The CreativePro Podcast

In this episode:

• News:
  • Agenda announced for CreativePro Week and the InDesign Conference
  • January issue of InDesign Magazine: Claudia McCue's awesome RGB vs CMYK
  • February InDesign Magazine: Chad Chelius's must-read on Accessibile PDFs
  • NEW: LinkedIn Profile Assessments! (Check out the InDesign one!)
  • Please vote to fix InDesign bugs on Uservoice
• Interview with Steve Laskevitch, InDesign book author, training center owner, consultant
• OIFOTW: Find Similar Images

News and special offers from our sponsors:

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Agenda for the InDesign Conference 2020, June 1–5 in Austin, Texas
• InDesign Magazine issues
• Clauda McCue's book, Real World Print Production with Adobe CC
• AJAR Productions, maker of in5 (link leads to special InDesignSecrets landing page)
• Steve Laskevitch!
  • His new book, Adobe InDesign CC: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features
  • Luminous Works in Seattle (Steve's authorized training center)
  • His bio on publisher RockyNook's web site
  • And his upcoming book, Adobe Photoshop: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features
• David and Ole Kvern's book, Real World InDesign
• Our post about LinkedIn's InDesign Assessment exam
• InDesign Uservoice: Vote on bugs and feature requests for InDesign
  • Undo stopped working? New prerelease build fixes it
  • Bug about missing video URL feature
• More on Find Similar

In this episode:

• News:
  • New round of speakers announced for CreativePro Week 2020
  • AM is a MAX Master again!
  • David's TEDxSeattle talk
  • Bug fix update for InDesign 2020
  • Learn more in our YouTube channel and Facebook group
• Gotchas when sharing InDesign 2020 layouts with earlier versions
• Variable fonts: Ready for prime-time?
• OIFOTW: Redefine Scaling as 100%

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• The upcoming InDesign Conference 2020, June 1–5 in Austin, Texas
• David's video of his "InDesign Pro Secrets" session at MAX
• David spoke at TEDxSeattle on the topic of Spectrums
• Gotcha: New text flow involving indents and text wrap
• Blog post (premium) on Using Variable Fonts in InDesign 2020
• Anne-Marie's video on Using Variable Fonts from her InDesign 2020 New Features course
• Find variable fonts here
• More on "Hide New Layers When Updating or Relinking" here and here
• Our posts on Redefine Scaling at 100% here and here

In this (super-sized) episode:

• News:
  • First 10 speakers announced for CreativePro Week 2020
  • Adobe MAX 2019 recap
  • Adobe InDesign 2020 released!
  • InDesign at 20, our November 2019 magazine issue
• InDesign 2020 new features: Hits, Duds, and Workarounds
• Interview with Dave Clayton, InDesign writer, designer, podcaster, and speaker
• OIFOTW: Hide New Layers When Updating or Relinking

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• The upcoming InDesign Conference 2020, June 1–5 in Austin, Texas
• First ten CreativePro Week speakers announced
• David's video of his "InDesign Pro Secrets" session at MAX
• Anne-Marie's handout and practice files from "InDesign for Absolute Beginners" lab at MAX
• JavaScripting with InDesign by Peter Kahrel
• New features in InDesign 2020
  • Anne-Marie's New Features in InDesign 2020 videos on LinkedIn Learning/lynda
  • Our blog post
  • Adobe's list of new features in InDesign 2020
• Find variable fonts here and here
• Dave Clayton links:
  • Dave's web site
  • Astute Graphics, the company he works for
  • How Do I That in InDesign? his book at Amazon
  • Or buy it from Rocky Nook w/discount code CLAYTON40 for 40% off
  • "He Shoots He Draws" podcast with Glyn Dewis
• More on "Hide New Layers When Updating or Relinking" here and here
• Here's that alert:

In this episode:

• News:
  • Register now for CreativePro Week 2020 in Austin Texas
  • We'll be speaking and exhibiting (booth 815) at Adobe MAX 2019
  • InDesign Magazine Sept 2019: The Tips Issue!
  • InDesign Magazine Oct 2019: Charts and Graphs
• One year later: Have the new features in CC2019 held up?
• OIFOTW: Enable Overrides

