Portland InDesign User Group Home Meeting Summary Archive

*Please note the location for this meeting -- Portland State University -- is NOT our usual venue.* Get ready to meet Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium, the ultimate toolkit for today’s designer. Join us in this special meeting at PSU with Lisa Niday of Adobe Systems presenting. This comprehensive new release will help us all deliver innovative ideas in print, web, and mobile design. You’ll find that Creative Suite 4 is full of new features designed to make you more productive by speeding you through functions and helping prevent mistakes. Be among the first to learn about new InDesign features, such as Live Preflight, the customizable Links panel, Conditional Text, and Export to Adobe Flash CS4. Photoshop users will love live, nondestructive corrections with the Adjustments panel, Enhanced Auto-Align, Auto-Blend, and new 360° panoramas. Illustrator artists will enjoy multiple artboards, transparency in gradients, and the Blob Brush tool. And everyone will appreciate the enhanced universal user interface and the tight integration among the Adobe Creative Suite 4 components. Even if your heart is in print design, you’re probably finding yourself drawn into the ever-expanding creative possibilities of delivering content to the web. Creative Suite 4 enables you to cover the gamut, from print to web to video, starting with what you know and venturing as far as you want -- even “uncharted territories” will look ever more familiar -- before handing off to a web developer or a video producer to create truly rich, interactive documents. You’ll be able to explore new creative territory, take advantage of simplified workflows, and collaborate in new ways with colleagues and clients near and far. Lisa Niday of Adobe Systems will be on hand to demonstrate the new features and to answer questions. This evening, we celebrate the emergence of this exciting new release. But don’t worry -- we’re not abandoning our roots. In future meetings we’ll be back to the “business as usual” of exploring and learning with our favorite tool and seeing how it best fits in with others to achieve our best results. We realize not all of you can or will upgrade the day after this meeting, and we will continue to provide information and inspiration for all versions of InDesign -- what we’ve got as well as what’s ahead. ========================= Agenda ========================= 6:00 - doors open, registrations 6:30 - welcome, about IDUG 6:35 - CS4 presentation Pt. 1 by Lisa Niday 7:30 - break, networking 7:45 - group business 7:50 - CS4 Presentation Pt. 2 by Lisa Niday 8:50 - PRIZES! 9:00 - conclusion As always we ask for a $5 donation (or your $25 year donation) at the door in exchange for your raffle ticket and to help pay for the food -- we will be giving away a copy of CS4 DESIGN PREMIUM. =================== Directions and parking =================== A campus map of PSU is available at: http://www.pdx.edu/map.html. Parking is available in PSU's Lot 1, entrance off of 6th avenue (just take the 6th Ave exit off of I-405 and look on the left). Cost should be about $3. Use the pay station on the first floor of the parking structure, it takes Visa, Mastercard, or cash (quarters or bills only). ========================= ADOBE INDESIGN CLASS at PSU ========================= Portland IDUG chapter representative Paul Erdman will be teaching an open-enrollment, non-credit, two-Saturday InDesign class at Portland State University on November 8th & 15th. You can get more information and register at http://sesweb.ses.pdx.edu/pdc_cat/details.cfm?id=MF255.