Rochester InDesign User Group

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October 2, 2006

Chris Converse, Graphic Designer, traveled back to his alma mater, before the snow flew, to present “Creating Interactive PDFs using InDesign as the authoring tool” to more than 60 eager attendees.

InDesign CS2 functions put forth in Chris’ presentation included:

Use of programming on master pages
Links
Buttons
Rollovers
Nested master pages
Creation of table of contents and auto creation of links
Embedding Quicktime movies

Moving on to Photoshop CS2, Chris presented:

Layer comp sets
Photoshop files imported into InDesign and “object layer options”
Font editing
Rotations

Chris wrapped up his presentation with a sneak peek at Acrobat 8, just before its release:

Acrobat Connect
Combining files (PDF, .jpg, .ai, .indd, and more)
Reader 8 new features

The crowd was thrilled with Chris’ presentation. Feedback included the following comments:

“Chris is great. I learned so much tonight. Can’t wait to try it out.”

“I had no idea that CS2 possessed such power.”

“This was the best meeting yet!”

“I can’t wait until the next meeting, this just keeps getting better.”

“Thanks for inviting Chris to speak tonight, he’s great.”

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