* DOIE: Dept. of InDesign Efficiency * Obscure Feature: Clear Rotation * News Links: Dept. of InDesign Efficiency

• 10 Essential Tips for Using Quick Apply in InDesign
• Activate Last Used Field Shortcut
• Apply Leading to Entire Paragraphs: What Causes Inconsistent Leading and How to Fix It
• How to Start Using InDesign Scripts
• How-to Create a Custom Workspace
• The weird "Place Gun Frame" trick: Applying an Object Style when Placing an Image

Join us in our live studio audience for Podcast 332 at CreativePro Week!

Clear Rotation:

• Rotate frames with a trackpad gesture
• Did you know you can move the spread rotation features with a script?
• Even more cool: A script to rotate all the spreads that contain frames that are rotated

Topics:

• The INDDC format: good and bad
• Interview with Venngage CEO Eugene Woo
• Obscure Feature: Reset Preferences on Quit

Links:

Cloud Docs:

• Collaborating Using Adobe Cloud Documents
• Creative Cloud Storage: Where Does It Go?
• Working with Adobe Cloud Documents
• Anne-Marie's Cloud Docs video "for Design Geeks" on LinkedIn Learning
• The endgame… collaborative editing, like the current Photoshop beta

Venngage: AI powered design at your fingertips

Resetting Preferences

Includes:

• Favorite font tricks
• Interview with Theresa Jackson
• InDesign 20.1
• Obscure feature: Match Pasteboard to Theme Color

News:

• 20.1 is in release rollout
• multi-find/change is now free
• Old (but still relevant!) InDesign Magazine articles, now on site:
• Designing Photo Albums in InDesign by Khara Plicanic
• Getting Started with GREP Styles in InDesign by Steve Caplin
• Working in Microsoft Word by Jamie McKee
• Designing with Type: Grunge, Punk, and Futurism by Nigel French
• InDesign Nightmares by David and Anne-Marie

Theresa Jackson:

• Articles and videos
• Old (but fun!) Interview

Font Tricks:

• How to change the underlying default font for a document (see Don Ayer's comment at end for an easier solution)
• OpenType text and text frame adornments

Obscure Feature: Match Pasteboard to Theme Color

Topics:

• Anchored Objects
• Interview with Marcus Radich, PageProof
• Obscure Feature: Standard Carriage Return

Links: Marcus Radich, from PageProof.com Anchored Objects:

• Working with Anchored Objects in InDesign
• How to Anchor a Graphic to Text (Video Tutorial)
• Anchoring Graphics Between Paragraphs
• Wrapping Text Around an Anchored Object
• Drag and Drop Anchored Objects

Coming in 2025:

• CreativePro Week
• The InDesign Conference

Books we mentioned:

• Shift Happens: a book about keyboards by Marcin Wichary
• How Comics Were Made, by Glenn Fleishman

Background on the: carriage return

Table Scripts:

• Switching Rows and Columns in an InDesign Table
• Sort tables
• Setting Table Column Widths
• Easier Table Formatting
• Sizing Columns and Rows with a Script
• Calculations in InDesign
• Active Tables plug-in from DTP Tools

Fixed Issues in InDesign 20.0.1

CreativePro Events: The Design + AI Summit, CreativePro Week, and more

Obscure Feature: Cell Division

What's New in InDesign 2025:

• Adobe's update page
• How to Avoid Print Problems with MathML in InDesign
• New Accessibility Features in InDesign 2025
• James Wamser's New Features Guide
• Creative Cloud Storage: Where Does Your Work Go?

New "wow" products at MAX

• Project Neo
• Substance 3D Viewer
• Amazing ProjectTurntable from Sneaks

Interview with: Karen Brewer, Adobe

Obscure Feature: "Show Subset"

• Five Ways InDesign Libraries Are Better Than CC Libraries

News:

• CreativePro Week 2025 in Phoenix: registration is open
• CreativePro online summits
• The Design + Accessibility Summit
• The Design + Marketing Summit
• The Design + AI Summit
• CreativePro Magazine Sept. 2025 issue: Accessibility Tools

Sponsors of this episode:

Adobe MAX: The Creativity Conference

PageProof: All your proofing in one place. Online.

Embedding Graphics:

• To Embed or Not to Embed Graphics in InDesign Files
• The Links Panel Reveals Information About Embedded Graphics

Paula Scher:

• Wikipedia entry
• Pentagram
• Book suggestions: Logo Beginnings (Amazon link), and Logo Modernism (Amazon link)

Math Typesetting: we recommend MathType

Obscure Feature: Paste Nudge

News

• More CreativePro events coming up
• Update on InDesign 19.5 *beta* feature
• CreativePro Magazine 25 Years of Tips and Tricks!
• Catch Anne-Marie Sept 19 at the L.A. InDesign User Group (online)

Sponsored by PageProof

• The Benefits of Online Proofing for the Creative Workflow
• PageProof review
• PageProof's website

Update note on InDesign 19.5

• Remember that GenAI stuff in 19.5 is beta!

Three interesting InDesign Secrets forum posts

• How to get text to sit outside the text frame
• More on First Baseline Offset

• How to compare two PDF files
• PDF Comparator from Premedia Systems
• Comparing images or pages using effects blend modes

• The background to my AI or PDF files is no longer transparent
• Understanding InDesign's Place PDF Options
• How to Place CC Library Items with Transparency

Obscure Feature: Contextual Task Bar

• (everyone loves it… not)

News

• InDesign 19.5 released
• 2024 CreativePro Week available on-demand
• More CreativePro events coming up
• CreativePro Magazine latest issue

Sponsored by PageProof

• The Benefits of Online Proofing for the Creative Workflow
• PageProof review
• PageProof's website

Unboxing InDesign 19.5

• InDesign 19.5 Adds Generative Expand, History Panel, and Find/Change Text Case
• Adobe's What's New in 19.5 page
• Change Case:
  • Peter Kahrel's script
  • GREP Solution to Flawed Title Case Feature
• History panel:
  • The way we used to do History panels
  • Accessing Document History

Obscure Feature: .joboptions

• More on PDF presets

• InDesign beta to test opening PDFs to edit in InDesign
• CreativePro Week July 8–12 in DC! (and livestreamed)
  • Use code CPSECRETS for $100 off any multi-day pass
• The InDesign + Accessibility Summit, Oct. 8–11 (online)
• CreativePro Magazine latest issue

• PaperSpecs site
• Sabine's bio and sessions at CreativePro Week

• How to Start Using InDesign Scripts (with the MakeGrid script)
• Copy InDesign Fonts to Folder (by Justin Putney at Ajar)
• Document Analyzer (by Keith Gilbert)
• LoremIpsum-izer script
• Calendar Wizard (by Scott Selberg)
• Scramble Text in Place to Hide Private Info (uses FindChangeByList)
• Unanchor Text (by Loic Aigon… we said Peter Kahrel in the podcast… oops!)
• Break Text Thread (in Community Scripts)
• StorySplitter (similar to Break Text Thread)

Even more scripts:

• Top Sites for Free InDesign Scripts (from Anne-Marie's InDesign Tips for Design Geeks weekly course on LinkedIn Learning)
  • Download a PDF with all of the top sites linked
• 100 Free InDesign Scripts
• The InDesign Scriptopedia

• • Learn more about "No Language"