Episode 192
Podcast 192
• Deep Dive into Conditional Text
• Quizzler 190 Answer! (see below) .. And the winner is announced
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Hidden Destination
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A very special episode with guest co-host Kelly Vaughn!
- News
- PEPCON News: IGNITE InDesign, Sunni Brown keynote, Scavenger Hunt game
- All about Kelly Vaughn and her blog, DocumentGeek
- Deep Dive into Conditional Text
- Quizzler 190 Answer! (see below) .. And the winner is announced
- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Hidden Destination
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QUIZZLER 190: Here is the image we talked about in episode 190 and continued in episode 191. As revealed in episode 192, what makes this line's bounding box turn into a lovely rainbow is that it's been anchored to some text and then multiple ? 5, to be exact ? conditions (from Conditional Text) were applied to the text containing the anchor. So you're looking at non-printing Conditional Text markup.
Links mentioned in this podcast:
- Come to PEPCON! Our annual Print + ePublishing Conference, this year April 28?May 1 in Austin, Texas
- Kelly Vaughn's wonderful DocumentGeek blog
- Kelly's posts here on InDesignSecrets
- More conditional text posts here and here
- The Obscure Error Message of the Week-eek-eek, courtesy of Kelly:
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