Mon, 30 April 2012
Japanese Dots; CS6 Launch Event, Creative Cloud, Grayscale Export; Obscurity of the Week: Change Time
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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-171.mp3(18.5 MB, 33:21 minutes)
See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode.
News and special offers from our sponsors:
>> Em Software: Until May 15 2012, InDesignSecrets listeners get 20% OFF any full product, such as the excellent InData plug-in for database publishing! Visit: http://emsoftware.com/offers/indesign-secrets-special-offer. "Let software robots do your work!"
>> eDocker: makes HTML5 export for InDesign, so you an make web apps for iPad and other tablets (no app store required!). Special offer: $100 off (valid to 5/31/2012) with code 10IDS2012
>> Recosoft: Special offer: 25% off PDF2ID or ID2Office (until May 10), for converting PDF files to editable INDD files, or INDD files to Word/Powerpoint documents. Use discount code: IDSecrets
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Links mentioned in this podcast:
> Adobe Global Benchmark Study on Attitudes on Creativity (PDF) / Another article about this
> David's hunt for Japanese Dots
> PEPCON sponsors (such as Twixl, Mag+, PressRun, and others!) with great solutions you need to know about! Check out their sites, and meet many of them at PEPCON
> Adobe Creative Cloud basic information and FAQ.
> Information about Creative Suite 6
> Little Lord Fauntleroy: the grayscale movie
> Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (filibustering InDesign grayscale issues)
> Exporting Grayscale PDF files in older versions (this is a new feature in CS6)
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Thu, 26 April 2012
PEPCON discount; Underappreciated IDCS6 features; Obscurity of the Week: Auto-Size Link Info Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-170.mp3 (18.5 MB, 33:21 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode.
News and special offers from our sponsors:
>> PrintUI.com / In-Tools.com: Get free setup on an InDesignServer solution from PrintUI.com! Or, if you're more into EPUB, contact Harbs to learn more about a cool soon-to-come tool that provides EPUB preview and editing CSS files inside InDesign!
>> Mediatrad, a great new tool for translators and InDesign users who need document language translation. It's free for non-commercial purposes. You can create a free trial 30-day account and translate up to 100 pages. Entering the special code: "indesignsecrets.com" gives you 100 additional pages!
>> Rorohiko makes a wide range of excellent add-ons, including the must-have "Soxy" — it opens the right file in the right application! Use the code INDESIGNSECRETS170 for 25% off single installs of Soxy.
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Links mentioned in this podcast:
> PEPCON social networking site
> IGNITE InDesign (PEPCON event) info & sign-up sheet
> Anne-Marie's InDesign CS6 New Features title at lynda.com
> David's hunt for Japanese Dots
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Tue, 20 March 2012
News; Keith Gilbert Interview, Changing Document Size, Obscurity of the Week: Scissors Tool -------- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-169.mp3 (18.2 MB, 32:32 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.
News and special offers from our sponsors:
>> eDocker, has a new InDesign digital publishing solution called eDocker Tablet Publisher. With this program you can create, from InDesign, an HTML5 Web publication that works in all devices, including iPads, and that you can publish through your own server. Normally $995 for a Single User edition, InDesignSecrets users can get Tablet Publisher for only $895 through April 30 2012 with the coupon code 10IDS2012. For more details and more discounts for InDesignSecrets fans, go to http://www.edocker.com/ids.
>> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center based in the UK, has an InDesign ACE Prep exam training class on March 22 and 23 for "wannabe InDesign Certified Experts." Mention "InDesignSecrets" when registering for 40% off the cost of the class! Also, Certitec is one of the first companies to offer Adobe's official Digital Publishing Suite courses for all you budding tablet publishers out there! See details on their 2-day courses for Single Edition DPS and Enterprise Pro DPS. Mention "InDesignSecrets" when registering for any course and get 25% off the fee! That's an incredible deal. If you're near one of their regional training centers in London Covent Garden or Cardiff, you're a lucky chap.
>> Recosoft continues to improve and enhance their breakthrough product, PDF2ID, now at v3.0. PDF2ID is a cross-platform plug-in for Adobe InDesign that enables you to directly open and convert PDF documents within Adobe InDesign CS3/CS4/CS5. It supports multiple languages and can even pull in PDF annotations (comments) into the InDesign layout! LATE-BREAKING NEWS Recosoft's incredible InDesignSecrets discount has been extended to March 31, 2012! Purchase now using Promo Code IDSECRETS and receive a 50% discount for PDF2ID Standard v3.0 and PDF2ID Professional v3.0 AND, a newly-offered 25% discount on ID2Office v1.1.
