Orlando InDesign User GroupMeeting Notes Archive
January 24, 2006
Orlando graphics professionals got the new year off to a good start by attending the first InDesign® meeting for 2006. If this meeting is typical, this year will be overflowing with instruction in Adobe’s CS2 components and the continued improvement in the skills of those attending.
The user group always has plenty of food downstairs, in case those attending were not able to get dinner beforehand. After signing in and getting a couple of bites, attendees took seats upstairs at the Downtown Media Arts Center (DMAC) for the two-hour meeting.
Scott Johnson, of EuroPrint-EuroGrafix on Douglas Avenue in Altamonte Springs, spoke of how to obtain reliable press output from Adobe InDesign and Acrobat Distiller® and find out how to greatly improve efficiency, workflow, and bottom line by creating a seamless PDF workflow.
 Visit EuroPrint-EuroGrafix at www.eurografix.com
Mark Poulalion, Senior Art Director of Sport Diver magazine, and always an entertaining presenter, then took the stage to demo some of his favorite InDesign “secrets.” These included downloading a one-line AppleScript for customizing page viewing (i.e., magnification), a new 30-minute InDesign podcast, and tips on auto-bullets, auto-numbers, and style mapping.
Visit Sport Diver magazine at www.sportdiver.com
Check out the InDesign podcast — InDesign Secrets — at www.indesignsecrets.com
Mike Levangie of Sir Speedy (Lee Road office) then shared some of his wisdom on how to get your file to print properly, ensuring headache-free results and proficiency. Mike also provided details on other services, such as signs, banners, online design, online proofing, and wide-format posters. Sir Speedy has over 800 locations around the globe.
Visit their Lee Road office at 916 Lee Road, Orlando, and online, at www.sirspeedy.com/orlando-lee
Tony Johnson, an Adobe Certified Trainer at Future Media Concepts, gave a presentation on Adobe After Effects® and showed how one can animate Photoshop® files for inclusion into interactive Acrobat® PDF files created with InDesign CS2.
Visit Future Media Concepts at www.fmctraining.com
Rich Willis, from the local Apple stores, told us of the special free learning programs they offer at the Florida Mall and Millenia Apple stores.
Visit these local Apple stores at:
www.apple.com/retail/floridamall
www.apple.com/retail/millenia
Raffle: Winning "tools of the trade" — Once again, 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 Illustrator CS2
From O’Reilly Publishing:
- Adobe Creative Suite 2 Workflow: Integrating the Tools, Increasing Your Productivity
Jennifer Alspach, Shari Nakano, Steve Samson, (ISBN# 0596102364) (u.p.c.: 780596102364)
This book can help you quickly learn how to take advantage of all that CS2 has to offer. By following its concise explanations and step-by-step exercises, you'll soon learn core skills and techniques that will enable you to create an integrated workflow that will not only save you lots of time, but will also give you more flexibility to move between applications to make necessary tweaks, try out new ideas, and create portable files for review.
- Talk Is Cheap: Switching to Internet Telephones
James Gaskin
(ISBN# 0596009607) (u.p.c.: 780596009601)
Fed up with the high tolls charged by your ordinary telephone service? If you're itching to cut the copper cord with your costly, traditional phone service, you need Talk Is Cheap, the new, easy-to-understand guide to understanding and using voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and other Internet telephone options.
- The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers (O'Reilly Digital Studio)
Peter Krogh
(ISBN# 0596100183) (u.p.c.: 780596100186)
Can you find your digital photographs when you need them, or do you spend more time rifling through your hard drive and file cabinets than you'd like? Do you have a system for assigning and tracking content data on your photos? If you make a living as a photographer, do your images bear your copyright and contact information, or do they circulate in the marketplace unprotected?
- Digital Video Production Cookbook: 100 Professional Techniques for Independent and Amateur Filmmakers (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))
Chris Kenworthy
(ISBN# 0596100310) (u.p.c.: 780596100315)
Have you ever watched a big-budget Hollywood movie and wondered "How did they do that?" or, perhaps, "How can I do that?" While digital technology greatly simplifies the filmmaking process, there are many tried-and-true production tricks that only those lucky enough to work in the world of high-budget professional film production get to know.
- InDesign Production Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))
Alistair Dabbs, Anne-Marie Concepcion, Ken McMahon, Keith Martin
(ISBN # 0596100485) (u.p.c.: 780596100483)
Whether you're an experienced designer using InDesign at a fairly advanced level or a desktop publishing beginner new to InDesign-or making the transition from QuarkXPress — you'll find InDesign Production Cookbook chock-full of practical information, with quick solutions to real-world layout challenges. The book covers the very latest features in Adobe InDesign CS2 for Windows and Macintosh, including tips on using the program with Bridge within Adobe Creative Suite 2.
- Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook : 61 Easy-to-Follow Recipes for Digital Photographers, Designers, and Artists
Tim Shelbourne
(ISBN# 0596100221) (u.p.c.: 780596100223)
Adobe Photoshop CS2 offers professional and amateur photographers, artists, and designers unprecedented opportunities to manipulate images on their personal computers, but it's a complex application that can take years to master. With Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook, you don't have to be a Photoshop expert to create sophisticated effects. The 61 easy-to-follow, fully illustrated recipes in the book show you how to use Photoshop CS2 to simulate classic camera and darkroom techniques and special effects-without making you first learn Photoshop inside and out.
- BlackBerry Hacks: Tips & Tools for Your Mobile Office (Hacks)
Dave Mabe
(ISBN# 0596101155) (u.p.c.: 780596101152)
The BlackBerry has become an invaluable tool for those of us who need to stay connected and in the loop. But most people take advantage of only a few features that this marvelous communications device offers. What if you could do much more with your BlackBerry than just web surfing and email?
- Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become
Peter Morville
(ISBN# 0596007655) (u.p.c.: 780596007652)
How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically bring up the right answer to your questions? What does it mean to be "findable" in this day and age? This eye-opening new book examines the convergence of information and connectivity.
O’Reilly book winners, please remember to write your reviews; guidelines are at 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)
Sandee Cohen
(ISBN# 0321322010) (u.p.c.: 780321322012)
Using the task-based, visual approach that has become the hallmark of Peachpit's popular Visual QuickStart Guides, this volume provides a fast, easy, comprehensive introduction to everything InDesign. You'll learn about all aspects of the InDesign interface, including its tools and palettes, as well as how to create documents and master pages, import and style text and objects, automate your work, manage long documents, use the Bezier pen tools,create interactive PDF elements, and work with color.
- How to Wow with InDesign CS2 (2nd Edition) (How to Wow)
Wayne Rankin, Mike McHugh
(ISBN# 0321357515) (u.p.c.: 780321357519)
Providing just enough of a conceptual framework to use the program effectively, but omitting the tech-heavy under-the-hood discussions that represent the core of other InDesign tomes, this full-color guide uses gorgeous real-world examples and simple step-by-step instructions to cover InDesign CS2's newest features.
- Official Adobe Print Publishing Guide, Second Edition: The Essential Resource for Design, Production, and Prepress
Brian P. Lawler
(ISBN# 0321304667) (u.p.c.: 780321304667)
The essential guide to the world of print production — completely updated to cover today's most current technology.
Visit Peachpit Press at www.peachpit.com
From Marksware, Makers of Flightcheck:
- Q2ID (QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign) offers users a quick and easy way to convert QuarkXPress content into a new Adobe InDesign document. Conversion is enabled with a single click using InDesign's File > Open. The majority of the intricate details of the document are instantly re-created within InDesign. Items converted include: page positioning, color models, fonts and styles, images, and text attributes as well as tables, layers, blends, runarounds, linked text boxes & anchored boxes, pantone colors and other color models. Q2ID can convert QuarkXPress documents created on either Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh OS into a new Macintosh Adobe InDesign file.
- Flightcheck Professional is the essential quality control tool for any and all participants in the print and rich media markets, from creative designers to manufacturing professionals and organizations. FlightCheck Professional now supports Adobe CS2! FlightCheck v5.7 introduces full preflight support for Adobe Creative Suite 2 components, including InDesign CS2 (v4), Photoshop CS2 (v9) (including .PSB file types), Illustrator CS2 (v12), and PDF v1.6, as well as more comprehensive support for EPS files.
- Flightcheck Designer is a simplified version of Markzware's FlightCheck Professional (view the comparison), providing designers and document creators with an essential quality control tool. The simple drag-and-drop interface inspects your documents for colors, fonts and images. The application then collects the document and images as well as screen and printer fonts. It compresses the job and includes the ground control settings for transmission to your service bureau.
- Flightcheck Studio - FlightCheck Studio is capable of detecting virtually all problems commonly encountered in the print, and publishing industry. By simply clicking on a reported error, FlightCheck Studio takes the operator directly to the page and place in the document where the suspect element is located to facilitate repair or replacement.
Visit Markzware at www.markzware.com
From Create Magazine:
- Copies of their recent publication and Create T-shirt.
Visit Create Magazine at www.createmagazine.com
From LAYERS Magazine:
- Copies of their recent publication.
Visit LAYERS Magazine at www.layersmagazine.com
From Photoshop User Magazine:
- Copies of their recent publication.
Visit Photoshop User Magazine at www.photoshopuser.com
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