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In this episode, Amy Balliett and Mark Heaps sit down for an honest conversation about artificial intelligence and what it means for creative professionals. They share how AI is showing up in their work today, the opportunities it creates, and the worries it raises about originality, ethics, and the future of design.

Along the way, you’ll hear candid reflections on how creatives can keep their unique voice while adapting to rapid change, why embracing experimentation matters, and how to balance efficiency with authenticity. Amy and Mark bring both optimism and caution to the discussion, leaving you with practical insights and plenty to think about.

Highlights

Lighthearted banter about tech talk and finding “their people”
Honest takes on common fears: job loss, plagiarism, and the “end of the world” narrative
How AI is reshaping creative careers and where humans still hold an edge
The balance between efficiency and originality when using AI in design
Practical advice for staying relevant: evolve, experiment, and protect your value
Why ethics, transparency, and authenticity matter in AI-powered workflows
Opportunities for creatives to lead in strategy, storytelling, and human-centered design
Future-proofing careers by learning adaptable skills, not just technical tasks

AI Tools Mentioned

Adobe Firefly
Nano Banana for Photoshop
Loveable
Bolt
Replit
Streamlit
Vercel
Firebase

Links & Resources

Design + AI FREE Webinar – September 30, 2025: https://creativepro.com/event/free-webinar-unlocking-the-potential-of-ai-in-video/

Design + AI Summit – November 13–14, 2025:https://creativepro.com/event/design-ai-summit-2025/

Listeners can save $100 on any CreativePro event with the discount code: PODCAST

CreativePro Membership – Unlock the magazine, downloads, and exclusive resources: https://creativepro.com/membership/

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In this episode, Theresa Jackson and Mike Rankin go behind the scenes at CreativePro. They share how their similar career beginnings in prepress connected them at their first meeting many years ago, and how they now share overlapping roles at CreativePro. You’ll hear from Mike about the CreativePro Magazine evolution from InDesign-only coverage to a broader creative focus, and other changes that make content faster and easier to digest. This is followed with a conversation about community connection and their ideas for sustaining the energy of CreativePro Week year-round. Mike shares his newly formed Office Hours, and Theresa teases similar new community initiatives on the horizon.

Along the way, they preview upcoming events and dive into a candid discussion about AI in design—what excites them, what makes them uneasy, and why creativity and foundational skills still matters most. The show wraps with Mike’s top InDesign career tip—one you won’t want to miss.

Links & Resources

CreativePro Membership – Unlock the magazine, downloads, and exclusive resources: https://creativepro.com/membership/

CreativePro Magazine Article MATE: Your AI Helper in InDesign and Illustrator https://creativepro.com/mate-your-ai-helper-in-indesign-and-illustrator/

Office Hours – Join the conversation: https://creativepro.com/office-hours/

Design + Accessibility Summit – September 16–19, 2025: https://creativepro.com/event/design-accessibility-summit-2025/#overview

Design + AI FREE Webinar – September 30, 2025: https://creativepro.com/event/free-webinar-unlocking-the-potential-of-ai-in-video/

Design + AI Summit – November 13–14, 2025:https://creativepro.com/event/design-ai-summit-2025/

The InDesign Conference – December 9–12, 2025: https://creativepro.com/event/indesign-conference-2025/

Rob de Winter’s Flux Kontext Photoshop Plugin – https://www.robdewinter.com/flux-kontext-plugin-for-photoshop

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InDesignSecrets is now the CreativePro podcast! Join David Blatner and Theresa Jackson and review the past 20 years of podcasting, as well as what to expect next!

Links and Info:

Our podcast started in late 2005!
Trivia: Did you know our podcast intro music was created by Anne-Marie Concepcion's daughter, Nicole?!
Have an idea for a future podcast? Leave us a note below!

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Topics:

Big news about podcast name
Our favorite obscure features
Fun obscure feature "spelling bee" game
Obscure Feature: Positional Form

Friendly Alien:

Episode 300
Tip of the Week

Barbell:

20 Obscure Features
Episode 35

List of All Our Obscure Features (so far)

Positional Form:

Exploring OpenType Pro Fonts, Part 2

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Just for fun: Bad Advice (and Good Lessons)
Interview with Marcus Radich from PageProof
Obscure feature: Show Transparency Grid

Links: Bad Advice

The "Bad Advice" thread on Facebook
Sara Rosinsky's Em Dash shirt

Interview with PageProof:

New Proofing Add-in for Microsoft Office
Centralizing the Proofing Process with PageProof

News:

Adobe engineers did an Ask Us Anything 24-hour marathon on the InDesign subreddit (forum) of Reddit.com.
Creative Cloud Members get 3 months of LinkedIn "Premium Career" membership (which includes LinkedIn Learning). See Adobe CC Benefits page

Obscure Feature: Show Transparency Grid

More information on Creative Cloud Libraries

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Topics:

Great lessons from the archives (that you may have missed)
First look at InDesign 20.3
Obscure Feature: Delete All Guides on Spread

Sponsor:

PageProof is a simple-to-use but powerful online proofing platform that makes giving feedback on creative work effortless

See David's latest conversation with PageProof founder, Marcus Radich

Links:

Old InDesign Magazine articles that are definitely evergreen:

From issue 1: Recipes for Applying—and Ignoring—Text Wrap in InDesign
issue 2: Fast Formatting with Nested Styles in InDesign
issue 7: InDesign Tips of the Trade
issue 8: Working with Anchored Objects in InDesign

What's new in 20.3

Fixed Issues
What's New
Peter Kahrel's Latex to MathML script
Issues with Generative Fill in InDesign

News:

Members can now download the Tables Superguide of articles
CreativePro Week (use the code CPSECRETS to get $100 off that or any creativepro event)

Obscure Feature: Delete All Guides on Spread

Shortcut for selecting all guides

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DOIE: Dept. of InDesign Efficiency * Obscure Feature: Clear Rotation * News Links: Dept. of InDesign Efficiency
10 Essential Tips for Using Quick Apply in InDesign
Activate Last Used Field Shortcut
Apply Leading to Entire Paragraphs: What Causes Inconsistent Leading and How to Fix It
How to Start Using InDesign Scripts
How-to Create a Custom Workspace
The weird "Place Gun Frame" trick: Applying an Object Style when Placing an Image

Join us in our live studio audience for Podcast 332 at CreativePro Week!

Clear Rotation:

Rotate frames with a trackpad gesture
Did you know you can move the spread rotation features with a script?
Even more cool: A script to rotate all the spreads that contain frames that are rotated

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Topics:

The INDDC format: good and bad
Interview with Venngage CEO Eugene Woo
Obscure Feature: Reset Preferences on Quit

Links:

Cloud Docs:

Collaborating Using Adobe Cloud Documents
Creative Cloud Storage: Where Does It Go?
Working with Adobe Cloud Documents
Anne-Marie's Cloud Docs video "for Design Geeks" on LinkedIn Learning
The endgame… collaborative editing, like the current Photoshop beta

Venngage: AI powered design at your fingertips

Resetting Preferences

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Includes:

Favorite font tricks
Interview with Theresa Jackson
InDesign 20.1
Obscure feature: Match Pasteboard to Theme Color

News:

20.1 is in release rollout
multi-find/change is now free
Old (but still relevant!) InDesign Magazine articles, now on site:
Designing Photo Albums in InDesign by Khara Plicanic
Getting Started with GREP Styles in InDesign by Steve Caplin
Working in Microsoft Word by Jamie McKee
Designing with Type: Grunge, Punk, and Futurism by Nigel French
InDesign Nightmares by David and Anne-Marie

Theresa Jackson:

Articles and videos
Old (but fun!) Interview

Font Tricks:

How to change the underlying default font for a document (see Don Ayer's comment at end for an easier solution)
OpenType text and text frame adornments

Obscure Feature: Match Pasteboard to Theme Color

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Topics:

Anchored Objects
Interview with Marcus Radich, PageProof
Obscure Feature: Standard Carriage Return

Links: Marcus Radich, from PageProof.com Anchored Objects:

Working with Anchored Objects in InDesign
How to Anchor a Graphic to Text (Video Tutorial)
Anchoring Graphics Between Paragraphs
Wrapping Text Around an Anchored Object
Drag and Drop Anchored Objects

Coming in 2025:

CreativePro Week
The InDesign Conference

Books we mentioned:

Shift Happens: a book about keyboards by Marcin Wichary
How Comics Were Made, by Glenn Fleishman

Background on the: carriage return

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Table Scripts:

Switching Rows and Columns in an InDesign Table
Sort tables
Setting Table Column Widths
Easier Table Formatting
Sizing Columns and Rows with a Script
Calculations in InDesign
Active Tables plug-in from DTP Tools

Fixed Issues in InDesign 20.0.1

CreativePro Events: The Design + AI Summit, CreativePro Week, and more

Obscure Feature: Cell Division

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What's New in InDesign 2025:

Adobe's update page
How to Avoid Print Problems with MathML in InDesign
New Accessibility Features in InDesign 2025
James Wamser's New Features Guide
Creative Cloud Storage: Where Does Your Work Go?

New "wow" products at MAX

Project Neo
Substance 3D Viewer
Amazing ProjectTurntable from Sneaks

Interview with: Karen Brewer, Adobe

Obscure Feature: "Show Subset"

Five Ways InDesign Libraries Are Better Than CC Libraries

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News:

CreativePro Week 2025 in Phoenix: registration is open
CreativePro online summits
The Design + Accessibility Summit
The Design + Marketing Summit
The Design + AI Summit
CreativePro Magazine Sept. 2025 issue: Accessibility Tools

Sponsors of this episode:

Adobe MAX: The Creativity Conference

PageProof: All your proofing in one place. Online.

Embedding Graphics:

To Embed or Not to Embed Graphics in InDesign Files
The Links Panel Reveals Information About Embedded Graphics

Paula Scher:

Wikipedia entry
Pentagram
Book suggestions: Logo Beginnings (Amazon link), and Logo Modernism (Amazon link)

Math Typesetting: we recommend MathType

Obscure Feature: Paste Nudge

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News

More CreativePro events coming up
Update on InDesign 19.5 beta feature
CreativePro Magazine 25 Years of Tips and Tricks!
Catch Anne-Marie Sept 19 at the L.A. InDesign User Group (online)

More on Measurements

Changing InDesign’s Default Ruler Measurements: link
InDesign Measurements Changing Unexpectedly: link
Scaling an Object to an Exact Size: link
Measuring Angles: link
Measurement Field Secrets: link
Measure Distance with Ruler Guides: link
Set the Size of Text Exactly (based on cap or x-height): link
A Great Script Lets You Add Measurements in InDesign or Illustrator: link

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In This Episode:

News
- Design & Powerpoint Summit now available on-demand
- CreativePro Week 2023 coming up in June!
- David’s Adobe Live session
A few InDesign features that just don’t work right (it’s not you — it’s the software)
Obscure InDesign Feature: Footnote Number

Sponsors for this episode

PageProof is the top online proofing workflow platform for your creative process: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Powerpoint, image files, and more. It’s free for reviewers, and flat rate pricing for you and your designers makes it easy to get started! Learn more about PageProof in David’s in-depth interview in this CreativePro Conversation on YouTube.

Microsoft PowerPoint has a mission: To empower people and organizations to tell the world’s most compelling stories to anyone, anywhere, at any time. Check out our newest feature, Cameo, which lets you integrate a live camera feed into your presentation. Learn more about Cameo here.

Links mentioned in this podcast

David’s dot-matrix printer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageWriter
Anne-Marie’s butter churn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_churn
What’s new in InDesign 18.2: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html
David’s “InDesign Fundamentals” with host Izzy Poirier on Adobe Live: https://www.behance.net/live/videos/19521/Adobe-InDesign-Fundamentals-with-David-Blatner
Vote for InDesign wish-list features and bugs: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests
Dropbox Lock Editing: https://help.dropbox.com/organize/file-locking
Placing an Image with an Object Style: https://creativepro.com/applying-an-object-style-when-placing-an-image/

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News:
- InDesign 18.1 release
- Design & Powerpoint Summit coming up Feb 16–17, 2023
- CreativePro Week 2023 agenda posted
- CreativePro Magazine January 2023: PowerPoint Tips; Overcoming Creative Burnout.
- CreativePro Magazine February 2023: Making Forms with InDesign and Acrobat
Monitoring the InDesign Dashboard
ChatGPT and Generative AI
Obscure InDesign Feature: Adjust spacing automatically when cutting and pasting words

Sponsor for this episode:

PageProof is the top online proofing workflow platform for your creative process: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Powerpoint, image files, and more. It’s free for reviewers, and flat rate pricing for you and your designers makes it easy to get started! We interview Marcus Radich, CTO, in this episode, and you can hear David’s more in-depth interview in this CreativePro Conversation on YouTube.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

News

Should you update to the newest version of InDesign? https://creativepro.com/should-adobe-fix-older-versions-of-programs/
Are you feeling creative burnout? Read Maya Lim’s article: https://creativepro.com/breaking-through-creative-burnout/
Check out Maya’s other great articles here: https://creativepro.com/author/maya-lim/

InDesign Dashboard

Control vs. Properties panel: https://creativepro.com/video-how-to-bring-the-control-panel-back-and-keep-it/
How to customize the links panel: https://creativepro.com/customizing-links-panel/
Red dot = overset text: https://creativepro.com/tip-week-finding-overset-text-preflight/
Rotate pages/spreads: https://creativepro.com/tip-week-rotate-spread-view-gesture/
Showing which pages have transparency: https://creativepro.com/why-the-checkerboard/
Other alerts to watch for: https://creativepro.com/whats-that-alert-or-question-mark-icon-in-indesign/

ChatGPT, DALL-E, and other Generative A.I.

What you need to know: https://creativepro.com/opinion-the-future-is-genai-enabled/
The script that David made with ChatGPT: https://creativepro.com/move-every-object-on-every-page-toward-or-away-from-spine/#comments/2427288
Star Trek: “Hello Computer” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpWhugUmV5U

Obscure Feature: Adjust spacing automatically when cutting and pasting words

Changing preferences with QuickApply: https://creativepro.com/10-essential-tips-for-working-with-styles-indesign/

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In this episode…

News
- CreativePro Week 2023 registration includes InDesign and more
- Recordings available for the Design & Accessibility Summit
- Go to our Events page to see 4 new online summits for 2023
- CreativePro Magazine December 2022 issue dives deep into fonts and the Pantone color aggravation
Good Grief: Goodbye to Type 1 Fonts and bundled Pantone spot colors
Interview with Marcus Radich, chief tech officer of PageProof
Obscure InDesign Feature: Select Unused Parents

Sponsor for this episode:

PageProof is the top online proofing workflow platform for your creative process: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Powerpoint, image files, and more. It's free for reviewers, and flat rate pricing for you and your designers makes it easy to get started! We interview Marcus Radich, CEO, in this episode, and you can hear David's more in-depth interview in this CreativePro Conversation on YouTube.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

LinkedIn Learning Video Series for InDesign users

InDesign Tips for Design Geeks
InDesign Secrets (over 300 videos!)

End of PostScript Type 1 Support

Adobe's note on end of life for Type 1 Fonts
How to Tell Which Files Use Type 1 PostScript Fonts
How to Find Files Using Type1 PostScript Fonts in InDesign
How to Convert PostScript Fonts to OpenType with TransType

Pantone Libraries Disappearing

What are Pantone colors? What are spot colors? Claudia McCue explains it all for you: https://creativepro.com/working-with-spot-colors/
Adobe’s Pantone Colors Fade to Black: Users Turn Rubine Over Removal of Libraries from Creative Cloud 2023
Pantone Connect add-on in Adobe Exchange
A Pantone-like library (Freetone)
What is the Trumatch CMYK process color swatch library? https://creativepro.com/indesign-trumatch-system/

Parent pages: How to make running heads that change without using multiple parent/master pages: https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-to-automate-chapter-headers/

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In this episode:

News
- CreativePro Week 2023 registration opens October 6, 2022
- Design & Accessibility Summit (online) Nov. 29–Dec. 2, 2022
- CreativePro Magazine covering tips, insights, and more
What's New in InDesign 2023
Interview with Mark Hilton and Gabe Harbs from Santa Cruz Software
Obscure InDesign Feature: Vertical Scale

Sponsor for this episode:

Santa Cruz Software is the creator of BrandingUI, LinkrUI, and PrintUI: BrandingUI empowers your global team to customize materials at scale, all while staying brand compliant. More on LinkrUI:

Survey Finds Over Four in Five Creative Pros Spend Time Weekly Finding Lost Assets
Streamline Design Team Workflows with LinkrUI

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Showing the InDesign preview thumbnails is based on the Preferences dialog box
What UXP is (for developers)
Loading paragraph styles into the document:
- Working with Text Styles in CC Libraries
- 10 Essential tips for working with styles in InDesign
In-Tools (still some great free scripts!)
Vertical Scale tip involving styles

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In this landmark 300th episode…

News
- Anne-Marie and David will be live at Adobe MAX in October
- CreativePro Week 2023 registration opens October 6, 2022
- Design & Accessibility Summit (online) Nov. 29–Dec. 2, 2022
- Whoa! 300 episodes!
- A look back at 17 years of the InDesign Secrets podcast
- Snippets from the first episode, Nov. 29, 2005
- Audio snippets from friends and colleagues with limericks, favorite features, memories, and more
- The FIRST Obscure InDesign Feature: Friendly Alien (A young David explains this in the first episode)

Sponsors for this episode:

>> Canto is a leader in digital asset management (DAM) software, with customers that include many of today’s top brands. This is an incredibly intuitive and easy to use platform that gives creative teams a centralized location to organize, find, and share all of their digital brand assets, including videos, images, graphics, etc. Canto integrates directly with Adobe Creative Cloud software. For more information and a personalized demo, visit https://go.canto.com/CreativePro.

>> Adobe MAX is one of the largest gatherings of graphic, web, UX and multi-skilled designers, creative and art directors, illustrators, film, video, and motion graphics pros, photographers, and creative leaders. And this year, for the first time ever, you can attend in person or online (for free), so there’s a MAX for everyone. Save $400 off the live event's registration fee by using our promo code M22CPN Register at https://max.adobe.com

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Accessible Kellogg Rice Krispies
History of Podcasts: https://www.onefineplay.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-podcasting
Our first InDesign Secrets Podcast, episode #1
InDesign CS/CS2 Breakthroughs, the book we wrote together that we reference in that first episode.
Shout-out to Libsyn, our podcast host vendor since the start
A Brief History of Podcasting
InDesign User Groups that stream their meetings (so anyone can attend):
- Los Angeles: https://www.laidug.com
- Hamburg: http://idug-hamburg.de
- New Jersey: https://www.meetup.com/Adobe-INDUG-InDesign-User-Group/
- Minneapolis: https://www.facebook.com/tcidug
- (are there more? Let us know!)
- Bart Van de Wiele's new book, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Collaboration and Workflow (Classroom in a Book)

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In this landmark 300th episode…

News
- Anne-Marie and David will be live at Adobe MAX in October
- CreativePro Week 2023 registration opens October 6, 2022
- Design & Accessibility Summit (online) Nov. 29–Dec. 2, 2022
- Whoa! 300 episodes!
- A look back at 17 years of the InDesign Secrets podcast
- Snippets from the first episode, Nov. 29, 2005
- Audio snippets from friends and colleagues with limericks, favorite features, memories, and more
- The FIRST Obscure InDesign Feature: Friendly Alien (A young David explains this in the first episode)

Sponsors for this episode:

>> Canto is a leader in digital asset management (DAM) software, with customers that include many of today’s top brands. This is an incredibly intuitive and easy to use platform that gives creative teams a centralized location to organize, find, and share all of their digital brand assets, including videos, images, graphics, etc. Canto integrates directly with Adobe Creative Cloud software. For more information and a personalized demo, visit https://go.canto.com/CreativePro.

>> Adobe MAX is one of the largest gatherings of graphic, web, UX and multi-skilled designers, creative and art directors, illustrators, film, video, and motion graphics pros, photographers, and creative leaders. And this year, for the first time ever, you can attend in person or online (for free), so there’s a MAX for everyone. Save $400 off the live event's registration fee by using our promo code M22CPN Register at https://max.adobe.com

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Accessible Kellogg Rice Krispies
History of Podcasts: https://www.onefineplay.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-podcasting
Our first InDesign Secrets Podcast, episode #1
InDesign CS/CS2 Breakthroughs, the book we wrote together that we reference in that first episode.
Shout-out to Libsyn, our podcast host vendor since the start
A Brief History of Podcasting
InDesign User Groups that stream their meetings (so anyone can attend):
- Los Angeles: https://www.laidug.com
- Hamburg: http://idug-hamburg.de
- New Jersey: https://www.meetup.com/Adobe-INDUG-InDesign-User-Group/
- Minneapolis: https://www.facebook.com/tcidug
- (are there more? Let us know!)
- Bart Van de Wiele's new book, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Collaboration and Workflow (Classroom in a Book)

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In this episode…

News
- Last chance to get CreativePro Week 2022 videos and handouts
- Our online Design and Marketing Summit debuts July 18–19
- Illustrator Summit returns Sept 22–23
- Anne-Marie and David will be live at Adobe MAX in October
- CreativePro Magazine's July issue is all about Illustrator and InDesign Type: https://creativepro.com/issues/
- "Smarter Workflows with InDesign and Word," Anne-Marie's newly-published course on LinkedIn Learning
Editorial Tools and Panels in InDesign
Obscure InDesign Feature: Select Subject

Sponsor for this episode:

> > Santa Cruz Software has a solution for the “83% of respondents who have said they have to spend time finding a lost sset.” The answer is LinkrUI, a plugin that enables direct searching, opening, placing, and syncing of assets stored in a DAM or other storage services such as Box and Dropbox from within Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Download the free version here.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Smarter Workflows with InDesign and Word by Anne-Marie!
InDesign for Editors by Nigel French
Notes tool and panel
- https://creativepro.com/find-notes-indesign-files/
- https://creativepro.com/how-do-you-know-if-there-are-notes-in-an-indesign-document/
- https://creativepro.com/show-indesign-notes-tool-some-love/
- https://creativepro.com/use-notes-to-hide-text/
- Kris Coppieters' free ShowNotes.jsx startup script
Story Editor:
- https://creativepro.com/hidden-gems-the-story-editor/
- https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-to-use-the-story-editor/
InCopy articles:
- https://creativepro.com/category/incopy-workflow/
Track Changes:
- https://creativepro.com/tip-of-the-week-tracking-changes/
- https://creativepro.com/use-track-changes-when-accepting-pdf-comments/
Obscure Feature: Select Subject
- https://creativepro.com/how-to-use-subject-aware-text-wrap-in-indesign/

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In this episode…

News
- CreativePro Week 2022 recap
- Design and Marketing Summit coming up in July!
- CreativePro Magazine issues: https://creativepro.com/issues/
Cool InDesign tips we learned at the conference
Obscure InDesign Feature: Create Button Trigger

Sponsor for this episode:

> Canto is a leader in digital asset management (DAM) software, with customers that include many of today’s top brands. This is an incredibly intuitive and easy to use platform that gives creative teams a centralized location to organize, find, and share all of their digital brand assets, including videos, images, graphics, etc. Canto integrates directly with Adobe Creative Cloud software. For more information and a personalized demo, visit https://go.canto.com/CreativePro.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

CreativePro Week: on-demand still available https://creativeproweek.com/2022ondemand/
CreativePro Week 2023 announced: https://creativeproweek.com/savethedate2023/
Learn to use Canva: https://creativepro.com/getting-started-with-canva/
CreativePro "3 Minutes Max" videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU-BUwkpVTo&list=PLFof_0NMmT7Uwyy6bc1Uo5OlfBUEtU2Li
Cool tips and scripts:Keith Gilbert's Isometric/Diametric InDesign script: https://gilbertconsulting.com/scripts

The settings for a custom stroke that Bart demonstrated, which can be used for a static rule length in Rule Above/Below:

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In this episode…

News
- Adobe InDesign 17.2.1 update patch released
- CreativePro Week May 9-13, live in DC and online
- CreativePro Events: https://creativepro.com/events
- CreativePro Magazine: https://creativepro.com/issues/
- CI-HUB Prize Raffle: https://ci-hub.com/creativepro/
  Deadline is May 2 2022! Details on that page
Field Guide to Non-Printing Highlights (there are more than you think!)
Obscure InDesign Feature: Float in Window

Sponsors for this episode:

> Microsoft and Adobe! Both of these fine companies are CreativePro partners and will be represented at CreativePro Week 2022. Adobe is flying in a group of Adobe CC engineers from India, and MS Office product manager Stephanie Horn is doing a session on using video in Powerpoint.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

You can use CC Libraries in Word and PowerPoint: https://creativepro.com/using-cc-libraries-in-word-and-powerpoint/
Cool tip: "How to Make an Object Style That Resizes Objects from the Center (or Any Other Reference Point) in InDesign" https://creativepro.com/how-to-make-an-object-style-that-resizes-objects-from-the-center-or-any-other-reference-point-in-indesign/
What's new in 17.2.1: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html
Andreas Michalski from CI-HUB, our guest from the last podcast episode
- Company site https://ci-hub.com
- Enter their raffle here: https://ci-hub.com/creativepro/) for free tickets to CreativePro Week and free subscriptions to CI-HUB! Deadline for entries is May 2, and they'll contact the winners on May 3, 2022
Composition Highlights: https://creativepro.com/field-guide-to-composition-highlighting/ https://creativepro.com/why-is-my-indesign-text-highlighted-in-blue/
What Anne-Marie taught David in this episode (how to quickly jump to the active InDesign document's location on your hard drive):https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-to-video-find-file-size-location/
3 Minutes Max tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=580PSVBohDI&list=PLFof_0NMmT7Uwyy6bc1Uo5OlfBUEtU2Li

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In this episode…

News
- Adobe InDesign 17.2 update patch released
- CreativePro Week agenda is up! May 9-13, live in DC and online
- The cover story in the March 2022 issue of CreativePro magazine dives deep into alternatives to Adobe software (including how Affinity Publisher stacks up to InDesign)
- And the April issue is all about making data visual; a must-read for anyone who makes charts, graphs, infographics, and so on
Interview with Andreas Michalski of CI-HUB
Control Panel vs. the Properties Panel: Total Smackdown!
Obscure InDesign Feature: Key Object

Sponsor for this episode:

> Canto (they dropped the “Cumulus” name a few years ago) is a leader in digital asset management (DAM) software, with customers that include many of today’s top brands. This is an incredibly intuitive and easy to use platform that gives creative teams a centralized location to organize, find, and share all of their digital brand assets, including videos, images, graphics, etc. Canto integrates directly with Adobe Creative Cloud software. For more information, visit https://go.canto.com/CreativePro.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

InDesign 17.2… what’s new: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html
The mystery of PlugPlugOwl: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/36861886-indesign-crashes-on-launch-in-plugplugowl-dll
How to rebuild your preferences: https://creativepro.com/rebuilding-indesign-preferences/
Canto has been around forever! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulus_(software)
Working with a DAM: InDesign Magazine Issue 109: https://creativepro.com/indesign-magazine-issue-109-digital-asset-management/
Anne-Marie shows how to get the Control panel back: https://creativepro.com/video-how-to-bring-the-control-panel-back-and-keep-it/
Andreas Michalski from CI-HUB
- https://ci-hub.com
- 17-minute video by CI-HUB from CreativePro Week: https://creativeproweek.com/session/ci-hub-sponsored-session-2020/
Anne-Marie’s course on Collaborative Workflows:
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/collaborative-workflows-for-editors-and-designers/

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News
- Creative Pro Events full 2022 schedule is up!
  - The Design + PowerPoint Summit, March 10-11
  - CreativePro Week, May 9-13 (live in DC and online!)
  - The Design + Marketing Summit, July 18-19
  - The Adobe Illustrator Summit, September 22-23
  - The Design + Accessibility Summit, November 29-December 2
InDesign's Most Confusing Features
Obscure InDesign Feature: Others

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Design + PowerPoint Summit, CreativePro Week, and more! https://creativepro.com/events
Confusing Features
- Start document on a left-hand page: https://creativepro.com/starting-a-document-on-a-left-hand-page/
- Gap Tool: https://creativepro.com/exactly-indesign-tool/
- Auto-Fit: https://creativepro.com/video-use-auto-fit-on-images/
- How Gradients Work: https://creativepro.com/adjusting-the-position-of-gradients/
- Why Radial Gradients are crazy: https://creativepro.com/yes-indesigns-radial-gradients-insane-its-you/
Place and Link: https://creativepro.com/linking-images-change/(how you get to this episode's Obscure Feature: Others)
Bart Van de Wiele's course "Advanced InDesign: Productivity Techniques" https://www.linkedin.com/learning/advanced-indesign-productivity-techniques/welcome-to-this-course

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In this episode…

News
- Creative Pro Events full 2022 schedule is up!
  - The Design + PowerPoint Summit, March 10-11
  - CreativePro Week, May 9-13 (live in DC and online!)
  - The Design + Marketing Summit, July 18-19
  - The Adobe Illustrator Summit, September 22-23
  - The Design + Accessibility Summit, November 29-December 2
- Pantone® and Adobe brouhaha
InDesign Collaboration Tips and Solutions
Obscure InDesign Feature: Accessibility (it appears in an InDesign panel)

Sponsors for this episode:

> Ajar Productions is the developer of the phenomenal in5 add-on for Adobe InDesign, which lets you export interactivity from InDesign to different formats that actually work. Create websites, digital magazines, mobile apps, animated banners and presentations, by simply using InDesign, no coding involved! They’re now adding accessibility features, see their YouTube video. Learn more and download a free trial of in5 at in5.us.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Anne-Marie’s InDesign Tips for Design Geeks video on extracting typefaces from text in images in InDesign 2022, a great new feature
Pantone removing libraries from Adobe products
Great tip for getting colors from the free version of the Pantone Connect app
Collaboration tips:
- Anne-Marie’s Collaborative Workflows for Editors and Designers (course at LinkedIn Learning)
- Conrad Chavez wrote about InDesign collaboration through cloud services for InDesign Magazine
- Using InDesign’s Share for Review feature
- Em Software’s WordsFlow and DocsFlow
- Interview with Marcus Radich of PageProof
Chad Chelius’s and Dax Castro’s Accessibility podcast

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In this episode…

News
- Adobe InDesign 2022 has an update (v17.01x)
- CreativePro Magazine issue 1 is out!
- On-Demand passes now available for the expanded Design + Accessibility Summit
Some Totally Obvious InDesign Things We Just Learned This Year
Interview with Marcus Radich from PageProof
Obscure InDesign Feature: “Roger, hungry, ate 236 peaches and cantaloupes in 1904”

Sponsors for this episode:

3M’s VAS: 3M’s Visual Attention Software (VAS) is powerful, science-based AI that simulates the human vision system to analyze visual content and predicts with 92% accuracy what is attracting viewer attention. VAS is available as a web app and plugins for Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and XD. Start your free trial today, and enter promo code CREATIVEPRO5 for 5 additional trial credits!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

The Design + Accessibility Summit
CreativePro Week
What's new in InDesign 2022 (17.0)
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/whats-new.html
What's new in 17.01:
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html
How to make the menus bigger on the Mac (for high-res monitors):
https://osxdaily.com/2021/10/12/change-menu-bar-size-mac/
Why versions of Mac OS are all California cities:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/davidblatner_apple-mac-activity-6860597173332135936-PYWB
Interview with Marcus Radich at PageProof:
- What is an Awk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auk
- What is an orc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc
- Who is Martinho da Gloria: https://www.automatication.com/about-us/
Obvious Things We Learned (or Re-learned)
- Move Control Panel to the Bottom of the Screen
  https://creativepro.com/moving-control-panel-to-bottom-of-screen/
- Accessibility tab in hyperlinks… doesn't work the way you might expect:
  https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/44174832-hyperlink-alt-text-is-ignored-in-the-latest-versio
- InDesign icon in Publish Online embed:
  How to do it: https://creativepro.com/publish-online-supports-embedding-indesign-documents/
  Problem: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/20459239-allow-removal-of-the-publish-online-button-that
- Adobe Illustrator: customizing the toolbar:
  https://creativepro.com/customize-your-illustrator-workspace/
  and https://creativepro.com/create-a-custom-toolbar-in-illustrator/
Obscure Feature: Roger, hungry, ate 236 peaches and cantaloupes in 1904
If you make the sample text small, the Birch font will fit the whole line in the column.

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In this episode…

News
- Adobe InDesign 2022 (v17.0x) now available
- InDesign Magazine is evolving into CreativePro magazine, first issue out November 1 2021!
- Sign up for our expanded Design + Accessibility Summit, Nov. 16–19
Interview with Chad Chelius and Dax Castro, accessibility experts and hosts of The A11y Podcast
Obscure InDesign Feature: Flip

Sponsors for this episode:

Santa Cruz Software has a solution for the "83% of respondents who have said they have to spend time finding a lost asset." The answer is LinkrUI, a plugin that enables direct searching, opening, placing, and syncing of assets stored in a DAM or other storage services such as Box and Dropbox from within Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Read about the freemium version here.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

David's session at MAX: Discovering the Best InDesign Tips and Tricks
Anne-Marie's lab at MAX: InDesign Basics: From Newbie to Pro
Photoshop Banana (easter egg): https://creativepro.com/photoshop-easter-eggs/
Adobe MAX 2021
Final issue of InDesign Magazine has 150 All-Star Tips (and our "Hidden" Features article)
Should people upgrade right away? https://creativepro.com/should-adobe-fix-older-versions-of-programs/
InCopy Vulnerability patch: https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/incopy/apsb21-05.html
Dax Castro and Chad Chelius Accessibility (#a11y) podcast website: https://www.accessibilitychecklists.com (or http://www.chaxchat.com)
Dax and Chad are the accessibility pros at AbleDocs: https://www.abledocs.com/en
Obscure Feature: Flip (Text on a Path)
https://creativepro.com/center-text-on-top-of-a-circular-path-quickly/

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In this episode…

News
- InDesign Magazine is evolving into CreativePro magazine
- Adobe InDesign 16.4 released
- Adobe MAX 2021 is Oct. 26–Oct. 28; David and AM are presenting!
- Our new online event! The Design + Accessibility Summit, Nov. 16–19
- You can purchase online passes (recordings and handouts) of our previous events on our Events page
- Interview with Kieron Lewis, designer, teacher, and new MAX speaker on Empowering Community through Collaboration and Editorial Design
- Obscure InDesign Feature: Edit in Copy Editor (beta)

Sponsors for this episode:

Santa Cruz Software has a solution for the "83% of respondents who have said they have to spend time finding a lost asset." The answer is LinkrUI, a plugin that enables direct searching, opening, placing, and syncing of assets stored in a DAM or other storage services such as Box and Dropbox from within Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Read about the freemium version here.

> Adobe MAX 2021: Once again, the Creativity Conference is online and free! Register today to see all the 300+ sessions covering everything from app "how-to's" to managing design and promoting creativity.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

David's session at MAX: Discovering the Best InDesign Tips and Tricks
Anne-Marie's lab at MAX: InDesign Basics: From Newbie to Pro
Kieron Lewis
- MAX session: Empowering Community through Collaboration and Editorial Design
- Kieron's web site
- POCC — People of Culture Collective
- Kieron designed and laid out this book for Harper Inspire: Still Breathing: 100 Black Voices on Racism — 100 Ways to Change the Narrative
- Article about "I can't breathe"
CreativePro's new "Design + Accessibility Summit"
https://creativepro.com/design-accessibility-summit/
- Chad Chelius' article "Tools and Services for Accessibility"
Our post about Edit in Copy Editor (beta) (and see the screen shot below!)
InDesignSecrets…
- YouTube videos
- Facebook group
- LinkedIn group

Still Breathing: 100 Black Voices on Racism--100 Ways to Change the Narrative

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In this episode…

News
- Adobe MAX 2021 is Oct. 26–Oct. 28; David and AM are presenting!
- Our new online event! The Design + Accessibility Summit, Nov. 16–19
- You can purchase online passes (recordings and handouts) of our previous events on our Events page
- InDesign Magazine August and September issues are out, excellent content!
- Interview with Angelo Montilla, InDesign YouTube star and new MAX speaker
- Nested Styles vs. GREP Styles: What's the difference?
- Obscure InDesign Feature: Extensions

Sponsor for this episode:

> Adobe MAX 2021: Once again, the Creativity Conference is online and free! Register today to see all the 300+ sessions covering everything from app "how-to's" to managing design and promoting creativity.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

David's session at MAX: Discovering the Best InDesign Tips and Tricks
Anne-Marie's lab at MAX: InDesign Basics: From Newbie to Pro
Angelo Montilla's lab at MAX: Digital Publishing and Interactivity in InDesign
CreativePro's new "Design + Accessibility Summit"
https://creativepro.com/design-accessibility-summit/
Online passes (recordings + handouts) are still available to:
The Adobe Illustrator Summit
https://creativepro.com/adobe-illustrator-summit/
and
The InDesign + Type Summit
https://creativepro.com/indesign-type-summit/
Angelo Montilla:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/amontilla81
Adobe Live: Day 1: https://youtu.be/5QCNh9ovr2c & Day 2: https://youtu.be/yc6JCf30CWk
www.montilladesign.com
Installing newest version of Acrobat: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/install-updates-reader-acrobat.html
Animated GIF maker from Ajar Productions (maker of in5): https://ajarproductions.com/blog/2019/10/11/how-to-create-an-animated-gif-with-indesign-in5/
Extensions:
Look in the Marketplace tab in the Creative Cloud app or on the web: https://exchange.adobe.com/creativecloud.html
- Photo Flinger from Premedia: https://www.premediasystems.com/scripts-and-more
- Stock Solo: https://stocksolo.com or https://adobe.com/go/cc_plugins_discover_plugin?pluginId=a2cbefeb
- Pantone Connect: https://exchange.adobe.com/creativecloud.html?zpluginId=103029
InDesignSecrets…
- YouTube videos
- Facebook group
- LinkedIn group

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In this episode…

News
- Last chance for live tickets to the InDesign + Type Summit (online event) July 29–30, 2021
  - if you're a nonprofit, government agency, student, or work for a school, contact events@creativepro.com for a $100 discount code
- The Adobe Illustrator Summit, August 26-27: https://creativepro.com/adobe-illustrator-summit/
- InDesign Magazine for July 2021 is Illustrator and InDesign; August 2021 is on creating social media artwork and making dielines for print packaging
- Best practices for working with Illustrator documents in InDesign
- Keyboard shortcut of the month: Capital E (yes, Shift-E)
- Obscure InDesign Feature: Crop to Art

Sponsors for this episode:

> 3M's VAS: 3M's Visual Attention Software (VAS) is powerful, science-based AI that simulates the human vision system to analyze visual content and predicts with 92% accuracy what is attracting viewer attention. VAS is available as a web app and plugins for Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and XD. Start your free trial today, and enter promo code CREATIVEPRO5 for 5 additional trial credits!

>> Ajar Productions is the developer of the phenomenal in5 add-on for Adobe InDesign, which lets you export interactivity from InDesign to different formats, that actually work. in5 supports all of InDesign’s native interactivity—like animation, buttons, object states, audio and video; and adds its own. Create websites, digital magazines, mobile apps, animated banners and presentations, by simply using InDesign, no coding involved! Learn more and download a free trial of in5 at in5.us.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

The Adobe Illustrator Summit, August 26-27
The InDesign + Type Summit, July 29-30
KidPix still lives! https://www.mackiev.com/kidpix/
How to Replace AI art with SVG for sharp web graphics, from Anne-Marie's weekly series "InDesign Tips for Design Geeks"
We have lots of articles about using InDesign and Illustrator together:
- https://creativepro.com/copy-vectors-from-illustrator-to-indesign-or-vice-versa/
- https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-getting-the-most-the-interface/
- https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-moving-vectors/
- https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-linking-and-embedding-files/
- https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-moving-text-between-the-programs/
- https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-colors-and-swatches/
- https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-the-pen-tool/
Shift-E… Preview on CPU vs GPU: https://creativepro.com/gpu-support-and-animated-zoom-arrives-for-mac/
Understanding InDesign’s Place PDF Options: https://creativepro.com/understanding-indesigns-place-pdf-options/
InDesignSecrets…
- YouTube videos
- Facebook group
- LinkedIn group

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In this episode…

News
- Videos on demand for CreativePro Week 2021
- InDesign + Type Summit (online event) July 29–30, 2021
- InDesign Magazine for June 2021 is all about Type and Typography!
Our favorite type tips and scripts
Obscure InDesign Feature: Nonbreaking Space (Fixed Width)

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Videos on Demand now available for CreativePro Week 2021
The InDesign + Type Summit
InDesign Tips videos on LinkedIn Learning/Lynda.com:
- InDesign Tips for Design Geeks (AM's new weekly course)
- InDesign Secrets (David and AM's weekly course)
InDesign 16.3.1 notes:
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/Indesign-for-apple-silicon.html
Working with Hyphenation & Justification settings
Editing H&Js: https://creativepro.com/abcs-hj/
Favorite H&J Settings: https://creativepro.com/what-are-your-favorite-word-and-character-space-settings-for-hjs/
When to Use Balance Ragged Lines
https://creativepro.com/when-to-use-balance-ragged-lines/
Change Balanced Ragged Lines to Pyramid Shaped
https://creativepro.com/change-balanced-ragged-lines-to-pyramid-shaped/
All kinds of white spaces: https://creativepro.com/typetalk-blizzard-white-space-characters/
AM's pick for a type-related script: LorumIpsumizer
https://creativepro.com/resources/plug-ins-and-scripts/
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/indesign-secrets/285-replace-formatted-text-with-lorem-ipsum
David's pick for a type-related script: Humane Type
https://creativepro.com/a-script-that-adds-a-human-touch-to-indesign-type/
Making Ellipses with Nonbreaking (Fixed Width) spaces: https://creativepro.com/dot-dot-dot/
InDesignSecrets…
- YouTube videos
- Facebook group
- LinkedIn group

Using the Nonbreaking (Fixed Width) space to auto-feather a headline (set the Paragraph alignment to Justify All Lines first)

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In this episode…

News
- Videos on demand for CreativePro Week 2021
- InDesign + Type Summit (online event) July 29–30, 2021
- InDesign Magazine for May 2021 (gradients) and June 2021 (type and typography)
Making presentations with InDesign
Keyboard shortcut of the month: Control-B (Command-B on Mac)
Obscure InDesign Feature: On Click (Self)

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Videos on Demand now available for CreativePro Week 2021
The InDesign + Type Summit
Creating Presentations with InDesign
- InDesign Magazine feature story
- Free InDesign presentation template
- InDesign Template of the Month: Flexible Presentation
- InDesign presentation templates at Adobe Stock (many free)
Jesus Ramirez: Yes, we have a Banana (in Photoshop)
https://photoshoptrainingchannel.com/photoshop-easter-eggs/
in5's post, "Interactive PDF is dead"
https://ajarproductions.com/blog/2018/03/26/interactive-pdf-is-dead-heres-what-you-can-create-from-indesign-thats-even-better/
CircularFlow for better fixed-layout EPUBs for Kindles
https://www.circularsoftware.com/apps/circularflo
InDesignSecrets…
- YouTube videos
- Facebook group
- LinkedIn group

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In this episode…

News
- Signed up for CreativePro Week 2021? Speak at Ignite!
- InDesign 16.2 released and then pulled
Why objects and text sometime just … disappear
Obscure InDesign Feature: Split Window to Compare Layouts

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Ajar Productions is the developer of the phenomenal in5 add-on for Adobe InDesign, which lets you export interactivity from InDesign to different formats, that actually work. in5 supports all of InDesign's native interactivity—like animation, buttons, object states, audio and video—and in5 adds additional interactivity to InDesign, like 3-D Flip Cards, Responsive Layouts, Parallax, and more. Create websites, digital magazines, mobile apps, animated banners and presentations, by simply using InDesign, no coding involved! Learn more and download a free trial of in5 at in5.us.

>> Cacidi Systems has been developing solutions for Adobe InDesign users since InDesign began! They offer a number of plug-ins and workflow system for content integration and efficient marketing production. We especially love Cacidi Charts, which has been updated and leveled up for InDesign 2020 and 2021. No more need to jump into Illustrator or Powerpoint; create gorgeous charts right in InDesign. Free trial available!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Register now for CreativePro Week 2021
When Stuff Disappears: A Collection of Mysteries Solved:
- Where Is My Text? Text Disappears When Over Background Object
- My White Text Disappeared (and solution)
- The Case of the Disappearing Text
- Where Did My InDesign Menu Items Go?
Split Layout Tricks:
- Use Split Window when Applying Colors to Text
- How to View Two Parts of a Document at Once
All About Alternate Layouts: https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-using-alternate-layout/
Palo Duro Canyon: https://palodurocanyon.com
Pantone 286: https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/286-C
InDesignSecrets…
- YouTube videos
- Facebook group
- LinkedIn group

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In this episode…

News
- CreativePro Week 2021 agenda and speakers are up!
- Bug fix for InDesign 2021 brings it to v16.1
Interview with Justin Putney, in5 plugin creator
We space out with some cool spacing tips
Obscure InDesign Feature: Sort Swatches by Color Value

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Register now for CreativePro Week 2021
- Want to speak at CreativePro events? Fill this out
Justin Putney and in5 links:
- Product page for in5 interactive export add-on for InDesign
- Script for Merging Multiple Text Frames Into One
- Copy (Package) Fonts to Folder
- Justin's original Kickstarter page
- Why Justin says "Interactive PDF is Dead"
- Examples of Customers Using in5
Spacing Tricks!
- Setting Exact Space Between Objects
- Live Distribute
- Making Cool Patterns with Live Distribute spacing trick
- How the Gap tools works
- How the Gap tool works with Groups
- Convert a bunch of random objects into a grid
InDesignSecrets…
- YouTube videos
- Facebook group
- LinkedIn group

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In this episode…

News
- Agenda is up for the online CreativePro Week 2021! Register now to score early-bird pricing.
- Throw your hat in the ring for "I want to speak at CreativePro events"
- Anne-Marie's new weekly series is live! "InDesign Tips for Design Geeks"
Useful Adobe Bridge features for InDesign users
Obscure InDesign Feature: The InDesign Button

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Cacidi Systems has been developing solutions for Adobe InDesign users since InDesign began! They offer a number of plug-ins and workflow system for content integration and efficient marketing production. We especially love Cacidi Charts, which has been updated and leveled up for InDesign 2020 and 2021. No more need to jump into Illustrator or Powerpoint; create gorgeous charts right in InDesign. Free trial available!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Register now for CreativePro Week 2021
- Want to speak at CreativePro events? Fill this out
Cacidi Charts: https://www.cacidi.com/huge-cacidi-charts-cc2020-upgrade/
- Check out InDesign Magazine #126 which covered Cacidi Charts in depth
On LinkedIn Learning (and Lynda.com)
- InDesign Tips for Design Geeks is Anne-Marie's new weekly series
- Hundreds of our weekly InDesignSecrets episodes
Bridge and InDesign:
- Yes, Bridge is free for everyone!
- How to Find InDesign Documents That Use Specific Fonts and/or Swatches
- Video: Find All Files That Contain a Specific Image (with Bridge)
- Video: Batch Rename Files in Adobe Bridge
- Take Charge With Bridge: Creating a Keywords List
- Saving Thumbnails of InDesign Pages
InDesignSecrets…
- YouTube videos
- Facebook group
- LinkedIn group

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In this episode…

News
- Minor updates to InDesign 2021 released
- The 2021 InDesign Conference (part of CreativePro Week) is online-only, May 17-21. Registration is open!
All about Transparency in InDesign — looks great, but will it print?
Obscure InDesign Feature: Lights

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Register now for CreativePro Week 2021
PowerPoint Presentation Design Deep Dive and other online events
New features in 16.0.1 and 16.0.2
Transparency (Jan 2021 feature story in InDesign Magazine)
- Great article by Claudia McCue: https://creativepro.com/regarding-transparency/
- Article about transparency effects by Steve Caplin: https://creativepro.com/the-fx-files/\
Yes, "opaques" are a thing! https://www.sockdreams.com/opaque-nylon-stockings.html
Problems with spot colors and transparency
- https://creativepro.com/indesigns-onscreen-untruths-overprinting-or-multiplying-spot-colors/
- https://creativepro.com/eliminating-the-white-box-effect/
- https://creativepro.com/eliminating-ydb-yucky-discolored-box-syndrome/
Starter (monthly) vs annual membership: https://creativepro.com/become-a-member/
OIFOTW: Lights
- Mike showed the Lights feature as part of his 3 minutes max tip, during the InDesignSecrets Holiday Special:
  https://youtu.be/KP_O_G4pCZE
- He also wrote about it here: https://creativepro.com/tip-of-the-week-flashing-holiday-lights/
InDesignSecrets…
- YouTube videos
- Facebook group
- LinkedIn group

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Special episode recorded LIVE at our 2020 Holiday Special!