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Links mentioned in this podcast:
> Register for PePCon to reserve your place, it's sold out every year since we started > PePCon 2012 Event on LinkedIn; see which of your contacts are attending
> Info and registration for our 2-day, single track InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC, June 12-13, 2012
> Is it aitch or haitch?
> Keith Gilbert's company is Gilbert Consulting
> Keith was trying to remember the ASOS "magalog" tablet publication, "from the UK's top fashion design and beauty store"
> All about Fargo, the Movie
> Apple's new iPad
> Gridify Tips on the InDesignSecrets forum and a blog post
> Adobe's new Digital Publishing Suite Developer Center (yes we're developers now!)
> Posts about Changing the Size of an InDesign document:
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Tue, 13 March 2012
Drawing in InDesign; Quizzler Winner (finally); Shortcut of the Week: Paste Into; Obscurity of the Week: Convert Direction Point Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-168.mp3 (18.2 MB, 32:32 minutes) [media id=89 width=* height=20]
See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.
News and special offers from our sponsors:
>> Rorohiko has a cool plug-in, FrameReporter, that wins the award for Best Plug-in Icon Ever (a newspaper reporter inspecting a text frame with a magnifying glass!). Oh, and it also provides a slew of useful features for anyone who works with text and image frames in InDesign—in other words, everyone. For example, with FrameReporter you can name some frames and then use those names for quickly navigating to them! Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS168 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 20% off FrameReporter's regular price of $39US.
>> Recosoft continues to improve and enhance their breakthrough product, PDF2ID, now at v3.0. PDF2ID is a cross-platform plug-in for Adobe InDesign that enables you to directly open and convert PDF documents within Adobe InDesign CS3/CS4/CS5. It supports multiple languages and can even pull in PDF annotations (comments) into the InDesign layout!
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Links mentioned in this podcast:
> Register for PePCon to reserve your place, it's sold out every year since we started
> PePCon 2012 Event on LinkedIn; see which of your contacts are attending
> Info and registration for our 2-day, single track InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC, June 12-13, 2012
> Other articles about drawing in InDesign:
> Free Speech Bubble (and perhaps Snowman Head) script for InDesign
> We talked about Script Labels in this podcast
> A post about Paste Into
> The Aachen font (city where our Quizzler is from)
> Birgit won every one of our InDesignSecrets eBooks!
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Quizzler!
Birgit from Aachen, Germany, was the winner of the random drawing of correct answers to this Quizzler from a couple podcasts ago. In response to the question "What does this cryptogram made up of dingbats spell out," Birgit answered "WE LIKE LEGOS." (David must have been surrounded by the Legos™ his kids play with.)
Our friend Brad Walrod, book compositor extraordinaire, kindly created a graphic of the solution for us. Thank you Brad!
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Tue, 28 February 2012
InDesign Events; ID to EPUB scripts; Shortcut of the Week; Quizzler Update; Obscurity of the Week: Japanese Dots Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-167.mp3 (15.9 MB, 28:51 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.
News and special offers from our sponsors:
>> Rorohiko’s TextExporter 3.1 plug-in makes exporting text out of InDesign CS2-CS5.5 so simple! You can export all the stories in an ID file into one single RTF, plain text, or ID tagged text file, and you control how it orders the text as it extracts and concatenates it. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS167 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the TextExporter plug-in.
>> In-Tools is the developer of AutoFlow Pro, an InDesign plug-in that lets you fully control the layout of both text and images by dynamically shrinking and expanding individual text frames and threaded stories using your settings. (And it’s a great solution for easy alternate layouts for DPS.) Check out their AutoFlow page for details, screenshots, documentation, and to download a free trial!
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Links mentioned in this podcast:
> Register for PePCon by March 2 for up to $200 off
> PePCon 2012 Event on LinkedIn; see which of your contacts are attending
> Diane Burns' Creating Digital Publications with InDesign, UC Berkeley
> Info and registration for our 2-day, single track InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC, June 12-13, 2012
> Forum discussion about Jongware's preptext.jsx script
> David's PowerStyles plug-in can also do what PerfectPrepText does (and more)
> Cari Janssen's article about TomaxxiLinkRename script
> Anne-Marie's post about TextExporter & exporting text from ID
> Japanese dots post by Cari
> Orthogonal paste (or "paste without formatting") post by David
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Quizzler!
