The CreativePro Podcast

CS5 ships; Michael Ninness interview; Conference and Seminar updates; Obscurity of the Week: Set Tab Order------Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-124.php for details, Show Notes, and to leave a comment!-----Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-124.mp3 (19.9 MB, 39:28 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

• Adobe CS5 is shipping! Books, videos, online help files, and more
• Interview with Michael Ninness, Adobe's past Product Manager for InDesign
• 2010 Print and ePublishing Conference update
• InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: Atlanta, San Francisco, and Chicago!
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Set Tab Order

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> CtrlPublishing offers a highly useful plugin called CtrlChanges that lets you track text changes in InDesign CS3, CS4, and CS5, just like in Microsoft Word and InCopy. With the CtrlChanges plug-in you can see the tracked changes markup in the layout as well as the Story Editor, and you can print them too! (Two features that not even the new Track Changes feature in CS5 has.) There's a free trial available, and listeners of the podcast get a 15% discount on CtrlPublishing's web store if you use the coupon code CTRLOFFER5. >> PrePress Studio sells eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF. eDocker makes the SWFs more user-friendly in the browser because it lets you add page navigation and zoom controls, among other goodies. Try the free 3-day trial or purchase eDocker at this special URL and enter the coupon code IDS1 for 10% off. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Our posts about CS5 shipping and our round-up of InDesign CS5 new features > Michael Ninness' post about InDesign CS5 > Adobe's official CS5 Design Premium and InDesign CS5 pages > David's InDesign CS5 Essential Training > Anne-Marie's InDesign CS5 New Features video tutorials at Lynda.com > Print and ePublishing Conference agenda and speaker bios > What happens to a dream deferred?

InDesign CS5 Released; New contributor Keith Gilbert; Russell Viers interview; Obscurity of the Week: Straight Hash

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• InDesign CS5!
• Welcome to new blog contributor Keith Gilbert
• Yes, a use for Style Groups!
• Interview with world traveller/InDesign guru Russell Viers
• InDesignSecretsLive Seminars -- new cities added!
• 2010 Print and ePublishing Conference update (close to selling out!)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Straight Hash

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> PrePress Studio just released eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF. eDocker makes the SWFs more user-friendly in the browser because it lets you add page navigation and zoom controls, among other goodies. Try the free 3-day trial or purchase eDocker at this special URL and enter the coupon code IDS1 for 10% off. >> Rorohiko sells a fascinating plug-in called MagnetoGuides that makes it easy to quickly layout grid-based designs because page objects become "magnetized" to the guides. You've got to try it for yourself; it’s FREE for 20 days, and then when you can't live without it, you’ll want to buy it for the low price of $59. Or, reduce the cost by 10% if you enter INDESIGNSECRETS123 in the coupon code area of Rorohiko’s shopping cart.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Our round-up of InDesign CS5 new features > Adobe's official CS5 Design Premium and InDesign CS5 pages > Anne-Marie's InDesign CS5 New Features video tutorials at Lynda.com > Keith Gilbert's first InDesignSecrets blog post (and here's his company's web site) > All about Russell Viers > InDesignLive Seminar is coming to Vancouver, Austin, Atlanta, and (just announced!) Chicago and San Francisco! > Print and ePublishing Conference agenda and speaker bios

Conference Agenda; InDesign CS5 Launch; Quark Features Missing in InDesign; Hot Forum Post; Obscurity of the Week: Best Joins

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• InDesignSecretsLive Seminars -- news/updates
• Sessions announced for the Print and ePublishing Conference
• InDesign CS5 (and those other minor Suite programs) launch on April 12
• QuarkXPress features that aren't in InDesign (and workarounds for some of them)
• Hot Forum Post: Cool Keyboard Shortcuts
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Best Joins

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> DTPTools offers a suite of 12 InDesign plug-ins in a single package called BlatnerTools (because our own David Blatner designed it)! It works with CS3 and CS4 on both Mac and Windows. You can see a video of a lot of the cool things BlatnerTools can do, and when you're convinced you just gotta have it, you can get 10% off the normal $149 price by using the discount code IDSBLATNERTOOLS in the DTPTools online store.

-- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Members! Watch your e-mail for discount codes to InDesignSecretsLive.com events: InDesign Seminars and the Print and ePublishing conference > Print and ePublishing Conference Agenda is now up! The $200 early bird discount ends on April 9, so register as soon as you can. > CS5 is coming! CS5 is coming! > Page Tools lets you have more than one page size in one ID document > You may be interested in that CoolKerning "kerning table" plug-in we mentioned > Or do it the old-fashioned way by editing the kern pairs in the font itself > Fritz wrote up a workaround for character-level opacity changes > Synchronized text in InDesign solution 1 and solution 2 > David's uplifting post, Things that InDesign Can't Do > Adobe's Feature Request form that they actually read! > Hot Forum Post about Cool Keyboard Shortcut Changes

Tips for organizing styles; Gabriel Powell interview; ePub info; Obscurity of the Week: Sort Bookmarks

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• Best practices for organizing and naming text styles
• InDesignSecrets Seminars & Conference update; new speakers
• Mike Rankin's interview with ePub expert Gabriel Powell at the O'Reilly TOC Conference
  • Emerging and evolving open standards discussed at the conference, such as the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) for eBooks
  • The new "browser wars" (how different eReaders interpret the same content feed)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Sort Bookmarks
• Bonus: David recites from memory the first 20 digits of Pi (in honor of Pi day, March 14—aka 3.14!)

-- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Members! Watch your e-mail for discount codes to InDesignSecretsLive.com events: InDesign Seminars and the Print and ePublishing conference) > Vancouver InDesign User Group (where David's speaking soon) > O'Reilly's Tools of Change conference > Gabriel Powell's InstantInDesign web site > CreativePro.com reprinted Gabriel's ePub articles from InDesign Magazine > Learn about the OPDS > Lexcycle's Stanza application (Note: Lexcycle rhymes with Bicycle) > David's Joy of Pi book

Ole Kvern interview; Member prizes; Cross-References; Obscurity of the Week: Connections

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• Updates about the InDesignSecrets seminars and Print and ePublishing (PeP) Conference
• Interview with Ole Kvern, Computer Scientist at Adobe Systems, InDesign scripting guru, and author and co-author of Real World InDesign, Real World Freehand, and many more
  • How he got involved with Adobe and InDesign
  • How InDesign users can get started scripting
  • His seminars on InDesign automation at the PeP Conference
• InDesignSecrets member prize drawing: Congrats, Tim and Brian!
• Harbs' new, free Cross-References script that adds a much-needed feature
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Connections

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko has an innovative plug-in, FrameReporter, that can add little non-printing info labels (name of an image, if the frame is overridden from the master, and more) to any kind of frame in your layout, saving any hard-working InDesigner a ton of time. It's FREE for 20 days, and then when you're completely spoiled, you'll want to buy it for the low price of $29. Or, reduce the cost by 25% if you enter INDESIGNSECRETS120 in the coupon code area of Rorohiko's shopping cart. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Olav "Ole" Kvern's Adobe Press page, Amazon page, and LinkedIn page > Adobe's InDesign Scripting home page > Ole is also speaking at the Creative Suite Developer's Summit > Members! Watch your e-mail for discount codes to InDesignSecretsLive.com events (seminars and PeP conference) > InDesignSecrets keyboard shortcut posters (just like Tim and Brian's!) ;-) > David's post about Harbs' amazing Cross-References script > DTPTool's wonderful Cross-References PRO plug-in for InDesign/InCopy CS2-CS4 > InDesign documentation on the Connections feature

Mordy Golding interview; Obscurity of the Week: Tiling

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• Interview with Mordy Golding, Illustrator guru and New York City fanboy
  • How he got involved with Flash Catalyst
  • Why designers will love using it
  • Details on his all-day Illustrator/Flash Catalyst tutorial at the PeP Conference
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Tiling

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko offers a free plug-in called TextExporter that we love. But to get even more functionality from that free plug-in (and many other free Rorohiko plug-ins) you need to license their APID Assistant. Normally $25, you can get $5 off the APID Assistant if you enter INDESIGNSECRETS119 in the coupon code area of Rorohiko's shopping cart. >> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is once again 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 2010 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Register for Mordy's Illustrator/Flash Catalyst tutorial in Seattle on May 12 -- follow the Registration link in the 2010 Print & ePublishing Conference information page > Mordy's web site, Mordy.com, and his Flash Catalyst Beta video tutorials > Download Flash Catalyst from the Adobe Labs web site > New PeP Conference sponsor, WinSoft (check out their Arabic typography contest) > InDesignSecretsLive.com for seminar and conference info & registration links > Another post that's related to tiling in InDesign, sort of

Colin Fleming interview; Conference/Seminar news; Members drawing winner; Obscurity of the Week: Shared Hyperlink Destination

