Milwaukee InDesign User Group

We’re excited to have Dave Gillespie and Jim Maivald as our featured speakers! Dave is a 30 year veteran in the graphic arts industry, and Jim is a designer, consultant and certified trainer with over 20 years experience in the Chicago area. Jim Maivald, author of The Designer’s Guide to Adobe InDesign and XML (Adobe Press) and Photoshop Complete (Desktop Design) will bring us up to speed with InDesign, eBooks, and XML. XML is everywhere today. It’s being used on the web, in print, even on your cell phone. Yet, it’s poorly understood by most designers and the general public. In the last couple years XML has been given one more task: electronic books. The Kindle, iPad and Sony Reader are only three of new eBook readers now available. Publishers are scrambling to provide content in this new market and XML and InDesign are on the forefront of this technology. · Compare and contrast popular eBook formats · Learn how to apply XML structure to InDesign documents · Make document structures comply with specific schemas and DTDs · Learn how to export print-based content to eBook formats Dave Gillespie will demonstrate the transformative creative application, Flow. Built by creatives, for creatives, Flow has been garnering serious industry attention since its release in 2009. Dave will be providing insight on how you can easily version content, maintain a clear understanding of file dependencies and relationships, track the time you spend in the creative process as well as expose some hidden functionality that will make you clamor to implement this amazing tool into your workflow. ========================= Agenda 6:00 Registration 6:30 InDesign, eBooks, and XML, Jim Maivald 7:30 Break 7:45 Flow, Dave Gillespie 8:45 Door Prizes 9:00 Adjourn ========================= This is a great opportunity to become familiar with XML. And, if you’re interested in better understanding the anatomy of your projects, then this session is one you will not want to miss.