Save the Date for our next online conference: Click: Powerpoint and Presentation Design, February 18–19, 2021
December 2020 issue of InDesign Magazine is all about creating web and screen graphics
Making gifts with InDesign
Interview with John McWade
Obscure InDesign Feature: Animated Zoom

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Register now for CreativePro Week 2021
Keith Gilbert’s 100 Things Every InDesign User Should Know, our new ebook
Making gifts from InDesign
- PhotoFlinger (laying out photos and objects quickly): https://www.premediasystems.com/scripts-and-more
- Blurb Photo book maker: https://www.blurb.com/indesign-plugin
- Spoonflower for fabric, wallpaper, bedding: https://www.spoonflower.com/en/design-tools
- Zazzle for custom gifts: https://www.zazzle.com/custom/gifts
Fun holiday-themed articles on CP:
- Candy Cane text: https://creativepro.com/holiday-text-fx-part-1-candy-cane-text/
- Wrap text in lights: https://creativepro.com/holiday-text-fx-part-2-wrapping-text-in-lights/
- Draw a snowman: https://creativepro.com/holiday-fx-do-you-want-to-build-an-indesign-snowman/
- Make an ornament: https://creativepro.com/holiday-papercraf/
- All kinds of holiday designs: https://creativepro.com/a-winter-holiday-treasure-trove
John McWade’s books
- Before & After: How to Design Cool Stuff
- Before & After Page Design
Pantone color of the year
Zoom Animation
GPU Acceleration is not yet available on Windows… vote for it!
InDesignSecrets…
- YouTube videos
- Facebook group
- LinkedIn group

Before & After: How to Design Cool Stuff

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In this episode:

Recordings available for the InDesign + Accessibility Summit
See the agenda for our first-ever InDesign Secrets Holiday Special, Dec. 15
InDesign 2020 bug fix released
Best practices for updating InDesign
Check out the InDesign goodies (many are free) in the Creative Cloud Marketplace
Obscure InDesign Feature: Tint Range

Links mentioned in this podcast:

CreativePro.com Cyber week deals
Register now for CreativePro Week 2021
Should you update your software or operating system?
Check out the Adobe Exchange for Creative Cloud
Details on Find/Change Color
InDesignSecrets…
- YouTube videos
- Facebook group
- LinkedIn group

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In this episode:

InDesignSecrets.com merges with CreativePro.com!
Conference news
- Adobe MAX 2020 was a success! Watch David's and Anne-Marie's sessions online
- Our first InDesign + Accessibility online summit, Nov 19–20
- Save the Date: David & Anne-Marie's InDesign Secrets Holiday Special, Nov 15
InDesign 2021 released
Obscure Feature: Update Link

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> CI HUB is a platform for content integration and efficient marketing production. No more jumping between tools and windows to find the right asset! The CI HUB asset panel plugin for Adobe Creative Cloud and Microsoft Office applications essentially connects your brand assets living within your various asset repositories to your native creative apps. Check out David's interview with Andreas Michalski, CI HUB's CEO and founder.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

What’s New in InDesign 2021: Our article, Adobe's web page
Anne-Marie's InDesign 2021 New Features course
Erica Gamet's course, Introduction to GREP in InDesign
InDesignSecrets…
- YouTube videos
- Facebook group
- LinkedIn group

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In this episode:

News:
- David and Anne-Marie are presenting at Adobe MAX 2020 (online only, free registration)
- Save the Date: Our first InDesign + Accessibility online summit, Nov 19–20
- October issue of InDesign Magazine features 20 free scripts you can download
- Now live! Erica Gamet's "Introduction to GREP in InDesign" online course for CreativePro University
Surprising and useful finds in Find/Change
Obscure Feature: Open a Clone

News and special offers from our sponsors:

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

Find/Change tips
Finding and changing glyphs
Check out the obscure "Open a Clone" history in the Document Component dialog box

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In this episode:

News:
- Be a speaker at CreativePro events! Please fill out this form
- David and Anne-Marie presenting at Adobe MAX 2020 (free!)
- Our latest book, TypeTalk Vol. 1 by Ilene Strizver, now in PDF and print
- Adobe InDesign 2020 15.1.2 - bug fix and feature tweaks
Adobe Fonts Gotchas
Double-clicks you should try!
OIFOTW: Paste Into State

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Issuu is the all-in-one platform to create and distribute beautiful digital publications, from brochures to magazines to sales collateral and more. It’s perfect for creators, marketers, designers, educators, publishers, sales-people or anyone that wants to make eye-catching content. And Issuu makes it easy. Simply use the InDesign plug-in or upload your PDFs and files and Issuu transforms them using your vision and customizable templates to create the content you want. Check out their session at CreativePro Week 2020.

>> Avenza Systems' MAPublisher (for Illustrator) and Geographic Imager (for Photoshop) are powerful tools for all graphic designers who want to dive more deeply into cartography and map making. Learn more by watching David's recent Facebook Live interview with Avenza, and see their session from CreativePro Week 2020.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Fix for the problem when File Info opens off screen
Adobe Font Gotchas info
- Adobe Community post about the "retiring" fonts
- Our post about the news (see Roger Black's comment)
- Adobe Help file and FAQ about retired subscription fonts
- Check on status of Adobe's type (and other) servers
Our post about Great Double-clicks
Using the Eyedropper to copy and paste object positions
Here's the Adobe Help page about Paste Into State

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In this episode:

News:
- Save the date: CreativePro Week 2021, May 17-21, Washington, DC
- July InDesign Magazine: Use With Caution! (Gotchas to avoid)
- Adobe MAX 2020 is free! All on-line, and we're both presenting
InDesign settings you need to change right now. Do it!
OIFOTW: Import File

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Adobe MAX 2020
Posts about settings
- Apply Leading to Entire Paragraph
- Changing Hyphenation and Justification
- Reset workspace
- Why you shouldn't use Basic paragraph style and also this post
David's book The Joy of Pi
Quick Apply for choosing menu items
What David was thinking of when he mentioned "Sew buttons"

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In this episode:

News:
- The online CreativePro Week and InDesign Conference were a success!
- Save the date: CreativePro Week 2021, May 17-21, Washington, DC
- InDesign updated to 15.1.1 last week
- June InDesign Magazine: InDesign, Acrobat, and PDF tips
Using the new Share for Review feature in 15.1.1
OIFOTW: Apply All Auto Edits

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Cacidi Systems, developers of awesome charts and barcode creation tools for InDesign. See their 15-minute session from CreativePro Week 2020 here. Cacidi just released a huge update to Cacidi Charts, which create many types of vector charts, easy to “convert” to InDesign for ultimate creative freedom. They offer a free 30-day trial version, and right now only for CreativeProWeek attendees 50% of the price, for a very, very limited time! Discount code: CREAPRO2020 (see Cacidi.com)

>> Priint:Suite cuts up to 80% off of the creative process lifecycle for any kind of data-driven publications like catalogs, brochures, and datasheets, with the highest level of automation possible. Lay out entire pages, sections or publications with a single click, including complex, dynamic tables. See their 15-minute session from CreativePro Week here!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

CreativePro Week post-conference passes now available
Our article about "InDesign Nightmares"
InDesign 15.1 released and then patched to 15.1.1
All about Share for Review
Import PDF Comments

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In this episode:

News:
- All-online CreativePro Week and InDesign Conference
- What's New in the February 2020 release of InDesign
- April InDesign Magazine: Design in Motion (After Effects)
- May InDesign Magazine: Chad Chelius on Forms
- Chad's amazing XML/InDesign map for COVID-19 stats
Super-simple keyboard shortcuts everyone should know!
OIFOTW: Rule Length

Links mentioned in this podcast:

CreativeProWeek 2020: Now an Online Event!
All about After Effects from issue 132
UnicodeInjector script (and how to give it a shortcut)
Breaking a Threaded Story
Spring-loaded (springboard) shortcuts
Make your own Preview shortcut
Designing with Column Rules

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In this episode:

News:
- All-online CreativePro Week and InDesign Conference
- New Creative Cloud Feature: Upload Your Own Fonts
- March InDesign Magazine: Obscure Features Revealed
- April InDesign Magazine: Design in Motion
Three InDesign puzzles, pulled from our Facebook group, solved!
OIFOTW: Fancy

Links mentioned in this podcast:

CreativeProWeek 2020: Now an Online Event!
Using your own fonts with Creative Cloud app
Great questions from our Facebook group
Anne-Marie's course on creating templates or "starter files":
When InDesign ignores your leading values: info here and here
Using variable fonts in InDesign
Assigning shortcuts to styles

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In this episode:

News:
- Agenda announced for CreativePro Week and the InDesign Conference
- January issue of InDesign Magazine: Claudia McCue's awesome RGB vs CMYK
- February InDesign Magazine: Chad Chelius's must-read on Accessibile PDFs
- NEW: LinkedIn Profile Assessments! (Check out the InDesign one!)
- Please vote to fix InDesign bugs on Uservoice
Interview with Steve Laskevitch, InDesign book author, training center owner, consultant
OIFOTW: Find Similar Images

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Ajar Productions is the maker of in5, the miraculous InDesign add-on that lets you create digital magazines, websites, mobile apps, animated banners, & more from Adobe InDesign ... without coding! in5 supports all the interactivity in InDesign — animations, buttons, object states, and more. They have tons of helpful material both to get you started and to help you get your projects to the finish line. Podcast listeners!* Go to this special InDesignSecrets link for a limited time offer: A free video course and a 25% discount* off all training videos.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Agenda for the InDesign Conference 2020, June 1–5 in Austin, Texas
InDesign Magazine issues
Clauda McCue's book, Real World Print Production with Adobe CC
AJAR Productions, maker of in5 (link leads to special InDesignSecrets landing page)
Steve Laskevitch!
- His new book, Adobe InDesign CC: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features
- Luminous Works in Seattle (Steve's authorized training center)
- His bio on publisher RockyNook's web site
- And his upcoming book, Adobe Photoshop: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features
David and Ole Kvern's book, Real World InDesign
Our post about LinkedIn's InDesign Assessment exam
InDesign Uservoice: Vote on bugs and feature requests for InDesign
- Undo stopped working? New prerelease build fixes it
- Bug about missing video URL feature
More on Find Similar

Adobe InDesign CC: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features

Adobe Photoshop: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features

Real World Print Production with Adobe Creative Cloud

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In this episode:

News:
- New round of speakers announced for CreativePro Week 2020
- AM is a MAX Master again!
- David's TEDxSeattle talk
- Bug fix update for InDesign 2020
- Learn more in our YouTube channel and Facebook group
Gotchas when sharing InDesign 2020 layouts with earlier versions
Variable fonts: Ready for prime-time?
OIFOTW: Redefine Scaling as 100%

Links mentioned in this podcast:

The upcoming InDesign Conference 2020, June 1–5 in Austin, Texas
David's video of his "InDesign Pro Secrets" session at MAX
David spoke at TEDxSeattle on the topic of Spectrums
Gotcha: New text flow involving indents and text wrap
Blog post (premium) on Using Variable Fonts in InDesign 2020
Anne-Marie's video on Using Variable Fonts from her InDesign 2020 New Features course
Find variable fonts here
More on "Hide New Layers When Updating or Relinking" here and here
Our posts on Redefine Scaling at 100% here and here

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In this (super-sized) episode:

News:
- First 10 speakers announced for CreativePro Week 2020
- Adobe MAX 2019 recap
- Adobe InDesign 2020 released!
- InDesign at 20, our November 2019 magazine issue
InDesign 2020 new features: Hits, Duds, and Workarounds
Interview with Dave Clayton, InDesign writer, designer, podcaster, and speaker
OIFOTW: Hide New Layers When Updating or Relinking

Links mentioned in this podcast:

The upcoming InDesign Conference 2020, June 1–5 in Austin, Texas
First ten CreativePro Week speakers announced
David's video of his "InDesign Pro Secrets" session at MAX
Anne-Marie's handout and practice files from "InDesign for Absolute Beginners" lab at MAX
JavaScripting with InDesign by Peter Kahrel
New features in InDesign 2020
- Anne-Marie's New Features in InDesign 2020 videos on LinkedIn Learning/lynda
- Our blog post
- Adobe's list of new features in InDesign 2020
Find variable fonts here and here
Dave Clayton links:
- Dave's web site
- Astute Graphics, the company he works for
- How Do I That in InDesign? his book at Amazon
- Or buy it from Rocky Nook w/discount code CLAYTON40 for 40% off
- "He Shoots He Draws" podcast with Glyn Dewis
More on "Hide New Layers When Updating or Relinking" here and here
Here's that alert:

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In this episode:

News:
- Register now for CreativePro Week 2020 in Austin Texas
- We'll be speaking and exhibiting (booth 815) at Adobe MAX 2019
- InDesign Magazine Sept 2019: The Tips Issue!
- InDesign Magazine Oct 2019: Charts and Graphs
One year later: Have the new features in CC2019 held up?
OIFOTW: Enable Overrides

Links mentioned in this podcast:

The upcoming InDesign Conference 2020, June 1–5 in Austin, Texas
Use our code P19MCPN for a $400 discount for Adobe MAX
What was new in CC 2019 and what was fixed
Anne-Marie's videos on InDesign CC 2019: New Features
A favorite CC 2019 feature: Space Between Paragraphs Using Same Style
Request new features in InDesign's uservoice program
Sign up to be on prerelease and give Adobe feedback
The OIFOTW "Enable Overrides" is a SLAGIATT

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In this episode:

News:
- Videos of the 2019 InDesign Conference available
- Register now for CreativePro Week 2020 in Austin Texas
- We'll be speaking and exhibiting at Adobe MAX 2019
- Check out the InDesignSecrets group on LinkedIn!
Pasteboard tips, tricks, and little-known features
OIFOTW: Hide Conveyor

News and special offers from our sponsor:

> The InDesign Conference Virtual Pass: Couldn't make it to Seattle for the InDesign event of the year? Register for a Virtual Pass to CreativePro Week 2019, and you'll be able to watch recordings of all the main conference sessions and tutorials as many times as you like, from your computer, tablet or smartphone, at your leisure. Includes all the speaker handouts (hundreds of pages), private forum, attendee discounts, and more. Invest in yourself, register today!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

* The upcoming InDesign Conference 2020, June 1–5 in Austin, Texas

Use our code P19MCPN for a $400 discount for Adobe MAX
Pasteboard tips we talked about
- Make the pasteboard taller
- Script to clean up your pasteboard
- Script to move objects on and off the pasteboard
- Move Pasteboard Items to Current Spread
- Package pasteboard images with the book panel
- Bonus pasteboard trick -- notes on the pasteboard
Use the Content Collector (and the Conveyor) to "gridify" a page full of objects

David on a camel!

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In this episode:

News:
- Upcoming Mac OS 10.15 can't run CS6
- InDesign Conference 2019 a success!
  - Couldn't make it to Seattle? Get a Virtual Pass
- We'll be speaking and exhibiting at Adobe MAX 2019
- InDesignSecrets Facebook group now over 10,000 members
Autocorrect tips and a great hack from Keith Gilbert
OIFOTW: Prevent Duplicate User Colors

News and special offers from our sponsor:

> The InDesign Conference Virtual Pass: Couldn't make it to Seattle for the InDesign event of the year? Register for a Virtual Pass to CreativePro Week 2019, and you'll be able to watch recordings of all the main conference sessions and tutorials as many times as you like, from your computer, tablet or smartphone, at your leisure. Includes all the speaker handouts (hundreds of pages), private forum, attendee discounts, and more. Invest in yourself, register today!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

* Steve Werner on Catalina (Mac OS 10.15) support

Should you always upgrade? No! See why here and here
Andrew Keith Strauss's video on the early days of InDesign
Use our code P19MCPN for a $400 discount for Adobe MAX
InDesign Magazine article on cross-media color
The autocorrect feature is cool
Keith's winning 3-minute max tip on hacking autocorrect
Video of David and Anne-Marie's "Best of InDesignSecrets Tips" session

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In this episode:

News:
- InDesign Conference 2019 in less than two weeks!
  - Can't make it to Seattle? Get a Virtual Pass
- InDesignSecrets YouTube channel now over 4,000 subscribers
Interview with Chad Chelius
Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Fit Frame to Content (Comm-Opt-C/Control-Alt-C)

News and special offers from our sponsor:

> The InDesign Conference Virtual Pass: Can't make it to Seattle for the InDesign event of the year? Register for a Virtual Pass to CreativePro Week 2019, and you'll be able to watch recordings of all the main conference sessions and tutorials as many times as you like, from your computer, tablet or smartphone, at your leisure. Includes all the speaker handouts (hundreds of pages), private forum, attendee discounts, and more. Invest in yourself, register today!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

* Free videos! InDesignSecrets YouTube and CreativePro YouTube channels

Chad has two movies on our YouTube channels
- Ring Charts in Adobe Illustrator
- Fixing Broken Text Styles
Chad's Document Cloud course
Document Cloud mobile apps
Document Cloud FAQ
Importing comments from PDF into InDesign

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In this episode: the

News:
- InDesign Conference 2019
  - Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of InDesign!
  - Virtual Pass now available
- May 2019 InDesign Magazine on Big (Format) Design
- GREP patch for InDesign CC 2019 14.0.2
Inside the Dark Art of Spellchecking
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Include Deleted Text when Spellchecking

News and special offers from our sponsor:

> The InDesign Conference: If you use Adobe InDesign, mark off June 10–13, 2019 in Seattle, WA, for the InDesign event of the year! Join InDesignSecrets hosts Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner, and dozens of top InDesign experts and members of the Adobe InDesign team, for over 30 sessions and four in-depth half-day tutorials. All registrations include session videos and in-depth speaker handouts. Invest in yourself, register today! Discounts available for groups, government, non-profits, schools, and alumni, contact us for details.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

* The 2019 InDesign Conference is coming up (June 10–13), reserve your spot!

German words that should be
Some great spellcheck articles we've posted
- Dynamic spellcheck (little red squiggles)
- Hunspell vs. Proximity dictionary preference
- Hyphenation issues and fixes here, here, and here
- Using spellcheck to make InDesign add diacritics
Please show some love to these CreativePro Week breakfast sponsors!
- ESRI (our articles about their maps plug-in here and our video here)
- LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com)
- Blurb
- Issuu
Other exhibiting sponsors:
- Ripon
- Recosoft
- PrintUI
- PDF Association
- Mindsteam
- Maxon
- Hederis
- Graphic Artists Guild
- Ctrl Software
- Axaio
All CreativePro Week sponsors (including marketing sponsors)

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In this episode:

News:
- InDesign Conference 2019
  - Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of InDesign!
- Tweaks and fixes in just-released InDesign CC 14.02s
Five, or Six, or more Amazing Tips for Find/Change
Favorite Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Command-Option-N/Control-Alt-N

News and special offers from our sponsor:

> The InDesign Conference: If you use Adobe InDesign, mark off June 10–13, 2019 in Seattle, WA, for the InDesign event of the year! Join InDesignSecrets hosts Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner, and dozens of top InDesign experts and members of the Adobe InDesign team, for over 30 sessions and four in-depth half-day tutorials. All registrations include session videos and in-depth speaker handouts. Invest in yourself, register today! Discounts available for groups, government, non-profits, schools, and alumni, contact us for details.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

* Free videos! InDesignSecrets YouTube and CreativePro YouTube channels

More free InDesign videos in our tips series on Lynda/LinkedIn
Check out our Facebook group (now over 8,000 friendly members!) for help and tips
The 2019 InDesign Conference is coming up (June 10–13), reserve your spot!
What's new in InDesign CC 14.02
Our Facebook Live "InDesign Tips" video webinar
Cool features InDesign engineers are working on
More Find/Change tips are here, here, and here

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In this episode:

News:
- GREP in InDesign now on Amazon!
- InDesign Magazine, April 2019 issue: Proposals
- InDesign Conference 2019
  - Hurry, early-bird savings deadline is April 15 (easy to remember!)
How can you measure how well you or others know InDesign?
Obscure Feature of the Week: Shadow Honors Other Efects

News and special offers from our sponsor:

> The InDesign Conference: If you use Adobe InDesign, mark off June 10–13, 2019 in Seattle, WA, for the InDesign event of the year! Join InDesignSecrets hosts Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner, and dozens of top InDesign experts and members of the Adobe InDesign team, for over 30 sessions and four in-depth half-day tutorials. All registrations include session videos and in-depth speaker handouts. Invest in yourself, register today! Discounts available for groups, government, non-profits, schools, and alumni, contact us for details.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

* Free videos! InDesignSecrets YouTube and CreativePro YouTube channels

More free InDesign videos in our tips series on Lynda/LinkedIn
Check out our Facebook group (now over 8,000 friendly members!) for help and tips
The 2019 InDesign Conference is coming up (June 10–13), reserve your spot!
GREP in InDesign, 3rd ed. is available in our shop as a PDF, and on Amazon as a print book or Kindle ebook.
InDesign Self-Assessment links
- The Dunning Kruger effect
- Compare that to the Imposter effect
- Adobe's main certification page
- Find an Adobe Certified Expert
- Schedule your Adobe InDesign CC ACE exam
- Sample InDesign CC certification exam
- Great test prep software for Adobe certification exams
- Mike Rankin's video course on ACA certification
- Get started with your Adobe InDesign ACA certification
Our April Fool's article (on InDillushop/XD), featuring a drop-shadowed, beveled/embossed logo

GREP in InDesign: An InDesignSecrets Guide

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In this episode:

News:
- Two shorter podcasts!
- InDesign Magazine, March 2019 issue: Women in Design
- InDesign Conference 2019
  - Poster contest: Win a free 5-day Platinum pass
  - Early-bird deadline is April 15 (easy to remember!)
Changing margins? Adjust Layout tips and techniques
Obscure Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Reflow All Text

News and special offers from our sponsor:

> The InDesign Conference: If you use Adobe InDesign, mark off June 10–13, 2019 in Seattle, WA, for the InDesign event of the year! Join InDesignSecrets hosts Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner, and dozens of top InDesign experts and members of the Adobe InDesign team, for over 30 sessions and four in-depth half-day tutorials. All registrations include session videos and in-depth speaker handouts. Invest in yourself, register today! Discounts available for groups, government, non-profits, schools, and alumni, contact us for details.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

* Subscribe to the InDesignSecrets YouTube and CreativePro YouTube channels

Check out our Facebook group (now over 7,500 friendly members!) for help and tips
Adobe's Help doc on using Adjust Layout
Anne-Marie's two video tutorials: Using Adjust Layout and Adjust Layout Details (requires Lynda/LinkedIn Learning membership)
Reflow All Text (keyboard shortcut of the month): command-option-/ or ctrl-alt-/ (slash)

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In this episode:

News:
- Double the podcast, double the fun!
- InDesign Conference 2019
  - Agenda (InDesign sessions and deep-dive tutorials) schedule posted!
  - Poster contest: Win a free 5-day Platinum pass
Soft proofing for CMYK output in an RGB layout
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Guide Type

News and special offers from our sponsor:

> The InDesign Conference: If you use Adobe InDesign, mark off June 10–13, 2019 in Seattle, WA, for the InDesign event of the year! Join InDesignSecrets hosts Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner, and dozens of top InDesign experts and members of the Adobe InDesign team, for over 30 sessions and four in-depth half-day tutorials. All registrations include session videos and in-depth speaker handouts. Invest in yourself, register today! Discounts available for groups, government, non-profits, schools, and alumni, contact us for details.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

* Subscribe to the InDesignSecrets YouTube and CreativePro YouTube channels

Check out our Facebook group (now over 7,000 friendly members!) for help and tips
The InDesign Conference at CreativePro Week 2019
The Facebook thread about Soft Proofing in our InDesign Secrets group
David and Claudia's RGB vs CMYK blog post
David's Color Management Fundamentals course on Lynda/LinkedIn Learning
Soft proofing articles on CreativePro.com
- Soft Proofing: Predictable Color Reproduction
- RGB Workflow from Photoshop to Final
- The Proof is on Your Monitor
Our tip about Guide Type: Making Liquid Guides Solid

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In this episode:

News:
- Tons of new videos on InDesignSecrets YouTube channel
- InDesign Conference 2019
  - 20th anniversary of InDesign! We'll have some special events
  - New speakers include Ina Saltz, Tony Harmer, Conrad Chavez, and Dax Castro
Commenting on PDFs in the cloud with Acrobat DC
Import PDF Comments (new feature in CC 2019) in depth
GREP in InDesign, 3rd edition released
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Change Arabic Diacritic Color

News and special offers from our sponsor:

> The InDesign Conference: If you use Adobe InDesign, mark off June 10–13, 2019 in Seattle, WA, for the InDesign event of the year! Join InDesignSecrets hosts Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner, and dozens of top InDesign experts and members of the Adobe InDesign team, for over 30 sessions and four in-depth half-day tutorials. All registrations include session videos and in-depth speaker handouts. Invest in yourself, register today! Discounts available for groups, government, non-profits, schools, and alumni, contact us for details.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

* Subscribe to the InDesignSecrets YouTube and CreativePro YouTube channels

Check out our Facebook group (now over 6,500 friendly members!) for help and tips
The InDesign Conference at CreativePro Week 2019
Seattle's Amazon Spheres
Video of David's Facebook Live interview with Tony Harmer, Design Ninja
New issues of InDesign Magazine
Anne-Marie's InDesign CC 2019 New Features tutorial (two videos about Import PDF Comments)
Post and vote for InDesign feature requests at UserVoice
GREP in InDesign, by Peter Kahrel
Mohamed Khayal's video about the "Change Arabic Diacritic Color" feature

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In this episode:

News:
- InDesignSecrets YouTube channel and Facebook group
- Video courses: InDesign CC 2019 New Features, and Essential Training InDesign CC 2019
- Adobe MAX 2018 recap
- Presentations with InDesign magazine feature by Mark Heaps
What's new and what to watch out for with InDesign CC 2019
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: By Unicode (or by CID/GID)

News and special offers from our sponsor:

> The InDesign Conference: If you use Adobe InDesign, mark off June 10–13, 2019 in Seattle, WA, for the InDesign event of the year! Join InDesignSecrets hosts Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner, and dozens of top InDesign experts and members of the Adobe InDesign team, for over 30 sessions and four in-depth half-day tutorials. All registrations include session videos and in-depth speaker handouts. Invest in yourself, register today! Discounts available for groups, government, non-profits, schools, and alumni, contact us for details.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

* Subscribe to the InDesignSecrets YouTube and CreativePro YouTube channels

Join our Facebook group (now over 5,000 friendly members!) for help and tips
CreativePro Week 2019: The HOW-TO Conferences
Mark Heaps wrote the InDesign Magazine cover story on Presentations with InDesign
Mark is also the emcee of Click: The Presentation Design Conference
David and Mark's Facebook Live interview
InDesign Magazine and our site support all versions of InDesign
Annotations plug-in from DTP Tools
Blog posts mentioned:
- What's New in CC 2019
- Updated New Features Guide
- Search for Glyphs
- Font Hovering (pre-CC 2019)

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In this episode, Anne-Marie flies solo!

News:
- InDesignSecrets YouTube channel and Facebook group
- New online course: Accessible EPUBs from InDesign
Sneak Peek: Adobe InDesign CC 2019
Interview with the authors of Book Design Made Simple
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Live Edit Mode

News and special offers from our sponsor:

> Adobe MAX brings together the world’s top creatives and best-in-the-business experts to get inspired, learn skills, and play. October 15–17 in Los Angeles. Anne-Marie and David are both speaking at separate hands-on InDesign labs. Come to the Community Pavilion and say hi to us at the CPN booth (#408)! Use our code CDCcreate2018 to save $400 off registration!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

* Subscribe to the InDesignSecrets YouTube channel

Join our Facebook group for help and tips
CreativePro Week 2019: The HOW-TO Conferences
Thanks to Ripon Printers for the awesome printing of our InDesign Keyboard Shortcut posters!
Laura Brady's new Lynda/LiL course: EPUB Accessibility Using InDesign
Sneak peek: Content-Aware Fit
Book Design Made Simple by Glenna Collett and Fiona Raven
- Their book site's blog
- Their recommended H&J settings for books
- The post about using GREP to clean up the Show Set Keyboard Shortcuts text file
- "Our Book Sales: Three Years In" post
- All InDesign-related site content
- Follow them on Twitter!

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In this episode:

News:
- InDesignSecrets YouTube channel and Facebook group
- Designing for Sustainability article
- September 2018 InDesign Magazine: Calendars
Disappearing Text? Might be a formatting "gotcha"!
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Group Alert

News and special offers from our sponsor:

> Adobe MAX brings together the world’s top creatives and best-in-the-business experts to get inspired, learn skills, and play. October 15–17 in Los Angeles. Anne-Marie and David are both speaking at separate hands-on InDesign labs. Come to the Community Pavilion and say hi to us at the CPN booth (#408)! Use our code CDCcreate2018 to save $400 off registration!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

 * Subscribe to the InDesignSecrets YouTube channel

Join our Facebook group for help and tips
Maya Lim's excellent article on "green design": Designing for Sustainability
CreativePro Week 2019: The HOW-TO Conferences
Create Outlines the right way and the even better way
Our advice:
- Watch out for Remove Overrides
- Use Character Styles!
- Watch out for Basic here and here
- Disappearing text: fixes here and here
Allow Master Overrides on Selection

And here's that obscure alert!!!

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In this episode:

News:
- Update adds CC Libraries to Bridge CC 2018
- Help test the Import PDF Comments feature InDesign CC 2019
- Registration open for the InDesign Conference 2019
- See us at Adobe MAX in October!
Table Strokes, why are they such a pain, and secret tips
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Reset Hyperlink

Links mentioned in this podcast:

 * Bridge CC is free

CreativePro Week 2019 will be June 10-14 in Seattle
Which other features are "In the Beta Build" in InDesign CC 2019?
Sign up for Adobe prerelease (beta testing)
Save $400 off of Adobe MAX registration with our code
Our posts with more how-to's for Table Strokes: here, here, and here

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In this episode:

News:
- Fun news and cool tips from The InDesign Conference and CreativePro Week
- News about our 2019 conference that you'll want to hear
- Anne-Marie's new course: InDesign CC 2018: EPUB
Applying object styles to groups of object-styled objects
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Use Native Digits When Typing in Arabic Scripts

Links mentioned in this podcast:

 * CreativePro Week 2019 will be June 10-14 in Seattle. Registration opens July 9, special $400 off multi-day registrations for the first 48 hours!

IR2Office from Recosoft
Managing Conversions Between Adobe CC and Microsoft Office (Anne-Marie's title)
Graphic Artists Guild (GAG)
Mag+
Markzware's Dave Dilling interview with David & Anne-Marie
People's Challenge script "Show me the Notes!"
Adobe's Help page about applying object styles to groups
Our early post about beware of object styles and groups
Wikipedia on Arabic numerals
The multi-language placeholder text trick

Middle Eastern license plate with Eastern Arabic numerals on top and Western Arabic numerals underneath (photo by Jerry "Woody")

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In this episode:

News:
- InDesign Conference 2018, June 4–7 in New Orleans: it's happening!
- Get a Virtual Pass to the InDesign Conference (and others!) to see videos and handouts
- New LinkedIn Learning/Lynda.com courses: New Features in InDesign CC 2018.1 (Anne-Marie) and InDesign: Interactive PDFs (David)
- InDesign Magazine: April 2018 issue about Interactive Portfolios, May 2018 issue about Digital Asset Management systems, and the June 2018 issue will be about making InDesign and Illustrator play nicely together.
The problem with default RGB [Black] and CMYK [Black]
Interview with Khoi Vinh, Adobe's Principal Designer
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Greek Vector Objects on Drag

News and special offers from our sponsors:

> Acuity Training, based in the UK,offers training in Adobe InDesign and the full range of Adobe products with Adobe qualified instructors, as well Microsoft and other software suites and programs. They’ve been awarded a Gold-Star Rating from Feefo.com for four years running. Up until July 31, 2018, InDesignSecrets podcast listeners can get 20% off Adobe training bookings by using the discount code indesignsecrets20.**

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

 * The InDesign Conference 2018 agenda

Ripon Printers is on Facebook, but you have to check out their web site's Technical Guides and Resources page too
InDesign New Features Guide (v1.0 to CC 2018.1) as a Publish Online/PDF doc
How to see if black is showing up as 4-color black in Acrobat
Khoi Vinh's site
Show some love to our CreativePro Week tabletop sponsors!
- Wrike
- Ripon Printers
- Recosoft
- PixelSquid
- Pagination
- Markzware
- Mag+
- Graphic Artists Guild
- em Software
- Cacidi Sytems
- Adobe

Here's the 256-level histogram (0 to 255) we were talking about:

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In this episode:

News:
- Muse, we sort of hardly knew ye
- InDesign Conference 2018, June 4–7 in New Orleans
- InDesign Magazine: March 2018 issue about making InDesign and Photoshop play nicely together, April 2018 issue about Interactive Portfolios
We review all the features/fixes in just-released InDesign CC 2018.1 update
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Knockout Group

News and special offers from our sponsors:

> Acuity Training, based in the UK,offers training in Adobe InDesign and the full range of Adobe products with Adobe qualified instructors, as well Microsoft and other software suites and programs. They’ve been awarded a Gold-Star Rating from Feefo.com for four years running. Up until May 31, 2018, InDesignSecrets podcast listeners can get 20% off Adobe training bookings by using the discount code indesignsecrets20.**

Links mentioned in this podcast:

 * The InDesign Conference 2018 agenda

Muse End-of-Life announcement from Adobe
Blog post: What's new in InDesign CC 2018.1
Anne-Marie's New Features in ID CC 2018.x lynda.com course (and on LinkedIn Learning too)
Oops! CC 2018.1 has a bug for Windows users (and the fix)
Report InDesign bugs and feature requests
A few of our posts about Knockout Group effects: here, here, and here
Mike Rankin's InDesign Graphic FX ebook

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In this episode:

News:
- CreativePro Week poster contest: Win a Platinum Pass!
- Join over 2,000 colleagues in our Facebook discussion group
- InDesign Magazine: Feb 2018 issue all about color, March 2018 issue about making InDesign and Photoshop play nicely together
Top InDesign Feature Requests: Adobe is listening!
I See Blue Things: What are those weird squiggles and borders?
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Reveal Deleted Items

News and special offers from our sponsors:

> The InDesign Conference 2018 is June 4–7 in New Orleans, one of four back-to-back conferences in the same venue during CreativePro Week. Dozens of speakers—returning favorites and new faces—are busy prepping right now for some of the most useful and exciting presentations on InDesign you'll ever encounter. Sign up for just this conference, two of them (maybe add the Ps/Ai: Photoshop and Illustrator Conference for Designers as well?) or the whole week! Premium members of InDesignSecrets.com get a discount code worth $150 off any multi-day registration. To find the discount code, click on the blue My Account button at the top of the InDesignSecrets site and then click Benefits.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

 * The InDesign Conference 2018 agenda

New speakers Bill Jelen, Khara Plicanic, and Laurie Ruhlin
Win a Platinum Pass ($2495 value): CreativePro Week Poster Contest
Join us in our ever-so-useful InDesignSecrets Facebook group
February 2018 issue of InDesign Magazine focusses on hidden color features
March 2018 issue of InDesign Magazine shows how to help InDesign and Photoshop play nice
InDesign uservoice wishlist (vote for your fave!)
InDesignSecret.com's poll results: Which tool to vote off the island?
Here's a great use for the poor old Content Collector tool
Did you know you can change the color of the Hidden Characters and frame edges?

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In this episode:

News:
- The InDesign Conference 2018 agenda and speakers up
- Facebook discussion group for InDesignSecrets folks
- 2018 Creative Developers Summit for scripters and developers
- InDesign Magazine: New design is a success!
Formatting financial data: Tabs vs. Tables
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Ungroup Color Group

News and special offers from our sponsors:

> Acuity Training, based in the UK,offers training in Adobe InDesign and the full range of Adobe products with Adobe qualified instructors, as well Microsoft and other software suites and programs. They've been awarded a Gold-Star Rating from Feefo.com for four years running. Up until March 31, 2018, InDesignSecrets podcast listeners can get 20% off Adobe training bookings by using the discount code indesignsecrets20.**

Links mentioned in this podcast:

 * The InDesign Conference 2018 agenda and speakers are up!

Join us in our ever-so-useful InDesignSecrets Facebook group
Nigel French's "Designing Books" cover story in the January 2018 InDesign Magazine
Converting text to a table
Tab panel tips

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In this episode:

A little bit of news:
- Facebook discussion group for InDesignSecrets folks
- InCopy user? Take Adobe's InCopy user survey
- InDesign Magazine: Our January 2018 issue has a new look
Designers vs Production Folks
Interview with Russell Viers
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Grids in Back

Links mentioned in this podcast:

 * CreativePro Week 2018 registration open and first speakers announced

Join us in our Facebook group!
More about Russell Viers
About ink-aliasing in InDesign

In a heated discussion during the podcast, the question was debated: If you alias a spot ink to another spot ink, will it separate out to CMYK correctly? Answer: YES. David's report from his post-podcast testing (see the episode 251 Show Notes on our site for screenshots that illustrate these steps):

STEP ONE: I placed an .AI file (it could also be a PDF) that contains two spot colors (Pantone Blue, and a yellow called Pantone 114). I then applied that Pantone Blue spot color to some text in a text frame. I also created a new color that is a spot color, but defined with a CMYK value, called "MyColor 50/10/85/0".

STEP TWO: I opened Ink Manager (from the Swatches panel menu), selected the Pantone Blue and then chose MyColor from the Ink Alias popup menu. And then I selected MyColor and clicked on the icon in the left column, which means convert this color to process.

STEP THREE: When I open the Separations Preview panel and turn the View popup menu to Separations, the Ink Aliasing kicks in, converting all instances of Pantone Blue to MyColor… and also showing that MyColor is being converted to CMYK (using the CMYK values I set up when I created the color).

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In this episode:

A little bit of news:
- InDesign CC 2018 update released (13.0.1)
- First round of CreativePro Week 2018 speakers announced
- InDesign Magazine Dec 2018: Creating Accessible EPUBs,
  and an in-depth review of Cacidi's Chart plug-in for InDesign
- Coming in January: InDesign Magazine ground-up redesign! You'll love it
Managing threaded stories manually and with free scripts
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Repair All

News and special offers from our sponsors:

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>> GoProof is an online proofing solution that makes it easy to upload your layouts directly from within InDesign (a free GoProof panel!) to your GoProof portal for client proofing and markup. On average it saves designers at least 1 hour every day by cutting out PDF exports and email trails. There's even an option to make certain text frames editable by your clients right in the browser, using the same fonts and formatting. Try for free, or if you want to upgrade, use voucher code CPN17 for special discounts and free usage periods!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

 * CreativePro Week 2018 now open for registration

More on EPUB Accessibility from our sister site, EPUBSecrets.com
Scripts mentioned:
- BreakFrame.jsx and SplitStory.jsx (both in Scripts > Application > Javascript)
- MergeTextFrames from Ajar Productions
- Text Stitch from Rorohiko
- StorySplitter by Adi Ravid (download link from our site)
David's post about unthreading stories with scripts (has links to the above, too)
Why you might want to ignore the Package alert that says you have RGB images

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Lots of News!
- InDesign CC 2018 released
- Adobe MAX recap, busy booth, lots o' fun!
- Contest of the month and Template of the month
- New lynda.com courses for Anne-Marie and David
- InDesign Magazine for October: All about user dictionaries
- InDesign Magazine for November: ID CC 2018 in depth, and Adobe Dimension
What's new in InDesign CC 2018
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Triplespace

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Acuity Training, based in the UK, offers a full range of Adobe training courses, including InDesign and Photoshop, led by Adobe qualified instructors. They've also been awarded a Gold-Star Rating from Feefo.com for four years running. Up until November 30, 2017, InDesignSecrets podcast listeners can get 20% off Adobe training bookings by using the discount code indesignsecrets20.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

 * CreativeProWeek.com now open for registration

What's new in InDesign CC 2018 (and a quick additional fix)
Anne-Marie's InDesign CC 2018 New Features title at lynda.com (alt link for LinkedIn Premium subscribers)
David's InDesign CC 2018 Essential Training at lynda.com (alt link for LinkedIn Premium subscribers)
The Mystery of the Trailing Space Contest Answer and Winner
October's Template of the Month (for Premium subscribers)
Adobe MAX 2017! Here's David's session recording, and some tips one attendee came away with

Go to the show notes on the web site to see some pictures!

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In this episode:

News:
- Adobe MAX 2017 this week, visit us at Booth 214!
- Also at MAX, see Anne-Marie and David on stage
- October's InDesign Magazine: Deep into Dictionaries
Sleuthing InDesign Mysteries: Fonts and TOCs and Style folders
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Incompatibility with Flash Player

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, offers exceptional instructor-led training for Adobe InDesign and other software programs at London Covent Garden, Cardiff, Bristol, and now, live online! Their students are achieving a 98% pass rate on all Adobe Certified Associate exams, so you know the instructors are the best. Follow them on Twitter at @Certitec and keep up with their Facebook page. Enjoy a 20% discount on any class —including online!—if you mention InDesignSecrets and this podcast episode number while booking the class, on the phone or at their site.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

 * Duden in InDesign CC 2018

Here's a list of the InDesign Mysteries so far (the contests)
Thank you to Ripon Printing for the keyboard shortcut posters!
Crazy IDML font troubleshooting saga
Just a little bit more about customizing a Preflight Profile

David did it! To get InDesign's Preflight to report something incompatible with the Flash player. Place a MIDI Quicktime movie file, circa 1994, and click Continue at the alert.

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In this episode:

News:
- Report InDesign bugs and feature on UserVoice
- August's InDesign Contest and the Template of the Month
- Our 100th issue of InDesign Magazine just published!
- Adobe MAX 2017: See Anne-Marie and David on stage
5 Things First-time InDesigners Need to Know
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Resize Horizontally (or vertically)

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, offers exceptional instructor-led training for Adobe InDesign and other software programs at London Covent Garden, Cardiff, Bristol, and now, live online! Their students are achieving a 98% pass rate on all Adobe Certified Associate exams, so you know the instructors are the best. Follow them on Twitter at @Certitec and keep up with their Facebook page. Enjoy a 20% discount on any class —including online!—if you mention InDesignSecrets and this podcast episode number while booking the class, on the phone or at their site.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

 * More great articles for InDesign beginners

Sandee Cohen's Pasteboard Primer is in issue 95 of InDesign Magazine
Choose the Advanced Workspace
David's InDesign Essential Training video course on Lynda.com and LinkedIn/Learning

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David's special guest co-host was Jonathan Levit, InDesign trainer and professional magician
News:
- CreativePro Week 2018 (including the InDesign Conference) will be in New Orleans, June 4-8, 2018
- InDesign Magazine's July 2017 issue was on automated Publishing w/InDesign
- Our 100th issue of InDesign Magazine is in August, so it'll have 100 tips and 100 free scripts!
Auto-sizing of text frames
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Tool Hints (the loneliest panel)

Links mentioned in this podcast:

 * Special co-host Jonathan Levit
+ His training and consulting company
+ His professional magician and acting site

Jonathan's article, "The Magic of InDesign"
CreativePro Week 2018: June 4-8 in New Orleans
Erica Gamet's Script-o-pedia
More cool Auto-Size articles
More on object styles
The Tool Hints panel

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In this episode:

News:
- Session videos from the 2017 InDesign Conference now available
- InDesign Magazine June 2017: Animation Effects
- Upcoming July 2017 issue is on Automated Publishing w/InDesign
Space before/after lists hack
The [Basic Paragraph] style conundrum
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Check in

News and special offers from our sponsors:

> Acuity Training, based in the UK,offers training in Adobe InDesign and the full range of Adobe products with Adobe qualified trainers, as well Microsoft and other software suites and programs. They've been awarded a Gold-Star Rating from Feefo.com for four years running. Up until July 31, 2017, InDesignSecrets podcast listeners can get 20% off Adobe training bookings by using the discount code indesignsecrets20.**

Links mentioned in this podcast:

* Join the InDesign Prerelease ("Beta") program

Don't Edit [Basic Paragraph]
Using Span Columns to force Space before/after lists
Want conditional spacing? Vote for it!
The discussion about the mysterious Check In command

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In this episode:

News:
- CreativePro Week Virtual Pass now available
- InDesign Magazine May 2017: Find/Change
CreativePro Week 2017 recap and fave moments
Useless InDesign Tool: Poll Results
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Submit Bug/Feature Request

Links mentioned in this podcast:

* How to script, for the absolute beginner

Recap of The InDesign Conference at CreativePro Week
SimpleHTML script from Justin at Ajar Productions
Virtual Pass (video, handouts, sponsor discounts) to The InDesign Conference and CreativePro Week
Join the InDesign Prerelease program
Adobe Wishlist form

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In this episode:

News and Updates:
- Acrobat DC 2017 now available (what's new)
- CreativePro Week coming up May 22-26!
- InDesign Magazine April 2017: Type Effects!
We examine the stunning achievement that is InDesign 2017.1
Interview with Theresa Jackson, Adobe guru, trainer, and designer
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Recently Published

News and special offers from our sponsors:

> Acuity Training, based in the UK,offers training in Adobe InDesign and the full range of Adobe products with Adobe qualified trainers, as well Microsoft and other software suites and programs. They've been awarded a Gold-Star Rating from Feefo.com for four years running. Up until May 31, 2017, InDesignSecrets podcast listeners can get 20% off Adobe training bookings by using the discount code indesignsecrets20.**

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Check out the sessions and speakers at CreativePro Week 2017
All about InDesign CC 2017.1
David's "Three Rules" article
Theresa Jackson: her website, Behance page, and Instagram account
Theresa's CreativePro Week bio and sessions and her buddy Von Glitschka's
Want to learn more about CC Libraries? Here's a "getting started" post, and Steve Werner covered them in-depth last year in this issue of InDesign Magazine
5 Ways to get Pie Charts into InDesign (Premium Content)
The "sleeping" CC Charts app
About the Chartwell typeface (and here's one of our video tips on it)
Our posts about Adobe Comp and Adobe Draw

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News and Updates:
- Stellar line-up of speakers & sessions at the InDesign Conference
- InDesign Magazine March 2017 is all about footnotes, endnotes, and sidenotes
Using Acrobat's deeply buried Object Inspector on your InDesign PDFs!
The Next Big Thing for interactive PDFs? We hear things ...
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Flip Pages (it's not what you think)

News and special offers from our sponsors:

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

Check out the sessions and speakers at CreativePro Week 2017
Register now for the InDesign Conference 2017!
Check out our attendee forum! They're making plans already
March 2017 InDesign Magazine: Footnotes
We've written about the Object Inspector in Acrobat before!
How to control page transitions (related to the OIFOTW, Flip Pages Every)

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In this episode:

News and Updates:
- The InDesign Conference is part of CreativePro Week 2017
- All InDesign Conference speakers and sessions are up!
- InDesign Magazine Feb. 2017, "Special Characters," is all about advanced typography
Interview with Justin Seeley, Adobe genius and Star Wars nerd
Fascinating fresh features for footnotes, finally
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Inline Background Color

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Check out the sessions and speakers at CreativePro Week 2017
Register now for the InDesign Conference 2017!
Check out the InDesign Magazine issue on Special Characters and Typography
Find the Greenlight service (cloud-based preflighting) on CircularSoftware.com
CircularFLO (at circularflo.com) exports InDesign layouts to fixed-layout EPUB3 or the Amazon KF8 fixed layout format, optionally including Read Aloud narration with no coding
Pagination does database publishing as a service!
Use Tweak to edit InDesign documents and make print-ready PDFs in the cloud
All about Justin Seeley, staff author at PluralSight and co-founder of NerdRadio podcasts
Justin's sessions at CreativeProWeek.com
Adobe's working on enabling voice control
Star Wars First Order logo
Trajan Pro title for the movie Rogue One (outlined, no less)
Footnotes: What's new in CC 2017

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News and Updates:
- InDesign Conference is part of CreativePro Week 2017
- InDesign Magazine Jan. 2017 focuses on Editorial Tools
GREP!
QuickApply and Hyperlinks crash fix
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Entire Pasteboard

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Full info (and registration!) for CreativePro Week 2017
GREP
- Favorite GREP expressions you can use
- 5 Cool Things you can do with GREP Styles
- The InDesignSecrets GREP Resources page
- Normalizing a phone number
- Finding stuff between quotes or parentheses
- Erica's GREP cheat sheet PDF
- Erica Gamet's YouTube channel
- GREP visualizer
- Treasures of GREP group on Facebook
Happy Hanukah GREP:
Chanukah is a Hebrew word that has no single English transliteration… so people write it in all kinds of ways. It's tricky because it starts with a "gutteral" sound that doesn't have any representation in English. (David thinks the most accurate spelling is Khanukkah -- but no one else agrees with him.)
Erica's GREP to search for all the spellings: K*C*X*h*H*ann*uk'*k*ah*
Answer to problem some folks are having with QuickApply and Hyperlinks panel

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News and Updates:
- InDesign Conference 2016 wrap-up
- InDesign Magazine Dec. 2016 focuses on Middle East design and fonts
- Our upcoming issue for Jan. 2017 is all about editorial tools in InDesign
- Registration open for the 2017 InDesign Conference, May 22-25, part of CreativePro Week
The winning InDesign tip (by audience acclaim) from the 2016 ID Conference
Our top 10 blog and magazine articles from 2016: good reading!
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Customize Control Panel

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, Adobe Animate (née Flash) and Adobe AEM training, as well as many other software programs. All courses have been updated for CC 2017! Don't miss their 5-day InDesign zero-to-hero courses, culminating in taking the ACE exam at their site at the end. Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol. Follow them on Twitter at @Certitec and keep up with their Facebook page. Enjoy a 20% discount on any class in London or Cardiff you mention InDesignSecrets while booking the class (on the phone or at their site).

Links mentioned in this podcast: * Full info (and registration!) for CreativePro Week 2017 * Listen to the live-from-the-InDesign-Conference podcast: * Videos from The InDesign Conference 2016 (some free), or purchase all access * Our favorite articles from InDesign Magazine in 2016:
50 Shades of White (white space)
InDesign Scriptopedia
Color Management in InDesign
All about CC Libraries * And our favorite blog posts from 2016:
Custom navigation thumbnails for Publish Online projects
Scaling an object to an exact size
Create mazes with a free script
Fun project: Making a mini-book
The worst-designed features in InDesign
Template Essentials: Image and Art Object Styles * David's Color Management course on Lynda.com * InDesign Magazine: The White Space Issue

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A very special episode, recorded in front of a live audience at The InDesign Conference 2016! Scroll down to see a couple pictures.

In this episode:

News and Updates:
- Quick history lesson about our podcast
- InDesign CC 2017 released last week
- Fun times at AdobeMAX!
- InDesign Magazine Nov. 2016 is magical (literally) and comes with videos!
- Registration open for the 2017 InDesign Conference, May 22-25, part of CreativePro Week
Interview with Mohammed Javed Ali, InDesign product manager
Our top 10 OIFOTW's (Obscure InDesign Features) from episodes 3 to 237
And this episode's Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Alpha Channel

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Teacup Software is a consulting firm and a vendor of simple, elegant, and unobtrusive plug-ins for InDesign, including BarCodeMaker, PatternMaker (developed with our own David Blatner), and DataLinker, for linking to databases. They've recently updated their plugins to support InDesign CC 2017, too. Support your local InDesign developer!

