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InDesignSecrets Podcast 205


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In this episode:

  • News: InDesign Conference; PePcon; Lynda Weinman creative keynote!
  • Neglected Panels (some you may not even know about)
    • Worth a(nother) look: Info, Tool Hints, Kuler, Background Tasks, Story, Attributes
    • Forgettable for most users: Trap Presets, Timing (until HTML 5 export!), Script Label, Tags, Transform (redundant!), Flattener Preview
    • Wait-and-see: Adobe Exchange
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Consolidate All to Here
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  • Chicago Blues Fest during PePcon 2014!
  • Posts, Podcasts, and PDFs about these poor, poor panels
    • Adios, Navigator panel
    • Your forgotten friend, the Info panel
    • What is the Script Label panel for?
    • Here's a clever use for the Attributes panel
    • The Flattener Preview panel was hot stuff in Podcast 88 (and Sandee Cohen originally coined it Blatner Preview)
    • Trap Presets panel? Grab this PDF excerpt of the Trapping section from Real World InDesign
  • Candid shot of the wily Background Tasks panel in its lair:
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