November 25 2009 • 3:46 PM
By:
David Blatner
This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 15
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Meanwhile, here’s some InDesign links you’d better be aware of:
- Marc Autret at Indiscripts continues to amaze with his cool scripts and solutions. Here’s one called Equalizer that lets you copy page geometry (height, width, location on the page) from one object to another in a wonderfully easy way — via the context menu.
- Here’s a good reminder to save your work… and a keyboard shortcut to save all open documents!
- Adam Jury did a nice overview video of Rorohiko’s Soxy product. It’s cool! Don’t forget you can get $5 off Soxy for a time by using the code found in podcast 113’s show notes.
- Adobe has some special offers on upgrades and sales right now.
- Lynda.com recently released a big ol’ title by Michael Murphy on the subject of GREP in InDesign. If you’re not a lynda.com subscriber yet but you want to be, do us a favor and click on one of the lynda.com ads on our site (usually in the sidebar). That way they know you’re coming from us. There’s another title on GREP there, too, of course, which I recorded. Mine is short and sweet; Michael’s is InDepth!
- Are you into IDML and automation? This looks like a pretty cool technology from FHCon… let’s see where it goes.
- Acrobat.com has undergone some big changes! But still no paragraph styles in Buzzword. Grr.
Well, that’s enough for now. Feel free to email me at david [at] indesignsecrets.com if you ever have suggestions for great new InDesign articles, blog posts, news stories, or whatever!
In my opinion, the main reason to save your work regularly (not on that list) is that you can sometimes accidentally close without saving.
One example of this: I was working on a document for a long time and hadn’t saved. At one stage, I opened and closed a lot of other documents to search for something.
One of the “documents” I opened was actually a library file, and without thinking I hat apple-W to close it, clicking “Don’t save” on the dialogue that popped up. Obviously, since you don’t close libraries with apple W, this closed the document I was working on.
A stupid thing to do, but these mistakes can be made in haste.
I learned my lesson the second week I was employed in this industry – Ctrl-Q instead of Ctrl-S and blindly clicking the confirm box at 3 am meant an extra six hours of layout time and an unhappy printer. Now I make sure to remap Ctrl-Q to something else (usually Save As)