Podcast 122

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• InDesignSecretsLive Seminars — news/updates
• Sessions announced for the Print and ePublishing Conference
• InDesign CS5 (and those other minor Suite programs) launch on April 12
• QuarkXPress features that aren’t in InDesign (and workarounds for some of them)
• Hot Forum Post: Cool Keyboard Shortcuts
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Best Joins

 

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— Links mentioned in this podcast: > Members! Watch your e-mail for discount codes to InDesignSecretsLive.com events: InDesign Seminars and the Print and ePublishing conference > Print and ePublishing Conference Agenda is now up! The $200 early bird discount ends on April 9, so register as soon as you can.
> CS5 is coming! CS5 is coming! > Page Tools lets you have more than one page size in one ID document > You may be interested in that CoolKerning “kerning table” plug-in we mentioned > Or do it the old-fashioned way by editing the kern pairs in the font itself > Fritz wrote up a workaround for character-level opacity changes > Synchronized text in InDesign solution 1 and solution 2 > David’s uplifting post, Things that InDesign Can’t Do
> Adobe’s Feature Request form that they actually read! > Hot Forum Post about Cool Keyboard Shortcut Changes > Here’s what the CS4 Help File has to say about Best Joins