InDesign Secrets Podcast 314

InDesign Secrets

• In the news
  • InDesign 19.1 here and gone
  • Upcoming CreativePro Online Events
  • CreativePro Magazine December 2023: Charts and Graphs
• In honor of podcast 3.14, all about Pi fonts!
• Obscure Feature of the Week: Ruler on Spine

Links mentioned in this podcast

• Don’t use ID 2024 (19.0) with Hebrew, Arabic, or RTL text (bug reports on facebook) and (bug reports in uservoice)
• InDesign on Sonoma (Mac) has UI flashing problems; waiting for Apple to update for fix (bug report in uservoice)Bugs:
• Colin's article about bar graphs: Making Variable Bar Graphs in InDesign with Data Merge

All about Pi…

• Pies in Ace Hardware stores (and elsewhere): https://www.thepieco.com/map-locations
  • David's book about pi: The Joy of Pi
  • How to type pi: https://creativepro.com/6-ways-type-pi-symbol-indesign/
  • Pi fonts (symbols/dingbats)
    • Some fonts have "pi" in their name (e.g. Universal News & Commercial Pi)
      • https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/adobe-pi-std
      • https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/interstate-pi
      • Adobe Fonts ornaments tag
    • Easy as Pi (Jim Felici)
    • We Heart Dingbats (Pam Pfiffner)
• Transforming Pages (David was wrong… this can be done without scripting… but you shouldn't): https://creativepro.com/transforming-pages-in-cs5/