8:00 am – 9:00 am
Registration and Breakfast
Demonstration by Twixl Publisher
Start the day right by registering early! Then grab some food and coffee, tea, or juice, and meet your fellow conference attendees. |
9:00 am – 10:10 am
Introduction and Keynote:
InDesign CS6 and the Creative Cloud
Adobe InDesign Development Team
If you're still thinking print or digital you're in for a surprise! It's all about "and" now, and the future shock is hitting the whole industry like a train. Get a strategic view of where we are and where we're going, along with a clear vision of what tools and workflows you'll need to succeed over the next few years
- Overview of Adobe's Newest Features and Newest Policies
- How to focus in a world of diffuse priorities and shifting ground
- What do I need to know about the current and near-future state of the publishing market?
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10:10 am – 10:30 am
FX You Didn't Know InDesign Could Do
 Mike Rankin
Need to make a shiny-object effect in InDesign? Build interlocking objects? InDesign expert Mike Rankin makes it all step-by-step simple in this short but way-sweet guide to fx. |
10:35 am – 10:55 am
InDesign to iPad and Android Apps
 James Fritz
Wired, the New Yorker, Time, and Esquire are all doing it... Learn how you can you get your content out of InDesign and on to the iPad. What solutions are currently available? What's coming down the pipeline? |
11:00 am – 11:20 am
Tables That Don't Look Like Tables: Power Techniques
 Diane Burns
You think you know a lot about tables, but there's always more to learn! Packed full with useful tips, learn how to make your tables look better and how tables can be used to resolve unlikely layout dilemmas, including those that don't look like tables at all. |
11:35 am – 11:55 am
Top 10 Scripts and Resources for EPUB Production
 Anne-Marie Concepcion
You want to make EPUBs from InDesign? Learn about 10 essential InDesign scripts, plug-ins, online services, and utilities. Without these, you'll never be efficient! |
12:00 pm – 12:20 pm
First Impressions: Making a Great Folio Cover
 Branislav Milic
When your audience opens your tablet magazine or interactive publication, what they first see can make a strong impression. Learn how you can use video and animations inside Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) for "wow!" effects. |
12:20 pm – 1:30 pm
Lunch (Provided)
Dine with a presenter, network with your peers. |
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm -- Room 1
XML for Print and Digital Publishing
  Keith Gilbert, Matthew Diener
Let's take a good look "under the hood," at XML and how this crucial technology makes it possible to publish the same content to many different print and interactive formats.
- How XSL can transform your content
- Why XML should start outside InDesign
- Essential tools for working with XML/IDML
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1:30 pm – 2:30 pm -- Room 2
Producing eBooks from InDesign: ePub and Kindle
 Gabriel Powell, Anne-Marie Concepcion
Amazon.com now sells more Kindle ebooks than paperback books! The future is today! Join us as we introduce ePub and mobi, what they're about, what they're good for, and — most importantly — what they're bad at!
- Kindle vs. iPad vs. Nook vs Digital Editions: What You Need to Know
- What you (always) need to fix in InDesign's EPUB export, and how to do it quickly
- Validating your files, and preparing them for publishing
- Customizing your EPUB for formatting InDesign does not support
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1:30 pm – 2:30 pm -- Room 3
Stay on the Cutting Edge: Five Tools to Learn Now James Fritz, Mordy Golding
Are you still using techniques and tools from the 20th century? Take a quantum leap forward and explore these cutting-edge tools that will help you become a Master of Publishing!
- Adobe Edge
- Adobe Muse
- Touch Apps
- TypeKit
- Cloud Apps (Creative Cloud, Google Docs, DropBox, etc.)
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2:45 pm – 3:45 pm -- Room 1
Long Documents: Ten Essential Techniques
Mike Rankin
If you work on long documents (anything longer than 10 pages), you need these techniques!
- Powerful (but easy!) GREP
- Making sure your document can perform for both print and onscreen
- Table of Contents and Indexing
- Three scripts you absolutely don't want to be without
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2:45 pm – 3:45 pm -- Room 2
Working Smarter: Building InDesign Templates for Print, Tablet, and EPUB
 Bob Levine, Keith Gilbert
You need to use different parts of your brain when publishing to tablet, print, and EPUB. Join these two publishing experts in this informative discussion about design concerns for professionals creating print and onscreen documents
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2:45 pm – 3:45 pm -- Room 3
Design Essentials Every InDesigner Should Know
 John McWade
John's magazine, Before & After, is a staple of every good designer's library for good reason: He knows design. If you want to create better-looking layouts (for print or onscreen), you owe it to yourself to come learn
these essential design rules. |
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm -- Room 1
Creating One-Off Tablet Apps from InDesign
 Colin Fleming
It has never been easier to create an iPad or Android app from InDeisgn! Learn the steps you have to take and pitfalls to avoid when building your apps with the Digital Publishing Suite.
- The Folio Producer
- Certificates
- Overlays
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4:00 pm – 5:00 pm -- Room 2
Power Illustrator Techniques for Everyone
  Russell Viers, Mordy Golding
Whether Illustrator is at the core of your work or just another tool in your toolbox, you'll learn a lot from these two masters of Illustrator.
- Best practices for InDesign/Illustrator integration
- Taking it to the screen with HTML5
- Real World Illustrator tricks you need to know
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4:00 pm – 5:00 pm -- Room 3
Making Data Beautiful
 Michael Murphy
One of the greatest challenges to a designer is taking data and making it not only communicate, but make it beautiful, too! Michael "the indesigner" Murphy shows how to do it while taking advantage of some of InDesign's most powerful efficiency features.
- GREP styles: power through code anyone can learn
- Using object and text styles for maximum productivity
- Data Merge: The unexpected powerhouse
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5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Networking Reception
Join the fun, meet others in your field, share ideas and try to win prizes as you test your publishing know-how! |
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Ignite InDesign! Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
Come join us at the Westin hotel for dessert and some late night, after-dinner tips, tricks, and fun! Or sign up to present 20 slides in 5 minutes. This was the surprise hit of the Washington DC event last year. |
Register Online Here Early bird discount registration ends March 2! 
InDesign doesn't exist in a vacuum! If you really want to be efficient, you need to take advantage of add-ons (plug-ins and scripts) that give you more functionality.
Steve Werner, Claudia McCue
Liz Castro
Nigel French
