InDesign

355 Pages·2015·47.51 MB·English

JUNE 1–4, 2015
PHILADELPHIA, PA
JUNE 1–4, 2015
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We’re so pleased you could make it!
MEET THE SPEAKER/HELP DESK One of the amazing benefits of this
We have over 30 world-class speakers
conference is the extraordinary availability of world-class experts. Check
presenting 45 amazing sessions over four the Meet the Speaker table for a list of which presenters are scheduled
days. Prepare to fill your brain, have your to be there and when! Join us in the foyer for informal Q&A and in-depth
“solution-ing” with top members of the Adobe technical support team.
questions answered, and get connected!
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sit with people who have similar interests.
And at the Monday night reception, T hank you for attending. Enjoy the show!
have fun with the ice-breaker bingo game! — David Blatner & Anne-Marie Concepción
SCHEDULE
11:00am–5pm Registration in Lobby
SALON E SALON F SALON C/D
12:30–5:00pm CSS/HTML DPS Fundamentals: EPUB
For Designers Building Folios for Fundamentals
MONDAY
Chad Chelius Tablets Mira Rubin
Bart Van de Wiele
7:00–9:00am Breakfast in Salon H/I/J — Registration in Lobby
SALON E/F
8:15–8:45am Sponsored Breakfast Session: MEI
TruEdit: The Digital Workflow Solution
TUESDAY Brett Kizner and Bob Levine
15 MINUTE BREAK
9:00–9:15am Introduction
David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción
9:15–10:00am Adobe New and Improved for 2015
Ivan Mironchuk (Adobe), Saurabh Mahajan (Adobe)
10:00–10:15am Additional Announcements
David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción
15 MINUTE BREAK
10:30–10:50am RGB in a CMYK World (and vice versa!)
David Blatner
10 MINUTE BREAK
SCHEDULE
10:50–11:10am Level Up Your EPUBs and Tablet Apps with HTML
Chris Converse
10 MINUTE BREAK
11:20–11:40am eBook Vendors 101: Five Keys to a Successful Partnership
TUESDAY Iris Amelia Febres
(CONTINUED) 11:40am–12pm Taking a New Look at Alternate Layouts
Erica Gamet
12:00–1:30pm Lunch in Salon H/I/J
SALON E SALON F SALON C/D
1:30–2:30pm Tablet Publishing Unexpected Gems: Got Fonts?
in 2015: PDF, DPS, AfterEffects for Print Managing Fonts in
EPUB, And More and Photoshop for the 21st Century
James Fritz Video Mike Rankin
Chris Converse
2:45–3:45pm Designing for Mobile: Tablet and Touch The Future of Book
It’s All About the Apps for Creation Publishing Lies in
User and Production Your Web Browser
Kat Topaz Russell Viers Sanders Kleinfeld
4:00–5:00pm Shockingly Helpful Turn Your InDesign The Magic Slate:
Tips for Photoshop Document Into an From Print to Tablet
and Illustrator HTML5 Web App to Handheld
Mark Heaps Chris Converse and Dan Marcolina
Justin Putney
5:00–6:30pm Networking Reception in Lobby
8:00–10pm Ignite InDesign! Tips and Stories from the Front Lines
Anne-Marie Concepción and friends
8:00–9:00am Breakfast in Salon H/I/J
SALON E/F
WEDNESDAY 8:15–8:45am Sponsored Breakfast Session: Rorohiko
Crawler: a Generic Conversion Tool for InDesign
Kris Coppieters
15 MINUTE BREAK
9:00–9:45am Creative Keynote: The Client Whisperer
Mark Heaps
15 MINUTE BREAK
10:00–10:20am A Jargon-Free Guide to Compressing and Editing Video
Keith Gilbert
10:20–11:00am InDesign Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
David Blatner & Anne-Marie Concepción
15 MINUTE BREAK
11:15–11:35am YouTube: A Crucial Tool for Creatives and Publishers
Roberto Blake
11:35am–12pm IBooks Author: Up to Speed
Erica Gamet
12:00–1:15pm Lunch With Adobe
Bring your lunch from Salon H/I/J to Salon E/F and meet the Adobe Team
SALON E SALON F SALON C/D
1:30–2:30pm Streamlining Design The Surprising Power Designing Fixed-
and Editorial of Print in the Digital Layout EBooks
Workflows Age with InDesign CC
Russell Viers Trish Witkowski AM Concepción
2:45–3:45pm InDesign Animation: The Future of Must-Know
Pushing the Publishing: The Next Interactive Effects for
Boundaries Five Years Tablet Apps
Diane Burns and Blatner, Kleinfeld, Bob Levine and
Sandee Cohen Rankin, and Keith Gilbert
Witkowski
SCHEDULE
4:00–4:30pm Three Minutes Max
PePcon Speakers
4:30–4:45pm …and in conclusion
WEDNESDAY David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción
