Podcast 094

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• Upcoming events for David and Anne-Marie
• Our Resolutions
• Table calculations — various solutions and a neat free script
• A Quizzler for everyone, with prizes for 5 lucky winners
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Smart Match Style Groups
  

  Info and deals from our sponsors:
The WorldTools plug-in from In-Tools (owned by InDesign guru “Harbs”) allows InDesign CS4 users to set Right-to-Left text without needing InDesignME. The plug-in retails for $149 and has an introductory price of $99, until 1/31/09 is further discounted to $94 for InDesignSecrets users if you use our link.

Flux Consulting’s supremely useful EyeDropper Plug-in (Mac only) is now available for CS4. It lets you pick up and apply formatting for text and objects without switching tools. The demo is fully enabled for 60 days, after that is costs $29.95. (CS3 version is $20, CS/CS2 version, text-only, is $5.)

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• David’s Dubai seminar and at Macworld
• Anne-Marie’s videos at Lynda.com
• Pre-order Real World InDesign CS4
• Nancy at Southern Progress’ Pure Silver Jewelry
• David’s post (with links to scripts etc.) about Calculating Numbers in Tables
• (Ben) Schott’s Miscellany/Almanac 2009
• Uber-cool Spyder3 Elite color-calibration tool from Datacolor

  To play the Quizzler, email your answer to in**@*************ts.com with “Quizzler” in the subject line. We will randomly choose the five winners from all entries we’ve received by midnight on Sunday, January 11, 2009.