InDesignSecrets Podcast 168

Drawing in InDesign; Quizzler Winner (finally); Shortcut of the Week: Paste Into; Obscurity of the Week: Convert Direction Point

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

• Announcements
  • Congratulations to Mike Rankin, new Editor-in-Chief of InDesign Magazine and CreativePro.com
  • Mike is one of the speakers at our Print + ePublishing Conference (May 14-16, San Francisco)
  • On the East Coast? See us June 13-14: InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC
• Drawing in InDesign
  • Pen tool and its shortcuts and permutations
  • Every frame and text wrap is actually an editable path
  • Pathfinder panel or menu to combine overlapping frames
  • Playing with type outlines
  • Using object styles
• Finally: A Quizzler Winner!
• Keyboard shortcut of the Week: Command-Option-V (Ctrl-Alt-V)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Convert Direction Point

News and special offers from our sponsors:

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>> Recosoft continues to improve and enhance their breakthrough product, PDF2ID, now at v3.0. PDF2ID is a cross-platform plug-in for Adobe InDesign that enables you to directly open and convert PDF documents within Adobe InDesign CS3/CS4/CS5. It supports multiple languages and can even pull in PDF annotations (comments) into the InDesign layout!

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

> Register for PePCon to reserve your place, it's sold out every year since we started

> PePCon 2012 Event on LinkedIn; see which of your contacts are attending

> Info and registration for our 2-day, single track InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC, June 12-13, 2012

> Other articles about drawing in InDesign:

Edit a Shape's Frame

The Hidden Join Paths Command

The Zipper Effect

Copy from Illustrator to InDesign or Vice Versa

Pasting from Illustrator into InDesign

> Free Speech Bubble (and perhaps Snowman Head) script for InDesign

> We talked about Script Labels in this podcast

> A post about Paste Into

> The Aachen font (city where our Quizzler is from)

> Birgit won every one of our InDesignSecrets eBooks!

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Quizzler!

Birgit from Aachen, Germany, was the winner of the random drawing of correct answers to this Quizzler from a couple podcasts ago. In response to the question "What does this cryptogram made up of dingbats spell out," Birgit answered "WE LIKE LEGOS."  (David must have been surrounded by the Legos™ his kids play with.)

Our friend Brad Walrod, book compositor extraordinaire, kindly created a graphic of the solution for us. Thank  you Brad!