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• Interview with Colin Fleming, Senior Solutions Engineer from Adobe
  • How he became an expert on ePub
  • ePubs on Kindles, iPads and Sony eBooks
  • Videos and whitepapers on ePubs that Colin recommends
• Update on our Print & ePublishing Conference
  • Early bird registration saves $200!
  • Pre-conference all-day tutorials from Mordy Golding, James Fritz, and Michael Ninness
• New cities/speakers for our InDesignSecrets Live Seminar tour
• A lucky InDesignSecrets member gets a TruMatch swatch book as this episode's random winner
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Shared Hyperlink Destination

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko sells a neat plug-in called SudokuGenerator, (and offers a free, more limited version called SudokuGeneratorLite) that lets you create those mind-bending number puzzles for fun and profit. Normally $49, you can get $10 off by entering INDESIGNSECRETS118 in the coupon code area of Rorohiko's shopping cart. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Colin's Adobe MAX presentation, "Creating an eBook for Distribution on Sony Reader Digital Book, Amazon Kindle, and Apple iPhone" > Colin's three AdobeTV movies, Using InDesign to Create Digital Books: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 > New Adobe whitepapers on Producing ePub eBooks from InDesign > InDesignSecretsLive.com for seminar and conference info & registration links > Make sure you're in our Members database (free) for upcoming prize drawings! > Katey's DocumentGeek.blogspot.com blog

InDesignSecretsLive.com 2010 seminars and conference; Diane Burns interview; Prize winners; Obscurity of the the Week: Paste without Formatting

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• Happy New Year!
• Our new sister site: InDesignSecretsLive.com, with info and links for:
  • 2010 InDesign seminar tour cities and dates
  • Our new Print and e-Publishing ("PeP") Conference, May 12-14, 2009, Seattle, Wash.
• Interview with Diane Burns, ID trainer/multilingual publishing expert/table diva
• Winners of our first InDesignSecrets Member drawing
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Paste Without Formatting

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko has a new version of Soxy out, that oh-so-useful utility that knows (or learns) which program/version should open which file on your computer. Great for when you have multiple versions of InDesign installed, or when you work with mix of vector and raster EPS files, or many other situations! Normally $19, you can get $5 off by entering INDESIGNSECRETS117 in the coupon code are of Rorohiko's shopping cart. Download the demo! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > InDesignSecretsLive.com for seminar and conference info > Diane Burns' company, TransPacificDigital.com > You can watch a recording of Diane's InDesignSecrets webinar, "Table Magic" > Make sure you're in our Members database (free) for upcoming prize drawings!

Fantastic and Free Production Scripts; Obscurity of the Week: Display Unsupported Files

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• Fantastic Free Scripts for Final (or Near-Final) Production Tasks
  • Remove End-of-Line Underlines
  • Freeze Composition (Line Breaks)
  • Compare InDesign Documents
  • Package Multiple for Archive
• Marc Autret's Incredible List of Scripts and Scripter Resources
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Display Unsupported Files

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> We're loving the In-Tools plug-in Power Headers, which does everything you wish InDesign's Running Header variable could do but can't! InDesignSecrets fans can get $20 off the price for either one of In-Tool's InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, (both of which include Power Headers -- it's the 2.0 update to Running Headers) if you purchase from this special page on their site. The full list of plug-ins bundled in the packages is here. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Our forum thread about Remove End-of-Line Underlines script> Download the RemoveUnderlines.jsx script (right-click and choose Save Link As) > Harbs' blog post and link to his Freeze Composition script > Kasyans' blog post and link to his CompareTwoDocuments script > Kasyans' post and link to his Package for Archive script > Our Top 10 Must-Have Free Scripts list > Marc Autret's InDiScripts blog post, Top 80 Script Links > Blatner Tools 1.0 was not mentioned once in this episode!

InDesignSecrets Conference; Find Where That Color is Used; Obscurity of the Week: Information

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• InDesignSecrets Conference!
• Find where that color is used
  • Separations Preview panel
  • Swatches panel tricks
  • Find/Change
  • Package Summary panel (thanks Nicola!)
  • Blatner Tools
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Information

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> We're loving the In-Tools plug-in Power Headers, which does everything you wish InDesign's Running Header variable could do but can't! InDesignSecrets fans can get $20 off the price for either one of In-Tool's InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, (both of which include Power Headers -- it's the 2.0 update to Running Headers) if you purchase from this special page on their site. The full list of plug-ins bundled in the packages is here. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Blatner Tools 1.0 is officially released! > Original post about Finding Colors, also discussed in Podcast 85