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The Next IDUG | SF meeting is May 15, 2013

Paul Danter will demonstrate App Studio – the leading cloud-based HTML5 solution that turns print into interactive award-winning tablet and smartphone experiences.

Create superior digital experiences that inspire and entertain. The enhanced interactive content means readers can jump right in, while sharing and tagging options embrace the social experience creating customer rapport with your brand.

App Studio works with the software you already know – QuarkXPress and InDesign – transforming content into HTML5, the next-generation Web language, with pixel-perfect, rich interactivity that plays perfectly across a broad range of devices, all packaged within an app.

By combining the market-leading HTML5 technology from the recent acquisition of PressRun with Quark’s existing digital publishing technology. App Studio is the only digital publishing solution that allows users to create branded content apps using QuarkXPress, InDesign, HTML5, and XML. Through a managed cloud environment, designers, authors, and extended teams are able to collaborate to create rich, interactive content that can be delivered across multiple platforms and devices.

Typography in InDesign

Regardless of what your final output is, InDesign is the premiere application for creating quality type. Steve Werner will present many InDesign tips and techniques for working with text and creating type that stands out. Learn about why you should use OpenType fonts, understand when and how to use the Story Editor, create quality typography with InDesign’s kerning, hyphenation, justification, and margin alignment features, and much more.

Raffle Items for this meeting

1 — 12-month subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud

1 — Markzware - PDF2DPS $199 value

1 — Markzware - Flightcheck V6.90 $399 value

1 — DTP Tools - iDML for iPad

1 — DTP Tools - Annotations plug-in

1 — Insider Software: FontAgent Pro 5 and Smasher $99 value

1 — CSMagic Webinar $79 value

2 — InDesign Magazine subscriptions $59 value

1 — StockLayouts $299 value

1 — Creative Edge 3-month subscription

1 — Video2Brain DVD: Mastering InDesign