The CreativePro Podcast

Scott Citron interview; Our upcoming webinar; Redesign update; Export All Stories; Obscurity of the Week: Visibility

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-084.mp3 (12.9 MB, 28:06 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

• Interview with Scott Citron, on the road to recovery!
• InDesignSecrets' Upcoming Webinar: David Blatner's InDesign Tips and Tricks
• Site Redesign Update
• Hot Button Post of the Week: Export All Stories
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Visibility

Sweet Deal from our Sponsor: 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: Keep up with Scott's recovery: GetWellScottCitron.blogspot.com ----- Sandee's GetWellScott CafePress store ----- InDesignSecrets' eSeminar, Aug 19, 2008; use coupon code IDS88 for $20 off (or sign up here to include discount automatically) ----- Rorohiko's TextExporter plug-in for ID CS1/2/3 for Mac/Win

Gotchas; Obscurity of the Week: Deactivate-----Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment!----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-083.mp3 (7.2 MB, 15:47 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

• Gotchas! We blaze through a pile of InDesign traps that will mess you up if you overlook one tiny little checkbox or button
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Deactivate

Sweet Deal from our Sponsor: 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:

Adobe InDesign forum post about the Button issue Bob Levine's post about CS3 Activation limits

Do's and Don'ts of Text; Weird Hair Space Kerning; Obscurity of the Week: Join ----- For details, see below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-082.mp3 (14.6 MB, 31:50 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

• Do's and Don'ts of Text in InDesign: Double spaces and returns, proper use of character styles, case changes, discretionary hyphens, text framitis, more
• The Strange Case of the Space-Eating Hair Space
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Join

Sweet Deal from our Sponsor: 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: Anne-Marie's presenting two InDesign sessions at the Creative Transitions conference (Milwaukee, WI; Aug 13-15); enter AMC0808 on the conference registration page for a $100 discount David's original post, Do's and Don'ts of Text in InDesign Robin Williams' The Mac is Not a Typewriter or The PC is Not a Typewriter Nigel French's InDesign Type: Professional Typography in Adobe InDesign The Chicago Manual of Style (U of Chicago Press staff) Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots & Leaves William Strunk's The Elements of Style Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style Teacup Software's TypeFitter plug-in

Our new blog design; Free script extravaganza; PDF Presets problem; Obscurity of the Week: Orthogonal Line ----- For details, see below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-081.mp3 (13.4 MB, 29:19 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

• New design for InDesignSecrets.com blog
• Free script extravaganza: Swatch Switcher, Label Graphics, Swap Object Positions, IndexMatic (beta) to index on character styles, Select Objects from Keyboard, Selection to PDF
• "Smallest File Size" PDF preset caution, and related issues with PDF presets
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Orthogonal Line

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Sweet deal from our sponsor! Recosoft's PDF2ID plug-in discount, just for InDesignSecrets users (this is the last week for the discount!) Support your local scripter! Home pages for Dave Saunders, Steve Wareham, Marc Autret, Kris Coppetiers, Martinho da Gloria Anne-Marie's post about PDF Presets

NZ Conference; Camera Raw in InDesign; Quizzler answer and winner; "Sphinx" pangram t-shirts; GREP; Obscurity of the Week: Fixed Column Width

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-080.mp3 (16.3 MB, 35:40 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

• New Zealand ID Conference Recap
• Interview: Mike McHugh describes his Camera Raw in InDesign tip
• "Pangram" Quizzler Winner--and Answer!
• New in the InDesignSecrets store: "Sphinx" t-shirts!
• Getting a Grip on GREP
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Fixed Column Width

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Sweet deal from our sponsor! Recosoft's PDF2ID plug-in discount, just for InDesignSecrets users (limited time offer) David's post about Mike's Camera Raw tip Mike McHugh's videocast, CreativeSweetTV.com Wikipedia explains what a pangram is Our "Sphinx of Black Quartz" t-shirts! David's Joy of Pi book Mac OS X GREP-friendly text editor (free) TextWrangler Windows GREP-friendly text editor ($50US) UltraEdit Peter Kahrel's GREP in InDesign CS3 e-book Links to GREP-related posts on InDesignSecrets.com

Acrobat 9; Free script to swap swatches; Colored frames; InCopy videos on Adobe TV; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Update Content in Data Fields

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-079.mp3 (14.6 MB, 31:50 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

• News: Acrobat 9 and Creative Suite 3.3 announced, ID Conference in New Zealand
• Hot Post of the week: Free script to auto-replace swatches (Russell)
• Blue frames vs. Red frames
• "InCopy CS3 Revealed" videos on Adobe TV
• Quizzler! Something to do with pangrams...
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Update Content in Data Fields

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Sweet deal from our sponsor! Recosoft's PDF2ID plug-in discount, just for InDesignSecrets users (limited time offer) Acrobat 9 and Creative Suite 3.3 product pages InDesign Conference in New Zealand Swap Swatches Script (zipped) "Stop the Transparencide" video featuring the ghostly head of Russell Viers AM's whitepaper The Collaborative Editorial Workflow with ID/IC CS3 (5MB) InCopy CS3 Revealed video series on Adobe TV Check out our sister site, InCopySecrets.com Data Merge post and a Data Merge video All about pangrams

Have an answer for the Quizzler? Don't post it here as a comment. Instead, e-mail your answer (put "Quizzler" in the Subject line) to us at info [at] indesignsecrets.com by midnight on Monday, June 16. We'll randomly choose a winner from all correct answers received by then, and announce the winner (and the answer!) in the next podcast.

