Thu, 28 December 2006
Quizzler winner (measurement units); Basic Paragraph Style; Native .indd file vs. press-ready PDF for your printer; Last Quizzler with a Trumatch prize; Obscurity of the Week: Increase/Decrease Left Indent ---------- Details follow, or visit http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts/ for detailed Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment. ---------- Listen in your browser:
Link we forgot to mention in the podcast: Quizzler instructions: If you have an answer to this episode's Quizzler, don't post it here! E-mail it to info@indesignsecrets.com with "Quizzler" in the Subject. One winner will be chosen randomly from all the correct answers received by midnight, January 2, 2006. The winner will be mailed a set of Colorfinder process color swatchbooks (coated and uncoated) from Trumatch, a $170 value. Remember, don't post your answer here! You'll ruin it for everyone! Sponsor for this episode: Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) |
Wed, 13 December 2006
Lynda.com free trial; Quizzler results (font version); Using agates in InDesign; Linking to text files; Insert glyph script; New Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Patient User Mode ------- Details follow; or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes and to comment on this episode. ------- Listen in your browser:
Links mentioned in the podcast: Quizzler instructions: If you have an answer to this episode's Quizzler, don't post it here! E-mail it to info@indesignsecrets.com with "Quizzler" in the Subject. One winner will be chosen randomly from all the correct answers received by midnight, December 18, 2006. The winner will be mailed a set of Colorfinder process color swatchbooks (coated and uncoated) from Trumatch, a $170 value. Remember, don't post your answer here! You'll ruin it for everyone! Sponsors for this episode: Trumatch ("Colorfinder," their process color swatch book system) Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) |
Mon, 4 December 2006
Quizzler answer and winner; Export to PDF vs. Distill Postscript; Updating multiple images; Another Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: The Smooth Tool ------ Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for detailed Show Notes and to comment on the episode. ------ Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-037.mp3 (12.2 MB, 25:31 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted in a few days)
Links mentioned in the podcast: Our InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster Adobe's Find a Print Service Provider page Quizzler instructions: If you have an answer to this episode's Quizzler, don't post it here! E-mail it to info@indesignsecrets.com with "Quizzler" in the Subject. One winner will be chosen randomly from all the correct answers received by midnight, December 8, 2006. The winner will be mailed a set of Colorfinder process color swatchbooks (coated and uncoated) from Trumatch, a $170 value. Remember, don't post your answer here! You'll ruin it for everyone! Sponsors for this episode: Markzware (InDesign plug-in developer) Special offer for podcast listeners extended until Dec. 31 2006: 20% off any Markzware product! Go to their online store and enter the coupon code IDSECRET during checkout to get the discount. Trumatch ("Colorfinder," their process color swatch book system) Listen to the podcasts for a chance to win two Colorfinder books, Coated and Uncoated, a $170.00 value. Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message! |
Wed, 22 November 2006
Anniversary, Process swatchbooks, Keep Options, Quizzler, Obscurity of the Week: The J key (Formatting affects text/container) ----- Details follow, or visit http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, Links, and other goodies. ----- Listen in your browser:
Links mentioned in the podcast: Quizzler instructions: If you have an answer to this episode's Quizzler, don't post it here! E-mail it to info@indesignsecrets.com with "Quizzler" in the Subject. One winner will be chosen randomly from all the correct answers received by midnight, November 30, 2006. The winner will be mailed a set of Colorfinder process color swatchbooks (coated and uncoated) from Trumatch, a $170 value. Remember, don't post your answer here! You'll ruin it for everyone!
