The CreativePro Podcast

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:

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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