Sun, 27 February 2011
The tech support episode! Mailbag answers; InDesign TechNotes; Nigel French interview; Obscurity of the week: Add items on page as separate objects ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-144.mp3 (21 MB, 38:24 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.
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News and special offers from our sponsors:
>> MathMagic, the ultimate equation editor from Info Logic, Inc., is a WYSIWYG equation editor/plug-in that lets you create inline, editable EPS equations from within InDesign (if you use the MathMagic Pro edition). It even converts equations set by Word’s Equation Editor, LaTex, MathML and MathType, to MathMagic-style equations.
>> In-Tools is the developer of World Tools Pro, InDesign plug-ins that represent “the most complete solution available for composing multilingual documents including Hebrew, Arabic, Indic languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and more.” Additionally, World Tools Pro offers a Composite Font Editor for creating custom composite fonts which automatically uses you choice of the font for each writing script you are using to compose your text. Free demo available for Mac/Windows.
>> Rorohiko's StoryParker is a tool for InDesign CS1–CS5 that helps you cope with cluttered pages. Park an object somewhere else (like on the pasteboard) to get it out of the way. Later on, you can easily move the page item back to its exact original position, because parked page items ‘remember’ where they came from – you can ‘unpark’ them, which causes them to fly back to the exact location they had before you parked them. Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS144 to get 20% off StoryParker!
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Links mentioned in this podcast:
> Rebuild InDesign Preferences post
> InDesignSecrets forum and the Adobe InDesign forums
> Adobe's main portal for InDesign Support & Help
> Starter search for recent Adobe Tech Notes on InDesign
> Tech Note on SING error and Claudia McCue's post about it
> Nigel French's web site, his Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign book, and his titles on Lynda.com
> Nigel French is not the same Mr. French from Family Affair that Anne-Marie was thinking of
> The script for defining a "true" point-based type size
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Wed, 16 February 2011
EPUB and Kindle utilities, cross-reference formats, obscurity of the week: Save Count ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-143.php for Show Notes, sponsor specials, links mentioned in the podcast, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-143.mp3 (16.2 MB, 30:41 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.
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News and special offers from our sponsors:
>> Em Software's powerful InData cross-platform plug-in for InDesign is the gold standard for database publishing. Make your template in InDesign, point it at your data source, and click Start. Sit back and watch as it creates dozens or hundreds of pages entirely hands-off, even including things like graphics and running headers and footers, leaving you with a normal InDesign document. Use the coupon code idsecrets211 in their check-out page for 10% off — offer expires at the end of February!
>> PrePress Center sells eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF and wants to add page navigation and zoom controls in the browser, among other goodies. Go to http://www.edocker.com/indesignsecrets-offer/ (or enter the coupon code indes2011) for 20% off of the eDocker software.
>> Recosoft presents the new and exciting ID2Office product, which allows you export InDesign documents to formatted Word or PowerPoint files. Available in the spring. Check it out!
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Links mentioned in this podcast:
> Useful InDesign > eBook utilities: TextWrangler, Notepad++, Sigil, Oxygen, KindleGen and Kindle Previewer
> Subscribe to the Lynda.com newsletter to learn when Anne-Marie's new InDesign to EPUB title is live and for special offers
> DTP Tools' Cross-References PRO and Blatner Tools
> See the new schedule of sessions and seminars for the 2011 Print & ePublishing Conference
Errata: TextWrangler lets you open and browse EPUB content files without unzipping them first, but not edit them in place, contrary to what we said in the podcast, sorry! Use Sigil or Oxygen for that. |
Tue, 1 February 2011
Cool stuff David found at Macworld; Information about new ID2Office plug-in; Quizzler Answers; Great table tip from Diane Burns; Obscurity of the Week: Search in Spotlight ------ Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-142.php for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ------ Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-142.mp3 (15.2 MB, 26:16 minutes) [media id=63 width=* height=20]
See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.
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News and special offers from our sponsors:
>> Recosoft presents the new and exciting ID2Office product, which allows you export InDesign documents to formatted Word or PowerPoint files. Available in the spring. Check it out!
>> In-Tools creates InDesign plug-ins mainly for people doing multi-lingual or long document publishing, but many of their products are useful for anyone.
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Links mentioned in this podcast:
> David went to Macworld 2011 (previously called Macworld Expo)
> Makers of ReaddleDocs and PDF Expert
> Terry White's CreativeSuite Podcast
> Cool one-handed keyboard: FrogPad
> Neat plastic cable ties from ETZY (it's dot-net, not dot-com, as David mistakenly said in the podcast)
> Don't forget to register soon for the 2011 Print and ePublishing Conference
> Quizzler Winner Marijan Tompa, otherwise known as Tomaxii
> Diane Burns owns Transpacific Digital
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