The CreativePro Podcast

All about object transformations; Blatner Tools beta 3; Obscurity of the Week: Pattern Length

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• All about object transformations
  • Scaling & rotating from the keyboard
  • Using math in the X, Y, W, H, and % (Scale) fields to transform
  • The too-subtle-for-their-own-good transformation buttons & context menu
  • And many more!
• Blatner Tools free beta 3 now available
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Pattern Length

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a very cool plug-in called Column Flow which among other things let you create straddle heads on the fly!. As always, 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 Column Flow) if you purchase from this special page on their site. The full list of plug-ins bundled in the packages is here. >> Rorohiko ("Slash the time it takes!") has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! In this episode we take a close look at their new Mac/Windows utility called Soxy ($19 US) that helps you open files (InDesign, and others) in the correct version of the program when you have more than one version installed. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS113 (that's "one one three" at the end) in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the Soxy utility. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Blatner Tools free beta or demo on the DTP Tools web site > David's posts about Pattern Length for corners and brackets (thanks Rufus!)

InDesignSecrets membership; our new forum; Guide to the InDesign ACE Exam eBook; Adobe layoffs; Obscurity of the Week: Choke

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• InDesignSecrets Membership -- free with benefits!
• All about the InDesignSecrets forums
• Guide to the InDesign ACE Exam eBook by Mike Rankin
• Interview with Mike Rankin!
• Recent Adobe layoffs
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Choke

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko ("Slash the time it takes!") has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! In this episode we take a close look at their new Mac/Windows utility called Soxy ($19 US) that helps you open files (InDesign, and others) in the correct version of the program when you have more than one version installed. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS113 (that's "one one three" at the end) in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the Soxy utility. >> 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 2009 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention "InDesignSecrets" when registering. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > All about the new free membership program for InDesignSecrets > InDesignSecrets forum > The InDesignSecrets Guide to the InDesign ACE Exam eBook (PDF, 150 pp, $9.95) by Mike Rankin > Download a sample chapter from the eBook (11-page PDF, 3.7MB) > Mike's personal blog, Publicious.net > Adobe's Certified Expert instructions and links

Posts of Note: Windows 7, Story Editor, PowerPoint, Balance Lines; Unicodes, GIDs and CIDs; Obscurity of the Week: Missing Glyph

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• Blog Posts You Should Know About:
  • Windows 7 and InDesign (Bob Levine)
  • Story Editor Secrets (Steve Werner)
  • Importing PowerPoint into InDesign (James Fritz)
  • When to Use Balance Ragged Lines (Anne-Marie)
• Time to Get Geeky: Unicodes, GIDs and CIDs
• Upcoming seminars, webinars, new videos and software
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Missing Glyph

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a very cool plug-in called Running Headers which does variable headers, multi-line headers, chapter headers, and more. Special deal: If you can come up with a Running Heads situation that this plug-in can't handle, they will give you a free copy or apply the cost ($59 US) to any other plug-in they sell! That's confidence. As always, 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 Running Headers) if you purchase from this special page on their site. The full list of plug-ins bundled in the packages is here. >> Rorohiko (aka Lightning Brain) has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! For example, FrameReporter ($29 US) lets you see small informational tags when you click on a frame, such as the image's effective resolution or how many words are overset. You can even use it to name frames, and then navigate around your layout via the names. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS111 (that's "one one one" at the end) in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the FrameReporter plug-in. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Balance Ragged Lines was the Obscure Feature in episode 55, here's the podcast transcript > Keith Gilbert's blog post about Sorting the Glyphs panel > Unicode Code Charts > Check out Anne-Marie's new Lynda.com video title, Social Media Marketing with Facebook & Twitter > Read about and download the public beta of David's "Blatner Tools" suite of InDesign plug-ins on the DTPTools site > Anne-Marie will be one of the presenters at the InDesign Conference in Washington DC, Nov 4-6 2009 > Steve Werner's Preflighting Deep Dive webinar has early-bird tickets on sale until Nov 4, the webinar will be on Nov 10 2009

