Episode 214
Podcast 214
• Time to Make the Calendars — Faster!
• Understanding Frames: Points vs. Paths
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Run Length
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In this episode:
- News about our sessions at Adobe MAX, The InDesign Conference, and InDesign Magazine
- Time to Make the Calendars — Faster!
- Understanding Frames: Points vs. Paths
- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Run Length
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Links mentioned in this podcast:- InDesign Conference: Nov 3–5, 2014, in Seattle
- InDesign Magazine's September issue: Long Documents
- Sandee's post on Making Calendars, more info on Calendar Wizard
- Great source for cool calendar templates
- Points vs. Paths: Article on rotating a frame but not the text
- What is a trapezoid, exactly?
- And how about that Run Length Encoding?
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