From InDesign to iPad: Learn How at the Print and ePublishing Conference
The iPad is coming! The iPad is coming! But how best to get your InDesign content onto this tablet device? Will PDF work? What’s the deal with the ePub format? Can you convert your InDesign document into an Apple iPad app?
All these questions (and more) will be answered at the InDesignSecrets Print and ePublishing Conference, May 12-14, in Seattle, Washington. The conference is an independent event, but it is being held at the Adobe campus in Seattle to make it easy for members of the InDesign team (such as the software engineers) to come talk with attendees — and vice versa!
Of course, that is just one topic that will be discussed at the conference. Other topics include:
- InDesign CS5: What You Need to Know!
- Best practices for PDF for print workflows
- Converting InDesign documents for Kindle
- Dealing with MS Word-to-InDesign import situations
- XML and cross-media
- and more!
Plus, all attendees get a full-year subscription to InDesign Magazine, a one-month subscription to Lynda.com, free software, and a chance to win one of $5,000 worth of door prizes (including a full 20-person Adobe Font Folio)
Note that the early-bird registration ($200 off!) is ending in the next couple of weeks! So sign up now!
If you’re a member, also check your InDesignSecrets newsletter for a 10% off discount code.
There’s no way I could attend in Seattle, but I extremely interested in every single topic being presented.
Will this particular seminar (with its direct access to the InDesign creators) be recorded and made available as an e-seminar?
No, sorry — we believe the benefit of the conference is that we’re getting all these great brains in one place. I’m sure there will be articles and videos on the subject over time, but you just can’t “record” the experience of being at the live conference.
InDesign CS5: What You Need to Know!
What happened to NDA…
@Adobe: I assume you’re not really from Adobe, or else you’d know that http://cs5launch.adobe.com/ went live this week. The CS5 announce date will be April 12, and the Print and ePublishing Conference will be one of the first international events to cover the new upgrade. Should be great!
I should come to the conference but I try to find some extra money to do the trip. Will there someone else from Italy, except Rufus?
Anyone going from London / UK?
I wasn’t planning on going as I assumed costs are mega high for me (I’m just an Indesign enthusiast doing various pubs for charity & community on a voluntary basis). I did a quick calc and the all-in cost of getting there on the Tuesday and coming back on the Saturday would be around £1,500 including car, flights, hotel and conference earlybird fee. I haven’t booked any hols this year so this could me my “vacation” LOL. How sad
It really upsets me that Adobe can’t do a recording or a live streaming version of the conference. Honestly, at our company we’re streaming live seminars and conferences at the moment. If we can do it then I don’t know why Adobe can’t?
Anyway, it would be great to see this but it’s too short notice to go all the was to Seattle (from Ireland).
I know Adobe do big launch here in Ireland, I’ve been to the past few. So hopefully they’ll come again and I can get to see the new features soon enough.
Sometimes I think Adobe forgets that it has a huge market in Europe?
@Eugene: I can understand your frustration, but note that this is not an Adobe event. They are helping to sponsor it, but this is an InDesignSecrets event. (So you can vent your frustration at us, not Adobe.)
But as I said before, this event is not just about watching the presentations. The presentations are part of it, but it’s the Being There that has the biggest value. We hope you can make it to the 2011 conference! And, if this is successful, I’d like to do one of these conferences in Europe anyway, so perhaps we’ll find you there.
Oh right, I misread that. I just saw Adobe campus and InDesign team and engineers jumping off the page and I was a little disappointed.
Well if it’s not Adobe hosting it then I can definitely forgive you guys
Well good look with it, it sounds interesting, shame to hear about it when it’s only a couple of months away.
Luckily though I’ll have every reason to go America on a regular basis next year, as my brother is moving over there next month.
I’ve only ever seen one video of an InDesignsecrets conference and it was terrific.
I understand the atmosphere and electricity in the air at a live conference. But there’s no way I could get to America regularly to visit any of the conferences.
So I am a little disappointed a way of the lack of options. But I guess I have to live with it.
Hopefully a nice transcript of the InDesign notes will appear on the blog?
Funny, when I signed up for the PeP conference back in January, my primary interest was learning the best way to convert my publisher clients’ books to Kindle format. Since the iPad was announced, though, the Kindle has completely dropped off my radar, since I see it as a doomed piece of hardware.
Looking forward to hearing about all the topics you bulleted, David!
We just posted the preliminary schedule here:
http://indesignsecretslive.com/schedule.html
We still need to fill out the descriptions, but this should give a good idea of what’s to come!
in response to the fellow above about streaming the seminars…
I’ve been to a number of InDesign conferences, and while you can learn some of the stuff online, there’s nothing like the invaluable resource of networking and having live discussions during breaks, after hours, with your peers, adobe engineers, product managers, and people such as the above.
@Jeff
I like to think that if I lived in America I would go to as many of the InDesignSecrets conferences and seminars that I could. But America is just too far for me most of the time.
I’ve been posting on the blogs here for a long time, and I think Anne-Marie and David, and other hosts here, know I’m half joking about making them live seminars or recorded seminars. Where it would be nice, I also see the impracticality of it all.
I’m just trying to entice them to come over this side of the pond
when come to Indonesia (Jakarta)??
Just signed up! Looking forward to it!
We have spent quite a few hours getting to know Version 1.0 of the Apple iPad. One thing is for certain, this device is a game-changer for ePublishers.
For more on what can be done on the iPad…check out the article here:
http://www.rainydaymagazine.com/RDM2010/Home/April/Week3/RDMHomeApr1610.htm#iPadPublishing