The CreativePro Podcast

• News:
  • InDesign 18.1 release
  • Design & Powerpoint Summit coming up Feb 16–17, 2023
  • CreativePro Week 2023 agenda posted
  • CreativePro Magazine January 2023: PowerPoint Tips; Overcoming Creative Burnout.
  • CreativePro Magazine February 2023: Making Forms with InDesign and Acrobat
• Monitoring the InDesign Dashboard
• ChatGPT and Generative AI
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Adjust spacing automatically when cutting and pasting words

Sponsor for this episode:

>>PageProof is the top online proofing workflow platform for your creative process: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Powerpoint, image files, and more. It's free for reviewers, and flat rate pricing for you and your designers makes it easy to get started! We interview Marcus Radich, CTO, in this episode, and you can hear David's more in-depth interview in this CreativePro Conversation on YouTube.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

News

• Should you update to the newest version of InDesign? https://creativepro.com/should-adobe-fix-older-versions-of-programs/
• Are you feeling creative burnout? Read Maya Lim's article: https://creativepro.com/breaking-through-creative-burnout/
• Check out Maya's other great articles here: https://creativepro.com/author/maya-lim/

InDesign Dashboard

• Control vs. Properties panel: https://creativepro.com/video-how-to-bring-the-control-panel-back-and-keep-it/
• How to customize the links panel: https://creativepro.com/customizing-links-panel/
• Red dot = overset text: https://creativepro.com/tip-week-finding-overset-text-preflight/
• Rotate pages/spreads: https://creativepro.com/tip-week-rotate-spread-view-gesture/
• Showing which pages have transparency: https://creativepro.com/why-the-checkerboard/
• Other alerts to watch for: https://creativepro.com/whats-that-alert-or-question-mark-icon-in-indesign/

ChatGPT, DALL-E, and other Generative A.I.

• What you need to know: https://creativepro.com/opinion-the-future-is-genai-enabled/
• The script that David made with ChatGPT: https://creativepro.com/move-every-object-on-every-page-toward-or-away-from-spine/#comments/2427288
• Star Trek: "Hello Computer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpWhugUmV5U

Obscure Feature: Adjust spacing automatically when cutting and pasting words

• Changing preferences with QuickApply: https://creativepro.com/10-essential-tips-for-working-with-styles-indesign/

In this episode…

• News
  • CreativePro Week 2023 registration includes InDesign and more
  • Recordings available for the Design & Accessibility Summit
  • Go to our Events page to see 4 new online summits for 2023
  • CreativePro Magazine December 2022 issue dives deep into fonts and the Pantone color aggravation
• Good Grief: Goodbye to Type 1 Fonts and bundled Pantone spot colors
• Interview with Marcus Radich, chief tech officer of PageProof
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Select Unused Parents

Sponsor for this episode:

>>PageProof is the top online proofing workflow platform for your creative process: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Powerpoint, image files, and more. It's free for reviewers, and flat rate pricing for you and your designers makes it easy to get started! We interview Marcus Radich, CEO, in this episode, and you can hear David's more in-depth interview in this CreativePro Conversation on YouTube.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

LinkedIn Learning Video Series for InDesign users

• InDesign Tips for Design Geeks
• InDesign Secrets (over 300 videos!)

End of PostScript Type 1 Support

• Adobe's note on end of life for Type 1 Fonts
• How to Tell Which Files Use Type 1 PostScript Fonts
• How to Find Files Using Type1 PostScript Fonts in InDesign
• How to Convert PostScript Fonts to OpenType with TransType

Pantone Libraries Disappearing

• What are Pantone colors? What are spot colors? Claudia McCue explains it all for you: https://creativepro.com/working-with-spot-colors/
• Adobe's Pantone Colors Fade to Black: Users Turn Rubine Over Removal of Libraries from Creative Cloud 2023
• Pantone Connect add-on in Adobe Exchange
• A Pantone-like library (Freetone)
• What is the Trumatch CMYK process color swatch library? https://creativepro.com/indesign-trumatch-system/

Parent pages: How to make running heads that change without using multiple parent/master pages: https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-to-automate-chapter-headers/

In this episode:

