InDesign Secrets

By Blatner and Concepcion

The companion to the world's largest independent portal for all things InDesign, InDesignSecrets.com! Co-founders David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepcion discuss news, tips, and how-to's for Adobe InD... more

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InDesign Secrets episodes:

March 21, 2008InDesignSecrets Podcast 073
News; Overprint by swatch; Preserve Numbers glitch; Em, En and Hyphens; Obscurity of the Week: the Measure Tool
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InDesignSecrets-073.mp3 (14.2 MB, 31:05 minutes)
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News: Lynda.com, Conferences, CreativePro.com, DesignGeek, ID User Groups

Making a swatch overprint where ever it's used (full post)

When CMYK - Preserve Numbers won't, and how to fix it (full post)

Em dashes vs. En dashes vs. Hyphens

Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: The Measure Tool
Links mentioned in the Podcast:
David's InDesign: Beyond the Basics at Lynda.com
Free week's trial of lynda.com
ID Conferences in Miami, Toronto CA
Check MogoEvents for news on the Auckland NZ ID Conf. (June) and the Seattle ID Master Class Conf. (November)
HerGeekness Says column at creativepro.com
Anne-Marie's free DesignGeek e-zine
InDesign User Groups
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32min
March 11, 2008InDesignSecrets Podcast 072
Recorded live at the InDesign Conf in Miami, FL! Last episode's Quizzler answer and winner; Contestler for the audience; tips and tricks; Q&A; Obscurity of the Week is on vacation
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InDesignSecrets-072.mp3 (25.5 MB, 55:43 minutes)
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Special episode! This podcast was recorded live in front of a studio seminar audience at the InDesign Conference in Miami, Florida.
What's InDesignSecrets?

Quizzler answer and winner from episode 71 (Change view from keyboard)

Contestler for volunteers from the audience: Define one of our obscure features from a past episode, pulled at random

A few of our favorite tips and tricks; audience Q&A

The Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week was put on hiatus for this episode, since we covered so many during the Contestler!
Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Our free Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in,
Design Tools Monthly and companion podcast, Design Tools Weekly,
Branislav Milic's InDesign Site (in French),
History plug-in from DTP Tools, EasyHistory from 65bit,
Free MultiDo plug-in from 65bit,
Adobe's Feature Request form,
InDesign Scripting forum at Adobe.com,
Footnote-to-Endnote script at Adobe Exchange,
Rorohiko's free ChatterGoofy plug-in,
Post: Converting color layouts to grayscale PDFs
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56min
February 15, 2008InDesignSecrets Podcast 071
News; CS3 ACE Test; Shifting Grayscales; Jessica Chase Interview; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Digital Editions
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InDesignSecrets-071.mp3 (13.7 MB, 29:58 minutes)
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News: Upcoming InDesign Conferences, Free Tip Of the Day Plug-in

Hot Posts: Anne-Marie's CS3 ACE Practice Test Rant, David's Grayscale Shifts

Interview with Jessica Chase, Editor and Publisher of ZigZagZine

Quizzler! An easier one for the rest of us

Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Digital Editions
Links mentioned in the Podcast:
The InDesign Conference - Miami Beach (Feb 26 – March 1)
(Also coming up: Toronto ID Conference, Nashville CS Conference)
David's free InDesign Tip of the Day plug-in for CS1, 2 and 3
Jessica's ZigZagZine site; download Jan/Feb 2008 issue (PDF, 872K)
Adobe's Digital Editions Library (free e-books)
Quizzler Instructions: Think you know the answer? Don't post it here! E-mail it to us at [email protected], with "Quizzler" in the Subject line. Entries will be accepted until midnight Friday, February 22. A random winner will be chosen from the correct answers and announced in our next podcast.
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30min
February 01, 2008InDesignSecrets Podcast 070
Free scripts, Beginner's category, Quizzler Winner, EPS Challenge, Uppercase, Obscurity of the Week: Normal
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InDesignSecrets-070.mp3 (13.4 MB, 29:22 minutes)
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News Updates: Upcoming InDesign Conference in Miami, InDesign patch, Free plug-ins and scripts, new Beginner's Corner category on our blog

