Conferences: The InDesign Conference: 2006: Chicago: Schedule : MOGO Media

Schedule

Monday May 15th, 2006

Time	Track A	Track B
9:00am - 10:30am	Adobe InDesign CS2 QuickStart Cohen This fast-paced, full-day InDesign course will get you up to speed quickly and help you make InDesign really fly. Taught by internationally-known instructor and author Sandee Cohen, this is the class you need if you're new to InDesign or need to learn this rich, powerful program fast. Open to both conference attendees and the public Optional: Bring your own laptop or reserve one in advance for a nominal fee Limited seating. Sign up to day to take advantage of this excellent value! Topics include: Overview of the tools, workspace, palettes, and document construction.	InCopy Workflow, Part 1 Concepción Designers, bring your editors and production managers! Join Anne-Marie Concepción, expert InDesign/InCopy trainer and consultant, as she reveals how surprisingly easy it is to set up and use Adobe’s ingenious solution for collaborative editorial/art workflows, dramatically streamlining the production process. This first half-day comprehensive InCopy training gets your editorial group up and running. They’ll learn how to copyfit to the live layout using the same power tools found in InDesign, with cool editing tools found only in InCopy. Open to both conference attendees and the public Optional: Bring your own laptop or reserve one in advance for a nominal fee Limited seating. Sign up to day to take advantage of this excellent value!
1:30pm - 4:30pm	Adobe InDesign CS2 QuickStart, Continued Cohen This fast-paced, full-day InDesign course will get you up to speed quickly and help you make InDesign really fly. Taught by internationally-known instructor and author Sandee Cohen, this is the class you need if you're new to InDesign or need to learn this rich, powerful program fast. Open to both conference attendees and the public Optional: Bring your own laptop or reserve one in advance for a nominal fee Limited seating. Sign up to day to take advantage of this excellent value! Topics include: Overview of the tools, workspace, palettes, and document construction.	InCopy Workflow, Part 2 Concepción The afternoon InCopy tutorial expands upon the morning’s session, discussing the live InCopy/InDesign workflow, with plenty of hands-on practice for designers and editors alike. Anne-Marie will discuss essential set-up steps, cross-platform considerations and optional 3rd-party plugins, alwyas filtered through her real-world experience of helping other companies like yours make the move successfully. Open to both conference attendees and the public Optional: Bring your own laptop or reserve one in advance for a nominal fee Limited seating. Sign up to day to take advantage of this excellent value!
7:00pm - 9:00pm	Conference Registration Avoid getting up early on Tuesday! Meet us at the registration table to receive your name tag and conference binder.

