September 30, 2014

InDesignSecrets Podcast 214

25 minutes

In this episode:

News about our sessions at Adobe MAX, The InDesign Conference, and InDesign Magazine

Time to Make the Calendars — Faster!

Understanding Frames: Points vs. Paths

Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Run Length

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

InDesign Conference: Nov 3–5, 2014, in Seattle

InDesign Magazine's September issue: Long Documents

Sandee's post on Making Calendars, more info on Calendar Wizard

Great source for cool calendar templates

Points vs. Paths: Article on rotating a frame but not the text

What is a trapezoid, exactly?

And how about that Run Length Encoding?

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