The Washington DC Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication to Host 2002-2003 Competition Awards Celebration and Workshop.

The Washington DC chapter for the Society of Technical Communication will hold its 2002-2003 Competition Awards Luncheon on February 8 at Renaissance Hotel in Washington, DC. This luncheon is to celebrate with those people who participated in the Technical Publications, Technical Art, and Online Communication Competitions as well as to learn more about Adobe Acrobat and the Art of Portable Document Formats.

Whether or not you participated in the competition this year, come out and see the winning entries, meet the judges, cheer on the winners, and enjoy a delicious lunch. This is a perfect opportunity not only for networking, but for getting your eyes and hands on the state of the art in technical communication. Documentation managers, bring your teams to encourage their competitive spirit. Maybe you'll be encouraged to enter the competition next year!

As a special addition this year, Sharon Burton-Hardin, a fun, funny, intense, and exciting speaker, will deliver a keynote address, "How Technical Writers are Changing the World." And then, after lunch, join us In this 90-minute workshop, you will learn how to consistently get good PDF by doing the following:
•   Properly setting up the printer driver.
•   Using Postscript fonts in your document.
•   Using the best graphics formats.
•   Opening your application and document.
•   Printing the document to a Postscript file on your hard drive, using the proper printer.
•   Opening the PS file in Distiller and distilling it.
•   Optimizing the PDF file to make it as small as it can be.
Sharon Burton-Hardin, a fun, funny, intense, and exciting speaker, will share some hard-won advice for each step. Each student will receive a detailed handout showing dialog boxes from Acrobat 5.0, though her advice will help you with your PDF problems in Acrobat 3, 4, and 5.
The Society for Technical Communication is a professional organization for technical writers, editors, illustrators, managers, and educators. It is the largest professional organization in this field, with more than 20,000 members in 150 chapters worldwide. Information for this particular program can be found at: http://www.stcwdc.org/prgm_banquet_feb03.shtml. Information about STC and its programs can be found at the STC website, www.stc.org. For more information about the Washington DC Chapters, visit www.stcwdc.org or contact Stacia D. Kelly, 703.492.8553, or stacia@catklaw.com.

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