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Layer Tricks; Hides/Show keyboard shortcuts; Obscurity of the Week: Stylistic Sets Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-164.mp3 (15.8 MB, 28:55 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Layer Tricks! Stacking, dragging, show/hide layout objects Dragging objects from one group to another Managing nested objects Using the "southern double-click" Show (in layout) selected layer object Keyboard Shortcuts You Should Know: Command-3 (Ctrl-3) and Command-Option-3 (Ctrl-Alt-3) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Stylistic Sets News and special offers from our sponsors: gg In-Tools is the developer of AutoFlow Pro, an InDesign plug-in that lets you fully control the layout of both text and images, using both master frames and non-master frames, with minimal user intervention. (And it's a great solution for easy alternate layouts for DPS.) Company founder Harbs is also the “Guru” of PrintUI.com, which provides a number of custom InDesign Server-based solutions. gg Recosoft makes PDF2ID (converts PDFs to editable InDesign files), ID2Office (converts InDesign files to editable Word or Powerpoint files) and PDF2ID Enterprise, which batch converts PDFs to InDesign and/or to the IDML format; just the ticket for automating workflows. Check them out! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: g Check out PePConference.com, register by March 2 2012 for $200 early bird discount g David (and Recosoft) will be at the 2012 Macworld/iWorld in San Francisco g Blog post: Hidden Layer Tricks in CS5 g "Betcha By Golly Wow," the famous Stylistic set AM was singing g More info on Open Type alternate glyphs and stylistic sets g Adobe page about Tom Phinney's Hypatia Sans typeface g Check out the stylistic sets in Gabriola, an OT font free with Office 2010 and Windows 7 -- Minion Pro's Stylistic set 1 Hypatia Light Stylistic set 1 (top) vs. set 2 (bottom) showing the difference in the lowercase "g's"