New York City InDesign User Group

"InDesign Extensibility" is the theme of our last 2009 meeting of the NY IDUG. Supporting this theme will be a number of special guests and presentations. Featured will be GridIron Flow (officially launched in June 2009) with new features that are generating tremendous industry buzz: "GridIron Flow went from 'What the heck does this program do?' to 'I can't live without it' -- Jan Ozer, Digital Content Producer "Groundbreaking technology that fulfills a genuine need within the creative community." -- Neil Bennett, Digital Arts Steve Forde, GridIron CEO, will be here to show how Flow can help you collaborate with others, manage your time, and make money, with features like Share Maps (giving networked colleagues instant access to any file, regardless of where it's stored or who created it), and Adobe CS4 Flow Flash Panel, which puts Flow at your fingertips inside your favorite Adobe apps like ID, AI, PS, FL, DW and FW. Come see what so many designers are talking about. Following Flow will be Gluon CEO Peter McClard. Peter, an old friend of the NY IDUG, will present a handful of Gluon's latest plug-ins for InDesign. Included in his demo will be ProScale, the only product on the scene that reliably scales any and everything on your page. Winding up the evening will be three powerful new plug-ins, Smart Image from WoodWing Software, PDF2ID from Recosoft, and FOLDRite from Foldfactory.com. ========================= Agenda ========================= 6:00 Meet and greet 6:30 Welcome and announcements 6:45 Steve Forde and Flow 7:30 Break 7:45 Peter McClard from Gluon 8:00 Smart Image demo 8:15 PDF2ID demo 8:30 FOLDRite demo 8:45 Raffle 9:00 Meeting ends ============== About Flow ============== Flow is the world's first Visual Workflow Manager, built from the ground up to keep creative professionals streamlined and informed. Flow gives you a total understanding of your project, visually and intuitively. In one simple interface, you'll see all your project files, how they're related to each other, and where they're located -- on a local drive, on a network volume, even on a DVD you burned a few months ago. This new birds-eye-view of your project gives you instant access to any file you need -- and any version of that file, even if you've overwritten it while making changes. Flow even alerts you if you try to modify or delete a file that you shouldn't. ============== About ProScale ============== ProScale ID is a scaling utility unlike any other and a quick look will let you know why we call it Pro. It can pay for itself in one usage! Speed, accuracy and stability are only the beginning. It's the only scaling tool with IntelliScale Technology which allows InDesign users to scale non-proportionally without distorting type and graphics, whether using a click-and-drag tool or the ProScale dialog. ProScale ID is also the only way you can scale entire single or multipage documents in one click (page size and style sheets included). It's the kind of tool that once you start using it you'll wonder how you did without it. ================= About Smart Image ================= WoodWing’s Smart Image plugin for Adobe InDesign helps you to quickly place images with a description, by automatically adding caption and credit text frames to the image. ============== About PDF2ID ============== PDF2ID converts PDF documents into a fully editable InDesign file. PDF2ID recreates the intended construction and layout of the document by forming paragraphs; applying styles; regrouping independent graphic elements; extracting images; creating tables; recovering annotations and other elements automatically. ============== About FOLDRite ============== FOLDRite is the only print industry-approved folding system for the graphic arts. It makes file creation for folded materials easy, repeatable and standardized. FOLDRite is comprised of five core components: folding compensation mathematics, animated folding illustrations, naming and numbering conventions, considerations, and a levels system for budgetary guidance.