InDesignSecrets Podcast 205

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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Links mentioned in this podcast:

• 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: