Episode 172
Podcast 172
• InDesign CS6’s PDF Forms Features in depth
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: World-Ready Paragraph Composer
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Yikes! We recorded this on May 9 (pre-PePcon), but didn't get a chance to publish it until today, a week later (post-PePcon). Apologies for time shifted content!
- News
- News in PEPCONland, Adobeland, and Lyndaland
- Join us in New York City, June 13-14, for InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC
- InDesign CS6's PDF Forms Features in depth
- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: World-Ready Paragraph Composer
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Links mentioned in this podcast: > Adobe Creative Cloud was released > Adobe's redesigned online InDesign Help site > New lynda.com videos: InDesign CS6 New Features and InDesign CS6 Essential Training > David's rant/post about the split in PDF Export methods in InDesign > Another post about single page vs. spread Interactive PDF export > Harb's plug-in for World Ready typesetting, "WorldTools Pro" > Adobe blog post about the surprise indicpreferences.js script in InDesign CS6
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