Episode 199
Podcast 199
• Five Common (and easily-fixed) InDesign Gotchas!
• Jumping text, disappearing guides, copy/paste between versions, and more
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Comb
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- News
- Call for PePcon 2014 speakers
- New lynda.com video by Anne-Marie: Using InDesign and Word Together
- New video by David: Interactive PDFs
- Update to InDesign CC and InCopy CC released
- Five Common (and easily-fixed) InDesign Gotchas!
- Jumping text, disappearing guides, copy/paste between versions, and more
- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Comb
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Links mentioned in this podcast:- InDesign CC update adds Synch Settings
- Call for PePcon speakers — c’mon, fill out the form, it’ll be fun!
- Using Word and InDesign Together; new lynda.com course from Anne-Marie
- InDesign Insider Training: Interactive PDFs; new lynda.com course from David
- Somewhat related posts on gotchas: grayed-out features, unwanted default formatting, ignores leading values, share content with older versions, exporting jpegs from InDesign, exporting selections to exact size
- Using the Comb and other page transitions
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