Milwaukee InDesign User Group

Meeting Notes Archive

February 5, 2008
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these courageous Milwaukee InDesign users from attending a meeting! A snowstorm that dumped 12 inches on the Milwaukee area began during our Wonderful World of Color meeting on February 5.
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November 16, 2007
Milwaukee IDUG members enjoyed a "double-header" on Tuesday, November 6, 2007. A Leopard Launch, sponsored by Sells Printing, C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions, and GHA Technology ran from 4:00–5:30.
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September 18, 2007
The pregame show included a welcome and introductions by Dean Flowers, Associate Dean, Graphics Technologies, Waukesha County Technical College.
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May 17, 2007
The Milwaukee InDesign User Group members had such a great response to the CS3 topic that the regular evening meeting was changed to a half-day event. Expanding the topics, inviting more speakers, and attracting ever-increasing registration, we outgrew the regular meeting space at WCTC and moved the event to the Harry V. Quadracci Printing Education and Technology Center (HVQ PETC) right next door.
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February 21, 2007
We changed our February meeting date to take advantage of print production expert Claudia McCue from Practicalia being available in the Milwaukee area. Good thing we did—because she showed us how we can all confidently design with transparency for InDesign.
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November 15, 2006
Our November meeting was held at the Business Center of WCTC.
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September 20, 2006
Our September meeting on InDesign® resources was standing room only in the Distance Learning Center at WCTC.
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June 29, 2006
In June we were thrilled to have Noha Edell from Adobe Systems join us for an InDesign Gameshow!
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November 17, 2005
We had a very dynamic meeting, with one topic leading to another during our informative discussion of Snippets.
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September 29, 2005
The September meeting of the Milwaukee InDesign® user group included a review of many InDesign plug-ins.
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June 16, 2005
Dave Henderleider, Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign CS and trainer for C2GPS in Milwaukee, showed us all how to make an interactive InDesign document.
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May 5, 2005
The Milwaukee InDesign user group met at C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions, with a panel of presenters going over the new features of the recently released Adobe Creative Suite 2.
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April 13, 2005
The April meeting of the Milwaukee InDesign user group was actually held in Madison this month, in response to requests from designers in the area.
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March 15, 2005
Tom Petrillo began his interesting discussion of OpenType® fonts with an explanation of their basic characteristics. Other points of interest related to Adobe's current font library and font management strategies.
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January 13, 2005
The scheduled topic was super-powered type styles, presented by Cathy Palmer, Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign® CS and software trainer for C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions.
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