September 27, 2012

InDesignSecrets Podcast 181

28 minutes

David and Anne-Marie trips; News; Data Merge Tips and Tricks; Obscurity of the Week: Delete End Punctuation

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-181.mp3(15 MB, 28:06 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode.

Out and About: David's trip to Lindau, Anne-Marie's trip to California

News: Adobe Digital Editions 2.0, Kindle Plug-in for InDesign 0.971, new open source Adobe fonts

Data Merge: Beyond the Basics! Tips and Tricks

Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Delete End Punctuation

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft: Open and convert PDF and Windows XPS documents directly in Adobe InDesign CS4/CS5/CS5.5/CS6 right from InDesign's File menu with their latest version (3.5) of PDF2ID, the amazing InDesign plug-in. Be sure to check out their other amazing plug-in for InDesign users, ID2Office — export your InDesign files to Word or Powerpoint!

>> Rorohiko: They just keep making ePubCrawler better, and it's still donation-ware! ePubCrawler is a Fixed Layout ePub Assistant for InDesign. The highly-customizable script takes an InDesign document and converts it to a fixed-layout ePub (think kid's books, cookbooks, photography books, etc.) ready to upload to your favorite reseller. This turns a job that normally takes dozens of hours into minutes! Watch any of their six tutorial videos to see how it works. For InDesignSecrets fans: anybody who donates US$50 or more now will get a free license if and when they release it commercially, like a home-grown Kickstarter!

We still want to hear your stories! Send us a short (less than 1 minute) "worst InDesign training story" that we can play on the air (you'll be anonymous) in an upcoming episode: leave us a voice message at +1-801-459-4477 to record it, or send in your own voice recording. Please follow-up with an e-mail, which we will keep private, including any additional information that you'd like us to know.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

> New Adobe Digital Editions 2.0

> The Mac-only ePub Reader utility Bookle

> Kindle Plug-in for InDesign

> New open source Open Type fonts from Adobe

> Anne-Marie's earlier title, InDesign CS5.5 to EPUB, Kindle, and iPad

> What are CSV files?

> David's post about using Data Merge for yearbook layouts

> Steve Werner's excellent Data Merge tutorials (oldies but still goodies)

> Loic Aignon's Data Merge to Table script blog post (translated from the original French) > PowerHeaders from In-Tools

...more