Links mentioned in this podcast: * InDesign CC 2017: New features, Keeping older versions, Updated ID New Features Guide * CreativePro Week 2017 * Where does Javed Ali and the rest of the team work? In Noida, Delhi, and Gurgaon * Join the InDesign prerelease team * Here are the OIFsOTW we talked about!
1. Non-joiner
2. Flush space
3. Barbell
4. Magnet
5. Float
6. Choke
7. Straight Hash
8. Folder Zero
9. Butt Cap
10. Jumbo * This episode's OIFOTW: Alpha Channel

Here are a couple pictures from The InDesign Conference 2016:

Anne-Marie and David welcoming the crowd to The InDesign Conference 2016      Anurag Wahi and Javed Ali, InDesign product managers/engineers, answering questions during the Ask Adobe Anything session

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In this episode:

Latest news:
- Anne-Marie and David speaking at AdobeMAX 2016
- The InDesign Conference 2016 is next week!
- InDesign Magazine Nov. 2016 is magical (literally)
How-to's and gotchas when changing page sizes of a layout
Interview with the awesome (and funny) Claudia McCue
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Rainbow

News and special offers from our sponsors:
>> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, Adobe Animate (née Flash) and Adobe AEM training, as well as many other software programs. Their students are achieving a 98% pass rate on all Adobe Certified Associate exams, so you know the instructors are the best! Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol. Follow them on Twitter at @Certitec and keep up with their Facebook page. Enjoy a 20% discount on any class in London or Cardiff you mention InDesignSecrets while booking the class (on the phone or at their site).

Links mentioned in this podcast: * InDesign Conference 2016: Washington DC, November 7–9 * Resizing Pages: + Using the Page Tool + When the Document Size Won't Change + Using the Pages panel to change page size + Quick Resize, a useful script from ID-extras.com * All about Liquid Layout in InDesign: read this and this * Claudia McCue info and resources: + Here's Claudia's personal blog and her training company's site + A list of all of Claudia's Lynda.com video courses + Learning Print Production, her newest Lynda.com course + New Rules for Printing, her cover story from InDesign Magazine + How to do the Southern Double-click * Rainbow strokes!

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In this episode:

Latest news:
- The InDesign Conference 2016 is just weeks away! New content, TRUMATCH giveaway
- InDesign Magazine Sept 2016: all about teaching InDesign
- InDesign Magazine Oct. 2016: InDesign Nightmares!
We each describe 3 of our favorite free InDesign scripts
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Satin
The QUIZZLER answer and winner! She had a 1 out of 1 chance of winning ;-)

News and special offers from our sponsors:
>> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, Adobe Animate (née Flash) and Adobe AEM training, as well as many other software programs. Their students are achieving a 98% pass rate on all Adobe Certified Associate exams, so you know the instructors are the best! Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol. Follow them on Twitter at @Certitec and keep up with their Facebook page. Enjoy a 20% discount on any class in London or Cardiff you mention InDesignSecrets while booking the class (on the phone or at their site).

QUIZZLER ANSWER and WINNER: In podcast 235, we asked listeners to email us locations in InDesign where the command "Place" appears, other than File > Place. We were looking for Library panel menu, right-click menu on images in CC Library, and the obscure button lower right on the Media panel, Place Video or Audio file. Only one person submitted an answer, and none of these were included in her email. But she wins an InDesignSecrets Keyboard Shortcut poster anyway!

Links mentioned in this podcast: * InDesign Conference 2016: Washington DC, November 7–9 * Trish Witkowski's Fold of the Week video * All about the TRUMATCH swatchbook * InDesign Magazine, September issue, on "Teaching InDesign" * Erica Gamet's "InDesign Script-o-Pedia" * Not sure how to install a script in InDesign? It's easy. Read this and you might like this too. * Scripts to try (all links lead to blog posts with download links): + The scripts that come with InDesign + StyLighter highlights text where styles are used + PerfectPrepText converts local formatting to character styles + RePlace lets you switch pages or artboards of placed files + Number Adjuster applies math to live numbers in your layout + Calendar Wizard creates calendar layouts from your settings in a dialog box + Swimmer replaces words with images in your layout

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In this episode:

Latest news:
- InDesign CC 2015.4 POINT 1 update ... oy the naming
- The InDesign Conference 2016 is coming soon — November!
- PePcon 2016 videos and CreativePro Conf 2016 videos are up
- InDesign Magazine Script-o-Pedia
All about InDesign's new GPU feature
Interview with Brian Wood, InDesign Guru
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Zoom Setting
The QUIZZLER returns!

News and special offers from our sponsors:

Teacup Software is a consulting firm and a vendor of simple, elegant, and unobtrusive plug-ins for InDesign, including BarCodeMaker, PatternMaker (developed with our own David Blatner), and DataLinker, for linking to databases. Teacup moved to a subscription-based pricing model earlier this year. You can take 15% off the first year of any subscription when you enter the code IDSECRETS15. Hurry, this offer will end in a few weeks.

QUIZZLER: Listen to the podcast for the Quizzler, a simple question about InDesign that you can answer with a little searching. When you find the answer, email it to us at info at indesignsecrets.com with QUIZZLER in the Subject line (not in a comment here!). We'll choose a winner from all the correct answers we've received by SEPTEMBER 20. Winner will be notified by email and announced in the next podcast, and we'll send the prize to them too!

Links mentioned in this podcast: * InDesign Conference 2016: Washington DC, November 7–9 * All about the new GPU feature in InDesign (what is OpenGL?) * Adobe Muse Classroom in a Book (by Brian Wood) * Brian is doing a session and a 1/2-day workshop at The InDesign Conference! * Creating Acrobat scripts with Javascript? + Javascript Developer Guide for Acrobat (circa 2006) PDF, 200+ pages! + Online documentation for scripting Acrobat X

The mysterious Zoom Setting:

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Latest news:
- InDesign CC 2015.4 update (and InCopy CC 2015.4 too!)
- Register for CreativePro Conference and The InDesign Conference
- June 2016 InDesign Magazine: Photography & InDesign
- July 2016 InDesign Magazine: Fonts and Typography
PePcon Recap! And we each share one tip we learned at the show
A number of tips to know about (Auto-) Numbered Lists
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Dimensions Include Stroke Weight

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, Adobe Animate (née Flash) and Adobe AEM training, as well as many other software programs. Two of their trainers have been voted in as the top 10 trainers in the world! Marek Mularcyk and Martin Prehiniak have achieved this over the last 12 months and accredited by Metrics that Matter. Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol. Enjoy a 20% discount on any class in London or Cardiff when you mention InDesignSecrets while booking the class (on the phone or at their site).

Links mentioned in this podcast: * CreativePro 2016: The Conference for Photoshop and Illustrator Users, July 11-13, Minneapolis MN * InDesign Conference 2016: Washington DC, November 7–9 * Steve Werner's in-depth article on the InDesign CC 2015.4 release * Chad's post about the InCopy CC 2015.4 release * Our PePcon Tips (one each!) + Watch AM's 10 Bridge Tips videos (drag folder onto Bridge to view contents) + Unzip Word.docx file to access embedded images: Video and Article * Download the Template Essentials: Bullets and Numbering file (Premium members) * Various posts about Autonumbered lists: + Multi-level autonumbering + Right-align numbers + Restart numbering + Formatting numbers + Figure numbering + Add numbers to running headers + Fixing local formatting problems + More, even more crazy tips: - Use autonumbered lists for page numbers - Sequential numbering inside paragraphs - Numbering paragraphs on the side - Making numbered tickets

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In this episode:

Latest news:
- Creative Cloud Libraries get a welcome update
- Register for CreativePro Conference and The InDesign Conference
- May 2016 InDesign Magazine is a color (management) deep dive
- June 2016 InDesign Magazine: Photography & InDesign
Making the UI (User Interface) your own
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Keep with Next Row

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, Adobe Animate (née Flash) and Adobe AEM training, as well as many other software programs. Their students are achieving a 98% pass rate on all Adobe Certified Associate exams, so you know the instructors are the best! Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol. Follow them on Twitter at @Certitec and keep up with their Facebook page. Enjoy a 20% discount on any class in London or Cardiff you mention InDesignSecrets while booking the class (on the phone or at their site).

Links mentioned in this podcast: * CreativePro 2016: The Conference for Photoshop and Illustrator Users, July 11-13, Minneapolis MN * InDesign Conference 2016: Washington DC, November 7–9 * Here's David's cover story on InDesign Color Management from the May 2016 InDesign Magazine (premium members can read magazine stories on our site) * Everything you want to know about CC Libraries (premium content) * Making the InDesign UI your own: + Turning off the Welcome screen + Learn to love the Application Frame + Move the Control Panel to the bottom + Changing panels to toolbars in InCopy * Mike Rankin talked about Keep with Next Row here! (see tip #5)

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In this episode:

Latest news:
- PePcon's community site, PePcon Connect, is live
- Register for PePcon, CreativePro Conference, InDesign Conference
- April 2016 InDesign Magazine: The White Space Issue
- May 2016 InDesign Magazine is a color (management) deep dive!
Inside Mike Riordan's head (interview with our Editor-in-Chief!)
All About Alternative Glyphs
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Hide Column

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, Adobe Animate (née Flash) and Adobe AEM training, as well as many other software programs. Their students are achieving a 98% pass rate on all Adobe Certified Associate exams, so you know the instructors are the best! Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol. Follow them on Twitter at @Certitec and keep up with their Facebook page. Enjoy a 20% discount on any class in London or Cardiff you mention InDesignSecrets while booking the class (on the phone or at their site).

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Time for PePcon 2016! Sign up now and we'll see you in San Diego in June (also home of the Creative Developers Summit)
CreativePro 2016: The Conference for Photoshop and Illustrator Users, July 11-13, Minneapolis MN
InDesign Conference 2016: Washington DC, November 7–9
David's new InDesign Insider: Color Management course at Lynda.com
Posts on Alternative Glyphs you'll find useful
- Glyphs Panel tip of the week
- Weird bug with replacing fractions
- Which fonts have fractions built in?
- Which fonts ship with InDesign?
Tweaking your Link Panel Options

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In this episode:

Latest news:
- All 3 conference sites are up and running and taking registrations! Ta-da!
- Check 'em out: PePcon, CreativePro Conference, InDesign Conference
- "The White(space) Issue" InDesign Magazine/April 2016
Interview with Daniel Dejan of Sappi Paper
Using One-Hit-Wonders: Single Attribute Live Preflight Profiles
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Limit Number of Rows Per Error

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> PePcon (the Print + ePublishing Conference) is for anyone who's on the front lines of creating publications and wants to peek over their own cubicle to see how others are tackling the same challenges. In the two-day multitrack event (plus pre- and post-conference workshop days) we dive into the "how-to" and "why" of print and digital publishing in a broad and deep way, covering InDesign, HTML5, PDF, print production, iBooks Author, mobile app development, CMS's, Editorial workflows, EPUBs, Kindle publishing, and more. Each speaker provides a detailed PDF handout, and typically the final compiled Speaker Handout distributed to attendees is over 400 pages long(!). The seventh annual PePcon is in San Diego, June 5–8, 2016. Register and reserve your spot today!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Time for PePcon 2016! Sign up now and we'll see you in San Diego in June (also home of the Creative Developers Summit)
CreativePro 2016: The Conference for Photoshop and Illustrator Users, July 11-13, Minneapolis MN
InDesign Conference 2016: Washington DC, November 7–9
Premium Member content:
- Mike Rankin's amazing "tumbling" animation effect
- Steve Werner's crazy in-depth piece on CC Libraries
- Colin Flashman on overprinting options
Daniel Dejan: LinkedIn, Haptic Brain, Haptic Brand, The Future of Print webinar
Kenya Hara's book, White
David Eagleman, Neuroscientist: TED talk, Incognito book
Template Essentials: Preflight Profiles
Creating a custom preflight profile post
Video on using Live Preflight to find common errors

Screenshots: Choose Define Profiles from the Preflight panel menu to manage and edit Preflight Profiles. The "OHW" ones on the left are different "One Hit Wonder" profiles (as discussed in the podcast), like the active one, OHW - Interactive, that flags any interactive elements.

Choose which Preflight Profile you want Live Preflight to check against on the fly from the pop-up menu, found to the left of the Live Preflight reporting section (red dot or green dot) at the bottom of the window:

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

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Latest news:
- PePcon 2016 speakers & sessions announced
- CreativePro Conference site is live
- InDesign Magazine content debuts on our blog
- DPS is now called AEM Mobile
- TruEdit announces InCopy support
Interview with Bart Van de Weile
A Shaded Paragraph Conundrum!
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: [[:xdigit:]]

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Rorohiko is a fine purveyor of many InDesign scripts and plug-ins. One of our favorites is TextExporter, a utility that comes in so handy, so often, that you forget it's not part of InDesign itself! Use TextExporter for those times when you need to extract all the text from a layout and put it into a single external text file, as plain text or formatted (RTF). Free 20-day trial, and when you realize how essential it is, you'll be happy to see the affordable, flexible pricing for single users and groups.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Time for PePcon 2016! Sign up now and we'll see you in San Diego in June (also home of the Creative Developers Summit)
CreativePro 2016: The Conference for Photoshop and Illustrator Users, July 11-13, Minneapolis MN
InDesign Conference 2016: Washington DC, November 7–9
InDesign Magazine articles are now online (details) (example - click the article title links)
Adobe DPS is now Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Mobile
MEI's TruEdit now supports InCopy
Bart Van de Wiele's author page on CreativePro.com and his blog (which needs updating, Bart!)
What's this about Ghent, Bart's hometown? What's a Ghent workgroup?
Adobe's Project Comet
Find/Change tips
More about the new Paragraph Shading feature in CC 2015 (see screen shots in the Show Notes)
Or, use the old reversed-out-of-Rule Above trick
What's [[:xdigit:]] good for? Finding hexa words or hexadecimal notation (see screen shot in the Show Notes)

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In this episode:

Latest news:
- CreativePro Conference!
- PePcon, InDesign Conference, Creative Developer Summit
- Template Essentials, our new premium member benefit
- January 2016 InDesign Magazine: Publish Online
- David's new Color Management title at Lynda.com
Our 2016 InDesign Resolution: Pay Attention to the Little Things!
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select and Fit Item

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Rorohiko, owned by InDesign developer extraordinaire Kris Coppieters, is not just about plug-ins or scripts. They also provide expertise as scripters, software developers and consultants when it comes to automating part of a graphics workflow. Rorohiko's motto is 'Slash the time it takes' and that also applies to their 'Expertise on call' service. They have been instrumental in finding a simple, efficient solution to many of their customer's problems. Call on Kris and Rorohiko (or email dev@rorohiko.com) for help with publishing systems design, implementation, tech support, and debugging. They know their stuff!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Time for PePcon 2016! Sign up now and we'll see you in San Diego in June
CreativePro 2016: The Conference for Photoshop and Illustrator Users, July 11-13, web site to come
InDesign Conference 2016: Washington DC, November 7–9, (also home of the Creative Developers Summit)
Our first Template Essentials: Sidebars and Pull Quotes
InDesign Template of the Month
Check out the January 2016 InDesign Magazine
The book: Real World InDesign
David's new course, InDesign Insider Training: Color Management
Important Checkboxes: Smart Text Reflow, Ignore Text Wrap, Use Document Bleed
More about Select and Fit Item

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The InDesign Conference 2015: Our recap of the highlights
New features in InDesign CC 2015.2, just released
Tips on Using Adobe Stock photos in your layouts
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Check Links Before Opening Document

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Rorohiko, owned by InDesign developer extraordinaire Kris Coppieters, is not just about plug-ins or scripts. They also provide expertise as scripters, software developers and consultants when it comes to automating part of a graphics workflow. Rorohiko's motto is 'Slash the time it takes' and that also applies to their 'Expertise on call' service. They have been instrumental in finding a simple, efficient solution to many of their customer's problems. Call on Kris and Rorohiko (or email dev@rorohiko.com) for help with publishing systems design, implementation, tech support, and debugging. They know their stuff!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Time for PePcon 2016! Sign up now and we'll see you in San Diego in June
InDesign Conference 2016: Washington DC, November 7–9
PSDcon 2016: Minneapolis Minn., July 11–13
PubWest.org's 2016 conference is in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Feb 4-6. (Contact executive director Kent Watson for $100 discount for InDesignSecrets listeners).
Keith Gilbert's amazing "Rule around a paragraph" 3 Minutes Max tip from the InDesign Conference
You can buy videos of the InDesign Conference and the Photoshop Conference sessions
What's new in InDesign CC 2015.2? Read our posts here and here
Anne-Marie's post on Using Adobe Stock in InDesign
The Publish Online version of James Wamser's "InDesign New Features Chronology"
InDesign Magazine Dec. 2015: Top 5 Template Tips (by Anne-Marie!)
Check Links (the obscure feature) discussed in this blog post on speeding up InDesign

Watch this video from the 3 Minutes Max final session at the InDesign Conference 2015! (if you can't see this in your feed reader, please visit the Show Notes page at InDesignSecrets.com: http://indesignsecrets.com/watch_listen/indesignsecrets-podcast-228)

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In this episode:

News:
- David's Big Climb
- DTP Tool's Cloud service
Our favorite things we saw at Adobe MAX
New features and services at Adobe Communities
Two side-by-side views of one InDesign layout: Why and how?
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Skip First

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Rorohiko, owned by InDesign developer extraordinaire Kris Coppieters, is not just about plug-ins or scripts. They also provide expertise as scripters, software developers and consultants when it comes to automating part of a graphics workflow. Rorohiko's motto is 'Slash the time it takes' and that also applies to their 'Expertise on call' service. They have been instrumental in finding a simple, efficient solution to many of their customer's problems. Call on Kris and Rorohiko for help with publishing systems design, implementation, tech support, and debugging. They know their stuff!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Our InDesign Conference is in Denver, CO; Nov. 16–18, 2015
And our debut Photoshop Conference is co-located there/then
Help support David's "Big Climb" by donating to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
DTP Tools Cloud (Blatner Tools, X-refs Pro, and more)
Adobe Community Events page
Adobe InDesign Forum and Creative Cloud FAQ
Don't forget our own InDesignSecrets forums!
Adobe MAX 2015:
- Video of Anne-Marie and David's InDesign Tips & Tricks session
- Adobe blog post of what they showed at MAX Sneaks (with video excerpts)
- More on Panose (precursor of Sneaks' "Project Faces") here
- Our blog post recapping the new InDesign features shown at MAX
Our post about the Split Window feature
The old way to create side-by-side windows still works, too
Here's a reason to use "Skip First"

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In this episode:

News:
- InDesign Tips at Adobe MAX 2015
- Our latest InDesign titles at Lynda.com
- Gearing up for the InDesign Conference and the Photoshop Conference!
Interview with Erica Gamet
Publish Online feature: Pros, Cons, and more
Ranting about the CC App
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Show Content Offset

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> The Photoshop Conference, aka "The Photoshop Conference for the rest of us," is making its debut in November 16–18 in beautiful Denver, Colorado! Come and rub elbows with other designers, publishers, and production artists who want to learn from Photoshop pros like Deke McClelland, Lesa Snider, and Colin Smith. Optional: Register for an All-Access pass so you go back and forth between this conference and The InDesign Conference, happening on the other side of the hall! InDesignSecrets paid subscribers get $75 off registration using the code found in your Member Benefits (click "My Account" button at the top of the page).

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Our InDesign Conference is in Denver, CO; Nov. 16–18, 2015
And our debut Photoshop Conference is co-located there/then
Anne-Marie's new Lynda.com title Designing Templates with InDesign
David's new Lynda.com title InDesign Insider Training: Working with Photoshop and Illustrator
All the speakers at Adobe MAX, October 4–7 2015, in Los Angeles
Erica Gamet's InDesign Power Pack
All about the Publish Online feature
Adobe's help file for Creative Cloud App problems
Download the individual app installers
Rubber chicken?
Our contest about the "Show Content Offset" feature

Thank you to Adobe's Michael Ninness for the following examples of what folks are doing with interactivity and rich media with Publish Online!

Brown University football: https://indd.adobe.com/view/3d0c6511-1f4c-4fc5-8618-3d390acf8545 John Kelly's interactive art catalog https://indd.adobe.com/view/ab79b8c6-1265-44e3-aeae-7dccfb89cd94 SHIFT online catalog: https://indd.adobe.com/view/b6413504-fc6e-422f-a2f3-b9dddca32b88 Kia SUV Sportage brochure: https://indd.adobe.com/view/a68c4aec-906a-44b8-9656-6be52fbb18be

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In this episode:

News:
- Recording across the table from each other! (a little echo-y)
- Come see us at Adobe MAX
- David's speaking at the LA IDUG
- PePcon 2016: Registration is Open!
The Urge to Merge: All about combining INDD files
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Prevent Selection of Locked Objects

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> The Photoshop Conference, aka "The Photoshop Conference for the rest of us," is making its debut in November 16–18 in beautiful Denver, Colorado! Come and rub elbows with other designers, publishers, and production artists who want to learn from Photoshop pros like Deke McClelland, Lesa Snider, and Colin Smith. Optional: Register for an All-Access pass so you go back and forth between this conference and The InDesign Conference, happening on the other side of the hall! InDesignSecrets paid subscribers get $75 off registration using the code found in your Member Benefits (click "My Account" button at the top of the page).

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Our InDesign Conference is in Denver, CO; Nov. 16–18, 2015
And our debut Photoshop Conference is co-located there/then
PePcon 2016 registration is open
All the speakers at Adobe MAX, October 4–7 2015, in Los Angeles
See Diane Burns use GREP to make a table look cool (first video on the page)
Ten ways to merge documents in InDesign (CreativePro.com post)
Simon Wiscombe's post on merging all InDesign files
- Click here to download his merge all files script!
More info on Prevent Selection of Locked Object

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In this episode:

News:
- Agendas are up for InDesign Conference and Photoshop Conference
- Anne-Marie's new InDesign CC 2015 to EPUB video course
- InDesign Magazine new issues
Exporting to HTML 5: New script!
Interview with Bill Jelen (he's MrExcel.com)
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Include Inside Edges

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> The Photoshop Conference, aka "The Photoshop Conference for the rest of us," is making its debut in November 16–18 in beautiful Denver, Colorado! Come and rub elbows with other designers, publishers, and production artists who want to learn from Photoshop pros like Deke McClelland, Lesa Snider, and Colin Smith. Optional: Register for an All-Access pass so you go back and forth between this conference and The InDesign Conference, happening on the other side of the hall! InDesignSecrets paid subscribers get $75 off registration using the code found in your Member Benefits (click "My Account" button at the top of the page).

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Our InDesign Conference is in Denver, CO; Nov. 16–18, 2015
And our debut Photoshop Conference is co-located there/then
Anne-Marie' new video course, InDesign CC 2015: EPUB Fundamentals
Five Shortcuts Every InDesign User Should Know
August 2015 InDesign Magazine issue is about "getting HTML5 out of InDesign"
Keith Gilbert's post and amazing script revealing a secret back door for HTML5 export
Bill Jelen, @MrExcel is the brainiac behind the Mr. Excel web site
He lays out all his Mr. Excel books in InDesign — check them out!
Bill's latest book, The 40 Greatest Excel Tips of All Time, should be out soon
Fun tip from his book: Try this function in Excel: =ROMAN(40)
Hey we know a little about Excel too …
- Easier importing of complex Excel spreadsheets
- Drag and drop to Excel
David's Joy of Pi book and web site

Here's the bagel with its inside edges being included in the text wrap!

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In this episode:

News:
- PePcon session recordings are up!
- New features in InDesign CC 2015
Interview with Mark Heaps
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Collaborate

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> The InDesign Conference is coming up in November in beautiful Denver, Colorado! Come and join us for this deep dive into your favorite program, and leave with a truckload full of new tools and techniques you can apply to your projects. Optional: Register for an All-Access pass so you go back and forth between this conference and The Photoshop Conference, happening on the other side of the hall! InDesignSecrets paid subscribers get $75 off registration using the code found in your Member Benefits (click "My Account" button at the top of the page).

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Get online access to PePcon videos
PePcon 2015 wrap-up article
Kris Coppieter's free Word Stack script
Our InDesign Conference is in Denver, CO; Nov. 16–18, 2015
And our debut Photoshop Conference is co-located there/then
Learn more about the Adobe InDesign CC 2015 release
- Rundown of new features (blog post)
- Installation tips (blog post)
- Keep an eye out for the July 2015 issue of InDesign Magazine for a feature story that goes in-depth with all the new features!
The "shenanigans" thing (opening CC 2015 files in earlier versions)
David's new lynda.com title: InDesign Essential Training CC 2015
Mark Heaps, Houndstooth Studio, Twitter: @lifebypixels
Mark's "The Client Whisperer" Creative Keynote at PePcon 2015
Collaborate in the CC Libraries panel

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News:
- PePcon session recordings (woohoo!) and sponsors of note
- Kevin Callahan is the new EIC at EPUBSecrets.com
- InDesign Conference and PSDcon taking registrations
Changing Case: Tips, scripts, GREP, plug-ins
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Spread Flattening

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> ID-Extras has a cool range of InDesign add-ons and scripts. Some are especially for book and other long-document publishing, but many are great for any kind of publishing work you do in InDesign. For example, wouldn't you love to be able to carry over all the font specs from the form fields you create in InDesign over to Acrobat? Of course you would! That's what the FormMagic scripts do. There's a free version and a Pro version, check them out! You can get a special podcast-only 20% discount price until June 30, 2015 on ANY ID-Extras product by using the coupon code save20.

>> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, EPUB, and Adobe DPS training. Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol. Get booked today onto a Certitec course and experience the latest and greatest software experience from Adobe. Follow them on Twitter at @Certitec and keep up with their Facebook page. If you sign up for a seminar or class in London or Cardiff, and mention you heard about them on InDesignSecrets, you get 20% off the fee!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Get online access to PePcon videos
Kevin Callahan's introductory post at EPUBSecrets.com
Kevin's InDesign to Kindle cover story for InDesign Magazine
Our InDesign Conference is in Denver, CO; Nov. 16–18, 2015
And our debut Photoshop Conference is co-located there/then
The Time Turner from Harry Potter (David's making me include this --AM)
Change Case links and scripts:
- ChangeCase scripts based on Paragraph or Character styles
- GREP Solution blog post regarding the flawed Title Case
- Peter Kahrel's Change Case add-on for Find/Change
- Peter Kahrel's Title Case script page
- In-Tools' free plug-in, Formatting Tools
- Dave Saunders' Smart Title Case blog post and script
- Vote for a better Change Case feature for InDesign!
The Flattening trick (to convert fonts to outlines)
PePcon sponsors mentioned: XMPie, WebDAM, Ripon, Recosoft, Premedia Systems, Peachpit, lynda.com, In-Tools, Em Software, DTP Tools, Axaio, and Anro. (Ask me why I list them in reverse alpha order, if you dare -- AM)

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News: Adobe Comp CC, Typekit upgrades, PePcon
All About I (the keyboard shortcut that changed with CC 2014)
Interview with Roberto Blake, Graphic Designer/YouTube Star
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Masters Fixed

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> movemen (pronounced move-eh-men) is the developer of MathTools, an outstanding equation editor plug-in for InDesign and InCopy. It's the tool of choice for science, math, and engineering textbook publishers worldwide. New in MathTools v2.0 is the ability to convert the equations to MathML (open source industry standard for math equations in XML/HTML5 /CSS3) upon export to HTML, XML, and EPUB! Learn more about MathTools v2.0 on movemen's site, and about its MathML feature in this FAQ.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Anne-Marie spoke at Michela Di Stefano's Digital Publishing Explorers conference
Adobe Comp CC in the iTunes store and our post about it
Typekit blog, their posts about Extensis and site redesign
PePcon 2015, June 1–4 in Philadelphia PA -- Registration today!
PePcon 2015 breakfast sessions on:
- MEI's TruEdit
- Rorohiko's Crawler
- movemen's MathTools (see above)
The I Key and the new Color Theme Tool:
- Using the Color Theme Tool (Tip of the Week post)
- Getting the Color Theme Tool Out of Your Way
Roberto Blake:
- RobertoBlake.com
- AlwaysBeCreating, Roberto's YouTube channel
- Roberto's articles on CreativePro.com

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News: Adobe Publish, PePcon, InDesign Conference, Photoshop Conference
The Hidden Power of the Letter J (toggle apply formatting to content vs. text)
Interview with Trish Witkowski, Chief Folding Fanatic
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Unnamed Color

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, EPUB, and Adobe DPS training. Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol. Get booked today onto a Certitec course and experience the latest and greatest software experience from Adobe! Follow them on Twitter at @Certitec and keep up with their Facebook page. If you sign up for a seminar or class in London or Cardiff, and mention you heard about them on InDesignSecrets, you get 20% off the fee!**

Links mentioned in this podcast:

PePcon 2015, June 1–4 in Philadelphia PA Registration open now!
The InDesign Conference, November 16–18 in Denver, CO.
The Photoshop Conference, November 16–18, in Denver, CO
The J Key:
- Easily Toggle Swatch Panel Focus
- Why the Effects Panel is Grayed out
Trish Witkowski:
- FoldFactory
- Trish's excellent lynda.com courses
- Fold of the Week
David's book, Spectrums: Our Mind-Boggling Universe From Infinitesimal to Infinity:
- Web site spectrums.com
- The audiobook
David's InDesign Insider Training courses at lynda.com

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New features in InDesign v10.2, aka "February 2015 release of InDesign CC 2014"
- Hey there's more than a couple! Listen up
- Our opinion on why some are useful, others not so (but may become so)
Interview with Russell Viers
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Show Processing Instructions

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Recosoft* makes the amazing *PDF2ID, PDF-to-InDesign conversion tool for InDesign CS4 through CC 2014. They also offer ID2Office v2 which converts InDesign files to Word, PowerPoint, and Keynote format. ID2Office v2.0 now adds support for InDesign CC and converts InDesign nested tables into Word nested tables and Apple Keynote format. Get 15% off with special promo code ID_TIP_OF_THE_WEEK.**

Links mentioned in this podcast:

PePcon 2015, June 1–4 in Philadelphia PA Registration open now!
Our in-depth article on new features in InDesign v10.2
What is Microsoft XPS?
Adobe Project Layup: introduction and initial reactions
Russell Viers's seminars at PePcon 2015, June 1–4 in Philadelphia
Russell's web site
Russell's comprehensive article on Long Documents in InDesign Magazine
Adobe's Touch apps (apps for mobile devices)

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Latest content from InDesign Magazine
Selecting text frames in multiple spreads? Whaaa?
Interview with Diane Burns
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: No Text

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft* makes the amazing *PDF2ID, PDF-to-InDesign conversion tool for InDesign CS4 through CC 2014. They also offer ID2Office v2 which converts InDesign files to Word, PowerPoint and Keynote format. ID2Office v2.0 now adds support for InDesign CC and converts InDesign nested tables into Word nested tables and Apple Keynote format.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

PePcon 2015, June 1–4 in Philadelphia PA Registration open now!
InDesign Conference 2015, November 16–18, Denver CO Sign up for news on home page
The Photoshop Conference 2015, November 16–18, Denver CO Site going live in February
Justin Putney, In5 developer, wrote the UX in InDesign cover story for InDesign Magazine
Repeat After Me script
All about Diane Burns and her company, TransPacificDigital
Diane and Sandee Cohen's book, Digital Publishing with Adobe InDesign, use TWITTER for discount
Three Great Object Styles and Object Style for Placed Images
EPUB, PDF, or DPS?

Cool cell joins with an object style/anchored object! Check out Diane's screen shots:

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Top Posts of 2014: A look back
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Report Abuse
Quizzler answer, and the winner!

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> ID-Extras has a cool range of InDesign add-ons and scripts especially for book and other long-document publishing, many of which are great for any kind of publishing work you do in InDesign. For example, wouldn't you love to be able to do a Find/Change for attributes in your Paragraph Styles, and the Change step would update all your styles at once? Of course you would! That's what the Search In Styles script does. You can get a special podcast-only discount price ($39 instead of $49) until Jan. 31, 2015 by going to this special page: http://www.id-extras.com/searchinstylesextendedoffer and use the password "podcast" (no quotes). >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, EPUB, and Adobe DPS training. Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol (in newly expanded offices). Get booked today onto a Certitec course and experience the latest and greatest software experience from Adobe, including their latest, "Illustrator for Fashion"! Follow them on Twitter at @Certitec and keep up with their Facebook page. If you sign up for a seminar or class in London or Cardiff, and mention you heard about them on InDesignSecrets, you get 20% off the fee!

QUIZZLER answer and winner! There are 32 (yes that many) trash can/dust bin icons "littered" (sorry) throughout the InDesign interface. Intrepid listener Jim Leonardson of Chicago, Illinois came up with the top answer, which you'll find below the show links. Honorable mention to blog contributor/InDesign author Sandee Cohen, who sent us a PDF containing screen shots of the 27 that she found. Jim won two of our eb0oks, our Top Forty InDesign Tips and the Guide to Graphic Effects bundle by Mike Rankin.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Top posts (most commented by readers) from 2014:
- Adobe Drops DPS Single Edition Support from Creative Cloud
- Why You Should Import RGB Images Into InDesign and Convert to CMYK On Export
- What’s New With InDesign CC 2014
- ID CC 9.2 Brings Hyperlink Relief
- Typekit Update in 9.2
- Convert All Text to Outlines when exporting EPS from ID
- Stop Hyphenated Compound Words from Hyphenating
- Free Webinar: Secrets of the InDesign Masters
- The InDesign Code: Fully Exposed!
David's post about the difference between EPUB, DPS, and interactive PDFs
Ben Schott interview in our podcast

It's all about the Trash:

In Panels: Animation Articles Assignments Bookmarks Button and Forms Cell Styles Character Styles Conditional Text Cross-References Effects Folio Builder Folio Overlay* Hyperlinks Index Layers Notes Object States Object Styles Pages Paragraph Styles Table Styles Tags Trap Presets Swatches
In the Structure Pane at the top
To the right of the Find/Change Query pull-down menu
Next to the Find Format frame (Text, GREP, and Object tabs) counts as 3
Next to the Change Format frame (again Text, GREP, and Object tabs) counts as 3

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In this episode:

News: Adobe drops DPS Single Edition benefit from CC, New lynda.com titles from Anne-Marie and David
What we learned at The InDesign Conference in Seattle
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Clear Inner
Quizzler! If you know how to count you could win

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft makes the amazing PDF2ID, a PDF-to-InDesign conversion tool for InDesign CS4 through CC 2014 (Creative Cloud). Recosoft also just released ID2Office v2.0 which converts InDesign files to Word, PowerPoint, and Keynote format. ID2Office v2.0 now adds support for InDesign CC 2014 and converts InDesign nested tables into Word nested tables and Apple Keynote format. SPECIAL OFFER: ID Secrets Users get 15% off PDF2ID or ID2Office Standard v2.0 with coupon code ID_Secrets for a limited time. >> eDocker: Convert your InDesign files to HTML5 digital publications with eDocker Create! A major new upgrade allows you to "interactivate" your publications with hyperlinks, slideshows, pop-up windows, videos (MP4 or YouTube), HTML windows, even a text reading mode and snippets. A new Adobe InDesign extension called eDocker Tools lets you add almost all of these features directly in InDesign. You can even host your publications with their eDocker Publish service. >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, EPUB, and Adobe DPS training. Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol (in newly expanded offices). Get booked today onto a Certitec course and experience the latest and greatest software experience from Adobe, including their latest, "Illustrator for Fashion"! Follow them on Twitter at @Certitec and keep up with their Facebook page. If you sign up for a seminar or class in London or Cardiff, and mention you heard about them on InDesignSecrets, you get 20% off the fee!

QUIZZLER! Listen to the podcast (towards the end) to hear this episode's Quizzler. If you think you know the answer, email it to info@indesignsecrets.com with the phrase "Quizzler 216" in the Subject line! Deadline for Quizzler answers is midnight December 15, 2014. In the case of a tie, we'll randomly choose one submittal from the correct answers. We'll announce the winner in the next podcast, and contact them by email too, with information on how to get their FABULOUS PRIZES! (see below)

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Adobe Drops DSP Single Edition Support from Creative Cloud
David's post about the difference between EPUB, DPS, and interactive PDFs
InDesign Magazine issues of note: Fixed-Layout EPUBs (Nov. 2014) and Workflows (Dec. 2014)
Anne-Marie's new lynda.com course Creating Fixed-Layout EPUBs with InDesign CC
David's new lynda.com course InDesign Insider Training: Preflighting and Printing
The InDesign Conference
Tips that we (re-)learned at The InDesign Conference: Which image is loaded in Place gun?, Automatic object styles for placed images, Bob Bringhurst's blog of DPS Tips and Workarounds
Quizzler winner wins a copy of this and this

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In this episode:

News about InDesign and our industry
Adobe MAX Recap
New Feature Round-up in InDesign CC 2014.1
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Run Length

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft makes the amazing PDF2ID, a PDF-to-InDesign conversion tool for InDesign CS4 through CC 2014 (Creative Cloud). Recosoft also just released ID2Office v2.0 which converts InDesign files to Word, PowerPoint and Keynote format. ID2Office v2.0 now adds support for InDesign CC 2014and converts InDesign nested tables into Word nested tables and Apple Keynote format. SPECIAL OFFER: ID Secrets Users get 15% off PDF2ID or ID2Office Standard v2.0 with coupon code ID_Secrets good till Nov. 30, 2014. >> Rorohiko: You know them as a prolific source of free and low-cost scripts and plug-ins for InDesign (e.g. TextExporter, Sudoku Generator, EPUBCrawler) but did you know the bulk of their business is doing custom scripting and workflow analysis for publishers just like yourselves? Learn more about how this works by reading about (and downloading) the SwatchWatch script, presented as a case study for their custom automation solutions. They will be at the InDesign Conference in Seattle if you'd like to talk about a project, and you can email them at dev@rorohiko.com. >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, EPUB, and Adobe DPS training. Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol (in newly expanded offices). InDesignSecrets.com contributor and popular PePcon speaker Bart Van de Wiele will be conducting a "celebrity" 2-day Photoshop class with them in early November. Get booked today onto a Certitec course and experience the latest and greatest software experience from Adobe! Follow them on Twitter at @Certitec and keep up with their Facebook page. If you sign up for a seminar or class in London or Cardiff, and mention you heard about them on InDesignSecrets, you get 20% off the fee!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

InDesign Conference: Nov 3–5, 2014, in Seattle
Anne-Marie's new lynda.com course Creating Fixed-Layout EPUBs with InDesign CC
Books in Browsers conference
InDesign Magazine's October issue: Workarounds
Project Layup
Tablet Workspace for Illustrator
Our blog post on new features in InDesign CC 2014.1 (October 2014 release)
What are Hex colors?

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In this episode:

News about our sessions at Adobe MAX, The InDesign Conference, and InDesign Magazine
Time to Make the Calendars — Faster!
Understanding Frames: Points vs. Paths
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Run Length

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko: You know them as a prolific source of free and low-cost scripts and plug-ins for InDesign (e.g. TextExporter, Sudoku Generator, EPUBCrawler) but did you know the bulk of their business is doing custom scripting for publishers just like yourselves? Learn more about how this works by reading about (and downloading) the SwatchWatch script, presented as a case study for their custom automation solutions. >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, EPUB, and Adobe DPS training. Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol. Get booked today onto a Certitec course and experience the latest and greatest software experience from Adobe! Follow them on Twitter at @Certitec and keep up with their Facebook page. If you sign up for a seminar or class in London or Cardiff, and mention you heard about them on InDesignSecrets, you get 20% off the fee!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

InDesign Conference: Nov 3–5, 2014, in Seattle
InDesign Magazine's September issue: Long Documents
Sandee's post on Making Calendars, more info on Calendar Wizard
Great source for cool calendar templates
Points vs. Paths: Article on rotating a frame but not the text
What is a trapezoid, exactly?
And how about that Run Length Encoding?

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In this episode:

News: Speakers and Agenda are up for The InDesign Conference; New Fixed-Layout EPUB Webinar; InDesign Magazine
The Good and the Bad about Fixed Layout EPUBs
All About Live Corners! You'll learn at least one new thing
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Include IDML

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft: Open and convert PDF and Windows XPS documents directly in Adobe InDesign CS4 to CC 2014 right from InDesign's File menu with their latest version of PDF2ID, the amazing InDesign plug-in. Be sure to check out their other amazing plug-in for InDesign users, ID2Office: export your InDesign files to Word or Powerpoint! And just released: iPad and iPhone apps to convert PDFs to Office and iWorks. So cool.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

InDesign Conference: Nov 3–5, 2014, in Seattle
InDesign Magazine's August issue: The Music Issue
Watch Anne-Marie's recorded webinar on Fixed Layout EPUB from InDesign CC 2014
Updated Creating a Fixed-Layout EPUB on Lynda.com
Everyone knows Bob Levine, right?
Adobe Digital Editions: current version, news about the ADE4 beta

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In this episode:

News: Registration opens for The InDesign Conference, Free InDesign template of the month
Getting HTML 5 out of InDesign: Why and How?
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Missing Glyph Protection

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko: Check out Rorohiko's upcoming "Crawler," a new InDesign plug-in that will let you export a layout's content to HTML, ePub, Fixed Layout, and even Markdown (like the "RTF" of HTML). Its Fixed Layout output will have an option to export "Clean CSS" and "Clean HTML" making the files much easier to edit than the ones InDesign creates. Go to the Crawler page to learn more, and click the link there to contact Kris at Rorohiko with your questions about it. Or if you're in the mood for something that you can download and use today to make your InDesign-ing easier (like Sodoku Generator and Text Exporter, mentioned in the podcast), visit the main Rorohiko.com site and just click on the Products List button. Whoa! So much too choose from, and many of them free!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

InDesign Conference: Nov 3–5, 2014, in Seattle
InDesign Magazine's July issue: The Best Things in Life are Free
Be sure to check out the August issue (#64), too, which is all about music publishing and sound files in InDesign. Get your headsets ready!
Free InDesign template for Premium members of InDesignSecrets.com
HTML5 out of InDesign solutions: eDocker Create from eDocker and In5 from Ajar Productions
Read about and download the Swimmer script, one of PePcon 2014's People's Choice scripts, written by Rorohiko

Officer Glyph (the Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week) is on the case:

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In this episode:

News: PePcon 2015 announced, Adobe releases CC 2014, InDesign Conference, new Lynda.com videos
PePcon 2014 highlights and our favorite sessions and new tips
New features in InDesign CC 2014
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Ink Alias

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Managing Editor (MEI): Their new service TruEdit is a turnkey solution that integrates with InDesign and DPS, allowing your teams to collaboratively create, manage and deliver digital content -- regardless of whether contributors are remote or working within InDesign. Learn more about TruEdit here.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

PePcon 2015 will be in Philadelphia, June 1-4, 2015 -- sign up to the announcement list
Anne-Marie's lynda.com course InDesign CC: EPUB Fundamentals is updated for CC 2014
InDesign Conference: Nov 3–5, 2014, in Seattle
Adobe's new CC 2014 line-up, and their answer to the question, "Why do I have 2 copies of my CC apps?"
InDesign CC 2014 new features
InDesign Magazine and issue 62: A Fresh Start (coming up in July, issue 63 is all about FREE stuff for InDesign users)
David's post on placing multiple pages of a PDF in a grid
Kat Topaz is the Creative Director at Storycode
How Ink Alias works

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In this episode:

News: InDesign Conference 2014, CC update, Mike Rankin new EIC of InDesignSecrets.com
A few great third-party companies you should know about
The State of the Flattening Universe: Still need to flatten transparency when exporting to PDF for press?
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: False Italic

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> eDocker: With eDocker CREATE! it's very easy to build interactive publications directly from Adobe InDesign to be published as standalone HTML5 web-app or eDocker PUBLISH! publication. With eDocker PUBLISH! service anyone can easily share eDocker CREATE! files or plain PDF to all computer and iPad users, publications can be free/public, paid/subscribed or private. Special offer for InDesignSecrets podcast listeners saves hundreds of dollars off either or both services, check it out! *>>* Recosoft* makes the amazing PDF2ID, PDF-to-InDesign conversion tool for InDesign CS4 through CC (Creative Cloud). Recosoft also just released ID2Office v2.0 which converts InDesign files to Word, PowerPoint and Keynote format. ID2Office v2.0 now adds support for InDesign CC and converts InDesign nested tables into Word nested tables and Apple Keynote format. ID Secrets Users get 15% off PDF2ID v3.5 or ID2Office Standard v2.0 with coupon code ID_Secrets*, offer good until June 30, 2014.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

InDesign Conference: Nov 3–5, 2014, in Seattle
InDesign Magazine
InDesignSecrets membership
Sign up for a link and reminder of the Adobe CC update webinar on June 18
The PePcon 2014 Sponsors page has details and links for XMPie, Rorohiko, Ripon Printers, Recosoft, Em Software, eDocker, Aquafadas, and Adobe (reverse alpha FTW!)
Claudia McCue's Adobe Creative Suite Printing Guide (direct link to the PDF)
Claudia's book Real World Print Production and some great posts here and on her blog
David's Creating Print PDF video title on lynda.com will be released shortly
Adobe PDF Print Engine info
See "False Italic" appear in Anne-Marie's flame war-igniting ID Secrets video on making fake bold and italic

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In this episode:

AM's field report from the Edward Tufte one-day course
Huge InDesign Magazine issue coming up, all about Adobe DPS
Interview with Ben Schott, author of Miscellany and Schottenfreude
Hidden uses for Live Preflight
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Entry End

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> PePcon: The Print + ePublishing Conference is the place to be to learn more about using Adobe InDesign for print, PDF, epub, and tablet publication projects. Come to Chicago June 15–18 and join us and hundreds of your hard-working colleagues from around the world, from all sorts of companies and universities, all there for the same purpose: to learn, to share, and be inspired. Special for InDesignSecrets podcast listeners: Use the coupon code CH73G to receive $50 off your PePcon registration! >> The long-running InDesign Conference** is now part of the InDesignSecrets family, and plans are in the works for the next event. We'll make an announcement in the upcoming few months. Keep an eye on the blog and in your email's inbox!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Edward Tufte's books on Amazon
InDesign Magazine
InDesignSecrets membership
Ben Schott's site and Wikipedia page
Blog posts on dotted tab leaders here and here
How to convert to outlines when exporting EPS
Check out all our posts on preflight in InDesign
David's Blatner Tools has a Quality Assurance module
Other Preflight utilities: Zevrix's InPreflight and Markzware's Flightcheck

Here are some of examples of Ben Schott's writing and artwork (click each thumbnail to enlarge):

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EpubSecrets.com, InCopySecrets.com, Spring-loaded shortcuts, Chad Chelius interview, Obscurity of the Week: Indic Script Preferences

In this episode:

News from the land of InDesign
- InCopySecrets.com and ePubSecrets.com are alive again!
- PePcon 2014 early bird deadline coming up!
Spring-loaded shortcuts
- When they save time and not
- Other obscure "dynamic" shortcuts
Interview with Chad Chelius, new Editor-in-Chief of InCopySecrets.com
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Indic Preferences Script

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> InfoLogic's MathMagic Pro lets you quickly insert mathematical equations and scientific symbols into your InDesign document. It anchors an EPS of the equation at the text insertion point, automatically aligning the baseline of the equation to the text baseline, and can accept incoming equations from Word's Equation Editor, MathML, MathType, or LaTeX. Just double-click the anchored EPS to edit! Available for InDesign CS3 to CC, Mac or Windows. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners:* Follow the instructions on this page to receive a free two-month subscription to MathMagic Pro ($100 value). Offer expires March 31, 2014! >> Recosoft makes the amazing PDF2ID, PDF-to-InDesign conversion tool for InDesign CS4 through CC (Creative Cloud). They also just released ID2Office v2.0 which adds support for InDesign CC and converts InDesign files to Word, PowerPoint and (new!) Keynote format. Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners, through April 15 2014, get 15% discount off PDF2ID v3.5 or ID2Office v2.0 with code ID_Secrets***

Links mentioned in this podcast:

PePcon: The Print + ePublishing Conference
Check out ePubSecrets.com and InCopySecrets.com
Spring-Loaded shortcuts post
Chad's new Lynda.com title, Creating Accessible PDFs
Our accessibility page
Chad's 1/2-day workshop at PePcon, CSS & HTML: What Designers Need to Know
The T-key and U-key
More info on typesetting Indic languages: this post, this help file, and this other help file

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InDesign Magazine; PePcon 2014; Typekit; Hyperlinks; Workspaces; OFOTW: Clear All

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News from the land of InDesign
- InDesign Magazine goes monthly
- Magazine is now a benefit of InDesignSecrets.com paid membership
- Special instructions for existing InDesign Magazine subscribers
- New site up for PePcon 2014, just 4 months away!
Answers to attendee questions from our InDesign Masters webinar, including:
- Typekit ins and outs
- Shared destination hyperlinks
- Previewing fonts tip
- Sharing custom workspaces
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Clear All

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> InfoLogic's MathMagic Pro lets you quickly insert mathematical equations and scientific symbols into your InDesign document. It anchors an EPS of the equation at the text insertion point, automatically aligning the baseline of the equation to the text baseline, and can accept incoming equations from Word's Equation Editor, MathML, MathType, or LaTeX. Just double-click the anchored EPS to edit! Available for InDesign CS3 to CC, Mac or Windows. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners:* Follow the instructions on this page to receive a free two-month subscription to MathMagic Pro ($100 value)*. Offer expires March 31, 2014!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

PePcon: The Print + ePublishing Conference
Recording of Anne-Marie & David's "Secrets of the InDesign Masters" webinar (Flash required)
This is a useful PDF for designers new to Typekit
You don't need to have Creative Cloud to use Typekit desktop fonts
We talked about shared hyperlink destinations in podcast 118 (transcript)
How to do the cool font change preview trick
Tool for quickly resizing all your scaled images to 100%
David's favorite Mac utilities including the active app one

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In this Very Special New Year's episode:

News: PePcon speakers and sessions posted, Anne-Marie at ADIM14, new lynda.com InDesign CC to EPUB title released
All about the latest InDesign CC update (9.2)
- Easier and more stable Hyperlinks
- Typekit integration
- EPUB improvements and new features
3 New Things we each want to learn in 2014
- Anne-Marie: Cloud publishing, In5 plug-in, and Editorial/Design workflow platforms
- David: Web apps from InDesign, Phone Gap and Baker Framework, and the violin!
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Autogrow

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, EPUB, and Adobe DPS training. They have just been awarded the CompTIA Trustmark award in the UK, which affords them recognition as a modern I.T. training company with standards. Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol. Get booked today onto a Certitec course and experience the latest and greatest software experience from Adobe! Follow them on Twitter at @Certitec and keep up with their Facebook page. If you sign up for a seminar or class and mention you heard about them on InDesignSecrets, you get 20% off the fee!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

PePcon 2014 initial speakers and sessions
Anne-Marie's speaking at Russell Brown's ADIM Conference, March 9–14 in Boulder, Colorado
Check out her new InDesign CC: EPUB Fundamentals course on lynda.com
Steve Werner's blog post about new Typekit features in InDesign CC 9.2 (we have an article about all the new 9.2 features in the next issue of InDesign Magazine)
Hyperlinks vs. Cross-References are the Odd Couple (music and intro)
Resolutions:
- App publishing: Web apps/In5 plug-in, Baker Framework, Phone Gap
- Cloud-based publishing: LucidPress, LayerGloss, BookType, Inkling Habitat, Story
- The violin!