(CONTINUED) 5:00–8:00pm Dinner on your own
8:00–9:30pm CreativeWow! Sneak Peeks by Creative Developers
Creative Developers Summit
8:00–9:00am Breakfast in Salon H/I/J
SALON E SALON F SALON C/D SALON A/B
8:15–8:45am Sponsored Breakfast Session: movemen
MathTools and ePublishing
Ferdinand Schwörer
THURSDAY 9:00am–12pm Creating Publishing Publishing to Creative
Interactive Interactive Kindle Developers
PDFs Apps for Kevin Callahan Summit
Michael Murphy Tablets and Joshua Part 1
Keith Gilbert Tallent
1:30–4:30pm Fantastic Four: EPUB: Beyond Building Books Creative
Photoshop, the Basics and other Long Developers
InDesign, Laura Brady Documents Summit
Illustrator, and Nigel French Part 2
Bridge
Russell Viers
SPEAKERS
ROBERTO BLAKE is a graphic designer and content
creator who has worked across, print, web and video for
a number of years. His personal work has been featured
in publications such as Advanced Photoshop and
Photoshop Creative. Roberto is also a contributing writer
for CreativePro, InDesignSecrets, HOW, and Print.
DAVID BLATNER is the co-host of InDesignSecrets.com CHAD CHELIUS has been using Adobe software for
PePcon: The Print + ePublishing Conference. He is also more than 20 years and has been a contributing author
the co-founder and publisher of InDesign Magazine, to numerous books on Adobe print applications. Chad
and the co-author of Real World InDesign. He presents has helped major publishing clients to implement Adobe
“InDesign Essential Training” and “InDesign Insider software into their business processes and has assisted
Training” titles at lynda.com and has spoken at them in streamlining their workflows.
conferences and workshops on five continents.
SANDEE COHEN is the only third-party author to have
LAURA BRADY is an old-school typesetter who has written educational materials for all versions of InDesign.
re-tooled for the digital world. She is the principal of Her latest books are Digital Publishing with Adobe
Brady Type, a digital + print book production studio. InDesign and the InDesign CS6 Visual QuickStart Guide.
Laura worked extensively in the various reflowable and She has spoken at many conferences and seminars
fixed-layout formats, and in supporting trade publishers around the world.
with backlist conversions.
ANNE-MARIE CONCEPCIÓN aka “Her Geekness,” is the
DIANE BURNS is an author, trainer, consultant, and co-host of PePcon: The Print + ePublishing Conference
founder of San Francisco-based TransPacific Digital, and InDesignSecrets.com and. She owns Chicago-based
a leading print and digital localization company. She Seneca Design & Training, a design studio that provides
is the co-author of the Adobe Press book, Digital print, PDF, and ebook design and development to
Publishing with Adobe InDesign and is also an author for authors and publishers. She has authored over 20 titles
lynda.com’s Online Training Library. on lynda.com on topics such as InCopy and InDesign.
KEVIN CALLAHAN is the owner of BNGO Books, a CHRIS CONVERSE is a graduate of the Rochester
New York City print and digital design studio. Kevin Institute of Technology, and has over 20 years
adapts print editions to their reflowable or fixed-layout experience in graphic and interactive design, with a
counterparts, and develops “straight-to-e” publications unique focus on both design and development in PHP,
for all platforms. He trains large publishing houses, small HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and AngularJS. He has
presses, and self-published authors. developed courses at lynda.com and Udemy.com.
SPEAKERS
IRIS AMELIA FEBRES is currently director of solutions MARK HEAPS has held senior positions with Duarte,
architecture at Aptara, where she assists clients in Apple, Google, and Maxim-IC, and was a Senior
organizing and executing digital eBook solutions. Prior Instructor and curriculum developer for Brooks College.
to Aptara, Iris held roles at F+W Media and O’Reilly He also runs the ATX Photography & Video studio in
Media. Iris teaches eBook production at Emerson Austin, Texas, where he currently lives with his wife, two
College and forever pines to own a corgi. kids, two dogs, and a pantry full of ketchup.
