11 New Document tips; new Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Easing Path

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• New Year's list of 11 (as in 2011) recommended New Document steps, including:
  • Checking Presets and Defaults
  • Head starts with styles
  • Master pages, layers, and workspaces
• A new Quizzler!
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Easing Path

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools creates InDesign plug-ins mainly for people doing multi-lingual or long document publishing, but many of their products are useful for anyone. In his free time, company owner Harbs is constantly churning out useful and often free scripts, such as the Preference Manager we talked about in this episode. >> Rorohiko has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done. For instance, have you ever wished you could add a vertical bar next to a paragraph and have it flow with the text, even if the paragraph breaks between columns or pages? Rorohiko's new BarredText plug-in ($19US) can do that for you, whether you use CS3, CS4, or CS5. A free trial is available, and when you decide to purchase it, be sure to use the discount code INDESIGNSECRETS141 for a significant discount. – To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to [email protected] with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and your best answer in the body of the message. You have until Friday, Jan. 28 , at midnight CST to send in your answer, one per user! We will choose the most correct answer, or in the case of a tie, we will randomly choose from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in a subsequent podcast—good luck!

-- Links mentioned in this podcast: > David's post about application-wide Preference settings > Post about Print vs. Web intent in InDesign CS5 > All about Color Settings in InDesign (David's masterpiece article of 2010!) > Seattle's InDesign User Group > You've registered for our 2011 Print & ePublishing Conference, haven't you?