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December 6, 2007

If you missed the December 6th meeting of the NY InDesign User Group, you missed one of the best meetings in a long time. The theme was InDesign automation, and we were lucky to have three experts on the subject.

Our first presenter was Caleb Clauset, of Typefi Systems (www.typefi.com). Caleb demonstrated the power of Typefi and in particular its free Auto-Fit plug-in for InDesign. To download this great addition to ID, go to www.typefi.com/TypefiAutoFit.

After Caleb was Scott Carson of Noble Desktop (www.nobledesktop.com). Scott wowed the crowd by using GREP (General Regular Expression Parser) in InDesign to take one book index and reorganize it into a new format. Scott also left users with a great handout that explained his demo. You can download his handout below.

Double Indexes with GREP
By Noble Desktop, LLC
Download [PDF: 159 KB]  

Following Scott was Dan Rodney, also of Noble Desktop and points unknown (www.danrodney.com/scripts/index.html). Dan showed off his two amazing JavaScripts, Make Book Jacket and Proper Fraction Pro. If you design books or book jackets, you must get Dan’s two great scripts.

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Comments from attendees:

“Very good session. Real value in each topic, this is why I come to every meeting.”

“Excellent stuff! ”

“1. Reminds me again why I like InDesign over Quark;   2: Learned things about ID that had nothing to do with the topics (good);   3: Found out some cool stuff that I can impress people with at work;   4: Don’t do books or mags so the index info might not get used by me, but the rest was gold!”

“Clear and interesting presentations.”

“Loved it. Many thanks.”

“Always interesting and informative.”

“Great seminar.”

Scott Citron
NY IDUG Chapter Rep

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