Tag Archive for: indesign

Collaboration Through Comment and Review

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Most of us have had the experience of leaving comments in a PDF. But there are a number of other options to aid in the comment and review process, including Share for Review, Send for Comments (Document Cloud), Import PDF Comments, and PageProof.

Learn how easy it can be to set up an approval process, allowing quick collaboration between members on a team, or designers and their client stakeholders.

Topics include:

  • Choosing an appropriate commenting workflow
  • Understanding the range of commenting tools
  • Running a Document Cloud online review
  • Viewing PDF comments in InDesign
  • When Share for Review works better (and when it doesn’t)
  • Third-party tools for expanding the review and approval process

How to Let Other People Edit Your InDesign Docs (even if they don’t have InDesign)

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You’re an InDesign user but you’re surrounded by people who aren’t: editors, bosses, clients, stakeholders… Life would be so much easier if everyone had InDesign, but that’s not realistic. So what can you do? What tools, services, techniques, and workflows can you take advantage of to ensure that the right people can edit the right stuff at the right time—and no one screws up your layout.

Wow-worthy Type Projects

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It’s all about the type. If you can’t help but critique the typography of restaurant menus, need to pause Netflix to figure out the font that’s being used in your favorite drama, or get excited when you stumble upon a piece of ghost type or beautiful signage, then this session is perfect for you.

In this fun, fact-filled, and educational hour, we’ll look at a range of projects that have typography at their core. We’ll talk about the choices made and the techniques used to make them tick.

Interactive PDF and Forms in InDesign: Opportunities and Limits

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Fillable PDF forms let your readers enter information on desktop and mobile devices, regardless of whether they have an internet connection. In this session, you’ll learn how to use InDesign to build PDF forms and then how to refine those forms in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.

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 and tricks to help you build flexible and robust forms
  • Dealing with changes to forms

Photoshop + Illustrator + InDesign: Three Apps Working as One

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It’s the ultimate Adobe power-trio: InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator! But you’ll never be efficient with any one of them if you don’t understand how they work with the others!

Topics include:

  • How to properly set up Photoshop and Illustrator files for InDesign
  • Choosing between layers and artboards
  • CC Libraries: the secret back door conduit
  • When to link, copy, or embed artwork

Get Up to Speed with InDesign

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You’ve always meant to learn InDesign, but never quite got to it. Well, this is your chance! Jump in to this fun, fast-paced lesson, and get up to speed with the world’s best page-layout tool.

You’ll learn:

  • Fundamentals of frames
  • Understanding linking vs. threading
  • Time saving tricks and best practices
  • Exporting to PDF

10 Essential InDesign Productivity Tips and Tricks

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Let’s kick off Day 2 with a fast-paced, fun-filled tip-a-palooza to boost your productivity! We’ll zip through a ton of handy tips and tricks that every InDesign user needs to know. Plus, you’ll get primed to soak up all the InDesign goodness the rest of the conference will bring.

Topics include:

  • If you’re not customizing InDesign, you’re missing out
  • Essential shortcuts
  • Handy tricks
  • Interoperability Accelerators

 

Accessible Long Docs

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Creating accessible documents of any length can be a challenge. But when you’re working on long documents like books, reports, proposals, and other large publications, it’s critical that you build for accessibility from the start. Join internationally-renowned expert and art director Bevi Chagnon as she explains the best practices, and shows how to apply them.

Topics include:

  • Maximizing InDesign’s tools for long documents
  • Maintaining accessibility across a multi-chapter layout
  • When to keep the document in one INDD layout file, and when to use InDesign’s book utility
  • Strategies to manage the editorial – production workflow and keep everything accessible at the end

Essential Tools and Services for Accessibility

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When it comes to creating accessible documents, you can do most of what you need in InDesign and Acrobat… but a third-party tool or online resource can often help you work smarter and faster. Discover this art director and accessibility expert’s favorite add-ons and services that can upgrade your accessibility workflow from good to great.

Topics include:

  • Demos of 3rd party plug-ins for accessibility
  • Reviews of online tools and resources for accessible design

Accessible PDF Files: Key Acrobat Techniques

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In the two earlier sessions (Accessibility Fundamentals for InDesign and Next Steps in InDesign Accessibility), we explored how to set up Adobe InDesign documents to export accessible PDFs. But there’s only so much InDesign can do! In this session, we’ll see the critical next steps you need to take in Acrobat.

Topics include:

  • Key Checkpoints to Check Every time
  • Accessibility versus Usability
  • Testing with a Screen Reader without being an Expert
  • How to Use the Preflight Panel to Your Advantage
  • Testing Tools You Should be Using