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In this episode:

News: InDesign Conference; PePcon; Lynda Weinman creative keynote!
Neglected Panels (some you may not even know about)
- Worth a(nother) look: Info, Tool Hints, Kuler, Background Tasks, Story, Attributes
- Forgettable for most users: Trap Presets, Timing (until HTML 5 export!), Script Label, Tags, Transform (redundant!), Flattener Preview
- Wait-and-see: Adobe Exchange
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Consolidate All to Here

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software is the developer of DocsFlow Pro (among other cool InDesign plug-ins) that allows you to do real-time collaboration with off-site editors using Google Docs. Place early-draft stories or spreadsheets from Google Docs into your layout, map its styles to your InDesign styles and start your production work while your authors and editors continue working on the original documents. Merge their updated work at any time into your InDesign layouts with a single command, without losing anything, and with InDesign notes left at any points of conflicts. Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners: Pro 2.0 is 25% off in the EmSoftware.com store (for new licenses only) using the code DFP1213 until the end of December 2013! *>>* Recosoft:* Open and convert PDF and Windows XPS documents directly in Adobe InDesign CC right from InDesign's File menu with their latest version (4.0) of PDF2ID, the amazing InDesign plug-in. Earlier 3.5 version still available for InDesign versions CS4 to CS6. Be sure to check out their other amazing plug-in for InDesign users, ID2Office: export your InDesign files to Word or Powerpoint! Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners, through January 2014, get 25% discount off PDF2ID v3.5 or ID2Office v1.5 with code ID_Secrets***

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Chicago Blues Fest during PePcon 2014!
Posts, Podcasts, and PDFs about these poor, poor panels
- Adios, Navigator panel
- Your forgotten friend, the Info panel
- What is the Script Label panel for?
- Here's a clever use for the Attributes panel
- The Flattener Preview panel was hot stuff in Podcast 88 (and Sandee Cohen originally coined it Blatner Preview)
- Trap Presets panel? Grab this PDF excerpt of the Trapping section from Real World InDesign
Candid shot of the wily Background Tasks panel in its lair:

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CreativePro.com reader survey; Getting started with InCopy; Obscurity of the Week: Apply Gamma Correction

In this episode:

News: CreativePro.com survey
Getting Started with InCopy
- Cost (comes with Creative Cloud!)
- Basic setup for small and large groups, local and remote
- Using its unique features for InDesign purposes
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Apply Gamma Correction

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Lynda.com is the nation's premiere provider of online instruction for creatives in the design, photography, and publishing fields. Check out David's latest title: Insider InDesign Training: Interactive PDFs, and Anne-Marie's Using Word and InDesign Together. They also have an ongoing series of free and subscriber-only videos called InDesign Secrets. Check out all the InDesign videos at lynda.com!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Direct link to the CreativePro.com reader survey (you could win an iPod Nano!)
InCopySecrets.com
Our InCopy forum on InDesignSecrets.com
Using InCopy as an InDesign "Reader"
Convert InDesign notes to PDF comments with InCopy
The sad story of PNG Gamma Correction
Here it is!

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The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

In this episode:

Adobe Creative Cloud — 6 Months Later
- Working? Broken? Anne-Marie and David argue it out
- Reports from the field
- Some options that could help those who are stuck
- Issues specific to InDesign users and developers as opposed to other Adobe apps
- Open source and other page layout competition
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Adobe Product Improvement Program

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Rorohiko has this neat add-on called Frame Reporter. It adds a little label next to any page object which you can configure to show whatever information you need to see without having to dig through panels: Effective resolution, Name and/or path of the placed image, so many more, and now, stacking order, crucial to creating accessible PDFs. They've written up a detailed explanation of all the options and how their customers have used FrameReporter to streamline their work. Normally $39.00 US, you can get it for 30% off* if you enter the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS203*** upon purchase.

*>>* Recosoft:* Open and convert PDF and Windows XPS documents directly in Adobe InDesign CC right from InDesign's File menu with their latest version (4.0) of PDF2ID, the amazing InDesign plug-in. Earlier 3.5 version still available for InDesign versions CS4 to CS6. Be sure to check out their other amazing plug-in for InDesign users, ID2Office: export your InDesign files to Word or Powerpoint! Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners, until Nov. 30, get 25% discount off PDF2ID v3.5 or ID2Office v1.5 with code ID_Secrets***

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Creative Cloud pricing and the Teams option
Our 200+ commented post on InDesign's debut as a Cloud-only app
String theory and the fifth dimension
Adobe Product Improvement Program FAQ ("apipfaq")

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Call for speakers; TypeKit; Text Wrap Rap; Obscurity of the Week: Largest Area

A little bit of news:
- TypeKit is now available for all Adobe CC subscribers
- PePcon 2014 open for registration!
- Last call for PePcon speakers! Fill out our friendly form
Text Wrap Rap
- Confusing bits clarified
- Little-known tips and tricks
- What are all those contour options?
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Largest Area

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software is the developer of DocsFlow and WordsFlow, two "time machine" plug-ins for your production workflow. Place early-draft stories or spreadsheets from Google Docs with DocsFlow, or Word/Excel documents with WordsFlow, and start your production work while your authors and editors continue working on the original documents. Merge their updated work at any time into your InDesign layouts with a single command, without losing anything, and with InDesign notes left at any points of conflicts. Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners: DocsFlow Pro 2.0 is 25% off in the EmSoftware.com store until the end of October 2013! Grab it now. >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, EPUB, and Adobe DPS training. They are officially in the Cloud! (Creative Cloud that is.) Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol. Get booked today onto a Certitec course and experience the latest and greatest software experience from Adobe! Follow them on Twitter at @Certitec and keep up with their Facebook page. If you sign up for a seminar or class and mention you heard about them on InDesignSecrets, you get 20% off the fee!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

PePcon.com (2014 Print + ePublishing Conference site) is open for business!
Get involved — be a PePcon speaker!
We talked about Text Wrap in podcasts 180 and 048 too, if you can't get enough
Detailed posts about Text Wrap here on the blog!
- Only Affects Text Beneath Preference (this one too)
- Text Wrap in a Table
- Dual Text Wrap Dilemma
- Wrapping Around Anchored Objects
- Making Dynamic Text Wrap Permanent
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs? (movie ref)

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PePcon.com is live; Word to InDesign Nightmares and Fixes; Obscurity of the Week: InDesign 2.0 Compatibility

A little bit of news:
- PePcon 2014 site is live!
- InDesign CS6.02 update
5 Word-to-InDesign "Nightmares" and how to solve them!
- Formatting, links, pictures, styles, oy!
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: InDesign 2.0 Compatibility

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko brings the illusion of multiple strokes and fills to InDesign frames with its Magneto Paths plug-in for InDesign! Only $19.00, or try a fully-functional (time limited) demo. Illustrator's Attributes panel ... we're coming for ya!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

PePcon.com (2014 Print + ePublishing Conference site) is open for business!
Post about the InDesign CS6 8.0.2 update
Is Milton (with the red stapler) in charge of CS6 updates? Video
Using Word and InDesign Together (Anne-Marie's new lynda.com title)
A few InDesignSecrets blog posts about Word and InDesign:
- Un-anchor all anchored objects
- Paste without formatting
- Update linked Word files
- Import and keep italics and bold
- Clean up hyperlinks in Word
- Copy and pasting without the dreaded pink
We talked about Best Joins in podcast episode 122

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200th episode spectacular extravaganza; Memories, time travel, and outtakes; Obscurity of the Week: Credits

Our 200th episode! (and our 25th year (each) in the field)
Milestone memories from David and Anne-Marie
Time traveling through the podcast episodes
Podcast outtakes!
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Credits

News and special offers from our sponsors: *>>* Recosoft:* Open and convert PDF and Windows XPS documents directly in Adobe InDesign CC right from InDesign?s File menu with their latest version (4.0) of PDF2ID, the amazing InDesign plug-in. Earlier 3.5 version still available for InDesign versions CS4 to CS6. Be sure to check out their other amazing plug-in for InDesign users, ID2Office: export your InDesign files to Word or Powerpoint! Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners, until Sept 30, get 25% discount off PDF2ID v3.5 or ID2Office v1.5 with code ID_Secrets***

Links mentioned in this podcast:

News clip from when Quark announced they were considering buying Adobe (story of Tim Gill at breakfast)
Casady & Greene's QuickDex lives on as iData3 for OSX!
Let's put on a show!
Craig Swanson is now running CreativeLive.com
Lynda Weinman and GoLive
World Book Encyclopedia is still doing great
Podcast time travel: -- Episode 25 in 2006 -- Milestone episode 50, in 2007 -- #75 in 2008 -- #100 in 2009 -- #125 in 2010 -- Episode #150 in 2011 and our 150 Awesome Links and Resources page -- #175 in 2012 -- In the year 2525

We used to be in the credits!

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News; Five Gotchas and their fixes; Obscurity of the Week: Comb

The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

News
- Call for PePcon 2014 speakers
- New lynda.com video tutorials by Anne-Marie (ID and Word) and David (Interactive PDFs)
- Update to InDesign CC and InCopy CC released
Five Common (and easily-fixed) InDesign Gotchas!
- Jumping text, disappearing guides, copy/paste between versions, and more
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Comb

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, EPUB, and Adobe DPS training. Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol.Their "Uncovered Series" seminars cover the cutting-edge technologies in Adobe's latest products — view them all at seminars.certitec.com. If you sign up for a seminar or class and mention you heard about them on InDesignSecrets, you get 20% off the fee! >> Rorohiko* has two things they want InDesignSecrets podcast listeners to know about. First, they have a 20% discount off their QR plug-in for InDesign CS5 and later, "Tada QR!" (which Sandee and David talked about in the last podcast episode, and you can watch Rorohiko's video on it here). Enter the code INDESIGNSECRETS199 at the Rorohiko store and get the Tada QR! plug-in for $12.00 instead of $15.00. Second, they're in early beta for a new plug-in that adds an Actions panel to InDesign, similar to the ones in Photoshop and Illustrator. Record a series of actions and then play them back on another selection or page ... very cool. If you want to beta test *ActionRecorder, click the link and read the instructions. (Here's a video on how it works!)

Links mentioned in this podcast:

InDesign CC update adds Synch Settings
Call for PePcon speakers — c'mon, fill out the form, it'll be fun!
Using Word and InDesign Together; new lynda.com course from Anne-Marie
InDesign Insider Training: Interactive PDFs; new lynda.com course from David
Somewhat related posts on gotchas: grayed-out features, unwanted default formatting, ignores leading values, share content with older versions, exporting jpegs from InDesign, exporting selections to exact size
Using the Comb and other page transitions

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QR Codes; Sandee Cohen guest co-host; Obscurity of the Week: Warn if Link Update Will Overwrite Local Edits

Sandee Cohen, our guest star in the studios!
- Innovative use for InDesign CC's QR Code feature!
- More tips for QR codes than you can imagine
- The cool TaDa! QR plugin from Rorohiko
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Warn if Link Update Will Overwrite Local Edits

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software is the developer of DocsFlow and WordsFlow, two plug-ins for Adobe InDesign that dynamically link your text frames to online Google Docs (DocsFlow) or placed Word files (WordsFlow). These products enable a breakthrough publishing workflow, one where your authors and editors can keep changing the source document, and you can merge in their changes automatically and painlessly, even after you?ve made changes to the InDesign story (without losing your changes or formatting!). Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code ids0813 in the EmSoftware.com store when buying either of these plug-ins and get 20% off! This code is only good until August 31 2013, so grab them both!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Sandee's InDesign CC VQS
QR Codes post from Diane and Sandee's blog
QR Codes story in issue #55 of InDesign Magazine
TaDa QR! plugin from Rorohiko
Check out Sandee and Diane Burns' book Digital Publishing with Adobe InDesign
You asked for it, you got it: Toyota
Placing and Linking Objects in InDesign

InDesign CC: For Windows and MacIntosh (Visual Quickstart Guides)

Digital Publishing With Adobe InDesign CS6

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Getting HTML out of InDesign; Obscurity of the Week: Create Acrobat Layers

Getting HTML out of InDesign
- Layout "geometry" issues
- Useful plug-ins
- HTML and CSS options
- Resources (aka Michael Murphy)
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Create Acrobat Layers

News and special offers from our sponsors: *>>* Recosoft:* Open and convert PDF and Windows XPS documents directly in Adobe InDesign CC right from InDesign’s File menu with their latest version (4.0) of PDF2ID, the amazing InDesign plug-in. Earlier 3.5 version still available for InDesign versions CS3 to CS6. Be sure to check out their other amazing plug-in for InDesign users, ID2Office — export your InDesign files to Word or Powerpoint! Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners, until July 31, get 25% discount off PDF2ID or ID2Office with code ID_Secrets *>> Rorohiko has this neat add-on called Frame Reporter. It adds a little label next to any page object which you can configure to show whatever information you need to see without having to dig through panels: Effective resolution, Name and/or path of the placed image, Name of the currently selected story, word count, and many more (you can even make your own if you know a little Javascript!). They’ve written up a detailed explanation of all the options and how their customers have used FrameReporter to streamline their work. Normally $39.00 US, you can get it for 50% off* if you enter the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS197*** upon purchase.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Ajar Production's in5 ID > HTML 5 plugin
Michael Murphy's InDesign & HTML article is in InDesign Magazine issue 53
Here's his lynda.com course, InDesign for Web Design and Udemy course, From InDesign to HTML
MailChimp's "How HTML Email Works"
Steve Werner shows how to Hide/Show PDF Layers with buttons

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HOWDesign and print; Paper love; Obscurity of the Week: Candy

David re-fell in love with print at HOW!
- Sappi, washi, and plastic!
- Hamilton Type Museum
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Candy

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software is the developer of DocsFlow and WordsFlow, two plug-ins for Adobe InDesign that dynamically link your text frames to online Google Docs (DocsFlow) or placed Word files (WordsFlow). These products enable a breakthrough publishing workflow, one where your authors and editors can keep changing the source document, and you can merge in their changes automatically and painlessly, even after you’ve made changes to the InDesign story (without losing your changes or formatting!). Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code ids0613 in the EmSoftware.com store when buying either of these plug-ins and get 20% off! This code is only good until July 31, so grab them both! >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, EPUB, and Adobe DPS training. Adobe and Certiport released the InDesign (and Illustrator) ACA qualification a month ago – so visit Certitec, take one of their InDesign ACA courses and get Certified! Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol. If you sign up for a class and mention you heard about them on “InDesignSecrets,” you get 20% off any class!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

See details on HOWDesign 2013
Sappi paper
QR Code Artwork!
Rose Ganella (IDUG New Jersey leader) has an Amazon page
Yupo is one of many manufacturers of synthetic paper (get the free sample book!)
Japanese washi paper
"Just one word, son. Plastics." (scroll down a bit to see the quote)
Hamilton Type Museum

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InDesign CC ships; Upcoming appearances; All About Frames; Obscurity of the week: Link Images

Direct Link http://traffic.libsyn.com/indesignsecrets/InDesignSecrets-195.mp3

Show Notes:

News:
- InDesign CC released! (and InCopy CC too!)
- David at HOWLive
- Anne-Marie at AAUP and Maine Media Workshops
- New lynda.com title: InDesign CC Essential Training
Frame-stravaganza: Prepare to be Amazed!
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Link Images

News and special offers from our sponsors: *>>* Rorohiko:* Check out their newest plug-in, RepeatAfterMe (CS1 to CS6). It lets you make simple changes to a single object, and then repeat those changes for all similar objects throughout your entire document! You get to pick in which way the other objects must be similar from a dropdown list. It's like a combination of Illustrator's "Select Similar" and "Transform Again. RepeatAfterMe is $19.00 per seat, but you can use the coupon code: INDESIGNSECRETS195* to get 30% off.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Our post about InDesign CC shipping
Anne-Marie's Maine Media Workshop, "Taking the Leap into Enhanced eBooks" August 11–17
David's InDesign CC Essential Training lynda.com video
Six Flags?
Slight delay with TypeKit's desktop fonts
Post about rotating text but not the frame

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PEPCON 2013 recap; InDesign CC new features; Creative Cloud pros and cons; Obscurity of the week: Autotag

In this episode (41:01 minutes):

PEPCON 2013 recap! We share some of our favorite moments
InDesign CC is coming June 17! What's it all about? What are the new features?
Adobe moves all-in to the Creative Cloud: The good, the bad, the undecided; we duke it out!
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Autotag

News and special offers from our sponsors: *>>* Recosoft:* Open and convert PDF and Windows XPS documents directly in Adobe InDesign CS4/CS5/CS5.5/CS6 right from InDesign’s File menu with their latest version (3.5) of PDF2ID, the amazing InDesign plug-in. Be sure to check out their other amazing plug-in for InDesign users, ID2Office — export your InDesign files to Word or Powerpoint! Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners, until June 30, get 25% discount off PDF2ID or ID2Office with code ID_Secrets***

Links mentioned in this podcast:

PEPCON (our Print + ePublishing Conference), in Chicago in 2014!
Austin Kleon's book is Steal Like an Artist
In-depth article on new InDesign CC features from CreativePro.com
Our post about us purchasing CreativePro.com and InDesign Magazine
Creative Cloud is subscription only!
Decarbonizing Han Solo info here or buy him as an ice cube tray
64-bit can handle more than 4 GB
New look for InDesignSecrets.com! Add your comments there

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Diane Burns guest co-host; Multilingual Publishing; Sharing DPS apps; Obscurity of the Week: Swap Fill and Stroke

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-193.mp3 (17.8 MB, 33.54 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Special! David and guest co-host Diane Burns rock this episode. * How to publish in more than one language * How to share a DPS app with a group (bypassing the App Store) * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Swap Fill and Stroke

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko has this neat add-on called Frame Reporter. It adds a little label next to any page object which you can configure to show whatever information you need to see without having to dig through panels: Effective resolution, Name and/or path of the placed image, Name of the currently selected story, word count, and many more (you can even make your own if you know a little Javascript!). They’ve written up a detailed explanation of all the options and how their customers have used FrameReporter to streamline their work. Normally $39.00 US, you can get it for 50% off if you enter the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS193 upon purchase. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:**

This episode was recorded a few days before PEPCON (our Print + ePublishing Conference) Diane's company: TransPacificDigital Diane's titles at lynda.com include Multilingual Publishing Strategies in InDesign and InDesign Tables in Depth World Tools plug-in for multilingual publishing InDesignSecrets posts about multilingual publishing: Diacritics, Typesetting Hebrew, Foreign Language Characters, Non-English Placeholder Text, Changing the Language with Find/Change, Change UI Language, Bilingual Documents Diane and Sandee Cohen's Digital Publishing with InDesign book has a companion web site In the podcast, Diane mentioned running a VMware version of the Mac OS inside Mac OS so you can have more than one language running, or for testing. Here's how to do that with Mountain Lion

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News, Kelly Vaughn co-host, Conditional Text; Quizzler 190 Answer; Obscurity of the Week: Hidden Destination

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-192.mp3(14.4 MB, 27:45 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. A very special episode with guest co-host Kelly Vaughn! * News + PEPCON News: IGNITE InDesign, Sunni Brown keynote, Scavenger Hunt game + All about Kelly Vaughn and her blog, DocumentGeek * Deep Dive into Conditional Text * Quizzler 190 Answer! (see below) .. And the winner is announced * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Hidden Destination

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software is the developer of DocsFlow and WordsFlow, two plug-ins for Adobe InDesign that dynamically link your text frames to online Google Docs (DocsFlow) or placed Word files (WordsFlow). These products enable a breakthrough publishing workflow, one where your authors and editors can keep changing the source document, and you can merge in their changes automatically and painlessly, even after you’ve made changes to the InDesign story (without losing your changes or formatting!). Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code ids413 in the EmSoftware.com store when buying either of these plug-ins and get 20% off! This code is only good until May 31, so grab them both! -- QUIZZLER 190: Here is the image we talked about in episode 190 and continued in episode 191. As revealed in episode 192, what makes this line's bounding box turn into a lovely rainbow is that it's been anchored to some text and then multiple — 5, to be exact — conditions (from Conditional Text) were applied to the text containing the anchor. So you're looking at non-printing Conditional Text markup. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Come to PEPCON! Our annual Print + ePublishing Conference, this year April 28–May 1 in Austin, Texas Kelly Vaughn's wonderful DocumentGeek blog Kelly's posts here on InDesignSecrets More conditional text posts here and here The Obscure Error Message of the Week-eek-eek, courtesy of Kelly:

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CreativePro and InDesign Magazine now part of InDesignSecrets; PEPCON networking and sponsors; Spell checking tips; Quizzler reminder; Obscurity of the Week: Sort Items

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-191.mp3(13.1 MB, 23:53 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * News + CreativePro.com and InDesign Magazine are now part of the InDesignSecrets.com family + Bought from the fine folks at PrintingForLess.com + PEPCON News: Pre-conference networking, Sponsor news + K-cup solution for David! * All about Spell Checking and Check Spelling * Quizzler reminder: Still time to send an answer! * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Sort Items

News and special offers from our sponsors: *>>* Recosoft:* Open and convert PDF and Windows XPS documents directly in Adobe InDesign CS4/CS5/CS5.5/CS6 right from InDesign’s File menu with their latest version (3.5) of PDF2ID, the amazing InDesign plug-in. Be sure to check out their other amazing plug-in for InDesign users, ID2Office — export your InDesign files to Word or Powerpoint! Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners, get 25% discount off PDF2ID or ID2Office with code ID_Secrets. -- *QUIZZLER 190: Here is the image we talked about in episode 190 and continued in episode 191. The multicolored rectangle is the non-printing frame edge defining the line's bounding box. Don't know the Quizzler question? Listen to the episode Send your answer to us by email with QUIZZLER in the subject line, don't answer in the Comments!!!! You have until April 1 to send in your answer (no, this is not an April Fool's joke, btw). In the case of multiple correct answers, we'll do a random draw. Winner receives something fabulous and InDesign related! -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Come to PEPCON! Our annual Print + ePublishing Conference, this year April 28–May 1 in Austin, Texas Thanks to Lisette for the coffee care package! Check out the PEPCON sponsors! Create a custom dictionary, more spell-related posts here, here, here, and here Check out Mindsteam's Mindspell for ways to power up InDesign's spell checking As promised ...

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Conference News; Overlooked InDesign Resources; Wacky New Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Desaturate Black

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-190.mp3 (12.5 MB, 23:17 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Conference News: SXSW, MAX, HOW, Maine Media Workshop, new PEPCON speakers * Overlooked InDesign Resources (sites, pubs, books,etc.) * Quizzler! "Awesome and Wacky," says David * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Desaturate Black

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko has this neat add-on called Frame Reporter. It adds a little label next to any page object which you can configure to show whatever information you need to see without having to dig through panels: Effective resolution, Name and/or path of the placed image, Name of the currently selected story, word count, and many more. They've written up a detailed explanation of all the options and how their customers have used FrameReporter to streamline their work. Normally $39.00 US, you can get it for 50% off if you enter the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS190 upon purchase. This limited time offer expires at the end of PEPCON on May 1, 2013. -- QUIZZLER 190: Here is the image we talked about in the episode. Don't know the Quizzler question? Listen to the episode, it starts at 15:25 in. Send your answer to us by email with QUIZZLER in the subject line, don't answer in the Comments!!!! You have until April 1 to send in your answer. In the case of multiple correct answers, we'll do a random draw. Winner receives something fabulous and InDesign related! -- Links mentioned in this podcast:**

Come to PEPCON! Our annual Print + ePublishing Conference, this year April 28–May 1 in Austin, Texas SXSW Interactive sessions, Adobe MAX InDesign sessions David's half-day InDesign workshop at HOW Design Conference Anne-Marie's week-long Enhanced eBook class at Maine Media Workshop Grant Gamble's book on InDesign Automation with Javascript and XML Our "rescued" free InDesign templates from Adobe, free PaperMill templates Free InDesign templates found on the Adobe Exchange ("classic") web site Peter Kahrel's page of free InDesign Scripts InDesign Pro Community Facebook list (curated by Anne-Marie) Appearance of Black was the Obscure Feature in episode 19! 150 other InDesign resources we collected in a single blog post

InDesign CS5 Automation Using XML & JavaScript

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PEPCON Facebook page, Creative Cloud news, Vectors and Bitmaps in InDesign, Obscurity of the Week: Show Linked Files

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-189.mp3 (13.9 MB, 25:45 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * News: PEPCON networking site and Facebook page, New Adobe pricing for Creative Cloud * Vectors vs. Bitmaps: What they are, how to get them, when to use one over the other * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Show Linked Files

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, EPUB, and Adobe DPS training. Their InDesign classes are so great, their Intro to InDesign course is the most popular one they offer, even beating out their Photoshop classes! Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol. If you sign up for a class and mention you heard about them on “InDesignSecrets,” you get 20% off any class! -- INDESIGN "PRODUCTION NIGHTMARES FROM THE TRENCHES" STORIES: We want to hear your stories! Send us a short (less than 3 minutes) "InDesign doc/client/user/coworker Horror Story" that we can play on the air (you'll be anonymous) in an upcoming episode: leave us a voice message at +1-801-459-4477 to record it, or send in your own voice recording. Please follow-up with an e-mail, which we will keep private, including any additional information that you'd like us to know. You'll get a nifty gifty from us if we play it in a podcast! -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Come to PEPCON! Our annual Print + ePublishing Conference, this year April 28–May 1 in Austin, Texas See what PEPCON registrants and speakers are already discussing at our networking site We need you to click Like on PEPCON's new Facebook page -- thank you! You know that we have an active InDesignSecrets Facebook page? While you're there, please hit Like on Certitec's page too! And leave them a love note! Adobe has new, lower Creative Cloud fees for Australia and New Zealand Is Adobe responding to this Parliamentary summons? Vote Yes on including InCopy in Creative Cloud subscriptions! What is a K-cup? (David's reference) TIFF vs PSD vs EPS vs PDF vs… Preserving Vectors in Photoshop Files Sandee issued a $100 EPS Challenge a while back Vectors can sometimes increase the size of a PDF! We covered the "new" Object Export Options feature in a video cast Exporting JPGs from InDesign

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-188.mp3(12.5 MB, 23:20 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * News: PEPCON, IDUG site and our forum * All about the "Forbidden Formats" in InDesign: JPEG, GIF, and PNG * Bonus! We get sidetracked and rant about Adobe Digital Editions (epub reader utility) * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Letter V

News and special offers from our sponsors: *>>*Em Software is the developer of DocsFlow and WordsFlow, two plug-ins for Adobe InDesign that dynamically link your text frames to online Google Docs (DocsFlow) or placed Word files (WordsFlow). These products enable a breakthrough publishing workflow, one where your authors and editors can keep changing the source document, and you can merge in their changes automatically and painlessly, even after you've made changes to the InDesign story (without losing your changes or formatting!). Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code ids0213 in the EmSoftware.com store when buying either of these plug-ins and get 20% off! This code is only good until March 31, 2013, so grab them both! >> Rorohiko offers many free scripts for InDesign (their commercial ones and their custom jobs allow them to do this), and one that's very cool is called TextStitch. This script lets you easily thread multiple text frames together, manually or automatically. It's just the ticket for managing the order of content when you're exporting stories to RTF, EPUB, or HTML. To see how it works, Keith Gilbert wrote a great blog post extolling its wonderfulness. Download TextStitch for free, but tell Rorohiko where you heard about it, please! -- INDESIGN "PRODUCTION NIGHTMARES FROM THE TRENCHES" STORIES: We want to hear your stories! Send us a short (less than 3 minutes) "InDesign doc/client/user/coworker Horror Story" that we can play on the air (you'll be anonymous) in an upcoming episode: leave us a voice message at +1-801-459-4477 to record it, or send in your own voice recording. Please follow-up with an e-mail, which we will keep private, including any additional information that you'd like us to know. You'll get a nifty gifty from us if we play it in a podcast! -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Fritz, David, and Anne-Marie will be presenting seminars and labs at Adobe MAX, May 4–8, 2013 (right after PEPCON!) Come to PEPCON! Our annual Print + ePublishing Conference, this year April 28–May 1 in Austin, Texas Neat new script for exporting InDesign pages to JPEGs with custom filenames Never watched Sesame Street? Here's the "brought to you by the Letter V" reference Other forbidden formats we've ranted about> The file format that goes "Ping" Monty Python reference Letter V and other View Pages commands in CS6

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-187.mp3(18.6 MB, 34:47 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Special episode with Anne-Marie and co-host James Fritz! * News: Upcoming speaking gigs at Macworld, PEPCON, and Adobe MAX * Solving Paragraph Composer Annoyances * Fritz's UberCool Moo.com Business Card Project with InDesign * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Protractor

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, EPUB, and Adobe DPS training. Their InDesign classes are so great, their Intro to InDesign course is the most popular one they offer! Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol. If you sign up for a class and mention this podcast, you can get 10% off any class! -- INDESIGN "PRODUCTION NIGHTMARES FROM THE TRENCHES" STORIES: We want to hear your stories! Send us a short (less than 3 minutes) "InDesign doc/client/user/coworker Horror Story" that we can play on the air (you'll be anonymous) in an upcoming episode: leave us a voice message at +1-801-459-4477 to record it, or send in your own voice recording. Please follow-up with an e-mail, which we will keep private, including any additional information that you'd like us to know. You'll get a nifty gifty from us if we play it in a podcast! -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

David's speaking at Macworld where he'll be talking about his new book, Spectrums: Our Mind-Boggling Universe from Infinitesimal to Infinity Anne-Marie is presenting a workshop at O'Reilly's TOCCON, Feb 12–14 in NYC, titled, "Beautiful Typography in EPUBs" Fritz, David, and Anne-Marie will be presenting seminars and labs at Adobe MAX, May 4–8, 2013 (right after PEPCON!) Let's give our conference its own line: Come to PEPCON! Our annual Print + ePublishing Conference, this year April 28–May 1 in Austin, Texas Here's Fritz's author page on this blog and at lynda.com Bats under the Congress Street Bridge in Austin Willie Nelson's 80th birthday bash! Fritz was probably thinking of TypeFitterPro from Teacup Software Great posts about the Paragraph Composer are here, here, and here Harb's Freeze Composition script Adobe's Muse Site of the Day Moo.com! The online business card provider that Fritz did that cool project for Mike Rankin's awesome InDesignFX ebook (comes with editable sample files!) and lynda.com videos More on the protractor See for yourself!

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-186.mp3 (17.4 MB, 32:37 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * News: Upcoming speaking gigs, InDesign User Group web site, Scripts for Indexes in EPUBs, Our mascot Zoey (picture below!) * New Year's InDesign Resolutions (and non-InDesign related) * About the Primary Text Frame * "Negative Number" Quizzler Answer and Winner * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Relink File Extension

News and special offers from our sponsors:

> Rorohiko’s TextExporter 3.1 plug-in makes exporting text out of InDesign CS2-CS6 so simple! You can export all the stories in an ID file into one single RTF, plain text, or ID tagged text file, and you control how it orders the text as it extracts and concatenates it. The RTF Export option now supports nested styles, which InDesign's own RTF Export does not! Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS186 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the TextExporter plug-in.

INDESIGN "PRODUCTION NIGHTMARES FROM THE TRENCHES" STORIES: We want to hear your stories! Send us a short (less than 3 minutes) "InDesign doc/client/user/coworker Horror Story" that we can play on the air (you'll be anonymous) in an upcoming episode: leave us a voice message at +1-801-459-4477 to record it, or send in your own voice recording. Please follow-up with an e-mail, which we will keep private, including any additional information that you'd like us to know. You'll get a nifty gifty from us if we play it in a podcast!

Links mentioned in this podcast: David's speaking at Macworld where he'll be talking about his new book, Spectrums: Our Mind-Boggling Universe from Infinitesimal to Infinity Anne-Marie is presenting a workshop at O'Reilly's TOCCON, Feb 12–14 in NYC, titled, "Beautiful Typography in EPUBs" David and Anne-Marie will be presenting InDesign seminars and labs at Adobe MAX, May 4–8, 2013 (right after PEPCON!) Adobe's InDesign User Group web site is still down, as of this podcast Indicies or Indexes? Actually, both are correct EPUB Indexes: Overview from EPUBSecrets.com, Ben Milander's Index for EPUB script, DTPTool's CrossReferencesPRO Devon ThinkPro vs Evernote Anne-Marie's lynda.com video tutorial, Social Media Marketing with Facebook & Twitter Three great blog posts on InDesign's Primary Text Frame: here, here, and here Our Quizzler winner is from Khartoum, Sudan

We'll miss you Zoey! Good girl.

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Layout Adjustment; Dear Santa; Quizzler Winners; New Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Load Conveyor

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-185.mp3(15.8 MB, 29:16 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. * Layout Adjustment: Where did it go? * Letter to Santa: Our InDesign Wishlist * Two Quizzler Winners from episode 184 * New Quizzler! Hunt this one down * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Load Conveyor

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Rorohiko’s StoryTweaker ($99) plug-in lets editors and writers access your InDesign file’s text without needing to own InDesign or InCopy. The plug-in lets one InDesign user do a Save As to create an unlimited number of AssignmentTweaker sets, which is what the editors open and work on. The workflow is spelled out on the StoryTweaker site, and there’s a 20-day free trial available. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Get 30% the StoryTweaker plug-in (reducing the cost from $99 to $69) if you use the code INDESIGNSECRETS185 when you buy it. Mag+ (magplus.com) is an efficient and affordable digital publishing platform to create apps for tablet devices straight from InDesign. In the latest version (4.0), you can now publish to Smartphones as well –including iPhone 5. The Mag+ tools are FREE to download from their website, and work with CS4, CS5 and CS6. You can use the bundled InDesign templates, and take advantage of their innovative Review button to quickly see fully-functional touchscreen previews. For more information go to www.magplus.com. -- INDESIGN "PRODUCTION NIGHTMARES FROM THE TRENCHES" STORIES: We want to hear your stories! Send us a short (less than 3 minutes) "InDesign doc/client/user Horror Story" that we can play on the air (you'll be anonymous) in an upcoming episode: leave us a voice message at +1-801-459-4477 to record it, or send in your own voice recording. Please follow-up with an e-mail, which we will keep private, including any additional information that you'd like us to know. You'll get a nifty gifty from us if we play it in a podcast! -- QUIZZLER: To enter this episode’s Quizzler, send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and the correct answer to the puzzle (as described in the podcast). You have until December 31, 2012 at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! We will randomly choose a winner from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast in 2013, and receives the prize: InDesign CS6 Essential Training DVD, a $149.95 value! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: Is it (or was it) the end of the world? See what they say on Slate Layout Adjustment blog posts on InDesignSecrets.com Who is Rabbi Hillel? You can post your InDesign wishlist items to the InDesign User Voice site David's favorite Christmas movie All about preserving vectors in Photoshop files Creating a custom bullet character More info the wonderful More Info button inside Find Font Content Placer tool ("Bucket of Peas" tool) is discussed here, briefly

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PEPCON 2013; Animation in InDesign; Horror Story; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Convert to Motion Path

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-184.mp3(13 MB, 24:17 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. * News: PEPCON 2013! * Animation Features in InDesign: What Can You Use them For? * Another "InDesign Horror Story" with an Acrobat flair * Quizzler! Get out your Find Font thinking caps * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Convert to Motion Path

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Mag+ (magplus.com) is an efficient and affordable digital publishing platform to create apps for tablet devices straight from InDesign. In the latest version (4.0), you can now publish to Smartphones as well –including iPhone 5. The Mag+ tools are FREE to download from their website, and work with CS4, CS5 and CS6. You can use the bundled InDesign templates, and take advantage of their innovative Review button to quickly see fully-functional touchscreen previews. For more information go to www.magplus.com. Rorohiko’s StoryTweaker ($99) plug-in lets editors and writers access your InDesign file’s text without needing to own InDesign or InCopy. The plug-in is associated with one InDesign seat, but allows that user to create an unlimited number of AssignmentTweaker sets, which is what the editors open and work on. The workflow is spelled out on the StoryTweaker site, and there’s a 20-day free trial available. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners. -- INDESIGN HORROR STORIES: We want to hear your stories! Send us a short (less than 3 minutes) "InDesign doc/client/user Horror Story" that we can play on the air (you'll be anonymous) in an upcoming episode: leave us a voice message at +1-801-459-4477 to record it, or send in your own voice recording. Please follow-up with an e-mail, which we will keep private, including any additional information that you'd like us to know. You'll get a nifty gifty from us if we play it in a podcast! -- QUIZZLER: To enter this episode’s Quizzler, send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and the correct answer to the puzzle (as described in the podcast). You have until December 9, 2012 at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! We will randomly choose a winner from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast in December, and receives the prize: a copy of three of our eBooks! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: All about QuarkImmedia and here's David's Real World Quark Immedia book! Blog post, Adding animations to PDFs, and an even easier 1-step way PDF of Adobe Success Story, Belle & Wissel's Born Magazine (SWF Magazine) Anne-Marie's blog post with links to Born Magazine source files eDocker Publisher enhances InDesign SWF magazines & makes HTML5 tablet apps PressRun converts InDesign animations to HTML5/CSS3 for its tablet apps 47 Amazing CSS3 Animation Demos SWFPresenter script from Martinho DeGloria's Automatication website Fritz's blog post about the SWFPresenter script Anne-Marie's free lynda.com video on Making Your Own Motion Paths in InDesign

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-183.mp3 (17.1 MB, 32:02 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. * News: + Milestone: 2,000 blogposts! + Erica Gamet's ID Power Pack + New version of Export to Kindle plug-in + Creative Cloud Education discount + Teacup Software's new 2D barcodes + EmSoftware Wordsflow * Five MORE Overlooked and Lonely InDesign Features (Autocorrect anyone?) * Another "InDesign Horror Story" (née "Training Client from Hell") * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Use Master Page Size

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Mag+ (magplus.com) is an efficient and affordable digital publishing platform to create apps for tablet devices straight from InDesign. In the latest version (4.0), you can now publish to Smartphones as well –including iPhone 5. The Mag+ tools are FREE to download from their website, and work with CS4, CS5 and CS6. You can use the bundled InDesign templates, and take advantage of their innovative Review button to quickly see fully-functional touchscreen previews. For more information go to www.magplus.com. >> Rorohiko’s StoryTweaker ($99) plug-in lets editors and writers access your InDesign file’s text without needing to own InDesign or InCopy. The plug-in is associated with one InDesign seat, but allows that user to create an unlimited number of AssignmentTweaker sets, which is what the editors open and work on. The workflow is spelled out on the StoryTweaker site, and there’s a 20-day free trial available. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners. -- We still want to hear your stories! Send us a short (less than 1 minute) "worst InDesign training/support story" that we can play on the air (you'll be anonymous) in an upcoming episode: leave us a voice message at +1-801-459-4477 to record it, or send in your own voice recording. Please follow-up with an e-mail, which we will keep private, including any additional information that you'd like us to know. You'll get a nifty gifty from us if we play it in a podcast! -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Teachers and students get 1 yr of Creative Cloud for $19.99/mo if they sign up by Nov 4, 2012!
Erica Gamet's new ID Power Pack, enter IDS50 discount code for 50% off! Amazon's Kindle Plug-in for InDesign v0.972 (beta, still!) Teacup Software's new 2D barcodes in latest version of their BarCodeMaker For a free QR Code Maker plugin, check out the offer from Meadows EmSoftware has a new WordsFlow plugin for InDesign Overlooked features: Listen to podcast 182 for the first 5 Posts about these features: Autocorrect, Place and Link, Slug, Discretionary Hyphen, (nothing on Split Window yet) Post about David's issue during the podcast, Rebuilding Prefs

Couple of screen shots that you'll find interesting:

From the Export to Kindle plug-in, note the IDML option!

and, here's the dialog box containing the Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week:

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News; 5 Overlooked Features; Training Client from Hell story; Obscurity of the Week: Jumbo

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-182.mp3(14.8 MB, 28:12 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * News: + CS6.01 patch for InDesign and InCopy + Creative Cloud Education discount + Acrobat XI and Reader XI * Five Overlooked and Lonely InDesign Features * Our First "Training Client from Hell" story * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Jumbo

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Mag+ (magplus.com) is an efficient and affordable digital publishing platform to create apps for tablet devices straight from InDesign. In the latest version (4.0), you can now publish to Smartphones as well –including iPhone 5. The Mag+ tools are FREE to download from their website, and work with CS4, CS5 and CS6. You can use the bundled InDesign templates, and take advantage of their innovative Review button to quickly see fully-functional touchscreen previews. For more information go to www.magplus.com. >> Recosoft: This company's amazing plug-in, PDF2ID, lets you open and convert PDF docs to editable InDesign files directly from the InDesign's File menu! PDF2ID has a slew of additional features and it works with any Mac or Windows version of InDesign CS4 to CS6. EXCLUSIVE* for our listeners, you can use use the discount code ID_Secrets to save 20% off the purchase price of PDF2ID Standard/Professional v3.5. This generous offer expires after October 31, 2012*, so be sure to take advantage of it today. While you're at the Recosoft site, check out their other amazing plug-in for InDesign users, ID2Office — export your InDesign files to Word or Powerpoint! -- We still want to hear your stories! Send us a short (less than 1 minute) "worst InDesign training/support story" that we can play on the air (you'll be anonymous) in an upcoming episode: leave us a voice message at +1-801-459-4477 to record it, or send in your own voice recording. Please follow-up with an e-mail, which we will keep private, including any additional information that you'd like us to know. You'll get a nifty gifty from us if we play it in a podcast! -- Links mentioned in this podcast:**

Steve Werner's post about the CS6.01 update Teachers and students get 1 yr of Creative Cloud for $19.99/mo if they sign up by Nov 4, 2012! Check out the new Acrobat XI and the free Reader XI Anne-Marie's post on Saving your Links panel custom settings David's post (from 2008!) about Making Perfect Triangles

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David and Anne-Marie trips; News; Data Merge Tips and Tricks; Obscurity of the Week: Delete End Punctuation

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-181.mp3(15 MB, 28:06 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. * Out and About: David's trip to Lindau, Anne-Marie's trip to California * News: Adobe Digital Editions 2.0, Kindle Plug-in for InDesign 0.971, new open source Adobe fonts * Data Merge: Beyond the Basics! Tips and Tricks * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Delete End Punctuation

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>> Recosoft: Open and convert PDF and Windows XPS documents directly in Adobe InDesign CS4/CS5/CS5.5/CS6 right from InDesign's File menu with their latest version (3.5) of PDF2ID, the amazing InDesign plug-in. Be sure to check out their other amazing plug-in for InDesign users, ID2Office — export your InDesign files to Word or Powerpoint! >> Rorohiko: They just keep making ePubCrawler better, and it's still donation-ware! ePubCrawler is a Fixed Layout ePub Assistant for InDesign. The highly-customizable script takes an InDesign document and converts it to a fixed-layout ePub (think kid's books, cookbooks, photography books, etc.) ready to upload to your favorite reseller. This turns a job that normally takes dozens of hours into minutes! Watch any of their six tutorial videos to see how it works. For InDesignSecrets fans: anybody who donates US$50 or more now will get a free license if and when they release it commercially, like a home-grown Kickstarter! -- We still want to hear your stories! Send us a short (less than 1 minute) "worst InDesign training story" that we can play on the air (you'll be anonymous) in an upcoming episode: leave us a voice message at +1-801-459-4477 to record it, or send in your own voice recording. Please follow-up with an e-mail, which we will keep private, including any additional information that you'd like us to know. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

New Adobe Digital Editions 2.0 The Mac-only ePub Reader utility Bookle Kindle Plug-in for InDesign New open source Open Type fonts from Adobe Anne-Marie's earlier title, InDesign CS5.5 to EPUB, Kindle, and iPad What are CSV files? David's post about using Data Merge for yearbook layouts Steve Werner's excellent Data Merge tutorials (oldies but still goodies) Loic Aignon's Data Merge to Table script blog post (translated from the original French) > PowerHeaders from In-Tools

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Creative Cloud discount extended; All About GREP; Quizzler Results (filenames of links); Obscurity of the Week: Jump Object

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-180.mp3 (18.8 MB, 35:30 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Creative Cloud subscription discounted rate extended! * All about GREP in InDesign * Quizzler results: The right and wrong answers, and the winner! (See list of answers at the end of this post) * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Jump Object

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Partner in the UK, offers Adobe DPS (Digital Publishing Suite) 2-day Pro and Enterprise courses in London and Cardiff. NEW for students who are funding their training themselves (not from a company): a 25% discount on any course when you quote "InDesign Secrets." (If you forget to say "InDesignSecrets" then you only get 20% off.) That's a great deal! >> Rorohiko: They just keep making ePubCrawler better, and it's still donation-ware! ePubCrawler is a Fixed Layout ePub Assistant for InDesign. The highly-customizable script takes an InDesign document and converts it to a fixed-layout ePub (think kid's books, cookbooks, photography books, etc.) ready to upload to your favorite reseller. This turns a job that normally takes dozens of hours into minutes! Watch any of their six tutorial videos to see how it works. For InDesignSecrets fans: anybody who donates US$50 or more now will get a free license if and when they release it commercially, like a home-grown Kickstarter! -- We want to hear your stories! Send us a short (less than 1 minute) "worst InDesign training story" that we can play on the air (you'll be anonymous) in an upcoming episode: leave us a voice message at +1-801-459-4477 to record it, or send in your own voice recording. Please follow-up with an e-mail, which we will keep private, including any additional information that you'd like us to know. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Creative Cloud subscription offer is $29.99/mo instead of $49.99/mo for first year for any CS3+ upgrader Adobe's Creative Cloud product page Our stab at explaining why CC users get new features on the fly but "perpetual" licensees have to wait We talked about GREP way back in episode 80! Here's the transcript Our favorite GREP Resources and GREP Expressions for InDesign David's lynda.com video InDesign CS4: 10 Things to Know About GREP Michael Murphy's Learning GREP with InDesign lynda.com course Convert uppercase to lower with GREP, post 1 and post 2 Creating a filename list of linked images, post 1 and post 2 Clients from Hell web site

-- QUIZZLER ANSWERS In podcast 179, we asked listeners: "How many ways in InDesign can you figure out the filename of a placed image without using the Links panel or Links panel menu?" The winning entry was submitted by Jim Leonardson, InDesign freelancer in Chicago! For his prize, he chose an autographed copy of Real World InDesign CS6, which is on its way. Here is Jim's list: 1. In the Info panel flyout menu; select File Info to see the image name in the Title of the window 2. Hover the cursor over the link icon in the upper left corner of the image frame. A tool tip appears with the file name. 3. In the Structure pane of the document window, flip down the Root tag, and other tags until you see the “href” and the full path name (In the contextual menu “Select in Structure”) [ED: after first applying an XML tag to the image with the Tags panel] 4. Use the Layers panel; flip down the layer name to show the contents. The link name is shown inside angle brackets. 5. In the Preflight panel, if there is a broken link or document profile violation the link name will be shown. 6. Use the Object > Captions menu or contextual menu to generate a caption. 7. Use the contextual menu, in the Graphics flyout menu select Reveal in Finder, Bridge or Mini-Bridge. 8. If there is a caption that happens to be overflowed, it can be seen in the story editor, tagged as “Text variable live metadata caption name” [We didn't think this should count but it's interesting because it has "Story Editor" in it] 9. In the Package dialog box, under Links and Images it displays name, type, page, status and ICC profile. [He thought of this one "while doing yard work" after we told him he'd won]

A wonderful effort, but Jim missed a few. Here are additional correct answers, compiled from all the entries we received: 1. Add image to Library, name appears in Library preview 2. Select image and open the Animation panel, name populates the Name field 3. Apply any preset animation to the image to see its filename in the Timing panel 4. Add image to Articles panel [pulls the filename from the Layers panel, see Jim's #4 above] 5. In the File > Package dialog box, click the Show Report button, all image filenames are listed there [listen to our argument about this in the podcast — fun times!] 6. Add an Image Name variable (Type > Text Variables > Insert Variable > Image Name) to a text frame that touches the image 7. If the image name was included in its XMP metadata [not a default state, and not something you could do in InDesign] you could reveal it by choosing the relevant XMP field in the Object Export Options > Alt Text (or Tagged PDF) area 8. Option/Alt-double click to Edit Original (or choose the command from contextual menu), name is revealed in native editing program. [Technically not an "in InDesign" solution but it's fairly close] 9. Export to EPUB or HTML and look in the mark-up code [Ditto] 10. Use a script that creates a list of filenames [see Links above]

Final note: We love that Bonnie Barrett told us in her entry that she tried to find one in CS6's Content Collector — great idea! — but, alas, no luck.

