Retail Australasia Summit and Expo

Digital Arena are a proud Gold Sponsor of the Retail Australasia Summit & Expo being held in Auckland. The event is being held at the Aotea Convention Centre, Auckland on the 23rd – 24th of May.

“Retail Australasia is New Zealand’s annual event for the retail industry featuring a two day conference and industry expo that brings together major local and international retailers who will discuss and provide valuable insight into this dynamic industry.”

Neil McGowan from Digital Arena will be presenting about Marketing Automation on the Wednesday afternoon. Neil will be covering:

- Significantly reduce your production costs
- No more re-writing copy
- Eliminate inconsistent copy across your marketing outputs
- No more searching for the right product image
- Reduce errors and reduce your proof versions

We encourage anyone in the retail, marketing, or advertising to attend. For more information and to register for the event visit the Retail Australasia website.

Event venue:
Aotea Centre
50 Memorial Drive
Auckland, New Zealand

Automation, Digital Arena, Marketing, Retail Australasia, Workflow

Documents created with InDesign CS 6 and down-saving for earlier versions

Here’s a popular tip for those about to move to InDesign CS6.

InDesign Documents (.indd) created in InDesign CS6 can’t be opened with earlier versions of InDesign, there is however an easy solution. With InDesign CS6 simply select “Save As…” then from the Format pull-down menu select “InDesign CS4 or later (IDML)”, click “Save” and your new IDML file can be opened with InDesign CS4 or later.

In the past if you needed to exchange files with people using an earlier version if InDesign you had to select “Export” from the “File” menu to export your InDesign Document to an InDesign Markup file (.idml).

If you are still on an earlier version of InDesign and try to open an InDesign CS6 Document you will get the following error:

‘Cannot open “filename.indd”. Please upgrade your plug-ins to their latest versions, or upgrade to the latest version of Adobe InDesign.’.

Adobe, Apple Mac Support, backsave, Creative Suite, CS6, idml, InDesign, Interchange

iOS 5.1.1 Software Update now available

Apple has released iOS 5.1.1 Software update for compatible iPhone and iPads. This update fixes numerous annoying bugs related to HDR photos, AirPlay playback, Safari syncing and App Store purchases.

You can install the update ‘over the air’ now by tapping on Settings, then General, then Software Update and tapping Download and Install. The update takes about 10 minutes to download and install, make sure your device has plenty of battery charge left before running the update.

Apple, iOS, iPad, iPhone

Digital Arena presents Adobe Creative Suite 6 & Adobe DPS

Over the next week we are running a series of Adobe Creative Suite 6 preview presentations to demonstrate and discuss what’s new in CS6 and Adobe DPS.

Marcus Radich will be presenting a feature tour covering Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign as well as some of the services available with the Creative Cloud. We are running these presentations in a series of small groups to invite discussion and spark imaginations for what we can create with Adobe’s latest Creative Suite and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. Marcus will also  be covering Adobe DPS workflow and how InDesign can be used for Digital Publishing.

If you’ve attended one of our presentations we would love to hear what you found valuable and what has caught your attention. Please add a comment to this blog post below.

Adobe, Creative Suite, CS6, Digital Publishing, DPS, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop

What’s new in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign CS6

Adobe evangelists provide an overview of what’s new in Illustrator CS6, Photoshop CS6 and InDesign CS6.

Adobe, Creative Suite, CS6, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop

Auckland InDesign User Group – Creative Suite 6 and Creative Cloud

At our next Auckland InDesign User Group, we’ll talk about Adobe Creative Suite 6 and Creative Cloud!

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Date, time, and location
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Tuesday, May 8 2012
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Media Design School
Level 16 (reception & sign in)
92 Albert Street
Auckland, CBD 1010

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Agenda
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6:00pm – Doors open and a bit of time to network
6.30pm – Special Presentation – Introducing Adobe CS6 and Creative Cloud
8.00pm – Giveaways and Sponsor Messages
8.15pm – Time for pizza, drinks, networking and prizes

You really don’t want to miss this meeting!!! Plus we will have some special prizes to giveaway at this meeting. Make sure you are there to learn what’s new, see Creative Suite 6 in action and be in with chance to win something really cool!

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Please register to attend
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Adobe, Auckland InDesign Users Group, Creative Cloud, Creative Suite, CS6, InDesign

Adobe Photoshop CS6

Adobe have released a public beta of Photoshop CS6 as an advance preview of the product that will be available (along with the full Creative Suite 6) later this year. Adobe have given Photoshop the biggest overhaul in recent history.

This release features a major User Interface redesign that resembles an Apple Pro application, the time saving feature of background save and further expansion and utilization of Adobe’s Content Aware technology to the patch and move tools.

Photoshop CS6 will require a 64bit Macintosh running Snow Leopard or Lion. While Windows XP and Windows 7 will be supported, Windows Vista will be unsupported. Adobe is also working with Apple and Microsoft to ensure compatibility with their yet to be released next generation operating systems, OS X Mountain Lion and Windows 8.

Check out the Photoshop CS6 beta videos on the Photoshop YouTube channel and also check out the videos and tutorials from this resource.

Adobe, Creative Suite, CS6, Photoshop

Auckland InDesign User Group – March Meeting

We’re pleased to announce the next meeting of the Auckland InDesign User Group is scheduled for Tuesday March 13th.

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Date, time, and location
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Tuesday, March 13 2012
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Media Design School
Level 16 (reception & sign in)
92 Albert Street
Auckland, CBD 1010

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Agenda
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6:00pm – Doors open – some time to network and get comfy
6.30pm – The Mac, InDesign & Fonts with Marcus
7.15pm – Working Smart with Scripts with Heather
8.00pm – Giveaways and Sponsor Messages
8.15pm – Time for pizza, drinks, networking and prizes

We have some jolly good prizes to giveaway at our first meeting for 2012. Make sure you are there to learn and be in with chance to win something cool!

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Sponsors
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The Auckland InDesign User Group would like to thank our sponsors:
Adobe, Digital Arena, Firebrand Talent, InDesign Magazine and Media Design School.

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Adobe, Auckland InDesign Users Group, Creative Suite, CS5.5, InDesign

OSX Mountain Lion Sneak Peek

Apple has surprised everyone and announced their next version of Mac OS X, or OS X Mountain Lion as it is known. Expect to see features of iOS5 ported over of the iPhone and iPad appearing on your Mac. New (for OS X) Apps to appear include Messages, Notification Centre, Game Centre, Reminders, Notes, Share Sheets, Twitter Integration and AirPlay Mirroring.

Mountain Lion comes just seven months after the release of Mac OS X Lion, it would appear that Apple is accelerating the release cycle of OS X.

Take a look at the OS X Mountain Lion Sneak Peek on Apple’s website here.

Apple, iOS, Mac OSX, Mountain Lion

The computer explained… with a little help from Jim Henson

Computer, Robot