The CreativePro Podcast

New eBook on InDesign CS6; PePcon 2012 and 2013; Charts and Graphs; Obscurity of the Week: Monochromatic ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-173.mp3 (15.4 MB, 27:20 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

• News
  • Our newest eBook! Guide to InDesign CS6 (and CS5.5) New Features by Keith Gilbert
  • Our PePcon 2012 recap: Highlights, info, job leads
  • PePcon 2013 Announcement! April 29–May 1, 2013, in Austin, Texas
  • Join us in New York City, June 12-13, for InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC
• Getting charts and graphs into InDesign: Solution round-up
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Monochromatic

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software: DocsFlow is a plugin for InDesign that marries the layout and design power of InDesign to the shared editing power of Google Docs, resulting in "editorial Nirvana!" >> eDocker: HTML5 Tablet Publisher is made for everyone who wants to create HTML5 publications from InDesign. Use the software to create and sell tablet-ready web apps (no app store required!). Special offer: $100 off (valid to 6/15/2012) with code 10IDS2012 -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Posts from new guest bloggers Ashley and Kelly > Check out Kelly's DocumentGeek posts about the PatternMaker plug-in for InDesign > eBook: Guide to InDesign CS6 (and 5.5) New Features (free sample and write-up to come soon on our eBooks page) > Photos from PePcon 2012! > As mentioned: Twixl Media and Mag+ were in the PePcon house > Typefi is looking for a team of freelance template designers, interested? E-mail info [at] indesignsecrets.com w/TYPEFI in Subject > Free Column and Bar Graph Scripts (scroll down) > Line charts script > Chartwell Font > Video on Vimeo on how the Chartwell font works > Anne-Marie's InDesign Secrets movie about Chartwell (movie #005) on lynda.com > Claquos Pie Chart script and our blog post about it > Delta Graph v6 graph/chart software for Mac and Windows > Making charts in Illustrator

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

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-172.mp3(18.5 MB, 33:21 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Yikes! We recorded this on May 9 (pre-PePcon), but didn't get a chance to publish it until today, a week later (post-PePcon). Apologies for time-shifted content!

• News
  • News in PEPCONland, Adobeland, and Lyndaland
  • Join us in New York City, June 13-14, for InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC
• InDesign CS6's PDF Forms Features in depth
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: World-Ready Paragraph Composer

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> PrintUI.com / In-Tools.com: Get free setup on an InDesignServer solution from PrintUI.com! Or, if you're more into EPUB, contact Harbs to learn more about a cool soon-to-come tool that provides EPUB preview and editing CSS files inside InDesign! >> Mediatrad, a great new tool for translators and InDesign users who need document language translation. It's free for non-commercial purposes. You can create a free trial 30-day account and translate up to 100 pages. Entering the special code: "indesignsecrets.com" gives you 100 additional pages! >> Rorohiko has a new script that helps InDesign users create fixed-layout EPUBs from InDesign files! Check out the free CSSGeometry.jsx script to quickly get the CSS markup for all your absolutely-positioned text frames, ready for copying and pasting into your CSS document. While you're there, be sure to check out all of their other neat InDesign scripts and plug-ins Kris and his crew at Rorohiko offer that are designed to "slash the time it takes!" -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Adobe Creative Cloud was released > Adobe's redesigned online InDesign Help site > New lynda.com videos: InDesign CS6 New Features and InDesign CS6 Essential Training > David's rant/post about the split in PDF Export methods in InDesign > Another post about single page vs. spread Interactive PDF export > Harb's plug-in for World Ready typesetting, "WorldTools Pro" > Adobe blog post about the surprise indicpreferences.js script in InDesign CS6

Japanese Dots; CS6 Launch Event, Creative Cloud, Grayscale Export; Obscurity of the Week: Change Time -- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-171.mp3(18.5 MB, 33:21 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode.

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

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software: Until May 15 2012, InDesignSecrets listeners get 20% OFF any full product, such as the excellent InData plug-in for database publishing! Visit: http://emsoftware.com/offers/indesign-secrets-special-offer. "Let software robots do your work!" >> eDocker: makes HTML5 export for InDesign, so you an make web apps for iPad and other tablets (no app store required!). Special offer: $100 off (valid to 5/31/2012) with code 10IDS2012 >> Recosoft: Special offer: 25% off PDF2ID or ID2Office (until May 10), for converting PDF files to editable INDD files, or INDD files to Word/Powerpoint documents. Use discount code: IDSecrets -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Adobe Global Benchmark Study on Attitudes on Creativity (PDF) / Another article about this > David's hunt for Japanese Dots > PEPCON sponsors (such as Twixl, Mag+, PressRun, and others!) with great solutions you need to know about! Check out their sites, and meet many of them at PEPCON > Adobe Creative Cloud basic information and FAQ. > Information about Creative Suite 6 > Little Lord Fauntleroy: the grayscale movie > Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (filibustering InDesign grayscale issues) > Exporting Grayscale PDF files in older versions (this is a new feature in CS6)

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

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

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode.

