PePcon Speaker Dossier: Diane Burns, the Animations Super Star
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In the PePcon Speaker Dossier series we’re getting up close and personal with some of the coolest people on the planet: the print, PDF, and digital publishing gurus who’ll be the speakers at the conference! You’ve read their books, seen their videos, and liked their Facebook posts, now you can get to know them a little more personally, and have something to talk about when you meet them in person at PePcon.
“What’s a PePcon?” you ask. PePcon: The Print + ePublishing Conference is a massive 4-day multi-track extravaganza of all things print, PDF, and digital publishing, produced by the same folks that bring you this web site, InDesignSecrets.com. The seventh annual PePcon will be coming to San Diego, June 5–8.
The Diane Burns Dossier
Geek Cred: Diane Burns is the animations super star. Want to make your publications stand out, include animations! Don’t know how? Don’t fret—Diane can help!
Hails from: Live Oak, Florida, which is in Suwannee County (as in “Way Down Upon.”) North Florida, the deep, deep South. Over 30 years ago, she traveled west, discovered San Francisco and never looked back.
Hangouts: A chef extraordinaire, you can almost always find Diane somewhere near a kitchen, at cooking class abroad (the pic below is from Bodrum, Turkey) or shopping the great local farmer’s markets for fresh vegetables to use in her cooking. You may also find her hiking, and depending on the week, maybe even in the Eastern Sierra, hiking well above 10,000 feet.
Short bio: Adobe InDesign Trainer and Consultant, Lynda.com Author, Chef Extraordinaire.
First job: At 14 she had a part-time job selling movie tickets, working the ticket booth in a local movie theatre.
First computer: Apple IIc running CP/M operating system
Pen and paper or keyboard? She likes pen and paper, very much, but uses a keyboard.
Favorite foods: Loves food and trends vegetarian, though there’s nothing wrong with bacon in her book. ;-)
At 6AM I am usually: reading the print version of the New York Times.
Current Projects: Diane runs a localization company called TransPacific Digital and has her hands full with private training and consulting gigs. She is happy to report that she just completed another Lynda course, that is not yet released, but let’s just say it is relevant to her session at PePcon 2016.
Her PePcon 2016 Session: This will Diane’s 7th year speaking at PePcon and this year her session is titled: Publish Online: Web Distribution with a Click of a Button. Attendees can expect to see examples of how Publish Online is being used; learn the pros and cons of the platform; learn how InDesign’s interactive features can be used; and how to publish, share and embed documents.
An InDesign Tip from Diane:
Add One Color Swatch from Another File
You can add colors from another file to the Swatches panel by choosing Load Swatches on the panel’s flyout menu. But what if you want to add just one color? Choose New Color Swatch. Under the Color Mode menu, choose Other Library, then select the file containing the colors you want to add. The colors from the file will show up as individual swatches that you can add one by one to your current file.
What attendees have to say about Diane’s conference sessions:
“Diane’s object styles class was amazing. I can’t wait to use the knowledge I gained in this session some time soon.” ~PePcon 2015 attendee
Website: dianeburns.com
Social Media: Twitter: @dianeburns_sf Linkedin: Diane Burns
Want more Diane? Register for PePcon: the Print + ePublishing Conference 2016 and join us San Diego. Not only is this the #1 conference for creatives within the publishing industry, it’s also the best place to mingle with the masters and build a community of colleagues from around the world.
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