Episode 209
Podcast 209
• Huge InDesign Magazine issue coming up, all about Adobe DPS
• Interview with Ben Schott, author of Miscellany and Schottenfreude
• Hidden uses for Live Preflight
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Entry End
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In this episode:
- AM’s field report from the Edward Tufte one-day course
- Huge InDesign Magazine issue coming up, all about Adobe DPS
- Interview with Ben Schott, author of Miscellany and Schottenfreude
- Hidden uses for Live Preflight
- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Entry End
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- Edward Tufte’s books on Amazon
- InDesign Magazine
- InDesignSecrets membership
- Ben Schott’s site and Wikipedia page
- Blog posts on dotted tab leaders here and here
- How to convert to outlines when exporting EPS
- Check out all our posts on preflight in InDesign
- David’s Blatner Tools has a Quality Assurance module
- Other Preflight utilities: Zevrix’s InPreflight and Markzware’s Flightcheck
Here are some of examples of Ben Schott’s writing and artwork (click each thumbnail to enlarge):
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