Meeting Summary: Are you ready for print?

Tue, Aug 21st, 2007 at 6:30 PM

RMIT University (Brunswick)

Event Details

The Melbourne InDesign User Group hit an all-time high, with 145 enthusiastic members rocking up to the meeting! We were thrilled to have Noha Edell from Adobe Systems as our guest presenter; she instantly became the crowd favourite.

After a brief welcome by Chapter Representative Tricia Ho, Noha took the stage and proceeded to educate us on fixing our print problems. She demonstrated the best practices for constructing InDesign files with transparency and gave us a low down on what flattening really does and better yet, what we can do to control it.

But isn’t prevention better than cure? Of course it is.

Noha concluded by showing us how to use InDesign’s forensic tools to prevent these problems and to generate the Perfect Bullet-Proof PDF.

Resources from the meeting

Everything an InDesign User Group member needs to know about PDF, transparency, VDP, JDF
http://www.adobe.com/studio/print/
- Transparency in Adobe Applications: A Print Production Guide
- Designer’s Guide to Transparency for Print Output
- Getting Started with Transparency

Reference book
"Real World Print Production" by Claudia McCue.
DID YOU KNOW?
You can purchase this book from www.peachpit.com and enjoy an IDUG member’s discount.

Here’s an excerpt from this book as an online tutorial on how to:
"Prepare your InDesign files for print production"

Discussion about Shadows over Spot:
- Go to InDesign Secrets and do a search for “white box” and another for “yucky” to get the whole story.

Photoshop blending modes in InDesign
Go to InDesign Secrets and search for “shadow sandwich” and be amazed at what you’ll find.

Podcasts: InDesign on the Go!
- InDesign Secrets Podcast
- Mike McHugh’s Creative Sweet TV

Comments from attendees

“I was impressed by the speaker and gain some information I didn’t know, that I can now use, teach and pass onto my students. Thanks.”

“Topic was very interesting and I have taken many notes on things to try.”

“Excellent presenter! Love Noha!”

“Wow. Great speaker. Awesome knowledge about InDesign.”

“Noha was very informative and entertaining! Thank you so much IDUG! i dug it! (ha ha ha!)”

“It was great. Just wish there had been more time, and I look forward to coming next time. Thanks.”

“I loved the content and presentation! Keep up the good work! Noha is excellent!”

“Was a great meeting! The speaker was excellent and very practical and lovely. I can’t wait for the next meeting!!”

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