InDesignSecrets Podcast 250
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