01.27.12

InDesign Seminar Tour Kicks Off in Denver!

Posted in General Announcement, Training

I’ll be presenting my first InDesign Seminar of 2012 in Denver next week. For all the details, please visit the MOGO Media website with all the details. As usual, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email me at my IDUG email: admin@idugdenver.net or through my website at www.ericagamet.com. I hope to see a few of you down there!

-Erica Gamet, IDUG Denver

12.05.11

Next Meeting: December 6th

Posted in Meeting Announcement

Happy Holidays! Join us for our annual holiday gathering!

Tue, December 6, 2011, 6:00 PM
Front Range Community College: Westminster Campus

3645 West 112th Ave.
Snowy Peaks Room (enter left of Rotunda)
Westminster, CO 80031

The first half of the meeting will be an informal discussion of all things InDesign…And a fun version of our JeopID! gameshow. Bring your thinking caps…

We’ll then follow up with our silent auction and holiday food and mingling.

This year we’re doing a potluck, so please bring something to share. If you cook or bake and want to share your favorite holiday dish with us, please do. Since that’s not everyone’s thing, please feel free to bring your favorite store-bought item, as well!

We look forward to talking about how InDesign has fit into our life and work over the past year, and discussing what we hope to see in the near future. We also look forward to getting to know each of you a little better and spending some time discussing InDesign, graphics, and other topics that come up.

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Agenda
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6:00 Networking
6:30 Chapter Business
6:45 JeopID! InDesign Gameshow
7:45 Silent Auction Opens
7:45 Potluck and Holiday Cheer!

Please remember to register for the meeting on the Adobe site…see you there!

10.28.11

October 4th Meeting Wrap-Up

Posted in Meeting Wrap-Up, October 2011

Our last meeting on October 4th was about working smarter with preferences, presets, libraries and templates, along with some tips and tricks.

Chapter Business:

  1. The December meeting will be a holiday party with food and a gameshow. Erica will post a poll on this website to help with planning.
  2. A meeting comment form will be posted on this website in the future to help gather feedback and ideas about meetings.
  3. Erica found a nifty script for converting buttons in InDesign to fillable PDF fields: TOMAXXI Forms.
  4. The idea of having an informal networking get-together on the month between IDUG meetings was discussed, but not finalized.
  5. The possibility of having a job opportunities and Q&A page on this website was discussed again. That will require getting Buddy Press up and running first.

Highlights from “Don’t Re-invent the Wheel” – presenter, Erica Gamet

  1. Preferences: Set them with no document open to make them “stick” for all new documents (units, fonts, frame fitting, eyedropper, etc.).
  2. Keyboard shortcuts: Make your own if there isn’t one, or change an existing one.
  3. Presets: For document set-up, PDF output, printing, etc.
  4. Libraries: Use this for symbols, logos, crop marks, and other things that you use a lot that are created in InDesign.
  5. Layers: Did you know that there is a setting for “paste remembers layers” on the layers panel menu?
  6. Templates: Once you finish a document that you will update in the future, but with new content, save it as a template (.indt) and remove the text and photos, but leave the frames.
  7. Graphic Standards Files: Create them for each client, so you can always start with (import) the right colors, fonts and styles.
  8. Swatch exchange files: Make them to reuse your favorite color palettes across the Creative Suite.

Tips & Tricks – presenter, Erica Gamet

Erica showed us lots of little productivity tricks and fun tips for working smarter. She showed us how to close and save all windows at once, quick switching between color panel modes, CS5′s rounded corners and CS5.5′s new anchored objects…among many others.

While we can’t list them all here, you should try using the grid mode (Gridify feature) as well as making different size pages in one document and exporting them all to one spread in a PDF (nice for presentations).

Our next meeting (party!) will be on December 6, 2011. Stay tuned here for a poll and more info.

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