Meeting Summary: InDesign Beyond Essentials

Wed, Mar 23rd, 2011 at 5:00 PM

Winter Park Civic Center

Event Details

On March 23, the Adobe InDesign User Group, packed the Winter Park Civic center for three hours of networking, a lavish spread of food and interactive technology. What amazing meetings we’ve been having this year. The attendance at our meetings is growing and now averages over 135 members. Most of us learn something we didn’t already know, which is the sign of a successful event.

March Meeting Presenters:
Jeremy Pihl, a Microsoft and Apple Certified Technical Consultant from Max your Mac (http://www.maxyourmacs.com), encouraged all InDesign Users on “How to get the most out of our Machines.” Jeremy’s expert advice regarding upgrades, hard drives, memory, and Maintenance will increase everyone’s machine longevity.

Douglas Mitchell made the complexity of InDesign and interactive PDF documents look easy. Douglas touched on color synchronize tricks and more for the Adobe Creative Suite. For details on how to create interactive Table of Contents with hyperlinks, buttons, and more go to Douglas’ website (http://www.trainingbrain.com) and download his instructional PDF. Douglas Mitchell offers InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop classes.

Winners:

Congratulations to everyone and thank you to all for purchasing raffle tickets to keep our group going strong. It’s our hope to offer prizes we consider “Trade Tools,” that are useful and will help you grow your abilities.

March Raffle Winners:
Adobe InDesign CS 5 - won by Gerycel

Head First HTML w/CSS by OReilly - won by Jim
Juice Drops - won by Michelle Keleshian
CSS Pocket Reference - won by Anne
HTML Pocket Reference - won by Linda
Graphic Artist’s Guild Handbook - won by Victoria
A Designer’s Guide to InDesign - won by Diane
Instant InDesign - won by James
Creating A Website in Dreamweaver CS4 - won by Anne
Ambient Findability - won by Ricardo
SML in a nutshell - won by Chase

Thank you

Thanks for all your help:

Your response to our request for volunteers was greatly appreciated.

Notes and minutes are now being written by or scribe Victoria Mandracken, vfmandracken@gmail.com and are available as part of this meeting followup. Please send any notices for special events, job or intern request to her so in the future we may include them in our summaries.

Catering will now be directed by Pat Patterson, cuineden@mac.com Any special food request should be directed to her.

Randylyn Masse, randylyn1@me.com is now managing our volunteers. Volunteers are needed. Please contact her if you are available to assist with any of the following areas: Social/Network Marketing, Publicity, Food, Raffle Prizes, Ticket Table, Sponsors, Announcements and Minutes, Photography, and Speakers. Our group is a non-profit and dependent on your participation!

Victoria Mandracken thanked our January presenter, Joe Drivas for donating a two-hour Photoshop Class to Rebuilding Together Orlando. For advance class details contact her at: vfmandracken@gmail.com. Learn more at http://www.rtorlando.org/

Thank you to all that attended we look forward to seeing you all at our next meeting. Please remember to register as always.

Comments from attendees

“Very organized, and informative. All the meetings are 100% professional.”

“Good mix tech and creative“

“Presenters really know their stuff. Inspirational.”

“Great info. Informative. Love learning.”

Next Meeting

Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5 Revealed, May 25th
(at the Winter Park Civic Center)
Details and registration here: http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/orlando/events/1769

Guest speaker will be Patrick Koster, Adobe Senior Engineer, Certified Technical Trainer. Patrick returns to guide us as we explore the New Adobe Digital Publishing Creative Suite CS5.5 with improved digital publication eBook features. This mid-cycle software update is largely driven by the rapidly rising popularity of tablets and other mobile devices. Patrick will cover a wide range new of dot-five upgrade features.

We are in the midst of a multi-screen revolution with devices ranging from traditional desktops, laptops, and netbooks to multi-touch smartphones, e-book readers, and tablets. Consumers are expecting rich, interactive, and consistent digital experiences on these devices regardless of the form factor or technology used behind the scenes. Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 helps designers and developers overcome the variety of challenges to:
 
• Create mobile websites that can span desktops, tablets and smartphones 
with HTML5 using Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5
• Create and deploy rich mobile applications for Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS 
and iOS using Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 and Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5
• Expand digital publishing options using Adobe InDesign CS5.5
• Access the latest Adobe tools with more affordable and flexible 
purchasing options through Adobe Creative Suite Subscription editions

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Edward Feldman, Founder and Chapter Representative | efeldman@mac.com
Douglas Mitchell, Co-Chapter Representative | trainingbrain@me.com
Victoria Mandracken, Scribe | vfmandracken@gmail.com
Michael Hamilton, Meetup | frfensocc@hotmail.com
Randylyn Masse, HR and Volunteer Team Manager | vfmandracken@gmail.com
Pat Patterson, Cater | cuineden@mac.com

Adobe InDesign User Group is a special interest group (SIG) of the Florida Macintosh User Group (FLMUG). If you or your company wishes to sponsor or present please contact Edward Feldman via email at efeldman@mac.com. Suggestions for meeting topics are welcome.