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Collaborating with non-InDesign users; Quizzler!; Obscurity of the Week: Complex Rasterized Regions

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-179.mp3(16.8 MB, 31:28 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. * Creative Cloud subscription special offer ends Aug. 31! * How to collaborate with non-InDesign users + PDF solutions: useful plug-ins, little-known features + Microsoft Word, Google Docs, InCopy + MediaTrad, Story Tweaker, more * Quizzler! How many ways can you ... * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Complex Rasterized Regions

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko: They just keep making ePubCrawler better, and it's still donation-ware! ePubCrawler is a Fixed Layout ePub Assistant for InDesign. The highly-customizable script takes an InDesign document and converts it to a fixed-layout ePub (think kid's books, cookbooks, photography books, etc.) ready to upload to your favorite reseller. This turns a job that normally takes dozens of hours into minutes! Watch any of their six tutorial videos to see how it works. For InDesignSecrets fans: anybody who donates US$50 or more now will get a free license if and when they release it commercially, like a home-grown Kickstarter! Quizzler Instructions: If you know the answer to this episode’s Quizzler, e-mail it (don’t post it here!) to info@indesignsecrets.com before midnight on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012. Please put the word “Quizzler” in your Subject line. The winner will be chosen randomly from all correct responses received, and announced in the next podcast, along with the answer. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Creative Cloud subscription offer ends Aug 31, 2013 ($29.99/mo instead of $49.99/mo for first year) Forum post about collaborating with non-InDesign users Docs Flow, InCopy, Annotations plug-in and blog, PDF2ID, PDF2Office, ID2Office, StoryTweaker, Media Trad Related reads: PDF > Word; PDF Reviews; Linked Word Files Anne-Marie's Acrobat X Essential Training at lynda.com (see chapter 11 on PDF Reviews) Flattener or Blattener Preview ERRATA: After the show, Anne-Marie realized her Creative Cloud rant was partially wrong, you can log on to your CC from the Creative Cloud product page (problem was her browser). But she still feels it should be much better integrated into the Adobe site.

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Find Color; Ridiculous Features; Obscurity of the Week: Save Query

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-178.mp3(16.5 MB, 30:32 minutes) [media id=99 width= height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Golden Oldie post: Find Where That Color's Used * Readers Nominate Most Ridiculous Features in InDesign + So many, so little time (Story panel?) + How dare you call my fave feature ridiculous! * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Save Query*

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> Em Software:You must check out their InData plug-in for InDesign. Do a little set-up in InDesign, point it at a tab-delimited text file exported from a database or spreadsheet, and bam, you have a fully-formatted, sorted, tabbed publication, ready for distribution. InData makes the job easy for simple cases, and makes it possible for tough jobs. They're offering a 25% discount to InDesignSecrets fans for 1-packs of InData, expiring on August 31 2012. Just use coupon code IDS812 in the EmSoftware site when you purchase InData.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Anne-Marie's post from 2006 on Find Where That Color's Used Video demo of the Find Color feature in the Blatner Tools plug-in Readers comment on Ridiculous Features in InDesign with their nominees Transcript of our Podcast (episode 139) where we discuss the Floppy Disk icon in InDesign Where Saved Queries live

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-177.mp3 (16.5 MB, 30:32 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. * Interview: Brooks Jensen, LensWork magazine + Using InDesign to create the print and enhanced PDF publications + Nuances of color and duotones with fine-art photography and the printing process + Moving to an InCopy workflow over a holiday weekend (!) + Optimizing rich-media PDF eBooks for iPad and Android tablets * Golden Oldie post: Select Text All the Way to the End * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Clip Contents to Cell

News and special offers from our sponsors: *>> lynda.com is an online learning company that helps anyone learn software, creative, and business skills to achieve their personal and professional goals. With a lynda.com subscription, members receive unlimited access to a vast library of high quality, current, and engaging video tutorials. Many InDesignSecrets.com contributors have authored titles at lynda.com, including Anne-Marie and David, covering InDesign basics (of course) and beyond, such as EPUBs, interactive PDFs, DPS, GREP, and InCopy workflows. Get a one-week free trial to the entire lynda.com online training library. And don't forget to check out our InDesign Secrets video title on lynda.com, with two new free videos every month! -- Links mentioned in this podcast:*

Brooks Jensen's magazine is LensWork, and yes, he does have a podcast!

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More about Ansel Adams (duotones/tritones) and Alfred Stieglitz (Camera Work magazine) LensWork uses an InCopy workflow for its print and PDF editions Brooks moved to InCopy after watching Anne-Marie's lynda.com video tutorial about it Golden Oldie post: Select Text All the Way to the End

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New bug fixes from Adobe; Cool Keyboard Shortcuts; CS6 Features for EPUBs; Obscurity of the Week: Insert Number Placeholder

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-176.mp3(18.1 MB, 34:25 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. * InDesign News: + Fix for InDesign Crashing on 2012 Macs + Fix for InDesign CS6 "Revert to Trial Mode" bug * Some useful new ideas for Cool Keyboard Shortcuts * New features in InDesign CS6 for EPUB publishers * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Insert Number Placeholder

News and special offers from our sponsors: *>> Real World InDesign CS6: Get this book! You'll find everything you need to successfully master InDesign’s advanced page-layout tools; manage color; build XML templates; and run your own custom InDesign scripts. You’ll also find complete coverage of all of InDesign’s new features. This is the reference book of all books on InDesign, written by Olav Martin Kvern, David Blatner, and Bob Bringhurst; published by Peachpit Press in print, EPUB, and Kindle editions. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:*

David's blog post on the release of Real World InDesign CS6 Steve Werner's post about the 2012 Macs bug for InDesign CS6 and Adobe's fix When CS6 Reverts to Trial Mode (post) and Adobe's fix Interesting InDesignSecrets forum thread on cool keyboard shortcuts from users New EPUB Features in InDesign CS6 , recording of the Adobe CSPro webinar by Anne-Marie More info on using Insert Number Placeholder in this blog post

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Creative Cloud; Option-double-click; Obscurity of the Week: Split Cell Vertically

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-175.mp3(19.5 MB, 35:32 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. * The Adobe Creative Cloud: What is it? + In the "cloud" vs. on your hard drive + The good, the bad, the foggy * Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Option/Alt-double-click * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Split Cell Vertically

News and special offers from our sponsors: *>> Em Software: Check out their InData and InCatalog add-ons for InDesign, by themselves or as a powerful team for data-driven publishing. Use InData to build price lists, catalogs, directories, and much more, all hands-off. InCatalog is a bidirectional linking tool to keep your layouts and spreadsheets in sync, great for last-minute price updates. >> eDocker: With the eDocker Tablet Publisher® program you can create, from InDesign, an HTML5 Web publication that works in all devices, including iPads, and that you can publish through your own server. There is no need for complicated certificates, developer memberships or distribution channels like the Apple AppStore. Special offer: $100 off the Tablet Publisher for the near future (sorry, we don't have anything more concrete) with code 10IDS2012 >> Rorohiko: Download Kris Coppieters' free script, SizeLabels.zip, for adding labels showing each frame's size in a document. (Be sure to extract the contents of the ZIP, then open the .jsx document in a text editor and read the instructions in the beginning). Check out Rorohiko's other wonderful scripts on their website, and donate if you find them useful! -- Links mentioned in this podcast:*

Adobe's comprehensive Creative Cloud FAQ View your Adobe Creative Cloud portal > David's Cloud licensing problem/bug Couple of our posts on Option/Alt-double click tips: Here and here The trick about putting panels on the left side of the screen that David was trying to remember Kris's ePubCrawler script (automates InDesign > Fixed Layout EPUB) is getting new features almost daily

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IDSLive-NYC recap; EPUB3 and Fixed Layout; Options for iPad publishing; hyperlinks myths; Obscurity of the Week: Copy Platform Style Path

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-174.mp3 (23.1 MB, 41:06 minutes) (Yikes!)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. * News in the land of InDesign + InDesignSecretsLive NYC: Recap of our June 12-13 event + Apple announces iBooks supports EPUB3 on the iPad + Kris Coppetier's incredible ePubCrawler, a fixed-layout script for InDesign * Best options for getting your publication onto an iPad or other tablet + PDF? + Fixed-Layout EPUB? + Flowable EPUB? + Stand-alone or Newsstand App? * Top 3 Hyperlinks Myths Debunked! * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Copy Platform Style Path

News and special offers from our sponsors: *>> Recosoft*: Special offer: 40% off PDF2ID or 25% off ID2Office (until mid-July), for converting PDF files to editable INDD files, or INDD files to Word/Powerpoint documents. Use discount code: IDSecrets* >> PrintUI.com / In-Tools.com: If you need a web-to-print automation solution, PrintUI.com is your answer. (If Harbs from In-Tools is part of it, you know it has to be great!) >>* Mediatrad, a great new tool for translators and InDesign users who need document language translation. It's free for non-commercial purposes. You can create a free trial 30-day account and translate up to 100 pages. Entering the special code: "indesignsecrets.com" gives you 100 additional pages! -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

AM was channelling Homer Simpson ("tool for digging in ice cream") Example of what EPUB3 can do (video); by Studio Walrus Making a Web app in HTML to save onto home page of iPad

iPad publication app solutions: Twixl Media, Mag+, PressRun, eDocker, Adobe DPS

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New eBook on InDesign CS6; PePcon 2012 and 2013; Charts and Graphs; Obscurity of the Week: Monochromatic

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-173.mp3 (15.4 MB, 27:20 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * News + Our newest eBook! Guide to InDesign CS6 (and CS5.5) New Features by Keith Gilbert + Our PePcon 2012 recap: Highlights, info, job leads + PePcon 2013 Announcement! April 29–May 1, 2013, in Austin, Texas + Join us in New York City, June 12-13, for InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC * Getting charts and graphs into InDesign: Solution round-up * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Monochromatic

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software: DocsFlow is a plugin for InDesign that marries the layout and design power of InDesign to the shared editing power of Google Docs, resulting in "editorial Nirvana!" >> eDocker: HTML5 Tablet Publisher is made for everyone who wants to create HTML5 publications from InDesign. Use the software to create and sell tablet-ready web apps (no app store required!). Special offer: $100 off (valid to 6/15/2012) with code 10IDS2012 -- Links mentioned in this podcast:**

Posts from new guest bloggers Ashley and Kelly Check out Kelly's DocumentGeek posts about the PatternMaker plug-in for InDesign

eBook: Guide to InDesign CS6 (and 5.5) New Features (free sample and write-up to come soon on our eBooks page) Photos from PePcon 2012! As mentioned: Twixl Media and Mag+ were in the PePcon house Typefi is looking for a team of freelance template designers, interested? E-mail info [at] indesignsecrets.com w/TYPEFI in Subject Free Column and Bar Graph Scripts (scroll down) Line charts script Chartwell Font Video on Vimeo on how the Chartwell font works Anne-Marie's InDesign Secrets movie about Chartwell (movie #005) on lynda.com Claquos Pie Chart script and our blog post about it Delta Graph v6 graph/chart software for Mac and Windows Making charts in Illustrator

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New lynda.com InDesign videos; Creative Cloud; Acrobat forms tools in InDesign CS6; Obscurity of the Week: World-Ready Composer

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-172.mp3(18.5 MB, 33:21 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Yikes! We recorded this on May 9 (pre-PePcon), but didn't get a chance to publish it until today, a week later (post-PePcon). Apologies for time-shifted content! * News + News in PEPCONland, Adobeland, and Lyndaland + Join us in New York City, June 13-14, for InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC * InDesign CS6's PDF Forms Features in depth * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: World-Ready Paragraph Composer**

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> PrintUI.com / In-Tools.com: Get free setup on an InDesignServer solution from PrintUI.com! Or, if you're more into EPUB, contact Harbs to learn more about a cool soon-to-come tool that provides EPUB preview and editing CSS files inside InDesign! >> Mediatrad, a great new tool for translators and InDesign users who need document language translation. It's free for non-commercial purposes. You can create a free trial 30-day account and translate up to 100 pages. Entering the special code: "indesignsecrets.com" gives you 100 additional pages! >> Rorohiko has a new script that helps InDesign users create fixed-layout EPUBs from InDesign files! Check out the free CSSGeometry.jsx script to quickly get the CSS markup for all your absolutely-positioned text frames, ready for copying and pasting into your CSS document. While you're there, be sure to check out all of their other neat InDesign scripts and plug-ins Kris and his crew at Rorohiko offer that are designed to "slash the time it takes!" -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Adobe Creative Cloud was released Adobe's redesigned online InDesign Help site New lynda.com videos: InDesign CS6 New Features and InDesign CS6 Essential Training David's rant/post about the split in PDF Export methods in InDesign Another post about single page vs. spread Interactive PDF export Harb's plug-in for World Ready typesetting, "WorldTools Pro" Adobe blog post about the surprise indicpreferences.js script in InDesign CS6

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Japanese Dots; CS6 Launch Event, Creative Cloud, Grayscale Export; Obscurity of the Week: Change Time

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-171.mp3(18.5 MB, 33:21 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. * News + PEPCON (May 14-16) is all about connecting people with the best solutions + Or join us in New York City, June 13-14, for InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC * David's excursion to find Japanese Dots! * Behind the scenes at the CS6 launch event on Monday * Exporting Grayscale PDF * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Change Time

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software: Until May 15 2012, InDesignSecrets listeners get 20% OFF any full product, such as the excellent InData plug-in for database publishing! Visit: http://emsoftware.com/offers/indesign-secrets-special-offer. "Let software robots do your work!" >> eDocker: makes HTML5 export for InDesign, so you an make web apps for iPad and other tablets (no app store required!). Special offer: $100 off (valid to 5/31/2012) with code 10IDS2012 >> Recosoft: Special offer: 25% off PDF2ID or ID2Office (until May 10), for converting PDF files to editable INDD files, or INDD files to Word/Powerpoint documents. Use discount code: IDSecrets -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Adobe Global Benchmark Study on Attitudes on Creativity (PDF) / Another article about this David's hunt for Japanese Dots PEPCON sponsors (such as Twixl, Mag+, PressRun, and others!) with great solutions you need to know about! Check out their sites, and meet many of them at PEPCON Adobe Creative Cloud basic information and FAQ.

Information about Creative Suite 6 Little Lord Fauntleroy: the grayscale movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (filibustering InDesign grayscale issues) Exporting Grayscale PDF files in older versions (this is a new feature in CS6)

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PEPCON discount; Underappreciated IDCS6 features; Obscurity of the Week: Auto-Size Link Info

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-170.mp3 (18.5 MB, 33:21 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. * News + PEPCON (May 14-16) is almost sold out with attendees coming from six continents. First five people to use code SF100 save $100! + Or join us in New York City, June 13-14, for InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC * Anne-Marie's Top Underappreciated and Underdiscussed Features in InDesign CS6 * From the Mailbag: Install CS5.5 or wait for CS6? * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Auto-Size Link Information

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> PrintUI.com / In-Tools.com: Get free setup on an InDesignServer solution from PrintUI.com! Or, if you're more into EPUB, contact Harbs to learn more about a cool soon-to-come tool that provides EPUB preview and editing CSS files inside InDesign! >> Mediatrad, a great new tool for translators and InDesign users who need document language translation. It's free for non-commercial purposes. You can create a free trial 30-day account and translate up to 100 pages. Entering the special code: "indesignsecrets.com" gives you 100 additional pages! >> Rorohiko makes a wide range of excellent add-ons, including the must-have "Soxy" — it opens the right file in the right application! Use the code INDESIGNSECRETS170 for 25% off single installs of Soxy. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

PEPCON social networking site IGNITE InDesign (PEPCON event) info & sign-up sheet Anne-Marie's InDesign CS6 New Features title at lynda.com David's hunt for Japanese Dots Game of Thrones: Dothraki Easter Eggs in InDesign: Butterfly, Friendly Alien, Silly Strokes InDesign CS5.5 "7.5.2" updater patch for Windows or Macintosh

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News; Keith Gilbert Interview, Changing Document Size, Obscurity of the Week: Scissors Tool

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-169.mp3 (18.2 MB, 32:32 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * News + Sit down with your favorite InDesign authors and scripters at the Print + ePublishing Conference (May 14-16, San Francisco) + On the East Coast? See us June 13-14: InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC * Interview with Keith Gilbert, InDesign trainer and consultant * Changing Document size: Not as straightforward as you think + The problem with File > Document Size + Using the Page tool and the Pages panel control + Changing document pages vs. changing Master pages * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Scissors Tool

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> eDocker, has a new InDesign digital publishing solution called eDocker Tablet Publisher. With this program you can create, from InDesign, an HTML5 Web publication that works in all devices, including iPads, and that you can publish through your own server. Normally $995 for a Single User edition, InDesignSecrets users can get Tablet Publisher for only $895 through April 30 2012 with the coupon code 10IDS2012. For more details and more discounts for InDesignSecrets fans, go to http://www.edocker.com/ids. >> *Certitec*, an Adobe Authorized Training Center based in the UK, has an InDesign ACE Prep exam training class on March 22 and 23 for "wannabe InDesign Certified Experts." Mention "InDesignSecrets" when registering for 40% off the cost of the class! Also, Certitec is one of the first companies to offer Adobe's official Digital Publishing Suite courses for all you budding tablet publishers out there! See details on their 2-day courses for Single Edition DPS and Enterprise Pro DPS. Mention "InDesignSecrets" when registering for any course and get 25% off the fee! That's an incredible deal. If you're near one of their regional training centers in London Covent Garden or Cardiff, you're a lucky chap. >> Recosoft continues to improve and enhance their breakthrough product, PDF2ID, now at v3.0. PDF2ID is a cross-platform plug-in for Adobe InDesign that enables you to directly open and convert PDF documents within Adobe InDesign CS3/CS4/CS5. It supports multiple languages and can even pull in PDF annotations (comments) into the InDesign layout! LATE-BREAKING NEWS Recosoft's incredible InDesignSecrets discount has been extended to March 31, 2012! Purchase now using Promo Code IDSECRETS and receive a 50% discount for PDF2ID Standard v3.0 and PDF2ID Professional v3.0 AND, a newly-offered 25% discount on ID2Office v1.1. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Register for PePCon to reserve your place, it's sold out every year since we started > PePCon 2012 Event on LinkedIn; see which of your contacts are attending Info and registration for our 2-day, single track InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC, June 12-13, 2012 Is it aitch or haitch? Keith Gilbert's company is Gilbert Consulting Keith was trying to remember the ASOS "magalog" tablet publication, "from the UK's top fashion design and beauty store" All about Fargo, the Movie Apple's new iPad Gridify Tips on the InDesignSecrets forum and a blog post Adobe's new Digital Publishing Suite Developer Center (yes we're developers now!) Posts about Changing the Size of an InDesign document:

When the Document Size Won't Change Resizing Document Pages Change the Document Window Size (related bonus tip)

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Drawing in InDesign; Quizzler Winner (finally); Shortcut of the Week: Paste Into; Obscurity of the Week: Convert Direction Point

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-168.mp3 (18.2 MB, 32:32 minutes)

[media id=89 width= height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Announcements + Congratulations to Mike Rankin, new Editor-in-Chief of InDesign Magazine and CreativePro.com + Mike is one of the speakers at our Print + ePublishing Conference (May 14-16, San Francisco) + On the East Coast? See us June 13-14: InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC * Drawing in InDesign + Pen tool and its shortcuts and permutations + Every frame and text wrap is actually an editable path + Pathfinder panel or menu to combine overlapping frames + Playing with type outlines + Using object styles * Finally: A Quizzler Winner! * Keyboard shortcut of the Week: Command-Option-V (Ctrl-Alt-V) * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Convert Direction Point*

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko has a cool plug-in, FrameReporter, that wins the award for Best Plug-in Icon Ever (a newspaper reporter inspecting a text frame with a magnifying glass!). Oh, and it also provides a slew of useful features for anyone who works with text and image frames in InDesign—in other words, everyone. For example, with FrameReporter you can name some frames and then use those names for quickly navigating to them! Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS168 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 20% off FrameReporter's regular price of $39US. >> Recosoft continues to improve and enhance their breakthrough product, PDF2ID, now at v3.0. PDF2ID is a cross-platform plug-in for Adobe InDesign that enables you to directly open and convert PDF documents within Adobe InDesign CS3/CS4/CS5. It supports multiple languages and can even pull in PDF annotations (comments) into the InDesign layout! -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Register for PePCon to reserve your place, it's sold out every year since we started PePCon 2012 Event on LinkedIn; see which of your contacts are attending Info and registration for our 2-day, single track InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC, June 12-13, 2012 Other articles about drawing in InDesign:

Edit a Shape's Frame The Hidden Join Paths Command The Zipper Effect Copy from Illustrator to InDesign or Vice Versa Pasting from Illustrator into InDesign

Free Speech Bubble (and perhaps Snowman Head) script for InDesign We talked about Script Labels in this podcast A post about Paste Into The Aachen font (city where our Quizzler is from) Birgit won every one of our InDesignSecrets eBooks!

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Quizzler! Birgit from Aachen, Germany, was the winner of the random drawing of correct answers to this Quizzler from a couple podcasts ago. In response to the question "What does this cryptogram made up of dingbats spell out," Birgit answered "WE LIKE LEGOS." (David must have been surrounded by the Legos™ his kids play with.) Our friend Brad Walrod, book compositor extraordinaire, kindly created a graphic of the solution for us. Thank you Brad!

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InDesign Events; ID to EPUB scripts; Shortcut of the Week; Quizzler Update; Obscurity of the Week: Japanese Dots

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-167.mp3 (15.9 MB, 28:51 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Upcoming InDesign Events and Deadlines + March 2: Early bird ends for Print + ePublishing Conference (May 14-16, San Francisco) + March 3: Creating Digital Publications with InDesign, UC Berkeley + June 13-14: InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC * Three must-have free scripts for InDesign to EPUB (and other uses) + TomaxxiLinkRename + PerfectPrepText (download link, blog post to come) + CSSGeometry (thank you Kris at Rorohiko!) * Keyboard shortcut of the Week: Command-Shift-V (Ctrl-Shift-V) * Quizzler Update: Code Breaker (see below) due midnight Feb 29! * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Japanese Dots

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko’s TextExporter 3.1 plug-in makes exporting text out of InDesign CS2-CS5.5 so simple! You can export all the stories in an ID file into one single RTF, plain text, or ID tagged text file, and you control how it orders the text as it extracts and concatenates it. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS167 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the TextExporter plug-in. >> In-Tools is the developer of AutoFlow Pro, an InDesign plug-in that lets you fully control the layout of both text and images by dynamically shrinking and expanding individual text frames and threaded stories using your settings. (And it’s a great solution for easy alternate layouts for DPS.) Check out their AutoFlow page for details, screenshots, documentation, and to download a free trial! -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Register for PePCon by March 2 for up to $200 off PePCon 2012 Event on LinkedIn; see which of your contacts are attending Diane Burns' Creating Digital Publications with InDesign, UC Berkeley Info and registration for our 2-day, single track InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC, June 12-13, 2012 Forum discussion about Jongware's preptext.jsx script David's PowerStyles plug-in can also do what PerfectPrepText does (and more) Cari Janssen's article about TomaxxiLinkRename script Anne-Marie's post about TextExporter & exporting text from ID Japanese dots post by Cari Orthogonal paste (or "paste without formatting") post by David

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Quizzler! Listeners: The mystery image is below. CLUE: The last character is Sonata, here's a character map

To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and the correct answer to the puzzle (as described in the podcast). You have until February 29 2012 at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! We will randomly choose a winner from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast in February, and receives the prize: a copy of every single one of our eBooks!

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Upcoming events and deadlines; TOCCON recap; John McWade Interview; Quizzler Results; Obscurity of the Week: Sample Buttons

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. * Upcoming InDesign Events and Deadlines + March 2: Early bird ends for Print + ePublishing Conference (May 14-16, San Francisco) + March 3: Creating Digital Publications with InDesign, UC Berkeley + June 13-14: InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC * Recap of the O'Reilly Tools of Change Conference (TOCCON) * Interview with John McWade, founder of Before&After magazine * Quizzler Update: Code Breaker! C'mon people! (see below) * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Sample Buttons

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> eDocker, the fine people who sell the InDesign > Flash magazine solution (now known as eDocker2 Desktop Publisher) that we've talked about before, just released a new InDesign digital publishing solution called eDocker Tablet Publisher. With this program you can create, from InDesign, an HTML5 Web publication that works in all devices, including iPads, and that you can publish through your own server. Normally $995 for a Single User edition, InDesignSecrets users can get Tablet Publisher for only $895 through April 30 2012 with the coupon code 10IDS2012. For more details and more discounts for InDesignSecrets fans, go to http://www.edocker.com/ids. >> Recosoft continues to improve and enhance their breakthrough product, PDF2ID, now at v3.0. PDF2ID is a cross-platform plug-in for Adobe InDesign that enables you to directly open and convert PDF documents within Adobe InDesign CS3/CS4/CS5. It supports multiple languages and can even pull in PDF annotations (comments) into the InDesign layout! As an InDesignSecrets fan, you can get an incredible 50% off of PDF2ID Standard or Professional with the promo code IDSECRETS. Note this promotion ENDS on March 9, 2012! -- Links mentioned in this podcast:**

Register for PePCon by March 2 for up to $200 off Diane Burns' Creating Digital Publications with InDesign, UC Berkeley Info and registration for our 2-day, single track InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC O'Reilly eBooks optimized for Kindle Fire 8 Anne-Marie's Professional Web Site Design book Presentation Zen that very few presenters paid any attention to Mike's and Anne-Marie's PDF slides (include links to InDesign scripts) from TOCCON EPUB 3 Resources from TOCCON, collected by Matthew Diener from EPUBSecrets.com John McWade's Before&After Magazine MOO.com Luxe Cards All about QR Codes and Teacup Software's solution Our post about the Reappearing Sample Button Library

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Quizzler! Listeners: The mystery image is below. CLUE: There are THREE E's in this!

To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and the correct answer to the puzzle (as described in the podcast). You have until February 29 2012 at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! We will randomly choose a winner from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast in February, and receives the prize: a copy of every single one of our eBooks!

Professional Website Design From Start To Finish

PresentationZen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter)

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Chris Kitchener interview; Quizzler, Obscurity of the Week: Butt Cap

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-165.mp3 (16.2 MB, 30:11 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Interview with Chris Kitchener, InDesign Senior Product Manager + Thoughts on CS "Next" + New releases: Too many? Too few? + The delicate balance of adding new features vs. improving existing features * Quizzler! Code Breaker! (see below) * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Butt Cap

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> *Certitec*, an Adobe Authorized Training Center based in the UK, is one of the first companies to offer Adobe's official Digital Publishing Suite courses for all you budding tablet publishers out there! See details on their 2-day courses for Single Edition DPS and Enterprise Pro DPS. Mention "InDesignSecrets" when registering for any course and get 25% off the fee! That's an incredible deal. If you're near one of their regional training centers in London Covent Garden or Cardiff, you're a lucky chap. >> Rorohiko offers dozens of cool plug-ins and scripts for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! For example, have you checked out their free plug-in called Like Finds Like? Just select an item on the page and with a simple click (or with a keyboard shortcut you assign) you can have InDesign select all other "matches" to the selection on the page or spread. Check out the LikeFindsLike product page at Rorohiko.com, and be sure to mosey around their other offerings while you're there. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Check out PePConference.com, register by March 2 2012 for $200 early bird discount David's The Creative Sweet at the 2012 Macworld/iWorld in San Francisco, Jan 26 Anne-Marie's InDesign to EPUB & Beyond workshop at the O'Reilly TOCCON, Feb 13 Mike Rankin's Renovating Print Assets for Digital session at TOCCON, Feb 14 Save 15% off any TOCCON registration with the coupon code AMCon Kiyo Toma's sneak peak of InDesign liquid layout from Adobe MAX

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Quizzler! Listeners: The mystery image is below.

To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and the correct answer to the puzzle (as described in the podcast). You have until January 31 2012 at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! We will randomly choose a winner from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast in February, and receives the prize: a copy of every single one of our eBooks!

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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: >> 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. *>> 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:*

Check out PePConference.com, register by March 2 2012 for $200 early bird discount David (and Recosoft) will be at the 2012 Macworld/iWorld in San Francisco Blog post: Hidden Layer Tricks in CS5 "Betcha By Golly Wow," the famous Stylistic set AM was singing More info on Open Type alternate glyphs and stylistic sets Adobe page about Tom Phinney's Hypatia Sans typeface 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"

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John McWade; InDesign CS6+ Wishlist; WTH - Allow Document Pages to Shuffle; Obscurity of the Week: Star Inset

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-163.mp3 (17.5 MB, 32:06 minutes)

[media id=84 width= height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * 2012 PePConference update: John McWade (Before & After) added to speaker list * InDesign wishlists for CS6, CS7, and beyond + Create form fields (for PDFs) + In-app, non-destructive image editing + Enhance MiniBridge with metadata and keywords panel + Set screen resolution in preferences + Integrate InDesign digital publishing with Dreamweaver + User-modifiable Application Bar icons a la Acrobat X + Many more from our user-driven InDesign Wishlist site * WTH (What the Heck?) Feature of the Week: "Allow Document Pages to Shuffle" * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Star Inset*

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> *Andromeda Software lets you untether your desktop with their new CollabSystem for InDesign users and the clients who love them. It’s a collaborative environment; a central, cloud-based community where you can share your works in progress from within InDesign. Upload your work to the cloud from within InDesign and share access with up to 30 users via a simple URL or free iTunes app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:*

Check out PePConference.com for updated speaker info and bios Register for the 2012 PePConference by March 2 2012 for $200 earlybird registrations Video simulation here and here of Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies colliding Tony Harmer's poem (performed at PepCon 2011) asking for PDF Form objects Marijan Tompaa's script solution for ID > Acro forms Anne-Marie was actually recalling how InDesign CS could "hotlink" export to GoLive (not Dreamweaver) InDesign UserVoice (wishlist) web site MiniBridge in InDesign basics Starbursts and star insets free scripts

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PePConference News; Matthew Diener interview; Keyboard Shortcut of the Week; Obscurity of the Week: Create Guides

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-162.mp3 (15.2 MB, 28:04 minutes)

[media id=83 width= height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * 2012 PePConference news; secret goodies for early early registrants * Interview with Matthew Diener, editor of EPUBSecrets.com * InDesign Shortcut of the Week: Command-Option-I/Ctrl-Alt-I * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Create Guides* (the menu command)

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools is the developer of World Tools Pro, InDesign plug-ins that represent “the most complete solution available for composing multilingual documents including Hebrew, Arabic, Indic languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and more.” Company founder Harbs is also the "Guru" of PrintUI.com, which provides a number of custom InDesign Server-based solutions, like the StoreSigns.com solution we talked about in the podcast. >> Rorohiko has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! In this episode we take a close look at their Mac/Windows utility called Soxy ($19US) that helps you open files (InDesign, EPS,PDF, and others) in the correct version of the program when you have more than one version installed. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS162 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the Soxy utility. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Go to PePConference.com and check out the new logo by CMYKate Designs Register for the 2012 PePConference by Dec. 31 2011 for speaker-only t-shirt and bag Check out EPUBSecrets.com, and say hi to editor Matthew Diener (@epubsecrets) Matthew lives in Evanston (NU Wildcats) but follows Michigan State football :D An EPUB Primer written by @epubpupil in EPUBSecrets.com David's article about PrintUI.com will be in issue #45 of InDesign Magazine SMIL ("smile") is how you associate sound files with HTML to add Read Aloud ability to EPUB books SVG files and InDesign Anne-Marie's video, A Field Guide to Special Characters in InDesign and PDF guide David wrote a post about some mysterious hidden characters too All the InDesignSecrets tips videos on Lynda.com (some only available to subscribers) Blog post about Deleting All the Guides

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[media id=82 width= height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * New sister site: ePubSecrets.com! * All about the new Kindle Fire tablet from Amazon * Creating accessible PDFs with InDesign: Tips and Resources * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Artifact*

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools is the developer of World Tools Pro, InDesign plug-ins that represent “the most complete solution available for composing multilingual documents including Hebrew, Arabic, Indic languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and more.” Company founder Harbs is also the "Guru" of PrintUI.com, which provides a number of custom InDesign Server-based solutions.

>> Andromeda Software lets you untether your desktop with their new CollabSystem for InDesign users and the clients who love them. It's a collaborative environment; a central, cloud-based community where you can share your works in progress from within InDesign. Upload your work to the cloud from within InDesign and share access with up to 30 users via a simple URL or free iTunes app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Check out our new baby, EPUBSecrets.com, and say hi to editor Matthew Diener Learn more about Amazon's new eReader/Android tablet, the Kindle Fire Adobe's Colin Fleming video shows DPS on the Kindle Fire Read EPUBs on a Kindle Fire with the Aidiko app (may need to install AndroXplorer or similar first) Anne-Marie talked about DataViz's Documents to Go Android app David's Maynard reference, Anne-Marie thought he meant this Maynard Adobe's InDesign Accessibility page with links to videos and PDFs

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[media id=81 width= height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * News: Anne-Marie's Las Vegas recap, Podcast survey results, Goodie boxes * Interview with Josh Nguni, Namibia's InDesign User Group leader * Adobe's Creative Cloud: A brief overview and discussion * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Objects Move with Page*

News and special offers from our sponsors: >>Em Software is the developer of DocsFlow, a plug-in for Adobe InDesign (CS5 or 5.5, Mac or PC) that dynamically links online Google Docs with InDesign layouts. The two-way active link between the successive drafts of the text in Google Docs (free online text editor from Google) and the story as it appears in the formatted InDesign layout allows writers, editors, and designers to work, individually or collaboratively, all at the same time. For a limited time, you can purchase DocsFlow for $200, and you’ll be automatically upgraded at no cost to DocsFlow Pro when it’s released, which will be priced at $400. >> Rorohiko has a neat little InDesign utility called LayerLifter, a free add-on that makes it easier to move items from layer to layer. If you own or purchase their APID ToolAssistant ($25), you also get to use LayerShifter, a slick way to shift all items on a particular layer. Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS160 to get 25% off the APID ToolAssistant. You won't regret it! >> Recosoft* makes *PDF2ID (converts PDFs to editable InDesign files) and ID2Office (converts InDesign files to editable Word or Powerpoint files).They also just announced 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:

Adobe's Creative Cloud and their Creative Cloud FAQ You can log in to Creative Cloud right now to test it David wrote an article in Macworld about his opinion of CS5.5 subscriptions Josh Nguni's InDesign User Group in Windhoek, Namibia

Josh Nguni

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Podcast listener survey, with prizes! * Smackdown: The Print dialog box vs. the Printer dialog box * WTH? The Color panel * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Reverse Path

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Silicon Publishing boasts over 20 programmers and other technology professionals who deliver electronic publishing applications and custom solutions to clients. In this podcast we talked about the CS5 add-in they developed for Fotolia, a plug-in that offers Fotolia's stock photography in a panel in InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Download the free beta Fotolia plug-in here. Check out the Silicon Publishing web site to learn more about them and their InDesign-centric automation solutions. >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is giving away one free full-day class for either their InDesign for EPUB or their InDesign for iPad + Android class (your choice) to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes are held in Cardiff, London, or Bristol. To enter the drawing for the free class (normally £397), go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have a fortnight — 14 days— from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don’t win, you can always take any 2011-2012 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering. >> Andromeda Software* lets you untether your desktop with their new, still-in-beta *CollabSystem for InDesign users and the clients who love them. It’s a collaborative environment; a central, cloud-based community where you can share your works in progress from within InDesign. Upload your work to the cloud from within InDesign and share access with up to 30 users via a simple URL or free iTunes app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Download the free (but limited enrollment) beta today! -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Take the Podcast Listener Survey (short and sweet) and possibly win a goodie box Here's that Page Border script Anne-Marie mentioned David blogged about Reverse Path back in 2006 and, more recently, Steve Werner in this post

-- WTH:

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-158.mp3 (19.9 MB, 36:34 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * News + David's Adobe MAX recap + Adobe's new Single Edition DPS + Anne-Marie at InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Las Vegas, Nov 2 * Interview with James Fritz and Mike Rankin * New Podcast Feature: "Who Knew?" * Quizzler Winner! * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Show Full Menus

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft is the company behind the genius PDF2ID conversion tool. It adds an Open PDF command to InDesign's File menu, how cool is that! They also sell ID2Office, a converter that can make editable Office documents out of your InDesign files, which is going to make David's wife quite happy. Check them out at Recosoft.com >> Andromeda Software lets you untether your desktop with their new, still-in-beta CollabSystem for InDesign users and the clients who love them. It's a collaborative environment; a central, cloud-based community where you can share your works in progress from within InDesign. Upload your work to the cloud from within InDesign and share access with up to 30 users via a simple URL or free iTunes app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Download the free (but limited enrollment) beta today! *>> Rorohiko makes awesome plug-ins for creative professionals who use InDesign. Check out the latest beta of their innovative FramedWeb plug-in which allows you to import web pages and convert them into editable InDesign layouts. The beta is free, but they want to offer a deal to InDesignSecrets listeners. So if you purchase a completely unrelated — but just as awesome — plug-in of theirs called Frame Reporter*(adds useful info to any text or image frame automatically), and use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS156, you’ll get 25% off the cost.

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Quizzler Winner! In episode #156, we asked you to tell us what was the very first InDesignSecrets blog post in 2007. (This was a sneaky way to promote our Archives page, a fast way to access the 1200+ blog posts here.) The winner, chosen via a random drawing of the multiple correct submissions, was faithful listener Salah Al-Din Talhami of Virtual Designing Universe with the answer: On January 1, 2007, at 6:14 p.m., David posted the (still relevant) article "Assigning Default Text Formatting." Great work, Salah! You will receive a copy of In-Tools' wonderful Style Utilities for InDesign.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

David's Adobe MAX recap InDesignSecrets Live! seminar with Anne-Marie in Las Vegas, November 2 PubWest Conference in Las Vegas, Nov 3-5 Mike Rankin's blog posts, ebooks, Twitter feed, and Lynda.com videos James Fritz's blog posts, Twitter feed, and Lynda.com videos Mike Ninness's video on the Document Fonts folder feature InDesignSecrets Archives page of all blog posts We talked about hiding menu items in this blog post from 2009

-- King David at Adobe MAX:

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Live performances coming up; InDesign to Kindle; KBSC of the Week; Obscurity of the Week: Leading Edge

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-157.mp3 (17.1 MB, 31:39 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Live performances + David & Fritz at Adobe MAX, Oct 1–5 + Anne-Marie at InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Las Vegas, Nov 2 + Anne-Marie at PubWest conference. in Las Vegas, Nov 3-5 + Anne-Marie and Mike Rankin at O'Reillly TOC for Publishing Conf, Feb. 12-14 2012 + Our Print & ePublishing Conf. will be in San Francisco, May 14-16 2012 * InDesign to Kindle eBook productionL Tips, software, resources * Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Command/Ctrl - ~ (tilde key) * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Leading Edge

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft is the company behind the genius PDF2ID conversion tool. It adds an Open PDF command to InDesign's File menu, how cool is that! They also sell ID2Office, a converter that can make editable Office documents out of your InDesign files, which is going to make David's wife quite happy. Check them out at Recosoft.com >> In-Tools has a number of great InDesign plug-ins, all of which were recently updated to work with CS5.5. Also check out some of their InDesign scripts, many of which are free, such as the neat Show Text Overridesscript we talked about.

– We didn't forget you, Quizzler people! If you entered the Quizzler from the last episode (#156), we'll be announcing the answer and the winner in our next podcast, #158, in October. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

David & Fritz at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, Oct 1–5

InDesignSecrets Live! seminar with Anne-Marie in Las Vegas, November 2

PubWest Conference in Las Vegas, Nov 3-5 O'Reilly Tools of Change (TOC) for Publishing Conf. in New York City, Feb. 12-14 2012 Mike Rankin wrote about last year's O'Reilly TOC Con here and here Silicon Publishing is where blushing groom Olav Kvern now works 2012 is the end of days? WTC: In Their Own Words print book from Firehouse Publishing, and the Kindle edition Download KindleGen, Kindle Previewer, & ID>Kindle plugin from Amazon Amazon's Kindle Publishing Guidelines PDF Joshua Tallent's list of Kindle publishing resources > Ken Whitaker's book InDesign to Kindle

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-156.mp3 (14.5 MB, 26:21 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * News and Announcements + James Fritz's InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Milwaukee, Sept 27 + Anne-Marie's InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Las Vegas, Nov 2 + David & Fritz are presenting with Russell Brown at Adobe MAX, Oct 1–5 + Mike Rankin's 3-city InDesignFX tour of midwest IDUGs, Sept 13–15 * All about Change Case; tips and secrets and scripts and plug-ins and GREP, oh my * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Contextual Alternates * Quizzler! All you need is a web connection to figure it out

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: *>> Rorohiko makes awesome plug-ins for creative professionals who use InDesign. Check out the latest beta of their innovative FramedWeb plug-in which allows you to import web pages and convert them into editable InDesign layouts. The beta is free, but they want to offer a deal to InDesignSecrets listeners. So if you purchase a completely unrelated — but just as awesome — plug-in of theirs called Frame Reporter (adds useful info to any text or image frame automatically), and use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS156, you'll get 25% off the cost. >> Em Software just released the shipping version of DocsFlow 7.0,*a plug-in for Adobe InDesign Mac or PC that dynamically links online Google Docs with InDesign layouts. The active link between the successive drafts of the text in Google Docs (free online text editor from Google) and the story as it appears in the formatted InDesign layout allows writers, editors, and designers to work, individually or collaboratively, all at the same time. For a limited time, you can purchase DocsFlow for $200, and you'll be automatically upgraded at no cost to DocsFlow Pro when it's released, which will be priced at $400.

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To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and the correct answer. You have until Monday, Sept. 19 at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! We will randomly choose a winner from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast after Sept. 19, 2011!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

InDesignSecrets Live! with James Fritz in Milwaukee, WI, September 27 InDesignSecrets Live! With Anne-Marie Concepcion in Las Vegas, November 2 David & Fritz at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, Oct 1–5 Mike Rankin's InDesignFX tour of the InDesign User Groups, Sept 13–15 Formatting Tools plug-in from InTools (does Change Case magic) Change Case with GREP, InDesignSecrets post here and forum thread here Using Configurator in InDesign to change case Is it Upper Case or is it All Caps? Big difference! Free script for Smart Title Case "Engaging Contextuality," great post about fonts with Contextual Alternates

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Back to School episode; Best resources for lifelong learners of InDesign; Upcoming events; Obscurity of the Week: Select Next Object

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-155.mp3 (15.5 MB, 28:27 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Well, kind of soon. It takes them a while to transcribe. * Back to School episode! Resources for life-long learners of InDesign + Books, videos, forums, templates, for users at any level + Rededicate yourself to learn! Try our suggested lesson plans for every user * Upcoming events, including a peek at PePCon 2012 * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select Next Object

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a number of great InDesign plug-ins, all of which were recently updated to work with CS5.5. In-Tools is one of the best sources for scripts and plug-ins for anyone working with long documents (see the Publisher Suite), anyone creating multilingual publications (see World Tools Pro), and any user who wants to check out some great scripts, many of which are free. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

InDesignSecrets Live! with James Fritz in Milwaukee, WI, September 27 InDesignSecrets Live! With Anne-Marie Concepcion in Las Vegas, November 2 InDesign Secrets, our the new video series at Lynda.com All videos on InDesign at Lynda.com Recommended books and videos, our handpicked list InDesign videos at VTC.com, Video2Brain, Adobe TV, Software Cinema InDesign User Group web site Adobe forum for InDesign and our own InDesignSecrets forums Cool new plug-ins and add-ons for InDesign

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Milwaukee Seminar; Writing in InDesign; WTH feature: Fit Selection to Window; Obscurity of the week: Odd Page Break

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-154.mp3 (17.8 MB, 34:27 minutes)

The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Well, kind of soon. It takes them a while to transcribe. * Writing in InDesign: why would you write from scratch in a page-layout program? * Our first-ever What-The-Heck (WTH) feature: Fit Selection to Window * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Odd Page Break

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >>Rorohiko makes awesome plug-ins for creative professionals who use InDesign, and also builds custom automated workflow solutions for companies around the world. >>UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don’t win, you can always register for any 2011 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering. Also: Thanks to Ken Venus for the awesome voiceovers! -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

InDesignSecrets Live! with James Fritz in Milwaukee, WI, September 27 (check your weekly newsletter for the code to get 10% off; if you don't get the newsletter) Writing in InDesign: a book by Dave Bergsland, at Amazon or Lulu. Basic and Not-so-Basic Text Selection Shortcuts (blog post by James Fritz) More on Story Editor and the Barbell cursor. More on the Show Paragraph Break Marks feature. GoogleDocs Em Software's DocsFlow Buzzword Wordpress to InDesign ickmull and more from John Maxwell What the Hieronymus Bosch?! Free Guide to InDesign Special Hidden Characters

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Tons o' Table Tips; Obscurity of the Week: Automatic Document Conversion; Quizzler winner and answers

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-153.mp3 (16.9 MB, 30:27 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Tables Tables Tables! Answers to: + Table styles with column widths? + Find (and change) tables with Find/Change? + Merge two tables into one, easily? + Fill table cells with placeholder text? + Insert consecutive numbers in a column? + Make a cell show the sum of its column or row (or other math)? * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Automatic Document Conversion * Quizzler Winner - and Answers!!!! ("How many ways can you tell the current page number?")

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software’s InCatalog plugin for InDesign frees you from endless (and error-prone) cutting and pasting from databases and spreadsheets to InDesign text frames and back. With a little invisible link magic via InCatalog, prices, descriptions, graphics, etc., can all be automatically updated (in both directions!) so you never have to worry again about missing a price or mistyping a description. For InDesignSecrets podcast listeners, Em Software is offering 20% off any 1-pack product (including InCatalog) until August 15 2011. Enter the coupon code idsecrets711 on their checkout page. >> In-Tools develops incredibly useful InDesign scripts (like MergeTables, mentioned in today's podcast) and plug-ins, but they would like you to know that they also develop custom solutions for clients. For example, company owner Harbs tells us, they're putting the final touches on a web-to-print solution for a customer that uses browser-editable InDesign templates with the InDesign server in the background (neat!). Check out Harbs's blog to see what he's up to, and contact him directly on his Contact page. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Marijan's Fill Table with Placeholder Text script: TomaxxiFillTable.zip Browse all of Marijan's InDesign scripts and other goodies Harbs's Merge Tables script page Browse all of Harbs's InDesign scripts DTPTools's Active Tables plug-in See the comments below for some of our favorite answers to the Quizzler sent in by listeners Keith Gilbert suggested the Quizzler Diane Burns's InDesign Table Magic webinar, and a list of all InDesignSecrets webinars

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Keyboard Shortcut of the Week; Ron Bilodeau interview; Geeky Blog Posts; Obscurity of the Week: Remember Font with Bullet

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-152.mp3 (24.2 MB, 44:52 minutes!)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Keyboard shortcut "of the week" * Interview with Ron Bilodeau, InDesign Master at O'Reilly Media * Incredibly geeky blog posts you should check out * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Remember Font with Bullet * Quizzler!

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a number of great InDesign plug-ins, all of which were recently updated to work with CS5.5. One of the most powerful plug-in is his AutoFlow Pro ($79). It puts you in complete control of automating the flowing and reflowing of your layout’s text and images, using both master frames and non-master frames, across entire documents. It's a great solution for creating horizontal and vertical layouts of the same content, too. >> Rorohiko is offering 50% off their SodukuGenerator ($149) plug-in until the end of July 2011; after that the discount drops to 20% off. As the name implies, the plug-in uses InDesign to create "easy" to "diabolical" level Soduku puzzles, great for any newsletter, magazine, newspaper, or even a book full of these puzzles. To get the discount, use the promo code INDESIGNSECRETS152 when you purchase it. – To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and as many correct answers as you can think of. You have until Monday, July 25 at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! We will randomly choose a winner from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast after July 25, 2011!

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

InDesign Keyboard Shortcuts posters InDesignSecret's collection of GREP-related posts and resources Twitter #eprdctn posts Ron used to work at Cook's Illustrated magazine > Now he works at O'Reilly Media Geeky post #1: Guide to Interpreting InDesign Crash Reports Geeky post #2: Favorite GREP Expressions You Can Use Geeky post #3: Picking the Best Video Format for Digital Publishing Geeky post #4: Free Script to Batch Apply ALT Tags Seybold Report reviewed Soduku Generator with Patterns Keith Gilbert suggested the Quizzler InDesignSecrets webinars Jim Maivald's book, Designer's Guide to InDesign and XML

A Designer's Guide to Adobe Indesign and XML: Harness the Power of XML to Automate Your Print and Web Workflows

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-151.mp3 (24.2 MB, 44:52 minutes!)

[media id=72 width= height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * PePCon 2011 recap: It was great! Let's do it again! ;-D * Marijan's new Acrobat script (lets you create form fields in InDesign) * Our Uservoice web site for InDesign feature requests * Interview with Douglas Waterfall, InDesign senior software engineer * Quizzler winner! (and answer) * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Load Selected Glyph*

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko is offering 20% off their StoryParker 2.0 ($29) plug-in, a neat utility that helps you deal with cluttered pages by letting you "park" any object elsewhere (like on the pasteboard) to get it out of the way temporarily, and then "unpark" it later. To get the 20% discount, use the promo code INDESIGNSECRETS151 when you purchase it. >> In-Tools has a number of fantastically useful InDesign plug-ins, all of which were recently updated to work with CS5.5. Harbs (the owner) has also written a bunch of InDesign scripts that are supremely useful. Be sure to visit the In-Tools page and download what looks useful. >>UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don’t win, you can always register for any 2011 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering.

