The CreativePro Podcast

Upcoming Events; Resolutions; Table Calculations; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Smart Match Style Groups

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-094.mp3 (15.7 MB, 30:08 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

• Upcoming events for David and Anne-Marie
• Our Resolutions
• Table calculations -- various solutions and a neat free script
• A Quizzler for everyone, with prizes for 5 lucky winners
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Smart Match Style Groups

-- Info and deals from our sponsors: The WorldTools plug-in from In-Tools (owned by InDesign guru "Harbs") allows InDesign CS4 users to set Right-to-Left text without needing InDesignME. The plug-in retails for $149 and has an introductory price of $99, until 1/31/09 is further discounted to $94 for InDesignSecrets users if you use our link. Flux Consulting's supremely useful EyeDropper Plug-in (Mac only) is now available for CS4. It lets you pick up and apply formatting for text and objects without switching tools. The demo is fully enabled for 60 days, after that is costs $29.95. (CS3 version is $20, CS/CS2 version, text-only, is $5.) -- Links mentioned in this podcast: David's Dubai seminar and at Macworld Anne-Marie's videos at Lynda.com Pre-order Real World InDesign CS4 Nancy at Southern Progress' Pure Silver Jewelry David's post (with links to scripts etc.) about Calculating Numbers in Tables (Ben) Schott's Miscellany/Almanac 2009 Uber-cool Spyder3 Elite color-calibration tool from Datacolor -- To play the Quizzler, email your answer to [email protected] with "Quizzler" in the subject line. We will randomly choose the five winners from all entries we've received by midnight on Sunday, January 11, 2009.

New Contributor; We're on Twitter; CS4 sales; ID CS4 ACE Exam; RTL text solutions; PICT format; Free guide to hidden character; Obscurity of the Week: Hide Master Items

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-093.mp3 (17.3 MB, 32:33 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

• Welcome to new contibutor, James Fritz
• InDesignSecrets on Twitter!
• The state of CS4: Who is upgrading?
• InDesign CS4 ACE Exam -- by InDesignSecrets
• Right-to-left (RTL) text without InDesign ME
• The problem with the PICT image format
• Free Download: Guide to Special Characters in InDesign
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Hide Master Items

-- Links mentioned in this podcast: All about James Fritz Follow the InDesignSecrets Twitter feed Adobe's press release mentioning slower CS4 sales Learn about becoming an ACE Bob Levine's post about RTL text plug-ins for CS4 More ways to set RTL text in any ID version (read the comments!) David's rant about PICT and other formats We found an interesting online image format converter Our Guide to Special (Show Hidden) Characters in InDesign

Black Wednesday; Stripping Styles; InDesign to Illustrator; Obscurity of the Week: Custom Text

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-092.mp3 (14.7 MB, 28:03 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

• News: "Black Wednesday" for Publishers and Adobe
• Hot Post of the Week: Stripping Styles and Masters
• Moving formatted text from InDesign to Illustrator
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Custom Text

-- Links mentioned in this podcast: Details about "Black Wednesday" for publishers and Adobe David's post about Stripping heh heh MergeText script for Adobe Illustrator CS1–CS4 Selection to PDF script for Adobe InDesign CS3 PDF2ID plug-in for Adobe InDesign CS2–CS4

CS4 Posters; Stolen Laptop; Tips from the Master Class; Obscurity of the Week: Isolated Form

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-091.mp3 (15.9 MB, 33:33 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

• InDesign CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts Posters!
• David's tragic tale: Dealing with the aftermath of a stolen computer
• New InDesign secrets we learned at the Master Class Conference
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Isolated Form

-- Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesign CS4 Poster details page (or jump right to the store) SuperDuper back-up program (Mac only) CrashPlan off-site automated back-ups (cross-platform) David's post about the stolen laptop ... great comments! Anne-Marie's post about composition highlighting GRACOL home page Microsoft's page about developing positional form glyphs (caution: will make head explode) Karim Regular is an OpenType font that has isolated form glyphs

News; CS4 Poster; FindChange script; Quizzler Winner; Obscurity of the Week: Continued Footnotes

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-090.mp3 (13.5 MB, 29:29 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

• News: InDesign Conference Master Class, ID CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts poster, ID CS4 Bugs
• Posts You Should Know About
• The Amazingly Useful and Free FindChangeByList.jsx script
• The Brazzler (aka Quizzler) Winner and Answer!
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Continued Footnotes

Sweet Deals for you: InDesignSecrets eSeminar: What's New in InDesign CS4, available as a recording for one week afterward you register to view it. Get $10 off by entering IDS11 in the coupon field on the registration page. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: Posts we talked about: ID CS4 Master Page Bug, SmallCaps, Thread Between Documents, Free CS4 Movies, InDesign on Vacation -- Quizzler Answer for CS3 and CS4 (use GREP panel of Find/Change): Find: \S Change: $0 Then click the Change All button. For CS2, use the TextCount.js script (find it in the Goodies folder of the installation CD)

3 great deals; Table tips; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Clear Attributes Not Defined By Style

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-089.mp3 (13.5 MB, 29:29 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

• Three great deals for InDesignSecrets readers and listeners
• Tons 'o table tips: Selecting, adding/deleting rows, copy/pasting, figuring out widths and heights, little-known keyboard shortcuts, more ...
• Quizzler! (or, "The Brazzler!")
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Clear Attributes Not Defined By Style

