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| 8:00am - 9:00am | Breakfast and Registration |
| 9:00am - 9:50am | Essential InDesign Tips & Tricks
David Blatner
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
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| 9:50am - 10:00am | Break |
| 10:00am - 11:00am | Images: In and Out
Mike McHugh
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
| From InDesign to HTML: The Cross Media Workflow
Tim Cole
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.
- Key issues to think about when converting documents
- Exporting XHTML from InDesign CS3
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| 11:00am - 11:10am | Break |
| 11:10am - 12:20pm | The Sweet Suite
Mike McHugh
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
| Color Management Fundamentals
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
- Best practices for embedding profiles
- Why synchronizing with the Suite may not be the best solution for you
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| 12:20pm - 1:30pm | Lunch on your own |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Type Tricks
Mike McHugh
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
| Building a Great InDesign Template
David Blatner and Sandee Cohen
Building a template with which you or others can quickly lay out a document sounds far easier than it is. Learn the ins and outs of creating strong yet flexible templates.
- Setting up master pages
- Building robust styles
- Automating page numbering and section headers
- Best practices for documenting your work
- Helpful plug-ins and resources
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| 2:30pm - 2:40pm | Break |
| 2:40pm - 3:40pm | Power Styles
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
| "Need to Know" Add-ons
David Blatner and Tim Cole
Think outside the InDesign box and learn which plug-ins and utilities for Mac and Windows our presenters find essential in their day-to-day work!- Favorite font management
- Essential InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator plug-ins
- Cool utilities you should be using
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| 3:40pm - 3:50pm | Break |
| 3:50pm - 5:00pm | Advanced Find/Change
Sandee Cohen
Find/Change doesn't seem that hard, but it does far more than you think! You just can't be efficient in InDesign if you haven't mastered these tricks for object and text formatting. Delve into searching like you’ve never searched before!
- Object Formatting: The searches you never thought you could perform, such as find/change colors!
- Why GREP is so powerful for searching
- Hidden text formatting features
| Tables
Tim Cole
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 (and updating!) Word and Excel tables
- Automatic header rows
- Making tables that don't even look like tables
- InDesign CS3's table styles
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| 9:00am - 10:30am | Bulding 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.
- Making your table of contents clickable
- Using hyperlinks and bookmarks for navigation inside InDesign
| Getting Started with XML
Cari Jansen
XML sounds like something for geeks, but it can truly become a "one-click... done! technology." Come and see why you could care about smart and easy automatic document creation.
- The important link between styles and XML tags
- The tremendous power of keeping content and presentation apart
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| 10:30am - 10:45am | Break |
| 10:45am - 12:00pm | Bulding Interactive PDF, Part 2
Mike McHugh
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!
| Automating Your Workflow with Scripts
Tim Cole
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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| 12:00pm - 1:30pm | Lunch on your own |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Adobe Bridge for InDesign Users
Sandee Cohen
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
| Reliable PDF for Print Workflows
Michael Stoddart
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.
- Getting great PDFs out of InDesign
- Customizing your PDF presets — which settings to use for different workflows
- Why PDF/X-4 and the new Adobe PDF Print Engine will revolutionize PDF handling
- Watching out for the “gotchas”
- What you should not trust to PDF
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| 2:30pm - 2:40pm | Break |
| 2:40pm - 3:40pm | Building Long Documents
David Blatner
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
| File > Print
Michael Stoddart
No matter how hard you work on your design, it doesn’t count if it doesn't print. Join us for a deep dive into InDesign's print dialog box to learn its secrets and learn what you (and your output provider) need to know about this powerhouse.
- Managing transparency
- Drivers: The unknown variable
- What really happens to image data?
- How hidden PPDs alter the equation.
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| 3:40pm - 3:50pm | Break |
| 3:50pm - 5:00pm | Tips! Tips! Tips!
David Blatner, Mike McHugh, Sandee Cohen, Tim Cole
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. |
