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  • InDesignSecrets Podcast 157

    Live performances coming up; InDesign to Kindle; KBSC of the Week; Obscurity of the Week: Leading Edge

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    Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-157.mp3 (17.1 MB, 31:39 minutes)

    See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.
    • Live performances
      • David & Fritz at Adobe MAX, Oct 1–5
      • Anne-Marie at InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Las Vegas, Nov 2
      • Anne-Marie at PubWest conference. in Las Vegas, Nov 3-5
      • Anne-Marie and Mike Rankin at O'Reillly TOC for Publishing Conf, Feb. 12-14 2012
      • Our Print & ePublishing Conf. will be in San Francisco, May 14-16 2012
    • InDesign to Kindle eBook productionL Tips, software, resources
    • Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Command/Ctrl - ~ (tilde key)
    • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Leading Edge
    News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft is the company behind the genius PDF2ID conversion tool. It adds an Open PDF command to InDesign's File menu, how cool is that! They also sell ID2Office, a converter that can make editable Office documents out of your InDesign files, which is going to make David's wife quite happy. Check them out at Recosoft.com >> In-Tools has a number of great InDesign plug-ins, all of which were recently updated to work with CS5.5. Also check out some of their InDesign scripts, many of which are free, such as the neat Show Text Overridesscript we talked about. – We didn't forget you, Quizzler people! If you entered the Quizzler from the last episode (#156), we'll be announcing the answer and the winner in our next podcast, #158, in October. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > David & Fritz at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, Oct 1–5 > InDesignSecrets Live! seminar with Anne-Marie in Las Vegas, November 2 > PubWest Conference in Las Vegas, Nov 3-5 > O'Reilly Tools of Change (TOC) for Publishing Conf. in New York City, Feb. 12-14 2012 > Mike Rankin wrote about last year's O'Reilly TOC Con here and here > Silicon Publishing is where blushing groom Olav Kvern now works > 2012 is the end of days? > WTC: In Their Own Words print book from Firehouse Publishing, and the Kindle edition > Download KindleGen, Kindle Previewer, & ID>Kindle plugin from Amazon > Amazon's Kindle Publishing Guidelines PDF > Joshua Tallent's list of Kindle publishing resources > Ken Whitaker's book InDesign to Kindle
    32 min
  • InDesignSecrets Podcast 157

    Live performances coming up; InDesign to Kindle; KBSC of the Week; Obscurity of the Week: Leading Edge

    ------

    Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-157.mp3 (17.1 MB, 31:39 minutes)

    See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.
    • Live performances
      • David & Fritz at Adobe MAX, Oct 1–5
        • Anne-Marie at InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Las Vegas, Nov 2
        • Anne-Marie at PubWest conference. in Las Vegas, Nov 3-5
          • Anne-Marie and Mike Rankin at O'Reillly TOC for Publishing Conf, Feb. 12-14 2012
          • Our Print & ePublishing Conf. will be in San Francisco, May 14-16 2012
          • InDesign to Kindle eBook productionL Tips, software, resources
          • Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Command/Ctrl - ~ (tilde key)
          • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Leading Edge
            • News and special offers from our sponsors:
            >> Recosoft is the company behind the genius PDF2ID conversion tool. It adds an Open PDF command to InDesign's File menu, how cool is that! They also sell ID2Office, a converter that can make editable Office documents out of your InDesign files, which is going to make David's wife quite happy. Check them out at Recosoft.com
            >> In-Tools has a number of great InDesign plug-ins, all of which were recently updated to work with CS5.5. Also check out some of their InDesign scripts, many of which are free, such as the neat Show Text Overridesscript we talked about.
            –
            We didn't forget you, Quizzler people! If you entered the Quizzler from the last episode (#156), we'll be announcing the answer and the winner in our next podcast, #158, in October. --
            Links mentioned in this podcast:
            > David & Fritz at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, Oct 1–5
            > InDesignSecrets Live! seminar with Anne-Marie in Las Vegas, November 2
            > PubWest Conference in Las Vegas, Nov 3-5
            > O'Reilly Tools of Change (TOC) for Publishing Conf. in New York City, Feb. 12-14 2012
            > Mike Rankin wrote about last year's O'Reilly TOC Con here and here
            > Silicon Publishing is where blushing groom Olav Kvern now works
            > 2012 is the end of days?
            > WTC: In Their Own Words print book from Firehouse Publishing, and the Kindle edition
            > Download KindleGen, Kindle Previewer, & ID>Kindle plugin from Amazon
            > Amazon's Kindle Publishing Guidelines PDF
            > Joshua Tallent's list of Kindle publishing resources > Ken Whitaker's book InDesign to Kindle
            32 min
          • InDesignSecrets Podcast 156

            Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-156.mp3 (14.5 MB, 26:21 minutes)

            See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.
            • News and Announcements
              • James Fritz's InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Milwaukee, Sept 27
              • Anne-Marie's InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Las Vegas, Nov 2
              • David & Fritz are presenting with Russell Brown at Adobe MAX, Oct 1–5
              • Mike Rankin's 3-city InDesignFX tour of midwest IDUGs, Sept 13–15
            • All about Change Case; tips and secrets and scripts and plug-ins and GREP, oh my
            • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Contextual Alternates
            • Quizzler! All you need is a web connection to figure it out
            -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko makes awesome plug-ins for creative professionals who use InDesign. Check out the latest beta of their innovative FramedWeb plug-in which allows you to import web pages and convert them into editable InDesign layouts. The beta is free, but they want to offer a deal to InDesignSecrets listeners. So if you purchase a completely unrelated — but just as awesome — plug-in of theirs called Frame Reporter (adds useful info to any text or image frame automatically), and use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS156, you'll get 25% off the cost. >> Em Software just released the shipping version of DocsFlow 7.0,a plug-in for Adobe InDesign Mac or PC that dynamically links online Google Docs with InDesign layouts. The active link between the successive drafts of the text in Google Docs (free online text editor from Google) and the story as it appears in the formatted InDesign layout allows writers, editors, and designers to work, individually or collaboratively, all at the same time. For a limited time, you can purchase DocsFlow for $200, and you'll be automatically upgraded at no cost to DocsFlow Pro when it's released, which will be priced at $400. – To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to [email protected] with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and the correct answer. You have until Monday, Sept. 19 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 after Sept. 19, 2011! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > InDesignSecrets Live! with James Fritz in Milwaukee, WI, September 27 > InDesignSecrets Live! With Anne-Marie Concepcion in Las Vegas, November 2 > David & Fritz at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, Oct 1–5 > Mike Rankin's InDesignFX tour of the InDesign User Groups, Sept 13–15 > Formatting Tools plug-in from InTools (does Change Case magic) > Change Case with GREP, InDesignSecrets post here and forum thread here > Using Configurator in InDesign to change case > Is it Upper Case or is it All Caps? Big difference! > Free script for Smart Title Case > "Engaging Contextuality," great post about fonts with Contextual Alternates
            27 min
          • InDesignSecrets Podcast 156

            Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-156.mp3 (14.5 MB, 26:21 minutes)

