Meeting Summary: InDesign Superpowered

Tue, Jan 11th, 2011 at 6:30 PM

new Meeting Space at Adobe Campus

Event Details

The InDesign Family
Presented by Kiyo Toma; Adobe InDesign Senior Product Manager, ktoma@adobe.com
(A PDF of his presentation is available below)

• InDesign
• Has been globally adopted, because of the workflow, providing a publishing solution based on shared core
• InDesign is a publishing engine for layout. It’s all about design.
• InCopy
• Limited layout capabilities
• Used to edit copy, editorial workflow
• All about collaboration, between design & editorial
• Benefits: Parallel workflow, accurate page visualization, precise copyfitting
• InDesign Server
• The Core Engine/no user interface
• Used for automation
• Professional design
• SOAP/JAVA used as primary scripting interface
• Target Customer: system integrators, develops who build deliver & support,
  automated publishing solutions
• Web to print solutions are powered by InDesign Server
• Coupons, Circulars, personalized marketing
• InDesign Server integrators
• Typefi, Peter Schimdt Group, MEI, Silicon Publishing

InDesign Plugins & Scripts
Presented by David Blatner; InDesignSecrets.com, Lynda.com, author of Real World InDesign
(A PDF of his outline is available below)

• Blatner Tools (David Blatner & DTP Tools)
• Consists of 12 plug-ins, 140 features for InDesign
• $99 until Feb. 2011, otherwise $149–available at dtptools.com/blatnertools
• Some examples of the included features
• Quality Assurance/Preflight Plugin
• Looks for “local formatting”, “runts”, “trailing spaces”, “overset text”,
  “em dash–incorrect usage”, “object on pasteboard”, “hidden object”,
  “duplicated objects”, etc
• History Panel
• Find/Replace Color Swatch
• Auto Page (Text frame automatically grows as you type)
• Extras Menu
• PatternMaker (Teacupsoftware.com)
• Includes customizable patterns and barcodes
• Additional scripts available at InDesignSecrets.com/Free
• Sorting columns alphabetically
• Number adjuster
• Columns to frames
• Calendar wizard

RAFFLE
Lots of exciting prizes raffled off including subscriptions to InDesign magazine, a variety of reference books, a copy of the BlatnerTools plug-ins and most importantly a copy of InDesign CS5!

Thank you

Thank you to our wonderful volunteers – we can't possibly do it without you!

Check-in: Tamiko Robertson, Teresa Anderson, Andrea Mojzak
Note-Taker: Katie Abram
Photography: Howard Heflin

Upcoming Industry Events

"Developing and Publishing Your Graphic Novel" Panel discussion and portfolio review
Saturday, Feb 4, 1-4:30 p.m.
Cornish College of the Arts, Notion Building Room 1, 1001 Lenora Avenue (Entrance on Terry Avenue)
Preregister online by Feb 4, more information: www.seattleguild.org

Beginner InDesign Class
Saturday, Feb 26
Tacoma, WA
More information: www.teresaanderson.com/seminar.html

Next Meeting

Thank you for the feedback- our next meeting (on March 8) will focus on the details as we explore File Structure Success Stories; 'Best Practices' for InDesign structural elements: Master Pages, Grid systems, Type styles...

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! We have a few short presentations lined up but want to round it out with YOUR successes. Do you have a file that illustrates your solution to a challenge that you're willing to share? Please email us: seattle@indesignusergroup.com

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Attached File/s

• DavidBlatnerOutline.pdf
• ID_Family_KiyoToma.pdf

Photos from this Meeting

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