Sponsors for this episode: Trumatch ("Colorfinder," their process color swatch book system) Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) |
Sun, 12 November 2006
Conference recap; Clips from the live podcast; Outlining type tips and gotchas; Butterly Island questions; Obscurity of the Week: The Barbell ------- Details follow, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, sponsor offers, or to leave a comment. ------- Listen in your browser:
Links mentioned in the podcast: Sponsors for this episode: Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) |
Wed, 1 November 2006
Free Stuff for InDesign Users; Obscurity of the Week: Unassigned Content Frames ------- Listen in your browser: Free Stuff for InDesign Users: A follow-up to David's recent Adobe eSeminar
Links mentioned in the podcast: Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) |
Sat, 14 October 2006
Upcoming events; Creating font catalogs; Mirroring objects; Two unusual keyboard shortcuts; Obscurity of the Week: Transformations are Totals ---------- Details follow, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show notes, Links, and to comment on this episode. ---------- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-033.mp3 (9.0 MB, 18:53 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted in a few days)
Links mentioned in the podcast: Teacup Software Seminar (New York City, NY, Oct. 17, 2006; free) InDesign Conference: Master Class (Seattle, WA, Nov. 6-8, 2006) Chris Paveglio's InDesign Font Catalog Applescript for CS1/CS2 Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message! |
Mon, 25 September 2006
ID Conference news; Rotate text tip; Photocompositing in InDesign; Cari Jansen interview; Obscurity of the week: Adjust View Settings ------ Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts to read the Show Notes, access links mentioned, and to leave your comments! ----- Listen in your browser:
Links mentioned in the podcast: Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) |
Thu, 14 September 2006
The InDesigner videocast; Free plug-in for Find/Change; Adding the current date automatically; Obscurity of the Week: Notes tool and menu. ----- Details follow, or go to http://indesign.com/category/podcasts to read the Show notes, links mentioned, and leave a comment. ----- Listen in your browser:
Links mentioned in the podcast: Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) |
Wed, 6 September 2006
Site News; Quizzler #3 Winner; OpenType Fractions Helper; Pages Palette; Obscurity of the Week: End Nested Style Here ------- Details follow; or go to http://www.indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for show notes, links, and to post a comment------- Listen in your browser:
Links mentioned in the podcast: Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) |
Sat, 26 August 2006
InDesign Conference: Master Class; Q2ID plug-in; Making proper Fractions; Quizzler #3; Obscurity of the Week: Update Library Item ----- Details follow, or see show notes at http://www.indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts ----- Listen in your browser: -- Preview of the upcoming InDesign Conference: Master Class Quizzler #3 instructions: As we mentioned in the podcast, DON'T post your Quizzler answer (or any discussion about it) here as a comment. Instead, e-mail your answer to us at info@indesignsecrets.com with "Quizzler" in the subject line. All correct answers we receive by midnight PST on Thursday, August 30 2006 will be included in our random dart throw that will choose a single winner. Duplicate entries from the same person will result in your being made fun of in the next podcast as well as disqualifying you. Links mentioned in the podcast: Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) |
Wed, 16 August 2006
With guest star: Sandee Cohen; Interactive PDFs; Buttons and States; Obscurity of the Week: Flush Space ------ Details follow, or visit http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes and comments ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-028.mp3 (14.4 MB, 27:58 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted in a few days) With special guest star, Sandee Cohen! --A "deep dive" into creating interactive PDF files, especially Buttons and States --Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Flush Space Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message! |
Fri, 4 August 2006
2nd Quizzler Winner, Drop Shadows Secrets, Obscurity of the Week: Transform Sequence Again Individually ------- Details follow, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for show notes and links. ------- Listen in your browser: • The Winner of the 2nd InDesignSecrets Quizzler! Links mentioned: Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) |
Mon, 24 July 2006
Align to Spine; Quiz Contest #2; Obscurity of the Week: Convert to Profile/Assign Profile -------- Details follow, or visit the Show notes at http://www.indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts -------- Listen in your browser: -- The Pleasures of CS2's Spine Alignment (Align to/Away from Spine) feature Links mentioned: Note: Comments will be closed for 24 hours (to this post only) to give people a chance to listen to the podcast and figure out the answer to the Quiz. After 24 hours, the first complete and correct quiz answer posted here as a comment will win. We'll officially declare the winner as well, via a comment like last time. Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) |