            See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.
            • News and Announcements
              • James Fritz's InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Milwaukee, Sept 27
              • Anne-Marie's InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Las Vegas, Nov 2
              • David & Fritz are presenting with Russell Brown at Adobe MAX, Oct 1–5
              • Mike Rankin's 3-city InDesignFX tour of midwest IDUGs, Sept 13–15
              • All about Change Case; tips and secrets and scripts and plug-ins and GREP, oh my
              • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Contextual Alternates
              • Quizzler! All you need is a web connection to figure it out
                • --
                News and special offers from our sponsors:
                >> Rorohiko makes awesome plug-ins for creative professionals who use InDesign. Check out the latest beta of their innovative FramedWeb plug-in which allows you to import web pages and convert them into editable InDesign layouts. The beta is free, but they want to offer a deal to InDesignSecrets listeners. So if you purchase a completely unrelated — but just as awesome — plug-in of theirs called Frame Reporter (adds useful info to any text or image frame automatically), and use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS156, you'll get 25% off the cost.
                >> Em Software just released the shipping version of DocsFlow 7.0,a  plug-in for Adobe InDesign Mac or PC that dynamically links online Google Docs with InDesign layouts. The active link between the successive drafts of the text in Google Docs (free online text editor from Google) and the story as it appears in the formatted InDesign layout allows writers, editors, and designers to work, individually or collaboratively, all at the same time. For a limited time, you can purchase DocsFlow for $200, and you'll be automatically upgraded at no cost to DocsFlow Pro when it's released, which will be priced at $400.
                –
                To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to [email protected] with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and the correct answer. You have until Monday, Sept. 19 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 after Sept. 19, 2011!
                --
                Links mentioned in this podcast:
                > InDesignSecrets Live! with James Fritz in Milwaukee, WI, September 27
                > InDesignSecrets Live! With Anne-Marie Concepcion in Las Vegas, November 2
                > David & Fritz at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, Oct 1–5
                > Mike Rankin's InDesignFX tour of the InDesign User Groups, Sept 13–15
                > Formatting Tools plug-in from InTools (does Change Case magic)
                > Change Case with GREP, InDesignSecrets post here and forum thread here
                > Using Configurator in InDesign to change case
                > Is it Upper Case or is it All Caps? Big difference!
                > Free script for Smart Title Case
                > "Engaging Contextuality," great post about fonts with Contextual Alternates
                27 min
              • InDesignSecrets Podcast 155
                Back to School episode; Best resources for lifelong learners of InDesign; Upcoming events; Obscurity of the Week: Select Next Object ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-155.mp3 (15.5 MB, 28:27 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Well, kind of soon. It takes them a while to transcribe.
                • Back to School episode! Resources for life-long learners of InDesign
                  • Books, videos, forums, templates, for users at any level
                  • Rededicate yourself to learn! Try our suggested lesson plans for every user
                • Upcoming events, including a peek at PePCon 2012
                • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select Next Object
                -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a number of great InDesign plug-ins, all of which were recently updated to work with CS5.5. In-Tools is one of the best sources for scripts and plug-ins for anyone working with long documents (see the Publisher Suite), anyone creating multilingual publications (see World Tools Pro), and any user who wants to check out some great scripts, many of which are free. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > InDesignSecrets Live! with James Fritz in Milwaukee, WI, September 27 > InDesignSecrets Live! With Anne-Marie Concepcion in Las Vegas, November 2 > InDesign Secrets, our the new video series at Lynda.com > All videos on InDesign at Lynda.com > Recommended books and videos, our handpicked list > InDesign videos at VTC.com, Video2Brain, Adobe TV, Software Cinema > InDesign User Group web site > Adobe forum for InDesign and our own InDesignSecrets forums > Cool new plug-ins and add-ons for InDesign
                29 min
              • InDesignSecrets Podcast 155
                Back to School episode; Best resources for lifelong learners of InDesign; Upcoming events; Obscurity of the Week: Select Next Object
                -----
                Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-155.mp3 (15.5 MB, 28:27 minutes)
                See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Well, kind of soon. It takes them a while to transcribe.
                • Back to School episode! Resources for life-long learners of InDesign
                  • Books, videos, forums, templates, for users at any level
                  • Rededicate yourself to learn! Try our suggested lesson plans for every user
                  • Upcoming events, including a peek at PePCon 2012
                  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select Next Object
                    • --
                    News and special offers from our sponsors:
                    >> In-Tools has a number of great InDesign plug-ins, all of which were recently updated to work with CS5.5. In-Tools is one of the best sources for scripts and plug-ins for anyone working with long documents (see the Publisher Suite), anyone creating multilingual publications (see World Tools Pro), and any user who wants to check out some great scripts, many of which are free.
                    --
                    Links mentioned in this podcast:
                    > InDesignSecrets Live! with James Fritz in Milwaukee, WI, September 27
                    > InDesignSecrets Live! With Anne-Marie Concepcion in Las Vegas, November 2
                    > InDesign Secrets, our the new video series at Lynda.com
                    > All videos on InDesign at Lynda.com
                    > Recommended books and videos, our handpicked list
                    > InDesign videos at VTC.com, Video2Brain, Adobe TV, Software Cinema
                    > InDesign User Group web site
                    > Adobe forum for InDesign and our own InDesignSecrets forums
                    > Cool new plug-ins and add-ons for InDesign
                    29 min
                  • InDesignSecrets Podcast 154

