The CreativePro Podcast

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