ITEMS TO BID ON FROM THE JUNE 2ND IDUG DENVER MEETING

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 | Information | Comments Off

The following items did not get bid on at our past meeting. These items will be available for auction until 7pm Mountain on June 26th.

Please see the “How Do I Bid?” link above for instructions on putting in a bid in our online auction.

Happy bidding and good luck!

New Horizons InDesign Training

Monday, June 8th, 2009 | Services, technology | No Bids

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Two-day hands-on InDesign CS3 or CS4 training from New Horizons.

Overview:
In this course, students work with some of the tools and features to create eye-catching printed documents using InDesign CS3 or CS4

Lesson 1: Managing the InDesign Environment
Explore the InDesign Environment
Customize the Workspace
Set General and Interface Preferences

Lesson 2: Designing Documents
Create a New Document
Add Text and Graphics
Edit Text
Thread Text Frames
Convert Other Application Files to InDesign

Lesson 3: Enhancing Documents
Apply Colors and Swatches
Apply Fills, Gradients, and Strokes
Format Characters and Paragraphs
Create and Apply Styles
Search and Replace Text and Characters
Develop Layers
Apply Transparency and Transparency Flattener Presets

Lesson 4: Adding Tables
Create a Table
Modify a Table Structure
Format a Table
Create Table and Cell Styles

Lesson 5: Finalizing Documents
Check Documents for Problems
Print a Document
Package Files
Prepare PDF Files for Web Distribution
Export PDF Files for Printing

Retail value: $595

STARTING BID: $200
Bid increments: $25

Cropster ID

Monday, June 8th, 2009 | Software, plug-ins | No Bids

Gluon Cropster ID
Cropster ID is the professionals’ choice for setting up mechanical and page markings. This is for CS3 and for Mac OS X only. This powerful InDesign plugin will set up crop marks for bleed, trim, safety, folds and page gutters. It sets up guides for all of the above mentioned crop marks and the GLUON-invented dimension arrows that others have imitated. Cropster enables the choice of machine centering on a page to facilitate double sided printing, and it features user definable presets. Use Cropster and you will see why it is the industry standard for setting up electronic mechanicals.

MAC OS X only and for InDesign CS3

Retail value: $109

STARTING BID: $35
Bid increments: $10

Font Smasher from Insider Software

Sunday, June 8th, 2008 | Software | No Bids

Smasher
Smasher solves your font integrity, performance and suitcase problems fast by unpacking old suitcases, cleaning up fonts, translating font formats, clearing font caches and displaying font properties and permissions. In seconds, with a few clicks, you can use Smasher to:
Smash and manage old font suitcases
• Drag-and-drop folders of fonts for quick clean-up
• Break suitcases down to the family or style level
• Simplify bloated and mixed-format suitcases
Verify font file properties and permissions
• See file location, file type and dates
• View owner, group and user permissions
Clean up fonts quickly
• Check the basic integrity of your fonts
• Separate TrueType from Type 1 fonts
• Keep bitmap and printer fonts together
View suitcases, font families and styles
• Preview styles in their native typeface
• Compare the contents of different suitcases
Move fonts between Mac OS 9 and X
• Set your OS 9 fonts free by smashing old suitcases
• Convert OS X dfonts into TrueType for use in OS 9
Smash Mac OS X font caches
• Reduce system problems
• Correct font display problems
• Eliminate font corruption warnings
Clean application font caches and preference files
• Make Quark, Adobe and Microsoft applications work right
• Fix application crashes and performance problems
• Find “missing” fonts
• Make problem fonts behave

MAC OS X only

Retail value: $49.95

STARTING BID: $20
Bid increments: $5
 

“Acrobat 3D Version 8: Classroom in a Book” (book)

Sunday, June 8th, 2008 | Books | No Bids

By Adobe Creative Team, from Adobe Press, 2007. Retail value - $59.99.

Description from Amazon.

STARTING BID: $25
Bid increments $5