Blatner Tools; Screen Appearance Tweaks and Tips; Webinars and Seminars; Obscurity of the Week: Ignore Orientation

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• Blatner Tools
• Settings that Change the Screen Appearance (& Tips!)
  • Hide/Show Frame Edges
  • Preview Mode: what disappears, customizing
  • Display Performance
  • Overprint Preview
  • Proof Setup; Anne-Marie's color management rant
  • Show/Hide Notes
  • Rotate Spread View
• Upcoming seminars and webinars
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Ignore Orientation

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko (aka Lightning Brain) has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users. For example, FrameReporter ($29 US) lets you see small informational tags when you click on a frame, such as the image's effective resolution or how many words are overset. You can even use it to name frames, and then navigate around your layout via the names. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS111 (that's "one one one" at the end) in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the FrameReporter plug-in. >> In-Tools has a very cool plug-in called AutoFlow Pro. It lets you set autoflow attributes for individual stories within your layout, letting you fully control which stories will automatically generate new threaded frames and pages as you enter text, and which ones simply overset. The plug-in is $99, but InDesignSecrets fans can get $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, (both of which include AutoFlow Pro) 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: > David's upcoming webinar, Long Documents Pt. 2: Automating Your Work, is Oct. 21 2009 > Anne-Marie will be one of the presenters at the InDesign Conference in Washington DC, Nov 4-6 2009 > Steve Werner's Preflighting Deep Dive webinar has early-bird tickets on sale until Nov 4, the webinar will be on Nov 10 2009

6.04 Update; Snow Leopard and PDFs; Word and InDesign Part 2; Obscurity of the Week: Cancel Package

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• InDesign/InCopy 6.04 Patch
• SnowLeopard (Mac OS 10.6) and the Adobe PDF printer
• Placing Word files: Essential Tips, Part 2
  • Mapping Word styles to InDesign styles
  • Working around the Style Group glitch
  • Converting InDesign files to Word documents
  • Converting Footnotes to Endnotes
• Upcoming seminars and webinars
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Cancel Package

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a very cool plug-in called AutoFlow Pro, which we talked about in the show. It lets you set autoflow attributes for individual stories within your layout, letting you fully control which stories will automatically generate new threaded frames and pages as you enter text, and which ones simply overset. The plug-in is $99, but InDesignSecrets fans can get $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, (both of which include AutoFlow Pro) 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: > Blog post about the InDesign/InCopy 6.04 Update > Post about the Snow Leopard/Adobe PDF Printer issue, and the Adobe help page about it > Anne-Marie's "Convert InDesign to Word" article > Footnote to Endnote scripts: Peter Kahrel's (see his comment to the post about endnotes); and Miguel Sousa's > All-day InDesign Seminar in Chicago, starring Anne-Marie on 10/6/2009, use AMCTIME09 for 15% off > Full list of InDesignSecrets webinars (including recorded eSeminars)

Happy Birthday InDesign; Essential Tips for Importing Word files; Upcoming Seminars and Webinars; Obscurity of the Week: Select All Unused

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• Happy 10th Birthday to InDesign!
• Placing Word files: Essential Tips, Part 1
  • Deleting Word styles while retaining local bolds and italics
  • When you might want to export to RTF and re-import
  • Fastest way to remove hyperlinks (but leave the link text)
  • Maggy-ing the Word file
• Upcoming seminars and webinars -- all recordings now available!
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select All Unused

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> 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 2009 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention "InDesignSecrets" when registering. >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Happy Birthday to ID post > Post about stripping out hyperlinks from Word files > PaperSpecs reprinted Anne-Marie's "Clean Up Word Files" article > David insists we include a map showing Where Milwaukee Is > September Webinars and Seminars > All InDesignSecrets webinars (including recorded eSeminars)

New eSeminars and live Seminars by David and Anne-Marie; Character Styles Deep Dive; Obscurity of the Week: Go to Selected Bookmark

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• New InDesignSecrets eSeminars: InCopy/InDesign, Long Documents (links below)
• InDesignSecrets Live Seminars!
• Deep Dive into Character Styles:
  • To-do's and Not-to-do's
  • Applying multiple styles
  • Using them for "tagging" (instead of formatting)
  • A few great scripts!
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Go to Selected Bookmark (with bonus new features discovered by accident!)

