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NEW! IDUG iPhone Web App
Find out when and where the next InDesign User Group meeting is being held around the world.
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Upcoming InDesign User Group Meetings Looking for your next chapter meeting? See when the next InDesign User Group meetings are being held — all over the world.
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Top Features of InDesign CS4!
Join InDesign Product Manager Michael Ninness as he walks us through video demonstrations
of the top new features of InDesign CS4. Watch now
Create digital documents with InDesign CS4
See how the strengths of InDesign CS4 and Adobe Flash CS4 Professional together deliver an engaging SWF file complete with animation, interactivity, video, and sound.
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InDesign Podcasts.
Hear from experts in Adobe InDesign. These podcasts feature discussions, tips and explanations about improving your InDesign workflow.
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InDesign Blogs.
A great source of tips, tricks and all around sound advice on how to be creative and productive with InDesign.
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InDesign CS4 What's New
Create compelling print content, interactive PDFs, and immersive publications
for viewing with Adobe Flash® Player — all with beautiful typography and
stunning page design. Download PDF
CS4 Design Premium What's New (PDF attached)
Design with familiar tools, including InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator,
knowing you can translate your work smoothly into virtually any medium.
With Flash made easier than ever to use, Fireworks added for prototyping
websites, and Dreamweaver enhanced for standards-based web production,
now you can realize the full promise of cross-media design. Download PDF
InDesign CS4 Top 10 Features (SWF attached) Watch now
Transparency
A detailed overview of the transparency functions in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop CS3 (and other versions). Shows features, effects, how to use them, how to share or import them, best practices for error-free output. (From Adobe BDM Noha Edell's presentation to the DC Area IDUG chapter in September 2008.) Download PDF
Option/Alt-Click Shortcuts
Michael Murphy (creator and host of "The InDesigner" podcasts and blog) created this collection of truly time-saving and little-known shortcuts for getting the most, the fastest out of the Control Panel in InDesign. Using just the Alt or Option key, you can reveal full dialog boxes related to many common functions for Text and Object modes as well as Table mode. Download PDF
Member Snippets Newsletter
The Detroit IDUG chapter’s periodic newsletter includes tips, how-to articles, resources, book reviews, Q&A, fun and games, and special offers, related to InDesign and sometimes to the greater design industry. Check it out
InNews Newsletter: InNews III
The Puerto Rico IDUG chapter creates an interactive PDF newsletter that includes sound, motion, news, reviews, and informative articles about various tools and features. (Some articles in Spanish, some in English.) Check it out
