Open Publish Asia Pacific 2003 - Conference Announcement

Open Publish Asia Pacific
Sydney - July 28 to 31
http://www.openpublish.com.au

Details for the 3rd Annual Open Publish 2003 Conference for Standards and Process in Publishing have been released. This event will bring together authorities on industry standards, PDF, workflow, publishing markup languages, print on-demand, graphic design and other best practices for the publishing process.

Confirmed to deliver the opening conference keynote presentation is internationally respected publisher Tony Wheeler, founder of the world's leading travel book company, Lonely Planet. As publisher of 650 guidebooks in 14 different languages through both paper and electronic mediums, Tony is uniquely qualified to comment on the challenges of creating, managing and distributing information. In the two and a half days following Tony, over 50 presentations will explore all the latest ideas in publishing.

Open Publish 2003 will also coincide with the release of Acrobat 6.0 and to commemorate this, the event will feature a PDF Day chaired by leading PDF commentator, Karl De Abrew, the founder of PlanetPDF. Speakers at this session will include Tim Sullivan, the President of ActivePDF and Ted Padova, an internationally recognised authority on PDF and the author of The Acrobat PDF Bible.

Adobe Systems will be hosting their first Australian InDesign User Group meeting in conjunction with the Open Publish 2003. Featuring leading experts, trainers and vendors, this session will provide unparalleled InDesign training, tips and techniques appropriate both for experienced users and for those keen to learn more about why InDesign is rapidly becoming the tool of choice for Australia's largest publishing environments such as Australia Consolidated Press (ACP).

To peruse the main conference program please visit: www.openpublish.com.au/program2003.asp.

Open Publish is presented by Allette Systems in conjunction with IDEAlliance (USA).