| Time | Track A | Track B | Track C | Tutorials/QuickStart |
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| 8:00am - 9:00am | Breakfast and Registration |
| 8:30am - 9:00am | Font Management: Best practices in OS X
special 3rd party sponsored session presented by Extensis
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.
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| 9:00am - 9:50am | InDesign CS3: The Wait is Over!
David Blatner and Tim Cole
Join us and be among the first users to get an InDepth look at InDesign CS3! In this fast-paced session we'll provide an overview of what's new and hot in this hot-off-the-press version, including:
- Photoshop-like transparency effects, such as Bevel and Emboss, Inner Shadow, and Glow
- Variable text
- Find/change object attributes
- Importing InDesign files into InDesign files
- And more!
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| 9:50am - 10:00am | Break |
| 10:45am - 12:00pm | Essential InDesign Tips & Tricks
Anne-Marie Concepión 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
- Hidden and undocumented productivity features
- Vital keyboard shortcuts for navigation and formatting
| [Same as Track A) | 10:00a—12:30p
Automating Your Workflow with Scripts
Olav Martin Kvern
Stop using your computer like a manual paste–up tool and
start making it do some of your work for you! Remember: You don't have to know how to script in order to use scripts!
- Adding your own custom features to InDesign
- Scripts versus macros
- Automating your workflow and page production
- Where to get cool scripts and how to customize them to your workflow.
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| 11:00am - 11:15am | Break |
| 11:15am - 12:30pm | InDesign CS3 InDepth
David Blatner
InDesign CS3 is full of big-ticket cool features, but there are also dozens of small-but-very-important features that will help make you life easier. Get the inside scoop, including:
- Find Font inside styles
- Searching with GREP
- Managing the new user interface
- Scaling fixes
- Align to Page
- and more!
| Images: In and Out
Brian Wood
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
- Tricks for picture linking and the Links palette
- Exporting JPEG and EPS images
- Linking versus embedding images
- Why you should import InDesign files into CS3 documents
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| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Lunch on your own |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Tables
Michael Murphy
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
- InDesign CS3's table styles
| Anchored Objects
Diane Burns
Learn how to get the most out of anchored and inline objects, arguably one of CS2's most powerful and underutilized features!
- Placing objects that flow with text anywhere on a spread
- Optimizing anchored objects with object styles
- Special effects
| 2:00—5:30p
Publication Design Workshop
Scott Citron
If you've ever wanted to design a book or magazine but don't know where to begin, this class will show you how. In this half–day class, NYC designer and trainer Scott Citron will walk you through the process of laying out a print piece from beginning to end. Along the way you'll learn:
- Best practices for setting up your document
- Choosing fonts and colors
- Setting professional looking type
- Working with images and graphics
- Leveraging CS3's amazing new features
- Understanding PDF in the print world
| 2:00p—5:30p
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 prepress tool and feature in Adobe Acrobat 8.
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| 3:00pm - 3:10pm | Break |
| 3:10pm - 4:10pm | Type Tricks
David Blatner
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
| From InDesign to HTML
Brian Wood
Your boss just told you to put the annual report on the Web site? Learn how you can streamline the conversion of your InDesign documents into Web pages.
- Preparing and packaging your pages for Dreamweaver, or GoLive
- Key issues to think about when converting documents
- Exporting XHTML from InDesign CS3
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| 4:10pm - 4:20pm | Break |
| 4:20pm - 5:30pm | Illustrator for InDesign Users
Mordy Golding
InDesign and Illustrator are like brother and sister—but like any siblings, they also have their differences. Join internationally renowned Illustrator expert Mordy Golding as he shows you how to use these programs together in harmony, while avoiding common pitfalls.
- Working with color
- Placing artwork
- Dealing with embedded artwork
- Turning ordinary artwork into amazing imagery in a few easy steps.
| Acrobat 8: What It Means for Creative Professionals
Noha Edell
Acrobat 8 is the most "Suite-like" version of Acrobat yet, and offers dozens of important features to creative professionals—unfortunately, many of these are still hard to find. Come discover the cool stuff and learn to get the most from this crucial tool.