Tuesday May 16th, 2006

Time	Fundamentals	Advanced	Specialized	Tutorials
8:00am - 9:00am	Registration and Breakfast Special Sponsored Presentation Presented by I.T.I.P. I.T.I.P. presents their newest InDesign tools. Stop by with a cup of coffee and get the day started with one of the leading InDesign developers. *Note this session is presented by a third party solutions provider.
9:00am - 9:15am	Welcome and Introduction
9:15am - 10:20am	Essential InDesign Tips & Tricks David Blatner and Sandee Cohen Learn how to make your pages fly with the essential shortcuts and techniques that top InDesign demons use every day. Super-charging InDesign for a real-world production setting The default preferences you must change Hidden and undocumented productivity features Vital keyboard shortcuts for navigation and formatting
10:20am - 10:30am	Break
10:30am - 11:20am	Fundamentals of Document Construction Sandee Cohen Take the time now to build a solid foundation for your document so you can save much more time down the road. Explore the mysteries of master pages and how you can make them work for you. Why master pages appear sometimes not to work Basing one master page on another Automating page numbering and section headers Fast and efficient text-flow	Long Document Techniques Robin Williams Whether you are building a magazine, a book, or a catalog, it's essential that you master InDesign's long document features. Sections: how and when to use them Controlling page numbering, styles, and colors across multiple files Indexes and tables of contents Footnotes Is InCopy right for you?	Cool (and often free) Extra Resources You Should Know About Terry White Creative juices not flowing? Want to push a button and have your document designed for you? Well, it may no be that easy—but close! In this session learn where all of Adobe hides the extra goodies in the Creative Suite. Use templates in InDesign and Illustrator Scripts, plug-ins, clip art, what hidden resources in the other CS2 applications See what is to be found on the extra CDs and the Web	9:00a – 12:00p Half-Day Tutorial: Acrobat PDF Essentials Claudia McCue Acrobat has come a long way from the early days when Adobe was pushing the "paperless office." From preflighting press documents to optimizing your files for print and the Web, nationally-renowned trainer Claudia McCue will give you the inside scoop on every important tool and feature in Adobe Acrobat 7.
11:20am - 11:30am	Break
11:30am - 12:30pm	Fundamentals of Style Sheets Jamie McKee Discover the power of paragraph and character styles in InDesign. Learn about the hierarchical relationship of styles, and how good planning can make designing a breeze. See how text styles can change your life for the better and let you control your text like never before. The fastest ways to create and apply style sheets, including the new Quick Apply Power searches with style sheets	Supercharged Style Techniques Sandee Cohen Explore dozens of tips and techniques for getting the most out of your character, paragraph, and object styles. This session is a must for seasoned production artists who need to boost their productivity. Automating run-in heads and formatted drop caps with nested styles Format an entire story with dozens of styles with a single click Object styles: The secret efficiency weapon	Make Tables Work For You Diane Burns Aren’t you glad you don’t have to make tables out of lines and boxes anymore? InDesign’s elegant table-creation tools allow you to easily create great-looking tables without pulling your hair out (or someone else’s). Importing Word and Excel tables InDesign’s new automatic header row feature Table tips and shortcuts Making tables that don’t even look like tables
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Lunch on your Own
1:30pm - 2:20pm	Fundamentals of Great Typography Robin Williams InDesign, Unicode and OpenType simplify font usage, while offering more options than ever before for both creativity and productivity. But with this power comes new complexity and decisions. The top five font myths Solving InDesign’s top five typography and font problems The scoop on CID, TrueType, and dfonts Wrestling the paragraph composer into submission. New CS2 Type Features	Where Text Meets Graphics Pariah Burke Man or beast? Text or graphic? This session explores InDesign features that create objects that share characteristics with both text and graphics, like inline frames and tables. Anchoring text, pictures, beziér boxes and lines inside or outside frames The most frustrating text wrap bug and how to get around it Solving complicated layouts with Space/Align	InCopy for InDesigners Anne-Marie Concepción If you haven't heard about Adobe InCopy as a replacement word processor, you need this session! If you've heard about InCopy but you're not sure if it fits into your workflow, you need this session! If you want to get really efficient with text edits, you need this session! How InCopy can make your life a happy place. When InCopy is better than Microsoft Word (and when it isn't)	1:30p – 5:00p Half-Day Tutorial: Automating Page Layout with InDesign Scripting Olav Martin Kvern Click. Drag. Type. Export. Save. You're working too hard! Put your computer to work doing more of your page layout for you! In this extended session, we'll show you how you can have InDesign take over most or all of the boring, repetitive page layout tasks you face every day. InDesign scripting can make you more productive, happier, and more creative person--and give you more time to spend on the more interesting parts of your job. This session is for the complete beginner—even if you've never scripted before, you'll be able to write scripts by the time we're done. We'll talk about: Getting started with scripting Automating common page layout tasks Scripting text and type Customizing your InDesign workflow Where to learn more about InDesign scripting Where to get cool scripts
2:20pm - 2:30pm	Break
2:30pm - 3:20pm	Fundamentals of Managing Images Terry White If you don't understand how InDesign handles images, you're going to end up banging your head against a wall. Stop the pain and learn it here. When you should use PSD instead of PDF, TIFF instead of EPS Editing and creating (and avoiding) clipping paths How Adobe Bridge can improve your picture workflow Tricks for picture linking and the Links palette Linking versus embedding images	Making the Most of the InDesign / Illustrator / Photoshop Connection David Blatner You can call it "PhInDeStratorshop," but we call it the creative suite of products that we rely on every day. How well you make Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign work together can make or break your job (and your bottom line). How to apply Illustrator's special effects to InDesign objects Maximize your workflow	Cool Text Techniques Pariah Burke Text is at the heart of much of what we produce in InDesign. Learn some of the coolest tricks for making your text really pop. Text on a path Text rules Amazing text strokes Custom underlines and strikethroughs Align to Spine Bullets and Auto-Numbering Importing RTF and Word documents
3:20pm - 3:30pm	Break
3:30pm - 4:45pm	Fast and Sure: The PDF Workflow Claudia McCue If you're not using a PDF workflow, you're just not being efficient. Learn the ins and outs of importing and exporting PDF files with InDesign, including what you need to know to avoid trouble at print time. Font embedding concerns When the Distiller is still better Repurposing your PDFs for print and Web
5:30pm - 7:00pm	Getting To Know You: Networking Reception
7:00pm - 9:00pm	InDesign Survivor: Return to Butterfly Island Join Sandee Cohen and the InDesign All-Stars as lucky members from the audience compete with their InDesign knowledge. Questions start easy and quickly get harder as the players fight to stay on Butterfly Island. By the end of the night only one player will remain... and take home a copy of Creative Suite 2 Premium, courtesy of Adobe Systems. Come join the fun!