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• The upcoming InDesign Conference 2020, June 1–5 in Austin, Texas
• Use our code P19MCPN for a $400 discount for Adobe MAX
• What was new in CC 2019 and what was fixed
• Anne-Marie's videos on InDesign CC 2019: New Features
• A favorite CC 2019 feature: Space Between Paragraphs Using Same Style
• Request new features in InDesign's uservoice program
• Sign up to be on prerelease and give Adobe feedback
• The OIFOTW "Enable Overrides" is a SLAGIATT

In this episode:

• News:
  • Videos of the 2019 InDesign Conference available
  • Register now for CreativePro Week 2020 in Austin Texas
  • We'll be speaking and exhibiting at Adobe MAX 2019
  • Check out the InDesignSecrets group on LinkedIn!
• Pasteboard tips, tricks, and little-known features
• OIFOTW: Hide Conveyor

News and special offers from our sponsor:

> The InDesign Conference Virtual Pass: Couldn't make it to Seattle for the InDesign event of the year? Register for a Virtual Pass to CreativePro Week 2019, and you'll be able to watch recordings of all the main conference sessions and tutorials as many times as you like, from your computer, tablet or smartphone, at your leisure. Includes all the speaker handouts (hundreds of pages), private forum, attendee discounts, and more. Invest in yourself, register today!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• The upcoming InDesign Conference 2020, June 1–5 in Austin, Texas
• Use our code P19MCPN for a $400 discount for Adobe MAX
• Pasteboard tips we talked about
  • Make the pasteboard taller
  • Script to clean up your pasteboard
  • Script to move objects on and off the pasteboard
  • Move Pasteboard Items to Current Spread
  • Package pasteboard images with the book panel
  • Bonus pasteboard trick -- notes on the pasteboard
• Use the Content Collector (and the Conveyor) to "gridify" a page full of objects

David on a camel!

In this episode:

• News:
  • Upcoming Mac OS 10.15 can't run CS6
  • InDesign Conference 2019 a success!
    • Couldn't make it to Seattle? Get a Virtual Pass
  • We'll be speaking and exhibiting at Adobe MAX 2019
  • InDesignSecrets Facebook group now over 10,000 members
• Autocorrect tips and a great hack from Keith Gilbert
• OIFOTW: Prevent Duplicate User Colors

News and special offers from our sponsor:

> The InDesign Conference Virtual Pass: Couldn't make it to Seattle for the InDesign event of the year? Register for a Virtual Pass to CreativePro Week 2019, and you'll be able to watch recordings of all the main conference sessions and tutorials as many times as you like, from your computer, tablet or smartphone, at your leisure. Includes all the speaker handouts (hundreds of pages), private forum, attendee discounts, and more. Invest in yourself, register today!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Steve Werner on Catalina (Mac OS 10.15) support
• Should you always upgrade? No! See why here and here
• Andrew Keith Strauss's video on the early days of InDesign
• Use our code P19MCPN for a $400 discount for Adobe MAX
• InDesign Magazine article on cross-media color
• The autocorrect feature is cool
• Keith's winning 3-minute max tip on hacking autocorrect
• Video of David and Anne-Marie's "Best of InDesignSecrets Tips" session

In this episode:

• News:
  • InDesign Conference 2019 in less than two weeks!
    • Can't make it to Seattle? Get a Virtual Pass
  • InDesignSecrets YouTube channel now over 4,000 subscribers
• Interview with Chad Chelius
• Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Fit Frame to Content (Comm-Opt-C/Control-Alt-C)

News and special offers from our sponsor:

> The InDesign Conference Virtual Pass: Can't make it to Seattle for the InDesign event of the year? Register for a Virtual Pass to CreativePro Week 2019, and you'll be able to watch recordings of all the main conference sessions and tutorials as many times as you like, from your computer, tablet or smartphone, at your leisure. Includes all the speaker handouts (hundreds of pages), private forum, attendee discounts, and more. Invest in yourself, register today!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Free videos! InDesignSecrets YouTube and CreativePro YouTube channels
• Chad has two movies on our YouTube channels
  • Ring Charts in Adobe Illustrator
  • Fixing Broken Text Styles
• Chad's Document Cloud course
• Document Cloud mobile apps
• Document Cloud FAQ
• Importing comments from PDF into InDesign

In this episode: the

• News:
  • InDesign Conference 2019
    • Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of InDesign!
    • Virtual Pass now available
  • May 2019 InDesign Magazine on Big (Format) Design
  • GREP patch for InDesign CC 2019 14.0.2
• Inside the Dark Art of Spellchecking
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Include Deleted Text when Spellchecking