Sweet Deals for you: Markzware: Makers of the Q2ID plug-in (convert QuarkXPress v3-v7 files to InDesign) and many other fine products have a TIME-LIMITED offer for InDesign Secrets fans: 25% off their plug-ins. To get the discount, purchase online at http://markzware.com and enter SECRET in the coupon code field. MogoMedia: InDesign Conference Master Class, Nov. 10–14, 2008 in Seattle, WA (at InDesign HQ, Adobe's Seattle campus!). Get $100 off for any 3 or 4-day pass, or $25 off for any full-day tutorial, by entering IDSECRET08 in the coupon field on the registration page. InDesignSecrets eSeminar: What's New in InDesign CS4, presented live by David and Anne-Marie on Oct. 29, 2008, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (PST), plus follow-up Q&A and access to the recording for one week afterwards. Get $10 off registration by entering IDS11 in the coupon field on the registration page. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: Posts about tables: Merging tables, Moving rows, Rounding table corners, Adding tab stops in cells, Editing overset cell text, More Branislav Milic's web site

News; New contributor; Master Class discount; Quizzler for quizzlers; Frame types; Obscurity of the week: Flattener Preview

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-088.mp3 (14.5 MB, 31:42 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

• News: CS4 documentation, pricing, InDesignSecrets "2.1" site tweaks
• Welcome to new contributor, Mike Rankin
• InDesign Master Class Conference (see discount code below)
• Quizzler for Quizzlers
• Text vs. Graphic vs. Undefined Frames
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Flattener Preview

Sweet Deals from our Sponsors: Recosoft: Clever developers of the PDF2ID plug-in (convert PDFs to InDesign), has a TIME-LIMITED offer for InDesign Secrets fans: $20 discount only via this URL: http://www.recosoft.com/pdf2idspecial.htm Markzware: Makers of the Q2ID plug-in (convert QuarkXPress v3-v7 files to InDesign) and many other fine products have a TIME-LIMITED offer for InDesign Secrets fans: 25% off their plug-ins. To get the discount, purchase online at http://markzware.com and enter SECRET in the coupon code field. Other Deals: InDesign Conference Master Class, Nov. 10–14, 2008 in Seattle, WA (at InDesign HQ, Adobe's Seattle campus!). Get $100 off for any 3 or 4-day pass, or $25 off for any full-day tutorial, by entering IDSECRET08 in the coupon field on the registration page. Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesign CS4 online documentation Mike Rankin's blog, Publicious.net Claudia's post about frames

InDesign CS4 New Features Overview; Obscurity of the Week: User

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-087.mp3 (15.2 MB, 33:06 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

• InDesign CS4 New Feature Overview!
  • Our favorite new features... the small, geeky ones of course
  • The "big guns" new features
  • Ones we think are a little weird
  • A few early bird tips and techniques for the new features--we couldn't help ourselves (replay this podcast after you get your upgrade)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: User

Sweet Deal from our Sponsors: Markzware: Makers of the Q2ID plug-in (convert QuarkXPress v3-v7 files to InDesign) and many other fine products have a TIME-LIMITED offer for InDesign Secrets fans: 25% off their plug-ins. To get the discount, purchase online at http://markzware.com and enter SECRET in the coupon code field. Links mentioned in this podcast: Adobe's web site, of course, for official CS4 info Upcoming Lynda.com InDesign CS4 titles: InDesign CS4 New Features (Anne-Marie), InDesign CS4 Essentials (David), InDesign CS4 Beyond the Basics (David), and InDesign CS4/InCopy CS4 Workflow Essentials (Anne-Marie) InDesign Magazine ... issue 26 is all about InDesign CS4

InDesign CS4; New blogs; Great posts; Obscurity of the week: Merge Swatches

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-086.mp3 (11.8 MB, 25:46 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

• News: InDesign CS4 Announcement Announced ;-)
• New blogs on the block: Publicious.net, InDesign1200.com, DearAdobe.com
• Great posts you might have missed: Make a Frame Grid, Print Style Specs, Find Text/Change to Graphic, PDF Place Fix
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Merge Swatches

Sweet Deal from our Sponsors: Markzware: Makers of the Q2ID plug-in (convert QuarkXPress v3-v7 files to InDesign) and many other fine products have a TIME-LIMITED offer for InDesign Secrets fans: 25% off their plug-ins. To get the discount, purchase online at http://markzware.com and enter SECRET in the coupon code field. Recosoft: Makers of the PDF2ID plug-in (convert PDFs to InDesign), has a limited-time offer for InDesign Secrets fans: $20 discount only via this URL: http://www.recosoft.com/pdf2idspecial.htm Links mentioned in this podcast: John Nack's blog post about DearAdobe.com Slendro's StyleReporter plug-in Back-to-School 50% discount for ID Keyboard Shortcuts posters! InDesign Magazine free trial issue

News, Color Tips, Obscurity of the Week: OnFocus/OnBlur-----Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment!----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-085.mp3 (13 MB, 28:26 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

• News: ID Mag, Webinar recap, Eek-eek-eekers in the wild, Back to School Discount
• A Few Good Color Tips
• Guest obscurist Sandee Cohen presents this episode's Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: On Focus/On Blur

Sweet Deal from our Sponsor (Last chance!): This is your final chance (for the near future at least) to get in on this deal. UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center (Centre?), is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener per sponsored podcast. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for this episode's free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 7 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. More information is available on their web page. Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesign Magazine free trial issue ||| Find Where That Color is Used (Anne-Marie's post)||| Two things you missed, but will happen again: --The Creative Transitions Conference ||| --Tips, Tricks and Techniques in InDesign CS3 Webinar ||| All about onfocus and onblur Sandee Cohen's InDesign CS3 Visual Quick Start