Membership’s absolutely free, and you can even grab a cool drink and a slice of pizza before our meeting starts during our Pre-Meet-Gettogether.

The meeting’s held at Edith Cowan University campus (thanks to sponsorship) in Mt. Lawley.

Hope to see you there.

More info/registration:
http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/perth/events/1914/

Cari Jansen - Trainer, Print & E-Publishing Consultant, Technical Writer, Public Speaker

With the release of the Apple iPad earlier in the year and the increase in the number of reading devices, such as the Kindle, Sony or Kobo eReader etc., digital publishing is quickly becoming the new way in which we develop, distribute and read our books, magazines and newspapers.

In the upcoming InDesign User Group meeting in Perth, Western Australia on Tuesday, December 7 2010, we will take a look at how Adobe is helping to revolutionise the digital publishing industry and in particular the role Adobe InDesign takes as the layout tool of choice for creation of EBooks and Digital Magazines.

Attendance to the meeting is FREE for members always. However, seating is limited and allocated on a first come first serve basis, so be sure to register soon!

Agenda

• 5:45 – 6:20pm: Registration and meet-and-greet (cold drinks and some food provided)
• 6:20 – 6:30pm: Meeting Welcome
• 6:30 – 7:15pm: EBook Publishing
• 7:15 – 7:30pm: short break
• 7:30 – 8:15pm: Digital Magazine Publishing
• 8:15 – 8:30pm: Evaluation fill-out & Prize give-away
• 8:30pm End of meeting

Event details and Registration:

http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/perth/events/1631/

Cari Jansen - Trainer, Print & E-Publishing Consultant, Technical Writer, Public Speaker

September 29, marks the second birthday of the Perth InDesign User Group. From its humble beginnings, this chapter has grown into a group of loyal followers and continues to attract new members at every meeting. Although many of us use InDesign to create/design beautiful layouts, when it comes to eventually punching out those finished pages during the production of a publication such as a magazine, newsletter or newspaper, where do we start?

In this meeting we will be mastering templates by providing an overview of design conversion into re-usable templates, that allows us to do our jobs more effectively and efficiently.

Attendance to our IDUG meeting is FREE as always. However, seating is allocated on a first come first serve basis, so be sure to register soon!

Info & Registration:
http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/perth/events/1545/

Cari Jansen - Trainer, Print & E-Publishing Consultant, Technical Writer, Public Speaker

Web-Link: http://cs5launch.adobe.com/ap/

Cari Jansen - Trainer, Print & E-Publishing Consultant, Technical Writer, Public Speaker

The Newspaper Publishing Association is organising a short eSeminar tomorrow: Next-Generation Publishing: Developing Content for the iPad and other E-Readers. The event is sponsored by Adobe Systems. Speaker: Michael Stoddart.  Not too late to reschedule your appointments and attend this event online: more info & registration

Cari Jansen - Trainer, Print & E-Publishing Consultant, Technical Writer, Public Speaker

16 February 2010.  5:45pm – 8:30pm

The Perth InDesign User Group invites you to become a Member (Free) and attend its Long Live InDesign! meeting on Tuesday, 16 February 2010.

In a belated celebration of InDesign’s 10th birthday, our theme for the evening will be to focus on making Long and Beautiful documents with InDesign.

We will be taking a look at some very cool tips and tricks for working with Longer InDesign documents.  Learn how to use InDesign’s Book feature, automatically add new pages to documents, work with more than one Table of Contents in document, pick up some tips and tricks on how to bring in content from Microsoft Word and Excel, and be introduced to InDesign Table Styles.

To finish the evening we’ll be showcasing some great designs “Made with InDesign”.

Event Registration

Although InDesign User Group (www.indesignusergroup.com) membership is absolutely free, you must REGISTER for this event, as seating is limited (max 90), so be sure to pre-register soon!
For registration and more information: http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/perth/events/1350/

Cari Jansen - Trainer, Print & E-Publishing Consultant, Technical Writer, Public Speaker

http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/perth/events/989/

Cari Jansen - Trainer, Print & E-Publishing Consultant, Technical Writer, Public Speaker

Whether you’re looking at:

• growing your business
• developing new services
• acquiring new clients or increasing customer loyalty

Connect09 provides you with an opportunity to learn from the experts and give you an insight into generating positive and long-lasting outcomes for your organisation.

Event Information & Registration: www.connectaustralia.com.au

Cari Jansen - Trainer, Print & E-Publishing Consultant, Technical Writer, Public Speaker

Info & Registration:
http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/perth/events/938/

More and more organisations now-a-days, require that publications are made accessible in accordance with Government guidelines. Accessibility enables those people in the community with visual impairments or other disabilities to have access to the content contained in our publications and to navigate through this content and interact with it.

This meeting will introduce you to the different aspects of accessibility: going from traditional print to Accessible PDF, HTML, Braille in DAISY and ePub.

Flying over from Melbourne for this session is guest-speaker Chandi Perera, CEO of Typefi Systems. Chandi has worked in publishing and media technology industry over 15 years and earlier in the year spoke at the “Tools of Change for Publishing” conference in New York. With his depth of knowledge about publishing technology, content repurposing (XML, XSLT) and InDesign publishing automation, Chandi brings to the publishing industry a wealth of knowledge.