                    Milwaukee Seminar; Writing in InDesign; WTH feature: Fit Selection to Window; Obscurity of the week: Odd Page Break

                    Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-154.mp3 (17.8 MB, 34:27 minutes)

                    The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Well, kind of soon. It takes them a while to transcribe.
                    • Writing in InDesign: why would you write from scratch in a page-layout program?
                    • Our first-ever What-The-Heck (WTH) feature: Fit Selection to Window
                    • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Odd Page Break
                    -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >>Rorohiko makes awesome plug-ins for creative professionals who use InDesign, and also builds custom automated workflow solutions for companies around the world. >>UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don’t win, you can always register for any 2011 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering. Also: Thanks to Ken Venus for the awesome voiceovers! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > InDesignSecrets Live! with James Fritz in Milwaukee, WI, September 27 (check your weekly newsletter for the code to get 10% off; if you don't get the newsletter) > Writing in InDesign: a book by Dave Bergsland, at Amazon or Lulu. > Basic and Not-so-Basic Text Selection Shortcuts (blog post by James Fritz) > More on Story Editor and the Barbell cursor. > More on the Show Paragraph Break Marks feature. > GoogleDocs > Em Software's DocsFlow > Buzzword > Wordpress to InDesign > ickmull and more from John Maxwell > What the Hieronymus Bosch?! > Free Guide to InDesign Special Hidden Characters
                    35 min
                  • InDesignSecrets Podcast 154

                    Milwaukee Seminar; Writing in InDesign; WTH feature: Fit Selection to Window; Obscurity of the week: Odd Page Break

                    Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-154.mp3 (17.8 MB, 34:27 minutes)

                    The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Well, kind of soon. It takes them a while to transcribe.
                    • Writing in InDesign: why would you write from scratch in a page-layout program?
                    • Our first-ever What-The-Heck (WTH) feature: Fit Selection to Window
                    • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Odd Page Break
                      • --
                      News and special offers from our sponsors:
                      >>Rorohiko makes awesome plug-ins for creative professionals who use InDesign, and also builds custom automated workflow solutions for companies around the world.
                      >>UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don’t win, you can always register for any 2011 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering. Also: Thanks to Ken Venus for the awesome voiceovers!
                      --
                      Links mentioned in this podcast:
                      > InDesignSecrets Live! with James Fritz in Milwaukee, WI, September 27 (check your weekly newsletter for the code to get 10% off; if you don't get the newsletter)
                      > Writing in InDesign: a book by Dave Bergsland, at Amazon or Lulu.
                      > Basic and Not-so-Basic Text Selection Shortcuts (blog post by James Fritz)
                      > More on Story Editor and the Barbell cursor.
                      > More on the Show Paragraph Break Marks feature.
                      > GoogleDocs
                      > Em Software's DocsFlow
                      > Buzzword
                      > Wordpress to InDesign
                      > ickmull and more from John Maxwell
                      > What the Hieronymus Bosch?!
                      > Free Guide to InDesign Special Hidden Characters
                      35 min
                    • InDesignSecrets Podcast 153

                      Tons o' Table Tips; Obscurity of the Week: Automatic Document Conversion; Quizzler winner and answers

                      Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-153.mp3 (16.9 MB, 30:27 minutes)

