InDesignSecrets Podcast 182

News; 5 Overlooked Features; Training Client from Hell story; Obscurity of the Week: Jumbo

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-182.mp3(14.8 MB, 28:12 minutes)

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

• News:
  • CS6.01 patch for InDesign and InCopy
  • Creative Cloud Education discount
  • Acrobat XI and Reader XI
• Five Overlooked and Lonely InDesign Features
• Our First "Training Client from Hell" story
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Jumbo

News and special offers from our sponsors:

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>> Recosoft: This company's amazing plug-in, PDF2ID, lets you open and convert PDF docs to editable InDesign files directly from the InDesign's File menu! PDF2ID has a slew of additional features and it works with any Mac or Windows version of InDesign CS4 to CS6. EXCLUSIVE for our listeners, you can use use the discount code ID_Secrets to save 20% off the purchase price of PDF2ID Standard/Professional v3.5. This generous offer expires after October 31, 2012, so be sure to take advantage of it today.  While you're at the Recosoft site, check out their other amazing plug-in for InDesign users, ID2Office — export your InDesign files to Word or Powerpoint! --

We still want to hear your stories! Send us a short (less than 1 minute) "worst InDesign training/support story" that we can play on the air (you'll be anonymous) in an upcoming episode: leave us a voice message at [phone] to record it, or send in your own voice recording. Please follow-up with an e-mail, which we will keep private, including any additional information that you'd like us to know. You'll get a nifty gifty from us if we play it in a podcast!

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

> Steve Werner's post about the CS6.01 update

> Teachers and students get 1 yr of Creative Cloud for $19.99/mo if they sign up by Nov 4, 2012!

> Check out the new Acrobat XI and the free Reader XI

> Anne-Marie's post on Saving your Links panel custom settings

> David's post (from 2008!) about Making Perfect Triangles