Listeners: The mystery image is below. CLUE: The last character is Sonata, here's a character map
 To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and the correct answer to the puzzle (as described in the podcast). You have until February 29 2012 at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! We will randomly choose a winner from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast in February, and receives the prize: a copy of every single one of our eBooks!
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Sun, 19 February 2012
Upcoming events and deadlines; TOCCON recap; John McWade Interview; Quizzler Results; Obscurity of the Week: Sample Buttons ------------- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-166.mp3 (19.8 MB, 35:56 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode.
News and special offers from our sponsors:
>> eDocker, the fine people who sell the InDesign > Flash magazine solution (now known as eDocker2 Desktop Publisher) that we've talked about before, just released a new InDesign digital publishing solution called eDocker Tablet Publisher. With this program you can create, from InDesign, an HTML5 Web publication that works in all devices, including iPads, and that you can publish through your own server. Normally $995 for a Single User edition, InDesignSecrets users can get Tablet Publisher for only $895 through April 30 2012 with the coupon code 10IDS2012. For more details and more discounts for InDesignSecrets fans, go to http://www.edocker.com/ids.
>> Recosoft continues to improve and enhance their breakthrough product, PDF2ID, now at v3.0. PDF2ID is a cross-platform plug-in for Adobe InDesign that enables you to directly open and convert PDF documents within Adobe InDesign CS3/CS4/CS5. It supports multiple languages and can even pull in PDF annotations (comments) into the InDesign layout! As an InDesignSecrets fan, you can get an incredible 50% off of PDF2ID Standard or Professional with the promo code IDSECRETS. Note this promotion ENDS on March 9, 2012!
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Links mentioned in this podcast:
> Register for PePCon by March 2 for up to $200 off
> Diane Burns' Creating Digital Publications with InDesign, UC Berkeley
> Info and registration for our 2-day, single track InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC
> Anne-Marie's Professional Web Site Design book
> Presentation Zen that very few presenters paid any attention to
> Mike's and Anne-Marie's PDF slides (include links to InDesign scripts) from TOCCON
> EPUB 3 Resources from TOCCON, collected by Matthew Diener from EPUBSecrets.com
> John McWade's Before&After Magazine
> MOO.com Luxe Cards
> All about QR Codes and Teacup Software's solution
> Our post about the Reappearing Sample Button Library
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Quizzler!
Listeners: The mystery image is below. CLUE: There are THREE E's in this!
To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and the correct answer to the puzzle (as described in the podcast). You have until February 29 2012 at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! We will randomly choose a winner from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast in February, and receives the prize: a copy of every single one of our eBooks!
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Sat, 21 January 2012
Chris Kitchener interview; Quizzler, Obscurity of the Week: Butt Cap Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-165.mp3 (16.2 MB, 30:11 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.
News and special offers from our sponsors:
>> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center based in the UK, is one of the first companies to offer Adobe's official Digital Publishing Suite courses for all you budding tablet publishers out there! See details on their 2-day courses for Single Edition DPS and Enterprise Pro DPS. Mention "InDesignSecrets" when registering for any course and get 25% off the fee! That's an incredible deal. If you're near one of their regional training centers in London Covent Garden or Cardiff, you're a lucky chap.
>> Rorohiko offers dozens of cool plug-ins and scripts for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! For example, have you checked out their free plug-in called Like Finds Like? Just select an item on the page and with a simple click (or with a keyboard shortcut you assign) you can have InDesign select all other "matches" to the selection on the page or spread. Check out the LikeFindsLike product page at Rorohiko.com, and be sure to mosey around their other offerings while you're there. --
Links mentioned in this podcast:
> Check out PePConference.com, register by March 2 2012 for $200 early bird discount
> David's The Creative Sweet at the 2012 Macworld/iWorld in San Francisco, Jan 26
> Anne-Marie's InDesign to EPUB & Beyond workshop at the O'Reilly TOCCON, Feb 13
> Mike Rankin's Renovating Print Assets for Digital session at TOCCON, Feb 14
> Save 15% off any TOCCON registration with the coupon code AMCon
> Kiyo Toma's sneak peak of InDesign liquid layout from Adobe MAX
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Quizzler!
Listeners: The mystery image is below.
To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and the correct answer to the puzzle (as described in the podcast). You have until January 31 2012 at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! We will randomly choose a winner from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast in February, and receives the prize: a copy of every single one of our eBooks!
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Sat, 7 January 2012
Layer Tricks; Hides/Show keyboard shortcuts; Obscurity of the Week: Stylistic Sets Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-164.mp3 (15.8 MB, 28:55 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.