- Packaging PDFs
- Workgroup collaboration
- Presentations
- Preflighting (better than InDesign's!)
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| 5:30pm - 10:30pm | Carolines on Broadway
Carolines is a comedy club, and is walkable from the Hotel Penn (about a 15-20 minute walk) or a short cab ride. We have arranged a group reservation that covers the entrance fee, and 2 drink minimum. You can reserve your seat for only $26.00+tax and gratuity.
They serve dinner and appetizers so you can grab food here as well. If you are interested in going, we need to get a final count as soon as possible. Please contact barry@idconference.com for more information.
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| Time | Track A | Track B | Track C | Tutorials/QuickStart |
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| 8:00am - 8:30am | Breakfast and Registration |
| 8:30am - 9:00am | Special Sponsored Presentation
TBA |
| 9:00am - 10:00am | Why Go Out?
Michael Murphy
Why leave InDesign and use another application when you don't have to? InDesign has plenty of Photoshop- and Illustrator-like features that you may not even know about.
- Create Photoshop-style compositions
- Turn on/off layers in imported images
- Appling blend modes, opacity settings, feathering and drop shadows
- Custom image masks
- PLUS: New CS3 Features: Transparency controls (including glow and bevels) for fills, strokes and text
- Exporting JPEGs
| XML Fundamentals
Marco Galiazzo
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
- Using XML as a template for repurposing your documents
- The important link between styles and XML tags
| 9:00a—12:30p
The Prepress Workflow
Branislav Milic
Part 1: Managing Images. If you don't understand how InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop handle 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 or TIFF instead of EPS
- What is the Photoshop PDF format and why it is so great to use?
- Preparing your documents the right way (so that your output provider doesn't scream)
- Which color profiles should you use?
- Why keeping your files in RGB may improve your efficiency
| 9:00a—12:30p
Tutorial Room 1:
Flash for InDesign Users
Many of us have held off learning Flash as long as possible, but now that it's an Adobe product, it's time to jump on the bandwagon and get up to speed quickly! This class covers the basics and sends you off with what you need to know to create cool Flash artwork.
Tutorial Room 2:
Fall in Love with Illustrator All Over Again, Part 1
Mordy 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 production-oriented tasks to help you build more efficient files that can be edited easily.
- Appearances
- Graphic Styles
- Symbols
- Effects
- Pathfinder
- Live Paint
- CS2 & CS3 will be covered!
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| 10:00am - 10:10am | Break |
| 10:10am - 11:10am | The Sweet Suite
David Blatner
Come join David as he goes deeper, uncovering how the Creative Suite applications comingle with InDesign!
- Metadata:The secret glue behind productive workflows
- How Bridge can help maximize your efficiency
- Moving data from one application in the Suite to another
- Bridge CS3 Tricks
| Styles on Steroids
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.
- Power searches with style sheets
- 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
| 9:00a—12:30p
The Prepress Workflow
Branislav Milic
Part Two: Preparing InDesign Files for Print. Avoid costly mistakes by pinpointing print problems before you send your file to the printer. InDesign's advanced print and proofing features can be very misleading if you don't know how to use them correctly.
- Make transparency effects print right every time
- Why so many publishers demand PDF/X files
- Proofing and preflighting your files
- The mysterious Ink Manager
- How to deal with black overprinting and black appearance
- Creating a press-quality PDF
- Why thin lines can appear around transparency effects
- Font embedding solutions
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| 11:10am - 11:20am | Break |
| 11:20am - 12:30pm | Zen of InDesign Repair
Anne-Marie Concepción
Sooner or later, something will go wrong... probably just before a big deadline. This class tells you what to watch out for and what you can do instead of panicking.
- The miraculous INX file
- Getting around font problems
- How to manage Preferences and AutoSave files
- Troubleshooting techniques
| Color Management Fundamentals
Chris Murphy
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
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| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Lunch on your own |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Advanced Find/Change
Michael Murphy
If you deal with a lot of text, there are all kinds of find/change tricks you should know about. Delve into searching like you've never searched before!
- Object Formatting: The searches you never thought you could perform, such as find/change colors!
