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23 August, 2007

It was an unusually cold, wet, and rainy night for 52 people to attend the Brisbane InDesign User Group meeting at the Hilton Hotel in the Queens Street Mall—but they did it! We were fortunate for our second meeting to have Noha Edell, Business Development Manager for Adobe, as our guest speaker on all things OpenType and type styles. Noha managed to delight the audience with all the tricks and timesaving tips for OpenType. We were all amazed at all the extra swashes, ligatures, and flourishes the typefaces had to offer.

Open Type
Presented by Noha Edell
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Some of the highlights of the evening were the typefaces themselves, P22 Mystic with its magic ball capabilities, and House industries Ed Interlock. Next to be presented was Layer Comps and its use in InDesign, along with Paragraph, Character, and Nested Styles, to make text editing a breeze. A quick look at Object styles finished off the presentation. At the end, many wonderful prizes were awarded. And Noha took the time to answer new users’ questions about InDesign CS3.

A huge thank you goes to our sponsors, (Aquent Brisbane, Fuji Xerox Australia, and Adobe) and the following companies that contributed raffle prizes (Peachpit, Layers Magazine, Adobe, and O'Reilly Press) for a terrific and informative evening. And big thank you to Noha for the huge distance she traveled to bring us the Wonders of Type in InDesign.

Here are some comments from the attendees:

“My Ligatures are swashed! My layers are Comped! All things are bridged. InDesign is a great little package and so is Noha. Fabulous! Thanks!”

“Fantastic! Very insightful & informative. I can finish work early tomorrow with all the time I will save and ask for a raise - because of the great design I will be able to do!”

“Noha Edell - what a pleasure to listen to you! Very comprehensive & yes! interesting & fun!”

“Good Stuff - really insightful useful - humourous!! BRAVO!”

“Very good Presenter with great sense of humour for nerds. Very impressed with the nested styles! Clever!”

“Really like the format and I didn’t feel completely useless/stupid because my level of expertise is that of a beginner.”

“I’m encouraged to pursue using InDesign more, and stay involved in the User Group. Good time - not too late.”

“Noha was funny and informative. The presentation was relative and interesting. I will definitely be coming back to other presentations.”

“Presenter has great personality and no sleeping in this meeting. Very informative. Very easy to understand. As a graphic design student, I found this meeting extremely thorough in some areas that I had previously not given much thought to.”

“Noha’s presentation was better that sliced bread!!!”

“Very good information presented!! Worth my time for sure!! Very good presenter, very entertaining, I stayed awake.”

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