Meeting Summary: Throw the Tomato

Thu, Feb 12th, 2009 at 6:00 PM

Morning Star Design Offices

Event Details

Firstly I would like to congratulations our winners Angela Carneiro, Chesway Slabbert, Janice Lewis and Juanita Matias.

It was really great to meet all of our new members and see our regulars once again.

We opened the meeting with the CS1 & CS2 Upgrade to CS4 pricing special for our region together with special pricing received from some of the plug-in manufacturers like Markzware's Q2ID and TypeFitter.

The following interesting websites and resources were shared by all:

Devjobs
Aroundme
Agency Scoop
Indesign User Group
Pretoria & Cape Town Adobe User Groups
Adobe User Groups
Teacup Software
Q2ID Plugin by Markzware
Del.icio.us Links
IDusers.
Indesign Secrets
Seneca Design.com
Myfonts
PDF Zone
Brag Books
Various Facebook groups

Q & A session covered the following topics:

Why is CS4 so expensive?
Look into adding questions and notes onto user group site – community support points system

• Various spread creation techniques
  
• Automatic page numbering
  
• Imposition work on A4 vs A3 spreads
  
• Using the left, right, up and down arrow keys to manipulate "stars" while drawing
  
• Various ways of transforming objects – scaling and rotation etc with shortcuts
  
• Shift clicking on colour bar in the colour mixer to change colour mode
  
• Various ways of selecting the image vs the object or working withing groups without ungrouping
  
• How to convert a text box back to an object (unassigned / graphic content) using either the object>content menu or right clicking
  
• Proper use of the Find Fonts dialog box including finding missing fonts in images
  
• Various was of importing text using the show import options for .txt, .rtf, .doc and .xls files and then placing the content in various ways using the following shortcut keyboard commands
  
• "Manual Labour" - no shortcuts while placing content
  
• "Semi Auto"- holding Alt/Option key while placing content
  
• "Fill Page/Spread" - holding Alt & Shift / Option & Shift while placing content
  
• "Fully Auto" - holding just shift while placing content
  
• Importing more than one image, selecting and deleting images during placement
  
• Align to a selection Indesign vs Illustrator options (preview bounds)

Thank you

I would like to thank all the members of this chapter who are helping to grow the membership by telling friends and colleagues about the group.

A special Thank you to Rehana Rajah from Morning Star Design for sponsoring both the venue and refreshments. I would also like to say a special thank you to Faieza Sanders from Bragbooks for not only telling us about this great product but also donating a bragbook as a spot prize.

Upcoming Industry Events

Next Adobe User Group (Pretoria) Meeting on Tuesday, 7 April 2009 6pm - 8pm, Centurion

Super Saturday sessions at Morning Star Design on 16 May 2009, topic is After Effects with Photoshop 3D elements.

Comments from attendees

- Great evening

- Fun evening with lots of tips and good interaction with the group

- Wow - I can't wait for next time

- Very useful information, thanks

Next Meeting

28th April 2009
18:00 till 20:00
109 - 3rd Street, Linden

Looking forward to seeing you all there.

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