The CreativePro Podcast

London ID Conf. recap; Sandee on scripting; Branislav on master page text frames; Rufus on pasteboard fixes; Mysteries of the Align palette; Obscurity of the week: Go Forward/Go Back

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-- London InDesign Conference recap from David, and he recorded interesting tidbits from a few of the conference speakers: - Sandee Cohen tells of her experience taking a scripting class at the conference - Branislav Milic shares a great tip for overriding master page text frames - Rufus Deuchler reveals two ways to fix out-of-control pasteboard sizes -- Mysteries and Treasures of the Align palette (like, where it is) -- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Go Forward/Go Back

Links mentioned: • AlignToPage.jsx is one of the free cross-platform scripts on your CS2 installation CD or part of this .zip archive (Adobe site download).

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Contest winner; Tip of the Day plug-in; Lab values and spot colors; Add-a-Page script; Obscurity of the week: Position tool

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* The answer to — and winner of — our first InDesign Quiz Contest * Free InDesign Secrets plug-in, "Tip of the Day" for Mac or Windows, InDesign CS or CS2 * That Ink Manager option: What do Lab color values have to do with spot colors? * Peter Kahrel's incredibly useful script, "Add A Page" * Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Position tool

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Comment line and transcripts; Copy/paste text formatting; Spot colors and transparency; Our first contest question; Obscurity of the week: Lab color mode ||| Detailed notes follow, or go to http://www.indesignsecrets.com/category/podcast for show notes, links, and to comment on the episode.

• Announcement of new enhancements to the podcast: Transcripts and our Listener Comment Line • Anne-Marie's InDesign seminars (open to the public) for the Chicago Book Clinic is on June 22, 2006 • David's full day of InDesign secrets (also open to the public) for Evolve is on July 12, 2006 • Maintaining text formatting when copying/pasting text between Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign • We bust a few myths about spot colors and transparency in InDesign • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Lab color mode

And we also announced the first InDesignSecrets Podcast Contest! Listen to the show, write down the contest quiz question, and post your answer as a comment below (first correct one wins)

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Real-time black reverses; Auto-numbering angst; Ink Manager secrets; Obscurity of the Week: Script Label palette ||| Detailed notes follow, or go to http://www.indesignsecrets.com/category/podcast for show notes, links, and to comment on the episode.

• Branislav Milic solves the Real-Time Reverse Out of Black challenge! Download his 7-page PDF, "Transparency Cool Effects" (1.1 MB), the solution is on pages 6-7. • Brief preview of the InDesign Conference in London, coming up June 26-29, 2006 • Oh that pesky Auto Numbering feature — surely it can't be this bad, a listener asks • Secrets of the Ink Manager! Thank you, Adobe — now please go work on that numbering thing • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: the Script Label palette

Other links mentioned in the show: • The Wikipedia knows all: Geoduck • Rorohiko's free History Log plug-in

InDesign 2006 Conference Recap; Hear from Pamela Pfiffner, Sandee Cohen and Kacey Crouch; Real-time reversed text effect, Obscurity of the Week: Browse

New version (with new tip) of framegrids.pdf tutorial; Text frames and the Fitting command; Beyond the Zoom tool; InDesign Magazine freebie; Obscurity of the week: Appearance of Black

Prevent InDesign from turning everything into a text frame; Ways to "unthread" a single text frame; Fix unalphabetized styles; Custom view scales with a shortcut; Obscurity of the Week: The Magnet

Mix transparency in image frames, Secret "wake up the font menus" keyboard shortcut, Merging InDesign documents -- techniques and cautions, Obscurity of the week: Align First Line to Baseline Grid

Baseline grids, Tim Cole's PDF tutorial on frame grids, Vertical justification, 50 ways to use the Direct Selection tool, Obscurity of the Week: Vertical Depth Ruler

Find/Change Unicode characters, Apply Paragraph styles via Find/Change without losing local formatting, Default frame backgrounds in XPress vs. InDesign, Obscurity of the Week: Purchase This Image