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

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> PrintUI.com / In-Tools.com: Get free setup on an InDesignServer solution from PrintUI.com! Or, if you're more into EPUB, contact Harbs to learn more about a cool soon-to-come tool that provides EPUB preview and editing CSS files inside InDesign! >> Mediatrad, a great new tool for translators and InDesign users who need document language translation. It's free for non-commercial purposes. You can create a free trial 30-day account and translate up to 100 pages. Entering the special code: "indesignsecrets.com" gives you 100 additional pages! >> Rorohiko makes a wide range of excellent add-ons, including the must-have "Soxy" — it opens the right file in the right application! Use the code INDESIGNSECRETS170 for 25% off single installs of Soxy. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > PEPCON social networking site > IGNITE InDesign (PEPCON event) info & sign-up sheet > Anne-Marie's InDesign CS6 New Features title at lynda.com > David's hunt for Japanese Dots > Game of Thrones: Dothraki > Easter Eggs in InDesign: Butterfly, Friendly Alien, Silly Strokes > InDesign CS5.5 "7.5.2" updater patch for Windows or Macintosh

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

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

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

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

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> eDocker, has a new InDesign digital publishing solution called eDocker Tablet Publisher. With this program you can create, from InDesign, an HTML5 Web publication that works in all devices, including iPads, and that you can publish through your own server. Normally $995 for a Single User edition, InDesignSecrets users can get Tablet Publisher for only $895 through April 30 2012 with the coupon code 10IDS2012. For more details and more discounts for InDesignSecrets fans, go to http://www.edocker.com/ids. >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center based in the UK, has an InDesign ACE Prep exam training class on March 22 and 23 for "wannabe InDesign Certified Experts." Mention "InDesignSecrets" when registering for 40% off the cost of the class! Also, Certitec is one of the first companies to offer Adobe's official Digital Publishing Suite courses for all you budding tablet publishers out there! See details on their 2-day courses for Single Edition DPS and Enterprise Pro DPS. Mention "InDesignSecrets" when registering for any course and get 25% off the fee! That's an incredible deal. If you're near one of their regional training centers in London Covent Garden or Cardiff, you're a lucky chap. >> Recosoft continues to improve and enhance their breakthrough product, PDF2ID, now at v3.0. PDF2ID is a cross-platform plug-in for Adobe InDesign that enables you to directly open and convert PDF documents within Adobe InDesign CS3/CS4/CS5. It supports multiple languages and can even pull in PDF annotations (comments) into the InDesign layout! LATE-BREAKING NEWS Recosoft's incredible InDesignSecrets discount has been extended to March 31, 2012! Purchase now using Promo Code IDSECRETS and receive a 50% discount for PDF2ID Standard v3.0 and PDF2ID Professional v3.0 AND, a newly-offered 25% discount on ID2Office v1.1. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Register for PePCon to reserve your place, it's sold out every year since we started > PePCon 2012 Event on LinkedIn; see which of your contacts are attending > Info and registration for our 2-day, single track InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC, June 12-13, 2012 > Is it aitch or haitch? > Keith Gilbert's company is Gilbert Consulting > Keith was trying to remember the ASOS "magalog" tablet publication, "from the UK's top fashion design and beauty store" > All about Fargo, the Movie > Apple's new iPad > Gridify Tips on the InDesignSecrets forum and a blog post > Adobe's new Digital Publishing Suite Developer Center (yes we're developers now!) > Posts about Changing the Size of an InDesign document: When the Document Size Won't Change Resizing Document Pages Change the Document *Window* Size (related bonus tip)

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

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

[media id=89 width=* height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

• Announcements
  • Congratulations to Mike Rankin, new Editor-in-Chief of InDesign Magazine and CreativePro.com
  • Mike is one of the speakers at our Print + ePublishing Conference (May 14-16, San Francisco)
  • On the East Coast? See us June 13-14: InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC
• Drawing in InDesign
  • Pen tool and its shortcuts and permutations
  • Every frame and text wrap is actually an editable path
  • Pathfinder panel or menu to combine overlapping frames
  • Playing with type outlines
  • Using object styles
• Finally: A Quizzler Winner!
• Keyboard shortcut of the Week: Command-Option-V (Ctrl-Alt-V)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Convert Direction Point

