Vancouver InDesign User Group

Meeting Summary

Event Details

We held our third Vancouver InDesign User Group meeting on Wednesday, Oct 8th, 2008. The evening was a great success with nearly 90 members attending. The meeting was held at the Vancouver Film School theater. Sebastian Distefano of Adobe once again wowed the audience as he showcased the new features in Adobe Bridge CS4 and InDesign CS4. The meeting began with an introduction by Jeff Kew, as he refreshed new and returning members' memories of some of the great online resources currently available: https://www.lynda.com/ (new InDesign CS4 training) http://www.indesignmag.com/ (new CS4 articles) http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/ (Adobe's free online tech support forums) http://tv.adobe.com/ (Adobe's free video training library) Sebastian Distefano continued the evening discussing the new features of Adobe Bridge CS4 and how it interacts with InDesign. Seb then spent a great deal of time in InDesign CS4 showing off some important new features like: Conditional Text Flash Interactivity and Export Animated Page Transitions Cross-References Live Preflight Spread Rotation Smart Text Reflow Smart Guides Smart Alignment and Spacing We concluded by drawing evaluation forms from a box to give away books from Peachpit, O'Reilly, Focal Press, DVDs from NAPP and Stock Layouts template packs. We had a certificate from TPH for free business card printing and we gave away 2 copies of Font Agent Pro from Insider Software. There were also Adobe promo t-shirts for giveaways. The big draw was for one copy of Adobe InDesign CS4. It was won by a very happy member who said she now has an excuse to upgrade from her G3!

Thank You

Many thanks to Adobe for their ongoing and generous support. Without them we wouldn't be having these meetings. Thanks again to all of our partners for support and raffle prizes: Simply Computing (Refreshments Table and Prize giveaway) http://www.simply.ca/ PeachPit Press (Computer Training Books) http://www.peachpit.com/index.aspx O'Reilly Press (Computer Training Books) http://oreilly.com/ Focal Press (Computer Training Books) http://www.focalpress.com/ TPH - The Printing House (Business Card printing) http://tph.ca/ Stock Layouts (Page layout Template Products) http://www.stocklayouts.com/ Insider Software (copies of Font Agent Pro) http://www.insidersoftware.com/ NAPP (training DVD's) http://www.photoshopuser.com/ Facilities for the meeting supplied by the Vancouver Film School, http://www.vfs.com. A special thank-you to Sebastian Distefano for going the extra miles to be with us (over 3000 of them). Also a special thanks to our volunteers who put these meetings together; Jeff Kew, Trish Anderson, Regina Leung and Miles Harrison. And last but not least, thanks to everyone who came out for this event and gave us their generous feedback.

Upcoming Industry Events

There are two upcoming conferences focusing on Adobe products and I would encourage those of you that can manage it, to try and attend one. Travelling to a new location and being immersed in a learning environment amongst your peers is one of the best ways to become a better software user. --- The InDesign Conference Master Class Adobe University Fremont November 10-13, 2008, Seattle. The InDesign Conference Master Class is the premiere event dedicated to design professionals who rely on Adobe’s powerhouse page-layout application. In-depth sessions given by world-renowned authors and experts as well as Adobe engineers, offer an unmatched level of instruction and understanding. If you use InDesign, you can’t afford to miss this comprehensive conference. http://www.mogo-media.com/conferences/the-indesign-conference/2008/seattle-master-class/ --- Adobe MAX 2008 Moscone West Convention Center Nov 16-19, San Francisco MAX 2008 is an event unlike any other. Its unique combination of education, interaction, and genuine fun continues to attract a larger, more exciting audience every year. The intensive skills development and extraordinary networking opportunities will give you a competitive edge. And you’ll not only expand your current capabilities, chances are you’ll discover something unexpected and new that really ignites your passion. http://max.adobe.com/na/experience/#?s=0&p=0

Comments from the evaluation sheets

Great — Better than the last one –L Marshall

Excellent and inspiring as Adobe presentations always are. Venue perfect, presenter awesome –Sally White

Learned a lot of great new features! Nice we could ask questions and give comments during the presentation. —Ariane Colenbrander

All good. Great Presenter —Maggie Tung

Very informative. I will attend more meetings in the future. Easy to understand and excellent delivery by Seb —Gary H.

Well delivered, clear and well thought out. Felt like an Adobe event. Great Venue! —Dennis Whitfield

ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS. Loved it. —Trish Anderson

Venue-Excellent. Content-Good. Presenter-Very good –Jason Pinter

Love the InDesign Flash features. Been waiting for this for a while – Love the Smart stuff –Lyrisse Castro

CS4 looks great and it was really exciting to see all the new changes. –Carmen Lee

Pre-flight is a great improvement. Finally a way to check 2-colour jobs. Thanks. Cross references – Finally –Ron Tucker

Very good. Lots of info compressed into one night. —Kristen Gravkin

First timer – loved it. –Rainbow Poffinbarger

CS4 rocks. Can't wait to get even more confused in a good way. –Friso H

Great meeting. Great venue. InDesign CS4 will be great, I just need to sell my car to afford it :-) —David McQueen

This was excellent. New features were clearly shown and showed benefits of InDesign. Venue=good. Presenter=Good –Mariana

Great venue, topic, presenter. Loved the new InDesign features. Did not know much about Bridge so appreciated the overview –Sue H

Venue is great, just the right size. Presenter – very positive and clear presentation. Very useful application tips and new features

Love the new interactive features, must tell more and the next IDUG meeting. Another great job Seb. Thanx –Wesley Jang

Love the page transition pallet and new Smart stuff. —Susan T

Good dialog about workflow and process of design. —Bob King

Venue great. Presenter was great – very knowledgeable so much info for 3 hrs. —Cari Bird

Next Meeting

Our next meeting is sometime in December or January. Potential topics for the next meeting could be:

Transparency & building bulletproof PDFs for output
or
Getting your InDesign file into Flash CS4.

Jeff Kew
Vancouver InDesign User Group

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