The CreativePro Podcast

Quizzler update; Mixing CS2 and CS3; Hot Button Post: Text Do's and Don'ts; Corner Effects Tips; Obscurity of the Week: Point/Pica Size

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-054.mp3 (18.0 MB, 37:57 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

• Episode 52 Quizzler Update -- Yet another way to duplicate!
• Mixing InDesign CS2 and CS3: Possible, with caveats
• Hot Button Post of the Week: Do's and Don'ts of Text in InDesign
• Corner Effects Tips and Fixes
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Point/Pica Size

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Episode 52 Quizzler answers are in the Show Notes Update CS1 (Mac/Win) and CS2 (Mac/Win) to read later version .inx files CS3 Online Help page about vertical align and corner effects History of the pica measure from Wikipedia

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News; Non-breaking vs. No Break; Quick Apply menu commands; Obscurity of the Week: Ignore Ruler Guide Alignments

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-053.mp3 (14.4 MB, 30:14 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

• Lots 'o News (conferences, plug-ins, poster, more)
• Non-breaking space vs. the No Break character formatting attribute
• New in CS3: Using Quick Apply to apply menu commands, tips and glitches
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Ignore Ruler Guide Alignments

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Upcoming InDesign Conferences, Creative Suite Conference Seattle's Refine Design Conference InDesign CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts poster DTP Tools Xref plug-in public beta (Mac/Windows, CS2/CS3) InDesign Magazine (info on special subscription offer) TheInDesigner videocast about Insert White Space in CS2

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Recorded live at the ID Conference! Intro; News; Audience Q&A; Live Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Convert Text

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-052.mp3 (26.6 MB, 56:43 (!) minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

Recorded live at the 2007 InDesign Conference in New York City!

• Intro to the podcast, how it's usually created (when not in front of a live audience)
• News: This conference, New plug-ins for CS3, New InDesign user group in London, UK
• Who in the audience travelled the furthest to the conference?
• Q&A from the audience: Converting CS3 to CS2 and CS2 to CS1, Editing .inx files
• Live Quizzler: How many ways can you duplicate an object in InDesign? (answers below)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Convert to Text

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Audacity open-source audio recording software Teacup Software (PatternMaker and BarcodeMaker plug-ins) Typefi (free AutoFit plug-in) London InDesign User Group Brazilian InDesign Blog PitStop Professional from Enfocus Software Adding the Notes plug-ins to InDesign CS2

Quizzler answers! From our genius studio audience: Cut/copy paste, Step and repeat, Alt/Option-drag, Cut/copy Paste in place, Cut/copy Paste into, Duplicate, Transform > Move (with Copy button), Duplicate a layer containing the object, Alt/Option-drag the object's layer proxy to a new layer, Export snippet and place it back in, Drag it into a Library and drag it back onto the layout, Use it in PatternMaker, Duplicate the page or spread containing the object, Use it on a Master page and then override it on the document page, Option/Alt-arrow key. From David: File > Export to .inx then copy and paste the call to the object elsewhere in the .inx file, save it and then open it in InDesign. From Anne-Marie: Paste object into first row of table, convert row to a Header row, then continue table into a new frame and the object gets duplicated in the second frame's Header row. Two more from David: Hold down the Option/Alt key when pressing Return/Enter after editing any transform field; or Copy object to clipboard, then use Find/Change text (Find: any character or string, Change: Clipboard contents).

Wow! Who knew there were so many ways? Listen to the podcast to learn who won the contest.

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Announcements; Hyperlinks; Text Variables; One-Button Mice; Obscurity of the Week: File Info

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-051.mp3 (16.2 MB, 34:02 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

• Announcements: "InCopy CS/InDesign CS3 Integration" released (AM's video tutorial title for lynda.com); our InDesign CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts poster is on press this week
• Hyperlinks: Creating, Deleting, Swearing at, Modifying, etc.
• All about Text Variables, a new feature in CS3
• Hot Button Post of the Week: AM's rant about One-Button Mice
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: File Info

Links mentioned in the podcast: InCopy CS3/InDesign CS3 Integration video training (link leads to post with details) Our post about fixing hyperlinks from Word documents

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We're 50!; Quizzler Winner (OS Color Picker); News; Unembeddable fonts; Printing Link Info; Obscurity of the Week: Crop Amount

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-050.mp3 (13.8 MB, 29:01 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

• We're 50!
• Quizzler Winner — Where's the System Color Picker?
• News: Free CS3 Tryouts and manuals, Tim Cole's InDesign blog, Upcoming conferences
• Dealing with "protected" fonts (unembeddable in a PDF)
• Hot Button Post of the Week: Printing a List of Links
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Crop Amount

