Episode 314
Podcast 314
• InDesign 19.1 Here and Gone • All About Pi (Fonts) • Obscurity: Align on Spine
- In the news
- InDesign 19.1 here and gone!
- Upcoming CreativePro Online Events
- CreativePro Magazine December 2023: Charts and Graphs
- In honor of podcast 3.14, all about Pi fonts!
- Obscure Feature of the Week: Ruler on Spine
Links mentioned in this podcast
- Don’t use ID 2024 (19.0) with Hebrew, Arabic, or RTL text (bug reports on facebook) and (bug reports in uservoice)
- InDesign on Sonoma (Mac) has UI flashing problems; waiting for Apple to update for fix (bug report in uservoice)
- Colin's article about bar graphs: Making Variable Bar Graphs in InDesign with Data Merge
All about Pi…
- Pies in Ace Hardware stores (and elsewhere): https://www.thepieco.com/map-locations
- David's book about pi: The Joy of Pi
- How to type pi: https://creativepro.com/6-ways-type-pi-symbol-indesign/
- Pi fonts (symbols/dingbats)
- Some fonts have "pi" in their name (e.g. Universal News & Commercial Pi)
- Easy as Pi (Jim Felici)
- We Heart Dingbats (Pam Pfiffner)
- Transforming Pages (David was wrong… this can be done without scripting… but you shouldn't): https://creativepro.com/transforming-pages-in-cs5/
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