-layout EPUB, HTML5 export and more, InDesign can now be a powerful tool for presentation design.
In fact, InDesign offers some advantages that make it a unique solution for presentation design projects. In this session Mark will show you some ways you use presentation design solutions inside of InDesign.
For example, Nancy Duarte coined the term “slideument” in one of her books. It’s something that looks like a presentation but is treated like a document. InDesign may be the perfect tool for building these communication pieces that can be shared on many platforms.
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It’s the 21st century… are you really still converting images to CMYK in Photoshop? Are you picking the right CMYK at the right time? What the heck is InDesign’s “transparency blend mode” and should you choose RGB or CMYK? This is the session that every InDesign user needs to watch—at least the ones who care about quality and productivity! Includes:
