Adobe Illustrator - Membership Directory Ideas

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Membership Directory Ideas

stupid_idiot

2004-02-14, 1:28 pm

I have a new job producing an association's membership directory. The membership is sorted through
an Access database. Trying to figure out the best way to move forward with this....has anyone done
this? I have the creative suite. I would prefer to do everything in Illy and then drop into ID.
Anyone have any experience in this sort of work flow? Also, any good books on graphically designing
this sort of project?

TIA!

Michael Hill

2004-02-17, 10:28 am

"stupid_idiot" <spammersuck@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have a new job producing an association's membership directory. The
membership is sorted through
> an Access database. Trying to figure out the best way to move forward
with this....has anyone done
> this? I have the creative suite. I would prefer to do everything in Illy
and then drop into ID.
> Anyone have any experience in this sort of work flow? Also, any good
books on graphically designing
> this sort of project?
>
> TIA!
>
>
Is this a website or an application that sits on someone desktop?

You first have to consider that content is king, so get your arms around the
content to be managed, then determine how it should be displayed, and
edited.

Mike

stupid_idiot

2004-02-17, 11:28 am

> Is this a website or an application that sits on someone desktop?
---------->This is a printed book.

Tin Ear

2004-02-17, 3:53 pm

I prefer InDesign for this task. I'm doing this now for two groups. It may
sound like a lot of work, but typically takes between fifteen minutes to
half an hour.

1) Print sorted roster to PDF. Single column layout
2) Save PDF as Word Doc and do any needed spelling or last minute
editing.
3) Place Word Doc in predefined 3 column template
4) Change publication date in footer
5) Print it (if I'm printing) or Export as PDF for e-mail distribution.

Final notes:
PDFs are password protected against editing, but printing and commenting
is allowed. I've never used them in this way, but PDFs could be posted on a
website and the same protections are in effect. Nice, neat and not too
complicated.

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Tin Ear

2004-02-17, 3:53 pm

"Tin Ear" <TinEar@MusicMan.com> wrote in message
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> I prefer InDesign for this task. I'm doing this now for two groups. It may
> sound like a lot of work, but typically takes between fifteen minutes to
> half an hour.
>
> 1) Print sorted roster to PDF. Single column layout
> 2) Save PDF as Word Doc and do any needed spelling or last minute
> editing.
> 3) Place Word Doc in predefined 3 column template
> 4) Change publication date in footer
> 5) Print it (if I'm printing) or Export as PDF for e-mail
distribution.
>
> Final notes:
> PDFs are password protected against editing, but printing and
commenting
> is allowed. I've never used them in this way, but PDFs could be posted on
a
> website and the same protections are in effect. Nice, neat and not too
> complicated.
>
I should have added that the text is placed unformatted and all formating is
done through InDesign. It did take a while to perfect the template, but
since that is reusable, I did not include that in my time estimate above.

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