- GREP: How to search your text with regular expressions using InDesign CS3's built-in find/change
- Hidden text formatting featuress
| Exporting PDF for Print
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 PDF masters in this intense tips, tricks, and techniques session.
- Why PDF is the "new EPS"
- Getting great PDFs out of InDesign
- Watching out for the "gotchas"
- What you should not trust to PDF
| InDesign from a FrameMaker Perspective
Marco Galiazzo
Come sit with an Adobe Certified Expert in both InDesign and FrameMaker and learn how to learn InDesign from a FrameMaker perspective. This "ancient" product has a halo of mystery to it, but understanding its 20 year history helps us to use InDesign better, too!
- Structured vs. unstructured documents
- MIF, INX, and XML
- Frames and flows
- Cross-references and links
| 2:00p—5:30p
Tutorial Room 1:
Write Your First InDesign JavaScript
Dave Saunders
Scripting offers you control over InDesign in astonishing ways, but at the cost of learning how to program. Fortunately, it's not nearly as hard as you think! You just need to understand the rules.
- Understanding InDesign's scripting model
- Writing your first really useful script
- Deciphering the ExtendScript ToolKit (ESTK)
- Resources and how to use them
Tutorial Room 2:
Fall in Love with Illustrator All Over Again, Part 2
Mordy Golding
Come hear nationally-recognized trainer and former Adobe Illustrator product manager Mordy Golding give you the low-down on this extraordinary program, including design or artistic-oriented features that help you be more creative in your work, including:
- 3D
- Envelopes
- Live Trace
- Photoshop integration
- InDesign integration
- Transparency
- Graphs
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| 3:00pm - 3:10pm | Break |
| 3:10pm - 4:10pm | Fundamentals of Document Construction
Scott Citron
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
- New InDesign CS3 master page features
| InDesign for Output Providers
Claudia McCue
InDesign poses special challenges to output providers, such as how to best handle transparency and color management. Whether you're an output provider or you have to work with output providers, this session is a must.
| InDesign Secrets: Tips and Troubleshooting
David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción
Come rollick and roll with the co-hosts of the InDesignSecrets podcast while they explore hot tips and cool techniques. Bring your questions and be a part of this live recording of the world's most popular InDesign podcast.
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| 4:10pm - 4:20pm | Break |
| 4:20pm - 5:20pm | Books, Table of Contents, and Indexing
Brian Wood
Whether you are building a magazine, a catalog, or a book, it's essential that you master InDesign's long document features.
- The Book file and its amazing features
- Auto-numbering and auto-pagination
- Sections: how and when to use them
- Controlling page numbering, styles, and colors across multiple files
- Tables of contents and indexing
| 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 日本語, Chinese and Korean
- Handling right-to-left (Hebrew and Arabic) and vertical (Japanese) composition
- Sharing multilingual files with others
| Workflow Systems
Gary Cosimini
Version Cue may be appropriate for small workgroups, but this session looks at the bigger picture: How to manage a lot of content handled by a lot of people.
- Replacing QPS
- Exploring systems such as SoftCare K4, K2, and Woodwing Smart Connection
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| Time | Track A | Track B | Track C | Tutorials/QuickStart |
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| 8:00am - 9:00am | Breakfast |
| 8:30am - 9:00am | Special Sponsored Presentation
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 - 10:00am | InDesign CS4! An Open Discussion with the Adobe Development Team
The Adobe Team
Now that you've seen CS3, sit down with Adobe's product development team and give them feedback. Believe it or not, they're already planning InDesign CS4, so this is perfect timing to tell them what's important to you and why.
- Learn the inside scoop on why CS3 is the way it is.
- What features do you wish InDesign had?
- Vote on features you want changed in future versions of InDesign.
| | | 9:00a—12:30p
XML Workflows
Marco Galiazzo
After you understand how to import and export XML with InDesign, it's time for the most important lesson of all: How to actually put it into practice! Bring your questions.
- Learn how XSLT can help you modify your XML.
- Discover special attributes for handling tables and styles
- What's new with InDesign's XML features
- Using XML utilities to manage your code
- Learn from real world examples of workflows based on InDesign's XML capabilities.
