Orlando InDesign User Group

Note: This month we will be holding our user group meeting on a Friday night. -------------------------------------------- On Friday evening, come join us as Chris Converse walks us through new interactive and cross-media features of InDesign CS4. We'll explore techniques for creating and exporting documents directly to interactive SWF (web-ready Flash files) and PDF. Use InDesign to create compelling web advertisements and content-based promotional material. Explore the possibilities of creating presentations in InDesign instead of PowerPoint – complete with interactive elements, and additional enhancements and exporting PDF. Learn how InDesign's Cross Media export can be used to create and style web-ready images for your website in a snap. In addition, we explore Adobe's new XFL file format, which gives InDesign the ability to convert to Flash native document format. This allows us to continue to work on our document in Flash, such as adding ActionScript, video, and animating elements brought over form the original InDesign document. This presentation will inspire you to use InDesign in a much broader way and gain new production business. ========================= Agenda ========================= 6:00 - 6:50 pm: Sign in, meet, greet and eat 6:20 - 6:50 pm: InDesign Question & Answers - Mark Poulalion 6:50 - 7:00 pm: Welcome and opening announcements 7:00 - 7:50 pm: Interactive InDesign with Chris Converse part 1 7:50 - 8:00 pm: Break 8:05 - 8:50 pm: Interactive InDesign with Chris Converse part 2 8:50 - 9:00 pm: Raffles Use this meeting to job network and connect with other like minded Creative Suite users. Artists, designers, students, interested professionals or amateurs, print and new media, everyone is invited. Our presentations are informative and focused. There will be answers to questions and you’re guaranteed to discover new methods and means to accomplish new things with your chosen tool set.

Please be sure to register so we have an accurate count for our usual pizza, and other refreshments. We offset our group meeting expenses, such as speaker, travel and hotel fees, meeting room rental and food, with raffle tickets. Our existence depends on your support. Please plan to buy raffle ticket(s). 

3 raffle tickets $10, 8 tickets for $20, 15 tickets for $30; Students with ID: 1 ticket for $5.

 Our presentations are by industry experts, local designers, authors and Adobe representatives. We explore their experiences, projects, how they did it, what programs they used and how these programs work. 

Our Adobe InDesign User Group is a special interest group (SIG) of the Florida Macintosh User Group (FLMUG). The Adobe Creative Suite Applications work on both Apple and Windows platforms. Therefore, our user group is non-specific for platform, open to any and all interested; we address very current and topical information.

 Thank you for all your support. 

We look forward to seeing you.

Edward Feldman, Adobe InDesign User Group - Orlando Chapter Representative and Chapter Founder and The InDesign/Creative Suite User Group, Leadership Committee:
Douglas Mitchell, Faith Amon, Kristan Braswell, Laura Liu, Anna McCambridge, Mark Poulalion, Fabian Quintero, Cameron Thorp, Susan Pfeil and Mark Spain -------------------------------------------- SATURDAY EVENT CANCELLED

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Special Saturday Seminar with Chris Converse 


Building on What You Know with InDesign

========================== Date, time, and location Saturday, June 25, 2009 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM Cost: $25.00 UCF Executive Development Center Downtown 36 West Pine Street (street behind Church Street Station) Orlando, FL 32801 To Register and pay for the Saturday event: http://idugevents.com/ Directions Details http://www.indesignorlando.com ----------------------------------------------------- As technology changes rapidly, graphic design becomes more challenging to communicate messages across a widening range of mixed media. What's more challenging -- learning to create content that leverages many technologies into new and exciting projects that bring new clients, and keep old ones. The good news -- many media types are build on existing concepts and technologies you already know! Apply your knowledge for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, PDF, Flash, video, audio to new types of projects. Most likely, you are more 'ahead-of-the-curve' than you realize. This seminar will help you understand what's possible. Adobe is working hard to allow CS3 and CS4 applications communicate effectively across media types. Working between applications adds only a fraction or time to workflow and yields many new possibilities to your clients. Learn to add interactive, multimedia elements to InDesign documents for prepress work and cross-publish for web viewing. Understand how to animate existing Illustrator files in Flash, then bring them back into a PDF exported from InDesign. Take large photos from Photoshop and add a zoomable image viewing widget to a PDF with Zoomify export feature. Learn time-saving techniques for exporting images, content from InDesign, even with InDesign Effects, directly to web-ready images and HTML. Looking to go further -- learn the ease of editing video using Photoshop while editing a photograph. Fix audio noises, add or create sounds using Adobe SoundBooth. Learn to animate artwork, text and add video in Flash.

About the presenter

Chris Converse is a graphic designer and multimedia developer specializing in websites, interactive media, print, and CD-ROMs. Chris is the co-founder of Codify Design Studio, which specializes in both graphic design and the technologies that bring the design to life across mediums.