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InDesignSecrets-007.mp3 (11.3M, 22:15 minutes)
• Listener E-Mail: Insert Special Character > Tab, Make Non-Printing, Find/Change Quotes
• Best options for exporting InDesign pages for inclusion in a QuarkXPress layout
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Allow Pages to Shuffle
Links mentioned in the podcast:
• The CS Power Tour (Miami, Florida; Feb 2–4, 2006)
• The InDesign […]
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InDesignSecrets-006.mp3 (10.5M, 20:27 minutes)
• Quick Apply
• Convert Polygon
• Favorite InDesign Secrets of Will Eisley, Group Product Manager at Adobe Systems (interview)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Section Marker
Links mentioned in the podcast:
• Blueworld InDesign Talk listserv (mailing list hosted by OmniPilot)
In Episode 8, I mentioned how I used Grep Pattern Searching in BBEdit to search for patterns in my text, rather than searching for specific pieces of text. The value of this is that, even though the actual text varies throughout my text file, if the patterns are consistent, I can do very complex and […]
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InDesignSecrets-005.mp3 (11M, 21:37 minutes)
• InDesign Recovery Data
• Scaling Text Attributes Craziness
• Curling Straight Quotes en masse
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Hyphenation Slider
Links mentioned in the podcast:
• David and Ole Kvern’s Real World InDesign CS2 (finally!) on Amazon or your favorite bookstore
Download the script onto your computer and if necessary, decompress it (unstuff or unzip it). You should end up with a plain text file with a special filename extension:
Javascript files can be run on Mac or Windows and have a .jsx extension — “script.jsx”
Applescript files are Mac-only and have an .as extension — “script.as” (or […]
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InDesignSecrets-004.mp3 (11.7M, 23:01 minutes)
• Make Actual Size Actual Size
• Add a Script
• Keep with Next Paragraph
• InCopy
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Last Line Right Indent
Links mentioned in the podcast:
• Dave Saunders’ Zoomto140percent.js script (.zip file) How to install scripts in InDesign
• Anne-Marie’s feature article on InCopy is in issue […]