                      See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.
                      • Tables Tables Tables! Answers to:
                        • Table styles with column widths?
                        • Find (and change) tables with Find/Change?
                        • Merge two tables into one, easily?
                        • Fill table cells with placeholder text?
                        • Insert consecutive numbers in a column?
                        • Make a cell show the sum of its column or row (or other math)?
                      • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Automatic Document Conversion
                      • Quizzler Winner - and Answers!!!! ("How many ways can you tell the current page number?")
                      -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software’s InCatalog plugin for InDesign frees you from endless (and error-prone) cutting and pasting from databases and spreadsheets to InDesign text frames and back. With a little invisible link magic via InCatalog, prices, descriptions, graphics, etc., can all be automatically updated (in both directions!) so you never have to worry again about missing a price or mistyping a description. For InDesignSecrets podcast listeners, Em Software is offering 20% off any 1-pack product (including InCatalog) until August 15 2011. Enter the coupon code idsecrets711 on their checkout page. >> In-Tools develops incredibly useful InDesign scripts (like MergeTables, mentioned in today's podcast) and plug-ins, but they would like you to know that they also develop custom solutions for clients. For example, company owner Harbs tells us, they're putting the final touches on a web-to-print solution for a customer that uses browser-editable InDesign templates with the InDesign server in the background (neat!). Check out Harbs's blog to see what he's up to, and contact him directly on his Contact page. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Marijan's Fill Table with Placeholder Text script: TomaxxiFillTable.zip > Browse all of Marijan's InDesign scripts and other goodies > Harbs's Merge Tables script page > Browse all of Harbs's InDesign scripts > DTPTools's Active Tables plug-in > See the comments below for some of our favorite answers to the Quizzler sent in by listeners > Keith Gilbert suggested the Quizzler > Diane Burns's InDesign Table Magic webinar, and a list of all InDesignSecrets webinars
                      31 min
                    • InDesignSecrets Podcast 153

                      Tons o' Table Tips; Obscurity of the Week: Automatic Document Conversion; Quizzler winner and answers

                      Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-153.mp3 (16.9 MB, 30:27 minutes)

                      See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.
                      • Tables Tables Tables! Answers to:
                        • Table styles with column widths?
                        • Find (and change) tables with Find/Change?
                        • Merge two tables into one, easily?
                        • Fill table cells with placeholder text?
                        • Insert consecutive numbers in a column?
                        • Make a cell show the sum of its column or row (or other math)?
                        • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Automatic Document Conversion
                        • Quizzler Winner - and Answers!!!! ("How many ways can you tell the current page number?")
                          • --
                          News and special offers from our sponsors:
                          >> Em Software’s InCatalog plugin for InDesign frees you from endless (and error-prone) cutting and pasting from databases and spreadsheets to InDesign text frames and back. With a little invisible link magic via InCatalog, prices, descriptions, graphics, etc., can all be automatically updated (in both directions!) so you never have to worry again about missing a price or mistyping a description. For InDesignSecrets podcast listeners, Em Software is offering 20% off any 1-pack product (including InCatalog) until August 15 2011. Enter the coupon code idsecrets711 on their checkout page.
                          >> In-Tools develops incredibly useful InDesign scripts (like MergeTables, mentioned in today's podcast) and plug-ins, but they would like you to know that they also develop custom solutions for clients. For example, company owner Harbs tells us, they're putting the final touches on a web-to-print solution for a customer that uses browser-editable InDesign templates with the InDesign server in the background (neat!). Check out Harbs's blog to see what he's up to, and contact him directly on his Contact page.
                          --
                          Links mentioned in this podcast:
                          > Marijan's Fill Table with Placeholder Text script: TomaxxiFillTable.zip
                          > Browse all of Marijan's InDesign scripts and other goodies
                          > Harbs's Merge Tables script page
                          > Browse all of Harbs's InDesign scripts
                          > DTPTools's Active Tables plug-in
                          > See the comments below for some of our favorite answers to the Quizzler sent in by listeners
                          > Keith Gilbert suggested the Quizzler
                          > Diane Burns's InDesign Table Magic webinar, and a list of all InDesignSecrets webinars
                          31 min

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