The CreativePro Podcast

In this episode…

• News
  • Adobe InDesign 2022 has an update (v17.01x)
  • CreativePro Magazine issue 1 is out!
  • On-Demand passes now available for the expanded Design + Accessibility Summit
• Some Totally Obvious InDesign Things We Just Learned This Year
• Interview with Marcus Radich from PageProof
• Obscure InDesign Feature: "Roger, hungry, ate 236 peaches and cantaloupes in 1904"

Sponsors for this episode:

> 3M's VAS: 3M's Visual Attention Software (VAS) is powerful, science-based AI that simulates the human vision system to analyze visual content and predicts with 92% accuracy what is attracting viewer attention. VAS is available as a web app and plugins for Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and XD. Start your free trial today, and enter promo code CREATIVEPRO5 for 5 additional trial credits!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• The Design + Accessibility Summit
• CreativePro Week
• What's new in InDesign 2022 (17.0) https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/whats-new.html
• What's new in 17.01: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html
• How to make the menus bigger on the Mac (for high-res monitors): https://osxdaily.com/2021/10/12/change-menu-bar-size-mac/
• Why versions of Mac OS are all California cities: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/davidblatner_apple-mac-activity-6860597173332135936-PYWB
• Interview with Marcus Radich at PageProof:
  • What is an Awk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auk
  • What is an orc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc
  • Who is Martinho da Gloria: https://www.automatication.com/about-us/
• Obvious Things We Learned (or Re-learned)
  • Move Control Panel to the Bottom of the Screen https://creativepro.com/moving-control-panel-to-bottom-of-screen/
  • Accessibility tab in hyperlinks… doesn't work the way you might expect: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/44174832-hyperlink-alt-text-is-ignored-in-the-latest-versio
  • InDesign icon in Publish Online embed: How to do it: https://creativepro.com/publish-online-supports-embedding-indesign-documents/ Problem: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/20459239-allow-removal-of-the-publish-online-button-that
  • Adobe Illustrator: customizing the toolbar: https://creativepro.com/customize-your-illustrator-workspace/ and https://creativepro.com/create-a-custom-toolbar-in-illustrator/

• Obscure Feature: Roger, hungry, ate 236 peaches and cantaloupes in 1904 If you make the sample text small, the Birch font will fit the whole line in the column.

In this episode…

• News
  • Adobe InDesign 2022 (v17.0x) now available
  • InDesign Magazine is evolving into CreativePro magazine, first issue out November 1 2021!
  • Sign up for our expanded Design + Accessibility Summit, Nov. 16–19
• Interview with Chad Chelius and Dax Castro, accessibility experts and hosts of The A11y Podcast
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Flip

Sponsors 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 asset." 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. Read about the freemium version here.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• David's session at MAX: Discovering the Best InDesign Tips and Tricks
• Anne-Marie's lab at MAX: InDesign Basics: From Newbie to Pro
• Photoshop Banana (easter egg): https://creativepro.com/photoshop-easter-eggs/
• Adobe MAX 2021
• Final issue of InDesign Magazine has 150 All-Star Tips (and our "Hidden" Features article)
• Should people upgrade right away? https://creativepro.com/should-adobe-fix-older-versions-of-programs/
• InCopy Vulnerability patch: https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/incopy/apsb21-05.html
• Dax Castro and Chad Chelius Accessibility (#a11y) podcast website: https://www.accessibilitychecklists.com (or http://www.chaxchat.com)
• Dax and Chad are the accessibility pros at AbleDocs: https://www.abledocs.com/en
• Obscure Feature: Flip (Text on a Path) https://creativepro.com/center-text-on-top-of-a-circular-path-quickly/

In this episode…

• News
  • InDesign Magazine is evolving into CreativePro magazine
  • Adobe InDesign 16.4 released
  • Adobe MAX 2021 is Oct. 26–Oct. 28; David and AM are presenting!
  • Our new online event! The Design + Accessibility Summit, Nov. 16–19
  • You can purchase online passes (recordings and handouts) of our previous events on our Events page
• Interview with Kieron Lewis, designer, teacher, and new MAX speaker on Empowering Community through Collaboration and Editorial Design
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Edit in Copy Editor (beta)

Sponsors 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 asset." 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. Read about the freemium version here.

