Listen "InDesignSecrets Podcast 172"
Episode Synopsis
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!"
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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
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
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