Major Sponsor
Adobe Systems is a multinational computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California. Adobe has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more-recent foray towards rich Internet application software development. It is best known for Photoshop, the PDF format, Adobe Creative Cloud, and in particular InDesign and InCopy.
Ongoing Sponsors
Adobe Community Experts Program
The Adobe Community Experts Program consists of teachers, creatives, freelancers, authors, publishers, bloggers, hobbyists, and industry influencers from among our customer base who use their experience and expertise to educate and inspire their fellow users on the Adobe Support Community and other platforms.
DTP Tools
DTP Tools Ltd. is a leading provider of InDesign, InCopy and InDesign Server solutions. With InDesign plug-ins such as Cross-References, Page Control, History or Keyboard Shortcuts, the company helps make InDesign users more efficient and more fun. The eight-year-old company creates custom solutions to customers who demand the most efficient document workflow.
CreativePro Magazine
CreativePro Magazine is the essential how-to magazine for creative professionals. Filled with practical, real-world information, the magazine provides independent, valuable insights into how to work more efficiently and design more effectively. Each issue offers tutorials, reviews, news, and inspirational content on InDesign as well as four other subject areas: design, photo, illustration, and presentation.
In Easy Steps
In Easy Steps is an independent UK publisher renowned worldwide for publishing excellent resources for beginner programming, technology for seniors, and coding and electronics for children and young adults—established for over 30 years. In Easy Steps books are ideal for self-learning as well as classroom-based training, and are used worldwide by millions.
InMotion Hosting
InMotion Hosting is an employee-owned and -operated domain name and web hosting company founded in 2001. Its web hosting network is based on Linux and Unix operating systems. The company maintains offices in Virginia and California. The company provides a wide range of web hosting solutions, including business class hosting, VPS hosting, personal/cheap hosting and dedicated servers.
Insider Software
Insider creates asset, font and workflow management solutions for design, web, art, graphics, pre-press, print, marketing and creative teams; commercial, education and government institutions; and the largest publishers, film studios, entertainment networks, creative houses and advertising agencies worldwide. The company's most well-known and popular product is FontAgent Pro.
Markzware
Markzware is a leading developer of Adobe InDesign plug-ins, including FlightCheck, OmniMarkz, PDFMarkz, QXPMarkz, and IDMarkz. The first commercial preflight application, called FlightCheck was introduced to the public by Markzware and appeared at the Seybold Seminars Conference at San Francisco in the Fall of 1995.
Rocky Nook
Rocky Nook, a small, independent publishing company, was founded in 2006 to help photographers of all levels improve their skills. In time, the company expanded and applied its passion for creativity and making finely crafted books to other topic areas. They now publish books on drawing, painting, graphic design, crafts, and more.
occasional Sponsors
AcademyX
AcademyX provides hands-on, instructor-led computer training at its branches across California as well as private training nationally and internationally. They teach MS Office, Adobe programs, web development, programming, web design, web marketing and a variety of other desktop and web-based technologies. In business for over 14 years, AcademyX has trained over 30,000 students.
Ajar Productions
Ajar Productions is the animation and software studio of Justin Putney and AJ Petersen (husband and wife, respectively). The company creates both free and paid flash extensions, scripts for Illustrator and InDesign, and the standalone applications Flannel, CacheMan and Duplix. The company is noteworthy for in5 which exports HTML5 directly from Adobe InDesign.
American Graphics Institute
AGI provides organizations and individuals with training and support for design, marketing, and publishing technology. The company offers regularly scheduled courses with a live instructor in our classrooms and online, or private training at your location or theirs. Headquartered in Boston, and from its locations in six major cities, AGI also delivers on-site training at client locations around the world.
Astute Graphics
Astute Graphics makes innovative plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator that significantly save time, boost creativity and help to achieve refined results. Their plug-ins (for Mac OS and Windows) include: VectorScribe, Phantasm, MirrorMe, InkScribe, Rasterino, Stylism, DynamicSketch, AutoSaviourPro, WidthScribe, ColliderScribe2, Rasterino, InkQuest and FREE SubScribe , Denimaker and Autosaviour.
