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Dirty Words Design Videocast
by Adam Jury
Dirty Words Design is a video podcast about Adobe InDesign and Graphic Design. Host Adam Jury brings you InDesign tips, tricks and "dirty" solutions for sticky problems. This isn't a "best practices" guide--this is problem-solving and making the best out of a bad situation. The videocast will also cover InDesign plug-ins, Photoshop, related resources, and maybe some relevant-to-designers OS X stuff as well.
Episodes
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DWD: Episode 11, Work Around the OS X iBooks Library
Here's Episode 11 of Dirty Words Design, which discusses how to quickly edit and preview ePub files using iBooks for OS X. Let's call this episode the first one of Season Two ... I'll be updating the blog to a new theme soon and working on more videos. Feels like I've got the bug again! A few...
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DWD: Episode 10, Trio of Table of Contents Tips
After a long hiatus (I'm sorry!), Dirty Words Design is back with a roughly produced (I'm really sorry!) episode that contains three tips for dealing with InDesign Table of Contents and using them in ways that may not be typical! (I'm totally not sorry!) Topics discussed are: Duplicating a Table…
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DWD: Episode 9, InDesign CS5 Background Exporting
Good: I've managed to fix my low audio problems and the videocast should be much more listenable now. Better: InDesign CS5 includes a nice feature that allows you to export PDF files in the background while you work on other stuff! Worse: This background export functionality doesn't work with…
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Dirty Words Design: Episode 8, GREP Styles + Preflight Proofing
This episode of Dirty Words Design shows you how to harness the power of two InDesign CS4 features—GREP Styles and Live Preflight—together to automatically detect if your document contains specified placeholder text, such as the dreaded "page XX" reference or notes from editors to layout or...
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Dirty Words Design: Episode 7, Rorohiko’s Soxy
Rorohiko's Soxy 1.0 for OS X has just been released, with a Windows version in beta. This episode of Dirty Words Design shows you how to use Soxy to easily manage multiple versions of InDesign at the same time -- no accidentally opening old files in the newest version of InDesign or vice-versa! I...
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Dirty Words Design: Episode 6, Fixing ‘Edit Original’ in OS X
The Edit Original command is one of the best ways to quickly move between the Creative Suite applications from within InDesign, but it can misbehave under OS X. Here's how to use it, and how to fix it if it stops working as expected!
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Dirty Words Design: Episode 5, Intro to Acrobat Layers
Episode 5 of Dirty Words Design runs down the basics on why you would want to create a layered PDF, how to export one from InDesign, and a few tips for manipulating those layers in Acrobat. Bumper music is by Creature. The Dirty Words Design Videocast is made available under the...
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Dirty Words Design: Episode 4, Fixing Paragraph Style Pairs
In this episode I look at a script that can be used to quickly find and replace pairs of paragraph style combinations. It's a great free script from Thomas Silkjær that can save you a bundle of production time! Important Links Thomas Silkjær's totally awesome Fixing Paragraph Style Combinations...
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Dirty Words Design: Episode 3, Default Preferences and Document Preferences
This is a short episode; I take a look at setting InDesign document preferences and default preferences that get applied to all new InDesign documents, also how to create Styles [Paragraph, Object, Character] that are automatically imported into new documents, and how to set Styles and some other...
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Dirty Words Design: Episode 2, More Packaging, and Converting All Text to Outlines
Thanks for waiting—here's Episode 2 of Dirty Words Design; a grab-bag episode that revisits Episode 1 and further explains Packaging vs. Copy Links, and a "feature" of Packaging that you may not be aware of. I also give a brief overview on exporting a document to PDF while turning all the text in...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Dirty Words Design is a video podcast about Adobe InDesign and Graphic Design. Host Adam Jury brings you InDesign tips, tricks and "dirty" solutions for sticky problems. This isn't a "best practices" guide--this is problem-solving and making the best out of a bad situation. The videocast will also cover InDesign plug-ins, Photoshop, related resources, and maybe some relevant-to-designers OS X stuff as well.
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