Podcast 101

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• InDesignSecrets Videocast 001 stats and reactions
• InDesign 101: Helping Complete Newbies Get Started
• Hot Button Posts: Creating barcodes, Please check the spell checker
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Threshold
  

— News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here.
>> Mogo-Media’s InDesign Seminar Tour travels through five cities in the US in June 2009, presented by either David or Anne-Marie, with more dates in the fall. Deke McClelland’s Photoshop Channels and Masks seminar; and Paul Trani’s Getting Started with Flash seminars are also coming up! Use the AMCTIME09 discount code for 15% off registration off any of these.
>> Adobe Systems has extended the deadline for their CS4 upgrade special offer: Customers with earlier versions of Adobe Creative Suite, Macromedia Studio, and Adobe Production Studio software can upgrade for the same price as those moving from CS3, up to a US$200 savings. The offer ends on April 30, 2009, in North America, after which they move to “tiered upgrade pricing.” You can see the special offer’s upgrade pricing chart at a glance, and then buy the upgrade at the Adobe.com store or your favorite reseller. (Sorry, no discount code-we tried!) — Links mentioned in this podcast:
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Spell-checking hot button post
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