– Quizzler winning answer: How many ways can you "hide" InDesign, from the keyboard? Pat, a Mac user, says ... 1. You mentioned the first way - Quit. 2. Option-click on the desktop will hide InDesign and you leave the program but not quit it. 3. Force Quit - Option+Command+esc 4. Command+H - will hide InDesign. Which surprised me the first time it happened because Command+H used to Hide Frame Edges. 5. Menu Bar> InDesign> Hide InDesign (does that one count because it's basically the same as #4) 6. Use the dock to hide InDesign 7. Use the dock to quit InDesign (does that one count because it's basically the same as #6) 8. Command+Tab highlight InDesign Icon in application switcher and Command+Q 9. Command+Tab highlight InDesign icon in application swticher and then Command+H

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Print & ePublishing conference sponsors Marijan Tompa's new site

Tony Harmer's poem lamenting InDesign's inability to create Acrobat form fields Blog post on Creating Form Fields in InDesign (the Acrobat script) Tony Harmer's updated poem Send feedback about your InDesign wishlist items to our Uservoice site Adobe's official feature request form that Chris Kitchener reads In discussion with Douglas, we talked about the issue of split columns not splitting Peter Kahrel's footnotes and columns script The Certitec winner was from Llandrindod Wells in Powys The winner of the Quizzler gets her choice of InDesignSecrets webinars David's article on Mystery Glyphs was in issue #41 of InDesign Magazine More on Load Selected Glyph in Find Langston Hughes' poem, "A Dream Deferred"

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Our Sesquicentennial Episode; Favorite Resources; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Background Tasks

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-150.mp3 (15.2 MB, 27:18 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Our sesquicentennial episode! + We talk about 15 of our list of 150 Awesome Links and Resources, including: Bob Bringhurst's InDesign Docs blog, Adobe Master List of Adobe Blogs, InDesign Magazine Tip of the Week archives, Mordy's Fridays with Mordy webinar archive, Pattern Maker plug-in free version, DesignGeek.com, Quark to InDesign conversion guide (PDF), Adobe TV InDesign channel, InDesign Beyond the Basics, Real World InDesign, InDesignUserGroup Twitter list, InDesignSecrets Guide to Special Characters, 10 Tips for Troubleshooting InDesign Files, Dave Dickson's Digital Publishing blog * A new Quizzler! Listen up, magicians: you need to make something disappear. * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Background Tasks

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko is offering 50% off their Frame Reporter ($39) plug-in, an essential utility for getting feedback -- little tags on the page -- on the attributes of image and text frames in your document. Download the demo, click Get License... and enter the coupon code SESQUICENTENNIAL for 50% off until May 31, or 15% after that date. >> In-Tools has a neat plug-in called Style Utilities, that does all sorts of cool tricks with text styles such as styles based on the number of lines in the paragraph, conditional styles, a super-powered Next Style function, and more. It's only $39 and has a free trial. Try it out!

– To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and as many correct answers as you can think of. You have until Sunday, June 5 (not May 31 as we said in the podcast, since we were delayed in publishing this) at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! The winner will have the most correct answers, or in caes of a tie, we'll randomly choose the winner. Winner will be announced in the first podcast after June 5, 2011! -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Sesquicentennial? 150 Awesome Links and Resources Bob Levine's post about that Pesky Background Export Issue workaround (read comments for script)

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News; Book Cover Layout; Obscurity of the Week: Change Bars; Quizzler Winner

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-149.mp3 (21.2 MB, 37:06 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

InDesignSecrets News
- Print & ePublishing Conference update
- Google in, Bing out, for our blog's search engine
Laying out book covers (spine, covers, flaps): tips and scripts
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Change Bars
Quizzler winner and answer!

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> MathMagic, the ultimate equation editor from Info Logic, Inc., is a WYSIWYG equation editor/plug-in that lets you create inline, editable EPS equations from within InDesign (if you use the MathMagic Pro edition). It even converts equations set by Word’s Equation Editor, LaTex, MathML and MathType, to MathMagic-style equations. Special offer for InDesignSecrets: get 25% off MathMagic Pro ($199 or more), enter the INDS discount code (details).
>> Rorohiko (“Slash the time it takes!”) keeps improving their so-useful Soxy utility—the latest beta version supports InDesign CS5.5. With Soxy installed, users with multiple versions of InDesign installed can simply double-click INDD files to open them, because Soxy makes sure they open in the correct version of the program. Soxy also supports file/version matching with multiple versions of Illustrator, Photoshop, and QuarkXPress, among others. >> In-Tools is owned by the famous “Harbs” who helps out so many users here on the blog and in our forum. He and his company develop many scripts and plug-ins that are so useful for InDesign users, especially for those who are doing multi-lingual publishing (such as World Tools Pro) and long documents (such as the Power Headers plug-in we mentioned). And in his spare time, Harbs writes an engaging blog on his company site at In-Tools.com/about/blog, check it out! -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Print & ePublishing Conference in Washington DC, May 23–25, 2011 Read the Twitterstream about the conference (hashtag: #pepcon) David loves the number pi so much he wrote a book about it What do you think of the new blog search form? Tell us in the forum PageControl plug-in for mixing page sizes pre-CS5 Dan Rodney's Proper Fraction and Make Book Jacket scripts Interesting forum discussion about book jacket design and layout What does ISO stand for?

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Russell Viers interview; Keyboard Shortcut of the Week; Obscurity of the Week: Select First Range of Same-Size Pages; Quizzler!

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-148.mp3 (21.2 MB, 37:06 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Interview with Russell Viers + On teaching InDesign, the suite, and his favorite tips + The struggles of regional newspaper publishers (his specialty) * Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Command-Option-7/Control-Alt-7 * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select First Range of Same-Size Pages * Quizzler! With a prize worth hundreds of dollars ... listen for details

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> PrePress Center sells eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF and wants to add page navigation and zoom controls in the browser, among other goodies. Go to http://www.edocker.com/indesignsecrets-offer/ (or enter the coupon code indes2011) for $100 off of the eDocker software. >> Em Software’s flexible and powerful XTags for InDesign lets you do data-side, tag-driven automated document building. It speaks mainly a greatly enhanced XPress Tags language, but also the InDesign Tagged Text language when needed. Exclusive offer for InDesignSecrets fans: Use the coupon code IDS511 to get 15% off single copies of InData, InCatalog, InCatalog Pro, and Xtags for InDesign. Note this is a time-limited offer, it expires May 31 2011. >> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don’t win, you can always register for any 2010 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering.

-- To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and at least 3 answers to the Quizzler in the body of the message. You have until Sunday, May 8, at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! We will randomly choose a winner from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast after May 8, 2011! -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Russell's web site and blog Atomic News Tools — Russell and Kris Coppetier's InDesign > Web solution for newspapers Micro News sites from Patch.com 11 Things Every Newspaper Should Know About PDFs The future of the print version of the New York Times Kelly Vaughn's DocumentGeek blog Enter HAH11 promo code to get $100 off registration to the HOW Design Conference in Chicago, June 22-27. (AM's 3-hour InDesign session is on Friday June 24. Here's the full schedule.) We'd love to see you at the 2011 Print & ePublishing Conference, on May 23-25 in the Washington DC area

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Newsbits; InDesign CS5.5; Moving custom settings; Obscurity of the Week: 6-up

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-147.mp3 (15.4 MB, 27:27 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Newsbits! + New Social Media sharing links on InDesignSecrets.com + Catch AM's Hardcore InDesign workshop at the HOW Design Conference in June + AM is talking EPUB at the Chicago InDesign User Group next week + Print & ePublishing Conference: Larger, and new sessions added * InDesign CS 5.5: Why is it important for Adobe? What's new? * Moving custom InDesign settings between computers * Obscurity of the Week: 6-Up

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> MathMagic, the ultimate equation editor from Info Logic, Inc., is a WYSIWYG equation editor/plug-in that lets you create inline, editable EPS equations from within InDesign (if you use the MathMagic Pro edition). It even converts equations set by Word’s Equation Editor, LaTex, MathML and MathType, to MathMagic-style equations. Special offer for InDesignSecrets: get 25% off MathMagic Pro ($199 or more), enter the INDS discount code (details).
>> PrePress Center sells eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF and wants to add page navigation and zoom controls in the browser, among other goodies. Go to http://www.edocker.com/indesignsecrets-offer/ (or enter the coupon code indes2011) for $100 off of the eDocker software. >> Em Software’s flexible and powerful XTags for InDesign lets you do do data-side, tag-driven automated document building. It speaks the InDesign Tagged Text language! Exclusive offer for InDesignSecrets fans: Use the coupon code IDS511 to get 15% off single copies of InData, InCatalog, InCatalog Pro, and Xtags for InDesign. Note this is a time-limited offer, it expires May 31 2011. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Forum post about the new Share widget on the blog Enter HAH11 promo code to get $100 off registration to the HOW Design Conference in Chicago, June 22-27. (AM's 3-hour InDesign session is on Friday June 24. Here's the full schedule.) Chicago InDesign User Group page Please come to the 2011 Print & ePublishing Conference, May 23-25, Washington DC area (Twitter hashtag: #pepcon); we'd love to meet you! Adobe's official InDesign CS5.5 New Features page > The frame edge highlighting issue (which CS5.5 will solve for many users) Our post about the InDesign CS5.5 announcement AM's comprehensive Acrobat X Essentials video title at Lynda.com Moving custom settings from CS3 to CS4 blog post All about preferences and defaults in InDesign from Adobe online help Marijan"scripting whiz" Tompa's blog and scripts In-Tools' founder Harbs' excellent blog post about Backsaving in InDesign

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Newsbits; Live Captions; Liza Daly interview; Obscurity of the Week: Create Tagged PDF

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Newsbits!
- Print & ePublishing Conference: New HTML5/CSS3/Flash Tutorial day
- James Fritz's InDesignSecrets Live seminar on April 12
- InDesign to EPUB, Kindle, and the iPad, new video tutorials from Anne-Marie
- Catch AM's Hardcore InDesign workshop at the HOW Design Conference in June
- Creative Suite 5 Update coming soon, says Adobe
Live Captions: Tips, How-To's, Workarounds
Mike Rankin's interview with Liza Daly, EPUB expert
Obscurity of the Week: Create Tagged PDF

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko's TextExporter is an indispensable InDesign plug-in if ever need to repurpose text content from your InDesign files. Until the end of April, the company is giving away a free license of TextExporter to anyone who donates at least $NZ20 (about $15 US) for either the Japanese or New Zealand earthquake appeals, to any Red Cross society. See this Rorohiko page for instructions and more information. >> PrePress Center sells eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF and wants to add page navigation and zoom controls in the browser, among other goodies. Go to http://www.edocker.com/indesignsecrets-offer/ (or enter the coupon code indes2011) for $100 off of the eDocker software. >> In-Tools developed the awesome Reflective Objects plug-in ($59 US), which lets designers specify “align to/away from spine” for objects as well as paragraphs without having to make them anchored objects. If you’ve every had the layout of a left-facing page turn into a mess when it became a right-facing page, this plug-in is for you! -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

April 8 is the last day to get $200 off your registration to our 2011 Print & ePublishing Conference, May 23-25, Washington DC area (Twitter hashtag: #pepcon) New HTML5/CSS3/Flash post-conference tutorial Fritz's InDesignSecrets Live all-day seminar (use PODCAST146 discount code for $25 off, only 3 available) AM's blog post about her new Lynda.com InDesign > EPUB titles includes a free sample movie Enter HAH11 promo code to get $100 off registration to the HOW Design Conference in Chicago, June 22-27. (AM's 3-hour InDesign session is on Friday June 24. Here's the full schedule.) Liza Daly's company is Threepress Consulting, and their blog is here More info on the IDPF and the upcoming EPUB 3 specification Liza mentioned Inkling, publication design specialists in digital textbooks Adobe's InDesign/Accessibility resource page Download David's whitepaper, Creating Accessible PDFs with InDesign CS4 (PDF, 292K)

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Database and spreadsheet publishing; Obscurity of the Week: ATC (Adobe Type Composer)

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Laying out data from a database or spreadsheet
- The built-in Data Merge feature
- InData, InCatalog (emSoftware)
- EasyCatalog (65bit software)
- DataLinker (Teacup software)
- AutoPrice, DesignMerge (Meadows software)
- XMPie's products
Obscurity of the Week: ATC (Adobe Type Composer)

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> MathMagic, the ultimate equation editor from Info Logic, Inc., is a WYSIWYG equation editor/plug-in that lets you create inline, editable EPS equations from within InDesign (if you use the MathMagic Pro edition). It even converts equations set by Word’s Equation Editor, LaTex, MathML and MathType, to MathMagic-style equations. >> Em Software’s powerful InData cross-platform plug-in for InDesign is the gold standard for database publishing. Make your template in InDesign, point it at your data source, and click Start. Sit back and watch as it creates dozens or hundreds of pages entirely hands-off, even including things like graphics and running headers and footers, leaving you with a normal InDesign document. >> Rorohiko's MagnetoGuides is a nifty tool for InDesign CS1–CS5 that lets you "magnetize" guides, which push or pull any ‘snapped’ items along when they are moved. Also check out Soxy, a utility that keeps track of which versions of programs your files were created in, and opens them in the right version. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Check out the web sites of the third-party database publishing products we talked about: InData, InCatalog, EasyCatalog, DataLinker, AutoPrice, DesignMerge, XMPie Steve Werner wrote a series of three great blog posts here on using InDesign's Data Merge feature: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 Michael Murphy (The InDesigner) also did a great videocast on Data Merge It was written back in 1995, but Adobe's "Adobe CID Fonts" PDF white paper on CID and ATC fonts is still good

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The tech support episode! Mailbag answers; InDesign TechNotes; Nigel French interview; Obscurity of the week: Add items on page as separate objects

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * The Tech Support episode! From the mailbag ... + Select objects under other objects + Frame colors + Panel redraw problems + Making a layer non-printing + Tips for finding the best tech support * Adobe InDesign Tech Notes * Interview with Nigel French, UK-based designer, grids guru, and InDesign typography expert * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Add items on page as separate objects

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> MathMagic, the ultimate equation editor from Info Logic, Inc., is a WYSIWYG equation editor/plug-in that lets you create inline, editable EPS equations from within InDesign (if you use the MathMagic Pro edition). It even converts equations set by Word’s Equation Editor, LaTex, MathML and MathType, to MathMagic-style equations. >> In-Tools is the developer of World Tools Pro, InDesign plug-ins that represent “the most complete solution available for composing multilingual documents including Hebrew, Arabic, Indic languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and more.” Additionally, World Tools Pro offers a Composite Font Editor for creating custom composite fonts which automatically uses you choice of the font for each writing script you are using to compose your text. Free demo available for Mac/Windows. >> Rorohiko's StoryParker is a tool for InDesign CS1–CS5 that helps you cope with cluttered pages. Park an object somewhere else (like on the pasteboard) to get it out of the way. Later on, you can easily move the page item back to its exact original position, because parked page items ‘remember’ where they came from – you can ‘unpark’ them, which causes them to fly back to the exact location they had before you parked them. Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS144 to get 20% off StoryParker! -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Rebuild InDesign Preferences post InDesignSecrets forum and the Adobe InDesign forums Adobe's main portal for InDesign Support & Help Starter search for recent Adobe Tech Notes on InDesign Tech Note on SING error and Claudia McCue's post about it Nigel French's web site, his Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign book, and his titles on Lynda.com Nigel French is not the same Mr. French from Family Affair that Anne-Marie was thinking of The script for defining a "true" point-based type size

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EPUB and Kindle utilities, cross-reference formats, obscurity of the week: Save Count

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Three discoveries about InDesign to eBook conversions
- TextWrangler opens ePubs
- Sigil's housekeeping is a feature-not-a-but
- Kindle Previewer runs KindleGen for your
Cross-references: Roll your own formats!
- Remove the quote marks
- Add a delimiter (partial paragraph)
- Change the wording
Print & ePublishing Conf: New schedule is up!
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Save Count

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software's powerful InData cross-platform plug-in for InDesign is the gold standard for database publishing. Make your template in InDesign, point it at your data source, and click Start. Sit back and watch as it creates dozens or hundreds of pages entirely hands-off, even including things like graphics and running headers and footers, leaving you with a normal InDesign document. Use the coupon code idsecrets211 in their check-out page for 10% off — offer expires at the end of February! >> PrePress Center sells eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF and wants to add page navigation and zoom controls in the browser, among other goodies. Go to http://www.edocker.com/indesignsecrets-offer/ (or enter the coupon code indes2011) for 20% off of the eDocker software. >> Recosoft presents the new and exciting ID2Office product, which allows you export InDesign documents to formatted Word or PowerPoint files. Available in the spring. Check it out! -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Useful InDesign > eBook utilities: TextWrangler, Notepad++, Sigil, Oxygen, KindleGen and Kindle Previewer Subscribe to the Lynda.com newsletter to learn when Anne-Marie's new InDesign to EPUB title is live and for special offers DTP Tools' Cross-References PRO and Blatner Tools See the new schedule of sessions and seminars for the 2011 Print & ePublishing Conference Errata: TextWrangler lets you open and browse EPUB content files without unzipping them first, but not edit them in place, contrary to what we said in the podcast, sorry! Use Sigil or Oxygen for that.

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Cool stuff David found at Macworld; Information about new ID2Office plug-in; Quizzler Answers; Great table tip from Diane Burns; Obscurity of the Week: Search in Spotlight

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[media id=63 width= height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Macworld 2011: Even stuff Windows users would be interested in! * Interview with Paul Chada from Recosoft * A great table tip from Diane Burns of Transpacific Digital * Winner of last episode's Quizzler: How many places does Load show up in InDesign? * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Search in Spotlight*

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft presents the new and exciting ID2Office product, which allows you export InDesign documents to formatted Word or PowerPoint files. Available in the spring. Check it out! >> In-Tools creates InDesign plug-ins mainly for people doing multi-lingual or long document publishing, but many of their products are useful for anyone. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

David went to Macworld 2011 (previously called Macworld Expo) Makers of ReaddleDocs and PDF Expert PixelMags Aquafadas Terry White's CreativeSuite Podcast Cool one-handed keyboard: FrogPad Neat plastic cable ties from ETZY (it's dot-net, not dot-com, as David mistakenly said in the podcast) Don't forget to register soon for the 2011 Print and ePublishing Conference Quizzler Winner Marijan Tompa, otherwise known as Tomaxii Diane Burns owns Transpacific Digital

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11 New Document tips; new Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Easing Path

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[media id=62 width= height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * New Year's list of 11 (as in 2011) recommended New Document steps, including: + Checking Presets and Defaults + Head starts with styles + Master pages, layers, and workspaces * A new Quizzler! * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Easing Path*

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools creates InDesign plug-ins mainly for people doing multi-lingual or long document publishing, but many of their products are useful for anyone. In his free time, company owner Harbs is constantly churning out useful and often free scripts, such as the Preference Manager we talked about in this episode. >> Rorohiko has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done. For instance, have you ever wished you could add a vertical bar next to a paragraph and have it flow with the text, even if the paragraph breaks between columns or pages? Rorohiko's new BarredText plug-in ($19US) can do that for you, whether you use CS3, CS4, or CS5. A free trial is available, and when you decide to purchase it, be sure to use the discount code INDESIGNSECRETS141 for a significant discount. – To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and your best answer in the body of the message. You have until Friday, Jan. 28 , at midnight CST to send in your answer, one per user! We will choose the most correct answer, or in the case of a tie, we will randomly choose from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in a subsequent podcast—good luck!

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

David's post about application-wide Preference settings Post about Print vs. Web intent in InDesign CS5 All about Color Settings in InDesign (David's masterpiece article of 2010!) Seattle's InDesign User Group You've registered for our 2011 Print & ePublishing Conference, haven't you?

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Twitter for InDesign users; KBSC of the Week; New eBook; New speakers for the 2011 PeP Conf.; Obscurity of the Week: Row Separator

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * All about Twitter for InDesign users: + Who to follow and why + Design-oriented Twitter lists + InDesign tips found in tweets * Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Cmd-Y/Ctrl-Y * Newsbits + Mike Rankin's new eBook, Guide to InDesign CS5 ACE Exam + More speakers added to the roster for the Print & ePublishing Conference in DC in May 2011 * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Row Separator

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools is owned by our friend Harbs, who helps out so many users here on the blog and in our forum. In this episode we talked about his company's awesome Reflective Objects plug-in ($39 US), which lets designers specify "align to/away from spine" for objects as well as paragraphs without having to make them anchored objects. If you've every had the layout of a left-facing page turn into a mess when it became a right-facing page, this plug-in is for you! >> Rorohiko has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done. We love their handy (and free!) plug-in called "Like Finds Like." It lets you select an object, then tell InDesign to select all the other objects on that page or spread that share the same fill or stroke or frame type or width or ... you get the idea. Check it out! Meanwhile, you can support Rorohiko by buying one of their commercial plug-ins, such as the wonderful TextExporter ($19 US) that we talked about in the last episode ... it's the ideal add-on for anyone who needs to repurpose text from their layouts. You can still go to this special URL: http://www.rorohiko.com/indesignsecrets139.html in the Rorohiko.com store to get a "10 pack" of TextExporter for only $109 instead of $149. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Anne-Marie's Twitter & Facebook Marketing videos at Lynda.com The GraphicDesign Twitter list at Listorious Browse the Graphic-Designer list at Twibes Twitter user @Typography posts type-related info Blog post about 50 web designers to follow on Twitter Look for InDesign Tips on Twitter Learn more about Rufus Deuchler, Cari Jansen, and Russell Viers (new speakers at the Print & ePublishing Conference) Follow (or just read) @indesignsecrets on Twitter, and also our individual Twitter posts: @amarie, @dblatner, @idguy, @jmvrankin, @jamesfritz, @carijansen A few of our favorite Tweeple: @mninness, @lizcastro, @scottcitron, @rufusd, @mordy, @indesignmag, @indesign

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Object style tricks; Quizzler winner (floppy disc icons); KBSC of the week: Recall Zoom; Obscurity of the Week: Spacing Options

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Super tips and tricks for Object Styles, such as: + Apply first/next paragraph style + Set position of the object + Set width of the text frame * Quizzler winner: How many floppy disc icons in InDesign? (more than you think!) * Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Ctrl-Alt-2 / Cmd-Option-2 * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Spacing Options

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools is owned by the famous “Harbs” who helps out so many users here on the blog and in our forum. He and his company develop many scripts and plug-ins that are so useful for InDesign users. In this episode we talked about the amazing Power Headers plug-in for automatically creating running headers with a wealth of options and filters, and AutoFlow Pro, which was reviewed in the current issue of InDesign Magazine. And in his spare time, Harbs writes an engaging blog on his company site at In-Tools.com, check it out! >> Rorohiko has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! For example, Anne-Marie uses their plug-in TextExporter so often she thought it was part of the program! This wonderful timesaver lets you intelligently export text from multiple stories in InDesign out to a single, concatenated RTF or text file. It’s the ideal add-on for anyone who needs to repurpose text from their layouts. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS139 in the Rorohiko.com store to get a "10 pack" of TextExporter for only $109 instead of $149. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Check out the floppy disc icon in CS3's Command Bar Watch the full 60 Minutes segment on Brazil from Dec. 12 2010 List of all InDesignSecrets webinars available for viewing Review of AutoFlow Pro in issue #38 (Oct/Nov 2010) of InDesign Magazine Learn cool tricks at Kelly's DocumentGeek blog Learn about our upcoming Print & ePublishing Conference (and yes, Kelly was the first registration!)

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2011 PeP Conference; InDesign to EPUB; Acrobat X and InDesign; Quizzler winners (and a new Quizzler); Obscurity of the Week: Output Condition Name, Output Condition Indentifier, Registry Name

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * 2011 Print & ePublishing Conference announcement! * InDesign to EPUB: Recap and tips from Liz Castro's webinar * Acrobat X and InDesign * InDesignSecrets newsletter Quizzler winners ("How many InDesign users to change a lightbulb?") * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Output Condition Name, Output Condition Identifier, Registry Name * New Quizzler! Listen to the episode to learn how to win

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft is the developer of PDF2ID, the miraculous solution for converting PDF file to editable InDesign files. Install the software and you’ll be able to open (not just Place) PDFs in InDesign. Styles, tables, layers, threaded text, it all gets reconstituted. It’s amazing! The latest version, PDF2ID 3.0, is compatible with InDesign CS3, CS4, and CS5 on Macintosh and Windows platforms. >> MathMagic, the ultimate equation editor from Info Logic, Inc., is a WYSIWYG equation editor/plug-in that lets you create inline, editable EPS equations from within InDesign (if you use the MathMagic Pro edition). It even converts equations set by Word’s Equation Editor, LaTex, MathML and MathType, to MathMagic-style equations. For InDesignSecrets listeners, they’re offering a time-limited discount of 25% off any MathMagic Pro product that’s $199US or more, until Dec. 30, 2010 (extended deadline!). Here are the details of the offer, or just remember to use the coupon code INDS at the MathMagic order page to get your discount.

-- To enter this episode's Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and your best answer in the body of the message. You have until Friday, Dec. 10, at midnight CST to send in your answer, one per user! We will choose the most correct answer, or in the case of a tie, we will randomly choose from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast after Dec. 10. 2011!

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Liz Castro's webinars: InDesign to EPUB and Advanced EPUB Formatting ePubChecker utility Springy utility (for editing EPUBs and ZIPs without extracting files) OS X only Acrobat X info and Anne-Marie's Acrobat X Essentials video lessons on Lynda.com Download Reader X (free), available for Mac and Windows! Don XX, the most interesting guy in the world ICC registry profiles > Rimshot app (sound effects)

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Hexadecimal colors and a free Hex script; CMYK color management in ID for the rest of us; InDesign to EPUB webinars; Obscurity of the Week: Show Single Plates in Black

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. * Defining, matching, and converting hexadecimal colors in InDesign * The 3 things you need to know about CMYK color images in InDesign * Liz Castro's upcoming InDesign to EPUB webinars * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Show Single Plates in Black

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools is owned by the famous "Harbs" who helps out so many users here on the blog (such as the Hex color script). They just came out with an update to World Tools and World Tools Plus, two InDesign plug-ins that represent “the most complete solution available for composing multilingual documents including Hebrew, Arabic, Indic languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and more.” Go to the World Tools product page to see screen shots, download a trial, and learn all the neat things InDesign can do with typesetting world languages. >> Rorohiko has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! For example, Anne-Marie uses their plug-in TextExporter so often she thought it was part of the program! This wonderful timesaver lets you intelligently export text from multiple stories in InDesign out to a single, concatenated RTF or text file. It's the ideal add-on for anyone who needs to repurpose text from their layouts. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS137 in the Rorohiko.com store to get TextExporter for only $15 instead of $19. >> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don’t win, you can always register for any 2010 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Certitec's Jon Bessant explains the basics of editing a PDF in Acrobat X David's post about Hexadecimal colors (includes a link to the free script) Memorize this Wikipedia page on Hex colors so you can impress your friends David's post (busy guy!) about CMYK color management in InDesign Easy primer on "Color and the Printing Process" from PrintingForLess.com EPUB guru Liz Castro's EPUB: Straight to the Point book (and here's her blog) Liz Castro is doing two webinars on InDesign to EPUB! Register quickly, spots are going fast

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Acrobat X; Hyperlinks in InDesign CS5; Adobe's new Digital Publishing Suite; Obscurity of the Week: Preflight Report Template

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. It's learning week! * Anne-Marie learns a couple Acrobat X tips * David learns of a fix that helps InDesign CS5's Convert to Hyperlink feature * We all learn the details of Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Preflight Report Template

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft is the developer of PDF2ID, the miraculous solution for converting PDF file to editable InDesign files. Install the software and you'll be able to open (not just Place) PDFs in InDesign. Styles, tables, layers, threaded text, it all gets reconstituted. It's amazing! The latest version, PDF2ID 3.0, is compatible with InDesign CS3, CS4, and CS5 on Macintosh and Windows platforms. >> MathMagic, the ultimate equation editor from Info Logic, Inc., is a WYSIWYG equation editor/plug-in that lets you create inline, editable EPS equations from within InDesign (if you use the MathMagic Pro edition). It even converts equations set by Word's Equation Editor, LaTex, MathML and MathType, to MathMagic-style equations. For InDesignSecrets listeners, they're offering a time-limited discount of 25% off any MathMagic Pro product that's $199US or more, until Nov. 30, 2010. Here are the details of the offer, or just remember to use the coupon code INDS at the MathMagic order page to get your discount. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Tons of Acrobat X (and earlier) info at AcrobatUsers.com LaTeX is pronounced "lay tek" > About Calibre, the eBook utility, and its pronounciation Liz Castro, EPUB guru, is doing two webinars on InDesign to EPUB! > Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite -- download it from Adobe Labs Download a free sample of InDesign Magazine for the iPad, made with the Adobe DPS Gartner Report on tablet sales Subscribe to the newsletter for more discounts & the Quizzler!

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Quizzler answers (InDesign limits); Steve Werner interview (preflighting digital publications); Obscurity of the week: Postscript Level

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Quizzler Winner (and answers)! + Largest number of tab stops in a paragraph + Largest document page size, smallest page size + Most number of columns on a page + Most number of pages in a document, highest page number (screen shot below!) * Steve Werner interview, InDesign trainer and blog contributor + Preflighting for print and for digital publications * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: PostScript Level

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> PrePress Studio sells eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF. eDocker makes the SWFs more user-friendly in the browser because it lets you add page navigation and zoom controls, among other goodies. Try the free 3-day trial offer! And be sure to vote for eDocker for an Adobe MAX award right now! (InDesign represent!) >> In-Tools just came out with an update to World Tools and World Tools Plus, two InDesign plug-ins that represent "the most complete solution available for composing multilingual documents including Hebrew, Arabic, Indic languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and more." Go to the World Tools product page to see screen shots, download a trial, and learn all the neat things InDesign can do with typesetting world languages. In-Tools also makes the free ScriptBay: If you use scripts with InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, or any of the other Creative Suite apps, you need this freebie Scripts panel replacement. >> MathMagic, the ultimate equation editor from Info Logic, Inc., is a WYSIWYG equation editor/plug-in that lets you create inline, editable EPS equations from within InDesign (if you use the MathMagic Pro edition). It even converts equations set by Word's Equation Editor, LaTex, MathML and MathType, to MathMagic-style equations. For InDesignSecrets listeners, they're offering a time-limited discount of 25% off any MathMagic Pro product that's $199US or more, until Nov. 30, 2010. Here are the details of the offer, or just remember to use the coupon code INDS at the MathMagic order page to get your discount. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Here's a great thread on MathMagic from our forum members, including a cool 13-minute video about using MathMagic one user posted (scroll down to the end of the thread to see the embedded video) Check out Steve Werner's InDesignSecrets webinar recordings (the Preflighting Deep Dive one is especially popular) > Steve's current webinar company that he runs with Mark Atchley is CS-Magic.com > Vote for eDocker for an Adobe MAX award More info on PostScript (Level) 3 from Adobe InDesignSecretsLive seminar details and registration links (use IDSMBR9 for 10% off) Subscribe to the newsletter for more discounts & the Quizzler!

-- Now you just need to charge per page ...

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Beyond Print: EPUB; Digital Magazines; Quizzler Announcement; Obscurity of the Week: Resize by 5%

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Beyond Print: EPUB and Digital Magazines from InDesign (and DC Seminar Recap) + David's Beyond Print seminar in Los Angeles is in a couple weeks, sign up now! * Quizzler Announcement * Upcoming InDesignSecretsLive! seminars for Fall 2010: Los Angeles CA, Spokane WA, Santa Fe NM * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Resize by 5%

-- News and special offers from our sponsors:>> MathMagic, the ultimate equation editor from Info Logic, Inc., is a WYSIWYG equation editor/plug-in that lets you create inline, editable EPS equations from within InDesign (if you use the MathMagic Pro edition). For InDesignSecrets listeners, they're offering a time-limited discount of 25% off any MathMagic Pro product that's $199US or more, until Nov. 30, 2010. Here are the details of the offer, or just remember to use the coupon code INDS at the MathMagic order page to get your discount. >> Rorohiko has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! In this episode we take a close look at their nifty plug-in, Magneto Guides, an ideal add-on for anyone who works with structured, repetitive documents. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS134 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off MagnetoGuides. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

News story about Apple adding newspapers and magazines to iBookstore Adobe Labs page with Digital Magazine Solution info and links iGizmo iPad magazine New Yorker iPad magazine, and here's the very funny "how to read this" video Adobe.com page with EPUB publishing information InDesignSecretsLive seminar details and registration links (use IDSMBR9 for 10% off) Subscribe to the newsletter for more discounts & the Quizzler!

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Podcasts and Videocasts; Changing Page Color; InDesign Seminars; Obscurity of the Week: Prevent Manual Positioning

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Podcasts and videocasts you'll love * Mailbag Answer: Changing the page background color * Upcoming InDesignSecretsLive! seminars for Fall 2010: Washington DC, Los Angeles CA, Denver CO, Spokane WA, Santa Fe NM, more tba * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Prevent Manual Positioning

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >>UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don’t win, you can always register for any 2010 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering. >> Rorohiko has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! In this episode we take a close look at their newly updated Mac/Windows utility called Soxy ($19US single license, $159US for a site license) that helps you open files (InDesign, and others) in the correct version of the program when you have more than one version installed. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS133in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the Soxy utility.

-- Recommended Podcasts and Videocasts:

Copyediting podcast CreativeSweetTV videocast DesignTools Weekly podcast DesignSchool videocast InstantInDesign videocast The iPad Show podcast The Kindle Chronicles podcast MacTech Live videocast PixelPerfect videocast TechByter Worldwide podcast Did we overlook your favorite design- or publishing-related podcast? Please add it below in a comment!

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

"The DesignGeek's Take on InDesign CS5," Bill Blinn's interview of Anne-Marie (first of 3) on the TechByter podcast InDesignSecretsLive seminar details and registration links (use IDSMBR9 for 10% off) Subscribe to the newsletter for more discounts

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Twitter poem; CID fonts; Quizzler results; Seminar updates; Obscurity of the Week: Always subset fonts with glyph counts greater than 2000

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Anne-Marie: Twitter poet laureate * David's ongoing battle with CID encoding * Quizzler Results (Making things invisible) and winners * Upcoming seminars debuting in September + PDFSecrets: Working Smarter in Acrobat, with guru Clint Funk + 2-day InDesignSecretsLive seminar includes a new "Beyond Print" day * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Always subset fonts with glyph counts greater than 2000

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko’s SudokuGenerator plug-in lets you to generate Sudoku puzzles directly in InDesign. Spice up the next newsletter with your own Sudoku, or go into the Sudoku puzzle book business! There are many options and settings you can customize. The $149 plug-in works in CS1 to CS5, Mac or Windows. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS132 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the SudokuGenerator plug-in.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Sigil, the open source EPUB editor

ePubChecker can run as a Java app on Mac/Windows Anne-Marie's winning poem (but here's her magnum opus) David's post about CID fonts and here are more CID-related links Mike's post about navigating panels from the keyboard Congrats to Quizzler winner Dan V. and runner-up Peter G.! Dan gets Real World InDesign CS5 and Peter wins those neat Keyboard Shortcut Stickers David was playing with during the podcast InDesign Keyboard Shortcuts posters (CS2, Cs3, CS4, and CS5!) PDFSecrets seminar details and registration links (use IDSMBR9 for 10% off) InDesignSecretsLive seminar details and registration links (use IDSMBR9 for 10% off) Subscribe to the newsletter for more discounts and the Quizzler

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7.02 patch update; Bob Levine interview; Quizzler and Seminars news; Obscurity of the Week: Comma, period, slash

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * 7.02 patch update for InDesign/InCopy CS5: What does it fix? * Interview with Bob Levine, the "InDesignGuy" and InDesignSecrets.com contributor * Upcoming seminars debuting in September + PDFSecrets: Working Smarter in Acrobat, with guru Clint Funk + 2-day InDesignSecretsLive seminar includes a new "Beyond Print" day * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Comma, period, slash (they have a secret life as obscure keyboard shortcuts)

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don’t win, you can always register for any 2010 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

James Fritz's CS5 7.02 Update post and links Bob Levine's web site, TheInDesignGuy.com; Twitter: @idguy Story Editor posts: Hidden Gems, Table Editing (videocast) David's post about the spreads issue in interactive PDFs from CS5 PDFSecrets seminar details and registration links (use IDSMBR9 for 10% off) InDesignSecretsLive seminar details and registration links (use IDSMBR9 for 10% off) Subscribe to the newsletter for more discounts and the Quizzler

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Survey winner; Navigating long docs; Two new seminars; Obscurity of the Week: Select and Fit Item

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Congratulations to Laurie from Columbus, Ohio, our Survey prize winner! * Navigating through long InDesign docs: tips, tricks, and hidden features * Two new seminars debut in September + PDFSecrets: Working Smarter in Acrobat, with guru Clint Funk + 2-day InDesignSecretsLive seminar includes a new "Beyond Print" day * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select and Fit Item (screen shot below)

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko's Color2Gray plug-in lets you convert placed color images to grayscale without modifying the original color image; no trips to Photoshop required! A huge timesaver for many publishers, the $29 plug-in works in CS1 to CS5, Mac or Windows. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS130 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 20% off the Color2Gray plug-in. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Our post about Jim Maivald's new XML/InDesign video series from Lynda.com > Use our Lynda.com 24-hour Free Trial to see all their videos Love the Quizzler? We have a great one coming up in the next InDesignSecrets newsletter David's Real World InDesign CS5 book (with Bob Bringhurst!) is coming soon

Not using CS5 yet? Here's what "Select and Fit Item" looks like:

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User survey; Sorting tables; PDFs from Print Booklet; Obscurity of the Week: Include Menu Commands

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Take our quickie InDesignSecrets user survey, win a prize! * Sorting Tables, a story with three morals * PDFs from Print Booklet: Solutions for Mac users * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Include Menu Commands

-- News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> WinSoft International designs, develops, and localizes software for emerging markets, including InDesign ME (Middle Eastern). Their new plug-in ScribeDOOR for InDesign ($89) adds the ability to edit and treat text in 21 complex languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi and many Indian scripts. It can be installed, as a plug-in, in all Roman versions of InDesign CS4 or CS5, and those files can be opened and viewed by any other CS4 or CS5 user without them needing the plug-in. There is a free trial of the plug-in available.

>> Rorohiko's TextExporter 3.0 plug-in makes exporting text out of InDesign CS2-CS5 so simple! You can export all the stories in an ID file into one single RTF, plain text, or ID tagged text file, and you control how it orders the text as it extracts and concatenates it. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS129 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 20% off the TextExporter plug-in.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

InDesignSecrets User Survey deadline is July 15 2010. Only 5 questions, and there's a $150 Lynda.com video raffle prize! Peter Kahrel's Sort Table script and David's post about it Steve Werner's posts about Print Booklet (168 comments since April 2007) and Snow Leopard & the Adobe PDF Printer (127 comments since August 2009) Download the Acrobat 9.0 PPD (you might want to right-click and Save Link As)

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InDesign to ePub; Quizzler results (triangles); Obscurity of the week: Single Word Justification

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * InDesign to ePub + What is it, why should you care? + Essentials of getting your InDesign file ePub-ready + Common glitches and tweaks * Quizzler Results! Two winners and many honorable mentions for their creative triangle-creation methods (full list after Links, below) * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Single Word Justification * InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: San Francisco & Chicago in June; LA, DC, Santa Fe, Denver, and more in the fall!

-- News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don’t win, you can always register for any 2010 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering.

>> Rorohiko's StoryTweaker ($99) plug-in lets editors and writers access your InDesign file's text without needing to own InDesign or InCopy. The plug-in is associated with one InDesign seat, but allows that user to create an unlimited number of AssignmentTweaker sets, which is what the editors open and work on. The workflow is spelled out on the StoryTweaker site, and there's a 20-day free trial available. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS128 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the StoryTweaker plug-in.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

All posts tagged with "epub" in InDesignSecrets.com Liz Castro's Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis blog The #ePrdctn Twitter hashtag is all about ePub production Great eReader matrix (what device reads what format) Adobe Digital Editions ePub reader utility All InDesignSecrets recorded webinars James Michener's Alaska InDesignSecretsLive! Seminars

-- How to create a triangle in InDesign

Pen Tool: Click four times
Pencil Tool: Draw carefully!
Line Tool: Draw three lines, then select the endpoints with Direct Selection tool and choose Object > Paths > Join
Draw a one-cell table. Put stroke on two sides and leave two sides set to None stroke. Then add diagonal line in Cell Options dialog box.
Click once with the Polygon tool and set it to three sides and zero inset
Convert any frame to triangle (Object > Convert Shape > Triangle)
Use a photo of a triangle, make clipping path with detect edges then convert path to frame
Use a triangle character from a font, such as "p" in Wingdings 3 (then use Type > Create Outlines)
Draw a rectangle, then use Direct Selection tool to drag a corner point to the frame's middle point
Draw a rectangle, then use Direct Selection tool to delete one of the corner points or scale it to 0%
Add an angled gradient fill that ends abruptly
Draw two rectangles. Rotate one so that it overlaps the first, select both then use Object > Pathfinder > Intersect
Paste one rectangle into another and rotate the first one inside the other
Arrange three rectangles so negative space creates a triangle shape
Draw a very short line, but make it very thick in Strokes panel. Give it an endpoint of a triangle (so that the triangular endpoint covers up the whole of the line)
Type capital "A" in a frame and convert the frame to outlines. Select and choose Object > Path > Release Compound Path. Delete the "outside" path and use the triangular counter.
Draw an ellipse. Choose the Pen tool and click on one point of the ellipse to delete it. Now hold down the Option/Alt key (to get temporary Convert Point tool) and click the 3 remaining points.
View a screen shot of a triangle created by rotating three pages using Mike Rankin's Transform Pages trick Have more? Add them to the comments below!

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All about Leading; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Use Master Color

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * All About Leading + Leading-related Preference settings + When to use Auto-Leading and when not to + Baseline grid and leading, First line offset and leading, and more! * Quizzler! Ladies and Germs, man your InDesign tools * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Use Master Color * InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: San Francisco & Chicago in June; LA, DC, Denver, and more in the fall!

-- Quizzler instructions: Think you have the answer to this episode's Quizzler? Do not post it here in a comment! Instead, send your answer(s) in an e-mail to info@indesignsecrets.com, with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line. (Note: InDesignSecrets.com contributors, past and present, aren't eligible. Sorry, Fritz!) Deadline for receipt of entries is midnight PST on Friday, June 18, 2010. The top two winners will each receive a copy of Real World Illustrator CS4 — we will notify you by email if you win. In the case of a three- or more-way tie, we'll choose two winners randomly. Good luck! -- News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Rorohiko (“Slash the time it takes!”) has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! We love FrameReporter ($29 US) because it lets you see small informational tags when you click on a frame, such as the image’s effective resolution or how many words are overset. You can even use it to name frames, and then navigate around your layout via the names. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS127 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the FrameReporter plug-in. >> CtrlPublishing offers a highly useful plugin called CtrlChanges that lets you track text changes in InDesign CS3, CS4, and CS5, just like in Microsoft Word and InCopy. With the CtrlChanges plug-in you can see the tracked changes markup in the layout as well as the Story Editor, and you can print them too! (Two features that not even the new Track Changes feature in CS5 has.) There’s a free trial available, and listeners of the podcast get a 15% discount on CtrlPublishing’s web store if you use the coupon code CTRLOFFER5.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

All posts tagged with "leading" in InDesignSecrets.com Blog post about Rogue Leading and When Leading is Ignored Podcast #95 had Skip by Leading as its OIFOTW White Labels InDesignSecretsLive! Seminars

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Best and Worst little CS5 features; Blog posts of the week; Obscurity of the Week: Folder 0**-------
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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-126.mp3 (19 MB, 36:14 minutes)See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.* Favorite little features in InDesign CS5 + New control panel widgets, Patient user mode always on (AM), Minion Pro default, more * Least-favorite, little annoyances in InDesign CS5 + Change in panel tabs, New Window menu organization, Patient user mode always on (DB), more * Hot Blog Posts of the Week + Configurator for InDesign, TweetChats, InDesign to iPad * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Folder 0** * InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: San Francisco & Chicago in June; LA, DC, Denver, and more in the fall!

News and special offers from our sponsors:>> Rorohiko (“Slash the time it takes!”) keeps improving their so-useful Soxy utility—the latest beta now supports InDesign CS5. With Soxy installed, users with multiple versions InDesign installed can go back to simply double-clicking INDD files to open them, because Soxy makes sure they open in the correct version of the program. Soxy also supports file/version matching with multiple versions of Illustrator, Photoshop, and QuarkXPress, among others. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS126 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the $19 Soxy utility. >> CtrlPublishing makes CtrlCrossTalk, a magical plug-in that lets InCopy users edit any story in an InDesign layout file, without the designer needing to export the stories to InCopy format first. They have another plugin, CtrlCrossTalkID that lets the InDesign user "lock" the frames that the InCopy user should not be able to edit. Listeners of the podcast get a 15% discount on CtrlPublishing's web store if you use the coupon code CTRLOFFER5.>> PrePress Studio sells eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF. eDocker makes the SWFs more user-friendly in the browser because it lets you add page navigation and zoom controls, among other goodies. Try the free 3-day trial or purchase eDocker at this special URL and enter the coupon code IDS1 for 10% off.--Links mentioned in this podcast:> Lie back and think of England

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**PeP Conference recap; ePub cover art tip; Graphic FX ebook; Top 40 Tips ebook; Dropbox; Chicago and San Francisco seminars; Obscurity of the Week: Master Page Overlay

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * 2010 Print & ePublishing Conference Recap * Tip for creating ePub cover art in InDesign * Two new eBooks debut this week: + InDesignSecrets Guide to Graphic Effects, Mike Rankin's new eBook + InDesignSecrets Top 40 Tips, most useful/popular tips from the blog in one place * Using Dropbox with InDesign projects/workflows * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Master Page Overlay + and Kris Coppieter's cool EnslaveMaster plugin * InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: San Francisco, Chicago, more! * Tuesday Tweets! Use hashtag #idsl on Tuesday 10 a.m. PST

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> CtrlPublishing empowers InDesign's Layers panel with its CtrlLayers plug-in, such as creating new documents from visible layers. There's a free trial available, and listeners of the podcast get a 15% discount on CtrlPublishing's web store if you use the coupon code CTRLOFFER5. >> PrePress Studio sells eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF. eDocker makes the SWFs more user-friendly in the browser because it lets you add page navigation and zoom controls, among other goodies. Try the free 3-day trial or purchase eDocker at this special URL and enter the coupon code IDS1 for 10% off.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Print & ePublishing Conference and the flickr group pictures Our ePub cover art tip is courtesy of Gabriel Powell Visit our eBooks page for store links and sample chapters Sign up for your free Dropbox account (Mac/Windows/Linux) San Francisco and Chicago InDesignSecretsLive seminar info/registration Kris Coppieter's EnslaveMaster plugin (now called TransformMaster)

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**CS5 ships; Michael Ninness interview; Conference and Seminar updates; Obscurity of the Week: Set Tab Order

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Adobe CS5 is shipping! Books, videos, online help files, and more * Interview with Michael Ninness, Adobe's past Product Manager for InDesign * 2010 Print and ePublishing Conference update * InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: Atlanta, San Francisco, and Chicago! * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Set Tab Order

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> CtrlPublishing offers a highly useful plugin called CtrlChanges that lets you track text changes in InDesign CS3, CS4, and CS5, just like in Microsoft Word and InCopy. With the CtrlChanges plug-in you can see the tracked changes markup in the layout as well as the Story Editor, and you can print them too! (Two features that not even the new Track Changes feature in CS5 has.) There's a free trial available, and listeners of the podcast get a 15% discount on CtrlPublishing's web store if you use the coupon code CTRLOFFER5. >> PrePress Studio sells eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF. eDocker makes the SWFs more user-friendly in the browser because it lets you add page navigation and zoom controls, among other goodies. Try the free 3-day trial or purchase eDocker at this special URL and enter the coupon code IDS1 for 10% off.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Our posts about CS5 shipping and our round-up of InDesign CS5 new features Michael Ninness' post about InDesign CS5 Adobe's official CS5 Design Premium and InDesign CS5 pages David's InDesign CS5 Essential Training Anne-Marie's InDesign CS5 New Features video tutorials at Lynda.com Print and ePublishing Conference agenda and speaker bios What happens to a dream deferred?

