Los Angeles InDesign User Group
Magic of OpenType Advanced Features
Thu, November 21, 2013, 7:00 PM
Glendale Community College
Santa Barbara Building, Room SB 243
1500 N. Verdugo Rd.
Glendale, CA
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Home Again
Now back to our regularly scheduled meetings.
As you know, the Los Angeles InDesign User Group meets six times a year on the third Thursday of the odd months: January, March, May, July, September and November. The meeting last month with Terry White was an extra one.
So how do you follow a superstar like Terry White? With another superstar, of course. Although Travis Kochel might not have Terry’s name recognition, click here and see what Travis created to make our work easier. Sweet, right? So at the November meeting, we won’t just be seeing a demonstration of this incredible solution. We'll be hearing from the man who actually wrote the code. (Bowing and scraping is permitted.)
PLUS...this meeting is being held at and sponsored by Glendale Community College with free parking. Yay!
Meeting Topic: The Magic of OpenType Advanced Features
Our fonts are getting smarter. They can magically replace letter combinations with ligatures. Our text can be converted to small caps at the click of a button. Fractions can be created dynamically, without having to look through the glyphs panel. Advanced OpenType fonts are dramatically speeding up some of the tedious tasks of typesetting, but like any good tool, it comes with responsibility. Knowing why to use tabular numerals is just as important as knowing how. This talk will detail InDesign’s OpenType features and how they can improve your typography.
Along the way, we’ll also take a look at some experimental uses of OpenType technology. Fonts can display more than letters and punctuation. Some can transform your numbers into graphs, words into pictures, or times into a analog clocks. It could be argued that they have more in common with interfaces that typefaces. Regardless of how you categorize them, they are greatly expanding the capabilities of our design applications, and could be a worthy addition to your toolbox.
About the Presenter
Travis Kochel is a partner at Scribble Tone, a design studio based in Portland, Oregon. Their work explores intersections of typeface design, interactive experiences and branding. They are creators of FF Chartwell, a set of fonts to create simple graphs within text boxes. Published by FontFont in 2012, it has received awards and accolades from Fast Company, Communication Arts, Typographica, and ATypI. He currently teaches Typography, Typeface Design, and Interactive Design at Portland State University.
Agenda
7:00 p.m. - Meet and Greet
7:15 p.m. - Presentation and Tour (with mid-presentation break)
9:30 p.m. - Raffles
10:00 p.m. - Goodbyes
Free Parking
You can park free on the Glendale Community College campus in Lot C. Go here to print out the parking permit. Place it face up on your dashboard. This permit is only valid on November 21 beginning at 6 p.m..
Farthest Attendee
The person who travels the farthest to attend the meeting will receive a one-year subscription to InDesign Magazine. This prize has a $69 value. If everyone is kinda sorta in the area, then this prize will go the person who just had or is about to have a birthday.
Raffles
• SOFTWARE: one eDocker product
Value to $995.00
Your choice of: eDocker2, eDocker Tablet Publisher
• SOFTWARE: Blacklining for InDesign
Value $760.00
• 1-YEAR SUBSCRIPTION: Adobe Creative Cloud
Value $599.88
Full access to a CC applications
• 3-MONTH SUBSCRIPTION: Fotolia
Value $349.00
50 high resolution photos or vector images per month for three months. (two raffles)
• 3-MONTH SUBSCRIPTION: Stock Layouts
Value $299.00
Full access to the entire Stock Layout template library for three months.
• 1-YEAR SUBSCRIPTION: FlightCheck Version 7 for Mac from Markzware
Value $199.00
• SOFTWARE: FF Chartwell, including Bars, Bars Vertical, Lines, Pies, Radar, Rings and Rose from Font Font
Value $129.00
• SOFTWARE: Font Agent Pro 6 for Mac from Insider Software
Value $99.95
• SOFTWARE: TypeDNA
Value $49.00
• SOFTWARE: Rasterino for Illustrator CS4 to CC from Astute Graphics
Value $46.24
• SOFTWARE: iDML iPad App for iPad from DTP Tools
Value $19.00
• SOFTWARE: ColliderScribe for Illustrator CS4 to CC from Astute Graphics
Value $15.00
• TICKETS: LA Web Professionals Meeting
Value $7.99 (four raffles)
Event Sponsor
Glendale Community College
Corporate Sponsors
Adobe
Astute Graphics
DTP Tools
eDocker
Font Font
Fotolia
InDesign Magazine
LA Web Professionals
Markzware
Mogo Media
O’Reilly Press
Peachpit Press
Stock Layouts
ThePowerXChange
TypeDNA
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