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| 10:00am - 10:10am | Break |
| 10:10am - 11:10am | Managing Your InDesign Assets
Brian Wood
InDesign is a excellent tool for bringing together assets such as text and graphics. Learn the best way to manage those assets!
- Libraries
- Snippets
- Bridge and other asset management utilities
- Packaging assets
- Importing INDD files in CS3
| Preparing Files for Commercial Printing
James Wamser
Taking your brilliant design from the computer screen to the printed page can be challenging. Fortunately, InDesign offers powerful tools for both the creative professional and the prepress specialist. This session will show you how to identify and prevent potential printing problems long before they happen. | Interactive PDF, Part 1
Sandee Cohen
Join Sandee as she demystifies InDesign's confusing interface for making hyperlinks, bookmarks, and other essentials elements for interactive PDF files.
- Accessiblity: It's the law!
- Making your table of contents clickable
- Using hyperlinks and bookmarks for navigation inside InDesign
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| 11:10am - 11:20am | Break |
| 11:20am - 12:30pm | Adobe Bridge for InDesign Users
Anne-Marie Concepción
Bridge CS3 is a significant update to Adobe's asset management tool, and understanding it is key to being efficient in the Suite.
- Why Bridge makes managing your assets a breeze
- Common keyboard shortcuts you just have to know
- Organizing InDesign snippets and templates
- Automating the Suite
- Demystifying metadata
| Building Forms: To Acrobat 8 and Back
Brian Wood
Making forms in InDesign—especially interactive PDF forms—has long been a painful practice, but we'll explore new features and new workflows that help you build forms with InDesign and Acrobat 8 Professional.
- Using InDesign's powerful layout features to create forms
- Acrobat's amazing Run Form Field Recognition (RFFR)
- Using layers to control form elements
- Exporting data from an PDF and importing into InDesign
- Using InDesign's Data Merge feature to create directories and other data structures
| Interactive PDF, Part 2
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!
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| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Lunch on your own |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Mac OS X for Designers
Branislav Milic
While InDesign and other Suite apps work almost identically on both Mac OS and Windows, the Mac OS itself offers a number of great features that are especially useful for Adobe software users. Windows users are also invited, to see what you may be missing.
- Hidden tricks to manage files and move them between applications (including Bridge)
- Find a needle in a haystack using the most powerful search engine on the market : Spotlight
- ColorSync and ColorSync Utility to preview and compare ICC profiles
- Metadata and Smart Folders
- Automate Distiller with super robot Automator
| 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!
- When InCopy is better than Microsoft Word (and when it isn't)
- Tracking changes
- Using InCopy features even if you don't own InCopy!
- Managing Assignments in InDesign CS3 and InCopy CS3
| Version Cue CS3 for InDesign
Mordy Golding
One of the saddest questions we hear is: Do you know where I can learn more about Version Cue? Well, now there's finally a good answer: Here! Join author and consultant Mordy Golding as he walks you through setting up a Version Cue CS3 workflow and using it efficiently.
| 2:00p—5:30p
Color Management Deep Dive
Chris Murphy
This is a must-see session for anyone who wants to master InDesign's color management!
- Details of what is (and isn't!) color managed
- Best practices for embedding profiles
- Why synchronizing with the Suite may not be the best solution for you
- 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
- Managing color proofs on inkjets
- Ensuring consistent color from original to final print
- Best practices for printing
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| 3:00pm - 3:15pm | Break |
| 3:15pm - 4:30pm | Tips! Tips! Tips!
Ensemble
The show's not over 'til the last tips sings! Join the presenters as they bring everything and the kitchen sink in an end-of-show, all-out tip frenzy.
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| 5:30pm - 10:30pm | Shea Stadium -- Mets vs Philly's
We have secured a bus to take anyone interested (spouses and family welcome) to the Mets game. We will have a group block in the lower mezzanine for the game. The total cost for the ticket and transportation is $40.
Even if you are not a baseball fan, come and enjoy the outdoor stadium and hang out with other attendees to cap off the week-long conference. Please email barry@idconference.com if you wish to attend. Please respond as soon as you can so we can secure enough seats and/or transportation. |
