Portland InDesign User Group

Meeting Notes Archive

September 13, 2007
Guest speaker Lisa Forester, from Adobe Systems, revisited the IDUG Portland Chapter with the topic of Transparency Effects and Applications. With an ever-evolving commitment to its customers, Adobe has charged its Creative Suite 3 to minimize the problems relating to printing and the handling of transparencies, such as undesired color conversions, rasterization of elements, artifacts, and slow print and processing times.
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July 12, 2007
This InDesign User Group meeting began with a four-hour training seminar that laid out the latest and greatest facets of Adobe Creative Suite 3. Of course, the issue of project workflow management was key to the seminar, and host Paul Erdman, along with special guest speaker Gabriel Powell, were up to the challenge.
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May 10, 2007
The Portland IDUG meeting on May 10th was truly the gathering many of us have been waiting for: the unveiling of the Adobe Creative Suite 3's version of InDesign.
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March 8, 2007
On March 8th we had 42 people in attendance as our new Chapter Representative, Paul Erdman, presented "Learning to Fly: Transparency and Preflight in InDesign."
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February 5, 2007
We were fortunate to have Lisa Forrester from Adobe come and demonstrate the exciting new features of Acrobat 8 Professional.
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September 14, 2006
September's meeting brought in over 35 members wanting to gain more insight into Adobe Stock Photos®.
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July 13, 2006
July's meeting brought in 30 eager InDesign® fans wanting to gain more insight into Version Cue® CS2.
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May 11, 2006
Instead of the usual speaker/break/speaker format, the evening broke from tradition to venture down a path known as "InDesign® Survivor: Return to Butterfly Island."
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March 9, 2006
March's meeting was a great learning opportunity for those who have countless QuarkXPress documents that need to be converted to InDesign.
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January 12, 2006
January's meeting was a perfect start for the new year! We had a great showing of over 30 people who came to learn more about the power of XML and InDesign® CS2. We also had 10 new people register as members!
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October 12, 2005
October's meeting was an exciting meeting for those wanting to learn the ins and outs of InDesign tables. Paul Erdman, an InDesign Certified Expert and Trainer, shared valuable tips for editing and formatting tables, copying and pasting table data, and using the Table palette and menu effectively.
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June 9, 2005
Thanks to Adobe for sending us Lisa Forrester and Colin Fleming! We had a wonderful evening with them learning how to create a streamlined editorial workflow with InDesign CS2 and InCopy® CS2.
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April 13, 2005
We had an incredible showing of over 60 people who came to discover the new features of InDesign CS2.
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March 9, 2005
We had an intimate gathering of 25 people who came to discover the secrets of the PageMaker® Plug-in Pack.
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February 9, 2005
We had a great showing of over 40 people who came to learn more about InDesign and share a great time together. The evening began with our chapter representative introducing our new meeting location, at the hip Urban Grind coffee house.
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October 15, 2004
This was our most successful meeting to date. We had around 40 people arrive eager to meet each other and learn something new.
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August 9, 2004
There are so many great new features of InDesign. Lisa Forrester, Business Development Manager for Adobe Systems, covered an amazing number of topics. Here are the highlights.
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June 9, 2004
The inaugural meeting for InDesign users all over the Portland area.
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