July 31 2009 • 3:50 PM
InDesignSecrets Podcast 107
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- Interview with James Fritz, InDesignSecrets contributor
- Tracking down unwanted color seps (plates) in your layout files
- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Float
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Links mentioned in this podcast:
In-Tools blog with links to free scripts from Harbs
Sign up for Typography Deep Dive, James Fritz’s InDesignSecrets eSeminar
And here’s Sir Fritz’s bio and InDesignSecrets posts
Steve Werner’s eSeminar recording, Preparing for Print: InDesign Best Prepress Practices
And here’s Sir Fritz’s bio and InDesignSecrets posts
Steve Werner’s eSeminar recording, Preparing for Print: InDesign Best Prepress Practices
I always tell people that you can dock it at the bottom if you want it like Quark and you really really want to hate life you can choose “float” and it will float around and get in your way.
PM had that stuff on the bottom, too. When I switched I realized the best way to do so was to not try and make InDesign like anything but InDesign.
That’s why I advise people to ignore the PM and Quark KBSC sets.
The sooner you think InDesign, the sooner you’ll know InDesign.
I agree about learning things the ID way, it pays off in the long run especially when you switch to any other CS product, after a while you’ve forgotten the old methods. That said though, sometimes even years on, I find myself hitting the Control key to activate the Zoom Tool, shame there isn’t a work around for that one.
BTW, love the new theme tune to Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week!
Printdevil, re the Obscure theme tune … so you don’t think it’s too subtle? We were worried.
I’ve always docked the Control Pannel at the bottom because I’m an old Pagemaker user.
Bob: Putting the control panel at the bottom isn’t a matter of making it more like PM or QX. It’s a matter of customizing ID to make people more efficient. It’s like changing the Pages panel to show pages horizontally instead of vertically. It makes more sense to keep the important stuff (the page design) up higher and put the “inspector” stuff (as some other apps call it) down low.
That said, I tend to keep it up at the top when I’m demoing ID; otherwise, no one would know where to look!
If you are a real power user you would just hide all of the panels and only use keyboard shortcuts!
I’ve heard the new Obscure InDesign Feature of the Weekekekek theme tune somewhere before.
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