New contributors; Nashville conf.; New Window; 20 Activation limit; Neat script for indexing; Dynamic spelling; Transparencide PSA; Master page text frames; Obscurity of the Week: Place Item(s)

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-078.mp3 (15.5 MB, 33.5 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

• News: Welcome to our newest blog contributors Bob Levine (it's LeVEEN, we learned) and Ted LoCascio; Nashville CS Conf. Recap
• Snippet from our "Essential Tips for InDesign" session at the conference: New Window Tricks
• Hot Post #1: 20 Activations Limit (by Bob)
• Hot Post #2: Indexing Page Ranges (by David) and the IndexBrutal script
• "Stop the Transparencide" new PSA from Adobe
• Another snippet from our session: Dynamic Spelling Tricks
• Master Page Text Frames and Autoflow, once and for all!
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Place Item(s)

Other links mentioned in the Podcast: New sponsor! Recosoft's PDF2ID plug-in discount, just for InDesignSecrets users See what Bob and Ted look like and read their bios (scroll down) Ted Locascio's The InDesign Effects Book The IndexBrutal script (in the original French, or Google-ized into English) Main page for the Adobe PDF Print Engine Our InDesign keyboard shortcut posters (use the secret 50% discount code mentioned in the podcast, or enter the code SWATCHES for 25% off entire order)

Toronto recap; CS3 Re-cert exam; 50% poster discount; Quizzler winner; Tips from the ID Conference; Obscurity of the Week: Download PPD Fonts

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-077.mp3 (13.5 MB, 29.3 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

• News: Toronto ID Conference recap; ID CS3 Re-cert exam; Secret 50% poster discount
• Quizzler winner (Where else is "Altitude?") and answer
• Tips from the live InDesignSecrets Podcast at the Toronto, Canada conference:
• Reverse Index Entries (secret keyboard shortcut)
• Quick Apply for buried menu commands
• Guide tips extravaganza
• "How big is an agate?" answer and winner
• Alt-click and Double-click fun
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Download PPD Fonts

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Nashville CS Conference, New Zealand ID Conference Casey D'Andrea's ID CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts PDF Our InDesign keyboard shortcut posters (use the secret 50% discount code announced in the podcast, or enter the code SWATCHES for 25% off entire order) Free ID Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in Top Ten Double-Clicks in ID post on Publicious.net

News: MTV, Poster discounts, InCopySecrets.com; Binary EPS files; InDesign Preflighting; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Altitude

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-076.mp3 (10.8 MB, 23.4 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

• Fun News: MTV (post), Poster discounts, InCopySecrets debuts
• Binary EPS files (post), Weak Preflighting (post)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Altitude
• Quizzler! With a neat new prize for the lucky winner

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Our InDesign keyboard shortcut posters (use the secret 50% discount code announced in the podcast, or enter the code SWATCHES for 25% off entire order) Check out the new InCopySecrets.com! Markzware FlightCheck Pro for Macs or Windows Zevrix InPreflight (Mac only) See you in Toronto!

Quizzler Instructions: Found the answer? Don't leave it in a comment! Instead, e-mail it to us at info [at] indesignsecrets.com, with the word "Quizzler" in the subject line. We'll randomly choose one winner from all correct answers we have received by midnight on Friday, May 2, 2008. Winner (and answer) will be announced in the next podcast.

Discount codes; Adobe TV; An End to Transparency Woes; Context Menus; Obscurity of the Week: Ignore Optical Margin

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-075.mp3 (11.6 MB, 25.2 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

• News: Discount codes for InDesign Magazine and conference fees, Adobe TV
• An end to transparency issues! (Steve Werner's post)
• Using and customizing contextual (right-click) menus
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Ignore Optical Margin

This time, David's audio gets a little glitchy halfway-through. When will these sunspots end? (Seriously, our apologies, and we're investigating...)

Links mentioned in the Podcast: For $75 off MogoEvents conference fees (Toronto, Canada; Nashville, TN and Auckland, New Zealand) use our IDSTNCS08 coupon code (case-sensitive) Nice InDesign mag. discount for our listeners/readers until Apr 28, 2008 Check out Adobe TV! The "Fibonacci" in Caffe Fibonacci's logo Hallelujah, c'mon, get APPE Why one-button mice are bad