Vancouver InDesign User GroupMeeting Summary
Styles and more Styles
Wed, Jun 25th, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Vancouver Film School - Theater
Event Details We held our second Vancouver InDesign User Group meeting on Wednesday, June 25th, 2008. The evening was a great success with over 60 members attending. The meeting was held at the Vancouver Film School in their newly renovated theater. Sebastian Distefano of Adobe once again wowed the audience with his knowledge of ID CS3 and demo-god abilities as he showcased Styles with InDesign.
The meeting began with an introduction by Jeff Kew, as he refreshed new and returning members' memories of some of the great online resources currently available:
http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters_topic_archive/index.php
(exploring meeting summaries and notes from other chapters)
https://www.lynda.com/
(new InDesign training)
http://www.indesignmag.com/
(new articles)
http://creativementor.com.au/
(a free InDesign training site created by an IDUG Chapter Rep in Australia)
Jeff also used the opportunity to give a plug to an IDUG member's new business and website. Steve Pinter (formerly of Rethink): http://www.jackgriffin.ca/. Jack Griffin provides preproduction planning, photo-shoot management, image retouching, and post-production for commercial photography assignments. So if any members out there are just going out on their own and would like a moment to say who you are and what you do, let Jeff know and he'll ask you to stand.
Sebastian Distefano of Adobe spent the rest of the evening discussing the following styles: Object Styles, Paragraph Styles, Character Styles, Nested Styles, Tab Styles. We actually ran out of time as the VFS people wanted us to go. Sebastian could've talked for hours more. The dialogue that went back and forth with Seb and the members was very lively and everyone put their logic-skills thinking caps on as we dissected nested styles and various ways of implementing them.
We concluded by drawing evaluation forms from a box to give away books from Peachpit and O'Reilly. As well, Andrew Fearnley of Simply Computing (http://www.simply.ca/)gave away an unknown (at the time) prize. The big draw was for 2 copies of Adobe Acrobat Pro v9. The two lucky winners should be receiving their software prizes sometime in August.
Thank YouMany thanks to Adobe for their ongoing and generous support. Without them we wouldn't be having these meetings.
Thanks again to all of our partners for support and raffle prizes:
Simply Computing (Refreshments Table and Prize giveaway)
PeachPit Press (Computer Training Books)
O'Reilly Press (Computer Training Books
Facilities for the meeting supplied by the Vancouver Film School, http://www.vfs.com.
A special thank-you to Sebastian Distefano for going the extra miles to be with us (over 3000 of them). Also a special thanks to our volunteers who put these meetings together; Jeff Kew, Trish Anderson, Regina Leung and Miles Harrison. And last but not least, thanks to everyone who came out for this event and gave us their generous feedback. Comments from the evaluation sheets“I loved it”
“Very comprehensive overview of Styles, Great tips and tricks”
“Presenter is awesome. Topic interesting and I need to explore it more”
“Great presenter and great venue”
“Excellent presentation content”
”Learned a lot”
“Great evening”
”Nested styles rock!”
“Very informative, I have never used style sheets”
“Excellent, Very worthwhile”
“I always learn something when I come to these meetings”
“It was great, was afraid of styles but after tonight I will definitely start to use them”
“Excellent overview of Styles/Nested Styles, provided insights that will change my workflow considerably. Thanks!”
“Super valuable information, just the tip of the style iceberg. Helpful to get an idea of what's available”
“Excellent meeting, wish we had more time”
“I increased my knowledge of styles. Good Shortcuts!”
“I learned something new on Styles tonight. Excellent” Next MeetingOur next meeting is sometime in September; stay posted! Details to come.
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