InDesignSecrets Podcast 146

Newsbits; Live Captions; Liza Daly interview; Obscurity of the Week: Create Tagged PDF

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

• Newsbits!
  • Print & ePublishing Conference: New HTML5/CSS3/Flash Tutorial day
  • James Fritz's InDesignSecrets Live seminar on April 12
  • InDesign to EPUB, Kindle, and the iPad, new video tutorials from Anne-Marie
  • Catch AM's Hardcore InDesign workshop at the HOW Design Conference in June
  • Creative Suite 5 Update coming soon, says Adobe
• Live Captions: Tips, How-To's, Workarounds
• Mike Rankin's interview with Liza Daly, EPUB expert
• Obscurity of the Week: Create Tagged PDF

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News and special offers from our sponsors:

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>> In-Tools developed the awesome Reflective Objects plug-in ($59 US), which lets designers specify “align to/away from spine” for objects as well as paragraphs without having to make them anchored objects. If you’ve every had the layout of a left-facing page turn into a mess when it became a right-facing page, this plug-in is for you!

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

> April 8 is the last day to get $200 off your registration to our 2011 Print & ePublishing Conference, May 23-25, Washington DC area (Twitter hashtag: #pepcon)

> New HTML5/CSS3/Flash post-conference tutorial

> Fritz's InDesignSecrets Live all-day seminar (use PODCAST146 discount code for $25 off, only 3 available)

> AM's blog post about her new Lynda.com InDesign > EPUB titles includes a free sample movie

> Enter HAH11 promo code to get $100 off registration to the HOW Design Conference in Chicago, June 22-27. (AM's 3-hour InDesign session is on Friday June 24. Here's the full schedule.)

> Liza Daly's company is Threepress Consulting, and their blog is here

> More info on the IDPF and the upcoming EPUB 3 specification

> Liza mentioned Inkling, publication design specialists in digital textbooks

> Adobe's InDesign/Accessibility resource page

> Download David's whitepaper, Creating Accessible PDFs with InDesign CS4 (PDF, 292K)