Podcast 158

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• News
  • David’s Adobe MAX recap
  • Adobe’s new Single Edition DPS
  • Anne-Marie at InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Las Vegas, Nov 2
• Interview with James Fritz and Mike Rankin
• New Podcast Feature: “Who Knew?”
• Quizzler Winner!
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Show Full Menus

News and special offers from our sponsors:

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Quizzler Winner! In episode #156, we asked you to tell us what was the very first InDesignSecrets blog post in 2007. (This was a sneaky way to promote our Archives page, a fast way to access the 1200+ blog posts here.) The winner, chosen via a random drawing of the multiple correct submissions, was faithful listener Salah Al-Din Talhami of Virtual Designing Universe with the answer: On January 1, 2007, at 6:14 p.m., David posted the (still relevant) article “Assigning Default Text Formatting.” Great work, Salah! You will receive a copy of In-Tools’ wonderful Style Utilities for InDesign.

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Links mentioned in this podcast: > David’s Adobe MAX recap > InDesignSecrets Live! seminar with Anne-Marie in Las Vegas, November 2 > PubWest Conference in Las Vegas, Nov 3-5 > Mike Rankin’s blog posts, ebooks, Twitter feed, and Lynda.com videos > James Fritz’s blog posts, Twitter feed, and Lynda.com videos > Mike Ninness’s video on the Document Fonts folder feature > InDesignSecrets Archives page of all blog posts > We talked about hiding menu items in this blog post from 2009

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King David at Adobe MAX: