The CreativePro Podcast

News; CS3 ACE exam; Leopard and Vista; Document Size; Free Layout Zone script; Obscurity of the Week: Greek Images

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-074.mp3 (15.1 MB, 32:53 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

• News: Upcoming InDesign Conferences
• InDesign CS3 ACE Recertification Test: A Field Report
• Leopard and Vista and InDesign CS3
• How changing Document Size affects an existing layout
• The Amazing (and free) Layout Zone script for ID CS3
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Greek Images

Sorry for the tinny sound in Anne-Marie's audio! We blame sunspots.

Links mentioned in the Podcast: ID Conferences in Toronto, Canada; Auckland, New Zealand; and Seattle, WA Tim Cole's blog post about the Recertification exam Adobe's Get Certified page (register for exams, download prep guides) Layout Zone script (Mac/Windows, CS3 only); David's post about it

News; Overprint by swatch; Preserve Numbers glitch; Em, En and Hyphens; Obscurity of the Week: the Measure Tool

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-073.mp3 (14.2 MB, 31:05 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

• News: Lynda.com, Conferences, CreativePro.com, DesignGeek, ID User Groups
• Making a swatch overprint where ever it's used (full post)
• When CMYK - Preserve Numbers won't, and how to fix it (full post)
• Em dashes vs. En dashes vs. Hyphens
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: The Measure Tool

Links mentioned in the Podcast: David's InDesign: Beyond the Basics at Lynda.com Free week's trial of lynda.com ID Conferences in Miami, Toronto CA Check MogoEvents for news on the Auckland NZ ID Conf. (June) and the Seattle ID Master Class Conf. (November) HerGeekness Says column at creativepro.com Anne-Marie's free DesignGeek e-zine InDesign User Groups

Recorded live at the InDesign Conf in Miami, FL! Last episode's Quizzler answer and winner; Contestler for the audience; tips and tricks; Q&A; Obscurity of the Week is on vacation

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-072.mp3 (25.5 MB, 55:43 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

Special episode! This podcast was recorded live in front of a studio seminar audience at the InDesign Conference in Miami, Florida.

• What's InDesignSecrets?
• Quizzler answer and winner from episode 71 (Change view from keyboard)
• Contestler for volunteers from the audience: Define one of our obscure features from a past episode, pulled at random
• A few of our favorite tips and tricks; audience Q&A
• The Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week was put on hiatus for this episode, since we covered so many during the Contestler!

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Our free Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in, Design Tools Monthly and companion podcast, Design Tools Weekly, Branislav Milic's InDesign Site (in French), History plug-in from DTP Tools, EasyHistory from 65bit, Free MultiDo plug-in from 65bit, Adobe's Feature Request form, InDesign Scripting forum at Adobe.com, Footnote-to-Endnote script at Adobe Exchange, Rorohiko's free ChatterGoofy plug-in, Post: Converting color layouts to grayscale PDFs

News; CS3 ACE Test; Shifting Grayscales; Jessica Chase Interview; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Digital Editions

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-071.mp3 (13.7 MB, 29:58 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

• News: Upcoming InDesign Conferences, Free Tip Of the Day Plug-in
• Hot Posts: Anne-Marie's CS3 ACE Practice Test Rant, David's Grayscale Shifts
• Interview with Jessica Chase, Editor and Publisher of ZigZagZine
• Quizzler! An easier one for the rest of us
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Digital Editions

Links mentioned in the Podcast: The InDesign Conference - Miami Beach (Feb 26 – March 1) (Also coming up: Toronto ID Conference, Nashville CS Conference) David's free InDesign Tip of the Day plug-in for CS1, 2 and 3 Jessica's ZigZagZine site; download Jan/Feb 2008 issue (PDF, 872K) Adobe's Digital Editions Library (free e-books)

Quizzler Instructions: Think you know the answer? Don't post it here! E-mail it to us at [email protected], with "Quizzler" in the Subject line. Entries will be accepted until midnight Friday, February 22. A random winner will be chosen from the correct answers and announced in our next podcast.

Free scripts, Beginner's category, Quizzler Winner, EPS Challenge, Uppercase, Obscurity of the Week: Normal

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-070.mp3 (13.4 MB, 29:22 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

• News Updates: Upcoming InDesign Conference in Miami, InDesign patch, Free plug-ins and scripts, new Beginner's Corner category on our blog
• Quizzler Results (from Episode 69: Adding CMYK Swatches) and Winner
• Hot Posts: Sandee's EPS Challenge, David's Updating Text
• Uppercase Conundrums (Anne-Marie's post)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Normal

Links mentioned in the Podcast: The InDesign Conference - Miami Beach (Feb 26 – March 1) InDesign 5.02 patch for Windows or Mac OS X (ReadMe) David's free InDesign Tip of the Day plug-in for CS1, 2 and 3 Dave Saunders' donationware script, WrapNudger, that fixes Droopy Wraps Scott Zinelli's Multipage PDF Import script (David's post about it) Our new Beginner's Corner category Scott Citron's new book, Professional Design Techniques

Quizzler Answer: How many ways can you add a CMYK color to Swatches without using the Swatches panel? Turns out there are too many to list in our show notes, so we compiled them into a PDF for you to download: Swatches_Answers.pdf (260K). Our winner received a copy of Deke McClelland's new book, Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One.

