InDesign Secrets

• In the news
  • Register for our Online Summits: Design + Accessibility, and Design + AI!
  • CreativePro Magazine October 2023: Accessibility for Newbies
• All about Adobe InDesign 2024 (v19.0)
• Adobe MAX 2023 review and ID Tips from Attendees
• Obscure Feature of the Week: Show Structure

Sponsor for this episode

>>  Priint:Suite is an enterprise platform that reduces the time to create marketing publications up to 80% and enables creative marketers to focus on being creative.  Automate layouts following business/layout rules without limits on creative freedom. Instantly create personalized or language variants. Learn more about where and how to use it with InDesign here! 

Links mentioned in this podcast

• The Design + Data Summit (on-demand) The Design + Accessibility Summit The Design + AI Summit
• CreativePro Week 2024: July 8-12, 2024 (DC and Online)
• What's new in InDesign 2024 https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/whats-new.html
• Request a feature in InDesign https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests
• David's conversation with Priint CEO of Priint USA: https://creativepro.com/creativepro-conversations-integrate-data-and-design-with-priintsuite/
• Adam Pratt, CEO of Chaos to Memories
• Sarah Hyndman, author of Passive Aggressive Fonts and Why Fonts Matter
• Mark Heaps, Groq
• How to print a page range: https://creativepro.com/tip-of-the-week-the-easy-way-to-print-a-page-range/
• Friendly Alien Easter Egg: https://creativepro.com/tip-of-the-week-friendly-alien-easter-egg/
• Obscure Feature: Show Structure https://creativepro.com/getting-started-with-xml-in-indesign/
• How to use Quick Apply to open or close Structure panel: https://creativepro.com/using-quick-apply-for-menu-commands/

• In the news
  • Two more online Summits coming up, check them out!
  • CreativePro Magazine September 2023 all about Editorial Workflows
• Our own InDesign Sneaks
• Obscure Feature of the Week: Text Rotation

Sponsor for this episode

>> Adobe MAX 2023 Creativity Conference is happening October 8–12 in Los Angeles, California. Learn from experts and innovators, top creatives in design, photography, illustration, video, 3D, and more. Of course, the highlight is that  many InDesign experts will be presenting, live and online — even the Adobe engineering team from India. Hope to see you there!

Links mentioned in this podcast

• The Design + Data Summit (on-demand) The Design + Accessibility Summit The Design + AI Summit
• CreativePro Week 2024: July 8-12, 2024 (DC and Online) — Registration is open!
• Adobe Fonts: now there's a difference between "added" and "installed": read more here
• Data plugins you should know about:
  • InData from Em Softwar
  • DocsFlow and WordsFlow from Em Software
  • Priint Suite
  • Cacidi LiveMerge and Extreme
  • EasyCatalog from 65bit
  • DesignMerge from Meadows
  • XMPie (check out their cool "kiosk" site for demos)
  • Teacup DataLinker

• Adding layouts to CC Libraries (with Bridge or drag and drop) https://www.linkedin.com/learning/indesign-tips-for-design-geeks/add-indesign-layouts-to-creative-cloud-libraries
• Obscure Feature: Text Rotation
  • How to rotate text inside a frame (separate from the frame)
  • Keith Gilbert's script to rotate individual characters

• In the news:
  • Design & Data Summit, Sept 21–22, online only
    • More online Summits coming up, check them out!
  • CreativePro magazine September 2023 all about Editorial Workflows
  • Adobe InDesign 18.5 released
• New free scripts we like
• Deep Dive into the Scripts panel
• Obscure Feature of the Week: Verbose

Sponsor for this episode

>> Santa Cruz Software is the maker of LinkerUI, a best-in-class extension that connects InDesign and other CC applications to your DAM and cloud-based services like Dropbox. Box, GoogleDrive and more. It enables direct searching, opening, placing, and syncing of assets. A new feature in LinkrUI called Smart-Linkr now automatically finds and fixes broken asset links at a single click, so you never need to search for lost assets again. Download LinkrUI for free today at SantaCruzSoftware.com

