Washington, D.C. InDesign User GroupMeeting Notes Archive
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Over 130 people were treated to one of the best programs we’ve ever put on in our nearly two years of existence.
Attendees wolfed down 20 extra-large pizzas from Manhattan Deli. Guest speaker Scott Citron (from New York, no less) proclaimed, “Washington pizza, good; New York pizza, bad.” To wash down the flat slabs, we had the usual soft drinks and water along with bottles of white and red wine courtesy of our co-hosts, Washington Book Publishers.
After being refreshed, attendees watched as Scott Citron, noted book designer and InDesign® instructor, showed how to make easy work of some of the more daunting tasks in long-document publishing. We were shown some of the tricks in using master pages how to easily create a table of contents, neat stuff with headers and footers, and a short review of nested styles.
Then we moved on to a demonstration of the Typéfi Publishing System (TPS), which is a complete content management and editorial system that uses InDesign, and only InDesign, as its page layout engine. After an introduction and overview by Mike Silverman, VP of Sales and Marketing, we had a live demonstration by the system’s designer and the company’s Chairman and Chief Technical Officer, Stephen O’Brien. Stephen flew all the way from Australia to join us.
Imagine a complete editorial system that uses MSWord as its text editing platform flows through to InDesign using XML as its basic underpinning. In this way documents move seamlessly from one form to the other without any difficulty. This review doesn’t fairly represent what TPS can do for professional publishing organizations.
The icing on the cake was Noha Edell’s preview of what’s coming in the next version of InDesign. She showed us… Oh, that’s right, I can’t repeat any of that. If you weren’t at the meeting, you missed out. And those of you who were, you can’t tell anyone until after the official product announcement.
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