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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Over 68 Orlando professionals were in attendance as The Adobe InDesign User Group of Orlando, met at our new location, The Orlando Sentinel, 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 28, 2006. Attendees were greeted by Mark Poulalion, our MC, as he answered various InDesign questions, welcomed everyone to our new space and gave announcements about future meetings; then Mark introduced our amazing presenter.

We were fortunate to have Kacey Crouch as our upbeat speaker for the evening. Kacey’s an Adobe Certified Software Instructor and owner of Pixeldot, Inc. Kacey, breezed through many tips about both Illustrator and InDesign. Kacey first touched on InDesign scripts and the Adobe Bridge. Kacey unlocked the install extra “goodies disks” for Adobe Illustrator as she uncovered hundreds of additional Patterns, Brushes, Symbols and Templates. After a short break Kacey continued her second session on Adobe InDesign CS2. Kacey covered a lot of InDesign ground. Here are notes “Just the facts” taken by one of our attendees...

On Macs, you can drag a Photoshop file into InDesign by clicking on the icon in the document frame

How to dock a palette: “grab the tab” and pull it over to the side--right or left

Printing tip: print any page, regardless of its page number in the document. Example: Type +5 - +7 (the 5th page through the 7th) in the print dialog box instead of page numbers (or section page numbers)

Master pages: To release master page items, cmd-shift-click or choose Override All Master Page Items in the fly out menu (you may choose more than one page at a time)

Styles:

• Paragraph styles are the “big daddy” of the styles--for body text and headlines
• Character styles are for individual characters
• One way to create a new style is to design the look of the type, then place the cursor in the text, then choose “New Paragraph Style”
• Next style: control-click/right-click on the first style in the Paragraph Styles palette and choose apply “style name” then next style. Always choose the first style.
• Paste without formatting (cmd-shift-v) will format the text surrounding with the same point size, font, etc.

Object styles: this remembers settings for objects and text boxes

Libraries:

• This is a stand alone document which is a place to hold page elements commonly used in your documents, such as logos, disclaimer text, folios.
• Libraries are searchable.

Snippet: Drag an item from your document to your desktop to e-mail or stash for a minute. This is a temporary solution, whereas libraries are more permanent.

InBookletSE: Will place your pages into printer spreads automatically

For additional information about Kacey, visit the site:

Kacey Crouch
http://300dots.com

Comments From the Survey Sheets

“The speaker was amazing! Please invite Kacey back. I learned a lot more then I thought I would.”
— Judy

“Excellent - Very good presenter. Knowledgeable and made it easy to understand and fun!”
— Joanne

“Kacey did fabulous job. Wonderful trainer; excellent wealth of Knowledge to share. Learned many new tips and tricks. Very entertaining as well.”
— Jennifer

“Excellent - Best So Far!”
— Gary

"Very Informative, Learned some cool tricks tonight. Great Speaker!"
– Andrew

“Excellent – entertaining speaker - Nicely involves the audience. Humorous and extremely knowledgeable."
– Shannon

"One of the best teachers on ANYTHING that I’ve seen. Obviously very knowledgeable and eager to share it."
– Tom

Raffle: Winning “Tools of the Trade”

From Adobe

Bryan, was the lucky winner of the top prize:
Adobe InDesign CS2
Adobe Systems: www.adobe.com
Adobe Press: www.adobe.com/adobebooks

From Total Training

Shari, won a 16 hour training DVD package
Total Training for Adobe InDesign CS2
Hosted by Steve Homes, Adobe Solutions Network.
Everyone in attendance got handouts and demo disks about Total Training programs.
Total Training: www.totaltraining.com

From O’Reilly Publishing

Adobe Photoshop CS2 one-on-one
Deke McClellan
ISBN: 0-596-10096-5

Adobe InDesign CS2 one-on-one
Deke McClellan
ISBN: 0-596-10097-3

InDesign Production Cookbook
Alistair Dabbs & Ken McMahon with Keith Martin & Anne-Marie Conception
ISBN: 0-596-10048-5

Digital Video Production Cookbook
Chris Kenworthy
ISBN: 0-596-10031-0

O’Reilly book winners, please remember to write reviews; guidelines are at http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html. Visit O’Reilly Publishing at www.oreilly.com.

From Peachpit Press

How To WOW with InDesign CS2
Wayne Rankin & Mike McHugh with Brie Gyncild, Peachpit Press
ISBN: 0-321-35751-5
Book Level: Beginning/Intermediate

Adobe InDesign CS2 Hands-On Training
Brian Wood, (lynda.com),
Includes Exercise Files & Demo Movies, Peachpit Press
ISBN: 0-321-34872-9

InDesign Type - Professional typography with Adobe Indesign CS2
Nigel French, Adobe Press published by Peachpit, ISBN: 0-321-38544-6
Book Level: Beginning/Intermediate

Peachpit Club Member cards with 4 - iStockPhoto/Peachpit bookmarkers
Visit Peachpit Press at www.peachpit.com.

From iStockphoto.com

3 Credits Free Cards and 1 - iStoctphoto hat
iStockphoto.com: www.istockphoto.com

From Markzware

1 - Conversion Tools
1 - FlightCheck Studio
1 - FlightCheck Designer
Visit www.markzware.com

From Teacup Software

Barcode Maker -Adobe InDesign Plug-In
TableStyles & CellStyles - Adobe InDesign Plug-In
Visit www.teacupsoftware.com

Thanks again for all your support.

Edward Feldman
Chapter Representative, Orlando InDesign User Group

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