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Time	Wednesday, November 4
8:30 - 10:00	Trends in Digital Publishing Michael Ninness Content is still king, but traditional or "analog" media is facing massive pressure to evolve and innovate to keep up with the pace of change in media consumption habits. From web sites and user generated content, to devices like the Kindle and the iPhone, to the rapid rise of interactive and streaming on-demand video — how content is packaged, designed and delivered seems to be changing by the minute. Publishers and designers now have a wide spectrum of media choices to deliver their content. While Print will always continue to be one of those choices, it is not the only choice. In this engaging session, InDesign Senior Product Manager Michael Ninness will take you through a whirl wind tour of current digital publishing trends, highlighting compelling real-world examples that will inspire you. If you label yourself as a Print Designer, Michael aims to have you leave this session rethinking what a “document” is.
10:15 - 11:15	Making Word and InDesign Work Together Anne-Marie Concepción There are many challenges in getting Word and Indesign to work together effectively. Covered topics will include: How Word constructs styles • Tips for InDesign’s Word Import Options dialog • Fixing flaky Word files: Colonic Treatment, Maggying • Useful InDesign Scripts • Useful Word Macros Dealing with Word “Artwork” • The different flavors of Word art • Extracting and converting for InDesign From InDesign to Word! • Caveats to warn your client about • Creating layered and text-wrapped artwork • Using Word’s Master Page, Sorta
11:30 - 12:30	Styles Strategy Michael Murphy Nothing speeds up a project and keeps you flexible and efficient more than InDesign's powerful styles. By taking a few strategic steps at the start of any project to maximize your use of styles, you can get that project off the ground faster, adapt quickly and easily to any design changes or client's revisions…and still get home on time!
Lunch on Your Own
2:00 - 3:00	Making InDesign and Excel Work Together Michael Murphy Making an InDesign table from an Excel spreadsheet is a a fast and easy process, but it takes a few more tricks to maintain links to Excel data, and update it in InDesign. There are also a handful of things that every InDesign user should know about Excel to take advantage of that application's strengths and speed up their Excel-to-InDesign workflow.
3:15 - 4:15	GREP Find/Change Michael Murphy Discover the time-saving potential of InDesign's two distinct "flavors" of GREP: Find/Change and GREP Styles. In this hour-long crash course, you'll learn how you can process and manipulate text like never before, reduce hours of tedious work to mere minutes, and auto-format any text based on how it looks, not what it is. GREP may be the most powerful InDesign feature you never knew you needed.
4:30 - 5:30	Turning InDesign Files into Flash Presentations Sandee Cohen Throw away the PowerPoint slides. With InDesign CS4, you can create some of the most exciting SWF -based presentations with just a few clicks and commands. See how to set up your documents so that they can be used for exciting screen presentations as well as online documents. Discover: • How to set page transitions • Add hyperlinks to web pages and other pages in a document • Move to specific pages • Add exciting page curl effects.
Evening Outing	TBA

