Seattle InDesign User GroupMeeting Notes Archive
January 9, 2007
Our first meeting of 2007, despite fears of snow and ice and the siren call of MacWorld in San Francisco, still attracted well over 100 attendees!
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Our topic was InCopy®, and the guest speaker for our editorial excursion this meeting was Chad Siegel, Product Manager at Adobe Systems Incorporated.
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Mike Wallen, a Senior Product Manager for Adobe, dove right into the magnificence that is InDesign® CS2.
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After pizza and chatting, we settled in for our dual-focus-segment meeting — covering paragraph styles, character styles, and even nested styles.
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Colin Fleming gave an informative demonstration of Acrobat® 7.0 Professional, and Steve, our new chapter representative, led us in a discussion of master pages and their various functionalities.
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Colin Fleming demonstrated GoLive®, InDesign, and cross-media worklows. We also received real-world InDesign tips from designer Jack Connick, and introduced a new topic called a focus segment.
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Demonstrations of a few InDesign plug-ins from Triple Triangle, including Spec Cubed, Color Spec Cubed, and Raster Write.
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Adobe's Thomas Phinney gave a great presentation on OpenType® technology and typography.
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• See the photos March 9, 2004
Well, March's meeting kept up the momentum for InDesign users all over the Seattle area. We had a good group of over 80 people who came to share ideas and solutions. And our friends from the Onus Group showed us a couple of plug-ins that can dramatically increase our productivity while using InDesign.
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This meeting's topics included InCopy CS, the PageMaker® Edition, and a demonstration of the InBooklet plug-in from ALAP.
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A total of 116 attendees heard Will Eisley, InDesign CS Product Manager, present the new CS version of InDesign (or, for those who like the numbering convention, InDesign 3.0).
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Adobe's Lisa Forrester shared loads of info about the new versions of the Acrobat® products. She gave in-depth coverage of Adobe Reader, Acrobat Elements, Acrobat 6.0 Standard, and Acrobat 6.0 Professional. Lots of info, many options, and loads of possibilities.
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• See the photos May 13, 2003
Scripting with Olav Martin Kvern and hijacking AppleScripts with Colin Fleming.
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This month we focused on InDesign plug-ins. We had two guests show a range of plug-ins that covered tools for individuals and tools for enterprise-level production.
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Second anniversary! And with 106 attendees, it was the largest InDesign user group turnout to date!
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A little history and some new changes.
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• See the photos January 12, 2010Play Well With Others: CS4 Suite Interaction
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November 10, 2009Cross-Applications Part 1: The Client Factor
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September 8, 2009Managing Long Documents: Bringing an end to the never ending story.
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July 14, 2009InDesign & Interactivity
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May 12, 2009Just Your Type
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March 10, 2009InDesign and Ouput
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January 13, 2009January Meeting: InDesign CS4 Good Stuff
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May 13, 2008May Meeting
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March 11, 2008March Meeting
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