News and special offers from our sponsor:

> The InDesign Conference: If you use Adobe InDesign, mark off June 10–13, 2019 in Seattle, WA, for the InDesign event of the year! Join InDesignSecrets hosts Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner, and dozens of top InDesign experts and members of the Adobe InDesign team, for over 30 sessions and four in-depth half-day tutorials. All registrations include session videos and in-depth speaker handouts. Invest in yourself, register today! Discounts available for groups, government, non-profits, schools, and alumni, contact us for details.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• The 2019 InDesign Conference is coming up (June 10–13), reserve your spot!
• German words that should be
• Some great spellcheck articles we've posted
  • Dynamic spellcheck (little red squiggles)
  • Hunspell vs. Proximity dictionary preference
  • Hyphenation issues and fixes here, here, and here
  • Using spellcheck to make InDesign add diacritics
• Please show some love to these CreativePro Week breakfast sponsors!
  • ESRI (our articles about their maps plug-in here and our video here)
  • LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com)
  • Blurb
  • Issuu
• Other exhibiting sponsors:
  • Ripon
  • Recosoft
  • PrintUI
  • PDF Association
  • Mindsteam
  • Maxon
  • Hederis
  • Graphic Artists Guild
  • Ctrl Software
  • Axaio
• All CreativePro Week sponsors (including marketing sponsors)

In this episode:

• News:
  • InDesign Conference 2019
    • Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of InDesign!
  • Tweaks and fixes in just-released InDesign CC 14.02s
• Five, or Six, or more Amazing Tips for Find/Change
• Favorite Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Command-Option-N/Control-Alt-N

News and special offers from our sponsor:

> The InDesign Conference: If you use Adobe InDesign, mark off June 10–13, 2019 in Seattle, WA, for the InDesign event of the year! Join InDesignSecrets hosts Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner, and dozens of top InDesign experts and members of the Adobe InDesign team, for over 30 sessions and four in-depth half-day tutorials. All registrations include session videos and in-depth speaker handouts. Invest in yourself, register today! Discounts available for groups, government, non-profits, schools, and alumni, contact us for details.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Free videos! InDesignSecrets YouTube and CreativePro YouTube channels
• More free InDesign videos in our tips series on Lynda/LinkedIn
• Check out our Facebook group (now over 8,000 friendly members!) for help and tips
• The 2019 InDesign Conference is coming up (June 10–13), reserve your spot!
• What's new in InDesign CC 14.02
• Our Facebook Live "InDesign Tips" video webinar
• Cool features InDesign engineers are working on
• More Find/Change tips are here, here, and here

In this episode:

• News:
  • GREP in InDesign now on Amazon!
  • InDesign Magazine, April 2019 issue: Proposals
  • InDesign Conference 2019
    • Hurry, early-bird savings deadline is April 15 (easy to remember!)
• How can you measure how well you or others know InDesign?
• Obscure Feature of the Week: Shadow Honors Other Efects

News and special offers from our sponsor:

> The InDesign Conference: If you use Adobe InDesign, mark off June 10–13, 2019 in Seattle, WA, for the InDesign event of the year! Join InDesignSecrets hosts Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner, and dozens of top InDesign experts and members of the Adobe InDesign team, for over 30 sessions and four in-depth half-day tutorials. All registrations include session videos and in-depth speaker handouts. Invest in yourself, register today! Discounts available for groups, government, non-profits, schools, and alumni, contact us for details.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Free videos! InDesignSecrets YouTube and CreativePro YouTube channels
• More free InDesign videos in our tips series on Lynda/LinkedIn
• Check out our Facebook group (now over 8,000 friendly members!) for help and tips
• The 2019 InDesign Conference is coming up (June 10–13), reserve your spot!
• GREP in InDesign, 3rd ed. is available in our shop as a PDF, and on Amazon as a print book or Kindle ebook.
• InDesign Self-Assessment links
  • The Dunning Kruger effect
  • Compare that to the Imposter effect
  • Adobe's main certification page
  • Find an Adobe Certified Expert
  • Schedule your Adobe InDesign CC ACE exam
  • Sample InDesign CC certification exam
  • Great test prep software for Adobe certification exams
  • Mike Rankin's video course on ACA certification
  • Get started with your Adobe InDesign ACA certification
• Our April Fool's article (on InDillushop/XD), featuring a drop-shadowed, beveled/embossed logo