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InDesign CS5 Released; New contributor Keith Gilbert; Russell Viers interview; Obscurity of the Week: Straight Hash

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * InDesign CS5! * Welcome to new blog contributor Keith Gilbert * Yes, a use for Style Groups! * Interview with world traveller/InDesign guru Russell Viers * InDesignSecretsLive Seminars -- new cities added! * 2010 Print and ePublishing Conference update (close to selling out!) * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Straight Hash

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> PrePress Studio just released eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF. eDocker makes the SWFs more user-friendly in the browser because it lets you add page navigation and zoom controls, among other goodies. Try the free 3-day trial or purchase eDocker at this special URL and enter the coupon code IDS1 for 10% off. >> Rorohiko sells a fascinating plug-in called MagnetoGuides that makes it easy to quickly layout grid-based designs because page objects become "magnetized" to the guides. You've got to try it for yourself; it’s FREE for 20 days, and then when you can't live without it, you’ll want to buy it for the low price of $59. Or, reduce the cost by 10% if you enter INDESIGNSECRETS123 in the coupon code area of Rorohiko’s shopping cart.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Our round-up of InDesign CS5 new features Adobe's official CS5 Design Premium and InDesign CS5 pages Anne-Marie's InDesign CS5 New Features video tutorials at Lynda.com Keith Gilbert's first InDesignSecrets blog post (and here's his company's web site) All about Russell Viers

InDesignLive Seminar is coming to Vancouver, Austin, Atlanta, and (just announced!) Chicago and San Francisco! Print and ePublishing Conference agenda and speaker bios

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Conference Agenda; InDesign CS5 Launch; Quark Features Missing in InDesign; Hot Forum Post; Obscurity of the Week: Best Joins

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See our Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * InDesignSecretsLive Seminars -- news/updates * Sessions announced for the Print and ePublishing Conference * InDesign CS5 (and those other minor Suite programs) launch on April 12 * QuarkXPress features that aren't in InDesign (and workarounds for some of them) * Hot Forum Post: Cool Keyboard Shortcuts * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Best Joins

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>> DTPTools offers a suite of 12 InDesign plug-ins in a single package called BlatnerTools (because our own David Blatner designed it)! It works with CS3 and CS4 on both Mac and Windows. You can see a video of a lot of the cool things BlatnerTools can do, and when you're convinced you just gotta have it, you can get 10% off the normal $149 price by using the discount code IDSBLATNERTOOLS in the DTPTools online store.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Members! Watch your e-mail for discount codes to InDesignSecretsLive.com events: InDesign Seminars and the Print and ePublishing conference Print and ePublishing Conference Agenda is now up! The $200 early bird discount ends on April 9, so register as soon as you can. > CS5 is coming! CS5 is coming! Page Tools lets you have more than one page size in one ID document You may be interested in that CoolKerning "kerning table" plug-in we mentioned Or do it the old-fashioned way by editing the kern pairs in the font itself Fritz wrote up a workaround for character-level opacity changes Synchronized text in InDesign solution 1 and solution 2 David's uplifting post, Things that InDesign Can't Do > Adobe's Feature Request form that they actually read! Hot Forum Post about Cool Keyboard Shortcut Changes

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Tips for organizing styles; Gabriel Powell interview; ePub info; Obscurity of the Week: Sort Bookmarks

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Best practices for organizing and naming text styles * InDesignSecrets Seminars & Conference update; new speakers * Mike Rankin's interview with ePub expert Gabriel Powell at the O'Reilly TOC Conference + Emerging and evolving open standards discussed at the conference, such as the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) for eBooks + The new "browser wars" (how different eReaders interpret the same content feed) * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Sort Bookmarks * Bonus: David recites from memory the first 20 digits of Pi (in honor of Pi day, March 14—aka 3.14!)

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Members! Watch your e-mail for discount codes to InDesignSecretsLive.com events: InDesign Seminars and the Print and ePublishing conference) Vancouver InDesign User Group (where David's speaking soon) O'Reilly's Tools of Change conference Gabriel Powell's InstantInDesign web site > CreativePro.com reprinted Gabriel's ePub articles from InDesign Magazine Learn about the OPDS Lexcycle's Stanza application (Note: Lexcycle rhymes with Bicycle) David's Joy of Pi book

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Ole Kvern interview; Member prizes; Cross-References; Obscurity of the Week: Connections

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[media id=41 width= height=20] The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Updates about the InDesignSecrets seminars and Print and ePublishing (PeP) Conference * Interview with Ole Kvern, Computer Scientist at Adobe Systems, InDesign scripting guru, and author and co-author of Real World InDesign, Real World Freehand, and many more + How he got involved with Adobe and InDesign + How InDesign users can get started scripting + His seminars on InDesign automation at the PeP Conference * InDesignSecrets member prize drawing: Congrats, Tim and Brian! * Harbs' new, free Cross-References script that adds a much-needed feature * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Connections*

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>> Rorohiko has an innovative plug-in, FrameReporter, that can add little non-printing info labels (name of an image, if the frame is overridden from the master, and more) to any kind of frame in your layout, saving any hard-working InDesigner a ton of time. It's FREE for 20 days, and then when you're completely spoiled, you'll want to buy it for the low price of $29. Or, reduce the cost by 25% if you enter INDESIGNSECRETS120 in the coupon code area of Rorohiko's shopping cart.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Olav "Ole" Kvern's Adobe Press page, Amazon page, and LinkedIn page Adobe's InDesign Scripting home page Ole is also speaking at the Creative Suite Developer's Summit Members! Watch your e-mail for discount codes to InDesignSecretsLive.com events (seminars and PeP conference) InDesignSecrets keyboard shortcut posters (just like Tim and Brian's!) ;-) David's post about Harbs' amazing Cross-References script DTPTool's wonderful Cross-References PRO plug-in for InDesign/InCopy CS2-CS4 InDesign documentation on the Connections feature

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Mordy Golding interview; Obscurity of the Week: Tiling

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Listen in your browser:InDesignSecrets-119.mp3 (13.8 MB, 28:47 minutes) [media id=40 width= height=20] The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Interview with Mordy Golding, Illustrator guru and New York City fanboy + How he got involved with Flash Catalyst + Why designers will love using it + Details on his all-day Illustrator/Flash Catalyst tutorial at the PeP Conference * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Tiling*

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>> Rorohiko offers a free plug-in called TextExporter that we love. But to get even more functionality from that free plug-in (and many other free Rorohiko plug-ins) you need to license their APID Assistant. Normally $25, you can get $5 off the APID Assistant if you enter INDESIGNSECRETS119 in the coupon code area of Rorohiko's shopping cart.

>> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is once again giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don’t win, you can always register for any 2010 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Register for Mordy's Illustrator/Flash Catalyst tutorial in Seattle on May 12 -- follow the Registration link in the 2010 Print & ePublishing Conference information page Mordy's web site, Mordy.com, and his Flash Catalyst Beta video tutorials Download Flash Catalyst from the Adobe Labs web site New PeP Conference sponsor, WinSoft (check out their Arabic typography contest) InDesignSecretsLive.com for seminar and conference info & registration links Another post that's related to tiling in InDesign, sort of

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Colin Fleming interview; Conference/Seminar news; Members drawing winner; Obscurity of the Week: Shared Hyperlink Destination

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-118.mp3 (14 MB, 26:35 minutes) [media id=39 width= height=20] The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Interview with Colin Fleming, Senior Solutions Engineer from Adobe + How he became an expert on ePub + ePubs on Kindles, iPads and Sony eBooks + Videos and whitepapers on ePubs that Colin recommends * Update on our Print & ePublishing Conference + Early bird registration saves $200! + Pre-conference all-day tutorials from Mordy Golding, James Fritz, and Michael Ninness * New cities/speakers for our InDesignSecrets Live Seminar tour * A lucky InDesignSecrets member gets a TruMatch swatch book as this episode's random winner * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Shared Hyperlink Destination*

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>> Rorohiko sells a neat plug-in called SudokuGenerator, (and offers a free, more limited version called SudokuGeneratorLite) that lets you create those mind-bending number puzzles for fun and profit. Normally $49, you can get $10 off by entering INDESIGNSECRETS118 in the coupon code area of Rorohiko's shopping cart.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Colin's Adobe MAX presentation, "Creating an eBook for Distribution on Sony Reader Digital Book, Amazon Kindle, and Apple iPhone" Colin's three AdobeTV movies, Using InDesign to Create Digital Books: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 New Adobe whitepapers on Producing ePub eBooks from InDesign InDesignSecretsLive.com for seminar and conference info & registration links Make sure you're in our Members database (free) for upcoming prize drawings! Katey's DocumentGeek.blogspot.com blog

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InDesignSecretsLive.com 2010 seminars and conference; Diane Burns interview; Prize winners; Obscurity of the the Week: Paste without Formatting

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-117.mp3 (15 MB, 29:48 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Happy New Year! * Our new sister site: InDesignSecretsLive.com, with info and links for: + 2010 InDesign seminar tour cities and dates + Our new Print and e-Publishing ("PeP") Conference, May 12-14, 2009, Seattle, Wash. * Interview with Diane Burns, ID trainer/multilingual publishing expert/table diva * Winners of our first InDesignSecrets Member drawing * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Paste Without Formatting

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>> Rorohiko has a new version of Soxy out, that oh-so-useful utility that knows (or learns) which program/version should open which file on your computer. Great for when you have multiple versions of InDesign installed, or when you work with mix of vector and raster EPS files, or many other situations! Normally $19, you can get $5 off by entering INDESIGNSECRETS117 in the coupon code are of Rorohiko's shopping cart. Download the demo!

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

InDesignSecretsLive.com for seminar and conference info Diane Burns' company, TransPacificDigital.com

You can watch a recording of Diane's InDesignSecrets webinar, "Table Magic"

Make sure you're in our Members database (free) for upcoming prize drawings!

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Fantastic and Free Production Scripts; Obscurity of the Week: Display Unsupported Files

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-116.mp3 (9.6 MB, 18:22 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Fantastic Free Scripts for Final (or Near-Final) Production Tasks + Remove End-of-Line Underlines + Freeze Composition (Line Breaks) + Compare InDesign Documents + Package Multiple for Archive * Marc Autret's Incredible List of Scripts and Scripter Resources * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Display Unsupported Files

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>> We're loving the In-Tools plug-in Power Headers, which does everything you wish InDesign's Running Header variable could do but can't! InDesignSecrets fans can get $20 off the price for either one of In-Tool's InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, (both of which include Power Headers -- it's the 2.0 update to Running Headers) if you purchase from this special page on their site. The full list of plug-ins bundled in the packages is here.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Our forum thread about Remove End-of-Line Underlines script
Download the RemoveUnderlines.jsx script (right-click and choose Save Link As)

Harbs' blog post and link to his Freeze Composition script

Kasyans' blog post and link to his CompareTwoDocuments script

Kasyans' post and link to his Package for Archive script

Our Top 10 Must-Have Free Scripts list

Marc Autret's InDiScripts blog post, Top 80 Script Links

Blatner Tools 1.0 was not mentioned once in this episode!

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InDesignSecrets Conference; Find Where That Color is Used; Obscurity of the Week: Information

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-115.mp3 (12.3 MB, 23:47 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * InDesignSecrets Conference! * Find where that color is used + Separations Preview panel + Swatches panel tricks + Find/Change + Package Summary panel (thanks Nicola!) + Blatner Tools * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Information

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>> We're loving the In-Tools plug-in Power Headers, which does everything you wish InDesign's Running Header variable could do but can't! InDesignSecrets fans can get $20 off the price for either one of In-Tool's InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, (both of which include Power Headers -- it's the 2.0 update to Running Headers) if you purchase from this special page on their site. The full list of plug-ins bundled in the packages is here.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Blatner Tools 1.0 is officially released! Original post about Finding Colors, also discussed in Podcast 85

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All about object transformations; Blatner Tools beta 3; Obscurity of the Week: Pattern Length

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-114.mp3 (14.5 MB, 26:42 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * All about object transformations + Scaling & rotating from the keyboard + Using math in the X, Y, W, H, and % (Scale) fields to transform + The too-subtle-for-their-own-good transformation buttons & context menu + And many more! * Blatner Tools free beta 3 now available * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Pattern Length

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>> In-Tools has a very cool plug-in called Column Flow which among other things let you create straddle heads on the fly!. As always, InDesignSecrets fans can get $20 off the price for either one of In-Tool's InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, (both of which include Column Flow) if you purchase from this special page on their site. The full list of plug-ins bundled in the packages is here.>> Rorohiko ("Slash the time it takes!") has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! In this episode we take a close look at their new Mac/Windows utility called Soxy ($19 US) that helps you open files (InDesign, and others) in the correct version of the program when you have more than one version installed. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS113 (that's "one one three" at the end) in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the Soxy utility.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Blatner Tools free beta or demo on the DTP Tools web site

David's posts about Pattern Length for corners and brackets (thanks Rufus!)

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InDesignSecrets membership; our new forum; Guide to the InDesign ACE Exam eBook; Adobe layoffs; Obscurity of the Week: Choke

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-113.mp3 (18.6 MB, 36:04 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * InDesignSecrets Membership -- free with benefits! * All about the InDesignSecrets forums * Guide to the InDesign ACE Exam eBook by Mike Rankin * Interview with Mike Rankin! * Recent Adobe layoffs * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Choke

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Rorohiko ("Slash the time it takes!") has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! In this episode we take a close look at their new Mac/Windows utility called Soxy ($19 US) that helps you open files (InDesign, and others) in the correct version of the program when you have more than one version installed. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS113 (that's "one one three" at the end) in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the Soxy utility.

>> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don’t win, you can always register for any 2009 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

All about the new free membership program for InDesignSecrets

InDesignSecrets forum

The InDesignSecrets Guide to the InDesign ACE Exam eBook (PDF, 150 pp, $9.95) by Mike Rankin

Download a sample chapter from the eBook (11-page PDF, 3.7MB) Mike's personal blog, Publicious.net

Adobe's Certified Expert instructions and links

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Posts of Note: Windows 7, Story Editor, PowerPoint, Balance Lines; Unicodes, GIDs and CIDs; Obscurity of the Week: Missing Glyph

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-112.mp3 (17.2 MB, 32:59 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Blog Posts You Should Know About: + Windows 7 and InDesign (Bob Levine) + Story Editor Secrets (Steve Werner) + Importing PowerPoint into InDesign (James Fritz) + When to Use Balance Ragged Lines (Anne-Marie) * Time to Get Geeky: Unicodes, GIDs and CIDs * Upcoming seminars, webinars, new videos and software * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Missing Glyph

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>> In-Tools has a very cool plug-in called Running Headers which does variable headers, multi-line headers, chapter headers, and more. Special deal: If you can come up with a Running Heads situation that this plug-in can't handle, they will give you a free copy or apply the cost ($59 US) to any other plug-in they sell! That's confidence. As always, InDesignSecrets fans can get $20 off the price for either one of In-Tool's InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, (both of which include Running Headers) if you purchase from this special page on their site. The full list of plug-ins bundled in the packages is here. >> Rorohiko (aka Lightning Brain) has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! For example, FrameReporter ($29 US) lets you see small informational tags when you click on a frame, such as the image's effective resolution or how many words are overset. You can even use it to name frames, and then navigate around your layout via the names. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS111 (that's "one one one" at the end) in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the FrameReporter plug-in.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Balance Ragged Lines was the Obscure Feature in episode 55, here's the podcast transcript
Keith Gilbert's blog post about Sorting the Glyphs panel

Unicode Code Charts

Check out Anne-Marie's new Lynda.com video title, Social Media Marketing with Facebook & Twitter Read about and download the public beta of David's "Blatner Tools" suite of InDesign plug-ins on the DTPTools site

Anne-Marie will be one of the presenters at the InDesign Conference in Washington DC, Nov 4-6 2009 Steve Werner's Preflighting Deep Dive webinar has early-bird tickets on sale until Nov 4, the webinar will be on Nov 10 2009

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Blatner Tools; Screen Appearance Tweaks and Tips; Webinars and Seminars; Obscurity of the Week: Ignore Orientation

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-111.mp3 (14.6 MB, 28:12 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Blatner Tools * Settings that Change the Screen Appearance (& Tips!) + Hide/Show Frame Edges + Preview Mode: what disappears, customizing + Display Performance + Overprint Preview + Proof Setup; Anne-Marie's color management rant + Show/Hide Notes + Rotate Spread View * Upcoming seminars and webinars * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Ignore Orientation

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>> Rorohiko (aka Lightning Brain) has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users. For example, FrameReporter ($29 US) lets you see small informational tags when you click on a frame, such as the image's effective resolution or how many words are overset. You can even use it to name frames, and then navigate around your layout via the names. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS111 (that's "one one one" at the end) in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the FrameReporter plug-in.>> In-Tools has a very cool plug-in called AutoFlow Pro. It lets you set autoflow attributes for individual stories within your layout, letting you fully control which stories will automatically generate new threaded frames and pages as you enter text, and which ones simply overset. The plug-in is $99, but InDesignSecrets fans can get $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, (both of which include AutoFlow Pro) if you purchase from this special page on their site. The full list of plug-ins bundled in the packages is here.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

David's upcoming webinar, Long Documents Pt. 2: Automating Your Work, is Oct. 21 2009 Anne-Marie will be one of the presenters at the InDesign Conference in Washington DC, Nov 4-6 2009 Steve Werner's Preflighting Deep Dive webinar has early-bird tickets on sale until Nov 4, the webinar will be on Nov 10 2009

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6.04 Update; Snow Leopard and PDFs; Word and InDesign Part 2; Obscurity of the Week: Cancel Package

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-110.mp3 (15.9 MB, 30:41 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * InDesign/InCopy 6.04 Patch * SnowLeopard (Mac OS 10.6) and the Adobe PDF printer * Placing Word files: Essential Tips, Part 2 + Mapping Word styles to InDesign styles + Working around the Style Group glitch + Converting InDesign files to Word documents + Converting Footnotes to Endnotes * Upcoming seminars and webinars * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Cancel Package

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>> In-Tools has a very cool plug-in called AutoFlow Pro, which we talked about in the show. It lets you set autoflow attributes for individual stories within your layout, letting you fully control which stories will automatically generate new threaded frames and pages as you enter text, and which ones simply overset. The plug-in is $99, but InDesignSecrets fans can get $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, (both of which include AutoFlow Pro) if you purchase from this special page on their site. The full list of plug-ins bundled in the packages is here.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Blog post about the InDesign/InCopy 6.04 Update Post about the Snow Leopard/Adobe PDF Printer issue, and the Adobe help page about it Anne-Marie's "Convert InDesign to Word" article Footnote to Endnote scripts: Peter Kahrel's (see his comment to the post about endnotes); and Miguel Sousa's All-day InDesign Seminar in Chicago, starring Anne-Marie on 10/6/2009, use AMCTIME09 for 15% off Full list of InDesignSecrets webinars (including recorded eSeminars)

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Happy Birthday InDesign; Essential Tips for Importing Word files; Upcoming Seminars and Webinars; Obscurity of the Week: Select All Unused

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-109.mp3 (16 MB, 30:15 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Happy 10th Birthday to InDesign! * Placing Word files: Essential Tips, Part 1 + Deleting Word styles while retaining local bolds and italics + When you might want to export to RTF and re-import + Fastest way to remove hyperlinks (but leave the link text) + Maggy-ing the Word file * Upcoming seminars and webinars -- all recordings now available! * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select All Unused

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don’t win, you can always register for any 2009 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering.

>> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Happy Birthday to ID post Post about stripping out hyperlinks from Word files PaperSpecs reprinted Anne-Marie's "Clean Up Word Files" article David insists we include a map showing Where Milwaukee Is September Webinars and Seminars All InDesignSecrets webinars (including recorded eSeminars)

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New eSeminars and live Seminars by David and Anne-Marie; Character Styles Deep Dive; Obscurity of the Week: Go to Selected Bookmark

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-108.mp3 (14 MB, 26:53 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * New InDesignSecrets eSeminars: InCopy/InDesign, Long Documents (links below) * InDesignSecrets Live Seminars! * Deep Dive into Character Styles: + To-do's and Not-to-do's + Applying multiple styles + Using them for "tagging" (instead of formatting) + A few great scripts! * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Go to Selected Bookmark (with bonus new features discovered by accident!)

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Sign up for Anne-Marie's eSeminars: InCopy/InDesign: Getting Started (Sept 9), and/or InCopy/InDesign: Tips and Techniques (Sept. 23) (early-bird pricing expires Aug 25 2009)

David's two eSeminars on Long Documents will be in October, links coming soon!
> InDesignSecrets LIVE(Sept 17) starring David Blatner! All-day seminar, link includes $10 savings Collaborative Workflows with InCopy/InDesign (Sept 15) AM's all-day live seminar, enter coupon IDS15 for $25 off
InCopy/InDesign Master Class (Sept 16) AM's all-day live seminar, enter coupon IDS16 for $25 off

Indexmatic script for indexing from Character Styles (link goes to blog post) Dave Saunder's Preserve Local Formatting script for CS1, CS2, and CS3 (link downloads .jsx script)

Jongware's PrepText script for CS4 (link downloads .zip of script); Adobe forum thread discussing its use

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Interview with contributor James Fritz; Unwanted color seps/plates; Obscurity of the Week: Float

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-107.mp3 (14.1 MB, 27:38 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Interview with James Fritz, InDesignSecrets contributor * Tracking down unwanted color seps (plates) in your layout files * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Float

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast: In-Tools blog with links to free scripts from Harbs Sign up for Typography Deep Dive, James Fritz's InDesignSecrets eSeminar And here's Sir Fritz's bio and InDesignSecrets posts Steve Werner's eSeminar recording, Preparing for Print: InDesign Best Prepress Practices

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eSeminar recordings available; Chris Kitchener interview; Creating accessible (Sec 508) PDFs; Obscurity of the Week: Crop to Media

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-106.mp3 (16.1 MB, 30:30 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * InDesignSecrets eSeminar recordings now available * Anne-Marie's Graphic Design in 2009 webinar * Interview with Adobe's Chris Kitchener, Sr. Product Manager for the InDesign family * Lynda.com new "10 Things" videos: Interactive PDFs (David) and Troubleshooting Files (Anne-Marie) * Creating Accessible (Sec. 508-compliant) PDFs from InDesign * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Crop to Media

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast: In-Tools blog with links to free scripts from Harbs Diane Burns' eSeminar recording, InDesign Table Magic Steve Werner's eSeminar recording, Preparing for Print: InDesign Best Prepress Practices Anne-Marie's Graphic Design in 2009 webinar; you need to phone in registration to use GEEKNESS coupon code ($30 discount) Obama Time Capsule book site Creating Accessible PDFs from InDesign (300K PDF) InDesignSecrets' new Accessibility page with links to many resources Adobe Labs' Presentations, an Adobe app in development

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Multiple-place tip; Acrobat.com; 6.03 Update; Obscurity of the Week: POSIX

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-105.mp3 (10.1 MB, 11:25 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Multiple-place tips for InDesign CS3 and CS4 * Acrobat.com officially released, new features * InDesign/InCopy 6.03 Update * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: POSIX

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. >> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don’t win, you can always register for any 2009 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering. >> Adobe Systemshas a new promotion called A Suite Deal which lasts until August 31, 2009. Until that date you can save $100 when you upgrade to Creative Suite 4. Visit the Suite Deal page for details.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast: James Fritz's blog post about multiple-placing

Download the InDesign/InCopy 6.03 update

Acrobat.com promotion discount (save $50 on annual subscription)

Adobe Labs' Presentations and Tables, Acrobat.com apps in development

Jay Nelson's DesignTools Monthly newsletter More on POSIX

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News: Seminars, Webinars, Videos; Special Effects; SWF Fixes; Obscurity of the Week: Arrange by Columns

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-104.mp3 (12.2 MB, 23:22 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * News: A slew of new InDesign resources + Diane's eSeminar on Tables in ID (recording available) and Steve's upcoming eSeminar on Best Print/Prepress Practices for InDesign + Anne-Marie's three new InDesign "10 Things" video titles at lynda.com + InDesign Seminar tour in full swing; David in LA this week; AM in Boston and Minneapolis next week * Eye Candy! ... Mike Rankin's multi-part series of incredibly cool special effects you can do right in InDesign (see links below) * SWFs in InDesign: David's discovery and Martinho's wonderful free script * Results from the First Annual InDesignSecrets Survey * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Arrange by Columns

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. >> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don’t win, you can always register for any 2009 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesign Seminar Tour Use AMCTIME09 coupon code for 15% off registration. Anne-Marie's 10 Things for InDesign videos: 10 Troubleshooting Steps; 10 Habits of Professionals; 10 Things Designers Should Know about Bridge Mike's Eye Candy series: Gravity's Shadow; Shine On; Punch-outs, Stickers, and Rips; Pattern Swatches; and Blending a la Mode David's SWF Discovery post and Martinho's SWF script

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Seminars and Webinars; InCopy CS4 Guide; CS Developers Summit; Moving Pages Between Layouts; Obscurity of the Week: Line End

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-103.mp3 (20.2 MB, 38:45 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * News: Upcoming Seminars and Webinars, InCopy CS4 Hands-On Guide * Report from the Creative Suite Developer's Summit, complete with interviews with some of your favorite InDesign plug-in developers! * Moving pages from one layout to another: tips and tricks * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Line End

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> myMacMac is the developer of a really neat InDesign plug-in called InDemand (see the Quicktime demo). InDemand adds an automation panel to the Mac (only) versions of InDesign CS2, CS3, or CS4 with all sorts of useful buttons and functions, such as a Repeater Grid and a Clipboard Filter. Great solution for many types of projects that require tedious formatting and arranging like catalogs and electronics ads. Use the coupon code CPN1141670880 for a 10% InDesignSecrets discount, valid until July 20, 2009.

>> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here.>> Adobe Systems continues to show their support for InDesign users via their sponsorship of the InDesignSecrets podcast and videocast, so thanks, Adobe! They're trying to get the word out about how much time you can save if you move to the latest version of the Creative Suite, CS4. To see the Pfeiffer report we talked about in the podcast which documents the time savings ("CS4 Productivity for Design Professionals"), you can download the PDF here: http://tr.im/cs4time. It's interesting reading!

Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesign Seminar Tour in San Francisco, Seattle, and Los Angeles (DB); and Boston, Minneapolis, and Chicago (AMC). Use AMCTIME09 coupon code for 15% off registration.

InCopy CS4 Hands-on Guide (blog post with links)

Andreas Pfeiffer report on CS4 productivity gains

Check out the recorded sessions from the 2009 Creative Suite Developer's Summit

Interviewed in the podcast: Mark Niemann-Ross (Adobe); Paul Chada (Recosoft); Lawrence Horwitz (Teacup Software); and Kris Coppietiers (Rorohiko)

DesignGeek story on the Adobe App Store

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Listener survey (with prizes!); Upcoming ID webinars and seminars by DB and AMC; Scaling and Resampling in ID; Obscurity of the Week: Snap-to Flag

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-102.mp3 (17.2 MB, 33:13 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * News: Reader/Listener Survey, Upcoming Seminars and Webinars * All about scaling and resampling in InDesign * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Snap-to Flag

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News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

InDesignSecrets Listener Survey now with prizes! InDesign Seminar Tour in San Francisco, Seattle, and Los Angeles (DB); and Boston, Minneapolis, and Chicago (AMC). Use AMCTIME09 coupon code for 15% off registration.

InDesign Troubleshooting & Repair Webinar, May 21 (Anne-Marie)
Introduction to GREP in InDesign Webinar, May 28 (David) Zevrix LinkOptimizer plug-in

Resample Images to 100% script (CS3/CS4 only)

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Videocast stats; InDesign 101; Barcodes; Spell-checking; Obscurity of the Week: Threshold

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-101.mp3 (15.3 MB, 29:50 minutes)

The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * InDesignSecrets Videocast 001 stats and reactions * InDesign 101: Helping Complete Newbies Get Started * Hot Button Posts: Creating barcodes, Please check the spell checker * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Threshold

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News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. >> Mogo-Media's InDesign Seminar Tour travels through five cities in the US in June 2009, presented by either David or Anne-Marie, with more dates in the fall. Deke McClelland's Photoshop Channels and Masks seminar; and Paul Trani's Getting Started with Flash seminars are also coming up! Use the AMCTIME09 discount code for 15% off registration off any of these.>> Adobe Systemshas extended the deadline for their CS4 upgrade special offer: Customers with earlier versions of Adobe Creative Suite, Macromedia Studio, and Adobe Production Studio software can upgrade for the same price as those moving from CS3, up to a US$200 savings. The offer ends on April 30, 2009, in North America, after which they move to "tiered upgrade pricing." You can see the special offer's upgrade pricing chart at a glance, and then buy the upgrade at the Adobe.com store or your favorite reseller. (Sorry, no discount code—we tried!)

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

InDesignSecrets Videocast 001: Line Styles and GREP Styles Barcodes in InDesign hot button post

Spell-checking hot button post

Follow InDesignSecrets on Twitter

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A Very Special Episode! (Happy Anniversary to Us): New Videocast; Trip Back in time to Episode 001; Funny Outtakes; Winners of the 1st Annual Eeek-eek-eek Awards; Obscurity of the Week: Font Version

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-100.mp3 (19.3 MB, 37:22 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. "A Very Special Episode" in honor of our 100th podcast ... * InDesignSecrets Videocast Debuts * Travel back in time with us to Episode #1 and giggle * Flub-O-Fest: Outtakes from previous episodes you'll enjoy * The Winners of the First Annual InDesignSecrets Eeek-eek-eek Awards * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Font Version

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News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. >> Mogo-Media's InDesign Seminar Tour travels through five cities in the US in June 2009, presented by either David or Anne-Marie, with more dates in September by other presenters. Deke McClelland's Photoshop Channels and Masks seminar; and Paul Trani's Getting Started with Flash seminars are also coming up! Use the AMCTIME09 discount code for 15% off registration off any of these. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Winners of the 2009 Eeek-eek-eek Awards

InDesignSecrets Videocast 001: Line Styles and GREP Styles Read about (and download) our Guide to OpenType Fractions

Follow InDesignSecrets on Twitter

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News; Simplest GREP Style; Styles Hierarchy; Vote for the 2009 Eeek-eek-eek Awards; Obscurity of the Week: Paragraph Spacing Limit

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-099.mp3 (17.5 MB, 33:19 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * News: InDesign/InCopy 6.01 update; Bridge Home is foreclosed; New Adobe forums; Twitter update * World's Simplest GREP Style (great for non-GREPpers) * The style hierarchy: Which automatically applied character style "wins"? * The Eeek-eek-eek awards for our upcoming 100th Podcast: Fill out the Ballot! * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Paragraph Spacing Limit

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News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Mogo-Media's InDesign Seminar Tour begins in June 2009, presented by either David or Anne-Marie, in various cities across the U.S. Getting Started with Dreamweaver & CSS is a one-day web publishing workshop with one more date in Chicago on March 26, and Flash Without Tears will tour five cities in June 2009. Use the AMCTIME09 discount code for 15% off registration.

>> Woodwing has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: 20% off the price for their neato fast-styling plug-in, SmartStyles. SmartStyles works with all CS versions of InDesign and InCopy on both platforms. Use the INDESIGN-SECRETS code at their web store to get the 20% discount (expires April 30, 2009) .

>> Adobe Systemshas extended the deadline for their CS4 upgrade special offer: Customers with earlier versions of Adobe Creative Suite, Macromedia Studio, and Adobe Production Studio software can upgrade for the same price as those moving from CS3, up to a US$200 savings. The offer ends on April 30, 2009, in North America, after which they move to "tiered upgrade pricing." You can see the special offer's upgrade pricing chart at a glance, and then buy the upgrade at the Adobe.com store or your favorite reseller. (Sorry, no discount code—we tried!)

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Please complete the 2009 Eeek-eek-eek Awards ballot! (deadline is March 31, 2009)

New Adobe Forums Preview: adobeforums.adobe.com

Follow InDesignSecrets on Twitter

David's author page on Lynda.com (watch for the GREP Styles video in April)

Anne-Marie's InDesign CS4 New Features videos, style hierarchies are in Chp. 8 We heart Jay Nelson and Jeff Gamet's DesignTools Weekly podcast

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ACE Exams, Wherefore Magenta; Linking Templates to Layouts; More on Special Characters; Obscurity of the Week: Share My Screen

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-098.mp3 (16.7 MB, 32:33 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * News: InDesign CS4 ACE (Adobe Certified Expert) tests are now available; Test Prep e-book coming soon * Is magenta a color? An trippy trip into rods, cones, spectra, and process inks * How to update files created from the same template when it's modified * Three interesting special characters * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Share My Screen

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News from our sponsors: >> Mogo-Media's Getting Started with Dreamweaver & CSS is a one-day web publishing workshop that has open dates in March 2009 for various cities, starring CS genius Brian Wood. Flash Without Tears, a one-day workshop hosted by the inimitable Sandee Cohen, will tour five cities in June 2009 and is open for early registrations.

>> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this page. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books, and the InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publicatons.

>> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is once again giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don’t win, you can always register for any 2009 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Register for the InDesign CS4 ACE Exam (or download the Prep guide)
The original "Magenta Ain't a Color" article and the Ars Technica rebuttal
It was in Podcast episode 25 (transcript) that we talked about leaders for right-aligned tabs

Start sharing your screen with the free ConnectNow I see sixth spaces and Battlestar Galactica (read comment #74)

We heart Jay Nelson and Jeff Gamet's DesignTools Weekly podcast

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Sandee Cohen interview; Interactive PDFs; Obscurity of the Week: Show/Hide Paragraph Break Marks

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-097.mp3 (15.8 MB, 30:50 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Interview with Sandee "Vectorbabe" Cohen + InDesign CS4: Visual QuickStart Guide (Sandee's book) is now available + Her VQS chapter on Interactive and Multimedia is available as a downloadable PDF (which of course is itself interactive and has multimedia features) + How Sandee created the interactive PDF in InDesign CS4 and Acrobat Pro 9 + Sandee's upcoming book, From Design Into Print * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Show/Hide Paragraph Break Marks

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News from our sponsors: >> Recosoft’s PDF2ID Professional 2.0 is a new version of the the amazing program that converts PDFs to editable InDesign (Mac/Windows) files. New features include conversion presets, smart frame linking, and bringing in just the annotations (comments) from a PDF. >> In-Tools: Adobe Design Premium CS4 ME is now available! (And Design Standard CS4 ME too, of course.) Or just get InDesign CS4 ME, it's up to you. Order any of these from In-Tools and enjoy free shipping to anywhere other than the Middle East. In-Tools is also the developer of the WorldTools plug-in, which allows InDesign CS4 users to set Right-to-Left text without needing InDesign ME. -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Jay Nelson's DesignTools Monthly newsletter

Jay Nelson and Jeff Gamet's DesignTools Weekly podcast

Sandee's InDesign CS4 Visual QuickStart book, available now.

Download the Interactive & Multimedia chapter as a PDF by clicking the link next to "Already own this?" on the IDCS4: VQS Peachpit Press web page and registering it to your (free) account. You'll need the book's ISBN number to register it. Or, on the same page, you could just purchase the entire book as a PDF.

Pre-order Sandee's From Design Into Print book

Contact Premedia Systems for the JavaScript Buttons script ($15)

What "our" Robin Williams is up to these days

David and Ole's Real World InDesign CS4

InDesign CS4 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual Quickstart Guide

From Design into Print: Preparing Graphics and Text for Professional Printing

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Paper white; Printing screen captures; Downsave snippets; Callout lines; Contact Sheet Placing; Poster Giveaway; Obscurity of the Week: Reset Workspace

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Listen in your browser:InDesignSecrets-096.mp3 (18.9 MB, 36:00 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Why "Simulate Paper White" usually looks gray * Prepping screen captures for commercial printing * Blog posts (and discussions) of interest: + Downsave snippets + Photographic frames + Callout lines with white edges + Yearbook layouts/Contact Sheet placing in CS4 * New Podcast Giveaway: Each episode, an ID Keyboard Shortcuts poster goes to someone we randomly pull from our mailing list or twitter followers. This week's winner is cjmadigan * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Reset Workspace

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News from our sponsor: >> In-Tools: Adobe Design Premium CS4 ME is now available! (And Design Standard CS4 ME too, of course.) Or just get InDesign CS4 ME, it's up to you. Order any of these from In-Tools and enjoy free shipping to anywhere other than the Middle East. In-Tools is also the developer of the WorldTools plug-in, which allows InDesign CS4 users to set Right-to-Left text without needing InDesign ME.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Mike's Downsave Snippets post

David's posts on Photographic frames and Callout lines

Anne-Marie's post on Yearbook layouts/Contact sheet placing

SnapzProX from Ambrosia Software (Mac only)

Snag-It from TechSmith (Windows only)

Layers from, umm, Layers (Mac only)

Subscribe to InDesignSecrets' Twitter feed or Mailing list to be eligible for the poster giveaways

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Trip reports; Software updates; Master page text frames; Quizzler winners; Obscurity of the Week: Skip by Leading

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-095.mp3 (17.6 MB, 32:28 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Trip reports: David in Dubai and at Macworld; Anne-Marie at lynda.com recording studio and at the Chicago InDesign User Group * News: InDesignProxy update; Leopard update fixes InDesign hiding glitch * Follow InDesignSecrets on Twitter * The vestigial Master Text Frame checkbox in the New Document dialog * Five Quizzler winners and their favorite InDesignSecrets posts from 2008! * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Skip by Leading

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Sweet Deals from our sponsors: >> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don't win, you can always register for any 2009 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention "InDesignSecrets" when registering. >> Recosoft's PDF2ID Professional 2.0 is a new version of the the amazing program that converts PDFs to editable InDesign (Mac/Windows) files. New features include conversion presets, smart frame linking, and bringing in just the annotations (comments) from a PDF. Limited-time offer for InDesignSecrets fans, get $30 off the $369 cost for the Pro version by ordering it at this link by January 31, 2009. -- Download the PDF of the Quizzler results! (Which popular posts of 2008 did you miss?) Includes links to the posts and comments from the entrant about why it was their favorite. Quizzler winners were selected randomly from qualifying e-mails: Grand Prize, the Spyder3 Elite: Noel Burgess Runners-up, a copy of Schott's Almanac 2009: Jean-Claude Tremblay, Nigel Harris, Les O'Neil, and David Parker -- Links mentioned in this podcast:

Fun article about David's Dubai seminar

InDesignSecrets' Twitter Tweets

Fritz's post about Master Text Frames Anne-Marie's InDesignProxy and Leopard update posts

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Upcoming Events; Resolutions; Table Calculations; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Smart Match Style Groups

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-094.mp3 (15.7 MB, 30:08 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Upcoming events for David and Anne-Marie * Our Resolutions * Table calculations -- various solutions and a neat free script * A Quizzler for everyone, with prizes for 5 lucky winners * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Smart Match Style Groups

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Info and deals from our sponsors: The WorldTools plug-in from In-Tools (owned by InDesign guru "Harbs") allows InDesign CS4 users to set Right-to-Left text without needing InDesignME. The plug-in retails for $149 and has an introductory price of $99, until 1/31/09 is further discounted to $94 for InDesignSecrets users if you use our link. Flux Consulting's supremely useful EyeDropper Plug-in (Mac only) is now available for CS4. It lets you pick up and apply formatting for text and objects without switching tools. The demo is fully enabled for 60 days, after that is costs $29.95. (CS3 version is $20, CS/CS2 version, text-only, is $5.)

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

David's Dubai seminar and at Macworld

Anne-Marie's videos at Lynda.com

Pre-order Real World InDesign CS4 Nancy at Southern Progress' Pure Silver Jewelry

David's post (with links to scripts etc.) about Calculating Numbers in Tables

(Ben) Schott's Miscellany/Almanac 2009

Uber-cool Spyder3 Elite color-calibration tool from Datacolor

-- To play the Quizzler, email your answer to info@indesignsecrets.com with "Quizzler" in the subject line. We will randomly choose the five winners from all entries we've received by midnight on Sunday, January 11, 2009.

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New Contributor; We're on Twitter; CS4 sales; ID CS4 ACE Exam; RTL text solutions; PICT format; Free guide to hidden character; Obscurity of the Week: Hide Master Items

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-093.mp3 (17.3 MB, 32:33 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Welcome to new contibutor, James Fritz * InDesignSecrets on Twitter! * The state of CS4: Who is upgrading? * InDesign CS4 ACE Exam -- by InDesignSecrets * Right-to-left (RTL) text without InDesign ME * The problem with the PICT image format * Free Download: Guide to Special Characters in InDesign * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Hide Master Items

-- Links mentioned in this podcast:

All about James Fritz

Follow the InDesignSecrets Twitter feed

Adobe's press release mentioning slower CS4 sales

Learn about becoming an ACE

Bob Levine's post about RTL text plug-ins for CS4

More ways to set RTL text in any ID version (read the comments!)

David's rant about PICT and other formats

We found an interesting online image format converter

Our Guide to Special (Show Hidden) Characters in InDesign

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Black Wednesday; Stripping Styles; InDesign to Illustrator; Obscurity of the Week: Custom Text

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-092.mp3 (14.7 MB, 28:03 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * News: "Black Wednesday" for Publishers and Adobe * Hot Post of the Week: Stripping Styles and Masters * Moving formatted text from InDesign to Illustrator * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Custom Text

-- Links mentioned in this podcast: Details about "Black Wednesday" for publishers and Adobe David's post about Stripping heh heh MergeText script for Adobe Illustrator CS1–CS4 Selection to PDF script for Adobe InDesign CS3 PDF2ID plug-in for Adobe InDesign CS2–CS4

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CS4 Posters; Stolen Laptop; Tips from the Master Class; Obscurity of the Week: Isolated Form

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-091.mp3 (15.9 MB, 33:33 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * InDesign CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts Posters! * David's tragic tale: Dealing with the aftermath of a stolen computer * New InDesign secrets we learned at the Master Class Conference * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Isolated Form

-- Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesign CS4 Poster details page (or jump right to the store) SuperDuper back-up program (Mac only) CrashPlan off-site automated back-ups (cross-platform) David's post about the stolen laptop ... great comments! Anne-Marie's post about composition highlighting GRACOL home page Microsoft's page about developing positional form glyphs (caution: will make head explode) Karim Regular is an OpenType font that has isolated form glyphs

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News; CS4 Poster; FindChange script; Quizzler Winner; Obscurity of the Week: Continued Footnotes

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-090.mp3 (13.5 MB, 29:29 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * News: InDesign Conference Master Class, ID CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts poster, ID CS4 Bugs * Posts You Should Know About * The Amazingly Useful and Free FindChangeByList.jsx script * The Brazzler (aka Quizzler) Winner and Answer! * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Continued Footnotes

Sweet Deals for you: InDesignSecrets eSeminar: What's New in InDesign CS4, available as a recording for one week afterward you register to view it. Get $10 off by entering IDS11 in the coupon field on the registration page. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: Posts we talked about: ID CS4 Master Page Bug, SmallCaps, Thread Between Documents, Free CS4 Movies, InDesign on Vacation

-- Quizzler Answer for CS3 and CS4 (use GREP panel of Find/Change): Find: \S Change: $0 Then click the Change All button. For CS2, use the TextCount.js script (find it in the Goodies folder of the installation CD)

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3 great deals; Table tips; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Clear Attributes Not Defined By Style

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-089.mp3 (13.5 MB, 29:29 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Three great deals for InDesignSecrets readers and listeners * Tons 'o table tips: Selecting, adding/deleting rows, copy/pasting, figuring out widths and heights, little-known keyboard shortcuts, more ... * Quizzler! (or, "The Brazzler!") * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Clear Attributes Not Defined By Style

Sweet Deals for you: Markzware: Makers of the Q2ID plug-in (convert QuarkXPress v3-v7 files to InDesign) and many other fine products have a TIME-LIMITED offer for InDesign Secrets fans: 25% off their plug-ins. To get the discount, purchase online at http://markzware.com and enter SECRET in the coupon code field. MogoMedia: InDesign Conference Master Class, Nov. 10–14, 2008 in Seattle, WA (at InDesign HQ, Adobe's Seattle campus!). Get $100 off for any 3 or 4-day pass, or $25 off for any full-day tutorial, by entering IDSECRET08 in the coupon field on the registration page. InDesignSecrets eSeminar: What's New in InDesign CS4, presented live by David and Anne-Marie on Oct. 29, 2008, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (PST), plus follow-up Q&A and access to the recording for one week afterwards. Get $10 off registration by entering IDS11 in the coupon field on the registration page. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: Posts about tables: Merging tables, Moving rows, Rounding table corners, Adding tab stops in cells, Editing overset cell text, More Branislav Milic's web site

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News; New contributor; Master Class discount; Quizzler for quizzlers; Frame types; Obscurity of the week: Flattener Preview

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-088.mp3 (14.5 MB, 31:42 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * News: CS4 documentation, pricing, InDesignSecrets "2.1" site tweaks * Welcome to new contributor, Mike Rankin * InDesign Master Class Conference (see discount code below) * Quizzler for Quizzlers * Text vs. Graphic vs. Undefined Frames * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Flattener Preview

Sweet Deals from our Sponsors: Recosoft: Clever developers of the PDF2ID plug-in (convert PDFs to InDesign), has a TIME-LIMITED offer for InDesign Secrets fans: $20 discount only via this URL: http://www.recosoft.com/pdf2idspecial.htm Markzware: Makers of the Q2ID plug-in (convert QuarkXPress v3-v7 files to InDesign) and many other fine products have a TIME-LIMITED offer for InDesign Secrets fans: 25% off their plug-ins. To get the discount, purchase online at http://markzware.com and enter SECRET in the coupon code field. Other Deals: InDesign Conference Master Class, Nov. 10–14, 2008 in Seattle, WA (at InDesign HQ, Adobe's Seattle campus!). Get $100 off for any 3 or 4-day pass, or $25 off for any full-day tutorial, by entering IDSECRET08 in the coupon field on the registration page. Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesign CS4 online documentation Mike Rankin's blog, Publicious.net Claudia's post about frames

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InDesign CS4 New Features Overview; Obscurity of the Week: User

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-087.mp3 (15.2 MB, 33:06 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * InDesign CS4 New Feature Overview! + Our favorite new features... the small, geeky ones of course + The "big guns" new features + Ones we think are a little weird + A few early bird tips and techniques for the new features--we couldn't help ourselves (replay this podcast after you get your upgrade) * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: User

Sweet Deal from our Sponsors: Markzware: Makers of the Q2ID plug-in (convert QuarkXPress v3-v7 files to InDesign) and many other fine products have a TIME-LIMITED offer for InDesign Secrets fans: 25% off their plug-ins. To get the discount, purchase online at http://markzware.com and enter SECRET in the coupon code field.

Links mentioned in this podcast: Adobe's web site, of course, for official CS4 info Upcoming Lynda.com InDesign CS4 titles: InDesign CS4 New Features (Anne-Marie), InDesign CS4 Essentials (David), InDesign CS4 Beyond the Basics (David), and InDesign CS4/InCopy CS4 Workflow Essentials (Anne-Marie) InDesign Magazine ... issue 26 is all about InDesign CS4

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InDesign CS4; New blogs; Great posts; Obscurity of the week: Merge Swatches

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-086.mp3 (11.8 MB, 25:46 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * News: InDesign CS4 Announcement Announced ;-) * New blogs on the block: Publicious.net, InDesign1200.com, DearAdobe.com * Great posts you might have missed: Make a Frame Grid, Print Style Specs, Find Text/Change to Graphic, PDF Place Fix * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Merge Swatches

Sweet Deal from our Sponsors: Markzware: Makers of the Q2ID plug-in (convert QuarkXPress v3-v7 files to InDesign) and many other fine products have a TIME-LIMITED offer for InDesign Secrets fans: 25% off their plug-ins. To get the discount, purchase online at http://markzware.com and enter SECRET in the coupon code field.

Recosoft: Makers of the PDF2ID plug-in (convert PDFs to InDesign), has a limited-time offer for InDesign Secrets fans: $20 discount only via this URL: http://www.recosoft.com/pdf2idspecial.htm

Links mentioned in this podcast: John Nack's blog post about DearAdobe.com Slendro's StyleReporter plug-in Back-to-School 50% discount for ID Keyboard Shortcuts posters! InDesign Magazine free trial issue

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News, Color Tips, Obscurity of the Week: OnFocus/OnBlur

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-085.mp3 (13 MB, 28:26 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * News: ID Mag, Webinar recap, Eek-eek-eekers in the wild, Back to School Discount * A Few Good Color Tips * Guest obscurist Sandee Cohen presents this episode's Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: On Focus/On Blur

Sweet Deal from our Sponsor (Last chance!): This is your final chance (for the near future at least) to get in on this deal. UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center (Centre?), is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener per sponsored podcast. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for this episode's free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 7 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. More information is available on their web page.

Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesign Magazine free trial issue ||| Find Where That Color is Used (Anne-Marie's post)||| Two things you missed, but will happen again: --The Creative Transitions Conference ||| --Tips, Tricks and Techniques in InDesign CS3 Webinar ||| All about onfocus and onblur Sandee Cohen's InDesign CS3 Visual Quick Start

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Scott Citron interview; Our upcoming webinar; Redesign update; Export All Stories; Obscurity of the Week: Visibility

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-084.mp3 (12.9 MB, 28:06 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Interview with Scott Citron, on the road to recovery! * InDesignSecrets' Upcoming Webinar: David Blatner's InDesign Tips and Tricks * Site Redesign Update * Hot Button Post of the Week: Export All Stories * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Visibility

Sweet Deal from our Sponsor: UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center (Centre?), is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener per sponsored podcast. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for this episode's free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 7 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. More information is available on their web page.

Links mentioned in this podcast: Keep up with Scott's recovery: GetWellScottCitron.blogspot.com ----- Sandee's GetWellScott CafePress store ----- InDesignSecrets' eSeminar, Aug 19, 2008; use coupon code IDS88 for $20 off (or sign up here to include discount automatically) ----- Rorohiko's TextExporter plug-in for ID CS1/2/3 for Mac/Win

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Gotchas; Obscurity of the Week: Deactivate

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-083.mp3 (7.2 MB, 15:47 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Gotchas! We blaze through a pile of InDesign traps that will mess you up if you overlook one tiny little checkbox or button * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Deactivate

Sweet Deal from our Sponsor: UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center (Centre?), is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener per sponsored podcast. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for this episode's free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 7 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. More information is available on their web page.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Adobe InDesign forum post about the Button issue

Bob Levine's post about CS3 Activation limits

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Do's and Don'ts of Text; Weird Hair Space Kerning; Obscurity of the Week: Join

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-082.mp3 (14.6 MB, 31:50 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. * Do's and Don'ts of Text in InDesign: Double spaces and returns, proper use of character styles, case changes, discretionary hyphens, text framitis, more * The Strange Case of the Space-Eating Hair Space * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Join

Sweet Deal from our Sponsor: UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center (Centre?), is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener per sponsored podcast. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for this episode's free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 7 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. More information is available on their web page.

Links mentioned in this podcast: Anne-Marie's presenting two InDesign sessions at the Creative Transitions conference (Milwaukee, WI; Aug 13-15); enter AMC0808 on the conference registration page for a $100 discount David's original post, Do's and Don'ts of Text in InDesign Robin Williams' The Mac is Not a Typewriter or The PC is Not a Typewriter Nigel French's InDesign Type: Professional Typography in Adobe InDesign The Chicago Manual of Style (U of Chicago Press staff) Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots & Leaves William Strunk's The Elements of Style Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style Teacup Software's TypeFitter plug-in

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Our new blog design; Free script extravaganza; PDF Presets problem; Obscurity of the Week: Orthogonal Line

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New design for InDesignSecrets.com blog
Free script extravaganza: Swatch Switcher, Label Graphics, Swap Object Positions, IndexMatic (beta) to index on character styles, Select Objects from Keyboard, Selection to PDF
"Smallest File Size" PDF preset caution, and related issues with PDF presets
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Orthogonal Line

Links mentioned in the Podcast:

Sweet deal from our sponsor! Recosoft's PDF2ID plug-in discount, just for InDesignSecrets users (this is the last week for the discount!)