Wednesday May 17th, 2006

Time	Fundamentals	Advanced	Specialized	Tutorials
8:00am - 9:00am	Breakfast Special Sponsored Presentation Typefi Publishing Systems Note this session is presented by a third-party solutions provider.
9:00am - 10:20am	Favorite Real World Tips David Blatner and Olav Martin Kvern The co-authors of Real World InDesign share some of their favorite tips, tricks, and shortcuts for InDesign and the whole creative suite. You'll learn how to push InDesign to the limits and pick up a few fun tidbits along the way.
10:20am - 10:30am	Break
12:00pm - 1:30pm	Lunch on Your Own
1:00pm - 2:15pm	Solutions for Successful Output Claudia McCue Avoid costly mistakes by pinpointing print problems before you send your file to the printer. InDesign's advanced print and proofing features provide what you need, but only if you know how to use them correctly. Make transparency effects print right every time Why so many publishers demand PDF/X files What your output provider needs to know Proofing and preflighting your files	Ain't it Rich: Creating Interactive PDFs with InDesign Sandee Cohen InDesign is quickly becoming the world's best tool for building "rich media" PDF files, full of audio, video, Flash, and hyperlinked buttons. Learn how to build interactive PDF files and what pitfalls might await you. Supercool rollovers Using transparency effects to your advantage Dual-purpose files that play and print!	InDesign Server and Other Automation Options Tom Petrillo, Tim Cole, Olav Martin Kvern Dreading that weekly ad for the local car dealership? What if your customer could choose graphics via a Web portal and the ad was produced automatically based on a template you've designed? Join us for an overview of InDesign Server, scripts, and third-party tools that take raw materials and build documents for you. Variable data printing Eight copies of InDesign running simultaneously on one computer	1:30p – 5:00p Half-day tutorial: The XML Workflow Jim Maivald In this fast-paced half-day session, you'll learn how to move XML in and out of InDesign, as well as understand the "best practices" for working with XML in an InDesign workflow. Prerequisite: You must either take the morning XML class or already understand the basics of XML. Build structured documents within InDesign Use your DTD to populate the XML structure and tag list Create an XML tag list and map the tags to Paragraph and Character styles Evaluate various methods for implementing XML data structures to optimize your workflow Take existing non-XML InDesign documents and prepare them for XML export Learn how XSLT and CSS can create professional web pages from your XML Discover special attributes for handling tables and styles
1:30pm - 2:40pm	Fundamentals or Color: Working with CMYK and Spot Colors Sandee Cohen Master InDesign's color controls by learning how the program "thinks" about color. Indispensable for anyone creating color pages. Fastest methods for creating, editing, and applying colors Advanced techniques for optimizing color control Making your 2-color job look like full-color by mixing spot colors Setting the right halftone angles to avoid moiré	Fundamentals of XML in InDesign Jim Maivald XML promises to bring a revolution to publishing, and InDesign is on the cutting edge. But what is XML? How can you use it in InDesign? This session answers these questions and more! How to import and export XML How XML is the glue between InDesign, InCopy, and GoLive Using XML as a template for repurposing your documents	The Future of InDesign: An Open Discussion with the Adobe Development Team Tim Cole and the Adobe Team Here's your chance to hear it from the source! Sit down with Adobe's product development team and find out what the future will bring. Then talk back and know that the right people are listening. Adobe's page-layout philosophy: Why are we here and where are we going? What features do you wish InDesign had? Vote on features you want changed in future versions of InDesign	9:00a – 12:00p Half-Day Tutorial: Fall in Love with Illustrator All Over Again Golding If you’re one of the many people who own Illustrator but hardly scratch the surface of what it can do, this is the class for you. Let nationally-recognized trainer and former Adobe Illustrator product manager Mordy Golding give you the low-down on this extraordinary program, including building 3D effects, managing transparency, tracing bitmaps, and more!
2:30pm - 2:40pm	Break
2:40pm - 3:40pm	Fundamentals of Color Management David Blatner The color on screen doesn't match the color in print? The color in Photoshop doesn't match the color in InDesign? You need color management! Learn the basics in this fast-paced tutorial on one of the most important features in desktop publishing. Getting colors to match across all your Creative Suite programs Softproofing: Trusting what you see on screen The 5 most important rules of color management in InDesign	Advanced Color Management Issues Chris Murphy You're profiled, you're calibrated, you're ready to roll. But you still have questions about how color management works in InDesign and the rest of your workflow. It's time to get your questions answered. Managing color proofs on inkjets Ensuring consistent color from original to final print Best practices for printing	InDesign and World Languages Diane Burns InDesign makes multi-lingual publishing easy. This session will present a brief overview of the basics, and then focus on publishing in languages that use non-Roman characters sets. Open Type fonts, what they can and cannot do Typesetting in Japanese, Chinese and Korean Handling right-to-left (Hebrew and Arabic) and vertical (Japanese) composition Sharing multilingual files with others
3:40pm - 3:50pm	Break
3:50pm - 5:00pm	Hot Tips Panel: Indispensable Advice from the Experts Ensemble Gather with the gurus for a smorgasbord of favorite tips and tricks. From cool type to hot color, this free-for-all session is packed with techniques that will amaze your friends and mystify your enemies. Bizarre (but useful) overprinting tricks Astonishing methods for avoiding halos when compositing in InDesign Unexpected uses for the Eyedropper tool and Corner Effects Last-minute tips for your last-minute deadlines

