Welcome to the InDesign User Groups.

See our global community in action.

The InDesign User Group website is a place to find upcoming user group meetings, access a wide range of InDesign and InCopy resources, and get information about industry events. Attend an InDesign User Group meeting to learn more about Adobe InDesign, InCopy and other Creative Suite tools, connect with peers, and stay up-to-date on publishing trends.

What's New
Meeting Summaries
Of Interest

Announcing Adobe InDesign CS4
Check out the newest release of this leading professional page layout program today.
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Don't miss the launch of InDesign CS4 at your local IDUG meeting
Find out when and where the IDUG meetings are being held across the world.
• Find a CS4 meeting

Top New Features of InDesign CS4!
Join InDesign Product Manager Michael Ninness as he walks us through video demontrations of the top new features of InDesign CS4.
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Create digital documents with InDesign CS4
See how the strengths of InDesign CS4 and Adobe Flash CS4 Professional together deliver an engaging SWF file complete with animation, interactivity, video, and sound.
• See for yourself

New chapters!

Auckland, lead by Martinho da Gloria.
Colombia, lead by Margarita Velasco.
Perth, lead by Cari Jansen.

InDesign Podcasts
Hear from experts in Adobe InDesign. These podcatsts feature discussions, tips and explanations about improving your InDesign workflow.
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InDesign Blogs
A great source of tips, tricks and all around sound advice on how to be creative and productive with InDesign.
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Meeting notes are available from these past meetings.

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Creative Suite 4 Launch Tour NYC

Fri, January 16, 2009

New Jersey - Central

Get a GREP/Photoshop Tips/Tricks

Tue, December 16, 2008

Reno

Exploring InDesign CS4

Tue, December 9, 2008

Perth

Image Magic with InDesign CS4

Thu, December 4, 2008

Boston

Creative Suite 4! Need I say more?

Thu, December 4, 2008

New York City

December 3 Meeting of the NY InDesign User Group

Wed, December 3, 2008

Denver

Denver InDesign User Group: Holiday Party and Tips and Tricks

Tue, December 2, 2008

Amsterdam

User Experience

Wed, November 26, 2008

Tampa

Creative Suite 4

Fri, November 21, 2008

Washington, D.C.

InDesign's Top 21 Presets & The Best of CS4

Thu, November 20, 2008

Find archived meeting summaries on our chapter pages

GREP in InDesign
By Michael Murphy
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Style Relationships Through InDesign
By Michael Murphy
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Style = Substance
By Michael Murphy
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InDesign CS4 What's New
Create compelling print content, interactive PDFs, and immersive publications for viewing with Adobe Flash^® Player — all with beautiful typography and stunning page design.
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CS4 Design Premium What's New (PDF attached)
Design with familiar tools, including InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator, knowing you can translate your work smoothly into virtually any medium. With Flash made easier than ever to use, Fireworks added for prototyping websites, and Dreamweaver enhanced for standards-based web production, now you can realize the full promise of cross-media design.
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InDesign CS4 Top 10 Features (SWF attached)
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Transparency
A detailed overview of the transparency functions in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop CS3 (and other versions). Shows features, effects, how to use them, how to share or import them, best practices for error-free output. (From Adobe BDM Noha Edell's presentation to the DC Area IDUG chapter in September 2008.)
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Option/Alt-Click Shortcuts
Michael Murphy (creator and host of "The InDesigner" podcasts and blog) created this collection of truly time-saving and little-known shortcuts for getting the most, the fastest out of the Control Panel in InDesign. Using just the Alt or Option key, you can reveal full dialog boxes related to many common functions for Text and Object modes as well as Table mode.
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Member Snippets Newsletter
The Detroit IDUG chapter’s periodic newsletter includes tips, how-to articles, resources, book reviews, Q&A, fun and games, and special offers, related to InDesign and sometimes to the greater design industry.
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InNews Newsletter: InNews III Junio - Julio 2008
The Puerto Rico IDUG chapter creates an interactive PDF newsletter that includes sound, motion, news, reviews, and informative articles about various tools and features. (Some articles in Spanish, some in English.)
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