Support your local scripter! Home pages for Dave Saunders, Steve Wareham, Marc Autret, Kris Coppetiers, Martinho da Gloria

Anne-Marie's post about PDF Presets

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NZ Conference; Camera Raw in InDesign; Quizzler answer and winner; "Sphinx" pangram t-shirts; GREP; Obscurity of the Week: Fixed Column Width

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New Zealand ID Conference Recap
Interview: Mike McHugh describes his Camera Raw in InDesign tip
"Pangram" Quizzler Winner--and Answer!
New in the InDesignSecrets store: "Sphinx" t-shirts!
Getting a Grip on GREP
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Fixed Column Width

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Sweet deal from our sponsor! Recosoft's PDF2ID plug-in discount, just for InDesignSecrets users (limited time offer)

David's post about Mike's Camera Raw tip

Mike McHugh's videocast, CreativeSweetTV.com

Wikipedia explains what a pangram is

Our "Sphinx of Black Quartz" t-shirts!

David's Joy of Pi book

Mac OS X GREP-friendly text editor (free) TextWrangler

Windows GREP-friendly text editor ($50US) UltraEdit

Peter Kahrel's GREP in InDesign CS3 e-book

Links to GREP-related posts on InDesignSecrets.com

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Acrobat 9; Free script to swap swatches; Colored frames; InCopy videos on Adobe TV; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Update Content in Data Fields

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News: Acrobat 9 and Creative Suite 3.3 announced, ID Conference in New Zealand
Hot Post of the week: Free script to auto-replace swatches (Russell)
Blue frames vs. Red frames
"InCopy CS3 Revealed" videos on Adobe TV
Quizzler! Something to do with pangrams...
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Update Content in Data Fields

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Sweet deal from our sponsor! Recosoft's PDF2ID plug-in discount, just for InDesignSecrets users (limited time offer)

Acrobat 9 and Creative Suite 3.3 product pages

InDesign Conference in New Zealand Swap Swatches Script (zipped)

"Stop the Transparencide" video featuring the ghostly head of Russell Viers

AM's whitepaper The Collaborative Editorial Workflow with ID/IC CS3 (5MB)

InCopy CS3 Revealed video series on Adobe TV

Check out our sister site, InCopySecrets.com Data Merge post and a Data Merge video

All about pangrams

Have an answer for the Quizzler? Don't post it here as a comment. Instead, e-mail your answer (put "Quizzler" in the Subject line) to us at info [at] indesignsecrets.com by midnight on Monday, June 16. We'll randomly choose a winner from all correct answers received by then, and announce the winner (and the answer!) in the next podcast.

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New contributors; Nashville conf.; New Window; 20 Activation limit; Neat script for indexing; Dynamic spelling; Transparencide PSA; Master page text frames; Obscurity of the Week: Place Item(s)

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News: Welcome to our newest blog contributors Bob Levine (it's LeVEEN, we learned) and Ted LoCascio; Nashville CS Conf. Recap
Snippet from our "Essential Tips for InDesign" session at the conference: New Window Tricks
Hot Post #1: 20 Activations Limit (by Bob)
Hot Post #2: Indexing Page Ranges (by David) and the IndexBrutal script
"Stop the Transparencide" new PSA from Adobe
Another snippet from our session: Dynamic Spelling Tricks
Master Page Text Frames and Autoflow, once and for all!
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Place Item(s)

Other links mentioned in the Podcast: New sponsor! Recosoft's PDF2ID plug-in discount, just for InDesignSecrets users

See what Bob and Ted look like and read their bios (scroll down)

Ted Locascio's The InDesign Effects Book

The IndexBrutal script (in the original French, or Google-ized into English)

Main page for the Adobe PDF Print Engine

Our InDesign keyboard shortcut posters (use the secret 50% discount code mentioned in the podcast, or enter the code SWATCHES for 25% off entire order)

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Toronto recap; CS3 Re-cert exam; 50% poster discount; Quizzler winner; Tips from the ID Conference; Obscurity of the Week: Download PPD Fonts

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News: Toronto ID Conference recap; ID CS3 Re-cert exam; Secret 50% poster discount
Quizzler winner (Where else is "Altitude?") and answer
Tips from the live InDesignSecrets Podcast at the Toronto, Canada conference:
Reverse Index Entries (secret keyboard shortcut)
Quick Apply for buried menu commands
Guide tips extravaganza
"How big is an agate?" answer and winner
Alt-click and Double-click fun
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Download PPD Fonts

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Nashville CS Conference, New Zealand ID Conference

Casey D'Andrea's ID CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts PDF

Our InDesign keyboard shortcut posters (use the secret 50% discount code announced in the podcast, or enter the code SWATCHES for 25% off entire order)

Free ID Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in Top Ten Double-Clicks in ID post on Publicious.net

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News: MTV, Poster discounts, InCopySecrets.com; Binary EPS files; InDesign Preflighting; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Altitude

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Fun News: MTV (post), Poster discounts, InCopySecrets debuts
Binary EPS files (post), Weak Preflighting (post)
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Altitude
Quizzler! With a neat new prize for the lucky winner

Links mentioned in the Podcast:

Our InDesign keyboard shortcut posters (use the secret 50% discount code announced in the podcast, or enter the code SWATCHES for 25% off entire order)

Check out the new InCopySecrets.com!

Markzware FlightCheck Pro for Macs or Windows

Zevrix InPreflight (Mac only)

See you in Toronto!

Quizzler Instructions: Found the answer? Don't leave it in a comment! Instead, e-mail it to us at info [at] indesignsecrets.com, with the word "Quizzler" in the subject line. We'll randomly choose one winner from all correct answers we have received by midnight on Friday, May 2, 2008. Winner (and answer) will be announced in the next podcast.

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Discount codes; Adobe TV; An End to Transparency Woes; Context Menus; Obscurity of the Week: Ignore Optical Margin

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News: Discount codes for InDesign Magazine and conference fees, Adobe TV
An end to transparency issues! (Steve Werner's post)
Using and customizing contextual (right-click) menus
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Ignore Optical Margin

This time, David's audio gets a little glitchy halfway-through. When will these sunspots end? (Seriously, our apologies, and we're investigating...)

Links mentioned in the Podcast:

For $75 off MogoEvents conference fees (Toronto, Canada; Nashville, TN and Auckland, New Zealand) use our IDSTNCS08 coupon code (case-sensitive)

Nice InDesign mag. discount for our listeners/readers until Apr 28, 2008

Check out Adobe TV!

The "Fibonacci" in Caffe Fibonacci's logo

Hallelujah, c'mon, get APPE

Why one-button mice are bad

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News; CS3 ACE exam; Leopard and Vista; Document Size; Free Layout Zone script; Obscurity of the Week: Greek Images

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News: Upcoming InDesign Conferences
InDesign CS3 ACE Recertification Test: A Field Report
Leopard and Vista and InDesign CS3
How changing Document Size affects an existing layout
The Amazing (and free) Layout Zone script for ID CS3
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Greek Images

Sorry for the tinny sound in Anne-Marie's audio! We blame sunspots.

Links mentioned in the Podcast:

ID Conferences in Toronto, Canada; Auckland, New Zealand; and Seattle, WA

Tim Cole's blog post about the Recertification exam

Adobe's Get Certified page (register for exams, download prep guides)

Layout Zone script (Mac/Windows, CS3 only); David's post about it

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News; Overprint by swatch; Preserve Numbers glitch; Em, En and Hyphens; Obscurity of the Week: the Measure Tool

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News: Lynda.com, Conferences, CreativePro.com, DesignGeek, ID User Groups
Making a swatch overprint where ever it's used (full post)
When CMYK - Preserve Numbers won't, and how to fix it (full post)
Em dashes vs. En dashes vs. Hyphens
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: The Measure Tool

Links mentioned in the Podcast:

David's InDesign: Beyond the Basics at Lynda.com

Free week's trial of lynda.com

ID Conferences in Miami, Toronto CA

Check MogoEvents for news on the Auckland NZ ID Conf. (June) and the Seattle ID Master Class Conf. (November)

HerGeekness Says column at creativepro.com

Anne-Marie's free DesignGeek e-zine

InDesign User Groups

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Recorded live at the InDesign Conf in Miami, FL! Last episode's Quizzler answer and winner; Contestler for the audience; tips and tricks; Q&A Obscurity of the Week is on vacation

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Special episode! This podcast was recorded live in front of a studio seminar audience at the InDesign Conference in Miami, Florida.

What's InDesignSecrets?
Quizzler answer and winner from episode 71 (Change view from keyboard)
Contestler for volunteers from the audience: Define one of our obscure features from a past episode, pulled at random
A few of our favorite tips and tricks; audience Q&A
The Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week was put on hiatus for this episode, since we covered so many during the Contestler!

Links mentioned in the Podcast:

Our free Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in,

Design Tools Monthly and companion podcast, Design Tools Weekly,

Branislav Milic's InDesign Site (in French),

History plug-in from DTP Tools, EasyHistory from 65bit,

Free MultiDo plug-in from 65bit,

Adobe's Feature Request form,

InDesign Scripting forum at Adobe.com,

Footnote-to-Endnote script at Adobe Exchange,

Rorohiko's free ChatterGoofy plug-in,

Post: Converting color layouts to grayscale PDFs

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News; CS3 ACE Test; Shifting Grayscales; Jessica Chase Interview; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Digital Editions

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News: Upcoming InDesign Conferences, Free Tip Of the Day Plug-in
Hot Posts: Anne-Marie's CS3 ACE Practice Test Rant, David's Grayscale Shifts
Interview with Jessica Chase, Editor and Publisher of ZigZagZine
Quizzler! An easier one for the rest of us
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Digital Editions

Links mentioned in the Podcast: The InDesign Conference - Miami Beach (Feb 26 – March 1)

(Also coming up: Toronto ID Conference, Nashville CS Conference)

David's free InDesign Tip of the Day plug-in for CS1, 2 and 3

Jessica's ZigZagZine site; download Jan/Feb 2008 issue (PDF, 872K)

Adobe's Digital Editions Library (free e-books)

Quizzler Instructions: Think you know the answer? Don't post it here! E-mail it to us at info@indesignsecrets.com, with "Quizzler" in the Subject line. Entries will be accepted until midnight Friday, February 22. A random winner will be chosen from the correct answers and announced in our next podcast.

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Free scripts, Beginner's category, Quizzler Winner, EPS Challenge, Uppercase, Obscurity of the Week: Normal

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News Updates: Upcoming InDesign Conference in Miami, InDesign patch, Free plug-ins and scripts, new Beginner's Corner category on our blog
Quizzler Results (from Episode 69: Adding CMYK Swatches) and Winner
Hot Posts: Sandee's EPS Challenge, David's Updating Text
Uppercase Conundrums (Anne-Marie's post)
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Normal

Links mentioned in the Podcast: The InDesign Conference - Miami Beach (Feb 26 – March 1)

InDesign 5.02 patch for Windows or Mac OS X (ReadMe)

David's free InDesign Tip of the Day plug-in for CS1, 2 and 3

Dave Saunders' donationware script, WrapNudger, that fixes Droopy Wraps

Scott Zinelli's Multipage PDF Import script (David's post about it)

Our new Beginner's Corner category

Scott Citron's new book, Professional Design Techniques

Quizzler Answer: How many ways can you add a CMYK color to Swatches without using the Swatches panel? Turns out there are too many to list in our show notes, so we compiled them into a PDF for you to download: Swatches_Answers.pdf (260K). Our winner received a copy of Deke McClelland's new book, Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One.

Professional Design Techniques With Adobe Creative Suite 3: Develop Expert Design Skills Through Hands-on Projects Using Indesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator

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New Year's Podcast responses; Deke McClelland interview; Quizzler!; Obscurity of the Week: View Box

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Response to our New Year's show
The Deke McClelland Interview!
A fun, raucous conversation with a luminary in our field. Listen in as Deke tells us about his latest book and videos on InDesign CS3, and what it's like laying out a complex book on InDesign in InDesign: the good, the bad, and the aggravating. ("Does this sound like a feature to you?" he asks at one point, laughing.)
Quizzler -ler -ler!
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: View Box

Links mentioned in the Podcast:

Deke's new book Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One

David's post about modifying Basic Styles

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Happy New Year!

New Year's Resolutions for InDesign Users (yes, including us).

Our full list of suggestions appears below, suitable for printing and checking off! * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: JPEG 2000

Links mentioned in the Podcast:

Looking for a script or plug-in? Try here

Our free Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in

Robin Williams' The Mac is Not a Typewriter or The PC is Not a Typewriter

Our recommended InDesign books and videos for reference

How to rebuild Preferences in InDesign

Do you use JPEG 2000? Adobe wants to know

2008 New Year's Resolutions: Our Suggested List for InDesign Users

I'll find and learn how to use one new (to me) script and plug-in that helps my work.
I'll use paragraph and character styles properly.
I'll start placing PSD, AI, and PDF files instead of EPS.
I'll finally break my habit of typing double-spaces after punctuation.
I'll get into the habit of using the temporary Hand tool instead of the scroll bars when it makes sense.
I'll import XML and export XML at least once this year successfully, even if it's on my own time, just to learn the process.
I'll get a reference on InDesign that I can refer to when I'm stuck.
I'll force myself to use New Window, Story Editor, Glyphs panel, and Quick Apply three times so that I learn to fully appreciate their utility.
I'll set up, save and use at least 2 different workspaces.
I'll learn the keyboard shortcuts to open the panels I use most often, even if it means having to customize them to ones I'll remember.
I'll rebuild my Preferences, then set my application preferences and default styles and swatches, then back up that prefs file.
I'll add at least one comment to a post on InDesignSecrets.com, even just to say "thanks" or "whaaa?" so we know you're out there!

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New InDesign books, Miami Conference, XML and InDesign, Obscurity of the Week: Formatted Only Once

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News: Two new InDesign books, Helvetica movie, InDesign Conference in Miami, Florida
XML and InDesign: Overview, basics, when and how and why
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Formatted Only Once

Links mentioned in the Podcast:

Maivald and Palmer's book: A Designer's Guide to InDesign and XML

Powell's book: Instant InDesign

Documentary movie, Helvetica InDesign Conference (Miami, FL; Feb 26-March 1 2008)

We interview Cari Janssen about her XML project

Anne-Marie's blog post on exporting HTML using XML tags

InData plug-in from Em Software

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TypeFi AutoFit; Numbered Paragraphs; Obscurity of the Week: Assignments Panel

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TypeFi AutoFit, free plug-in from Typefi
Numbering Paragraphs across unthreaded frames
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Assignments panel

Links mentioned in the Podcast: TypeFi AutoFit plug-in (CS1, 2, or 3)

Cari Janssen's AutoFit tip

Anne-Marie's blog post on numbered paragraphs

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Plug-in-palooza! What, how, why; Twenty-plus great InDesign plug-ins; Obscurity of the Week: Configure Plug-ins

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Plug-in-palooza!
What's a plug-in? Why are they valuable?
Finding InDesign plug-ins on the Internet
Installing plug-ins
Fast descriptions of over 20 InDesign plug-ins that users are loving (the tip of the iceberg, there are at dozens more we didn't have time to cover)
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Configure Plug-ins

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Links mentioned in the Podcast:

Adobe's comprehensive InDesign Plug-ins list

DTP Tools (Page Control, Layer Comps, History, Tetris, Cross References, Keyboard Shortcuts)

Markzware (Q2ID, ID2Q)

EmSoftware (InData, XTags)

Teacup Software (DataLinker, TypeFitter, PatternMaker, BarcodeMaker)

Rorohiko (TextExporter, LikeFindsLike, Color2Gray, ChatterGoofy)

Recosoft (PDF2ID)

i.t.i.p GmbH (InMath)

Gluon (ProScale ID)

Triple Triangle (Color Spec Cubed)

Knowbody Software (CoolKerning)

Zevrix Solutions (LinkOptimizer)

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Leopard reports; Mailbag answers; Obscurity of the week: Reset Indents

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News: Leopard and CS3 (reports from the field)
"You Asked For It!" We answer a slew of listener e-mails:
Resize from center
Select overset text
Images on a path
Vertical justification
Clear Character style color spec
Vertical gradients in tables
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Reset Indents

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Links mentioned in the Podcast:

Tim Cole's Using InDesign on Leopard post on his blog

Steve Werner's Leaping to Leopard post here

Adobe's TechNote on Vista and CS3 (installation troubleshooting)

(Sorry, Vista Home Basic users)

Adobe Feature Request form Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in from DTP Tools/InDesignSecrets

How to Rebuild Prefs in InDesign

Fontlab's TransType font converter utility

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Chicago CS Conf Recap; David's New Toy; Calendar Layouts; CS3 and Leopard; Obscurity of the Week: Reset to Base

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News: Recap of the Creative Suite Conference in Chicago
David's favorite new tech toy
Creating calendar layouts in InDesign
Hot Button Post of the Week: Adobe CS3 Support for Leopard
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Reset to Base

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Links mentioned in the Podcast:

Upcoming InDesign Conference (Miami, Feb 2008)

Fujistu ScanSnap for Mac or Windows Guided Tour of Apple's new OS, Leopard (10.5)

Parallels Desktop software

Anne-Marie's Calendar Layout post

CalendarMaker script (Mac only) on the Adobe Exchange

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Scansnap S500M Clr Dupl Scanner (Mac Version)

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5.01 Update; New ID CS3 Books; Custom Page Sizes; Transform Individually; Quizzler Winner and Answer; Obscurity of the Week: Miter Join and Limit

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News: 5.01 Update, New CS3 books, Keyboard Shortcuts Plug-in, London UK User Group
Great source for freebies: Adobe Exchange
Hot Button Posts of the Week: Custom Page Sizes; Transform Individually
Which letter/number isn't used? Quizzler Winner and Answer
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Miter Join/Miter Limit

Links mentioned in the Podcast:

InDesign 5.01 Update: Mac or Windows, 5.01 ReadMe PDF

New books: Real World InDesign CS3; InDesign CS3 Visual QuickStart Guide; Mastering InDesign CS3 for Print Design and Production; InDesign CS3 Video Training Book; A Designer's Guide to Adobe InDesign and XML; Professional Design Techniques with Adobe Creative Suite 3

Free Keyboard Shortcuts Plug-in from DTP Tools

London, UK InDesign User Group Adobe Exchange Beta

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Our free Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in, Celebrity Shortcuts, When Shortcuts Collide, Poster Discount, Quizzler!, Obscurity of the Week: Context

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Keyboard Shortcut Extravaganza-za-za!

Announcing a new free plug-in from InDesignSecrets and DTP Tools: Keyboard Shortcuts Panel
Celebrity Keyboard Shortcuts
When Keyboard Shortcuts Collide (with OS shortcuts)
New Discount Code for our Keyboard Shortcuts Poster
The Return of the Revenge of the QUIZZLER! Listen to the episode ...
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Context

Links mentioned in the Podcast:

Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in (leads to post with download link)

Celebrity Shortcuts from Tim Cole's blog

InDesign Keyboard Shortcuts Poster (use SCHOOL for 30% discount)

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Newsbits; XML; GREP; Tagged Text; CS3 Indexing bug; Obscurity of the Week: the Eraser Tool

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Newsbits: Tokyo Conference recap; PDF2ID plug-in; more
"What is That?" Definitions of XML, GREP, Tagged Text and more
Major bug with CS3 indexes, and workarounds
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: the Erase Tool

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Creative Suite and Web Design Conferences (Chicago, Oct. 15–20)

Recosoft's PDF2ID plug-in for InDesign CS2/CS3

The InDesigner post about using GREP outside of InDesign CS2

Em Software's XTags for InDesign

Adobe forum thread about the CS3 Index bug (script is at post #31)

The InDesigner videocast about indexing in InDesign

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Default Style Glitches; Rebuilding Preferences; Not Possible in ID; Obscurity of the Week: PN and PB

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Common Glitches with Default Styles
What Gets Lost when you Rebuild Preferences
Hot Button Post of the Week: Things You Can't Do in InDesign
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: PN and PB

Links mentioned in the Podcast:

Free 7-day pass to Lynda.com videos

David and Olav Kvern's upcoming Real World InDesign CS3 InCopy CS3 video reviews on Amazon.com

Adobe's Feature Request page

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AutoCorrect; Hidden Characters; Right-to-Left Typesetting; Shrinking PDFs; Obscurity of the Week: Non-Joiner

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Funny AutoCorrect Tip for College Newspapers
Hot Button Posts of the Week: Runners-up were the ones on Hidden Characters and the Free Script for Right-to-Left Text; winner was Sandee's Shrink a Vector-Heavy PDF
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Non-Joiner

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Melbourne and Tokyo InDesign Conferences

Chicago Creative Suite Conference (enter IDSECCSWEB in the coupon code field for $100 off any 2-day, 3-day, Gold, Platinum or Plus pass)

Adobe Live Docs page with list of Hidden Characters

Adobe Live Docs page with GREP examples

Sharon Steuer's upcoming Illustrator CS3 Wow! book

Tim Cole's blog post about Non-Joiner

U.S. source for InDesign ME (Middle Eastern)

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The Adobe Illustrator CS3 Wow! Book: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques from 100 Top Illustrator Artists

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Tips Extravaganza; Customizing the Control Panel; Obscurity of the Week: Isolate Blending

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Summer 2007 InDesign Tips Extravaganza!
Swatches, styles, editing and flowing text, and more
Hot Button Post of the Week: Less is More for the Control Panel
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Isolate Blending

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Miami InDesign Conference

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Conferences; Quizzler Answer; Huge File Sizes; Scaling in CS3; Obscurity of the Week: Gap Color

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News: Upcoming InDesign Conferences
Quizzler Answer! (Keep Violations' highlight color) and Winner
Hot Button Post of the Week: Why is My File Size So Huge?
Scaling in InDesign CS3: A Different Kind of Craziness
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Gap Color

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Tokyo and Melbourne InDesign Conferences InDesign Keyboard Shortcuts Poster (for CS2 or CS3)

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Upcoming ID Seminars; Help Files Live; Composition Highlighting; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Balance Ragged Lines

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News: Upcoming Seminars for David and Anne-Marie
InDesign CS3 Live Docs
The Joys of Highlighting Composition Violations
The Revenge of the Quizzler!
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Balance Ragged Lines

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Links mentioned in the Podcast:

David's ID seminar: Refine Design Conference

Anne-Marie's ID seminar: Mastering Prepress Essentials Conference (1.2MB PDF)

Example ID CS3 Help/Live Doc page w/a comment

David's ID CS3 Essentials DVD

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Quizzler update; Mixing CS2 and CS3; Hot Button Post: Text Do's and Don'ts; Corner Effects Tips; Obscurity of the Week: Point/Pica Size

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Episode 52 Quizzler Update -- Yet another way to duplicate!
Mixing InDesign CS2 and CS3: Possible, with caveats
Hot Button Post of the Week: Do's and Don'ts of Text in InDesign
Corner Effects Tips and Fixes
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Point/Pica Size

Links mentioned in the Podcast:

Episode 52 Quizzler answers are in the Show Notes

Update CS1 (Mac/Win) and CS2 (Mac/Win) to read later version .inx files

CS3 Online Help page about vertical align and corner effects

History of the pica measure from Wikipedia

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News; Non-breaking vs. No Break; Quick Apply menu commands; Obscurity of the Week: Ignore Ruler Guide Alignments

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Lots 'o News (conferences, plug-ins, poster, more)
Non-breaking space vs. the No Break character formatting attribute
New in CS3: Using Quick Apply to apply menu commands, tips and glitches
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Ignore Ruler Guide Alignments

Links mentioned in the Podcast:

Upcoming InDesign Conferences, Creative Suite Conference

Seattle's Refine Design Conference

InDesign CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts poster

DTP Tools Xref plug-in public beta (Mac/Windows, CS2/CS3)

InDesign Magazine (info on special subscription offer)

TheInDesigner videocast about Insert White Space in CS2

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Recorded live at the ID Conference! Intro; News; Audience Q&A Live Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Convert Text

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Recorded live at the 2007 InDesign Conference in New York City!

Intro to the podcast, how it's usually created (when not in front of a live audience)
News: This conference, New plug-ins for CS3, New InDesign user group in London, UK
Who in the audience travelled the furthest to the conference?
Q&A from the audience: Converting CS3 to CS2 and CS2 to CS1, Editing .inx files
Live Quizzler: How many ways can you duplicate an object in InDesign? (answers below)
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Convert to Text

Links mentioned in the Podcast:

Audacity open-source audio recording software

Teacup Software (PatternMaker and BarcodeMaker plug-ins)

Typefi (free AutoFit plug-in)

London InDesign User Group

Brazilian InDesign Blog

PitStop Professional from Enfocus Software

Adding the Notes plug-ins to InDesign CS2

Quizzler answers! From our genius studio audience: Cut/copy paste, Step and repeat, Alt/Option-drag, Cut/copy Paste in place, Cut/copy Paste into, Duplicate, Transform > Move (with Copy button), Duplicate a layer containing the object, Alt/Option-drag the object's layer proxy to a new layer, Export snippet and place it back in, Drag it into a Library and drag it back onto the layout, Use it in PatternMaker, Duplicate the page or spread containing the object, Use it on a Master page and then override it on the document page, Option/Alt-arrow key.

From David: File > Export to .inx then copy and paste the call to the object elsewhere in the .inx file, save it and then open it in InDesign.

From Anne-Marie: Paste object into first row of table, convert row to a Header row, then continue table into a new frame and the object gets duplicated in the second frame's Header row.

Two more from David: Hold down the Option/Alt key when pressing Return/Enter after editing any transform field; or Copy object to clipboard, then use Find/Change text (Find: any character or string, Change: Clipboard contents).

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Announcements; Hyperlinks; Text Variables; One-Button Mice; Obscurity of the Week: File Info

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Announcements: "InCopy CS/InDesign CS3 Integration" released (AM's video tutorial title for lynda.com); our InDesign CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts poster is on press this week
Hyperlinks: Creating, Deleting, Swearing at, Modifying, etc.
All about Text Variables, a new feature in CS3
Hot Button Post of the Week: AM's rant about One-Button Mice
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: File Info

Links mentioned in the podcast: InCopy CS3/InDesign CS3 Integration video training (link leads to post with details)

Our post about fixing hyperlinks from Word documents

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We're 50!; Quizzler Winner (OS Color Picker); News; Unembeddable fonts; Printing Link Info; Obscurity of the Week: Crop Amount

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We're 50!
Quizzler Winner — Where's the System Color Picker?
News: Free CS3 Tryouts and manuals, Tim Cole's InDesign blog, Upcoming conferences
Dealing with "protected" fonts (unembeddable in a PDF)
Hot Button Post of the Week: Printing a List of Links
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Crop Amount

Links mentioned in the podcast: InDesign CS3 tryout and documentation from Adobe

Tim Cole's InDesign BackChannel blog

The InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4–8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off the registration fee.

Melbourne, Australia InDesign conference, Tokyo InDesign conference (link to come), Chicago CS3 Summit Letterheadfonts.com and the Typophile.com thread about it

Download Martin Fischer's LinkExport.jsx script (zipped file)

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News; Threading and Unthreading; Transparency and Spot Colors; PDF/X-4; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Use Inline Input for Non-Latin Text

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News: Upcoming InDesign Conference in NY, David's ID CS3 Essentials videos
Threading and unthreading text frames — tips and scripts
Hot Button Post of the Week: Spot Colors and Flattening in CS3 (and, related, PDF/X-4)
The Return of the Quizzler!
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Use Inline Input for Non-Latin Text

Links mentioned in the podcast:

The InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4–8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off the registration fee.

David's ID CS3 Essentials on lynda.com (link leads to free 7-day trial)

InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts poster

SplitStory.jsx script: Post with download info, Post about installing

Aextra Software's CleverTextLink plug-in for CS/CS2, $39

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CS3 Ships; Our IDCS3 In-box videos; Conferences; Trapping in ID; New Text Wrap options in CS3; Obscurity of the Week: Detach Selection from Master

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News: CS3 Ships, Our video tutorials in the box, Upcoming conferences
All about trapping in InDesign (and, do we still need to worry about it?)
New in InDesign CS3: Cool Text Wrap Options
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Detach Selection from Master

Links mentioned in the podcast:

Vector Conference and Pixel Conference, back-to-back in Chicago, Illinois, May 1–3, 2007; and the InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4–8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off registration fee for any of these three conferences.

David's post about creating composite, trapped PDFs

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4.05 Update; CS3 Pricing; Display Preferences; Export to XHTML (CS3 Feature); Obscurity of the Week: First Baseline Offset

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Upcoming conferences of interest
InDesign CS2 4.05 Update
Hot Button Post of the Week: CS3 Pricing
Adjusting your Display Performance preference
New in CS3: Export to XHTML
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: First Baseline Offset

Links mentioned in the podcast:

Vector Conference and Pixel Conference, back-to-back in Chicago, Illinois, May 1–3, 2007; and the InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4–8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off registration fee for any of these three conferences.

InDesign 4.05 Update ReadMe—click to download the PDF listing all the fixes (the ones fixed by 4.05 specifically are asterisked)

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InDesign CS3! New features, fixes, pricing; Obscurity of the Week: Fill With Placeholder Text

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All about InDesign CS3:
Our favorite new features, including Table and Cell Styles, Variables, Placing InDesign files, Find/Change with GREP, Find/Change object attributes, and more
Our favorite improved features, including scaling fixes, folders in Styles panels, page previews in the Pages panel, Align to Page, Synchronize master pages, and more
Pricing information
Other great resources to learn about InDesign CS3
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Fill With Placeholder Text

Our sponsor for this episode: DTP Tools, makers of cool InDesign plug-ins like History, Layer Groups, Tetris, and PageControl (the latter the brainchild of InDesignSecrets contributor Pariah Burke). Special offer for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code IDSECRETS for 15% off any plug-in from their on-line store.

Links mentioned in the podcast: InDesign Magazine special offer. Go to the link, choose "2-year subscription for $69" option, and enter indesignsecrets to receive two years of back issues, free, along with your subscription. The upcoming issue is full of in-depth articles about InDesign CS3 new features.

The InDesigner videocast. Michael's latest episode (#38) shows off InDesign CS3's new interface, and all the neat tricks you can do with it.

Adobe.com for Creative Suite 3 info from the horse's mouth

Gutenberg Project is Anne-Marie's favorite source for placeholder.txt copy

Lorem-Ipsum Generator caught David's fancy

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Evil Color Picker; Illustrator Bleeds; Obscurity of the Week: Mixed Ink Group

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Hot Button Post of the Week: Evil, Evil Color Picker
Including Bleeds in Placed Illustrator Files
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Mixed Ink Group

Links mentioned in the podcast:

We didn't mention a single link! Weird.

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CS3 Announcement; Skewing and Shearing; Annoying Section Prefixes, Obscurity of the Week: Simulate Paper Color

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Adobe CS3 Announcement
David at the Creative Suite Show; Anne-Marie in Duluth
Skewing text and objects; skew vs. shear
Working around the Section Prefix annoyance
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Simulate Paper Color

Links mentioned in the podcast:

InDesign Conference in New York, New York (June 4–6, 2007)

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Newsbits; Contest Winner; Straight Lines; Readable Text; Obscurity of the Week: Metrics

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InDesign Newsbits: Free Plug-in from Teacup, Upcoming InDesign Shows
Winner of the contest from last episode: Least Useful InDesign Palette
InDesign trainer extraordinaire Russell Viers explains how to draw a straight line
What's more readable: Serif or Sans Serif body text type?
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Metrics

Links mentioned in the podcast:

TypeFitter plug-in for InCopy (free) or InDesign ($59) (link leads to post with details)

Creative Suite Conference in Miami, Florida (Feb. 28â��March 3, 2007)

InDesign Conference in New York, New York (June 4â��6, 2007)

Russell Viers' YabbAdobeDoo.com site

Literature Review of Serif vs. Sans Serif Legibility Studies

Typophile.com forum for typographers (especially this thread on optical vs. metrics0

InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster (use FEATHER coupon code for a 25% discount)

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InDesign Newsbits: Free Plug-in from Teacup, Upcoming InDesign Shows
Winner of the contest from last episode: Least Useful InDesign Palette
InDesign trainer extraordinaire Russell Viers explains how to draw a straight line
What's more readable: Serif or Sans Serif body text type?
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Metrics

Links mentioned in the podcast:

TypeFitter plug-in for InCopy (free) or InDesign ($59) (link leads to post with details)

Creative Suite Conference in Miami, Florida (Feb. 28â��March 3, 2007)

InDesign Conference in New York, New York (June 4â��6, 2007)

Russell Viers' YabbAdobeDoo.com site

Literature Review of Serif vs. Sans Serif Legibility Studies

Typophile.com forum for typographers (especially this thread on optical vs. metrics0

InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster (use FEATHER coupon code for a 25% discount)

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Placing Multi-page PDFs; Clear Overrides Button; Useless Palette Award and Contest; Obscurity of the Week: Align Based on Size

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Solutions for placing multiple-page PDFs
The Clear Overrides button: Sweet feature, often overlooked
Most Useless InDesign Palette Award/Contest
Anne-Marie's nomination: the Color palette
David's torn between the Transform and the Navigator palette
Enter the contest by leaving a comment here! (Details below)
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Align Based on Size

Links mentioned in the podcast:PlaceMultipagePDF.jsx script for IDCS2 (link leads to post with details)

InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster (use FEATHER coupon code for a 25% discount)

The Most Useless InDesign Palette Award/ContestYou've heard David and Anne-Marie's nominations, do you agree? Or maybe you depend on the Navigator or Color palette for some task integral to your workflow? Perhaps you have a different one you'd like a nominate? Add your thoughts, votes, rants, or staunch defense to the discussion by adding a comment below. Before the next podcast rolls around (a week or two), we'll randomly choose one of the comments and award that author an InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts poster!

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Quizzler winner and wrap-up; InDesign News; Designer Wars; Obscurity of the Week: Slug

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Results from last episode's Quizzler -- and the winner!
Various InDesign Newsbits
Designer Wars! We discuss 3 issues that divide designers:
Work locally or off the server?
Set up file to trim size or add your own crops in larger page?
Layered TIFFs or PSDs?
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Slug

Links mentioned in the podcast:Pariah Burke'sQuarkvsInDesign.com (Adobe CS3 Logo Design Contest)

John Nack's blog post about the CS3 logos (with images)

InDesign Conferences (Stockholm now, NYC in June)

Creative Suite Conference (Miami 2/28-3/3)

InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster (use FEATHER coupon code for a 25% discount)

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Quizzler winner (triple-clicking); Top 5 things InDesign newbies should know; Best online resources for ID help; Newbie-friendly Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Save a Copy

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Happy New Year! In keeping with this "new" them, this episode is especially for the new InDesign users out there -- what you should know, best places to learn more. Grizzled veterans may also learn some new things, too!

Results from last week's Quizzler -- and the winner!
Top five things every new InDesign user should know (We invite the legions of experienced InDesign users in our audience to add to this list -- do a newbie a favor and post your advice in a comment below!)
Best online resources for InDesign information and help (Ditto)
A Quizzler that even a newbie can answer, with a poster for a prize
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Save a Copy

Links mentioned in the podcast:TheInDesigner, Michael Murphy's videocast on our site

Trumatch.com process color swatchbooks

InDesign CS2 Visual QuickStart Guide by Sandee Cohen

Real World InDesign CS2 by David Blatner and Olav Kvern

InDesign Breakthroughs by Anne-Marie and David

InDesign Magazine (select "2 yrs. for $69" option and use INDESIGNSECRETS promo code to get 2 years of back issues too)

InDesignTalk listserv and the InDesign forums on Adobe.com

InDesign User Groups web site

Lynda.com online video training for ID and more (link leads to free 7-day trial)

VTC.com online video training for ID and more

InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster (use FEATHER for a 25% discount)

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Quizzler winner (measurement units); Basic Paragraph Style; Native .indd file vs. press-ready PDF for your printer; Last Quizzler with a Trumatch prize; Obscurity of the Week: Increase/Decrease Left Indent

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Results from last week's Quizzler -- and the winner!
Our love/hate relationship with the default Basic Paragraph Style
What's better to give your printer: Native ID file or a press-ready PDF?
Fourth and final Quizzler with a Trumatch prize! (see below)
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Increase/Decrease Left Indent

Link we forgot to mention in the podcast:

Free one-week trial of Lynda.com's online software training videos

Quizzler instructions: If you have an answer to this episode's Quizzler, don't post it here! E-mail it to info@indesignsecrets.com with "Quizzler" in the Subject. One winner will be chosen randomly from all the correct answers received by midnight, January 2, 2006. The winner will be mailed a set of Colorfinder process color swatchbooks (coated and uncoated) from Trumatch, a $170 value. Remember, don't post your answer here! You'll ruin it for everyone!

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Trumatch ("Colorfinder," their process color swatch book system)

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Lynda.com free trial; Quizzler results (font version); Using agates in InDesign; Linking to text files; Insert glyph script; New Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Patient User Mode

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Free trial from Lynda.com
Results from last week's Quizzler -- and the winner!
How to use agates in InDesign
Why you should/should not link to Excel or Word files
How to enter weird little glyphs with a keyboard shortcut
Third Quizzler! With a cool prize from Trumatch (see below)
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Patient User Mode

Links mentioned in the podcast:

Free one-week trial of Lynda.com's online software training videos

Type any Unicode Character cross-platform script (more info)

Quizzler instructions: If you have an answer to this episode's Quizzler, don't post it here! E-mail it to info@indesignsecrets.com with "Quizzler" in the Subject. One winner will be chosen randomly from all the correct answers received by midnight, December 18, 2006. The winner will be mailed a set of Colorfinder process color swatchbooks (coated and uncoated) from Trumatch, a $170 value. Remember, don't post your answer here! You'll ruin it for everyone!

Sponsors for this episode:

Markzware (InDesign plug-in developer)

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Trumatch ("Colorfinder," their process color swatch book system)

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Quizzler answer and winner; Export to PDF vs. Distill Postscript; Updating multiple images; Another Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: The Smooth Tool

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Results from last week's Quizzler -- and the winner!
The Great Debate: Export to PDF vs. Write PostScript and Distill?
Updating multiple images at once
Second Quizzler! With a cool prize from Trumatch (see below)
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: The Smooth tool

Links mentioned in the podcast:

Our InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster

Adobe's Find a Print Service Provider page

Quizzler instructions: If you have an answer to this episode's Quizzler, don't post it here! E-mail it to info@indesignsecrets.com with "Quizzler" in the Subject. One winner will be chosen randomly from all the correct answers received by midnight, December 8, 2006. The winner will be mailed a set of Colorfinder process color swatchbooks (coated and uncoated) from Trumatch, a $170 value. Remember, don't post your answer here! You'll ruin it for everyone!

Sponsors for this episode: Markzware (InDesign plug-in developer)

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Anniversary, Process swatchbooks, Keep Options, Quizzler, Obscurity of the Week: The J key (Formatting affects text/container)

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It's our anniversary!
Why you should be using a process-color swatch book
Our InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster is on sale
Those Krazy Keep Options: How and when to use them
Quizzler! With a cool prize from Trumatch (see below)
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: The "J" Key (Formatting Affects Text/Container)

Links mentioned in the podcast:

Our InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster

Quizzler instructions: If you have an answer to this episode's Quizzler, don't post it here! E-mail it to info@indesignsecrets.com with "Quizzler" in the Subject. One winner will be chosen randomly from all the correct answers received by midnight, November 30, 2006. The winner will be mailed a set of Colorfinder process color swatchbooks (coated and uncoated) from Trumatch, a $170 value. Remember, don't post your answer here! You'll ruin it for everyone!

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Conference recap; Clips from the live podcast; Outlining type tips and gotchas; Butterly Island questions; Obscurity of the Week: The Barbell

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InDesign Conference: Master Class recap and highlights
Audio clips from our live podcast at the conference
Tips and gotchas when converting type to outlines
Tough InDesign questions from the Butterfly Island contest
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: The Barbell

Links mentioned in the podcast:

Mordy Golding's Illustrator blog and his Outlined Type post

Sponsors for this episode:

Markzware (InDesign plug-in developer)

Special offer for podcast listeners: 20% off of Q2ID,

Markzware's QuarkXPress-to-InDesign file converter plug-in

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Free Stuff for InDesign Users; Obscurity of the Week: Unassigned Content Frames

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Free Stuff for InDesign Users: A follow-up to David's recent Adobe eSeminar

Layout templates that come with the program
Adobe Exchange templates
Where to install Scripts and Plug-ins
Free plug-ins: PatternMaker, InBooklet
Make Grid script — one of the free scripts bundled with InDesign
Lots of other answers to questions asked by eSeminar attendees
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Unassigned Content Frames

Links mentioned in the podcast:

All the upcoming live e-Seminars from Adobe (and recorded ones from the past)

Our page on Free InDesign Stuff

Teacup Software's free plug-in, Pattern Maker

Adobe's InDesign Exchange web site

InDesign Conference: Master Class (Seattle, WA, Nov. 6–8, 2006)

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Upcoming events; Creating font catalogs; Mirroring objects; Two unusual keyboard shortcuts; Obscurity of the Week: Transformations are Totals

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Upcoming events: Teacup Software's free InDesign Plug-in seminar in NYC, and InDesign Conference Master Class in Seattle, WA
A new tool for creating font catalogs in InDesign (thanks, Greg!)
Three different ways to mirror ("flip") objects
Two interesting keyboard shortcuts buried in the Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Transformations are Totals (thanks, Mark!)

Links mentioned in the podcast: Teacup Software Seminar (New York City, NY, Oct. 17, 2006; free)

InDesign Conference: Master Class (Seattle, WA, Nov. 6-8, 2006)

Chris Paveglio's InDesign Font Catalog Applescript for CS1/CS2

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ID Conference news; Rotate text tip; Photocompositing in InDesign; Cari Jansen interview; Obscurity of the week: Adjust View Settings

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InDesign Conference news (Stockholm, Seattle, Adobe Developer Conf.)
Rotating text without rotating its frame, courtesy of Adobe's Tim Cole
Photocompositing in InDesign: Mike's latest videocast is on one of our favorite techniques
Guest guru Cari Jansen, top InDesign trainer/consultant from Australia, talks about the ID CS2 features that allowed her to complete a huge Australian Vineyard Directory project in 15 percent (not a typo!) of the time it took before CS2
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Adjust View Settings

Links mentioned in the podcast:

InDesign Conference: Master Class (Seattle, WA, Nov. 6–8, 2006)

Adobe's Plug-in Developer Summit (Nov. 6–8, 2006; multiple locations)

Tim Cole's Rotated Text tutorial (PDF, 930K)

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The InDesigner videocast; Free plug-in for Find/Change; Adding the current date automatically; Obscurity of the Week: Notes tool and menu.

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The InDesigner videocast is part of InDesignSecrets!
Free plug-in, "CleverFindChangeCloser" from Aextra Software
Adding the current date to your pages, automatically
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Notes (tool and menu)

Links mentioned in the podcast:

The InDesigner videocast

CleverFindChangeCloser plug-in (CS2 only): Download for Mac or Windows. (For help installing the plug-in, see this post)

The PrinterMark file David referred to (instructions are included)

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Site News; Quizzler #3 Winner; OpenType Fractions Helper; Pages Palette; Obscurity of the Week: End Nested Style Here

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InDesignSecrets.com news: Our Store, New Contributors, Named to Top 5 Podcasts, 100K+ Downloads, Live Podcast at the InDesign Conference
Quizzler #3 ("Where is Bevel?") Winner!
OpenType Fractions Cheat Sheet
Pages Palette Mystery/Mastery: Targeted vs. Selected Pages
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: End Nested Style Here

Links mentioned in the podcast:

The InDesignSecrets Store — those aprons are going fast!

Colleen Wheeler: Top 5 Audio Podcasts on Visual Topics

Live Podcast at the InDesign Conference; Seattle, WA; Nov. 6-8, 2006

Download: OpenType Fractions Cheat Sheet (PDF, 400K)

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InDesign Conference: Master Class; Q2ID plug-in; Making proper Fractions; Quizzler #3; Obscurity of the Week: Update Library Item

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-- Preview of the upcoming InDesign Conference: Master Class

-- Critical update to Markzware's Q2ID plug-in (opens QuarkXPress v3-6 files in InDesign)

-- Fraction Fixes: How to make good-looking fractions with and without an OpenType Pro font

-- Quizzler Number 3! Instructions appear below

-- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Update Library Item

Quizzler #3 instructions: As we mentioned in the podcast, DON'T post your Quizzler answer (or any discussion about it) here as a comment. Instead, e-mail your answer to us at info@indesignsecrets.com with "Quizzler" in the subject line. All correct answers we receive by midnight PST on Thursday, August 30 2006 will be included in our random dart throw that will choose a single winner. Duplicate entries from the same person will result in your being made fun of in the next podcast as well as disqualifying you.

Links mentioned in the podcast:

InDesign Conference: Master Class in Seattle, Washington; November 6-8, 2006

Markzware's Q2ID Plug-in — click the Get Updater! button if you're not up to v1.59

Dave Saunders' TextStylesReporter script — CS2 only, Mac/Windows

Dan Rodney's ProperFractions script — CS1/CS2, Mac/Windows

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With guest star: Sandee Cohen; Interactive PDFs; Buttons and States; Obscurity of the Week: Flush Space

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With special guest star, Sandee Cohen!

--A "deep dive" into creating interactive PDF files, especially Buttons and States

--Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Flush Space

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2nd Quizzler Winner, Drop Shadows Secrets, Obscurity of the Week: Transform Sequence Again Individually

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• The Winner of the 2nd InDesignSecrets Quizzler!

• Drop Shadows: Aggravations, Tips, Tricks, What all those fields do

• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Transform Sequence Again Individually

Links mentioned:

• DesignGeek e-zine (Anne-Marie's free tips newsletter for designers)

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Align to Spine; Quiz Contest #2; Obscurity of the Week: Convert to Profile/Assign Profile

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-- The Pleasures of CS2's Spine Alignment (Align to/Away from Spine) feature

-- InDesign Quiz Contest #2! (See note below)

-- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Convert to Profile/Assign Profile

Links mentioned:

-- InDesign Magazine (Pariah Burke's article on using spine alignments with anchored objects is in issue #8, Oct/Nov 2005)

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Mailbag Episode: Change underline thickness, ID user groups in Canada, Dotted leaders, Disk error with custom sets, Obscurity of the week: View Threshold

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The Mailbag Episode! All topics discussed today were questions listeners e-mailed us about, and their answers (along with a few embellishments of our own).

-- Mystery caller left a voicemail asking about aligning to page

-- DJ asked how to change the thickness of underlines

-- DJ also asked about any InDesign user group near Manitoba, Canada

-- Vanessa from Australia asked how to make dotted underlines for forms

-- Kevin (who recently discovered the existence of our podcast and told us he listened to all 24 episodes in 24 hours ) wondered why he gets a Disk Error when he tries to save a custom keyboard shortcut set

-- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: View Threshold

Links mentioned:

-- Our post about the InDesignUserGroup.com web site

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London ID Conf. recap; Sandee on scripting; Branislav on master page text frames; Rufus on pasteboard fixes; Mysteries of the Align palette; Obscurity of the week: Go Forward/Go Back

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-- London InDesign Conference recap from David, and he recorded interesting tidbits from a few of the conference speakers:

Sandee Cohen tells of her experience taking a scripting class at the conference
Branislav Milic shares a great tip for overriding master page text frames
Rufus Deuchler reveals two ways to fix out-of-control pasteboard sizes

-- Mysteries and Treasures of the Align palette (like, where it is)

-- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Go Forward/Go Back

Links mentioned:

• AlignToPage.jsx is one of the free cross-platform scripts on your CS2 installation CD or part of this .zip archive (Adobe site download).

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Contest winner; Tip of the Day plug-in; Lab values and spot colors; Add-a-Page script; Obscurity of the week: Position tool ---- Detailed notes follow, or go to http://www.indesignsecrets.com/category/podcast for show notes, links, and to comment on the episode.

The answer to — and winner of — our first InDesign Quiz Contest
Free InDesign Secrets plug-in, "Tip of the Day" for Mac or Windows, InDesign CS or CS2
That Ink Manager option: What do Lab color values have to do with spot colors?
Peter Kahrel's incredibly useful script, "Add A Page"
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Position tool

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Comment line and transcripts; Copy/paste text formatting; Spot colors and transparency; Our first contest question; Obscurity of the week: Lab color mode ||| Detailed notes follow, or go to http://www.indesignsecrets.com/category/podcast for show notes, links, and to comment on the episode.

• Announcement of new enhancements to the podcast: Transcripts and our Listener Comment Line

• Anne-Marie's InDesign seminars (open to the public) for the Chicago Book Clinic is on June 22, 2006

• David's full day of InDesign secrets (also open to the public) for Evolve is on July 12, 2006

• Maintaining text formatting when copying/pasting text between Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign

• We bust a few myths about spot colors and transparency in InDesign

• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Lab color mode

And we also announced the first InDesignSecrets Podcast Contest! Listen to the show, write down the contest quiz question, and post your answer as a comment below (first correct one wins)

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Real-time black reverses; Auto-numbering angst; Ink Manager secrets; Obscurity of the Week: Script Label palette ||| Detailed notes follow, or go to http://www.indesignsecrets.com/category/podcast for show notes, links, and to comment on the episode.

• Branislav Milic solves the Real-Time Reverse Out of Black challenge! Download his 7-page PDF, "Transparency Cool Effects" (1.1 MB), the solution is on pages 6-7.

• Brief preview of the InDesign Conference in London, coming up June 26-29, 2006

• Oh that pesky Auto Numbering feature — surely it can't be this bad, a listener asks

• Secrets of the Ink Manager! Thank you, Adobe — now please go work on that numbering thing

• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: the Script Label palette

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