October 6 2008 • 8:32 AM
InDesignSecrets Podcast 088
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- News: CS4 documentation, pricing, InDesignSecrets “2.1″ site tweaks
- Welcome to new contributor, Mike Rankin
- InDesign Master Class Conference (see discount code below)
- Quizzler for Quizzlers
- Text vs. Graphic vs. Undefined Frames
- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Flattener Preview
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Links mentioned in this podcast:
InDesign CS4 online documentation
InDesign CS4 online documentation
Mike Rankin’s blog, Publicious.net
Claudia’s post about frames
*Website Suggestion*
If you could make the number of comments into a clickable link that links to the beginning of the comments in that article.
Thanks for pointing out the preference to keep my poor cursor from turning innocent bystander boxes into a text frame just because Im clumsy. I should share that with coworkers but Im not gonna. muahaha. in the Halloween spirit already.
Hi Zoe!
Thanks for your little bit on family asking if you’re getting a job and not understanding what being a freelancer is like! Made me smile. I’m searching for that winner of a full time design job. Its not easy!
how to i prevent the indesign file from quitting while working in xml flow. when i double click the text in the file to change the item tool to content the file is quits
Quizzler idea: Although technically not a quizzler, I think it would be fun to find out from the podcast listeners what are their strangest applications of Data Merge. Yes, we know it can be used for catalogs and addresses…but what else.