Links mentioned in this podcast

• CreativePro Week 2024 OPENING SALE: Use code FIRST48 on Sept 7 or 8 to get $400 off any multi-day registration
• More on UXP plug-ins: https://developer.adobe.com/indesign/uxp/
• AM's video of the best websites for free InDesign scripts: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/indesign-tips-for-design-geeks/top-sites-for-free-indesign-scripts

• Community scripts
  • https://creativepro.com/community-scripts-for-all/
  • More on GitHub: https://github.com/AdobeInDesignScripts/directory
  • How Unicode Injector Works
• Some new scripts
  • Peter K:
    • missing fonts: https://creativepro.com/scripts-for-fixing-missing-fonts-in-indesign/
    • flagging words: https://creativepro.com/a-script-to-flag-certain-words-in-indesign/
    • blind endnotes: https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/footnotes.html
  • Keith:
    • Export SVG: https://creativepro.com/a-script-to-export-svg-content-from-indesign/
    • split pages for inside bleed: https://creativepro.com/a-script-to-allow-bleeds-on-the-spine-of-indesign-documents/
    • remove shared hyperlink destinations: https://creativepro.com/how-to-fix-shared-hyperlinks-in-indesign/

• How to install scripts in InDesign
• Using Quick Apply to Run Scripts
• Assigning Keyboard Shortcuts to Scripts

• In the news:
  • Design & Marketing Summit, July 27–28, online only
    • More online Summits coming up, check them out!
  • Adobe MAX 2023, David and Anne-Marie are doing live sessions, many more InDesign pros presenting live and online only
  • CreativePro magazine July 2023 all about Artificial Intelligence
• Podcasts we like (and please review ours)!
• David's story about recovering from Can't Save/Save As disasters
• Deep Dive: Secrets of the Glyphs panel
• Obscure Feature of the Week: Styles Override Highlighter

Sponsor for this episode

>>Santa Cruz Software: Did you know that 66% of sales professionals can’t get their sales or marketing collateral in time, often creating assets without oversight? Solve this with BrandingUI. Try it today at SantaCruzSoftware.com!

Links mentioned in this podcast

• Podcasts:
  • ChaxChat Accessibility podcast with Dax Castro and Chad Chelius
  • What other podcasts to you listen to? Let us know!
  • Please rate InDesign Secrets! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/indesign-secrets/id101102043 https://open.spotify.com/show/4Erwd0qHoR22NhTSY67I0v (you have to listen to at least one episode before it lets you rate it)
• Saving files to Cloud Documents: https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/work-with-cloud-documents.html and https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/manage-cloud-documents-photoshop.html
• Glyphs panel: 
  • Get to Know InDesign's Glyphs Panel
  • Find Characters Using the Glyphs Panel
  • Tip of the Week: Controlling the Glyphs Panel Display
  • Working With Custom Glyph Sets
• Talking about CID/GID:
  • Podcast 260
  • Insert a Character by Unicode or GID
• Stylistic Sets:
  • TypeTalk: Stylin' Sets
  • Using Stylistic Sets
  • Anne-Marie's video

• Obscure Feature: Style Overrides Highlighter

• Next time: InDesign Secrets True Crime podcast! 🤣

• In the news: 
  • CreativePro rebrand!! 
  • Design & Marketing Summit, July 27–28, online only
  • Adobe MAX 2023, David and Anne-Marie are doing live sessions
  • InDesign 18.4 is slowly being rolled out
  • CreativePro Week was phenomenal!
    • Grab an On Demand Pass to watch all the sessions, including IGNITE! and download the handouts 
    • Next year in Washington DC! More info to come.
  • CreativePro Magazine June 2023, issue 20: Email templates, cover story by our designer Pam Sparks! Also great InDesign tips and tricks
• Getting geeky with IDML, Tagged Text, ICML, and Snippet files
• Obscure Feature of the Week: Remove Forced Line Break

Sponsor for this episode

>> Noble Desktop: For over 30 years, Noble Desktop’s project-based classes and certificate programs have given professionals the tools to pursue creative careers in design, coding, and beyond. Learn more about them on our Training Provider page or at NobleDesktop.com.