Quizzler Results (from Episode 69: Adding CMYK Swatches) and Winner

Hot Posts: Sandee's EPS Challenge, David's Updating Text

Uppercase Conundrums (Anne-Marie's post)

Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Normal
Links mentioned in the Podcast:
The InDesign Conference - Miami Beach (Feb 26 – March 1)
InDesign 5.02 patch for Windows or Mac OS X (ReadMe)
David's free InDesign Tip of the Day plug-in for CS1, 2 and 3
Dave Saunders' donationware script, WrapNudger, that fixes Droopy Wraps
Scott Zinelli's Multipage PDF Import script (David's post about it)
Our new Beginner's Corner category
Scott Citron's new book, Professional Design Techniques
Quizzler Answer: How many ways can you add a CMYK color to Swatches without using the Swatches panel? Turns out there are too many to list in our show notes, so we compiled them into a PDF for you to download: Swatches_Answers.pdf (260K). Our winner received a copy of Deke McClelland's new book, Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One.
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30min
January 11, 2008InDesignSecrets Podcast 069
New Year's Podcast responses; Deke McClelland interview; Quizzler!; Obscurity of the Week: View Box
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InDesignSecrets-069.mp3 (15.7 MB, 34:23 minutes)
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Response to our New Year's show

The Deke McClelland Interview!
A fun, raucous conversation with a luminary in our field. Listen in as Deke tells us about his latest book and videos on InDesign CS3, and what it's like laying out a complex book on InDesign in InDesign: the good, the bad, and the aggravating. ("Does this sound like a feature to you?" he asks at one point, laughing.)

Quizzler -ler -ler!

Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: View Box
Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Deke's new book Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One
David's post about modifying Basic Styles
Quizzler Instructions: Think you have the best answer? Write it up in an e-mail and send it to us at [email protected] with "Quizzler" in the Subject line. (Don't post your answer as a comment!) Deadline for entries is midnight on Friday, Jan. 18. We'll announce the winner -- and the Quizzler answer, boy howdy we'll never forget to do that again -- in our next podcast.
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35min
January 03, 2008InDesignSecrets Podcast 068
New Year's Resolutions for InDesign Users; Obscurity of the Week: JPEG 2000
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InDesignSecrets-068.mp3 (13.3 MB, 28:58 minutes)
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Happy New Year!
New Year's Resolutions for InDesign Users (yes, including us).
Our full list of suggestions appears below, suitable for printing and checking off!

Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: JPEG 2000
Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Looking for a script or plug-in? Try here
Our free Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in
Robin Williams' The Mac is Not a Typewriter or The PC is Not a Typewriter
Our recommended InDesign books and videos for reference
How to rebuild Preferences in InDesign
Do you use JPEG 2000? Adobe wants to know
2008 New Year's Resolutions:
Our Suggested List for InDesign Users
I'll find and learn how to use one new (to me) script and plug-in that helps my work.

I'll use paragraph and character styles properly.

I'll start placing PSD, AI, and PDF files instead of EPS.

I'll finally break my habit of typing double-spaces after punctuation.

I'll get into the habit of using the temporary Hand tool instead of the scroll bars when it makes sense.

I'll import XML and export XML at least once this year successfully, even if it's on my own time, just to learn the process.

I'll get a reference on InDesign that I can refer to when I'm stuck.

I'll force myself to use New Window, Story Editor, Glyphs panel, and Quick Apply three times so that I learn to fully appreciate their utility.

I'll set up, save and use at least 2 different workspaces.

I'll learn the keyboard shortcuts to open the panels I use most often, even if it means having to customize them to ones I'll remember.

I'll rebuild my Preferences, then set my application preferences and default styles and swatches, then back up that prefs file.

