David Futato

David Futato can see White Russians from his front porch. He also figures out everything about InDesign that the One-on-One team ever needs to know. (Case in point this week's post from David about the new cross reference feature in InDesign.) David is only person imposed upon Deke (ahem) by his publisher whom Deke ultimately deemed worthy of both personal and professional comraderie. (Listen to the show to see how Deke slithers out of that one.) How, you might ask, do I, stalwart hardworking editor/sidekick, manage not to seethe with jealousy in the face of Deke's obvious reverence for his beloved "Design Mastermind." Well, David also happens to be a kind, compassionate, knowledgable, hardworking guy who unquestionably deserves his Golden Child Status.

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Hail, dekeOmmunity. I'm thrilled to announce that Adobe InDesign CS4 One-on-One, the book, is now in stock. The timely appearance (as well as, literally, the generally awesome appearance) of this book is creditable in large part to the collaboration of our resident Design Mastermind, David Futato. David has been in charge of the final design of the One-on-One books since the beginning, so he's got cred on the streets of dekeVille (where he's running for City Council). As soon as we stop keeping him up all night working on books, he's planning on joining us here as a contributor.

In fact, unbeknownst to him, he already has. I posted an excerpt from the book wherein David explains the new features of the Links palette over in dekeStuff. You can read the excerpt of the excerpt just below, but you need to be a registered member of our community to read the whole thing. (And then you need to get the book to read the whole, whole thing.) Welcome David, and congratulations, and thanks!

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