Indiana County PC Users Group
http://www.icpcug.com
Meetings
3rd Tuesday of each month
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
at the
Indiana County
Technology Center
Hamill Rd., Indiana, PA
Everyone
Welcome
Tuesday, January 15, 2005:
The Indiana PC Users Group held its monthly meeting at the Indiana County
Technology Center, Hamill Road, Indiana, PA. Program Director Steve Higgins
opened the meeting at 7:10 P.M.
Treasury &
Minutes Report:
Treasurer Larry Stadtmiller and Secretary Bob Dalecki reported their reports
which were accepted by the members.
Program:
Jennifer Forrest owner and operator of Small Town Life Magazine presented
the evening program on the powerful publishing program “Quark Express”.
This software cost about $850 for the newest version 6.0 and may cost about $400 for the older version 4.0.
Her first issue, which was published in May of 2000, took 3 months to learn and layout.
Jennifer demonstrated the software by creating an example of tri-fold brochure:
- Grab text box to cover entire page then use toolbar to set 3 columns
- Can turn off guide lines to see how it will appear,
- Create boxes into which text and photos can be inserted.
- Cntr+Alt+Shift to enlarge or shrink a photo
- Can edit photo by cutting out 'bites' of photo with oval shapes
- One button toolbar can manipulate images quickly.
- Program doesn't "over think" what you are doing as in MS Word.
- Can change CMYK (for commercial printing) colors (RGB for home use) create 'my blue' works on black and white images only go to item->Modify->and select from 4 tab dialog box.
Mac and PC platforms are both available - graphics people prefer using a MAC and writers prefer a PC.
Many free lancers will work for Jennifer at no charge in exchange to learn this program (can then put on resume).
The program has a spelling and grammar checker.
You can view the many pages created in thumbnail mode.
Jennifer has magazine subscriptions in 30 states and 2 foreign countries. She charges $30 for 12 bi-monthly issues which covers 2 years.
Her web address is www.smalltownlifemagazine.com and mailing address is 2277 Philadelphia St, Indiana, PA. 15701.Her phone number is (724) 349-7366.
Most of her magazines go into hospitals and are uplifting in nature.
Open Forum:
Microsoft has a new beta spyware killer which seems to be adequate.
The Ad-aware priced version works well in eliminating add ware.
Email can be archived with available programs found on the net.
You can move you email messages by going to
Tools-> option-> maintenance
The next meeting of the ICPCUG will be held Tuesday, February 15, 2005. There being no other business, the meeting was adjourned at 8:00 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Robert Dalecki, Secretary