InDesign Secrets

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Fri, 25 May 2012

InDesignSecrets Podcast 173

New eBook on InDesign CS6; PePcon 2012 and 2013; Charts and Graphs; Obscurity of the Week: Monochromatic

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-173.mp3 (15.4 MB, 27:20 minutes)

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

News
- Our newest eBook! Guide to InDesign CS6 (and CS5.5) New Features by Keith Gilbert
- Our PePcon 2012 recap: Highlights, info, job leads
- PePcon 2013 Announcement! April 29–May 1, 2013, in Austin, Texas
- Join us in New York City, June 12-13, for InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC
Getting charts and graphs into InDesign: Solution round-up
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Monochromatic

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Em Software: DocsFlow is a plugin for InDesign that marries the layout and design power of InDesign to the shared editing power of Google Docs, resulting in "editorial Nirvana!"

>> eDocker: HTML5 Tablet Publisher is made for everyone who wants to create HTML5 publications from InDesign. Use the software to create and sell tablet-ready web apps (no app store required!). Special offer: $100 off (valid to 6/15/2012) with code 10IDS2012

Links mentioned in this podcast:

> Posts from new guest bloggers Ashley and Kelly

> Check out Kelly's DocumentGeek posts about the PatternMaker plug-in for InDesign

> eBook: Guide to InDesign CS6 (and 5.5) New Features (free sample and write-up to come soon on our eBooks page)

> Photos from PePcon 2012!

> As mentioned: Twixl Media and Mag+ were in the PePcon house

> Typefi is looking for a team of freelance template designers, interested? E-mail info [at] indesignsecrets.com w/TYPEFI in Subject

> Free Column and Bar Graph Scripts (scroll down)

> Line charts script

> Chartwell Font

> Video on Vimeo on how the Chartwell font works

> Anne-Marie's InDesign Secrets movie about Chartwell (movie #005) on lynda.com

> Claquos Pie Chart script and our blog post about it

> Delta Graph v6 graph/chart software for Mac and Windows

> Making charts in Illustrator

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-173.mp3
Category:Podcast -- posted at: 10:51am EDT

Thu, 17 May 2012

InDesignSecrets Podcast 172

New lynda.com InDesign videos; Creative Cloud; Acrobat forms tools in InDesign CS6; Obscurity of the Week: World-Ready Composer

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-172.mp3(18.5 MB, 33:21 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Yikes! We recorded this on May 9 (pre-PePcon), but didn't get a chance to publish it until today, a week later (post-PePcon). Apologies for time-shifted content!

News
- News in PEPCONland, Adobeland, and Lyndaland
- Join us in New York City, June 13-14, for InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC
InDesign CS6's PDF Forms Features in depth
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: World-Ready Paragraph Composer

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> PrintUI.com / In-Tools.com: Get free setup on an InDesignServer solution from PrintUI.com! Or, if you're more into EPUB, contact Harbs to learn more about a cool soon-to-come tool that provides EPUB preview and editing CSS files inside InDesign!

>> Mediatrad, a great new tool for translators and InDesign users who need document language translation. It's free for non-commercial purposes. You can create a free trial 30-day account and translate up to 100 pages. Entering the special code: "indesignsecrets.com" gives you 100 additional pages!

>> Rorohiko has a new script that helps InDesign users create fixed-layout EPUBs from InDesign files! Check out the free CSSGeometry.jsx script to quickly get the CSS markup for all your absolutely-positioned text frames, ready for copying and pasting into your CSS document. While you're there, be sure to check out all of their other neat InDesign scripts and plug-ins Kris and his crew at Rorohiko offer that are designed to "slash the time it takes!"

Links mentioned in this podcast:

> Adobe Creative Cloud was released

> Adobe's redesigned online InDesign Help site

> New lynda.com videos: InDesign CS6 New Features and InDesign CS6 Essential Training

> David's rant/post about the split in PDF Export methods in InDesign

> Another post about single page vs. spread Interactive PDF export

> Harb's plug-in for World Ready typesetting, "WorldTools Pro"

> Adobe blog post about the surprise indicpreferences.js script in InDesign CS6

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-172.mp3
Category:Podcast -- posted at: 5:48pm EDT