Instant Indesign Video Podcast

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The Instant InDesign Video Podcast is dedicated to helping you become more productive with Adobe InDesign with a particular focus on template design and sound document construction. Created for both novices and seasoned designers, it showcases a wide range of subject matter-from basic template architecture and streamlining routine tasks to creating a fully automated publishing workflow. It's also a perfect companion to the book, Instant InDesign: Designing Templates for Fast and Efficient Page L (Author: Gabriel Powell)
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Recent episodes from Instant Indesign Video Podcast

  • Episode 4: Creating An Automatic Numbered List
    Published: Aug 30, 08
    Numbered lists provide an excellent way to organize information, but producing them can be demanding work. Thanks to InDesign, you can entirely automate the list creation process.This episode teaches you how to use the Bullets and Numbering feature to format a complex multilevel numbered list. You'll also learn to create a series of paragraph styles that can be used together to automatically number and format the list. If you produce technical manuals or textbooks, you definitely want to check o
     
  • Episode 3: Creating A Basic Xml-ready Template
    Published: Jul 7, 08
    If you've been using InDesign for a while, chances are you've heard at least some of the buzz surrounding XML. It seems that everyone is using it lately. Web developers, database developers, programmers, scientists, and even desktop publishers are taking advantage of XML. What is this "magic" that XML seems to have? Should you care about it? Well, with all the hype going around, you can't afford to ignore XML any longer. In my opinion, every graphic designer should have at least a basic understa
     
  • Episode 2: Automating A Catalog With Data Merge
    Published: May 21, 08
    What do Data Merge, an Excel spreadsheet, the Running Header text variable, the section marker, and Layout Adjustment all have in common? They are just a handful of InDesign tools that can be combined together to create a powerful page production machine. Watch this episode to learn how you can use these five tools to design a template that automates the layout of a product catalog.
     
  • Episode 1: Combining Style Sheets To Automate Formatting
    Published: Apr 23, 08
    I'm pleased to bring you the first episode of the Instant InDesign Video Podcast. Choosing the first topic wasn't easy since InDesign has so many great features. I decided to talk about style sheets since they are a core feature of just about every template.If you haven't ventured far beyond the basic use of paragraph and character styles, you'll be impressed by InDesign's ability to combine multiple types of style sheets into a magic button that can apply several levels of formatting in just on