The CreativePro Podcast

Free Stuff for InDesign Users; Obscurity of the Week: Unassigned Content Frames

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-034.mp3 (11.1 MB, 23:16 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted in a few days)

Free Stuff for InDesign Users: A follow-up to David's recent Adobe eSeminar

• Layout templates that come with the program
• Adobe Exchange templates
• Where to install Scripts and Plug-ins
• Free plug-ins: PatternMaker, InBooklet
• Make Grid script — one of the free scripts bundled with InDesign
• Lots of other answers to questions asked by eSeminar attendees
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Unassigned Content Frames

Links mentioned in the podcast: All the upcoming live e-Seminars from Adobe (and recorded ones from the past) Our page on Free InDesign Stuff Teacup Software's free plug-in, Pattern Maker Adobe's InDesign Exchange web site InDesign Conference: Master Class (Seattle, WA, Nov. 6–8, 2006)

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Upcoming events; Creating font catalogs; Mirroring objects; Two unusual keyboard shortcuts; Obscurity of the Week: Transformations are Totals

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-033.mp3 (9.0 MB, 18:53 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted in a few days)

• Upcoming events: Teacup Software's free InDesign Plug-in seminar in NYC, and InDesign Conference Master Class in Seattle, WA
• A new tool for creating font catalogs in InDesign (thanks, Greg!)
• Three different ways to mirror ("flip") objects
• Two interesting keyboard shortcuts buried in the Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Transformations are Totals (thanks, Mark!)

Links mentioned in the podcast: Teacup Software Seminar (New York City, NY, Oct. 17, 2006; free) InDesign Conference: Master Class (Seattle, WA, Nov. 6-8, 2006) Chris Paveglio's InDesign Font Catalog Applescript for CS1/CS2

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ID Conference news; Rotate text tip; Photocompositing in InDesign; Cari Jansen interview; Obscurity of the week: Adjust View Settings

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-032.mp3 (26.7 MB, 29:08 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted in a few days)

• InDesign Conference news (Stockholm, Seattle, Adobe Developer Conf.)
• Rotating text without rotating its frame, courtesy of Adobe's Tim Cole
• Photocompositing in InDesign: Mike's latest videocast is on one of our favorite techniques
• Guest guru Cari Jansen, top InDesign trainer/consultant from Australia, talks about the ID CS2 features that allowed her to complete a huge Australian Vineyard Directory project in 15 percent (not a typo!) of the time it took before CS2
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Adjust View Settings

Links mentioned in the podcast: InDesign Conference: Master Class (Seattle, WA, Nov. 6–8, 2006) Adobe's Plug-in Developer Summit (Nov. 6–8, 2006; multiple locations) Tim Cole's Rotated Text tutorial (PDF, 930K)

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The InDesigner videocast; Free plug-in for Find/Change; Adding the current date automatically; Obscurity of the Week: Notes tool and menu.

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-031.mp3 (22.4 MB, 24:27 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted in a few days)

• The InDesigner videocast is part of InDesignSecrets!
• Free plug-in, "CleverFindChangeCloser" from Aextra Software
• Adding the current date to your pages, automatically
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Notes (tool and menu)

Links mentioned in the podcast: The InDesigner videocast CleverFindChangeCloser plug-in (CS2 only): Download for Mac or Windows. (For help installing the plug-in, see this post) The PrinterMark file David referred to (instructions are included)

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Site News; Quizzler #3 Winner; OpenType Fractions Helper; Pages Palette; Obscurity of the Week: End Nested Style Here

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-030.mp3 (12.1 MB, 25:37 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted in a few days)

• InDesignSecrets.com news: Our Store, New Contributors, Named to Top 5 Podcasts, 100K+ Downloads, Live Podcast at the InDesign Conference
• Quizzler #3 ("Where is Bevel?") Winner!
• OpenType Fractions Cheat Sheet
• Pages Palette Mystery/Mastery: Targeted vs. Selected Pages
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: End Nested Style Here

