Date: Tuesday, May 15
Time: 6:30-8:30 p.m. (Gather at 6:00 p.m. to meet fellow members; refreshments provided.)
Place: Mechanics' Institute, 57 Post Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco (map)
Forum organized by: Karen Asbelle

InDesign: A Guided Tour for Editors

Adobe InDesign is a software program in widespread use for creating and designing content for print and web. For those of us who work with designers and production staff who create page layouts and do graphic design using InDesign, this forum will familiarize us with how the program generally works and what’s involved in making our recommended text edits. In fact, when it’s a matter of saving precious time or client expense, wouldn’t it be great if we could offer to make the text edits ourselves? And as more authors are choosing to self-publish, we can enhance our value as editors when we have some understanding of how a book is created in InDesign.

Join us as professional trainer Clint Applegate guides us (non-designer) editors through a friendly tour of InDesign’s basic tools and features to give us a general overview: creating a new document, adding and editing text, threading text frames, search and replace, formatting paragraphs and more…with a nod to footnotes, table of contents and index. Obviously, this is not an official two-day training, but in two hours, you can get a feel for the program, ask questions, and decide if you want to learn more.

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Clint Applegate is an established certified trainer with Sonic Training. He started his professional visual arts career as a successful architectural photographer, working with building contractors, and as a graphic designer/digital prepress for various commercial print service bureaus, where he gained experience with the technical aspects of print and design. Since 2003, Clint has provided marketing solutions and Internet development services to a variety of industries through his business, CA Visual Design.

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Date: Upcoming August forum date TBD
Time: 6:30-8:30 p.m. (Gather at 6:00 p.m. to meet fellow members; refreshments provided.)
Place: Mechanics' Institute, 57 Post Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco (map)
Forum arranged by: TBD

Date and topic to be determined—send a suggestion to Jim Norrena, Program Coordinator. Stay tuned.

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General Notes:

• Our forums are free to members—as well as to non-members who may want to check us out.
• San Francisco forums are generally held quarterly in February, May, August and November.

Parking: On-street parking on Post and neighboring streets is free after 6 p.m. Garage parking is available three blocks away in the Sutter-Stockton Garage, 330 Sutter Street at the corner of Sutter and Stockton.

About the Mechanics' Institute: Located in downtown San Francisco, the Institute houses the oldest library on the West Coast and one of the nation's oldest chess clubs. Organized in 1854 when San Francisco was a remote frontier community, it began as a center for adult technical education. The private Institute, housed in the historic 1910 building at 57 Post Street, maintains a large circulation and reference library.

Date: Tuesday, July 17
Time: 6:45-8:30 p.m.
Place: Campbell Library, 77 Harrison Ave., Campbell, CA 95008 (map)
Forum coordinator: TBD

Topic planning is underway. Details to follow.

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Date: Upcoming October forum date TBD
Time: 6:45-8:30 p.m.
Place: Campbell Library, 77 Harrison Ave., Campbell, CA 95008 (map)
Forum organizer: TBD

Date and topic to be determined—send a suggestion to David Couzens, South Bay Forum Coordinator. Stay tuned.

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General Notes:

• Our forums are free to members—as well as to non-members who may want to check us out.
• South Bay forums are generally held quarterly in January, April, July and October.