Orlando InDesign User GroupMeeting Notes Archive
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
With two days to go before Thanksgiving, graphics professionals in the Orlando area had a good deal to give thanks for. The InDesign® user group once again offered a chance to sharpen skills in Adobe CS2, win some pretty good prizes, partake of great food, and get to know local industry insiders.
After signing in and getting a bite to eat, attendees took seats upstairs at the Downtown Media Arts Center (DMAC) for the two-hour meeting.
The first speaker, Kristine DeNunzio, teaches InDesign at Winter Park Tech, on Webster Avenue in Winter Park (just north of the Winter Park Village). Kristine has mastered the art of how to share what seems like 1,000 InDesign tips in just one hour. If it had been a concert, she would have had to do one or two encores. Fortunately, we can all sign up for her InDesign class at Winter Park Tech, and schedules were passed out. Winter Park Tech is very economical, with all classes costing less than $100.00.
 Visit Winter Park Tech at www.wpt.ocps.net
For a list of class offerings, visit www.wpt.ocps.net/programs/pc_mac.htm
Jim Sander, of Connecting Point, then took the floor and updated us on the continued (and impressive) advancement of Adobe Acrobat® and PDF technology. PDFs are now far more than just a way to share DTP files with others, regardless of their OS or font situation. Many PDFs are now quite interactive, with links, 3D, video, and QTVR. Acrobat is, and has been, making inroads not only in the publishing industry as a whole, but in the education industry in particular. It is vastly easier to update (and correct) textbooks, given that hard-copy textbooks might spend years in the planning and production phases. Tests can be given via PDF, with students able to proceed at their own speed. Finally, one nice advantage of doing a "preflight" with Acrobat, unlike FlightCheck and PitStop, is that if your file contains an error, you will be taken to the page containing the error, as opposed to being informed that that error exists somewhere in the document.
Visit Connecting Point at www.connectingpt.com
Raffle: Winning "Tools of the Trade"
Of course, everyone who attended was a winner. We take with us knowledge that will help us in our professional lives. Our sponsors have give many of us an extra edge. A reminder to winners of books: Please remember to send your book reviews to me so I can add them to our website and forward them to the publishers.
From Adobe:
- Acrobat Professional
- Adobe Hats
- Total Training Presents: Adobe Creative Suite 2
From StockLayouts:
From O’Reilly Publishing:
- Photoshop Blending Modes Cookbook for Digital Photographers (ISBN: 780596100209)
- Talk Is Cheap: Switching to Internet Telephones (ISBN: 780596009601)
"At a time when we all are using cell phones, I found this book to be extremely useful because in my apartment my cell phone cuts off just when I’m in the middle of an important call. I didn’t want to have another major expense. This book helped me make sense of the choices and alternatives. It compares and explains the different programs. Internet phone calls work and sound great. They are free or cost much less then land lines. It was a surprise O’Reilly actually had a book on this topic." – Edward Feldman
O’Reilly book winners, please remember to write your reviews; guidelines are at http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html.
Visit O’Reilly Publishing at www.oreilly.com
From Peachpit Press:
- InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide (Visual QuickStart Guides) (ISBN: 780321322012)
- InDesign CS/CS2 Killer Tips (ISBN: 780321330642)
Visit Peachpit Press at www.peachpit.com
From a lowly apprentice production, inc. (ALAP):
- Supplied us with demo disks of their various plug-ins for InDesign and Acrobat: InEffects 1.0.2, InTools 1.1.1, InEffects 1.0.2, and Imposer Pro 1.1.4
From Florida Macintosh Users Group (FLMUG):
Recycled From Ed's Book Collection:
- Adobe Photoshop 7 One-Click Wow! (ISBN: 076092019657)
"This book has made me lots of money. It is so simple; this book is why users get Photoshop®. You’ll take control of the effects this book clearly illustrates on use of filters and modifying their settings, step by step."
– Edward Feldman
- Photoshop 6 Artistry (ISBN: 752064710370)
"This book, like most of the books I use, gives detailed descriptions of how and why. Lots of very detailed color screenshots. It helped me learn color management."
– Edward Feldman
- Adobe Photoshop 7 Web Design with GoLive 6 (ISBN: 780321115614)
"Most of my websites are created using Illustrator® and Photoshop. GoLive® is the page-layout program. Designing a website using this book goes right to the point. You don’t have to be a programmer or know all about how to write code. Just get a book like this and you’ll be amazed just how much you already know how to do just using Photoshop."
– Edward Feldman
Computer meetings take place in all kinds of facilities, but it's hard to find one that tops DMAC. Combine a huge screen, theater seating, and a central location and you have a perfect setting for the InDesign user group meetings.
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