United States of AmericaYour to-the-point, pressed-for-time Flash presentation was phenomenal!! I took notes galore and really feel comfortable to dive into Flash at some point and got some food for thought in some grey areas with my current programs. Thanks! Loved it!
Claude Elenewich
Anthem Institute
Event DetailsOur spring meeting at the Anthem Institute in North Brunswick went off with a bang. We had two different applications supported, a Q&A, a little pizza, some give-aways and a whole lot of knowledge presented.
After pizza, we started off the night, (as will be our new custom), to answer some questions from the members. So, the next time you run into a snag, write it down and we'll address it next meeting.
Next, Mat Gilbert, your co-chapter rep, demonstrated the greatly enhanced feature of Preflight within InDesign CS4. How now (brown cow) you can create profiles that can be shared with your workgroup to target the production problems that most vex you and your prepress department.
Alison Cattelona, your other co-chapter rep, gave a quick course on Flash. Skipping over hours of material to deliver the bare bones and most important beginnings of Flash, our audience proved to be quick to absorb.
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If you have noticed the Word style mapping preset bug in the CS4 version of InDesign, and you want to see it fixed, please report it to Adobe. The more people who report it, the higher on the list of things to get fixed it will go. The problem occurs when mapping Word styles when importing a Word file. While you can still map the styles, you can no longer save them as a preset as before. So, if you have multiple files using the same Word styles, you will have to map them again and again each time you import a file. To report this bug (#2255226), go to
Thank you to Claude Pain at Anthem Institute who continues to provide our venue. O'Reilly Books and Pearson Publishing who continues to stock our raffle shelves. And of course to Adobe who provide our software giveaway.
Job Description for Pre-Press Mac Operator
Responsible for creating direct to plate PDF files to the jacket printer
Extensive knowledge of PDF creation and workflows
Knowledgeable in numerous programs including Adobe Indesign CS4, Illustrator, Quark 7 Acrobat, Photoshop
Experienced and advanced knowledge of the printing process
Advanced color correcting skills
Ability to work well with and translate files from designers
Train and support the designers on staff
Supply support to freelancers so they can supply the appropriate files for output
Act as liaison between technical/prep personnel at vendors and Art Dept
A good design sensibility is helpful but not necessary
If interested, please respond to Steve.Kotrch@simonandschuster.com.
Learned about new tools in CS4-Great, Excellent presentation of Flash. New way of looking at programs.
-Charlie
Great tips, Thanks!
-Barbara
Excellent -- Really was an opportunity to not only learn something new, but to interact with the concepts.
-Tina
I KICKED A** at work after last month's meeting (Illustrator's Live Color). I taught it to my co-workers the day after the meeting.
-Dave
This IDUG is very helpful and anybody looking to further their knowledge should attend. Alison was great. Best and easiest to understand basic Flash lesson
-William
Great Presentations.
-Terrence
July 21, 2009 at the Anthem Institute in North Brunswick.
If you're curious about using the Book feature of InDesign, you won't want to miss the next meeting of the Central NJ InDesign User Group.
Adobe's Noha Edell will present the ins and outs of long document construction. Along the way, she will demystify synchronizing styles, swatches and more across multiple documents via the Book panel, generating dynamic tables of contents, indexing, and cross-references.
But that's not all: in the process of constructing documents, she'll hit on many other important CS4 features along the way. To get an idea of the features she'll cover, download Noha's outline at http://indesignusergroup.com/events/event_attachments/LongDocumentsDemofeatures.pdf.
Alison Cattelona & Matthew Gilbert
Chapter Representatives
New Jersey - Central InDesign User Group
centralnj@indesignusergroup.com
