Podcast 230

In this episode:

• Latest news:
  • PePcon 2016 speakers & sessions announced
  • CreativePro Conference site is live
  • InDesign Magazine content debuts on our blog
  • DPS is now called AEM Mobile
  • TruEdit announces InCopy support
• Interview with Bart Van de Weile
• A Shaded Paragraph Conundrum!
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: [[:xdigit:]]

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Time for PePcon 2016! Sign up now and we’ll see you in San Diego in June (also home of the Creative Developers Summit)
• CreativePro 2016: The Conference for Photoshop and Illustrator Users, July 11-13, Minneapolis MN
• InDesign Conference 2016: Washington DC, November 7–9
• InDesign Magazine articles are now online (details) (example – click the article title links)
• Adobe DPS is now Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Mobile
• MEI’s TruEdit now supports InCopy
• Bart Van de Wiele’s author page on CreativePro.com and his blog (which needs updating, Bart!)
• What’s this about Ghent, Bart’s hometown? What’s a Ghent workgroup?
• Adobe’s Project Comet
• Find/Change tips
• More about the new Paragraph Shading feature in CC 2015 (see screen shots below)
• Or, use the old reversed-out-of-Rule Above trick
• What’s [[:xdigit:]] good for? Finding hexa words or hexadecimal notation (see screen shot below)

 

Screenshots:

Search for Hexadecimal colors in a CSS file with the [[:xdigit:]] POSIX code:

A column head inside a one-cell table: Using the Shaded Paragraph feature instead:
Enabling the Clip to Frame option: