Washington, D.C. InDesign User Group

We’ll start the evening off with a live performance by one of our most popular speakers, Claudia McCue. As more of us need to broaden our skill sets beyond static printed matter, it’s amazing to find out what InDesign can do. You'll be surprised how easily you can create hyperlinks for navigation within a document or to a Web address. Add clickable buttons, rollovers, sounds, movies and fancy page transitions to bring your document to life. You don't have to know Flash to create cool interactive content! Claudia will show us how. PDF2ID Have you ever received a PDF and wanted convert it into an editable InDesign file? Of course you have. We’ll be demonstrating “PDF2ID”, a recently released plugin that converts PDF files into fully editable InDesign files. From their web site: “PDF2ID recreates the intended construction and layout of the document by forming paragraphs; applying styles; regrouping independent graphic elements; extracting images; creating tables; recovering annotations and other elements automatically. PDF2ID converts every page in a PDF file to an equivalent page in the resulting InDesign document.” The Answer Desk “The Answer Desk” will be open for your toughest InDesign questions. During the refreshment hour, “The Answer Desk” will be staffed by professional trainers provided by EEI Communications and our own membership. Bring your InDesign questions to these folks and get an answer while chewing on a slice of pizza. This is a perfect time to ask those questions you don’t want to bring up before a group. Challenge them! Bring it on!! They’re ready for you. Of course, there will be plenty of food and drink before the meeting starts. And, we’ll close the meeting with drawings for lots of goodies including software, books and t-shirts and more. No matter how cold it may be outside, it’s always warm and inviting at your InDesign User Group meeting. ========================= Agenda ========================= 6:00pm: Refreshments (pizza, drinks and more) 7:00pm: Meeting 9:00pm: Adjourn The U.S. Navy Memorial Auditorium is conveniently located atop its own Metro station (Navy Memorial/Archives). Discount evening parking is available in the building until 9:30 p.m. despite what the sign may say (garage entrance on D Street) and at other nearby buildings. Parking meter enforcement extends to 9:30pm, so skip the meters. SPECIAL ADVANCE ANNOUNCEMENT!! On March 17, the day after our meeting, Claudia will be leading an all-day seminar on, “From Word to InDesign” at the U.S. Navy Memorial Auditorium. Do your clients and collaborators send you Word files? Are their files a nightmare? They¹re trying to do you a favor, but they have no idea what it takes to massage that stuff into a good-looking InDesign page! There are ways to defend yourself against problematic Word files, and even some ways to make it easy for your contributors to create World files that give you a head start. Let’s face it, you know there has to be a better way to get from Word to InDesign. Just a few of Claudia’s hints and tricks will save you many, many hours. So, set aside March 17 to learn some really neat stuff and then you’ll really have a reason to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. As a member, you are receiving notice ahead of the general public. More information will follow. Registration soon at www.dc-id.org. CS4 UPGRADE DISCOUNT ENDS FEBRUARY 28 For those of you sitting on the fence about upgrading to CS4, better make up your mind. Until February 28, all CS users can upgrade for $200 off the regular price. Whether you have CS3, CS2 or the original CS, the upgrade price is the same and discounted. Go to: http://www.adobe.com/special/up2suite/ to secure your special deal.