Form Bliss: Best Practices for Completing PDF Forms in InDesign

As a marketing coordinator, you are often faced with a dilemma—how to deal with the required PDF forms in your pursuits. Are you tired of copying and pasting your company address repeatedly? What about finding all the dates when an addendum changes the deadline? Has your team changed right before print, and now you must fix tons of forms? If any of this sounds familiar, sign up today for this not-to-be-missed session on InDesign form bliss. We will explore three tricks for compliant, flexible, and efficient forms in InDesign—scripts, styles, and variables. 

HYBRID FORMAT: 
We will be starting a new hybrid format for our Lunch & Learns. The speaker will be virtual and attendees are welcome to join via zoom as well, but for any of our members/non-members who would like to come in-person for lunch/networking prior to the presentation, please select the "in-person" option when registering. *Lunch will be provided.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER

Julie Shaffer, CPSM, is passionate about helping AEC marketers maximize Adobe design tools to expedite content layout without sacrificing good design. An Adobe Certified Instructor for Creative Cloud Design & Layout Solutions, an award-winning designer, and a regular contributor to InDesign Magazine, Julie has spent more than two decades actively honing her skills on hundreds of pursuits.

In 2012, Julie founded Shaffer Creative to offer marketing consulting, training, and creative design services to help firms win work. Shaffer Creative exists to help its clients define differentiators and equip teams to leverage their marketing efforts.

Julie currently serves the SMPS Fort Worth Chapter as President for 2021–2022.