Links mentioned in the podcast: InDesign CS3 tryout and documentation from Adobe Tim Cole's InDesign BackChannel blog The InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4–8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off the registration fee. Melbourne, Australia InDesign conference, Tokyo InDesign conference (link to come), Chicago CS3 Summit Letterheadfonts.com and the Typophile.com thread about it Download Martin Fischer's LinkExport.jsx script (zipped file)

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News; Threading and Unthreading; Transparency and Spot Colors; PDF/X-4; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Use Inline Input for Non-Latin Text

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-049.mp3 (13.1 MB, 27:53 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

• News: Upcoming InDesign Conference in NY, David's ID CS3 Essentials videos
• Threading and unthreading text frames — tips and scripts
• Hot Button Post of the Week: Spot Colors and Flattening in CS3 (and, related, PDF/X-4)
• The Return of the Quizzler!
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Use Inline Input for Non-Latin Text

Links mentioned in the podcast: The InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4–8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off the registration fee. David's ID CS3 Essentials on lynda.com (link leads to free 7-day trial) InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts poster SplitStory.jsx script: Post with download info, Post about installing Aextra Software's CleverTextLink plug-in for CS/CS2, $39

Quizzler instructions: If you have an answer to this episode's Quizzler, don't post it here! E-mail it to [email protected] with "Quizzler" in the Subject. One winner will be chosen randomly from all the correct answers received by midnight, May 15, 2007. The winner will be mailed our beautiful InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts poster. Remember, don't post your answer here! You'll ruin it for everyone! Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

CS3 Ships; Our IDCS3 In-box videos; Conferences; Trapping in ID; New Text Wrap options in CS3; Obscurity of the Week: Detach Selection from Master

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-048.mp3 (11.9 MB, 25:03 minutes) (or read the transcript of this podcast, which will be posted soon)

• News: CS3 Ships, Our video tutorials in the box, Upcoming conferences
• All about trapping in InDesign (and, do we still need to worry about it?)
• New in InDesign CS3: Cool Text Wrap Options
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Detach Selection from Master

Links mentioned in the podcast: Vector Conference and Pixel Conference, back-to-back in Chicago, Illinois, May 1–3, 2007; and the InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4–8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off registration fee for any of these three conferences. David's post about creating composite, trapped PDFs

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4.05 Update; CS3 Pricing; Display Preferences; Export to XHTML (CS3 Feature); Obscurity of the Week: First Baseline Offset

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-047.mp3 (12.3 MB, 25:46 minutes) (or read the transcript of this episode — a link will be posted here soon)

• Upcoming conferences of interest
• InDesign CS2 4.05 Update
• Hot Button Post of the Week: CS3 Pricing
• Adjusting your Display Performance preference
• New in CS3: Export to XHTML
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: First Baseline Offset

Links mentioned in the podcast: Vector Conference and Pixel Conference, back-to-back in Chicago, Illinois, May 1–3, 2007; and the InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4–8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off registration fee for any of these three conferences. InDesign 4.05 Update ReadMe—click to download the PDF listing all the fixes (the ones fixed by 4.05 specifically are asterisked)

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InDesign CS3! New features, fixes, pricing; Obscurity of the Week: Fill With Placeholder Text

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-046.mp3 (13 MB, 27:19 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted shortly)

• All about InDesign CS3:
• Our favorite new features, including Table and Cell Styles, Variables, Placing InDesign files, Find/Change with GREP, Find/Change object attributes, and more
• Our favorite improved features, including scaling fixes, folders in Styles panels, page previews in the Pages panel, Align to Page, Synchronize master pages, and more
• Pricing information
• Other great resources to learn about InDesign CS3
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Fill With Placeholder Text

Our sponsor for this episode: DTP Tools, makers of cool InDesign plug-ins like History, Layer Groups, Tetris, and PageControl (the latter the brainchild of InDesignSecrets contributor Pariah Burke). Special offer for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code IDSECRETS for 15% off any plug-in from their on-line store.

Links mentioned in the podcast: InDesign Magazine special offer. Go to the link, choose "2-year subscription for $69" option, and enter indesignsecrets to receive two years of back issues, free, along with your subscription. The upcoming issue is full of in-depth articles about InDesign CS3 new features. The InDesigner videocast. Michael's latest episode (#38) shows off InDesign CS3's new interface, and all the neat tricks you can do with it. Adobe.com for Creative Suite 3 info from the horse's mouth Gutenberg Project is Anne-Marie's favorite source for placeholder.txt copy Lorem-Ipsum Generator caught David's fancy

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Evil Color Picker; Illustrator Bleeds; Obscurity of the Week: Mixed Ink Group

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-045.mp3 (10.4 MB, 21:49 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted shortly)

• Hot Button Post of the Week: Evil, Evil Color Picker
• Including Bleeds in Placed Illustrator Files
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Mixed Ink Group

Links mentioned in the podcast: We didn't mention a single link! Weird.

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