New York City InDesign User Group

In response to member requests, we have deferred the presentations of PDF2ID and Smart Image to a later meeting in favor of a special presentation by Hanaan Rosenthal of Custom Flow Solutions on "Automating Graphing and Charting."

Our guest speaker Hanaan Rosenthal will demonstrate a system he created for the New York Times business pages, that takes financial data from a variety of sources to create exciting graphs in Illustrator-native format that go right into your InDesign documents. For those of you who have stressed over getting accurate, good-looking graphs into your documents, this is the real deal.

In addition, for those who want to discuss the potential for graphing-automation in their publications, Hanaan has offered to make himself available for private conferences before and after the meeting. Check out http://www.customflowsolutions.com to learn more — and then e-mail hanaan@customflowsolutions.com to schedule an appointment.

After that, we will explore the powerful new plug-in FOLDRite Template Master, from Networkpdf.com (http://www.networkpdf.com).

Don't worry -- we haven't forgotten about InDesign's Book feature. In the second half of the program, Adobe's Noha Edell, will present the ins and outs of long document construction. Along the way, Noha will also demystify synchronizing multiple docs via the Book panel, creating tables of contents, indexing, and cross-references. But that's not all: in the process of constructing documents, she'll hit on many other important CS4 features along the way. To get an idea of the features she'll cover, download Noha's outline at http://indesignusergroup.com/events/event_attachments/LongDocumentsDemofeatures.pdf.

The evening will conclude with a customary raffle of great prizes. Among the pile of items we'll be giving away will be a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard, Adobe InCopy CS3, a free pass to the InDesign Seminar Tour, and the FOLDRite Template Master plug-in.

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Agenda
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6:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
6:45 Hanaan Rosenthal and the power of automation
7:05 Trish Witkowski and a review of FOLDRite Template Plug-in
7:30 BREAK
7:45 Noha Edell and Understanding Long Documents
8:45 Rafflemania
9:00 Meeting Ends