Meeting Summary: Attractive Interactive - Back by popular demand

Mon, Dec 5th, 2011 at 5:45 PM

Edith Cowan University - Mt.Lawley

Event Details

December 5th we held our last meeting of the year.

In this meeting we welcomed quite a few new members. As usual we had our pre-meeting drinks, and Cari then provided a series of fantastic demonstrations of InDesign's interactive features.

Starting at the document set-up and slowly moving through all the different things we can do with buttons, events and actions, multistate objects, animations, timing. We saw some very cool effects build with InDesign into interactive PDF and SWF files, combining the various features to create not only various slide shows, but also interactive learning materials with pop-up windows that would provide extra explanation, roll-over effects that magically fly-in additional content... and who can forget our Video and Sound examples... A picture of a Galah and two buttons that would alternate between using 'Galah' in a sentence and listening to their squeaky calls.

It was another fun-and-information-filled Adobe InDesign event.

Thank you

Our meetings would not be possible without the generous continued support of our sponsors and volunteers.

Sponsors

• Adobe Systems (www.adobe.com) for all the volunteers behind the scenes, major prize, IDUG web-site.


• XCite Logic (www.xcitelogic.com.au) for pre-meeting pizza & drinks.


• Edith Cowan University (www.ecu.edu.au) for their continued partial venue sponsorship (50%).


• Cari Jansen (www.carijansen.com) for organizing each meeting, presentations & payment partial venue sponsorship (50%)

Volunteers:

• A big thank you also to long-time User Group Member Lynne for her continued support in helping with the room clean-up at the end of each meeting.

Prize Sponsors:

• The major prize winner - a copy of Adobe InDesign CS5.5 - was Rachel, thanks to Adobe Systems (www.adobe.com).


• Prepress – NetMedia Skills Training Centre (www.psc.wa.edu.au/) very kindly provided a $500 gift voucher won by a long-time User Group member Sam. He can now attend any course at their training centre.


• A continued thank you to InDesign Magazine (www.indesignmag.com) for providing a year membership prize for two members: Janice and Alec.

Comments from attendees

"Great. Thoroughly enjoyed it."

"Really great. There’s a lot of potential application in our work for that..."

"Solid coverage of interactivity and animation in InDesign to PDF and SWF. Slick presentation."

"Fascinating subject – had no idea you do so much with Indd. Cari is great fun and keeps it interesting. "

Next Meeting

Our first meeting for 2012 will be scheduled in the 2nd/3rd week of February. Keep an eye out for the meeting invite early next year.

If you know someone who’d make a good speaker at our next meeting, or are passionate about a topic related to InDesign or Graphic Design and would like to present on that yourself, let Cari know.

I wish you all a fantastic summer break and a very pleasant holiday season and look forward to seeing you all again in the new year.

Warm Regards,

Cari Jansen
Chapter Representative, Perth InDesign User Group
Adobe Certified Instructor
perth@indesignusergroup.com