North Bay Multimedia Association - Art, Sound & Video SIG

Events - Art, Sound & Video SIG Meeting - March 2004

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Powerful PDFs from Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional

Who: Mimi Vitetta, Prepress Professional at Peachpit Press
When: Thursday, March 11, 2004
Time: Networking at 6:30 PM; Program from 7-9:00 PM
Where: Marin Community Foundation Hangar #5 directions
Cost: Free to NBMA members; $10 for non-members, $5 for students with valid ID
Register: Members and non-Members, please pre-register with Acteva to hold your spot.
Info Contact: Robert Dougherty, Art, Sound & Video SIG Leader

Increasingly, printers are demanding PDFs instead of original files. Mimi Vitetta is THE prepress person at the Peachpit Press production department. Peachpit outputs entire books as PDFs, so she has become very familiar with the issues of making PDFs from different programs for conventional printing. She will walk everyone through an actual project to show how she uses Acrobat to create PDFs and sets them up correctly for the needs of different printing houses.

Mimi has made eBooks with Acrobat Professional, an entire process in its own right. She’s used PDF technology to create eBooks for Adobe to sell on LightningSource.com. Making eBooks can be an arduous task as not all software produces the right kind of PDF automatically. Mimi has created PDFs for a program that Amazon was using called “Look Inside this Book.” Amazon.com required encoding copyright information into the PDFs. She will demonstrate how to do this as well as use security so that PDFs can not be altered.

Mimi is also an artist and has become interested in digital photography. She will show some examples of her own work and some personal influences like Cindy Sherman, and capturing stills from classic movies. Recently , Mimi has discovered ways to use Acrobat PDFs with digital photography for large scale printing and more.

Curiculum Vitae:
Mimi Vitetta
mimiv@peachpit.com
peachpit.com

1997 to present--Peach Pit Press
Prepress production after having worked in various departments
Using many levels of Acrobat technology to deliver electronic files to the vendors who print and sell the books.

1994--Moved to Bay Area, self-taught in computer arts.

1993--MFA from Arizona State University in Tempe Printmaking, ceramics and photography.

1986--BA from University of Texas at Austin
Worked briefly in film industry.

We will be raffling off a lot of COOL BOOKS from Peachpiit Press so please join us in the ultra-cushy Marin Community Foundation’s Redwood room on Tuesday, November 18th, 2003! See you there in Hangar #5!
Special Raffle Note: Everyone who enters the raffle wins a book!

Marin Community Foundation
5 Hamilton Landing
Novato, CA

From South of Novato:
Highway 101 North
Exit at Hamilton Field/Nave Dr.
Veer RIGHT at the end of the exit ramp.
Follow Nave Drive going north, parallel to 101.
Turn RIGHT at Main Gate Road, which leads into Hamilton AFB.
At Crescent, Main Gate Road becomes Palm Drive.
Go to end of Palm Drive.
Turn RIGHT onto Hangar Avenue.
Right after you pass So. Palm Drive, go a short distance and take an immediate left into the parking lot.
MCF is in Hangar 5, at 5 Hamilton Landing.
The entrance is down the pathway between Hangar 5 and Hangar 6.

From North of Novato:
Highway 101 South
Exit at Bel Marin Keys/Hamilton Field Exit (cloverleaf exit).
Turn RIGHT onto Ignacio Blvd.
After crossing the freeway, take an immediate RIGHT onto Nave Drive.
Go about .8 mile
Turn LEFT at Main Gate Road, which leads into Hamilton AFB.
At Crescent, Main Gate Road becomes Palm Drive.
Go to end of Palm Drive.
Turn RIGHT onto Hangar Avenue.
Right after you pass So. Palm Drive, go a short distance and take an immediate left into the parking lot.
MCF is in Hangar 5, at 5 Hamilton Landing.
The entrance is down the pathway between Hangar 5 and Hangar 6.

Here is a map for further clarification.

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