This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 9
Anne-Marie and I have been on our first-ever indesignsecrets “offsite meeting” in Salt Lake City, Utah. It’s a very pretty city in a valley between large mountains. I’d rather be here in the winter, when I could get some skiing in. But there was no time for fun this week. Instead, we’ve been planning, cogitating, reviewing, and generally getting a sense of what new cool things we can bring you. I think you’ll like it!
In the meantime, the blog has been a bit quiet (thanks Fritz for keeping the fires burning). But I’ve been monitoring the InDesphere anyway, and have a few jewels to pass on:
- Colorado’s Erica Gamet is the newest trainer to fall prey to the joys of GREP.
- I’ve been encouraging Adobe to add Photoshop-like image adjustments (“make this image look better!”) in InDesign for years. Now Epical has a solution that looks promising.
- Unless you’ve been living inside a giant InDesign box, you know that Apple’s Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6) shipped today. I know I’m supposed to always be on the cutting edge, but to be honest, I’d rather wait until the inevitable 10.6.1. But the features certainly look appealing.
- I can’t figure out what to do with this script from InDiScript, but it’s cool: It converts footnotes back into text inside the text story. Let me know below how you use it!
- Do you live in Brazil? Check out the InDesign conference in Brazil! I’m sure it’ll be awesome. Wish I could be there.
- Jim Felici wrote a nice piece about the two-spaces-after-punctuation problem on creativepro. Should you type two? One? Check it out.
I can’t wait to see what happens next week! In the meantime, my flight home is about to start boarding, so I’d better wrap this up. Enjoy!
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InDesign (and all the rest of CS4) runs perfectly fine under Snow Leopard. Jump in, the water’s fine.
Really, Salt Lake City is a wonderful place. I will also write an article about my coming there
@Jim: Oh, in this case, my concern isn’t InDesign; it’s all my other utilities and general stability and so on. I am indebted to people who jump in to the water, but after 20+ years of system upgrades, I’m in no rush.
> I can?t figure out what to do with this script from InDiScript, but it?s cool: It converts footnotes back into text inside the text story. Let me know below how you use it!
David if this script does correctly what it does then it is a bless to create accessible documents from InDesign layouts. ID can’t tag footnote and to respect the reading order of the content, putting back the footnote within the text helps the blind people to read the content in a logical order. This script is useful for webmasters too if they need to reorganize the tags.
Accessibility in InDesign is a complex issue and it is now 20 days that I am studying it. My findings are very exepensive now if somebody wants training on this issue ;-)
What about the ability to select profile residing in Library/ColorSync/Profiles and the User/Library/ColorSync/Profiles? This is not working with IDCS3 and 4 with 10.6. Sure one can place the profiles in Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles but that makes them only available to Adobe apps.
I have tried this on an update install and a clean install. Repairing permission makes no difference. I have also noticed other apps with this problem but ID is the only Adobe app with this problem.
I am wondering is nobody else seeing this with Snow Leopard?
David, I’m 100% with you on that. I waited until last year to switch from XP to Vista, but that was mostly because I was running a 32-bit XP and needed a 64-bit OS to take advantage of more than 3GB of RAM.
Aside from a motherboard incompatibility with Vista x64 SP2 (solved with a BIOS flash) I’ve had zero problems and won’t be upgrading to Win7 for at least the next 18 months. Let others take the plunge early and work out the kinks. I can’t afford to have an unstable work computer (I’m already running low on hair, and I haven’t even passed 30 ;) ).