Links mentioned in the podcast: The InDesignSecrets Store — those aprons are going fast! Colleen Wheeler: Top 5 Audio Podcasts on Visual Topics Live Podcast at the InDesign Conference; Seattle, WA; Nov. 6-8, 2006 Download: OpenType Fractions Cheat Sheet (PDF, 400K)

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InDesign Conference: Master Class; Q2ID plug-in; Making proper Fractions; Quizzler #3; Obscurity of the Week: Update Library Item

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-029.mp3 (16.4 MB, 30:34 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted in a few days)

-- Preview of the upcoming InDesign Conference: Master Class -- Critical update to Markzware's Q2ID plug-in (opens QuarkXPress v3-6 files in InDesign) -- Fraction Fixes: How to make good-looking fractions with and without an OpenType Pro font -- Quizzler Number 3! Instructions appear below -- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Update Library Item

Quizzler #3 instructions: As we mentioned in the podcast, DON'T post your Quizzler answer (or any discussion about it) here as a comment. Instead, e-mail your answer to us at [email protected] with "Quizzler" in the subject line. All correct answers we receive by midnight PST on Thursday, August 30 2006 will be included in our random dart throw that will choose a single winner. Duplicate entries from the same person will result in your being made fun of in the next podcast as well as disqualifying you.

Links mentioned in the podcast: InDesign Conference: Master Class in Seattle, Washington; November 6-8, 2006 Markzware's Q2ID Plug-in — click the Get Updater! button if you're not up to v1.59 Dave Saunders' TextStylesReporter script — CS2 only, Mac/Windows Dan Rodney's ProperFractions script — CS1/CS2, Mac/Windows

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With guest star: Sandee Cohen; Interactive PDFs; Buttons and States; Obscurity of the Week: Flush Space

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-028.mp3 (14.4 MB, 27:58 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted in a few days)

With special guest star, Sandee Cohen!

--A "deep dive" into creating interactive PDF files, especially Buttons and States --Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Flush Space

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2nd Quizzler Winner, Drop Shadows Secrets, Obscurity of the Week: Transform Sequence Again Individually

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-027.mp3 (11.7 MB, 22:05 minutes) (the transcript of this episode will be posted in a few days)

• The Winner of the 2nd InDesignSecrets Quizzler! • Drop Shadows: Aggravations, Tips, Tricks, What all those fields do • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Transform Sequence Again Individually

Links mentioned: • DesignGeek e-zine (Anne-Marie's free tips newsletter for designers)

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Align to Spine; Quiz Contest #2; Obscurity of the Week: Convert to Profile/Assign Profile

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-026.mp3 (13.4 MB, 25:32 minutes) (the transcript of this episode will be posted in a few days)

-- The Pleasures of CS2's Spine Alignment (Align to/Away from Spine) feature -- InDesign Quiz Contest #2! (See note below) -- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Convert to Profile/Assign Profile

Links mentioned: -- InDesign Magazine (Pariah Burke's article on using spine alignments with anchored objects is in issue #8, Oct/Nov 2005)

Note: Comments will be closed for 24 hours (to this post only) to give people a chance to listen to the podcast and figure out the answer to the Quiz. After 24 hours, the first complete and correct quiz answer posted here as a comment will win. We'll officially declare the winner as well, via a comment like last time.

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Mailbag Episode: Change underline thickness, ID user groups in Canada, Dotted leaders, Disk error with custom sets, Obscurity of the week: View Threshold

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-025.mp3 (11.2 MB, 21:41 minutes) (the transcript of this episode will be posted in a few days)

The Mailbag Episode! All topics discussed today were questions listeners e-mailed us about, and their answers (along with a few embellishments of our own). -- Mystery caller left a voicemail asking about aligning to page -- DJ asked how to change the thickness of underlines -- DJ also asked about any InDesign user group near Manitoba, Canada -- Vanessa from Australia asked how to make dotted underlines for forms -- Kevin (who recently discovered the existence of our podcast and told us he listened to all 24 episodes in 24 hours ) wondered why he gets a Disk Error when he tries to save a custom keyboard shortcut set -- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: View Threshold

Links mentioned: -- Our post about the InDesignUserGroup.com web site

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