Links mentioned in this podcast

• YES our original InDesign Secrets mug IS still available! https://www.cafepress.com/mf/14282011/large-indesignsecrets-_mugs?productId=60507004
• Watch our free webinar: Creating Social Media Assets with InDesign https://creativepro.com/watch-on-demand-indesign-social-assets/
• We're speaking at MAX 2023 David Blatner Anne-Marie Concepcion
• Pam's article on Building Email Templates: https://creativepro.com/building-email-templates/
• Getting Geeky:
  • Snippets: https://creativepro.com/the-joy-of-snippets/ https://creativepro.com/place-snippets-at-the-same-location-or-not/ https://creativepro.com/locking-snippets/ https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-snippets-in-a-printing-workflow/
  • Tagged Text: Database or spreadsheet to tagged text: https://creativepro.com/automate-text-formatting-with-tagged-text/
  • IDML: Jeff Potter's amazing web app to IDML trick: https://creativepro.com/harnessing-the-power-of-text-variables-and-idml/ Hard-core editing to fix RGB Black: https://creativepro.com/turning-rgb-black-to-cmyk-black/ Download this great illustrated guide to IDML by Mike Rankin: https://creativepro.com/downloads/Anatomy_of_IDML.pdf Color swatches that won't delete: https://creativepro.com/color-swatches-that-wont-delete/

• In the news: 
  • Article Hunt contest winners
  • Adobe MAX 2023, David and Anne-Marie are doing live sessions
  • InDesign 18.3 is slowly being rolled out
  • CreativePro Week, June 5-9 in Phoenix (and online)
    • IGNITE CreativePro is back! 
    • Movie Night
  • Design + Marketing Summit, July 27-28, online event
  • CreativePro Magazine May 2023, issue 19: Virtual Photography, and lots of InDesign content
• Fonts in InDesign: Best practices and best tips
• Obscure Feature of the Week: Ornaments

Links mentioned in this podcast

Adobe MAX 2023 speakers Including ...

• Anne-Marie and David
• Angelo Montilla, who we interviewed in podcast episode 290
• Dax Castro, interviewed (with Chad Chelius) in podcast episode 292
• Erica Gamet, interviewed in podcast episode 226

Fonts:

• Great Fonts To Use:
  • CreativePro Font Collection #1: https://creativepro.com/creativepro-font-collection-vol-1/
  • Font Collection #2: https://creativepro.com/creativepro-font-collection-vol-2/
  • Our awesome "InDesignSecrets Font Collection" on Adobe Fonts: https://fonts.adobe.com/collections/indesign-20
  • Google Fonts: https://creativepro.com/using-google-fonts-indesign/
  • Adobe Fonts: https://creativepro.com/using-adobe-fonts/
• Font Tools
  • Astute Graphics Vector First Aid: https://astutegraphics.com/plugins/vectorfirstaid
  • Justin's "Copy InDesign Fonts to Folder" script: https://ajarproductions.com/blog/2013/04/16/copy-indesign-fonts-to-folder/
• Identifying Fonts:
  • What the Font: https://www.myfonts.com/pages/whatthefont
  • How to identify fonts: https://creativepro.com/identifying-fonts/
• Glyphs panel:
  • Learning about the Glyphs panel: https://creativepro.com/get-know-indesigns-glyphs-panel/
  • Tips: https://creativepro.com/tip-week-glyphs-panel-display/
  • Finding characters: https://creativepro.com/find-characters-using-the-glyphs-panel/
  • Custom glyph sets: https://creativepro.com/working-with-custom-glyph-sets/
  • Laura Worthington's Hummingbird font: https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/hummingbird
• Making Fonts:
  • IndyFont: https://www.indiscripts.com/post/2012/06/indyfont-build-opentype-fonts-from-within-indesign
  • If you have a LinkedIn Learning subscription: our video on IndyFont: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/indesign-secrets/055-making-a-font-with-indesign-using-the-indyfont-script?u=0
  • FontSelf in Illustrator: https://creativepro.com/create-fonts-illustrator-cc-fontself/
• Installing Fonts:
  • Document Fonts folder: https://creativepro.com/easy-font-activation-using-document-fonts/
  • InDesign application's Fonts folder: https://creativepro.com/getting-indesign-to-see-your-fonts/

• InDesign Public Beta for Cloud Docs
• Events:
  • CreativePro Week 2023 June 5–9, Phoenix, Arizona (and online!)
  • Design + Marketing Summit (online, July 27–28)
  • Design + Data Summit (online, September 21–22)
• Creative Pro Magazine issue 19 includes articles about virtual photography, InDesign layers, and a review of IndexMatic 3
• Interviews with Nicte Cuevas and Bart Van de Wiele
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Presentation

Sponsor for this episode

>> Noble Desktop: For over 30 years, Noble Desktop’s project-based classes and certificate programs have given professionals the tools to pursue creative careers in design, coding, and beyond. Learn more about them on our Training Provider page or at NobleDesktop.com.