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko has a cool plug-in, FrameReporter, that wins the award for Best Plug-in Icon Ever (a newspaper reporter inspecting a text frame with a magnifying glass!). Oh, and it also provides a slew of useful features for anyone who works with text and image frames in InDesign—in other words, everyone. For example, with FrameReporter you can name some frames and then use those names for quickly navigating to them! Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS168 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 20% off FrameReporter's regular price of $39US. >> Recosoft continues to improve and enhance their breakthrough product, PDF2ID, now at v3.0. PDF2ID is a cross-platform plug-in for Adobe InDesign that enables you to directly open and convert PDF documents within Adobe InDesign CS3/CS4/CS5. It supports multiple languages and can even pull in PDF annotations (comments) into the InDesign layout! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Register for PePCon to reserve your place, it's sold out every year since we started > PePCon 2012 Event on LinkedIn; see which of your contacts are attending > Info and registration for our 2-day, single track InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC, June 12-13, 2012 > Other articles about drawing in InDesign: Edit a Shape's Frame The Hidden Join Paths Command The Zipper Effect Copy from Illustrator to InDesign or Vice Versa Pasting from Illustrator into InDesign > Free Speech Bubble (and perhaps Snowman Head) script for InDesign > We talked about Script Labels in this podcast > A post about Paste Into > The Aachen font (city where our Quizzler is from) > Birgit won every one of our InDesignSecrets eBooks! -- Quizzler! Birgit from Aachen, Germany, was the winner of the random drawing of correct answers to this Quizzler from a couple podcasts ago. In response to the question "What does this cryptogram made up of dingbats spell out," Birgit answered "WE LIKE LEGOS." (David must have been surrounded by the Legos™ his kids play with.) Our friend Brad Walrod, book compositor extraordinaire, kindly created a graphic of the solution for us. Thank you Brad!

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

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

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

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

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko’s TextExporter 3.1 plug-in makes exporting text out of InDesign CS2-CS5.5 so simple! You can export all the stories in an ID file into one single RTF, plain text, or ID tagged text file, and you control how it orders the text as it extracts and concatenates it. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS167 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the TextExporter plug-in. >> In-Tools is the developer of AutoFlow Pro, an InDesign plug-in that lets you fully control the layout of both text and images by dynamically shrinking and expanding individual text frames and threaded stories using your settings. (And it’s a great solution for easy alternate layouts for DPS.) Check out their AutoFlow page for details, screenshots, documentation, and to download a free trial! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Register for PePCon by March 2 for up to $200 off > PePCon 2012 Event on LinkedIn; see which of your contacts are attending > Diane Burns' Creating Digital Publications with InDesign, UC Berkeley > Info and registration for our 2-day, single track InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC, June 12-13, 2012 > Forum discussion about Jongware's preptext.jsx script > David's PowerStyles plug-in can also do what PerfectPrepText does (and more) > Cari Janssen's article about TomaxxiLinkRename script > Anne-Marie's post about TextExporter & exporting text from ID > Japanese dots post by Cari > Orthogonal paste (or "paste without formatting") post by David -- Quizzler! Listeners: The mystery image is below. CLUE: The last character is Sonata, here's a character map To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to [email protected] with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and the correct answer to the puzzle (as described in the podcast). You have until February 29 2012 at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! We will randomly choose a winner from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast in February, and receives the prize: a copy of every single one of our eBooks!

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

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-166.mp3 (19.8 MB, 35:56 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode.

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

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> eDocker, the fine people who sell the InDesign > Flash magazine solution (now known as eDocker2 Desktop Publisher) that we've talked about before, just released a new InDesign digital publishing solution called eDocker Tablet Publisher. With this program you can create, from InDesign, an HTML5 Web publication that works in all devices, including iPads, and that you can publish through your own server. Normally $995 for a Single User edition, InDesignSecrets users can get Tablet Publisher for only $895 through April 30 2012 with the coupon code 10IDS2012. For more details and more discounts for InDesignSecrets fans, go to http://www.edocker.com/ids. >> Recosoft continues to improve and enhance their breakthrough product, PDF2ID, now at v3.0. PDF2ID is a cross-platform plug-in for Adobe InDesign that enables you to directly open and convert PDF documents within Adobe InDesign CS3/CS4/CS5. It supports multiple languages and can even pull in PDF annotations (comments) into the InDesign layout! As an InDesignSecrets fan, you can get an incredible 50% off of PDF2ID Standard or Professional with the promo code IDSECRETS. Note this promotion ENDS on March 9, 2012! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Register for PePCon by March 2 for up to $200 off > Diane Burns' Creating Digital Publications with InDesign, UC Berkeley > Info and registration for our 2-day, single track InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC > O'Reilly eBooks optimized for Kindle Fire 8 > Anne-Marie's Professional Web Site Design book > Presentation Zen that very few presenters paid any attention to > Mike's and Anne-Marie's PDF slides (include links to InDesign scripts) from TOCCON > EPUB 3 Resources from TOCCON, collected by Matthew Diener from EPUBSecrets.com > John McWade's Before&After Magazine > MOO.com Luxe Cards > All about QR Codes and Teacup Software's solution > Our post about the Reappearing Sample Button Library -- Quizzler! Listeners: The mystery image is below. CLUE: There are THREE E's in this! To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to [email protected] with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and the correct answer to the puzzle (as described in the podcast). You have until February 29 2012 at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! We will randomly choose a winner from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast in February, and receives the prize: a copy of every single one of our eBooks!

