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Mon, 28 July 2008
InDesignSecrets Podcast 083
Gotchas; Obscurity of the Week: Deactivate
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  • Gotchas! We blaze through a pile of InDesign traps that will mess you up if you overlook one tiny little checkbox or button
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Deactivate

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

Adobe InDesign forum post about the Button issue
Bob Levine's post about CS3 Activation limits

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-083.mp3
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Sun, 20 July 2008
InDesignSecrets Podcast 082
Do's and Don'ts of Text; Weird Hair Space Kerning; Obscurity of the Week: Join
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  • Do's and Don'ts of Text in InDesign: Double spaces and returns, proper use of character styles, case changes, discretionary hyphens, text framitis, more
  • The Strange Case of the Space-Eating Hair Space
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Join
Sweet Deal from our Sponsor: UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center (Centre?), is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener per sponsored podcast. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for this episode's free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 7 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. More information is available on their web page.

 

Links mentioned in this podcast:
Anne-Marie's presenting two InDesign sessions at the Creative Transitions conference (Milwaukee, WI; Aug 13-15); enter AMC0808 on the conference registration page for a $100 discount
David's original post, Do's and Don'ts of Text in InDesign
Robin Williams' The Mac is Not a Typewriter or The PC is Not a Typewriter Nigel French's InDesign Type: Professional Typography in Adobe InDesign
The Chicago Manual of Style (U of Chicago Press staff)
Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots & Leaves
William Strunk's The Elements of Style
Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style
Teacup Software's TypeFitter plug-in
Direct download: InDesignSecrets-082.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:24am PDT
Wed, 9 July 2008
InDesignSecrets Podcast 081
Our new blog design; Free script extravaganza; PDF Presets problem; Obscurity of the Week: Orthogonal Line

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InDesignSecrets-081.mp3 (13.4 MB, 29:19 minutes)

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Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Sweet deal from our sponsor! Recosoft's PDF2ID plug-in discount, just for InDesignSecrets users (this is the last week for the discount!)
Support your local scripter! Home pages for Dave Saunders, Steve Wareham, Marc Autret, Kris Coppetiers, Martinho da Gloria
Anne-Marie's post about PDF Presets

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-081.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:30pm PDT