Podcast 255

In this episode:

• News:
  • InDesign Conference 2018, June 4–7  in New Orleans: it’s happening!
  • Get a Virtual Pass to the InDesign Conference (and others!) to see videos and handouts
  • New LinkedIn Learning/Lynda.com courses: New Features in InDesign CC 2018.1 (Anne-Marie) and InDesign: Interactive PDFs (David)
  • InDesign Magazine: April 2018 issue about Interactive Portfolios, May 2018 issue about Digital Asset Management systems, and the June 2018 issue will be about making InDesign and Illustrator play nicely together.
• The problem with default RGB [Black] and CMYK [Black]
• Interview with Khoi Vinh, Adobe’s Principal Designer
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Greek Vector Objects on Drag

News and special offers from our sponsors:

> Acuity Training, based in the UK, offers training in Adobe InDesign and the full range of Adobe products with Adobe qualified instructors, as well Microsoft and other software suites and programs. They’ve been awarded a Gold-Star Rating from Feefo.com for four years running. Up until July 31, 2018, InDesignSecrets podcast listeners can get 20% off Adobe training bookings by using the discount code indesignsecrets20. 

> Ripon Printers is a full-service commercial printer based in Wisconsin with clients around the country. They do the printing for our InDesignSecrets Keyboard Shortcut posters and a lot of the CreativePro Week conference materials. Our friend James Wamser has been their Customer Education Director for many years. James is the creator and maintainer of the InDesign New Features Guide that lists all the features added to the program with each version, starting with version 1.0! Check out the resources and blog at Ripon’s web site, lots of great info there, and consider asking them for a quote for your next print job!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• The InDesign Conference 2018 agenda
• Ripon Printers is on Facebook, but  you have to check out their web site’s Technical Guides and Resources page too
• InDesign New Features Guide  (v1.0  to CC 2018.1) as a Publish Online/PDF  doc
• How to see if black is showing up as 4-color black in Acrobat
• Khoi Vinh’s site
• Show some love to our CreativePro Week tabletop sponsors!
  • Wrike
  • Ripon Printers
  • Recosoft
  • PixelSquid
  • Pagination
  • Markzware
  • Mag+
  • Graphic Artists Guild
  • em Software
  • Cacidi Sytems
  • Adobe

Here’s the 256-level histogram (0 to 255) we were talking about: