Sessions

Interactive PDF is Dead

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Have you ever exported an interactive PDF from InDesign only to find that the interactive parts were missing?

It turns out that a PDF doesn’t really support most of InDesign’s interactive features. In this session, you’ll learn why that is, and what options you do have to create interactivity without coding.

In addition to PDF, we’ll look at

  • Publish Online
  • Fixed Layout ePub
  • in5

You’ll get to see live, interactive projects that were created with InDesign and include

  • Animation
  • Audio & Video
  • Object States
  • Pop-ups
  • Buttons
  • Flipbook transitions
  • 3-D Flipcards
  • Responsive Layouts

This session brought to you by our partner, Ajar Productions.

MSOs and More: Next Level InDesign Interactivity

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This session is packed with even more interactivity that you can add to your InDesign digital documents. We’ll learn about MSOs — Multi-State Objects — how to create them, and how to control which state is showing, using both buttons and arrows.

We’ll also learn:

  • How to create hyperlinks: to phone numbers, email, web, google maps – and embed a map into a document
  • Create a slideshow of photos, control with a button
  • Create a graphic with multiple buttons, that when clicked, show specific information
  • Use MSOs and buttons to create a way to display different languages on one page
  • Create rollover buttons which activate both a text frame and trigger a different opacity of a photo for a cool roll-over and roll-off effect.

InDesign for Building Presentations

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You already have Adobe InDesign, so why not use it to help you make your presentations? After all, laying out a slide is very similar to laying out a page.

Join us as we explore:

  • Exporting InDesign documents to PowerPoint or Keynote
  • Amazing plug-ins, scripts, and resources to help you build high-quality slides
  • Why you should consider HTML5 (exported right out of InDesign!) for your next slide deck

Easy AR (Augmented Reality) for Print Designers

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Augmented Reality (AR) is a new medium for designers and marketing professionals to explore and take advantage of.

You’ll learn:

  • Steps for setting up AR scenes and triggers
  • Best tools for building AR, including Adobe Aero
  • How you can take your audience from print piece to web to AR in super easy steps

Putting it Together: InDesign, HTML, Video, and More

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In earlier sessions today, we’ve learned about creating animations and multi-state objects, adding timing and buttons, and more. Now, let’s put it all together, incorporate video and custom HTML widgets, and create a rich, interactive document!

InDesign Animation and Interactivity

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If you’re curious how InDesign can create engaging interactive documents, this is the session for you!

We’ll start with a quick overview of exporting an interactive document out of InDesign (including Interactive PDF, Publish Online and in5/HTML5). Then we’ll explore InDesign’s rich toolset for adding buttons, hyperlinks, and animation. We’ll take a look at what’s involved to 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 frustrating, join this session and look again.

We’ll cover techniques for creating:

  • Buttons to show more info and to trigger an animation
  • Pop-ups
  • Animated bar charts to make cool data presentations
  • A hamburger menu for page navigation

(And… if you want more interactivity, stay for the next session!)

Building Interactive Magazines, Web Ads, and Digital Pages with InDesign

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Are you interested in creating rich, interactive documents? It’s likely that your existing design skills are more useful than you realize. This session will present an overview of your options, from Interactive PDF to HTML, fixed-layout EPUB, Publish Online, and more!

We’ll explore:

  • Creating online magazines
  • Delivering rich media presentations to sales teams
  • Building mobile apps without coding
  • Reuseing content from print projects

Three Minutes Max: InDesign

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Yes, it’s time — once again! — for that fun-filled, action-packed, highly-educational, and mind-blowing session: Three Minutes Max! Each of our instructors will have no more than three minutes to share their favorite InDesign tip… and then you get to vote for a winner.

In past years, some of the best tips have been held for this session… so you don’t want to miss it!

Time-Saving InDesign Practices That You’re Probably Avoiding

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We get it: You’re on deadline and you just gotta’ get the project done, so there’s no extra time. But here’s the trick that InDesign pros know that you’re forgetting: If you take a little time to set things up well now, you can save so much time later!

In this session we’ll walk through some of the most important DIRN (“Do it Right, Now”) features and practices, including:

  • Styles (including nested, hierarchical, and cascading)
  • Proper master page setup
  • Understanding variables and automated text
  • Long document features you should use, even for short docs!

Adding Personality with Typography

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Every font has a voice and personality. How you set that font on the page — size, color, caps, column width, and more — affects the voice, just like you can adjust your own voice, depending on what you’re trying to say.

In this short exploration of type and typography, we’ll explore how sometimes subtle changes can make big differences in how your message is received.