InDesignSecrets Podcast 214

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?