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Fri, 27 May 2011

Our Sesquicentennial Episode; Favorite Resources; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Background Tasks

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-150.mp3 (15.2 MB, 27:18 minutes)

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

Our sesquicentennial episode!
- We talk about 15 of our list of 150 Awesome Links and Resources, including: Bob Bringhurst's InDesign Docs blog, Adobe Master List of Adobe Blogs, InDesign Magazine Tip of the Week archives, Mordy's Fridays with Mordy webinar archive, Pattern Maker plug-in free version, DesignGeek.com, Quark to InDesign conversion guide (PDF), Adobe TV InDesign channel, InDesign Beyond the Basics, Real World InDesign, InDesignUserGroup Twitter list, InDesignSecrets Guide to Special Characters, 10 Tips for Troubleshooting InDesign Files, Dave Dickson's Digital Publishing blog
A new Quizzler! Listen up, magicians: you need to make something disappear.
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Background Tasks

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Rorohiko is offering 50% off their Frame Reporter ($39) plug-in, an essential utility for getting feedback -- little tags on the page -- on the attributes of image and text frames in your document. Download the demo, click Get License... and enter the coupon code SESQUICENTENNIAL for 50% off until May 31, or 15% after that date.

>> In-Tools has a neat plug-in called Style Utilities, that does all sorts of cool tricks with text styles such as styles based on the number of lines in the paragraph, conditional styles, a super-powered Next Style function, and more. It's only $39 and has a free trial. Try it out!

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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 as many correct answers as you can think of. You have until Sunday, June 5 (not May 31 as we said in the podcast, since we were delayed in publishing this) at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! The winner will have the most correct answers, or in caes of a tie, we'll randomly choose the winner. Winner will be announced in the first podcast after June 5, 2011!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

> Sesquicentennial?

> 150 Awesome Links and Resources

> Bob Levine's post about that Pesky Background Export Issue workaround (read comments for script)

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-150.mp3
Category:Podcast -- posted at: 2:37pm EDT

Sat, 14 May 2011

InDesignSecrets Podcast 149

News; Book Cover Layout; Obscurity of the Week: Change Bars; Quizzler Winner

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-149.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.

InDesignSecrets News
- Print & ePublishing Conference update
- Google in, Bing out, for our blog's search engine
Laying out book covers (spine, covers, flaps): tips and scripts
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Change Bars
Quizzler winner and answer!

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).

>> Rorohiko (“Slash the time it takes!”) keeps improving their so-useful Soxy utility—the latest beta version supports InDesign CS5.5. With Soxy installed, users with multiple versions of InDesign installed can simply double-click INDD files to open them, because Soxy makes sure they open in the correct version of the program. Soxy also supports file/version matching with multiple versions of Illustrator, Photoshop, and QuarkXPress, among others.

>> In-Tools is owned by the famous “Harbs” who helps out so many users here on the blog and in our forum. He and his company develop many scripts and plug-ins that are so useful for InDesign users, especially for those who are doing multi-lingual publishing (such as World Tools Pro) and long documents (such as the Power Headers plug-in we mentioned). And in his spare time, Harbs writes an engaging blog on his company site at In-Tools.com/about/blog, check it out!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

> Print & ePublishing Conference in Washington DC, May 23–25, 2011

> Read the Twitterstream about the conference (hashtag: #pepcon)

> David loves the number pi so much he wrote a book about it

> What do you think of the new blog search form? Tell us in the forum

> PageControl plug-in for mixing page sizes pre-CS5

> Dan Rodney's Proper Fraction and Make Book Jacket scripts

> Interesting forum discussion about book jacket design and layout

> What does ISO stand for?

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-149.mp3
Category:Podcast -- posted at: 1:36pm EDT