Vancouver InDesign User GroupMeeting Summary
A truly eventful and enlightening evening. Jeff Kew IDUG Vancouver Chapter Representative
Wed, Apr 23rd, 2008 at 6:30 PM
Vancouver Film School - Theater
Event Details If you were present at the April 23rd meeting of the Vancouver InDesign User Group, you are a part of history.
On this night, nearly 60 people gathered for a truly eventful and enlightening evening.
Those nearly-60 excited members showed up at the Vancouver Film School theatre to get a first-hand look at the new features in InDesign CS3 and learn about what online resources are available to the group.
Sebastian Distefano of Adobe wowed the audience with his knowledge of ID CS3 and demo-god abilities.
We had a great meeting on Wednesday April 23rd 2008.
A breakdown of discussion follows:
Introduction by Sebastian Distefano: DO and DONT’S of the User Group.
Introduction by Jeff Kew – Chapter Rep.
-Discuss about User Group & why he wanted to start? A collaboration of like-minded individuals.
-Benefits of joining the user group (www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/vancouver/)
-InDesign Learning Resources : Links:
www.indesignusergroup.com/
www.mogo-media.com/
www.indesignsecrets.com
www.layersmagazine.com
www.theindesigner.com
www.adobe.com/designcenter
www.lynda.com/
www.indesignmag.com
Discussion:
Vote – Topics for the future User Group Meeting
• Transparency (Most Important)
• Styles “Object, Character, Nester…” (Most Important)
• Book Publishing Features “Master Pages, Editorial Night…” (Most Important)
• Plug – In “Database integration” (Most Important)
• Prepress features (Important)
• Rich Media “Future Technology” (Important)
• Tips & Tricks Night “Colour Management” (Important)
• Integration with Photoshop, Illustrator (Less Important)
• InDesign with Web (Dreamweaver, Flash (Less Important)
• Switch from Quark to InDesign (Less important)
New Features of InDesign CS3:
1. User Interface
2. Transparency (Raster Effect)
3. Input PDF Files
4. Gradient Feather
5. Text Wrap
6. Integrated with Bridge
Comments from the evaluation sheets“Great presenters – seems like there is a ton I can learn from this group – looking forward to it.”
“Very good – Learned a lot.”
“A wonderful start – InDesign Rocks!”
“Great Venue I am super excited about the IDUG and glad to see something here in Vancouver. There is a lot to learn and I am looking forward to learning all of it!”
“Great venue, great atmosphere, very open, opportunity to learn from your peers.”
“Great venue, great understanding and focused presenters, great discussions”
“Great first meeting, comfortable and casual. Kill the food if you must but add lots of water, juice and coffee.”
“Great to have Seb head this up. Looking forward to building some InDesign community with Jeff!”
“Great venue. I'm excited to see what we will cover.”
“Anytime we creatives can meet with a common interest the interaction will inspire new thought process...workflow."
"If I can leave the meeting with one new technique it would be a success!"
"Every time I hear Seb speak I always learn something."
"Love the idea having a user group in Vancouver.”
Next MeetingTentatively scheduled for June 25th 2008. Date will be confirmed soon. Topic to be discussed is STYLES.
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