February 19, 2012

InDesignSecrets Podcast 166

35 minutes

Upcoming events and deadlines; TOCCON recap; John McWade Interview; Quizzler Results; Obscurity of the Week: Sample Buttons

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode.

Upcoming InDesign Events and Deadlines

March 2: Early bird ends for Print + ePublishing Conference (May 14-16, San Francisco)

March 3: Creating Digital Publications with InDesign, UC Berkeley

June 13-14: InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC

Recap of the O'Reilly Tools of Change Conference (TOCCON)

Interview with John McWade, founder of Before&After magazine

Quizzler Update: Code Breaker! C'mon people! (see below)

Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Sample Buttons

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> eDocker, the fine people who sell the InDesign > Flash magazine solution (now known as eDocker2 Desktop Publisher) that we've talked about before, just released a new InDesign digital publishing solution called eDocker Tablet Publisher. With this program you can create, from InDesign, an HTML5 Web publication that works in all devices, including iPads, and that you can publish through your own server. Normally $995 for a Single User edition, InDesignSecrets users can get Tablet Publisher for only $895 through April 30 2012 with the coupon code 10IDS2012. For more details and more discounts for InDesignSecrets fans, go to http://www.edocker.com/ids.

>> Recosoft continues to improve and enhance their breakthrough product, PDF2ID, now at v3.0. PDF2ID is a cross-platform plug-in for Adobe InDesign that enables you to directly open and convert PDF documents within Adobe InDesign CS3/CS4/CS5. It supports multiple languages and can even pull in PDF annotations (comments) into the InDesign layout! As an InDesignSecrets fan, you can get an incredible 50% off of PDF2ID Standard or Professional with the promo code IDSECRETS. Note this promotion ENDS on March 9, 2012!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

> Register for PePCon by March 2 for up to $200 off

> Diane Burns' Creating Digital Publications with InDesign, UC Berkeley

> Info and registration for our 2-day, single track InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC

> O'Reilly eBooks optimized for Kindle Fire 8

> Anne-Marie's Professional Web Site Design book

> Presentation Zen that very few presenters paid any attention to

> Mike's and Anne-Marie's PDF slides (include links to InDesign scripts) from TOCCON

> EPUB 3 Resources from TOCCON, collected by Matthew Diener from EPUBSecrets.com

> John McWade's Before&After Magazine

> MOO.com Luxe Cards

> All about QR Codes and Teacup Software's solution

> Our post about the Reappearing Sample Button Library

Quizzler!

Listeners: The mystery image is below. CLUE: There are THREE E's in this!

To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to [email protected] with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and the correct answer to the puzzle (as described in the podcast). You have until February 29 2012 at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! We will randomly choose a winner from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast in February, and receives the prize: a copy of every single one of our eBooks!

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