June 20 2007 • 2:33 PM

InDesignSecrets Podcast 053

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  • Lots ‘o News (conferences, plug-ins, poster, more)
  • Non-breaking space vs. the No Break character formatting attribute
  • New in CS3: Using Quick Apply to apply menu commands, tips and glitches
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Ignore Ruler Guide Alignments

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Upcoming InDesign Conferences, Creative Suite Conference
Seattle’s Refine Design Conference
InDesign CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts poster
DTP Tools Xref plug-in public beta (Mac/Windows, CS2/CS3)
InDesign Magazine (info on special subscription offer)
TheInDesigner videocast about Insert White Space in CS2

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6 Responses discussing this post. Add yours below.

  1. David Blatner
    June 20th, 2007 • 7:56 pm • Link

    We talked about QuickApply in this episode. Coincidentally, Tim Cole went into more detail (especially in how to use QA for styles) in today’s BackChannel blog post.

  2. Denise Stanley
    June 21st, 2007 • 10:58 am • Link

    I just want to make a small amendment to David’s assertion that all the white space options in the menu are fixed spaces. In fact the flush space option is not.
    This is great when you have a line of justified text and you want to separate each word to fit across a column. If you insert a flush space instead of a normal space between the words, it works like a treat.

  3. David Blatner
    June 21st, 2007 • 12:06 pm • Link

    Good point, Denise! Though the flush space does appear to still be a non-breaking character, along with the other white space characters (at least I can’t get it to break).

  4. Vectorbabe
    June 26th, 2007 • 1:51 am • Link

    I have long complained that the specialty spaces are non-breaking spaces.

    I wanted a version of the thin space to be breaking as well as non-breaking.

    Same for the punctuation and hair spaces.

    But then someone accused me of splitting hairs.

  5. David Blatner
    June 26th, 2007 • 1:11 pm • Link

    Har har har… ;) but I totally agree with you, Sandee.

  6. Bea
    July 13th, 2007 • 8:07 pm • Link

    Just wanted to let you know that the link to see a closeup of the poster for the CS3 shortcuts references the CS2 poster instead.

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