• News
  • CreativePro Week 2023 registration opens October 6, 2022
  • Design & Accessibility Summit (online) Nov. 29–Dec. 2, 2022
  • CreativePro Magazine covering tips, insights, and more
• What's New in InDesign 2023
• Interview with Mark Hilton and Gabe Harbs from Santa Cruz Software
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Vertical Scale

Sponsor for this episode:

>> Santa Cruz Software is the creator of BrandingUI, LinkrUI, and PrintUI: BrandingUI empowers your global team to customize materials at scale, all while staying brand compliant. More on LinkrUI:

• Survey Finds Over Four in Five Creative Pros Spend Time Weekly Finding Lost Assets
• Streamline Design Team Workflows with LinkrUI

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Showing the InDesign preview thumbnails is based on the Preferences dialog box
• What UXP is (for developers)
• Loading paragraph styles into the document:
  • Working with Text Styles in CC Libraries
  • 10 Essential tips for working with styles in InDesign
• In-Tools (still some great free scripts!)
• Vertical Scale tip involving styles

In this landmark 300th episode…

• News
  • Anne-Marie and David will be live at Adobe MAX in October
  • CreativePro Week 2023 registration opens October 6, 2022
  • Design & Accessibility Summit (online) Nov. 29–Dec. 2, 2022
• Whoa! 300 episodes!
  • A look back at 17 years of the InDesign Secrets podcast
  • Snippets from the first episode, Nov. 29, 2005
  • Audio snippets from friends and colleagues with limericks, favorite features, memories, and more
• The FIRST Obscure InDesign Feature: Friendly Alien (A young David explains this in the first episode)

Sponsors for this episode:

>> Canto is a leader in digital asset management (DAM) software, with customers that include many of today's top brands. This is an incredibly intuitive and easy to use platform that gives creative teams a centralized location to organize, find, and share all of their digital brand assets, including videos, images, graphics, etc. Canto integrates directly with Adobe Creative Cloud software. For more information and a personalized demo, visit https://go.canto.com/CreativePro.

>> Adobe MAX is one of the largest gatherings of graphic, web, UX and multi-skilled designers, creative and art directors, illustrators, film, video, and motion graphics pros, photographers, and creative leaders. And this year, for the first time ever, you can attend in person or online (for free), so there's a MAX for everyone. Save $400 off the live event's registration fee by using our promo code M22CPN Register at https://max.adobe.com

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Accessible Kellogg Rice Krispies
• History of Podcasts: https://www.onefineplay.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-podcasting
• Our first InDesign Secrets Podcast, episode #1
• InDesign CS/CS2 Breakthroughs, the book we wrote together that we reference in that first episode.
• Shout-out to Libsyn, our podcast host vendor since the start
• A Brief History of Podcasting
• InDesign User Groups that stream their meetings (so anyone can attend):
  • Los Angeles: https://www.laidug.com
  • Hamburg: http://idug-hamburg.de
  • New Jersey: https://www.meetup.com/Adobe-INDUG-InDesign-User-Group/
  • Minneapolis: https://www.facebook.com/tcidug
  • (are there more? Let us know!)
• Bart Van de Wiele's new book, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Collaboration and Workflow (Classroom in a Book)

In this episode…

• News
  • Last chance to get CreativePro Week 2022 videos and handouts
  • Our online Design and Marketing Summit debuts July 18–19
  • Illustrator Summit returns Sept 22–23
  • Anne-Marie and David will be live at Adobe MAX in October
  • CreativePro Magazine's July issue is all about Illustrator and InDesign Type: https://creativepro.com/issues/
  • "Smarter Workflows with InDesign and Word," Anne-Marie's newly-published course on LinkedIn Learning
• Editorial Tools and Panels in InDesign
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Select Subject

Sponsor for this episode:

> > Santa Cruz Software has a solution for the "83% of respondents who have said they have to spend time finding a lost sset." The answer is LinkrUI, a plugin that enables direct searching, opening, placing, and syncing of assets stored in a DAM or other storage services such as Box and Dropbox from within Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Download the free version here.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Smarter Workflows with InDesign and Word by Anne-Marie!
• InDesign for Editors by Nigel French
• Notes tool and panel
  • https://creativepro.com/find-notes-indesign-files/
  • https://creativepro.com/how-do-you-know-if-there-are-notes-in-an-indesign-document/
  • https://creativepro.com/show-indesign-notes-tool-some-love/
  • https://creativepro.com/use-notes-to-hide-text/
  • Kris Coppieters' free ShowNotes.jsx startup script
• Story Editor:
  • https://creativepro.com/hidden-gems-the-story-editor/
  • https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-to-use-the-story-editor/
• InCopy articles:
  • https://creativepro.com/category/incopy-workflow/
• Track Changes:
  • https://creativepro.com/tip-of-the-week-tracking-changes/
  • https://creativepro.com/use-track-changes-when-accepting-pdf-comments/
• Obscure Feature: Select Subject
  • https://creativepro.com/how-to-use-subject-aware-text-wrap-in-indesign/