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

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

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

• Interview with Chris Kitchener, InDesign Senior Product Manager
  • Thoughts on CS "Next"
  • New releases: Too many? Too few?
  • The delicate balance of adding new features vs. improving existing features
• Quizzler! Code Breaker! (see below)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Butt Cap

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center based in the UK, is one of the first companies to offer Adobe's official Digital Publishing Suite courses for all you budding tablet publishers out there! See details on their 2-day courses for Single Edition DPS and Enterprise Pro DPS. Mention "InDesignSecrets" when registering for any course and get 25% off the fee! That's an incredible deal. If you're near one of their regional training centers in London Covent Garden or Cardiff, you're a lucky chap. >> Rorohiko offers dozens of cool plug-ins and scripts for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! For example, have you checked out their free plug-in called Like Finds Like? Just select an item on the page and with a simple click (or with a keyboard shortcut you assign) you can have InDesign select all other "matches" to the selection on the page or spread. Check out the LikeFindsLike product page at Rorohiko.com, and be sure to mosey around their other offerings while you're there. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Check out PePConference.com, register by March 2 2012 for $200 early bird discount > David's The Creative Sweet at the 2012 Macworld/iWorld in San Francisco, Jan 26 > Anne-Marie's InDesign to EPUB & Beyond workshop at the O'Reilly TOCCON, Feb 13 > Mike Rankin's Renovating Print Assets for Digital session at TOCCON, Feb 14 > Save 15% off any TOCCON registration with the coupon code AMCon > Kiyo Toma's sneak peak of InDesign liquid layout from Adobe MAX -- Quizzler! Listeners: The mystery image is below. To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to [email protected] with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and the correct answer to the puzzle (as described in the podcast). You have until January 31 2012 at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! We will randomly choose a winner from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast in February, and receives the prize: a copy of every single one of our eBooks!

Layer Tricks; Hides/Show keyboard shortcuts; Obscurity of the Week: Stylistic Sets

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-164.mp3 (15.8 MB, 28:55 minutes)

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

• Layer Tricks!
  • Stacking, dragging, show/hide layout objects
  • Dragging objects from one group to another
  • Managing nested objects
  • Using the "southern double-click"
  • Show (in layout) selected layer object
• Keyboard Shortcuts You Should Know: Command-3 (Ctrl-3) and Command-Option-3 (Ctrl-Alt-3)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Stylistic Sets

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools is the developer of AutoFlow Pro, an InDesign plug-in that lets you fully control the layout of both text and images, using both master frames and non-master frames, with minimal user intervention. (And it's a great solution for easy alternate layouts for DPS.) Company founder Harbs is also the “Guru” of PrintUI.com, which provides a number of custom InDesign Server-based solutions. >> Recosoft makes PDF2ID (converts PDFs to editable InDesign files), ID2Office (converts InDesign files to editable Word or Powerpoint files) and PDF2ID Enterprise, which batch converts PDFs to InDesign and/or to the IDML format; just the ticket for automating workflows. Check them out! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Check out PePConference.com, register by March 2 2012 for $200 early bird discount > David (and Recosoft) will be at the 2012 Macworld/iWorld in San Francisco > Blog post: Hidden Layer Tricks in CS5 > "Betcha By Golly Wow," the famous Stylistic set AM was singing > More info on Open Type alternate glyphs and stylistic sets > Adobe page about Tom Phinney's Hypatia Sans typeface > Check out the stylistic sets in Gabriola, an OT font free with Office 2010 and Windows 7 -- Minion Pro's Stylistic set 1 Hypatia Light Stylistic set 1 (top) vs. set 2 (bottom) showing the difference in the lowercase "g's"