> Adobe MAX 2021: Once again, the Creativity Conference is online and free! Register today to see all the 300+ sessions covering everything from app "how-to's" to managing design and promoting creativity.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• David's session at MAX: Discovering the Best InDesign Tips and Tricks
• Anne-Marie's lab at MAX: InDesign Basics: From Newbie to Pro
• Kieron Lewis
  • MAX session: Empowering Community through Collaboration and Editorial Design
  • Kieron's web site
  • POCC — People of Culture Collective
  • Kieron designed and laid out this book for Harper Inspire: Still Breathing: 100 Black Voices on Racism — 100 Ways to Change the Narrative
  • Article about "I can't breathe"
• CreativePro's new "Design + Accessibility Summit" https://creativepro.com/design-accessibility-summit/
  • Chad Chelius' article "Tools and Services for Accessibility"
• Our post about Edit in Copy Editor (beta) (and see the screen shot below!)
• InDesignSecrets…
  • YouTube videos
  • Facebook group
  • LinkedIn group

In this episode…

• News
  • Adobe MAX 2021 is Oct. 26–Oct. 28; David and AM are presenting!
  • Our new online event! The Design + Accessibility Summit, Nov. 16–19
  • You can purchase online passes (recordings and handouts) of our previous events on our Events page
  • InDesign Magazine August and September issues are out, excellent content!
• Interview with Angelo Montilla, InDesign YouTube star and new MAX speaker
• Nested Styles vs. GREP Styles: What's the difference?
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Extensions

Sponsor for this episode:

> Adobe MAX 2021: Once again, the Creativity Conference is online and free! Register today to see all the 300+ sessions covering everything from app "how-to's" to managing design and promoting creativity.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• David's session at MAX: Discovering the Best InDesign Tips and Tricks
• Anne-Marie's lab at MAX: InDesign Basics: From Newbie to Pro
• Angelo Montilla's lab at MAX: Digital Publishing and Interactivity in InDesign
• CreativePro's new "Design + Accessibility Summit" https://creativepro.com/design-accessibility-summit/
• Online passes (recordings + handouts) are still available to: The Adobe Illustrator Summit https://creativepro.com/adobe-illustrator-summit/ and The InDesign + Type Summit https://creativepro.com/indesign-type-summit/
• Angelo Montilla: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/amontilla81 Adobe Live: Day 1: https://youtu.be/5QCNh9ovr2c & Day 2: https://youtu.be/yc6JCf30CWk www.montilladesign.com
• Installing newest version of Acrobat: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/install-updates-reader-acrobat.html
• Animated GIF maker from Ajar Productions (maker of in5): https://ajarproductions.com/blog/2019/10/11/how-to-create-an-animated-gif-with-indesign-in5/
• Extensions: Look in the Marketplace tab in the Creative Cloud app or on the web: https://exchange.adobe.com/creativecloud.html
  • Photo Flinger from Premedia: https://www.premediasystems.com/scripts-and-more
  • Stock Solo: https://stocksolo.com or https://adobe.com/go/cc_plugins_discover_plugin?pluginId=a2cbefeb
  • Pantone Connect: https://exchange.adobe.com/creativecloud.html?zpluginId=103029
• InDesignSecrets…
  • YouTube videos
  • Facebook group
  • LinkedIn group

In this episode…

• News
  • Last chance for live tickets to the InDesign + Type Summit (online event) July 29–30, 2021
    • if you're a nonprofit, government agency, student, or work for a school, contact [email protected] for a $100 discount code
  • The Adobe Illustrator Summit, August 26-27: https://creativepro.com/adobe-illustrator-summit/
  • InDesign Magazine for July 2021 is Illustrator and InDesign; August 2021 is on creating social media artwork and making dielines for print packaging
• Best practices for working with Illustrator documents in InDesign
• Keyboard shortcut of the month: Capital E (yes, Shift-E)
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Crop to Art

Sponsors for this episode:

> 3M's VAS: 3M's Visual Attention Software (VAS) is powerful, science-based AI that simulates the human vision system to analyze visual content and predicts with 92% accuracy what is attracting viewer attention. VAS is available as a web app and plugins for Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and XD. Start your free trial today, and enter promo code CREATIVEPRO5 for 5 additional trial credits!

