Group Chapter Representative Changes
Chris Jones, former engineer on the InDesign® team and a founder of Triple Triangle, relinquished his role as chapter representative due to travel requirements and personal obligations. Colin Fleming, predecessor to Chris, announced Steve Laskevitch as his replacement.
Acrobat® 7.0 Professional
Colin Fleming gave an informative demo of Acrobat 7.0 Professional, detailing some of the new features he found most exciting. One of the first things out of his mouth was the improved launch time. The Organizer, the first file browser of this type for Acrobat, is extremely helpful and easy to use. Page thumbnails, drag-and-drop sorting, and usage history make the highlight list of features. For Mac users, web-browser-based viewing with Safari. Comment and rreview cycles, both web-based and through email, and the handy email interface, are new bonuses. Users can send PDF’s to clients who have Acrobat 7.0 Reader®, who can then leave comments and send those comments back. For the PC user, those comments can come back into a Word or Excel document. You can use the Tracker window to follow to whom you have sent PDF’s and whose comments you have received. The PDF Optimizer is a great tool for stripping away unwanted content from a PDF to ready it for prepress. Also the print production tools are fantastic, and include trap presets, output previews, preflight, color conversion, ink manager, hairline fixing, transparency flattening and page cropping. There are also some new capabilities in the compression engine that make the new Acrobat 7.0 more appealing.
Focus Segment: Master Pages
Steve went on to lead us in a discussion of master pages and their various functionalities. In summary, he suggested the careful naming of master pages, giving them unique names, so that when moving pages from document to document the masters move with them. Also discussed were attributes that remain master-based when one overrides a master object. Essentially, attributes that aren’t changed in the overridden object remain master attributes (if one adjusts position, but not color, then changing the color of the master page object will change the color on the document pages).
A Call to Participate
Steve asked the standing-room-only crowd to help make the group their own. During any Q&A segment, those who have suggestions should feel at liberty to show their stuff. There were discussions of having a “panel of experts” or “stump the chumps” segment. These and other ideas are solicited and welcome!
Notes kindly taken by Lydia Jenson.
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