United States of AmericaOK, I'm convinced -- CS4 is a must for book designers! I like that I could spend a lot of time designing and with a little work quickly apply all necessary styles - Great!
S. Levine
U.S. Navy Memorial Auditorium
Event DetailsWhat a way to start the fall season. About 200 InDesigners showed up to hear Noha Edell review, step-by-step, how to efficiently create a book or other long document with InDesign CS4.
Before Noha’s presentation, the group did us proud by devouring 27 large pizzas, dozens of cookies and hundreds of drinks. Well done! After chatting with friends, some not seen over the summer, we headed into the auditorium.
The “Book” feature in InDesign makes it much easier to divide work up amongst multiple people. It’s also just easier to work with smaller bite-size pieces, such as single chapters. The ability to add, delete and rearrange chapters while keeping the book’s organization intact is liberating.
And ID-CS4 has several new and wonderful features, including GREP styles, conditional text, cross references and Live Preflight. All make the process of creating and managing a large document easy. Please refer to the handout that you can download at the bottom of this summary page for links to recorded sessions on this topic and related features.
Baltimore-Area Chapter Inaugural Meeting on October 6. Check out the Greater Baltimore chapter at http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/baltimore/.
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Save the date for the Accessibility eSeminar: Oct 20th at 2:00p.m. More details to follow and will be posted on our chapter page.
eSeminar: eBooks Everywhere - Engaging readers with the Adobe eBook platform. Oct 22nd at 1:00p.m. EST
Discover how the Adobe eBook platform makes reading an immersive experience—everywhere and across devices. Join us for an hour-long complimentary online eSeminar and explore how the Adobe eBook platform enables reader engagement through a streamlined workflow for authoring, protecting and delivering digital books. Hosted by Adobe product experts, this eSeminar shows how to enable a seamless reading experience across multiple screen types and why an open, interoperable eBook platform serves your readers best.
Who should attend?
Publishers, booksellers, libraries, and digital content aggregators
Register at: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=1535237&loc=en_us
InDesign Conference, November 4-6. Check out http://www.mogo-media.com/conferences/the-indesign-conference/2009/washington-dc/ to learn more about this outstanding event. DC-Area InDesign User Group members receive a $100 discount. Please check the Member Benefits page for the promo code.
"Topics covered were diverse and well covered. Loved Noha's presentation style. She is engaging and funny (why couldn't I have professors like her??). I am only now realizing the power of CS4 and can't wait to experiment."
"Very informative and well prepared. Synchronizing tips were very helpful. Also the integration between all the CS products was great."
"Wow...amazing coverage of advanced topics. Noha did an amazing job; very organized and well-thought out."
"Wonderful, very full, need time to absorb. Didn't know about the existence of Books and find the Digital Edition very useful - Thank you."
"I had reservations about attending when reading CS4 was a topic (since I don't have it), but i learned several useful CS3 tips. And of course I want CS4. Hello Raffle!"
"The review of Grep Styles, Conditional text, etc. was great. If you don't use, you forget. Accessibility - whole new world!"
"A compelling and lively presentation that offered some good reasons to upgrade to CS4."
"A lot of stuff covered. Kudos to Noha for cramming it all in. Good examples."
"I appreciated Noha's efforts to stay grounded and explain each step as she moved. A good teacher keeps her student's perspective in mind so as not to skip steps or confuse! At times I felt a little overwhelmed but most of this content was very accessible to me! Very thankful for your hard work."
"This was terrific! I don't use all the features covered, but knowing about them is very valuable. I'm so glad I came, and I hope to make it to the next meeting."
Our next meeting is scheduled for November 19. So, please save the date.
