October 31 2009 • 8:56 PM
InDesignSecrets Podcast 112
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The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.
- Blog Posts You Should Know About:
- Windows 7 and InDesign (Bob Levine)
- Story Editor Secrets (Steve Werner)
- Importing PowerPoint into InDesign (James Fritz)
- When to Use Balance Ragged Lines (Anne-Marie)
- Time to Get Geeky: Unicodes, GIDs and CIDs
- Upcoming seminars, webinars, new videos and software
- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Missing Glyph
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>> Rorohiko (aka Lightning Brain) has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! For example, FrameReporter ($29 US) lets you see small informational tags when you click on a frame, such as the image’s effective resolution or how many words are overset. You can even use it to name frames, and then navigate around your layout via the names. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS111 (that’s “one one one” at the end) in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the FrameReporter plug-in.
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Links mentioned in this podcast:
> Balance Ragged Lines was the Obscure Feature in episode 55, here’s the podcast transcript
> Keith Gilbert’s blog post about Sorting the Glyphs panel
> Unicode Code Charts
> Check out Anne-Marie’s new Lynda.com video title, Social Media Marketing with Facebook & Twitter
> Keith Gilbert’s blog post about Sorting the Glyphs panel
> Unicode Code Charts
> Check out Anne-Marie’s new Lynda.com video title, Social Media Marketing with Facebook & Twitter
> Read about and download the public beta of David’s “Blatner Tools” suite of InDesign plug-ins on the DTPTools site
> Anne-Marie will be one of the presenters at the InDesign Conference in Washington DC, Nov 4-6 2009
> Anne-Marie will be one of the presenters at the InDesign Conference in Washington DC, Nov 4-6 2009
> Steve Werner’s Preflighting Deep Dive webinar has early-bird tickets on sale until Nov 4, the webinar will be on Nov 10 2009
That is pretty funny that I neglected to edit out the coughing fit at about 10:30… oh well. As I said, I was sick that day! Glad to be better now.
Good job, as usual.
A couple of points though. FWIW, my experience doing a Snow Leopard upgrade on my MacBook was horrible. I wound up erasing everything and doing a clean install. So, a clean install is hardly a Windows only thing..
I didn’t find installing Windows on my MacBook in Boot Camp all that difficult and Windows 7 installation is really simple. That said, many retailers will do the installation and configuration for you.
I don’t think Apple wants to get into supporting Windows, which they would probably have to do if they preinstalled it.
“Balance Ragged Lines”
It’s funny, that you explore the secret feature of the outer shape of Balance Ragged Lines. 3 Weeks ago I used Dave Saunders’ “Text Styles Reporter”, and I stumbled over this output:
“Balance Ragged Lines: Vee Shape”
I thought: Wow! A hidden feature. But who on earth can reveal it?
I’ve whipped up a script for CS3/CS4 that “exposes” the ability in InDesign to specify a Vee shape, a Pyramid Shape, or an Even shape for Balance Ragged Lines. Documentation and examples are included.
See http://blog.gilbertconsulting.com/2009/12/indesign-script-for-balance-ragged.html