Tag Archive for: indesign

Wow: Type Projects

You can’t help but love everything typographic! If the word fonts gets you excited and hearing about special ligatures and swashes makes your mouth water, then this session is perfect for you.

In this fun, fact-filled, and educational hour, we won’t just look at type — we’ll explain it as we pull the designs apart and learn what makes them tick.

Interactive PDF and Forms: Opportunities and Limits

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.

In this session, 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 & tricks to help you build flexible and robust forms
  • Dealing with changes to forms

Photoshop + Illustrator + InDesign: How Three Apps Work as One

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
  • Best practices for managing vectors and pixels

10 Essential InDesign Productivity Tips

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 amped to soak up all the InDesign goodness the rest of the conference will bring.

Topics include:

  • If you’re not customizing InDesign, you’re not doing it right
  • Essential shortcuts
  • What to do when something (inevitably) goes wrong

Accessibility Community Conversation

Join us for an opportunity to connect with others who are working in the world of accessibility. Share ideas, explore new solutions, and find a community that helps each other throughout the year.

Building Great Templates with InDesign, Part 3

In Part 1 of this three-part tutorial, we learned about finding and editing pre-made templates; then in Part 2 we explored how to build our own custom templates, using styles, colors and masters. In part 3, we dive even deeper into:

  • Add elements to Creative Cloud Libraries, sharing and using them
  • Add anchored graphics to a library
  • Build a correct character style
  • Add and use Layers in a template
  • Use a couple valuable scripts to make template creation and template instructions easier
  • Create and embed a custom preflight profile to check your document before printing
  • Make sure all defaults are correct before saving and sharing your template

 

Essential Tools and Services for Accessibility

Sure, you can do most of what you need in InDesign and Acrobat… but you can often do it easier or quicker with a third-party tool. Discover these expert’s favorite add-ons and services for stepping up your accessibility workflow, from good to great.

Building Great Templates with InDesign, Part 2

In Part 1 of this 3-part tutorial, we saw how to find, edit, and—most importantly—begin to customize InDesign templates to your own needs. Now, in Part 2, we’ll dive deeper, exploring:

  • How to set up margins so your text frames will move when margins are adjusted
  • Set up page size, column guides, color swatches and more
  • Add text and image placeholders, as well as reusable elements
  • Create smart paragraph, character, and object styles
  • Make a caption both under a photo and on top of a photo (with a fill transparency), and apply all settings with one click
  • Understand how based on paragraph styles can make a template incredibly flexible
  • Combine separate text frames into one (and why your heads/subheads shouldn’t be a separate text frame from the body, like you see in many templates)
  • How to create tints and gradient from a base color
  • Anchor a graphic into a paragraph

Learn about Part 3 here.

Acrobat PDF Accessibility

In Parts 1 and 2 of this multi-session tutorial, we explored how to set up Adobe InDesign to export accessible documents. But there’s only so much InDesign can do! In this session, let’s look at the proper next steps you need to take in Acrobat.

Building Great Templates with InDesign, Part 1

Creating a document in InDesign that can be used to build other documents, often by other people, requires an understanding of a wide range of InDesign features. In this three-part tutorial, we’ll explore the features you should know to set up a great template, how to set up files properly, and how to make use of templates you’ve acquired elsewhere.

Part 1: First, we’ll learn all about templates, what they are, how to create, customize and use. Then we’ll check out a few popular template resources to download for free, or purchase a pre-made template to customize for your own use. We’ll find out that these free or purchased templates may not suit your exact needs or be built with the correct tools. They are useless until you customize them for your own brand.

In this session, you’ll learn:

  • What is a template? What’s the difference between an InDesign document (.indd) and a InDesign template (.indt)
  • What InDesign elements should go into a template, and what should stay out?
  • How to build a document from the ground up that others can use
  • How to save an existing document as a template
  • Where to find quality templates
  • How to find and use free templates from Adobe Stock
  • Customize a template for your own brand

Learn about Part 2 here.