Mon, 17 July 2006
Mailbag Episode: Change underline thickness, ID user groups in Canada, Dotted leaders, Disk error with custom sets, Obscurity of the week: View Threshold ||| Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts to view show notes and links ||| Listen in your browser: The Mailbag Episode! All topics discussed today were questions listeners e-mailed us about, and their answers (along with a few embellishments of our own). Links mentioned: Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) |
Tue, 4 July 2006
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 ------ -- London InDesign Conference recap from David, and he recorded interesting tidbits from a few of the conference speakers: Links mentioned: Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) |
Sun, 25 June 2006
Contest winner; Tip of the Day plug-in; Lab values and spot colors; Add-a-Page script; Obscurity of the week: Position tool
---- Detailed notes follow, or go to http://www.indesignsecrets.com/category/podcast for show notes, links, and to comment on the episode. ----- * The answer to — and winner of — our first InDesign Quiz Contest Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) |
Tue, 13 June 2006
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 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) Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) |
Sat, 3 June 2006
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. Other links mentioned in the show: |
Thu, 25 May 2006
InDesign 2006 Conference Recap; Hear from Pamela Pfiffner, Sandee Cohen and Kacey Crouch; Real-time reversed text effect, Obscurity of the Week: Browse
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Wed, 10 May 2006
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
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Fri, 28 April 2006
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
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Sat, 22 April 2006
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
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Tue, 11 April 2006
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
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Wed, 29 March 2006
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
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Tue, 21 March 2006
Mailbag: Creating lines for forms and moving custom Workspaces between computers; Secrets of creating interactive PDFs in InDesign; Obscurity of the Week: Lock Zero Point
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Tue, 14 March 2006
Listener tips on keyboard shortcuts and gravity, Eyedropper tool (copy/paste formatting) secrets, Obscurity of the Week: Justify Text Next to an Object
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Tue, 7 March 2006
SPECIAL EDITION! Anne-Marie takes her turn as solo host with this follow-up of her e-seminar for Adobe, "Adobe Bridge: Your Creative Hub." She reviews what Bridge offers InDesign users and answers some of the ID/Bridge questions sent in by the e-seminar audience.
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Thu, 2 March 2006
SPECIAL EDITION! David flies solo here and answers tons of questions he received from the audience (but didn't have a chance to get to) during his recent e-seminar for Adobe, "InDesign for QuarkXPress Users."
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Wed, 1 March 2006
Mailbag: Make page one start on the left side, and 2-sided printing in InDesign? Obscurity of the Week: Ink Manager
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Thu, 23 February 2006
Listener e-mail: Enlarge pasteboard width, Change layer visibility in placed Illustrator files; Discretionary Returns in InDesign? ("They said it couldn't be done!"); Obscurity of the Week: Transparency Blend Space
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Fri, 10 February 2006
Listener e-mail: Correction for inserting tabs into table cells in Windows; Preset Secrets; Obscure Feature of the Week: Gravity
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Mon, 30 January 2006
Listener E-Mail: Insert Special Character (Tab), Make Non-Printing, Find/Change Quotes; Best options for exporting InDesign pages for inclusion in a QuarkXPress layout; Obscure Feature of the Week: Allow Pages to Shuffle
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Wed, 25 January 2006
Quick Apply, Convert Polygon, Favorite InDesign Secrets of Will Eisley, Group Product Manager at Adobe Systems, Obscurity of the Week: Section Marker
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Tue, 17 January 2006
InDesign Recovery Data, Scaling Text Attributes, Curling Straight Quotes en masse, Obscurity of the Week: Hyphenation Slider
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Wed, 4 January 2006
Actual Size, Add a Script, Keep with Next Paragraph, InCopy, Obscurity of the Week
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