Links mentioned in this podcast

• Nicte Cuevas:
  • Web site
  • LinkedIn Learning courses
  • CreativePro Week speaker
  • What is an Ecotone
• Bart Van de Wiele
  • Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Collaboration and Workflow (Classroom in a Book)
  • LinkedIn Learning course
  • CreativePro Week speaker
  • Making Forms with InDesign and Acrobat Sign
• Presentation Mode

• • InDesign 18.21 release
  • CreativePro Week 2023 June 4–9, Phoenix, Arizona (and online!)
  • NEW Design + Marketing Summit (online, July 27–28) Awesome lineup, including Jesus Ramirez, Von Glitschka, Amy Balliet, and new speakers incluing the amazing Jim Krause, Brodi-Rose Newsome, Kyle Hamrick
  • Creative Pro Magazine issue 18 feature story is about motion and video in Photoshop! 
• All about Measurements: You're bound to learn a few tips
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Not Shifted

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

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

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/

• 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/

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/

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

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) 

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/

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:

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

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/

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
• 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

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

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. 

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/

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

>> 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.

>> Markzware offers so many solutions for InDesign users, it's hard to know where to start. Here are three: Check out IDMarkz for previewing InDesign files and converting them without needing to open (or own) InDesign; PDF2DTP for converting PDF files to editable InDesign files, and read about their File Recovery service for wonky InDesign files.

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

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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

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! 

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

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

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)

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

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

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)

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

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

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)

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!

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!!!

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

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")

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. 

> Ripon Printers is a full-service commercial printer based in Wisconsin with clients around the country. They do the printing for our InDesignSecrets Keyboard Shortcut posters and a lot of the CreativePro Week conference materials. Our friend James Wamser has been their Customer Education Director for many years. James is the creator and maintainer of the InDesign New Features Guide that lists all the features added to the program with each version, starting with version 1.0! Check out the resources and blog at Ripon's web site, lots of great info there, and consider asking them for a quote for your next print job!

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:

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

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?

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

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).

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:

>> FunctionFox is a leader in timesheets and project management for creative teams since 1999. Still using paper timesheets or Excel to track project hours? Use FunctionFox to help manage your workflow and increase billable hours! There's a free demo available, but you might want to jump on their introductory offer of 40% off for a new monthly or annual subscription. The offer ends Dec. 15, 2017, so get on over there!

>> 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

In this episode:

• 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!

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.

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

In this episode:

• 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

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

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

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

In this episode:

• 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:

> CircularFLO from Circular Software is an InDesign add-on that lets you easily create true replicas of existing print layouts. Directly export to fixed layout EPUB3 or the Amazon KF8 fixed layout format. You can include Read Aloud with no coding — add paragraph, sentence or word highlighting in time with an audio track. All new customers contacting Circular Software in April either by entering 'InDesign Secrets Podcast' when downloading CircularFLO or contacting us on our website can get a free trial credit for CircularFLO and extended trials of our print workflow apps GreenLight and MasterPlan, too.

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)

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

In this episode:

• 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

In this episode:

• 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).

• 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

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!

• 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:

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).

• 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!

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).

• 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

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.

• 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:

In this episode:

• 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).

• 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

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).

• 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) 

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).

• 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

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! 

• 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

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.

In this episode:

• 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.

• 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)

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!

• 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

In this episode:

• 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!

• 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)

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!

• 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"

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).

• 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!

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).

• 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

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 

• 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

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).

• 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

In this episode:

• 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.

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• 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)

In this episode:

• 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 

• 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

In this episode:

• 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:

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• 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

In this episode:

• 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

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• 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)

In this episode:

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

• 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?

In this episode:

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

• 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

• 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

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