Episode 108
Podcast 108
• New InDesignSecrets eSeminars: InCopy/InDesign, Long Documents (links below)
• InDesignSecrets Live Seminars!
• Deep Dive into Character Styles
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- New InDesignSecrets eSeminars: InCopy/InDesign, Long Documents (links below)
- InDesignSecrets Live Seminars!
- Deep Dive into Character Styles:
- To-do's and Not-to-do's
- Applying multiple styles
- Using them for "tagging" (instead of formatting)
- A few great scripts!
- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Go to Selected Bookmark (with bonus new features discovered by accident!)
-- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Sign up for Anne-Marie's eSeminars: InCopy/InDesign: Getting Started (Sept 9), and/or InCopy/InDesign: Tips and Techniques (Sept. 23) (early-bird pricing expires Aug 25 2009)
> David's two eSeminars on Long Documents will be in October, links coming soon!
> InDesignSecrets LIVE (Sept 17) starring David Blatner! All-day seminar, link includes $10 savings > Collaborative Workflows with InCopy/InDesign (Sept 15) AM's all-day live seminar, enter coupon IDS15 for $25 off
> InCopy/InDesign Master Class (Sept 16) AM's all-day live seminar, enter coupon IDS16 for $25 off
> Indexmatic script for indexing from Character Styles (link goes to blog post) > Dave Saunder's Preserve Local Formatting script for CS1, CS2, and CS3 (link downloads .jsx script) > Jongware's PrepText script for CS4 (link downloads .zip of script); Adobe forum thread discussing its use
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