>> 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. in5 supports all of InDesign's native interactivity—like animation, buttons, object states, audio and video; and adds its own. Create websites, digital magazines, mobile apps, animated banners and presentations, by simply using InDesign, no coding involved! Learn more and download a free trial of in5 at in5.us.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• The Adobe Illustrator Summit, August 26-27
• The InDesign + Type Summit, July 29-30
• KidPix still lives! https://www.mackiev.com/kidpix/
• How to Replace AI art with SVG for sharp web graphics, from Anne-Marie's weekly series "InDesign Tips for Design Geeks"
• We have lots of articles about using InDesign and Illustrator together:
  • https://creativepro.com/copy-vectors-from-illustrator-to-indesign-or-vice-versa/
  • https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-getting-the-most-the-interface/
  • https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-moving-vectors/
  • https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-linking-and-embedding-files/
  • https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-moving-text-between-the-programs/
  • https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-colors-and-swatches/
  • https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-the-pen-tool/
• Shift-E… Preview on CPU vs GPU: https://creativepro.com/gpu-support-and-animated-zoom-arrives-for-mac/
• Understanding InDesign's Place PDF Options: https://creativepro.com/understanding-indesigns-place-pdf-options/
• InDesignSecrets…
  • YouTube videos
  • Facebook group
  • LinkedIn group

In this episode…

• News
  • Videos on demand for CreativePro Week 2021
  • InDesign + Type Summit (online event) July 29–30, 2021
  • InDesign Magazine for June 2021 is all about Type and Typography!
• Our favorite type tips and scripts
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Nonbreaking Space (Fixed Width)

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Videos on Demand now available for CreativePro Week 2021
• The InDesign + Type Summit
• InDesign Tips videos on LinkedIn Learning/Lynda.com:
  • InDesign Tips for Design Geeks (AM's new weekly course)
  • InDesign Secrets (David and AM's weekly course)
• InDesign 16.3.1 notes: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/Indesign-for-apple-silicon.html
• Working with Hyphenation & Justification settings Editing H&Js: https://creativepro.com/abcs-hj/ Favorite H&J Settings: https://creativepro.com/what-are-your-favorite-word-and-character-space-settings-for-hjs/
• When to Use Balance Ragged Lines https://creativepro.com/when-to-use-balance-ragged-lines/
• Change Balanced Ragged Lines to Pyramid Shaped https://creativepro.com/change-balanced-ragged-lines-to-pyramid-shaped/
• All kinds of white spaces: https://creativepro.com/typetalk-blizzard-white-space-characters/
• AM's pick for a type-related script: LorumIpsumizer https://creativepro.com/resources/plug-ins-and-scripts/ https://www.linkedin.com/learning/indesign-secrets/285-replace-formatted-text-with-lorem-ipsum
• David's pick for a type-related script: Humane Type https://creativepro.com/a-script-that-adds-a-human-touch-to-indesign-type/
• Making Ellipses with Nonbreaking (Fixed Width) spaces: https://creativepro.com/dot-dot-dot/
• InDesignSecrets…
  • YouTube videos
  • Facebook group
  • LinkedIn group

Using the Nonbreaking (Fixed Width) space to auto-feather a headline (set the Paragraph alignment to Justify All Lines first)

In this episode…

• News
  • Videos on demand for CreativePro Week 2021
  • InDesign + Type Summit (online event) July 29–30, 2021
  • InDesign Magazine for May 2021 (gradients) and June 2021 (type and typography)
• Making presentations with InDesign
• Keyboard shortcut of the month: Control-B (Command-B on Mac)
• Obscure InDesign Feature: On Click (Self)

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Videos on Demand now available for CreativePro Week 2021
• The InDesign + Type Summit
• Creating Presentations with InDesign
  • InDesign Magazine feature story
  • Free InDesign presentation template
  • InDesign Template of the Month: Flexible Presentation
  • InDesign presentation templates at Adobe Stock (many free)

• Jesus Ramirez: Yes, we have a Banana (in Photoshop) https://photoshoptrainingchannel.com/photoshop-easter-eggs/
• in5's post, "Interactive PDF is dead" https://ajarproductions.com/blog/2018/03/26/interactive-pdf-is-dead-heres-what-you-can-create-from-indesign-thats-even-better/
• CircularFlow for better fixed-layout EPUBs for Kindles https://www.circularsoftware.com/apps/circularflo
• InDesignSecrets…
  • YouTube videos
  • Facebook group
  • LinkedIn group

In this episode…

• News
  • Signed up for CreativePro Week 2021? Speak at Ignite!
  • InDesign 16.2 released and then pulled
• Why objects and text sometime just … disappear
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Split Window to Compare Layouts

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> 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. in5 supports all of InDesign's native interactivity—like animation, buttons, object states, audio and video—and in5 adds additional interactivity to InDesign, like 3-D Flip Cards, Responsive Layouts, Parallax, and more. Create websites, digital magazines, mobile apps, animated banners and presentations, by simply using InDesign, no coding involved! Learn more and download a free trial of in5 at in5.us.

