Podcast 205
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In this episode:
- News: InDesign Conference; PePcon; Lynda Weinman creative keynote!
- Neglected Panels (some you may not even know about)
- Worth a(nother) look: Info, Tool Hints, Kuler, Background Tasks, Story, Attributes
- Forgettable for most users: Trap Presets, Timing (until HTML 5 export!), Script Label, Tags, Transform (redundant!), Flattener Preview
- Wait-and-see: Adobe Exchange
- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Consolidate All to Here
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- Chicago Blues Fest during PePcon 2014!
- Posts, Podcasts, and PDFs about these poor, poor panels
- Adios, Navigator panel
- Your forgotten friend, the Info panel
- What is the Script Label panel for?
- Here’s a clever use for the Attributes panel
- The Flattener Preview panel was hot stuff in Podcast 88 (and Sandee Cohen originally coined it Blatner Preview)
- Trap Presets panel? Grab this PDF excerpt of the Trapping section from Real World InDesign
- Candid shot of the wily Background Tasks panel in its lair:
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