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This article is from June 17, 2009, and is no longer current.
InDesign Magazine Issue 30 Tackles Biz Cards and TOCs
In case you’re not already a subscriber, you should know that Issue 30 of InDesign Magazine was recently released and is available at indesignmag.com. Wow, 30 issues already?! This edition covers the usual broad spectrum of InDesign-related topics, but focuses mostly on two subjects:
Business Cards: Nigel French wrote a lovely piece about things to think about when designing a business (or pleasure!) card. This shows a bunch of cool cards. It also nicely complements his Lynda.com title on building cards in InDesign.
Table of Contents: Keith Gilbert tackles the ins and outs of building a table of contents in InDesign, then Peter Spier follows up with a clever step-by-step on creating an “advertiser index” using the TOC feature.
There’s lots of other goodies, too, of course, including a look at some cool designs coming out of Sesame Workshop (the folks that do Sesame Street), reviews of Gluon’s Studio Pack (by Jeremy Schultz) and several tools for batch output (by Claudia McCue), and more good tips & answers from Pariah S. Burke and Sandee Cohen.
Check it out! Don’t forget you can get a $20 discount on a one-year subscription by using the coupon code FRIEND.
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That’s an excellent and inspiring piece. And, don’t forget, that’s the issue with all new power productivity tips in the regular InTime column written by…um… some Pariah guy, I think.
Okay David, for the first time ever, I’m upset with you. I started frantically searching because I didn’t remember this issue…I can’t get it yet. I got all excited. Don’t worry, I’ll forgive you as soon as this one is ready for me!
Thanks to everyone associated with this great publication (and this website) for valuable info.
Special thanks to David for always delivering the info using a marvelous sense of humor!
I haven’t received it yet either. Have the email links for subscribers gone out yet?
I got mine on the 9th…
@Jennie and James: Hm! That is mysterious. Yes, the issue shipped last week. (I was feeling bad for getting the news late here.) Try going to indesignmag.com and logging in with your account info; you should be able to download it from there.
It doesn’t show as available yet. I checked that first.
Yeah. I think it’s only available as of yet by the box.net link…
Oh! Sorry, Jenny, I should have confirmed before I said anything. You’re right (of course!)… something has gone terribly wrong. I have a call in to get it up live on the site.
In the meantime, check your spam filters, etc… that’s usually what happens when people don’t get the email. As Harbs mentioned, there are direct links to the downloads at box.net in the email. (Sometimes all those download links in the html email triggers the spam filters.)
The link hasn’t come in yet for me either.
Hi folks. I’m the editor in chief of InDesign Magazine.
If you’re a current subscriber who didn’t receive an email message on 6/9 alerting you to the availability of the June/July 2009 issue, please send an email to me at [email protected]. I’ll personally send you the download info after confirming your subscription. (So I can confirm, please use the email address that’s associated with your magazine subscription.)
But first, please add @indesignmag.com to your email white list. The problem is almost certainly that a spam filter is intercepting your message.
Now, regarding the fact that the June/July 2009 issue (#30) isn’t yet showing up on indesignmag.com for current subscribers. This is an engineering error that we will fix as soon as possible. In the meantime, the box.net links are still available for current subscribers. New subscribers can access the June/July 2009 issue without a problem. Which is very annoying, I know!!
So a big thanks to all you subscribers, and a promise that we’re working on the errors and will fix them as soon as humanly possible.
I think Terri misspoke in her last paragraph…they were working much faster than the speed of human! I have my magazine and can’t wait until this evening to read it. I’ll have to though, as my boss really prefers that I accomplish something tangible while at work…he is funny that way.
Thanks again to everyone at IDS and IDM!!!
Terri, is there a way you can do the early release on something other than box.net? My company (and I suspect many others) block that site as a peer-to-peer filesharing service. I’m unable to download the magazine until you post it up on your site. Kinda depressing that it’s available, but I can’t get it. I’m not really sure why it’s posted on two different locations in the first place. Why not post it on your site when it’s available? The email is worded like it’s a “benefit” of being a subscriber to get the early download link. But if you can only download as a subscriber, who is it that’s not getting this “benefit” of the early download?