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Denver Meeting: InDesign Server
Tue, Oct 2nd, 2007 at 6:30 PM
Front Range Community College, Westminster Campus
Event Details

Meeting Business
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Presentations: Presenter Information:
Brian Reyman
Brian is co-chair of the Denver InDesign User Group as well as a Director at Aimco, a large Real Estate Investment Trust. At Aimco, Brian oversees graphic design, content development and technology for their Technical Standards team.

InDesign Server…Why you need it: Presenter Brian Reyman Do you work in an environment where people who have no layout or design experience in creating fliers or brochures in Word or other word processing software? As a designer, Word can be a painful experience. InDesign (ID) Server could be your saving grace.

What’s great about ID Server is that you can have access to creating professional looking templates any time that anyone in your workgroup can use with minimal training. Bring the design to the people! You only need to create a Web interface that your workgroup can log on to allowing many people access to the templates that you created. As an administrator you can set permissions for individual workgroups to either all or certain templates.

The interface can be created to look like Microsoft Word (or anything else) for example, even though the template's backbone is ID, to make your end users more comfortable with using it. With ID Server this makes it easier for many people at once to collaborate on a project without ever having to purchase separate InDesign licenses.

If you aren’t comfortable or have the skills to create a Web interface there are many service providers that can do that for you. Cost depends on what the particular needs of your company are. For more information about ID Server, developer resources and a service provider list go to www.adobe.com/products/indesignserver.

(Download Brian’s InDesign Server Overview Presentation at the bottom of this page)

Using InDesign with other Creative Suite Applications (Photoshop and Illustrator):
Presenter: Brian Reyman
There are a lot of fun shortcuts that can be done with Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. This time Brian discussed images. If you have multiple layers in a Photoshop or Illustrator image file you can turn off and turn on different layers to preview different looks. As you do so, make sure you name your layers in Photoshop or Illustrator so that you know which ones you want to turn off and on.

Photoshop: After you have created your image with multiple layers in Photoshop go into ID where your document is open. Place your image in the document by either, Ctrl (Cmd)+D, or copy and paste the image or file/place the image. After you have placed your image go to Object/Object Layer Option. There you can hide or reveal layers. If you created layer comps in Photoshop you can choose to use that view instead. In object layers make sure that your “Updating Link Option” default is Keep Layer Visibility Overrides. Doing so will ensure that any changes you make to layer visibility will remain, even after the original file is updated.

Illustrator: There are two primary differences when dealing with Illustrator from what was described above. First, Illustrator does not currently support Layer Comps, so that option is not available when placing the file in InDesign. Second, when using Illustrator/InDesign CS3, you can take advantage of the fact that the artwork on the visible layer will automatically fit in the frame, without having to reposition it.

In addition to placing files from Illustrator, you can copy/paste basic vector artwork directly from Illustrator to InDesign, allowing direct editing, color changes, etc. in InDesign.

Wrap-Up
The silent auction went very well, raising over $800 for the group! Thanks again to everyone that participated,

Next Meeting

The next meeting is tentatively set for Tuesday, December 6. The plan for the meeting will be one presentation (on using Tables in InDesign) and the rest of the meeting will be a holiday party so everyone has time to really meet each other. During the December meeting we will have a silent auction instead of our regular auction format. So, if anyone has meeting feedback or questions or just wants to pass along some useful information that might benefit the group visit our forums at http://www.idugdenver.net/forum

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