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Designing Interactive PDFs in InDesign
Even with the rise of fixed-layout ebooks and Adobe Publish Online, interactive PDFs are still the most common format for distributing precision designed publications to desktops and laptops. With pixel-perfect designs, rich typography, and intricate page layouts, with the capacity to add spoken words and music, videos and animation, hyperlinks and buttons, variable display content,…
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Count Characters and Words within Selected Text with Keyboard Maestro
A simple Keyboard Maestro macro to display the character count and word count of selected text anywhere and everywhere on your Mac. For professional and amateur writers, copywriters, journalists, and many others.
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Connecting Creative Professionals in New Locations
New online locations from Adobe, Facebook, and Pariah Burke help designers and developers connect and converse, seek peer support, and find camaraderie in a profession that so often puts us into isolation from one another.
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InDesign Tutorial: Creating Separate TOCs for PDF Bookmarks and the Page
Over on the InDesign Facebook Group a designer asked for help creating a PDF with two different depths of tables of contents. He said, “I’m creating a PDF manual in InDesign. The Table of Contents [on the page] needs to list only Chapter Title and Heading 1 [paragraph styles], but I want the navigational menu…
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InDesign CC EPUB Fundamentals
In this course you will go beyond creating text-only EPUBs. Pariah Burke will start off by helping you convert print book layouts to ebook, specifying story and imagery order through different means. Next you will learn how to format and include cover images, illustrations, native InDesign vector objects, and more, and how to control their…
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Truly Muting Email Conversations in Gmail
Gmail (and Mail in Google Apps for Business) offers the ability to mute conversations and keep them out of your way… But only if they’re certain types of conversations. The mute function fails to work on arguably the most annoying of conversations. Here’s a way to fix it so that mute actually mutes any thread.
