Episode 258
Podcast 258
• Designing for Sustainability
• Calendars
• Disappearing Text
• Obscure Feature: Group Alert
In this episode:
- News:
- InDesignSecrets YouTube channel and Facebook group
- Designing for Sustainability article
- September 2018 InDesign Magazine: Calendars
- Disappearing Text? Might be a formatting “gotcha”!
- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Group Alert
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Note to our listeners: Our apologies for the less-than-stellar audio quality of this episode! We had a technical glitch. Won’t happen again.
Links mentioned in this podcast:
- Subscribe to the InDesignSecrets YouTube channel
- Join our Facebook group for help and tips
- Maya Lim’s excellent article on “green design”: Designing for Sustainability
- CreativePro Week 2019: The HOW-TO Conferences
- Create Outlines the right way and the even better way
- Our advice:
- Watch out for Remove Overrides
- Use Character Styles!
- Watch out for Basic here and here
- Disappearing text: fixes here and here
- Allow Master Overrides on Selection
And here’s that obscure alert!!!

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