Meeting Summary: InDesign Trivia (Member Requests Night)

Tue, Dec 1st, 2009 at 5:45 PM

Edith Cowan University - Mt.Lawley

Event Details

A Happy & Creative Suite New Year to everyone!

With some personal holidays, festive seasons, and busy work schedule, the meeting summary write-up from our 1 December 2009 meeting is a little later than usual.

The InDesign Trivia night on the 1st December was very well received by the members. During two fun-filled sessions, Cari Jansen provided a myriad of InDesign tips and tricks across the entire application.

From building up a Swatches panel full of colours sourced from a Photoshop file, to swapping colour images in a job to monos, building a rounded cornered table, an introduction to using scripts in InDesign (and where to find them) for sorting not only paragraphs in alphabetical order but also table columns and much more...

As a follow-up from our previous meeting in September, where the CEO of Typefi Systems spoke on Accessibility, Cari demonstrated the very cool (and free) Typefi AutoFit plug-in for InDesign.

The first tips/tricks are starting to appear as tutorials on Cari’s website, so be sure to take a look at her latest posts on www.carijansen.com and the plug-in can be downloaded from www.typefi.com

Once again, there was a fantastic atmosphere. Thank you to all you made it such a great evening!

Thank you

Ongoing Sponsorship:
As always, our User Group meetings would not be possible without the generous ongoing support from:

• Adobe Systems (volunteers, major prize, IDUG website)


• Aquent (lovely pizza & drinks), and


• Edith Cowan University (venue)

Volunteers:
I'd like to say a big thank you also to User Group members Nagavelu & Lynne for helping out with the registration and cleanup of the rooms at the end of the meeting.

Prize Sponsors:
The major prizewinner of the complete Adobe InDesign CS4 Sam Delany, thanks to Adobe Systems. Other prizes were generously provided by InDesign Magazine (one-year subscription). Thank you!

Upcoming Industry Events

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The Adobe team will showcase the recent announcements including the iPhone developments using the upcoming Flash Professional CS5 as well as showing you how you can build applications faster with Flash Catalyst, LiveCycle Mosaic ES2 and much more. You will also hear Adobe's most recent announcements from Max 09 and be shown the latest software tools available from Adobe.

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Comments from attendees

"I thought this was amazing. Really enjoyed my first Perth IDUG group meeting."

"Awesome as always"

"I fell in love with SCRIPTS!!"

"Very interesting & informative. Lively presentation. Well done again Cari."

"Fantastic & great lot of information!"

Next Meeting

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 16 February 2010. We’ll be covering some cool tips and tricks for working with longer documents (using Book feature, smart ways of keeping images flowing with text, some tips on working with Microsoft Word and Excel content in InDesign, a look at Table Styles). We’ll also be showcasing some “Made with InDesign” design-samples.

You can register for this meeting already at www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/perth/events/1350

We’re also looking for member who are willing to showcase their InDesign design work to the group. Email Cari (see below), if you’re interested to showcase some of the work you’ve created with InDesign over the years.

I look forward to seeing you all again mid February!

Warm Regards,

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

Looking for more Sponsors:
We are always looking for more sponsors. From January 2010, Edith Cowan University will only partially sponsor the venue, which means we’re looking for a financial sponsor to help us cover the cost of our excellent venue in the future. Product sponsors also welcome (can your company provide free note-pads? Or pens?), as are prize sponsors (software books, memberships, caps, gadgets etc.).

If you’re working for a company who’s keen to be a sponsor (even if just for one evening), please contact perth@indesignusergroup.com .