Milwaukee InDesign User Group

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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.

There were plenty of tasty new CS2 tidbits for everyone attending, covering graphics for the designers, text for the publishing crowd, and output for the hard-core production people. Each of the presenters took on the category of his or her specialty.

Dave Henderleider, a trainer for C2GPS Milwaukee, showed some of the image and graphic capabilities, including layer controls for placed PSD files, improved pathfinder and shape-changing options, and object styles. A lot of examples were shown for the fine-tuned control possible by defining the basic text and basic graphics frame, especially in combination with selectively applying formatting with object styles.

James Wamser, technical support specialist and trainer for Sells Printing, showed the new printing and PDF capabilities of the new InDesign version. The nitty-gritty details on getting good output from InDesign to print or PDF were demonstrated with lots of real client sample files.

Cathy Palmer, a trainer for C2GPS Madison, showed the new text-based features, including drag-and-drop text and dynamic spelling (features familiar from Word) and dictionary sharing, mapping in styles from Microsoft Word into InDesign (once and done), and the ability to see overset text in the story editor (Hooray!). The ridiculously detailed control now offered for anchored frames were demonstrated with the gigantic new palette for anchored object options. The big WOW from the crowd in this category: WYSIWYG font lists (who knew it would be so popular?).

So many new features…so many in the group excited to upgrade!

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