InDesignSecrets Podcast 250

InDesign Secrets

In this episode:

• A little bit of news:
  • InDesign CC 2018 update released (13.0.1)
  • First round of CreativePro Week 2018 speakers announced
  • InDesign Magazine Dec 2018: Creating Accessible EPUBs, and an in-depth review of Cacidi's Chart plug-in for InDesign
  • Coming in January: InDesign Magazine ground-up redesign! You'll love it
• Managing threaded stories manually and with free scripts
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Repair All

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

• CreativePro Week 2018 now open for registration
• More on EPUB Accessibility from our sister site, EPUBSecrets.com
• Scripts mentioned:
  • BreakFrame.jsx and SplitStory.jsx (both in Scripts > Application > Javascript)
  • MergeTextFrames from Ajar Productions
  • Text Stitch from Rorohiko
  • StorySplitter by Adi Ravid (download link from our site)
• David's post about unthreading stories with scripts (has links to the above, too)
• Why you might want to ignore the Package alert that says you have RGB images