New York City InDesign User Group

Meeting Summary

June 19 Meeting of the NY IDUG
Thu, Jun 19th, 2008 at 6:30 PM
Fashion Institute of Technology

Event Details

Thanks to the 100 members who showed up for the June 19 demos of Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional and Flow, from GridIron Software.

Among the amazing new features in Acrobat 9 are PDF Portfolios, which allow users to combine differing file formats into one complete (and good looking) PDF. Noha also showcased the new Acrobat.com and the improved Auto Form Field recognition feature, which creates forms directly from InDesign documents.

Flow, a Best of Show winner at this year's Macworld event in San Francisco, is a modern workflow tracker which invisibly creates a graphical model of each step and asset that goes into your projects. Flow promises to be a major player for designers and production people. Look for the release of Flow later this summer.

Thanks again to Noha Edell of Adobe Systems for presenting Acrobat 9, and to Karen Gauthier of GridIron Software who flew in from Ottawa to demo Flow.

Thank You

Thanks, too, to our generous sponsors who provided items for our raffle. They include Adobe Systems Inc., Markzware, O'Reilly Publishing, Lynda.com,
and GridIron Software.

Upcoming Industry Events

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NEWSFLASH
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Gravity Systems invites you to a FREE event to experience the power of transparency and interactivity in InDesign CS3 and get an overview of the newly announced Acrobat 9 Pro.

August 19, 2008
1:30pm - 4:30pm
NYC Seminar & Conference Center
71 West 23rd Street, Suite 515
Level 2 Room Central
New York, NY 10010

Adobe Systems Business Development Manager Noha Edell will take you deeper into fundamental InDesign areas than you’ve been before. Discover the simple secrets of a worry-free, feature-rich workflow. The more artistic and complex our InDesign projects, the more important it is to know how to get the files to print as we expect.

You’ll get best-practice information concerning transparency, flattening, preparing for a print service provider, and exporting to various PDF standards.

Space is limited. Register today. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to find new and more sophisticated components within the InDesign functions you use in nearly every project.

To register for this Gravity Systems event, please visit www.gravitysystems.com/register.

Comments from the evaluation sheets

"Brilliant! I wish Noha could have spoken longer."

"Great presentation. Will definitely upgrade to Acrobat 9."

"Flow sounds like an excellent product. Looking forward to its final release!"

Next Meeting

Our next meeting on August 26, 2008 will be another night of InDesign tips and tricks. Among the scheduled tipsters is Jeff Wichtel, who writes a daily tips column for Layers and Photoshop User magazine. We also encourage you to submit your best tip or trick. Whoever submits the best tip will win a special prize that evening. To submit a tip or trick, please send it to scott@scottcitrondesign.com. Please use the subject line TIPS & TRICKS.

Scott Citron
NY IDUG Chapter Rep

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