Thursday May 18th, 2006

Time	CS PowerTour	Half Day Tutorials/Answer Key
8:00am - 8:30am	Registration and Breakfast
8:30am - 9:00am	Special Sponsored Presentation *Extensis* Font Management: Best practices in OS X Take control of your fonts! This session will examine the unique requirements required of a creative typography workflow. The use of thousands of fonts in a creative workgroup presents challenges to the creation of a flexible yet controlled computing environment. This session will explore these challenges, present proven workflow solutions and demonstrate them. *Note this session is presented by a third-party solutions provider.
9:00am - 10:30am		Understanding Color Management Mike Witherell Are you looking for color fidelity in print? Are you trying to understand all the new terminology in color management? From screen to proof to printed output, you can obtain predictable color. By understanding the color management workflow along with ICC profiles, you can use Adobe Creative Suite 2 with greater color accuracy than was ever possible before in publishing. Bring your questions. I'll help you understand these important ideas: What is color and how can you control it? Light, color theory, and color models. How computer devices interpret color. Why profiles give a digital picture its color meaning. How to setup color management in Adobe Creative Suite 2. Why calibrating your monitor is so important.
9:00am - 10:30am	Bridge to Tomorrow: Essential Creative Suite Techniques David Blatner and Sandee Cohen Get your work done faster by learning the essential shortcuts and techniques that top Creative Suite demons use every day. Why Bridge makes managing your assets a breeze Common keyboard shortcuts you just have to know The default preferences you must change for maximum efficiency
9:50am - 10:00am	Break
10:00am - 10:50am	Paths vs. Pixels: When, What, Where, and How Sandee Cohen Paths will be paths, and pixels will be pixels, and never the twain shall meet. But in this indepth exposé, the "Vector Babe" pries into the hidden secrets of vectors and bitmaps, uncovering tasty morsels such as: How to ensure your vector artwork stays that way Smart object and Smart layers Converting pixels to paths and vice versa
10:50am - 11:00am	Break
11:00am - 12:00pm	Getting Great Images Ben Willmore Learn Photoshop from a pixel-master! This indepth session covers some of the most important Photoshop skills you need to get great-looking images. Why the words channels and masks shouldn't scare you Optimizing the tonal information and bring out detail in the highlights and shadows Removing dust and scratches Combining multiple exposures and sharpening your sharpening skills
12:00pm - 1:30pm	Lunch on Your Own
1:30pm - 2:20pm	Transparency: What You'd Better Know in All the Adobe Apps Mordy Golding If there is one topic that draws admiration from designers and fear from output providers it's Transparency. Learn why transparency effects don't have to be scary, as well as how to "design responsibly" with these powerful tools. What is flattening and why you need to care Differences in transparency between InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat Making transparency effects work from one program to the next
2:20pm - 2:30pm	Break
2:30pm - 3:20pm	Acrobat, PDF, and the Suite: A 21st Century Workflow Claudia McCue If you're not using PDF as the basis of your workflow, you're not being efficient. Period. But using PDF doesn't mean you're getting the most out of PDF. Learn the secrets of the Acrobat masters in this intense tips, tricks, and techniques session. Why PDF is the "new EPS" Getting great PDFs from InDesign Creating dual-purpose PDFs for print and Web What you should not trust to PDF
3:20pm - 3:30pm	Break
3:30pm - 4:45pm	My Tip’s Better Than Your Tip: A Showdown of the Tipsters Ensemble Everyone loves tips and tricks — those cool techniques that use the software in ways you don’t expect to achieve the results you didn’t think possible. Which of our presenters has the most useful tip for Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, Bridge, or GoLive? You get to vote in this friendly and fun competition of the masters.