Episode 190
Podcast 190
• Conference News: SXSW, MAX, HOW, Maine Media Workshop, new PEPCON speakers
• Overlooked InDesign Resources (sites, pubs, books,etc.)
• Quizzler! “Awesome and Wacky,” says David
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Desaturate Black
Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-190.mp3 (12.5 MB, 23:17 minutes)
See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Or view the transcript of this podcast.
- Conference News: SXSW, MAX, HOW, Maine Media Workshop, new PEPCON speakers
- Overlooked InDesign Resources (sites, pubs, books,etc.)
- Quizzler! “Awesome and Wacky,” says David
- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Desaturate Black
News and special offers from our sponsors:
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QUIZZLER 190: Here is the image we talked about in the episode. Don’t know the Quizzler question? Listen to the episode, it starts at 15:25 in. Send your answer to us by email with QUIZZLER in the subject line, don’t answer in the Comments!!!! You have until April 1 to send in your answer. In the case of multiple correct answers, we’ll do a random draw. Winner receives something fabulous and InDesign related!
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> Come to PEPCON! Our annual Print + ePublishing Conference, this year April 28?May 1 in Austin, Texas
> SXSW Interactive sessions, Adobe MAX InDesign sessions
> David’s half-day InDesign workshop at HOW Design Conference
> Anne-Marie’s week-long Enhanced eBook class at Maine Media Workshop
> Grant Gamble’s book on InDesign Automation with Javascript and XML
> Our “rescued” free InDesign templates from Adobe, free PaperMill templates
> Free InDesign templates found on the Adobe Exchange (“classic”) web site
> Peter Kahrel’s page of free InDesign Scripts
> InDesign Pro Community Facebook list (curated by Anne-Marie)
> Appearance of Black was the Obscure Feature in episode 19!
> 150 other InDesign resources we collected in a single blog post
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