New Year's Podcast responses; Deke McClelland interview; Quizzler!; Obscurity of the Week: View Box

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-069.mp3 (15.7 MB, 34:23 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

• Response to our New Year's show
• The Deke McClelland Interview!
• A fun, raucous conversation with a luminary in our field. Listen in as Deke tells us about his latest book and videos on InDesign CS3, and what it's like laying out a complex book on InDesign in InDesign: the good, the bad, and the aggravating. ("Does this sound like a feature to you?" he asks at one point, laughing.)
• Quizzler -ler -ler!
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: View Box

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Deke's new book Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One David's post about modifying Basic Styles

Quizzler Instructions: Think you have the best answer? Write it up in an e-mail and send it to us at [email protected] with "Quizzler" in the Subject line. (Don't post your answer as a comment!) Deadline for entries is midnight on Friday, Jan. 18. We'll announce the winner -- and the Quizzler answer, boy howdy we'll never forget to do that again -- in our next podcast.

New Year's Resolutions for InDesign Users; Obscurity of the Week: JPEG 2000

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-068.mp3 (13.3 MB, 28:58 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

Happy New Year!

• New Year's Resolutions for InDesign Users (yes, including us). Our full list of suggestions appears below, suitable for printing and checking off!
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: JPEG 2000

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Looking for a script or plug-in? Try here Our free Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in Robin Williams' The Mac is Not a Typewriter or The PC is Not a Typewriter Our recommended InDesign books and videos for reference How to rebuild Preferences in InDesign Do you use JPEG 2000? Adobe wants to know

2008 New Year's Resolutions: Our Suggested List for InDesign Users

• I'll find and learn how to use one new (to me) script and plug-in that helps my work.
• I'll use paragraph and character styles properly.
• I'll start placing PSD, AI, and PDF files instead of EPS.
• I'll finally break my habit of typing double-spaces after punctuation.
• I'll get into the habit of using the temporary Hand tool instead of the scroll bars when it makes sense.
• I'll import XML and export XML at least once this year successfully, even if it's on my own time, just to learn the process.
• I'll get a reference on InDesign that I can refer to when I'm stuck.
• I'll force myself to use New Window, Story Editor, Glyphs panel, and Quick Apply three times so that I learn to fully appreciate their utility.
• I'll set up, save and use at least 2 different workspaces.
• I'll learn the keyboard shortcuts to open the panels I use most often, even if it means having to customize them to ones I'll remember.
• I'll rebuild my Preferences, then set my application preferences and default styles and swatches, then back up that prefs file.
• I'll add at least one comment to a post on InDesignSecrets.com, even just to say "thanks" or "whaaa?" so we know you're out there!

New InDesign books, Miami Conference, XML and InDesign, Obscurity of the Week: Formatted Only Once

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-067.mp3 (15.5 MB, 33:48 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

• News: Two new InDesign books, Helvetica movie, InDesign Conference in Miami, Florida
• XML and InDesign: Overview, basics, when and how and why
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Formatted Only Once

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Maivald and Palmer's book: A Designer's Guide to InDesign and XML Powell's book: Instant InDesign Documentary movie, Helvetica InDesign Conference (Miami, FL; Feb 26-March 1 2008) We interview Cari Janssen about her XML project Anne-Marie's blog post on exporting HTML using XML tags InData plug-in from Em Software

TypeFi AutoFit; Numbered Paragraphs; Obscurity of the Week: Assignments Panel

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-066.mp3 (12.0 MB, 26:11 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

• TypeFi AutoFit, free plug-in from Typefi
• Numbering Paragraphs across unthreaded frames
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Assignments panel

Links mentioned in the Podcast: TypeFi AutoFit plug-in (CS1, 2, or 3) Cari Janssen's AutoFit tip Anne-Marie's blog post on numbered paragraphs

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Plug-in-palooza! What, how, why; Twenty-plus great InDesign plug-ins; Obscurity of the Week: Configure Plug-ins

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-065.mp3 (15.8 MB, 34:30 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

• Plug-in-palooza!
• What's a plug-in? Why are they valuable?
• Finding InDesign plug-ins on the Internet
• Installing plug-ins
• Fast descriptions of over 20 InDesign plug-ins that users are loving (the tip of the iceberg, there are at dozens more we didn't have time to cover)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Configure Plug-ins

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Links mentioned in the Podcast: Adobe's comprehensive InDesign Plug-ins list DTP Tools (Page Control, Layer Comps, History, Tetris, Cross References, Keyboard Shortcuts) Markzware (Q2ID, ID2Q) EmSoftware (InData, XTags) Teacup Software (DataLinker, TypeFitter, PatternMaker, BarcodeMaker) Rorohiko (TextExporter, LikeFindsLike, Color2Gray, ChatterGoofy) Recosoft (PDF2ID) i.t.i.p GmbH (InMath) Gluon (ProScale ID) Triple Triangle (Color Spec Cubed) Knowbody Software (CoolKerning) Zevrix Solutions (LinkOptimizer)

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