February 19 2009 • 7:46 AM
InDesignSecrets Podcast 097
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- Interview with Sandee “Vectorbabe” Cohen
- InDesign CS4: Visual QuickStart Guide (Sandee’s book) is now available
- Her VQS chapter on Interactive and Multimedia is available as a downloadable PDF (which of course is itself interactive and has multimedia features)
- How Sandee created the interactive PDF in InDesign CS4 and Acrobat Pro 9
- Sandee’s upcoming book, From Design Into Print
- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Show/Hide Paragraph Break Marks
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Links mentioned in this podcast:
Jay Nelson’s DesignTools Monthly newsletter
Jay Nelson and Jeff Gamet’s DesignTools Weekly podcast
Sandee’s InDesign CS4 Visual QuickStart book, available now.
Download the Interactive & Multimedia chapter as a PDF by clicking the link next to “Already own this?” on the IDCS4: VQS Peachpit Press web page and registering it to your (free) account. You’ll need the book’s ISBN number to register it. Or, on the same page, you could just purchase the entire book as a PDF.
Pre-order Sandee’s From Design Into Print book
Contact Premedia Systems for the JavaScript Buttons script ($15)
What “our” Robin Williams is up to these days
David and Ole’s Real World InDesign CS4
Jay Nelson’s DesignTools Monthly newsletter
Jay Nelson and Jeff Gamet’s DesignTools Weekly podcast
Sandee’s InDesign CS4 Visual QuickStart book, available now.
Download the Interactive & Multimedia chapter as a PDF by clicking the link next to “Already own this?” on the IDCS4: VQS Peachpit Press web page and registering it to your (free) account. You’ll need the book’s ISBN number to register it. Or, on the same page, you could just purchase the entire book as a PDF.
Pre-order Sandee’s From Design Into Print book
Contact Premedia Systems for the JavaScript Buttons script ($15)
What “our” Robin Williams is up to these days
David and Ole’s Real World InDesign CS4
Thanks so much for sharing Sandee “Vectorbabe”. All I needed was that interactive PDF chapter. I first read your guide starting at Indesign 2!! Looking forward to experimenting with Indesign’s interactivity. Love your enthusiasm.
how do i put double quotation marks with out shifting the text over?
Try checking the “optical margin alignment” box in “Story” under “Type”. Or try putting a hair space before the quotation mark, then setting the kerning between the two to about -500.
Just a note that we’ve updated all our ME prices to reflect Winsoft’s newest CS4 price lists. Most of the ME product line got a serious reduction in prices. Some products got reduced by hundreds of dollars!
@Harbs: Wow! That’s great. Much lower prices than before for the ME version. And the World Tools price is also lower than originally. Thanks for letting us know.
Just a quick note that when registering to download the free chapter of the VQS, I was also given a coupon good for 35% off the list price of the book, which dropped the price down to the no-brainer of $15.59!
I got so excited that I bought it before realizing that it had DRM. Oops. [I try to avoid DRMed purchases, but I guess this one will prove an accidental exception.]
Adam,
I am sorry that you accidentally winded up with a DRM book.
My email address is in the front of the book. Please email me if you have any DRM problems.
I will make sure Peachpit knows about them.
Meanwhile I’m thrilled that you have the chapter as well as the book.
Hey Sandee,
I appreciate that, and would prefer to buy non-DRMed stuff if at all possible. But in this case, it’s totally my fault for buying something without fully inspecting the packaging.
When I’m finished with my current project-of-doom, I look forward to curling up with your book and my laptop.
Does anyone else get an “unable to decrypt PDF file” error when trying to open this download?
JK, I’m not getting that error. (And I just relogged-in to the Peachpit site fresh to download a fresh copy.)
Which version of Acro/Reader are you using?
@ JK: I got the same error. I am on Windows XP, downloaded using Safari. I will try again on a mac and see if it helps.
“There was an error opening this document. Acrobat cannot decrypt this document.”
Acrobat 8 Pro on XP.
I got the decrypt error message too. So bummed! I want this pdf!
I also tried on a Mac, with no luck. Same decrypt error message. Acrobat 8 Pro Mac OS x.?
Any suggestions on how to open this?
I have the same problem “Acrobat cannot decrypt this document.”
I also am using Acrobat 8 Pro on XP.
is there any fix for this? I am really interested if there is. From a hot Adelaide South Australia.
For those having issues on OS X — I went to Help -> Digital Editions in Acrobat and downloaded the Digital Editions reader, and the books works fine in there.
Check out the Before downloading this DRM-encrypted Adobe™ Reader™ PDF file, be sure to: sidebar on the right-hand side of the book’s page: http://www.peachpit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=9780321573872
Thank you for trying to help. I downloaded & installed Adobe Digital Editions & activated it, then tried to open the PDF with it.
“Sorry, the file you are attempting to open cannot be opened by Digital Editions.”
So I went to Adobe’s DRM Activator and activated my Reader and Acrobat, but I still can’t open the PDF. I quit.
I just re-downloaded it fresh from the Peachpit site. On my Mac, it opens without a peep in Acrobat 9 or Reader 9. But if I try to open it with Acrobat 8 or Reader 8, I get the same “cannot decrypt” error.
We’ll let Peachpit know about this — not sure if they can do anything about it.
But in the meantime, you might want to download/install at least the free Reader 9 to open it, assuming you’re able to without compromising earlier versions of Acro/Reader on your computer. (It works perfectly fine on Macs — I’m still able to run Acro 8/Reader 8 — but I’m not sure about Windows.)
Everyone who is having trouble opening the online document.
You MUST use Acrobat 9 or Reader 9!
That is because of the SWF movies that were added.
They use an advanced feature in Acrobat 9 to play the movies.
However, if anyone is having trouble running the document in Read 9 or Acrobat 9, please contact me directly:
sandee at vectorbabe dot com. (You know how to transform the address into a live link.)
Ah … thanks for the clarification, Sandee!
Bizarre that Adobe couldn’t figure out a way to put up a clearer alert as to why earlier versions can’t open it though. sigh.
Soo… I tried to go the the URL that Sandee mentioned in the show. (peachpit.com/indesigncs4vqs) however, I can’t get to a PDF file. Rather, I get a register you ISBN# and now download options after that.
Any help?
How do you create the roll-overs that enlarge the image as you pass over them – the ones you outlined in blue throughout your chapter?
I can’t find the option to do that anywhere, and I can’t find where you reference how to do it in your chapter. I’m using CS3, so perhaps it’s a CS4 specific thing?