News and special offers from our sponsors:
>> In-Tools is the developer of AutoFlow Pro, an InDesign plug-in that lets you fully control the layout of both text and images, using both master frames and non-master frames, with minimal user intervention. (And it's a great solution for easy alternate layouts for DPS.) Company founder Harbs is also the “Guru” of PrintUI.com, which provides a number of custom InDesign Server-based solutions.
>> Recosoft makes PDF2ID (converts PDFs to editable InDesign files), ID2Office (converts InDesign files to editable Word or Powerpoint files) and PDF2ID Enterprise, which batch converts PDFs to InDesign and/or to the IDML format; just the ticket for automating workflows. Check them out! --
Links mentioned in this podcast:
> Check out PePConference.com, register by March 2 2012 for $200 early bird discount
> David (and Recosoft) will be at the 2012 Macworld/iWorld in San Francisco
> Blog post: Hidden Layer Tricks in CS5
> "Betcha By Golly Wow," the famous Stylistic set AM was singing
> More info on Open Type alternate glyphs and stylistic sets
> Adobe page about Tom Phinney's Hypatia Sans typeface
> Check out the stylistic sets in Gabriola, an OT font free with Office 2010 and Windows 7
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Minion Pro's Stylistic set 1
 Hypatia Light Stylistic set 1 (top) vs. set 2 (bottom) showing the difference in the lowercase "g's"
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Fri, 30 December 2011
John McWade; InDesign CS6+ Wishlist; WTH - Allow Document Pages to Shuffle; Obscurity of the Week: Star Inset ----------- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-163.mp3 (17.5 MB, 32:06 minutes) [media id=84 width=* height=20]
See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.
News and special offers from our sponsors:
>> Andromeda Software lets you untether your desktop with their new CollabSystem for InDesign users and the clients who love them. It’s a collaborative environment; a central, cloud-based community where you can share your works in progress from within InDesign. Upload your work to the cloud from within InDesign and share access with up to 30 users via a simple URL or free iTunes app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. --
Links mentioned in this podcast:
> Check out PePConference.com for updated speaker info and bios
> Register for the 2012 PePConference by March 2 2012 for $200 earlybird registrations
> Tony Harmer's poem (performed at PepCon 2011) asking for PDF Form objects
> Marijan Tompaa's script solution for ID > Acro forms
> Anne-Marie was actually recalling how InDesign CS could "hotlink" export to GoLive (not Dreamweaver)
> InDesign UserVoice (wishlist) web site
> MiniBridge in InDesign basics
> Starbursts and star insets free scripts
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Sat, 17 December 2011
PePConference News; Matthew Diener interview; Keyboard Shortcut of the Week; Obscurity of the Week: Create Guides --------------------- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-162.mp3 (15.2 MB, 28:04 minutes) [media id=83 width=* height=20]
See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.
News and special offers from our sponsors:
>> In-Tools is the developer of World Tools Pro, InDesign plug-ins that represent “the most complete solution available for composing multilingual documents including Hebrew, Arabic, Indic languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and more.” Company founder Harbs is also the "Guru" of PrintUI.com, which provides a number of custom InDesign Server-based solutions, like the StoreSigns.com solution we talked about in the podcast.
>> Rorohiko has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! In this episode we take a close look at their Mac/Windows utility called Soxy ($19US) that helps you open files (InDesign, EPS,PDF, and others) in the correct version of the program when you have more than one version installed. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS162 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the Soxy utility.
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Links mentioned in this podcast:
> Go to PePConference.com and check out the new logo by CMYKate Designs
> Register for the 2012 PePConference by Dec. 31 2011 for speaker-only t-shirt and bag
> Check out EPUBSecrets.com, and say hi to editor Matthew Diener (@epubsecrets)
> Matthew lives in Evanston (NU Wildcats) but follows Michigan State football :D
> An EPUB Primer written by @epubpupil in EPUBSecrets.com
> David's article about PrintUI.com will be in issue #45 of InDesign Magazine
> SMIL ("smile") is how you associate sound files with HTML to add Read Aloud ability to EPUB books
> SVG files and InDesign
> Anne-Marie's video, A Field Guide to Special Characters in InDesign and PDF guide
> David wrote a post about some mysterious hidden characters too
> All the InDesignSecrets tips videos on Lynda.com (some only available to subscribers)
> Blog post about Deleting All the Guides
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Adobe InDesign tips, techniques and insider info from Anne-Marie Concepcion and David Blatner.
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