Conferences: The InDesign Conference: 2007: Stockholm: Schedule : MOGO Media

Schedule

Wednesday Jan 31st, 2007

Time	Track A	Track B
9:00am - 9:15am	Welcome and Introduction
9:15am - 10:45am	Essential InDesign Tips & Tricks Sandee Cohen Learn how to make your pages fly with the essential shortcuts and techniques that top InDesign professionals use every day. The default preferences you must change Hidden and undocumented productivity features Vital keyboard shortcuts for navigation and formatting
10:45am - 11:00am	Break
11:00am - 12:30pm	Powerful 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	Fundamentals of XML in InDesign Richard Rönnbäck - presented in Swedish XML promises to bring a revolution to publishing, and InDesign is on the cutting edge. But what is XML? Why do you want it? 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 Working with well-formed XML and DTDs Transforming XML by using XSLT InDesigns support for XML - Possibilities, limitations, and how to overcome them Real world examples
12:30pm - 1:45pm	Lunch
1:45pm - 3:00pm	Managing Images: Key Concepts for Success Sandee Cohen 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 instead of PDF, TIFF instead of EPS Editing and creating (and avoiding) clipping paths Tricks for picture linking and embedding Preparing your documents the right way (so that the output provider doesn't scream)	Advanced Page Layout: Taking Control of Your Page Karin Söderlund - presented in Swedish 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 Avancerad sidlayout: Ta kontroll över dina sidor Karin Söderlund - presented in Swedish Ta tid att bygga en bra grund för dina dokument så att du kan spara tid längre fram. Utforska mysteriet med mallsidor och hur du kan få dom att fungera som du vill. Varför mallsidor ibland inte verkar fungera Basera en mallsida på en annan mallsida Automatisera sidnumrering och avsnittsindelningar Snabb och effektiv textlänkning
3:00pm - 3:15pm	Break
3:15pm - 4:45pm	Automating Your Workflow with Scripts Richard Rönnbäck Stop using your computer like it were just another paste-up tool and start making it do some of your work for you! Scripting is easier than it sounds, and it's extremely powerful. Adding your own custom features to InDesign Scripts versus macros AppleScripting for non-programmers Automating your workflow and page production Where to get cool scripts	InCopy for InDesigners Karin Söderlund - presented in Swedish 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) Incopy för Indesigners Karin Söderlund - presented in Swedish Om du inte har hört talas om Adobe InCopy som en ersättare till din ordbehandlare, skall du närvara på detta seminariet! Om du känner till InCopy men du är inte säker på om det passar ert arbetsflöde, skall du närvara på detta seminariet! Om du vill arbeta effektivt med textredigering ska du närvara på det här seminariet. Hur InCopy kan underlätta livet. När InCopy är bättre än Microsoft Word (och när det inte är det)

Thursday Feb 1st, 2007

Time	Track A	Track B
9:00am - 9:15am	Welcome and Introduction
9:15am - 10:30am	Adventures in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Sandee Cohen Learn important tips and techniques for how using the Creative Suite in this fast-paced and fun-filled session. Why Photoshop and Illustrator are the ultimate InDesign "plug-ins" Using InDesign as a photo-compositing tool Why metadata is your best friend
10:30am - 10:45am	Break
10:45am - 12:15pm	Transparency: What You Need to Know Sandee Cohen 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	Color Management in InDesign Jan Suhr - presented in Swedish 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 and beyond 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
12:15pm - 1:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm - 2:40pm	Multi-lingual Publishing InDesign Richard Rönnbäck InDesign makes multi-lingual publishing easy. This session will show you how to publish simultaneously in languages, including languages that use non-Roman characters sets. Open Type fonts, what they can and cannot do The scripts and plug-ins you must know about Typesetting in Japanese, Chinese and Korean Handling right-to-left (Hebrew and Arabic) and vertical (Japanese) composition Sharing multilingual files with others	Mixed RGB/CMYK Print and PDF Workflows Jan Suhr - presented in Swedish If you are still converting all your images to RGB before you import them into InDesign, you may not being as efficient as you could be. Learn how to mix RGB and CMYK into a single workflow. Understanding how InDesign handles RGB images How to get high-quality CMYK output when you have RGB images Best practices for ensuing your PDFs are created properly
2:40pm - 2:50pm	Break
2:50pm - 4:00pm	Free (or Inexpensive) Resources for InDesign Users Sandee Cohen 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 Adobe hides the extra goodies for Creative Suite users. Use templates in InDesign and Illustrator Find pre-made swatches and patterns in Illustrator and Photoshop See what is to be found on the extra CDs Learn how to navigate through Adobe's website to find helpful user-created extras	Where Text Meets Graphics Karin Söderlund - presented in Swedish 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 Making the most of the new text runaround features Solving complicated layouts with Space/Align Getting the most out of text on a path, text rules, and custom underlines and strikethroughs Där text möter grafik Karin Söderlund - presented in Swedish Text eller grafik? Det här seminariet utforskar InDesigns funktioner som skapar objekt som delar egenskaper med både text och grafik, som textbundna bilder och tabeller. Textbundna bilder, beziér banor och linjer Utnyttja figursättning till fullo Lösa komplicerade layouter med sprid ut och justera Få ut det mesta av text på bana, textbundna linjer och understrykningar och genomstrykningar
4:00pm - 4:15pm	Break
4:15pm - 5:30pm	Hot Tips Panel and Your Questions Answered 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. Using transparency effects in unexpected ways Helpful tricks for laying out pages fast Last-minute tips for your last-minute deadlines