Welcome to the InDesign User Groups.

See our global community in action.

The InDesign User Group website is a place to find upcoming user group meetings, access a wide range of InDesign and InCopy resources, and get information about industry events. Attend an InDesign User Group meeting to learn more about Adobe InDesign, InCopy and other Creative Suite tools, connect with peers, and stay up-to-date on publishing trends.

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Meeting Summaries
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Upcoming InDesign User Group Meetings
Looking for your next chapter meeting? See when the next InDesign User Group meetings are being held — all over the world.
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Announcing Adobe InDesign CS4
Check out the newest release of this leading professional page layout program today.
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Top New Features of InDesign CS4!
Join InDesign Product Manager Michael Ninness as he walks us through video demontrations of the top new features of InDesign CS4.
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Create digital documents with InDesign CS4
See how the strengths of InDesign CS4 and Adobe Flash CS4 Professional together deliver an engaging SWF file complete with animation, interactivity, video, and sound.
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New chapters!

Auckland, lead by Martinho da Gloria.
Colombia, lead by Margarita Velasco.
Perth, lead by Cari Jansen.

InDesign Podcasts
Hear from experts in Adobe InDesign. These podcatsts feature discussions, tips and explanations about improving your InDesign workflow.
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InDesign Blogs
A great source of tips, tricks and all around sound advice on how to be creative and productive with InDesign.
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Meeting notes are available from these past meetings.

Cardiff

Hello Cardiff! Helo Caerdydd!

Thu, June 18, 2009

New York City

Will It Print?

Thu, June 18, 2009

Reno

InDesign CS4 Summer Series Part 1

Wed, June 17, 2009

Brisbane

Let's Style it!

Thu, June 11, 2009

Vancouver

Beyond Data Merge (and some more plug-ins)

Wed, June 10, 2009

Melbourne

Interactive PDF and Forms

Wed, June 10, 2009

Denver

Denver IDUG: Extending InDesign and Using Effects

Tue, June 2, 2009

New York City

Charts, Long Documents and Plug-ins, oh my!

Wed, May 27, 2009

Amsterdam

Designing and Distributing Interactive PDF Forms

Wed, May 27, 2009

Indianapolis

Ha-ja-du-dat?

Wed, May 20, 2009

Find archived meeting summaries on our chapter pages

GREP in InDesign
By Michael Murphy
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Style Relationships Through InDesign
By Michael Murphy
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Style = Substance
By Michael Murphy
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InDesign CS4 What's New
Create compelling print content, interactive PDFs, and immersive publications for viewing with Adobe Flash^® Player — all with beautiful typography and stunning page design.
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CS4 Design Premium What's New (PDF attached)
Design with familiar tools, including InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator, knowing you can translate your work smoothly into virtually any medium. With Flash made easier than ever to use, Fireworks added for prototyping websites, and Dreamweaver enhanced for standards-based web production, now you can realize the full promise of cross-media design.
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InDesign CS4 Top 10 Features (SWF attached)
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Transparency
A detailed overview of the transparency functions in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop CS3 (and other versions). Shows features, effects, how to use them, how to share or import them, best practices for error-free output. (From Adobe BDM Noha Edell's presentation to the DC Area IDUG chapter in September 2008.)
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Option/Alt-Click Shortcuts
Michael Murphy (creator and host of "The InDesigner" podcasts and blog) created this collection of truly time-saving and little-known shortcuts for getting the most, the fastest out of the Control Panel in InDesign. Using just the Alt or Option key, you can reveal full dialog boxes related to many common functions for Text and Object modes as well as Table mode.
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Member Snippets Newsletter
The Detroit IDUG chapter’s periodic newsletter includes tips, how-to articles, resources, book reviews, Q&A, fun and games, and special offers, related to InDesign and sometimes to the greater design industry.
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InNews Newsletter: InNews III Junio - Julio 2008
The Puerto Rico IDUG chapter creates an interactive PDF newsletter that includes sound, motion, news, reviews, and informative articles about various tools and features. (Some articles in Spanish, some in English.)
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