I'll add at least one comment to a post on InDesignSecrets.com, even just to say "thanks" or "whaaa?" so we know you're out there!
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29min
December 21, 2007InDesignSecrets Podcast 067
New InDesign books, Miami Conference, XML and InDesign, Obscurity of the Week: Formatted Only Once
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InDesignSecrets-067.mp3 (15.5 MB, 33:48 minutes)
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News: Two new InDesign books, Helvetica movie, InDesign Conference in Miami, Florida

XML and InDesign: Overview, basics, when and how and why

Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Formatted Only Once
Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Maivald and Palmer's book: A Designer's Guide to InDesign and XML
Powell's book: Instant InDesign
Documentary movie, Helvetica
InDesign Conference (Miami, FL; Feb 26-March 1 2008)
We interview Cari Janssen about her XML project
Anne-Marie's blog post on exporting HTML using XML tags
InData plug-in from Em Software
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34min
December 07, 2007InDesignSecrets Podcast 066
TypeFi AutoFit; Numbered Paragraphs; Obscurity of the Week: Assignments Panel
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InDesignSecrets-066.mp3 (12.0 MB, 26:11 minutes)
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TypeFi AutoFit, free plug-in from Typefi

Numbering Paragraphs across unthreaded frames

Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Assignments panel
Links mentioned in the Podcast:
TypeFi AutoFit plug-in (CS1, 2, or 3)
Cari Janssen's AutoFit tip
Anne-Marie's blog post on numbered paragraphs
Listener Comment Line: +1-206-202-6483
Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!
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27min
November 20, 2007InDesignSecrets Podcast 065
Plug-in-palooza! What, how, why; Twenty-plus great InDesign plug-ins; Obscurity of the Week: Configure Plug-ins
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InDesignSecrets-065.mp3 (15.8 MB, 34:30 minutes)
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Plug-in-palooza!
What's a plug-in? Why are they valuable?

Finding InDesign plug-ins on the Internet

Installing plug-ins

Fast descriptions of over 20 InDesign plug-ins that users are loving (the tip of the iceberg, there are at dozens more we didn't have time to cover)

Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Configure Plug-ins
Sponsor Link and Offer:
This episode was sponsored by Audible.com, which lists over 40,000 audio books you can download and listen to just like a podcast. Go to audiblepodcast.com/indesign to download your free audio book (time-limited offer).
Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Adobe's comprehensive InDesign Plug-ins list
DTP Tools (Page Control, Layer Comps, History, Tetris, Cross References, Keyboard Shortcuts)
Markzware (Q2ID, ID2Q)
EmSoftware (InData, XTags)
Teacup Software (DataLinker, TypeFitter, PatternMaker, BarcodeMaker)
Rorohiko (TextExporter, LikeFindsLike, Color2Gray, ChatterGoofy)
Recosoft (PDF2ID)
i.t.i.p GmbH (InMath)
Gluon (ProScale ID)
Triple Triangle (Color Spec Cubed)
Knowbody Software (CoolKerning)
Zevrix Solutions (LinkOptimizer)
Listener Comment Line: +1-206-202-6483
Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!
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36min
November 08, 2007InDesignSecrets Podcast 064
Leopard reports; Mailbag answers; Obscurity of the week: Reset Indents
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InDesignSecrets-064.mp3 (13.7 MB, 29:53 minutes)
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News: Leopard and CS3 (reports from the field)

"You Asked For It!" We answer a slew of listener e-mails:
Resize from center

Select overset text

Images on a path

Vertical justification

Clear Character style color spec

Vertical gradients in tables

Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Reset Indents
Sponsor Link and Offer:
This episode was sponsored by Audible.com, which lists over 40,000 audio books you can download and listen to just like a podcast. Go to audiblepodcast.com/indesign to download your free audio book (time-limited offer).
Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Tim Cole's Using InDesign on Leopard post on his blog
Steve Werner's Leaping to Leopard post here
Adobe's TechNote on Vista and CS3 (installation troubleshooting)
(Sorry, Vista Home Basic users)
Adobe Feature Request form
Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in from DTP Tools/InDesignSecrets
How to Rebuild Prefs in InDesign
Fontlab's TransType font converter utility
Listener Comment Line: +1-206-202-6483
Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!
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31min

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