NIGEL FRENCH is a graphic designer, author, artist, SANDERS KLEINFELD is Director of Publishing
and trainer based in the feisty town of Lewes, East Technology at O’Reilly Media, where he focuses on R&D
Sussex, UK. He is author of InDesign Type: Professional of next-generation publishing tools, workflows, and
Typography with Adobe InDesign and more than thirty ebook content. He developed HTMLBook, a specification
titles at lynda.com. He also writes a type-related column for authoring print and electronic book content, and is
for InDesign Magazine. the author of HTML5 for Publishers (O’Reilly, 2011).
JAMES FRITZ has a degree in Graphic Design, has BOB LEVINE is a dedicated Adobe InDesign geek
worked as a full time instructor for a training center, focused primarily on Digital Publishing. He is the author
and is currently the Director of Content, Creative of Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Essential Training at
at lynda.com. A recent transplant from Milwaukee lynda.com, and a partner in Tabulous.net, which provides
to Seattle, James has spoken at many events and a wide range of digital publishing solutions including
conferences around North America and Europe. design, production, training, and consulting.
ERICA GAMET has been involved in the graphics DAN MARCOLINA is a renowned innovator in digital
industry for over 25 years. She is a speaker, trainer, print, interactive and video design, with clients such as
and regular contributor to InDesign Magazine, Adobe, Discovery Channel, and Business Wire. In his over
CreativePro.com, and Design Tools Monthly. Erica 25 year career his inventive work has been featured in
recently put down roots in El Paso, Texas, where she dozens of books & magazines including Communications
hikes and bikes every chance she gets. Arts, Graphis, and The Macintosh Bible.
KEITH GILBERT is a digital publishing consultant and MICHAEL MURPHY is an award-winning graphic
educator, Adobe Certified Instructor, Adobe Community designer, trainer, and author of Adobe InDesign Styles:
Professional, conference speaker, lynda.com author, and How to Create Better, Faster Text and Layouts (Adobe
contributing writer for various publications, including Press). He’s also the author of several InDesign-related
InDesign Magazine. His work has taken him throughout courses on lynda.com including “InDesign for Web
North America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. Design” and “Learning GREP with InDesign.”
JUSTIN PUTNEY is a designer, animator, developer,
speaker, author (Adobe Press & lynda.com), Adobe
Community Professional, entrepreneur, and minimalist
runner. He is also co-founder of ajarproductions, and a
Manager of Creative Technology at Pearson.
MIKE RANKIN is the Editor in Chief of InDesign
Magazine, InDesignSecrets.com, and CreativePro.com.
He is also the author of several lynda.com video training
series, including “Font Management Essential Training,”
“InDesign FX,” and “InDesign CC: Interactive Document
Fundamentals.”
BART VAN DE WIELE is an internationally known
MIRA RUBIN is an Adobe Certified Instructor, author, digital publishing trainer and consultant based in
designer, speaker, and founder of Mira Images. She has Belgium focusing on Adobe design products and the
written many demo scripts and tutorials for Adobe and Digital Publishing Suite (DPS). Bart is certified as an
is the author of Interactive InDesign CC (Focal Press) Adobe Instructor, Adobe Design Master, and Adobe
and the soon to be released interactive eBook, HTML5 Community Professional.
Animation in InDesign CC2014 and Beyond.
RUSSELL VIERS has spoken at publishing events in
JOSHUA TALLENT, the Chief eBook Architect at 22 countries since 1997. He has also taught many major
Firebrand Technologies, has been an eBook developer publications and designers to work faster and improve
since 2002, and is a well-known eBook expert and quality, including Better Homes and Gardens, Ladies
teacher. He and his team are also the creators of Home Journal, New York Times Regional Papers, Sabah,
FlightDeck, the most robust EPUB quality assurance tool American Greetings, Crayola, and many others.
available.
TRISH WITKOWSKI is an educator, author, speaker,
KAT TOPAZ is the Creative Director at Storycode, where and award-winning designer. Specializing in creative
she architects and designs digital publication apps. An solutions for direct mail and marketing, she is the curator
award-winning designer, Kat has redesigned over 50 of the world’s most exciting collection of folded print
magazines and newspapers. After years in the print and direct mail samples. She also hosts the “60-second
industry, she embraced digital publications and has been Super-cool Fold of the Week,” and is an instructor at
a leader in thinking, “digital-first.” lynda.com.
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