Knowledge Is Power

The page 23 meme

I'll be the last one on the internet to do this page 23 meme -

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

Choose File>Document Setup to open the Document Setup dialog box.

That's Peachpit's InDesign CS Visual Quickstart Guide.

Not as exciting as the sentence from Umberto Eco's Baudolino, the book which was sitting right next to the InDesign book:

"I realized what was happening, and in an instant this great truth flashed into my mind: that I was, true, a Latin and not a Greek, but, before these infuriated Latins could realize that, there would no longer be any difference between me and a dead Greek."

That's the title character telling the story of his escape from the sacking of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade.

I had to stop reading the Eco book for a bit, and take a crash course in InDesign, since recent client developments have made me jump to the Adobe side of the InDesign vs. Quark battle. There usually isn't a better place for crash courses then the Peachpit Visual Quickstart series. It's got exactly the stuff a Quark jockey like me needs to know - what Adobe has choosen to call many of the well-known Quark commands, how to handle InDesign's advanced table controls, and most important to someone doing real production - how to automate text styles and set up nested styles, the ultimate in production automation. This book also has a chapter on mastering the pen and bezier tools.

Gapers

I went to the big Second Annual Gaper's Block party on friday, and here's a shot of the group that apparently are cornering the market. Somebody sounds extremely jealous.

Maybe I'll photoshop in the missing Ramsin and Alex.