Conference News; Overlooked InDesign Resources; Wacky New Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Desaturate Black

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Conference News: SXSW, MAX, HOW, Maine Media Workshop, new PEPCON speakers * Overlooked InDesign Resources (sites, pubs, books,etc.) * Quizzler! "Awesome and Wacky," says David * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Desaturate Black

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko has this neat add-on called Frame Reporter. It adds a little label next to any page object which you can configure to show whatever information you need to see without having to dig through panels: Effective resolution, Name and/or path of the placed image, Name of the currently selected story, word count, and many more. They've written up a detailed explanation of all the options and how their customers have used FrameReporter to streamline their work. Normally $39.00 US, you can get it for 50% off if you enter the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS190 upon purchase. This limited time offer expires at the end of PEPCON on May 1, 2013. -- QUIZZLER 190: Here is the image we talked about in the episode. Don't know the Quizzler question? Listen to the episode, it starts at 15:25 in. Send your answer to us by email with QUIZZLER in the subject line, don't answer in the Comments!!!! You have until April 1 to send in your answer. In the case of multiple correct answers, we'll do a random draw. Winner receives something fabulous and InDesign related! -- Links mentioned in this podcast:**

Come to PEPCON! Our annual Print + ePublishing Conference, this year April 28–May 1 in Austin, Texas SXSW Interactive sessions, Adobe MAX InDesign sessions David's half-day InDesign workshop at HOW Design Conference Anne-Marie's week-long Enhanced eBook class at Maine Media Workshop Grant Gamble's book on InDesign Automation with Javascript and XML Our "rescued" free InDesign templates from Adobe, free PaperMill templates Free InDesign templates found on the Adobe Exchange ("classic") web site Peter Kahrel's page of free InDesign Scripts InDesign Pro Community Facebook list (curated by Anne-Marie) Appearance of Black was the Obscure Feature in episode 19! 150 other InDesign resources we collected in a single blog post