Episode 297
Podcast 297
• Field Guide to Non-Printing Hightlights • Obscure Feature: Float in Window
In this episode…
- News
- Adobe InDesign 17.2.1 update patch released
- CreativePro Week May 9-13, live in DC and online
- CreativePro Events: https://development.creativepro.com/events
CreativePro Magazine: https://development.creativepro.com/issues/ - CI-HUB Prize Raffle: https://ci-hub.com/creativepro/
Deadline is May 2 2022! Details on that page
- Field Guide to Non-Printing Highlights (there are more than you think!)
- Obscure InDesign Feature: Float in Window
Sponsors for this episode:
>> Microsoft and Adobe! Both of these fine companies are CreativePro partners and will be represented at CreativePro Week 2022. Adobe is flying in a group of Adobe CC engineers from India, and MS Office product manager Stephanie Horn is doing a session on using video in Powerpoint.
Links mentioned in this podcast:
- You can use CC Libraries in Word and PowerPoint: https://development.creativepro.com/using-cc-libraries-in-word-and-powerpoint/
- Cool tip: “How to Make an Object Style That Resizes Objects from the Center (or Any Other Reference Point) in InDesign”
https://development.creativepro.com/how-to-make-an-object-style-that-resizes-objects-from-the-center-or-any-other-reference-point-in-indesign/ - What’s new in 17.2.1: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html
- Andreas Michalski from CI-HUB, our guest from the last podcast episode
- Company site https://ci-hub.com
- Enter their raffle here: https://ci-hub.com/creativepro/) for free tickets to CreativePro Week and free subscriptions to CI-HUB! Deadline for entries is May 2, and they’ll contact the winners on May 3, 2022
- Composition Highlights:
https://development.creativepro.com/field-guide-to-composition-highlighting/
https://development.creativepro.com/why-is-my-indesign-text-highlighted-in-blue/ - What Anne-Marie taught David in this episode (how to quickly jump to the active InDesign document’s location on your hard drive):
https://development.creativepro.com/indesign-how-to-video-find-file-size-location/ - 3 Minutes Max tips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=580PSVBohDI&list=PLFof_0NMmT7Uwyy6bc1Uo5OlfBUEtU2Li
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