InDesignSecrets Podcast 209

In this episode:

• AM's field report from the Edward Tufte one-day course
• Huge InDesign Magazine issue coming up, all about Adobe DPS
• Interview with Ben Schott, author of Miscellany and Schottenfreude
• Hidden uses for Live Preflight
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Entry End

 

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Edward Tufte's books on Amazon
• InDesign Magazine
• InDesignSecrets membership
• Ben Schott's site and Wikipedia page
• Blog posts on dotted tab leaders here and here
• How to convert to outlines when exporting EPS
• Check out all our posts on preflight in InDesign
• David's Blatner Tools has a Quality Assurance module
• Other Preflight utilities: Zevrix's InPreflight and Markzware's Flightcheck

 
Here are some of examples of Ben Schott's writing and artwork (click each thumbnail to enlarge):