Podcast 208

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In this episode:

• News from the land of InDesign
  • InCopySecrets.com and ePubSecrets.com are alive again!
  • PePcon 2014 early bird deadline coming up!
• Spring-loaded shortcuts
  • When they save time and not
  • Other obscure “dynamic” shortcuts
• Interview with Chad Chelius, new Editor-in-Chief of InCopySecrets.com
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Indic Preferences Script

News and special offers from our sponsors:

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>> Recosoft makes the amazing PDF2ID, PDF-to-InDesign conversion tool for InDesign CS4 through CC (Creative Cloud). They also just released ID2Office v2.0 which adds support for InDesign CC and converts InDesign files to Word, PowerPoint and (new!) Keynote format. Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners, through April 15 2014, get 15% discount off PDF2ID v3.5 or ID2Office v2.0 with code ID_Secrets

• PePcon: The Print + ePublishing Conference
• Check out ePubSecrets.com and InCopySecrets.com
• Spring-Loaded shortcuts post
• Chad’s new Lynda.com title, Creating Accessible PDFs
• Our accessibility page
• Chad’s 1/2-day workshop at PePcon, CSS & HTML: What Designers Need to Know
• The T-key and U-key
• More info on typesetting Indic languages: this post, this help file, and this other help file