In this episode…

• News
  • CreativePro Week 2022 recap
  • Design and Marketing Summit coming up in July!
  • CreativePro Magazine issues: https://creativepro.com/issues/
• Cool InDesign tips we learned at the conference
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Create Button Trigger

Sponsor for this episode:

>> Canto is a leader in digital asset management (DAM) software, with customers that include many of today's top brands. This is an incredibly intuitive and easy to use platform that gives creative teams a centralized location to organize, find, and share all of their digital brand assets, including videos, images, graphics, etc. Canto integrates directly with Adobe Creative Cloud software. For more information and a personalized demo, visit https://go.canto.com/CreativePro.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• CreativePro Week: on-demand still available https://creativeproweek.com/2022ondemand/
• CreativePro Week 2023 announced: https://creativeproweek.com/savethedate2023/
• Learn to use Canva: https://creativepro.com/getting-started-with-canva/
• CreativePro "3 Minutes Max" videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU-BUwkpVTo&list=PLFof_0NMmT7Uwyy6bc1Uo5OlfBUEtU2Li
• Cool tips and scripts:Keith Gilbert's Isometric/Diametric InDesign script: https://gilbertconsulting.com/scripts

The settings for a custom stroke that Bart demonstrated, which can be used for a static rule length in Rule Above/Below:

In this episode…

• News
  • Adobe InDesign 17.2.1 update patch released
  • CreativePro Week May 9-13, live in DC and online
  • CreativePro Events: https://creativepro.com/events
  • CreativePro Magazine: https://creativepro.com/issues/
  • CI-HUB Prize Raffle: https://ci-hub.com/creativepro/ Deadline is May 2 2022! Details on that page
• Field Guide to Non-Printing Highlights (there are more than you think!)
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Float in Window

Sponsors for this episode:

>> Microsoft and Adobe! Both of these fine companies are CreativePro partners and will be represented at CreativePro Week 2022. Adobe is flying in a group of Adobe CC engineers from India, and MS Office product manager Stephanie Horn is doing a session on using video in Powerpoint.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• You can use CC Libraries in Word and PowerPoint: https://creativepro.com/using-cc-libraries-in-word-and-powerpoint/
• Cool tip: "How to Make an Object Style That Resizes Objects from the Center (or Any Other Reference Point) in InDesign" https://creativepro.com/how-to-make-an-object-style-that-resizes-objects-from-the-center-or-any-other-reference-point-in-indesign/
• What's new in 17.2.1: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html
• Andreas Michalski from CI-HUB, our guest from the last podcast episode
  • Company site https://ci-hub.com
  • Enter their raffle here: https://ci-hub.com/creativepro/) for free tickets to CreativePro Week and free subscriptions to CI-HUB! Deadline for entries is May 2, and they'll contact the winners on May 3, 2022
• Composition Highlights: https://creativepro.com/field-guide-to-composition-highlighting/ https://creativepro.com/why-is-my-indesign-text-highlighted-in-blue/
• What Anne-Marie taught David in this episode (how to quickly jump to the active InDesign document's location on your hard drive):https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-to-video-find-file-size-location/
• 3 Minutes Max tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=580PSVBohDI&list=PLFof_0NMmT7Uwyy6bc1Uo5OlfBUEtU2Li

In this episode…

• News
  • Adobe InDesign 17.2 update patch released
  • CreativePro Week agenda is up! May 9-13, live in DC and online
  • The cover story in the March 2022 issue of CreativePro magazine dives deep into alternatives to Adobe software (including how Affinity Publisher stacks up to InDesign)
  • And the April issue is all about making data visual; a must-read for anyone who makes charts, graphs, infographics, and so on
• Interview with Andreas Michalski of CI-HUB
• Control Panel vs. the Properties Panel: Total Smackdown!
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Key Object