Agenda

• 5:45 – 6:15pm: Registration and meet-and-greet (cold drinks and some food provided)
• 6:15 – 6:20pm: Meeting Welcome
• 6:20 – 7:05pm: Publishing for Accessibility (principles)
• 7:05 – 7:15pm: short break
• 7:15 – 8:00pm: Publishing for Accessibility (in practice)
• 8:00 – 8:30pm: Questions, Prize give-away
• 8:30pm End of meeting

Registration

Attendance to our IDUG meeting is FREE as always. However, seating is limited (90 max), so be sure to register soon!

Register today:
http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/perth/events/938/

Cari Jansen - Trainer, Print & E-Publishing Consultant, Technical Writer, Public Speaker

Perth – Making Text Flow: Efficient, cool, clever and downright fun ways to format text in InDesign, presented by dyanmic duo Marianne Young and Cari Jansen.

Sydney – Treasure Hunt: InDesign Tips & Tricks, presented by Mike McHugh , Application Engineer Adobe Systems and host of creativesweettv.com

Cari Jansen - Trainer, Print & E-Publishing Consultant, Technical Writer, Public Speaker

The following IDUG meetings are currently scheduled:

• 2 June 2009: Perth – Making Text Flow: Efficient, cool, clever and downright fun ways to format text in InDesign, presented by Marianne Young and Cari Jansen.
  
• 2 June 2009: Sydney – Treasure Hunt: InDesign Tips & Tricks, presented by Mike McHugh
• 10 June 2009: Melbourne – Interactive PDF
• 11 June 2009: Brisbane – Let’s Style it!, presented by Cheryl Zwart

Membership and attendance of the InDesign User Group meetings/events is FREE.

Not a Member yet? then log-on to www.indesignusergroup.com and become a member and choose which Chapters around the world you’d like to be come a member of. You will automatically receive event notifications.

Cari Jansen - Trainer, Print & E-Publishing Consultant, Technical Writer, Public Speaker

Learn to unlock the power of Adobe InDesign Scripting

Learn from one of the world’s best. Take advantage of a unique opportunity to attend either a half day introductory or full day master class on scripting with Adobe InDesign, presented by Dave Saunders, one of the world’s leading scripting experts.  Dave will be in Australia in March to share his knowledge and expertise during sessions to be held in Melbourne (3 & 4 March) and Sydney (5 & 6 March).

These seminars will allow attendees to gain a solid foundation for creating scripts and scripting their workflow, along with an understanding of how scripting can immediately enhance productivity, creativity and quality assurance in the work environment by automating repetiive tasks, with lightning speed and predictable consistency.
Who should attend?

Print providers, publishers, creative professionals and any InDesign user who can benefit from automating tedious manual work. No matter what your background is, it’s easy to get started in scripting.

For more information & registration: www.automateindesign.com

Cari Jansen - Trainer, Print & E-Publishing Consultant, Technical Writer, Public Speaker

Description

What better way to start the year than to try something new and exciting. As such, we shall be doing away with our usual format and giving you the opportunity to submit questions in advance and hopefully, we’ll be able to provide some answers and some relief.

A panel of experts have been assembled to help answer your thorny questions:

• Mike McHugh – Adobe
• Billy Atta – Konica-Minolta
• Jason Cutler – Oxford University Press

Download and complete the submission form (PDF), then send it back. http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/melbourne/files/submission_form_interactive.pdf

Alternatively, email your question to melbourne@indesignusergroup.com before 16 February 2009 (Monday).

Be sure to include:

• Name
• Email address
• InDesign version (ie. CS4, CS3, C2 etc)
• Operating System (ie. Mac, PC or both)
• Clear and concise question

Please note that only selected submissions will be addressed at the meeting. The clearer and more concise your question is, the more likely we are to choose it.

After all, it would be difficult to answer a question we don’t understand.

Schedule

6.30 – 6.50pm: Registration, meet-and-greet
6.50 – 7.00pm: Welcome to the meeting
7.00 – 8.30pm: FAQ
8.30 – 9.00pm: Prize giveaway, mingle

Cari Jansen - Trainer, Print & E-Publishing Consultant, Technical Writer, Public Speaker

Description

The start of the New Year seems a long time ago already… and it’s only weeks away till we all meet again for our first InDesign User Group meeting of 2009.

Wednesday, 11 February 2009 we will delve into the world of Creating Interactive PDFs with InDesign.

We’ll take a close-up look at how a newsletter laid out in InDesign is turned into an interactive PDF, that contains active bookmarks and links, navigation buttons, cool roll-over effects, movies, page transitions and more.

Our main interactive PDF session, delivered by our Chapter Representative Cari Jansen, will be followed by a short session on using Data Merge in InDesign, delivered by François Gintzburger, one of our User Group members.

François will take us through a Step-by-step: How to work with Data Merge in InDesign as well as provide some cool real-world examples.

User Group Membership and Attendance is FREE. However, seating is limited, so be sure to register soon!

http://indesignusergroup.com/chapters/perth/events/784/

Cari Jansen - Trainer, Print & E-Publishing Consultant, Technical Writer, Public Speaker