Episode 302
Podcast 302
• Goodbye Type 1 Fonts and bundled Pantone colors * Marcus Radich/Page Proof interview
In this episode…
- News
- CreativePro Week 2023 registration includes InDesign and more
- Recordings available for the Design & Accessibility Summit
- Go to our Events page to see 4 new online summits for 2023
- CreativePro Magazine December 2022 issue dives deep into fonts and the Pantone color aggravation
- 08:50 — Good Grief: Goodbye to Type 1 Fonts and bundled Pantone spot colors
- 28:20 — Interview with Marcus Radich, chief tech officer of PageProof
- 41:55 — Obscure InDesign Feature: Select Unused Parents
Sponsor for this episode:
>>PageProof is the top online proofing workflow platform for your creative process: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Powerpoint, image files, and more. It's free for reviewers, and flat rate pricing for you and your designers makes it easy to get started! We interview Marcus Radich, CTO, in this episode, and you can hear David's more in-depth interview in this CreativePro Conversation on YouTube.
Links mentioned in this podcast:
LinkedIn Learning Video Series for InDesign users
- InDesign Tips for Design Geeks
- InDesign Secrets (over 300 videos!)
End of PostScript Type 1 Support
- Adobe's note on end of life for Type 1 Fonts
- How to Tell Which Files Use Type 1 PostScript Fonts
- How to Find Files Using Type1 PostScript Fonts in InDesign
- How to Convert PostScript Fonts to OpenType with TransType
Pantone Libraries Disappearing
- What are Pantone colors? What are spot colors? Claudia McCue explains it all for you: https://creativepro.com/working-with-spot-colors/
- Adobe’s Pantone Colors Fade to Black: Users Turn Rubine Over Removal of Libraries from Creative Cloud 2023
- Pantone Connect add-on in Adobe Exchange
- A Pantone-like library (Freetone)
- What is the Trumatch CMYK process color swatch library? https://creativepro.com/indesign-trumatch-system/
Parent pages: How to make running heads that change without using multiple parent/master pages: https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-to-automate-chapter-headers/
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