Fri, 29 April 2011
Russell Viers interview; Keyboard Shortcut of the Week; Obscurity of the Week: Select First Range of Same-Size Pages; Quizzler! Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-148.mp3 (21.2 MB, 37:06 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.
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To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and at least 3 answers to the Quizzler in the body of the message. You have until Sunday, May 8, at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! We will randomly choose a winner from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast after May 8, 2011!--
Links mentioned in this podcast:
> Atomic News Tools — Russell and Kris Coppetier's InDesign > Web solution for newspapers
> Micro News sites from Patch.com
> Kelly Vaughn's DocumentGeek blog
> 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.)
> We'd love to see you at the 2011 Print & ePublishing Conference, on May 23-25 in the Washington DC area
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Wed, 20 April 2011
Newsbits; InDesign CS5.5; Moving custom settings; Obscurity of the Week: 6-up ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-147.mp3 (15.4 MB, 27:27 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. Special offer for InDesignSecrets: get 25% off MathMagic Pro ($199 or more), enter the INDS discount code (details).
>> 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 $100 off of the eDocker software.
>> Em Software’s flexible and powerful XTags for InDesign lets you do do data-side, tag-driven automated document building. It speaks the InDesign Tagged Text language! Exclusive offer for InDesignSecrets fans: Use the coupon code IDS511 to get 15% off single copies of InData, InCatalog, InCatalog Pro, and Xtags for InDesign. Note this is a time-limited offer, it expires May 31 2011.
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Links mentioned in this podcast:
> Forum post about the new Share widget on the blog
> 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.)
> Chicago InDesign User Group page
> Please come to the 2011 Print & ePublishing Conference, May 23-25, Washington DC area (Twitter hashtag: #pepcon); we'd love to meet you!
> Adobe's official InDesign CS5.5 New Features page > The frame edge highlighting issue (which CS5.5 will solve for many users)
> Our post about the InDesign CS5.5 announcement
> AM's comprehensive Acrobat X Essentials video title at Lynda.com
> Moving custom settings from CS3 to CS4 blog post
> All about preferences and defaults in InDesign from Adobe online help
> Marijan"scripting whiz" Tompa's blog and scripts
> In-Tools' founder Harbs' excellent blog post about Backsaving in InDesign
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