Podcast 151

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• PePCon 2011 recap: It was great! Let’s do it again! ;-D
• Marijan’s new Acrobat script (lets you create form fields in InDesign)
• Our Uservoice web site for InDesign feature requests
• Interview with Douglas Waterfall, InDesign senior software engineer
• Quizzler winner! (and answer)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Load Selected Glyph

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Quizzler winning answer: How many ways can you “hide” InDesign, from the keyboard?

Pat, a Mac user, says …

1. You mentioned the first way – Quit.
2. Option-click on the desktop will hide InDesign and you leave the program but not quit it.
3. Force Quit – Option+Command+esc
4. Command+H – will hide InDesign. Which surprised me the first time it happened because Command+H used to Hide Frame Edges.
5. Menu Bar> InDesign> Hide InDesign (does that one count because it’s basically the same as #4)
6. Use the dock to hide InDesign
7. Use the dock to quit InDesign (does that one count because it’s basically the same as #6)
8. Command+Tab highlight InDesign Icon in application switcher and Command+Q
9. Command+Tab highlight InDesign icon in application swticher and then Command+H

— Links mentioned in this podcast: > Print & ePublishing conference sponsors > Marijan Tompa’s new site > Tony Harmer’s poem lamenting InDesign’s inability to create Acrobat form fields > Blog post on Creating Form Fields in InDesign (the Acrobat script) > Tony Harmer’s updated poem > Send feedback about your InDesign wishlist items to our Uservoice site > Adobe’s official feature request form that Chris Kitchener reads > In discussion with Douglas, we talked about the issue of split columns not splitting > Peter Kahrel’s footnotes and columns script > The Certitec winner was from Llandrindod Wells in Powys > The winner of the Quizzler gets her choice of InDesignSecrets webinars > David’s article on Mystery Glyphs was in issue #41 of InDesign Magazine > More on Load Selected Glyph in Find > Langston Hughes’ poem, “A Dream Deferred”