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The InDesign Insights You Need to Survive In This Economy!
These days, you need to learn how to be more efficient than ever. Join us in this fast-paced, full-day seminar full of tips, tricks, and techniques for getting the most out of Adobe InDesign. Whether you have upgraded to CS5 or are still working in CS4 or CS3, you’ll learn many important skills for boosting your productivity. Taught by world-renowned experts whose lively presentations promise to keep you awake, this is an event you can’t afford to miss. Register now!
Seminar Schedule
10 Secret Tricks of the InDesign Gurus that You Need to Know (9:00–10:00)
Presented here are some of the least known and best kept secrets of the InDesign gurus—from essential shortcuts to formatting hundreds of pages of text in 2 clicks. Learning these secret tricks is guaranteed to make your InDesign work more efficient and enjoyable.
Say Hello to InDesign CS5 (10:15–11:00)
Still on the fence about upgrading to CS5? Or maybe you have upgraded but don’t feel you’ve exploited every new feature. This quick session will demonstrate what’s new in InDesign CS5 and why you need it.
Text and Graphics (11:00–12:00)
Learn how the InDesign masters import and manage their text and graphics—from the fastest way to apply styles to the most efficient way to control transparency and linked images. Explore tricks for flowing long documents, anchoring images to text, and reformatting picture frames in the blink of an eye.
EXTENSIS FONT MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATION & SPONSORED LUNCH (12:00–1:15)
Suitcase Fusion 3: Typography Without Limits
Design today requires the ability to work across different applications and media types. Font selections, however, rarely translate to the web or are easy to quickly look through to try something new or find a complementary option for consistent branding across all media.
Extensis will show you how Suitcase Fusion 3 can be used as a central clearinghouse for fonts, wherever you use them. See how effective font management can help you achieve brand consistency with your designs in Adobe InDesign CS5, whatever the target output: print or web.
Layout Techniques (1:15–2:00)
Creating an InDesign document is like constructing a building—if you don’t know how to build a firm foundation, the whole thing could come tumbling down. In this session, you’ll learn some of the most important layout techniques, including working with master pages, jumping stories with jumplines, and the pros and cons of the different ways to create multi-column text.
InDesign and Interactivity (2:00–3:00)
InDesign is the world’s greatest print layout tool, but did you know that it’s quickly becoming the leading platform for producing emedia content like interactive PDFs and ePubs? InDesign CS4 & CS5 even lets you export your document for viewing with the Adobe Flash Player! In this session, you’ll learn how to build interactive documents that engage your audience with not just the beautiful layout and stunning typography for which InDesign is known, but also with video, audio, animation, hyperlinks, buttons and much more!
Free Scripts, Plug-ins, and Resources You Must Have (3:15–3:45)
Free, free, free is the order of this session, from free plug-ins and scripts that extend InDesign’s functionality to free, high-quality fonts and imagery. If you like free resources (Who doesn’t?) you must be in this session with free stuff maven Pariah Burke! After the session, attendees will receive a complete list of the freebies discussed, as well as links to download them.
InDesign Effects to Wow! (4:00–5:00)
Everyone wants the chance to get creative and add pizzazz to documents. Presented here in step-by-step form are several effects that will simply wow your document’s audience. They range from wild, once in a lifetime effects to those you can use every day without getting stale.
Bonus Session: Flash Catalyst, Flash Authoring without Writing Code (5:15–6:00)
New from Adobe and built specifically for designers, Flash Catalyst enables you to create interactive content without writing code. With Flash Catalyst, you can take advantage of the expressiveness of Flash technology and the ubiquity of Flash Player to deliver compelling interactivity, video, and audio to computers around the world. Transform artwork created in Photoshop, Illustrator, or Fireworks into high-quality interactive content that can liven up your web pages or make complex information engaging and easier to understand. Design simple projects, such as an interactive portfolio site or product brochure, that you can complete yourself in SWF format. Or tackle more complex projects such as a user interface for a web application built in collaboration with a developer. While you design visually in the foreground, Flash Catalyst generates Adobe Flex® code in the background.
Date, Price, and Location
Date: September 21, 2010
Fee: $149
Location: DoubleTree Hotel Chicago Magnificent Mile
300 East Ohio Street
Chicago, IL 60611
312-787-6100
Click here to register.
This article was last modified on January 18, 2023
This article was first published on September 3, 2010
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