Em Software
Em Software has been in the data publishing and editorial tools business for nearly 25 years as this is being written, is one of the oldest Quark XTension developers in the world, and was one of the very first InDesign plug-in developers (recruited by Adobe before InDesign 1.0 shipped). Their team is spread across four cities in three states: Ohio, Colorado and Texas.
Future Media Concepts
Headquartered in New York City, FMC operates seven additional digital media training facilities located in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Orlando, Chicago and Irvine. The company also provides on-site training worldwide. Its training centers offer a regular open schedule on all software for desktop publishing, web design and development and other digital media platforms.
Indiscripts
Indiscripts focuses on layout automation, scripting practice and plug-ins development in the context of Adobe InDesign. The company aims to illustrate the possibilities offered by the JavaScript cross-platform language within the Adobe application(s), and to deliver useful information to script creators. Indiscripts is published by Marc Autret, developer and graphic designer at StudioEditorial (France).
Kerntiff Publishing Systems
Kerntiff creates and develops InDesign plug-ins. Their expertise is financial, legal, medical print and web and mobil applications. The comapny also does price panel production, correction and update; and creation of interactive indexes from InDesign documents for ePUB. They can get indexes created in SKY, Cindex or MacRex into InDesign embedded to page level.
MathMagic
MathMagic is an award-winning equation editor with an easy-to-use interface that allows designers to write equations and symbols quickly. Equations can be placed by drag/drop, copy/paste or export/import. MathMagic Pro Editions come with plug-ins for InDesign that allow use of MathMagic while still inside InDesign without going through export/import.
O’Reilly Media
For over 40 years O’Reilly has provided technology and business training, knowledge, and insight to help companies succeed. It shares knowledge and expertise through books, articles, and an online learning platform. O’Reilly online learning provides on-demand access to live training courses, in-depth learning paths, interactive coding environments and certification prep materials.
Peachpit Press
Since 1986, Peachpit's award-winning products have featured step-by-step explanations, time-saving techniques, savvy insider tips, and expert advice in the fields of photography, graphic design, web design and development and digital video. Peachpit is the home of the internationally recognized Classroom in a Book series and is the publishing partner for Adobe, among others
Pluralsight
Pluralsight is the global leader in online learning for software developers, IT specialists, engineers, architects and creative technologists. As the world’s largest curated professional development platform, it offers instant access to more than 4,700 courses by top experts. With customers in over 150 countries, Pluralsight serves as a career catalyst, delivering hands-on, practical training for the most in-demand jobs of today.
Recosoft
Recosoft was established in 1991 to deliver software and information technology solutions for the global marketplace. Recosoft’s in-house talent pool possesses superior skills in the development of WYSIWIG GUI software. Their team software engineers are skilled in the fields of image processing, computer animation, page layout, Japanese language solutions, document format conversions and the Internet.
Rosenfeld
Rosenfeld Media connects people interested in designing better user experiences with the best expertise available—in the formats that make the most sense, and in ways that demonstrate the value of UX. As UX becomes mission-critical for more industries, organizations, and people, Rosenfeld is a valuable expertise that helps make sense of user experience design.
SkillForge
SkillForge was founded by trainers with over 15 years of experience in the training industry. Their instructors are experts in their field with years of hands-on experience and multiple certifications in the subjects they teach. They provide technical and business skills classes to companies, institutions and individuals across North America. Training can be delivered on-site, off-site or online.
StockLayouts
StockLayouts, an Oregon-based company, was organized in July 2001 to develop affordably priced graphic design solutions for producing professionally designed marketing materials in print, including brochures, newsletters, postcards, stationery, menus and ads. StockLayouts customers range from graphic design firms and advertising agencies to freelancers and self-publishers.
Teacup Software
Founded in 2002, Teacup Software creates solutions exclusively for InDesign, both as a consulting firm and a vendor of ready-made plug-ins. Their exclusive focus has allowed them to develop an outstanding expertise with the highly complex InDesign API. Featuring little or no user-interface, their plug-ins simply humming along in the background of InDesign, unobtrusively doing their work.
Zevrix
Located in Toronto, Canada, Zevrix Solutions provides automation and productivity solutions for Adobe Creative Cloud and Creative Suite software, graphic file diagnostics and file delivery. Zevrix is dedicated to help professionals to achieve more with less resources by automating everyday tasks, producing error-free documents, saving disk space, cutting production costs and achieving more with smaller work force.