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Sign up for Anne-Marie's eSeminars: InCopy/InDesign: Getting Started (Sept 9), and/or InCopy/InDesign: Tips and Techniques (Sept. 23) (early-bird pricing expires Aug 25 2009) > David's two eSeminars on Long Documents will be in October, links coming soon!> InDesignSecrets LIVE (Sept 17) starring David Blatner! All-day seminar, link includes $10 savings > Collaborative Workflows with InCopy/InDesign (Sept 15) AM's all-day live seminar, enter coupon IDS15 for $25 off> InCopy/InDesign Master Class (Sept 16) AM's all-day live seminar, enter coupon IDS16 for $25 off > Indexmatic script for indexing from Character Styles (link goes to blog post) > Dave Saunder's Preserve Local Formatting script for CS1, CS2, and CS3 (link downloads .jsx script) > Jongware's PrepText script for CS4 (link downloads .zip of script); Adobe forum thread discussing its use

Interview with contributor James Fritz; Unwanted color seps/plates; Obscurity of the Week: Float

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• Interview with James Fritz, InDesignSecrets contributor
• Tracking down unwanted color seps (plates) in your layout files
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Float

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: In-Tools blog with links to free scripts from Harbs Sign up for Typography Deep Dive, James Fritz's InDesignSecrets eSeminar And here's Sir Fritz's bio and InDesignSecrets posts Steve Werner's eSeminar recording, Preparing for Print: InDesign Best Prepress Practices

eSeminar recordings available; Chris Kitchener interview; Creating accessible (Sec 508) PDFs; Obscurity of the Week: Crop to Media

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• InDesignSecrets eSeminar recordings now available
• Anne-Marie's Graphic Design in 2009 webinar
• Interview with Adobe's Chris Kitchener, Sr. Product Manager for the InDesign family
• Lynda.com new "10 Things" videos: Interactive PDFs (David) and Troubleshooting Files (Anne-Marie)
• Creating Accessible (Sec. 508-compliant) PDFs from InDesign
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Crop to Media

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: In-Tools blog with links to free scripts from Harbs Diane Burns' eSeminar recording, InDesign Table Magic Steve Werner's eSeminar recording, Preparing for Print: InDesign Best Prepress Practices Anne-Marie's Graphic Design in 2009 webinar; you need to phone in registration to use GEEKNESS coupon code ($30 discount) Obama Time Capsule book site Creating Accessible PDFs from InDesign (300K PDF) InDesignSecrets' new Accessibility page with links to many resources Adobe Labs' Presentations, an Adobe app in development

Multiple-place tip; Acrobat.com; 6.03 Update; Obscurity of the Week: POSIX

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• Multiple-place tips for InDesign CS3 and CS4
• Acrobat.com officially released, new features
• InDesign/InCopy 6.03 Update
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: POSIX

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. >> 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 2009 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention "InDesignSecrets" when registering. >> Adobe Systems has a new promotion called A Suite Deal which lasts until August 31, 2009. Until that date you can save $100 when you upgrade to Creative Suite 4. Visit the Suite Deal page for details. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: James Fritz's blog post about multiple-placing Download the InDesign/InCopy 6.03 update Acrobat.com promotion discount (save $50 on annual subscription) Adobe Labs' Presentations and Tables, Acrobat.com apps in development Jay Nelson's DesignTools Monthly newsletter More on POSIX