Time	Thursday, November 5
8:30 - 9:00	Gridiron Sponsored Presentation Introducing Gridiron Flow for creative professionals - A whole new way to SEE all your project files, versions and inforamtion in one brilliantly simple interface. All who attend will be eligible to enter a raffle for a FREE copy of Gridiron's FLOW!
9:00 - 10:00	Accessible Content Workflow with Adobe InDesign CS4 and Adobe Acrobat 9 Greg Pisocky & Victoria Richards The production of accessible digital documents and electronic books is increasingly important to large and small publishers. Adobe provides tools to help designers and publishers create and distribute electronic documents and books that are accessible to people with disabilities. This session will focus on best practices for the production of accessible PDF documents using Adobe InDesign CS4 as the authoring tool in conjunction with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro. The presentation will provide an overview of an accessible content production workflow, discussing both the strengths and limitations of the tools and the techniques. Objectives of presentation and benefits for the audience • Attendees will obtain an overview of accessible electronic document design considerations • Attendees will learn best practice techniques for authoring accessible PDF files using Adobe InDesign CS4 • Attendees will learn where to find more resources and information
10:15 - 11:15	Adobe InDesign CS4 and XML Urszula Witherell Publishing is more than printing, and XML is here to stay as a standard for storing data used in publishing. Explore advanced features of Adobe InDesign CS4 that allow production of publications with content sourced from XML-based systems, without loss of data or duplicating formatting tasks. Find out how information presented in a familiar environment for graphic designers can be reused on the Web, in archiving projects, or repurposed in other print projects.
11:30 - 12:30	Long Document Publishing and the InDesign Book Feature Sandee Cohen Discover how the Book feature lets you combine separate documents into a single entity for printing, preflighting, and coordinating styles and master pages. Learn how to control pagination as well as maintaining the flow of recto/verso pages. Discover how the output options make the book feature powerful even for non-book documents.
Lunch on Your Own
2:00 - 3:00	InCopy for InDesigners Anne-Marie Concepción Is InCopy the missing piece in your production workflow? Come to this session and find out! InCopy is the editorial partner to InDesign; sharing the same text engine but with a few unique editorial tools of its own. Using InCopy, editors and writer can open layouts and edit text to fit from the start, eliminating paper proof markups and cutting production time in half. Presenter Anne-Marie Concepcion has worked with hundreds of publishers in moving to an InCopy/InDesign workflow, and will be sure to let you know when it's the best solution -- and when it's not.
3:15 - 4:15	Cross-References and Conditional Text Sandee Cohen Originally just for long document references, there's much more to InDesign's new cross-references. Discover how to reference partial paragraphs, number cross-reference, and apply styles to parts of the cross-reference. Then see how everything magically updates as you modify your work. Discover the best workflow for tagging conditional text for bi-lingual copy, multiple prices, and teacher editions.
4:30 - 5:30	InDesign Power Shortcuts Michael Ninness Shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts! Do you dream in keyboard shortcuts? When you drop your keys, do you think (Ctrl Z) or [Cmd Z]? Keeping your hands on the keyboard as much as possible is the ultimate way to become a more efficient InDesign user, and it enables you to get more done in less time. This always popular session will teach you the InDesign shortcuts you can implement into your workflow to immediately improve your productivity. They may not all be flashy, but they are sure to make you smile as you realize how much time and effort they’ll save you. • The Top 20 shortcuts every InDesign user MUST learn. Quicker. • Shortcuts for working with Styles and text formatting. • Interface and navigation tips • Document, panel and workspace management • Become a control freak by mastering the Control panel!
Evening Outing	TBA

Time	Friday, November 6
8:30 - 10:00	Bridge & InDesign: The Happy Couple Noha Edell Adobe Bridge CS4 is the unsung hero of the Creative Suite 4 line-up. Its job is to help you organize, categorize, and access your many assets so you can focus on using those assets to create excellent, professional communication. With Bridge, you can apply keywords, labels, and rating to almost any Adobe file type and then use that information to find your work no matter where it may be hiding. Plus, you can preview and query those files to be sure they are the exact asset you need. Once you have found an asset, you can use Bridge to connect to InDesign and automate many tasks you might need to perform. Come join us to see how Bridge and InDesign are the perfect couple for your publishing needs.
10:15 - 11:15	What You Don’t Know Acrobat Can Do Claudia McCue If you think that PDFs are only good for viewing and printing, you're missing out on some fun. You may be surprised to learn what you can fix in a PDF, and how you can bring a PDF to life. In this session, you'll learn: -How to repair graphics -How to REALLY crop a PDF -How to add navigational aids -How to add interactive features
11:30 - 12:30	Creating and Working with Forms in InDesign and Acrobat Claudia McCue While InDesign can't create text fields, radio buttons, or combo boxes like Acrobat, you can give Acrobat a head start by building in some helpful features in the base InDesign document. In this session, you'll learn: -How to help Acrobat recognize form fields -How to create "comb" fields for entries such as Social Security numbers -How to create fields that populate themselves with repeated information -Why you may NOT want to create buttons in InDesign
Lunch on your Own
2:00 - 3:00	Going Green- From HTML, InDesign and Paper into PDF Jim Maivald The advent of the personal computer promised a paperless office. Instead, we used more paper than ever before. It’s taken 25 years but the paperless revolution is finally in sight. Electronic books and reader devices are selling in record numbers. Concern over climate change and just the sheer cost of paper, printing, storage and shipping are driving companies to rethink traditional marketing, communication and advertising processes. In this session we’ll explore techniques for converting your paper-based workflow to PDF and other electronic formats. Going green was never this easy before! · Learn how to convert paper to PDF · Learn how to produce the best PDF from InDesign and other Adobe apps. · Learn how to implement a PDF-based editorial workflow · Learn how to create interactive PDFs
3:15 - 4:15	Collecting Data from PDF Forms Jim Maivald Adobe Acrobat provides dozens of indispensible features, many of which are little known and rarely used. One of the most popular of these little-known features is the program’s capability for creating and distributing PDF forms and then automatically collecting and compiling the target data. Acrobat can even export the data to popular spreadsheet and database programs for analysis. Once you see how easy it is to create, distribute and collect PDF data, you’ll be making your own forms for dozens of purposes, hosting them on your website and sending them out by email by the end of this session!
4:30 - 5:30	TIPS and TRICKS PANEL and FREE GIVEAWAYS

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