Thank you!

Basically, our designer had already made this conference banner in InDesign and then the people wanted it changed at the last minute....but it ended up having to go from horizontal to vertical and be resized, so a lot of things had to change to make the banner "make sense".

It's going to be rather large (85cmx2m, mounted in a banner stand at this conference), so I figured it was in InDesign to ensure the vector images maintain their integrity or something and didn't want to switch it to Photoshop. I'm not any more familiar with Illustrator than I am with InDesign, so making it in there didn't make much sense either. ANYWAY. I've solved a lot of the earlier problems I was having, but I'll attach two images. This is the original horizontal banner made by the actual designer and this is my rough attempt at making it vertical. (Yes the secret is out: global health agencies aren't big on design! The logo....the hideous logo...)

Obviously the text needs a lot of adjustment and such, but I'm just happy to have everything I want/need on the damn page. My two main concerns at this point are: 1. Part of the ring in the middle of the page (which is part of an Illustrator image of the logo with a clipping path blocking the rest) is faded...but only the part where it intersects with the upper, darker portion of the page. If it helps, the page is divided into two rectangles (a dark one on top and a light one on bottom). I've tried "bring to front" and all that, but can't seem to make it work.

1. The StopTBPartnership logo on the bottom of the page is oddly faded. It isn't like that in the original. I'd copy-pasted it in from the original banner, so I'm not sure why it's like that. I'm sure this can be fixed by just getting another image of the logo and linking to it, but I'm just wondering if you know why it's like that...just trying to learn the mysteries of InDesign!

Anyway, thanks so much for helping me out.