February 19, 2009

InDesignSecrets Podcast 097

33 minutes

Sandee Cohen interview; Interactive PDFs; Obscurity of the Week: Show/Hide Paragraph Break Marks

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InDesignSecrets-097.mp3 (15.8 MB, 30:50 minutes)

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Interview with Sandee "Vectorbabe" Cohen

InDesign CS4: Visual QuickStart Guide (Sandee's book) is now available

Her VQS chapter on Interactive and Multimedia is available as a downloadable PDF (which of course is itself interactive and has multimedia features)

How Sandee created the interactive PDF in InDesign CS4 and Acrobat Pro 9

Sandee's upcoming book, From Design Into Print

Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Show/Hide Paragraph Break Marks

News from our sponsors:

>> Recosoft’s PDF2ID Professional 2.0 is a new version of the the amazing program that converts PDFs to editable InDesign (Mac/Windows) files. New features include conversion presets, smart frame linking, and bringing in just the annotations (comments) from a PDF.

>> In-Tools: Adobe Design Premium CS4 ME is now available! (And Design Standard CS4 ME too, of course.) Or just get InDesign CS4 ME, it's up to you. Order any of these from In-Tools and enjoy free shipping to anywhere other than the Middle East. In-Tools is also the developer of the WorldTools plug-in, which allows InDesign CS4 users to set Right-to-Left text without needing InDesign ME.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Jay Nelson's DesignTools Monthly newsletter

Jay Nelson and Jeff Gamet's DesignTools Weekly podcast

Sandee's InDesign CS4 Visual QuickStart book, available now.

Download the Interactive & Multimedia chapter as a PDF by clicking the link next to "Already own this?" on the IDCS4: VQS Peachpit Press web page and registering it to your (free) account. You'll need the book's ISBN number to register it. Or, on the same page, you could just purchase the entire book as a PDF.

Pre-order Sandee's From Design Into Print book

Contact Premedia Systems for the JavaScript Buttons script ($15)

What "our" Robin Williams is up to these days

David and Ole's Real World InDesign CS4

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