Sponsor for this episode:

>> Canto (they dropped the "Cumulus" name a few years ago) is a leader in digital asset management (DAM) software, with customers that include many of today's top brands. This is an incredibly intuitive and easy to use platform that gives creative teams a centralized location to organize, find, and share all of their digital brand assets, including videos, images, graphics, etc. Canto integrates directly with Adobe Creative Cloud software. For more information, visit https://go.canto.com/CreativePro.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• InDesign 17.2… what's new: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html
• The mystery of PlugPlugOwl: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/36861886-indesign-crashes-on-launch-in-plugplugowl-dll
• How to rebuild your preferences: https://creativepro.com/rebuilding-indesign-preferences/
• Canto has been around forever! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulus_(software)
• Working with a DAM: InDesign Magazine Issue 109: https://creativepro.com/indesign-magazine-issue-109-digital-asset-management/
• Anne-Marie shows how to get the Control panel back: https://creativepro.com/video-how-to-bring-the-control-panel-back-and-keep-it/
• Andreas Michalski from CI-HUB
  • https://ci-hub.com
  • 17-minute video by CI-HUB from CreativePro Week: https://creativeproweek.com/session/ci-hub-sponsored-session-2020/
• Anne-Marie's course on Collaborative Workflows: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/collaborative-workflows-for-editors-and-designers/

In this episode…

• News
  • Creative Pro Events full 2022 schedule is up!
    • The Design + PowerPoint Summit, March 10-11
    • CreativePro Week, May 9-13 (live in DC and online!)
    • The Design + Marketing Summit, July 18-19
    • The Adobe Illustrator Summit, September 22-23
    • The Design + Accessibility Summit, November 29-December 2
• InDesign's Most Confusing Features
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Others

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Design + PowerPoint Summit, CreativePro Week, and more! https://creativepro.com/events
• Confusing Features
  • Start document on a left-hand page: https://creativepro.com/starting-a-document-on-a-left-hand-page/
  • Gap Tool: https://creativepro.com/exactly-indesign-tool/
  • Auto-Fit: https://creativepro.com/video-use-auto-fit-on-images/
  • How Gradients Work: https://creativepro.com/adjusting-the-position-of-gradients/
  • Why Radial Gradients are crazy: https://creativepro.com/yes-indesigns-radial-gradients-insane-its-you/
• Place and Link: https://creativepro.com/linking-images-change/(how you get to this episode's Obscure Feature: Others)
• Bart Van de Wiele's course "Advanced InDesign: Productivity Techniques" https://www.linkedin.com/learning/advanced-indesign-productivity-techniques/welcome-to-this-course

In this episode…

• News
  • Creative Pro Events full 2022 schedule is up!
    • The Design + PowerPoint Summit, March 10-11
    • CreativePro Week, May 9-13 (live in DC and online!)
    • The Design + Marketing Summit, July 18-19
    • The Adobe Illustrator Summit, September 22-23
    • The Design + Accessibility Summit, November 29-December 2
  • Pantone® and Adobe brouhaha
• InDesign Collaboration Tips and Solutions
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Accessibility (it appears in an InDesign panel)

Sponsors for this episode:

>> Ajar Productions is the developer of the phenomenal in5 add-on for Adobe InDesign, which lets you export interactivity from InDesign to different formats that actually work. Create websites, digital magazines, mobile apps, animated banners and presentations, by simply using InDesign, no coding involved! They're now adding accessibility features, see their YouTube video. Learn more and download a free trial of in5 at in5.us.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Anne-Marie's InDesign Tips for Design Geeks video on extracting typefaces from text in images in InDesign 2022, a great new feature
• Pantone removing libraries from Adobe products
• Great tip for getting colors from the free version of the Pantone Connect app
• Collaboration tips:
  • Anne-Marie's Collaborative Workflows for Editors and Designers (course at LinkedIn Learning)
  • Conrad Chavez wrote about InDesign collaboration through cloud services for InDesign Magazine
  • Using InDesign's Share for Review feature
  • Em Software's WordsFlow and DocsFlow
  • Interview with Marcus Radich of PageProof
• Chad Chelius's and Dax Castro's Accessibility podcast