Chicago InDesign User GroupMeeting Notes Archive
July 18, 2007
InCopy Workflow and New CS3 Features
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The excitement of getting our first look at CS3 brought so many member registrations that the meeting had to be moved to a larger venue!
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Topic: Getting the Job Right: Best Production Practices.
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Topic: Type, Type and more Type
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Topic: Interactive InDesign and Acrobat 8 Professional. Presenters: Jim Maivald and Tom Petrillo, with 'special guest,' fellow Adobe Solutions Engineer, Adam Pratt.
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Topic: Color Management. Presenter: David Sheffield, Photoshop geek and guru, freelance retoucher, Chicago.
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Topic: Designer Showcase. Presenters: Joe Grossmann, Jim Maivald, LN Vaillancourt, Robin Brown.
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Coming attractions for the Adobe InDesign® and Creative Suite conferences in Chicago, with Adam Pratt and Anne-Marie Concepción.
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InDesign Server!
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"Using XML in InDesign® CS2" presented by Cathy Palmer, Jim Heffron, and Bob Hoffner
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• See the photos September 8, 2005
Our September meeting was very unique, with two of our members, who are also published authors, going head to head with their top 10 InDesign tips.
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Jennifer Mindel, Rich Carroll, and Tom Petrillo demonstrated the new features of Photoshop® CS2, Illustrator® CS2, and the Bridge.
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Eda Warren, Cathy Palmer, and Jim Maivald walked us through the new features of InDesign CS2.
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Rich McCormick-Carroll, Rick Johnson, and Ed Joras walked us through scripting in InDesign.
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Sean O'Grady and James Wamser gave us tips on successful printing from InDesign CS. Clint Funk demonstrated Acrobat® 7.0 Professional.
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• See the photos November 10, 2004
We had a great turnout, with over 30 attendees gathering at our new home, Digital Bootcamp.
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• See the photos September 16, 2004
Our meeting focused on color management, presented by Ben Greiner and Chris Youngstead from Forget Computers.
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The meeting started off with a bang, or, as Jennifer Mindel put it, "dueling laptops" — Tom in InDesign and Clint in InCopy®. The two laptops networked together to demonstrate the fluency of designers working with editors on the same documents, even simultaneously.
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• See the photos March 25, 2004
After a quick show of hands for which version of InDesign people are using (about half and half for InDesign 2.0 and InDesign CS), our featured speaker for the evening was introduced — "Her Geekness," the illustrious Anne-Marie Concepción of Seneca Design and Training.
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• See the photos January 15, 2004
This meeting's topics included a comparison of Quark 6.0 and InDesign CS delivered by Eda Warren, and an overview of the recently announced InDesign CS PageMaker® Edition.
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• See the photos November 6, 2003
This meeting of the Chicago InDesign user group focused on features in Adobe's new Creative Suite.
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We were treated to a wonderfully cogent, logically sequenced presentation by Jim Cooper, of Dynamic Publication Services in Indiana, and Cathy Palmer, of Galvanize Graphic Design in Madison, Wisconsin, working in tandem to reveal the wonders of the "90-second rule," as Jim likes to call it.
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Our second meeting was held at Capps Digital — with pizza! The topic of the evening: transparency and flattening in InDesign 2.0.
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Subzero (minus thirty) conditions didn't prevent enthusiastic user group members from attending the year's first meeting!
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• See the photos March 19, 2008Styling for Success
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May 13, 2008Our Favorite InDesign Feature You Don't Know Yet
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October 28, 2008Creative Suite 4 Roll-Out Special Event
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