>> Cacidi Systems has been developing solutions for Adobe InDesign users since InDesign began! They offer a number of plug-ins and workflow system for content integration and efficient marketing production. We especially love Cacidi Charts, which has been updated and leveled up for InDesign 2020 and 2021. No more need to jump into Illustrator or Powerpoint; create gorgeous charts right in InDesign. Free trial available!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Register now for CreativePro Week 2021
• When Stuff Disappears: A Collection of Mysteries Solved:
  • Where Is My Text? Text Disappears When Over Background Object
  • My White Text Disappeared (and solution)
  • The Case of the Disappearing Text
  • Where Did My InDesign Menu Items Go?
• Split Layout Tricks:
  • Use Split Window when Applying Colors to Text
  • How to View Two Parts of a Document at Once

• All About Alternate Layouts: https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-using-alternate-layout/

• Palo Duro Canyon: https://palodurocanyon.com

• Pantone 286: https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/286-C

• InDesignSecrets…
  • YouTube videos
  • Facebook group
  • LinkedIn group

In this episode…

• News
  • CreativePro Week 2021 agenda and speakers are up!
  • Bug fix for InDesign 2021 brings it to v16.1
• Interview with Justin Putney, in5 plugin creator
• We space out with some cool spacing tips
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Sort Swatches by Color Value

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Register now for CreativePro Week 2021
  • Want to speak at CreativePro events? Fill this out
• Justin Putney and in5 links:
  • Product page for in5 interactive export add-on for InDesign
  • Script for Merging Multiple Text Frames Into One
  • Copy (Package) Fonts to Folder
  • Justin's original Kickstarter page
  • Why Justin says "Interactive PDF is Dead"
  • Examples of Customers Using in5
• Spacing Tricks!
  • Setting Exact Space Between Objects
  • Live Distribute
  • Making Cool Patterns with Live Distribute spacing trick
  • How the Gap tools works
  • How the Gap tool works with Groups
  • Convert a bunch of random objects into a grid
• InDesignSecrets…
  • YouTube videos
  • Facebook group
  • LinkedIn group

In this episode…

• News
  • Agenda is up for the online CreativePro Week 2021! Register now to score early-bird pricing.
  • Throw your hat in the ring for "I want to speak at CreativePro events"
  • Anne-Marie's new weekly series is live! "InDesign Tips for Design Geeks"
• Useful Adobe Bridge features for InDesign users
• Obscure InDesign Feature: The InDesign Button

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Cacidi Systems has been developing solutions for Adobe InDesign users since InDesign began! They offer a number of plug-ins and workflow system for content integration and efficient marketing production. We especially love Cacidi Charts, which has been updated and leveled up for InDesign 2020 and 2021. No more need to jump into Illustrator or Powerpoint; create gorgeous charts right in InDesign. Free trial available!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Register now for CreativePro Week 2021
  • Want to speak at CreativePro events? Fill this out
• Cacidi Charts: https://www.cacidi.com/huge-cacidi-charts-cc2020-upgrade/
  • Check out InDesign Magazine #126 which covered Cacidi Charts in depth
• On LinkedIn Learning (and Lynda.com)
  • InDesign Tips for Design Geeks is Anne-Marie's new weekly series
  • Hundreds of our weekly InDesignSecrets episodes
• Bridge and InDesign:
  • Yes, Bridge is free for everyone!
  • How to Find InDesign Documents That Use Specific Fonts and/or Swatches
  • Video: Find All Files That Contain a Specific Image (with Bridge)
  • Video: Batch Rename Files in Adobe Bridge
  • Take Charge With Bridge: Creating a Keywords List
  • Saving Thumbnails of InDesign Pages
• InDesignSecrets…
  • YouTube videos
  • Facebook group
  • LinkedIn group