InDesign Secrets
Adobe InDesign tips, techniques and insider info from Anne-Marie Concepcion and David Blatner.

New InDesign books, Miami Conference, XML and InDesign, Obscurity of the Week: Formatted Only Once

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-067.mp3 (15.5 MB, 33:48 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • News: Two new InDesign books, Helvetica movie, InDesign Conference in Miami, Florida
  • XML and InDesign: Overview, basics, when and how and why
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Formatted Only Once

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Maivald and Palmer's book: A Designer's Guide to InDesign and XML Powell's book: Instant InDesign Documentary movie, Helvetica InDesign Conference (Miami, FL; Feb 26-March 1 2008) We interview Cari Janssen about her XML project Anne-Marie's blog post on exporting HTML using XML tags InData plug-in from Em Software

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-067.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:16am EDT

TypeFi AutoFit; Numbered Paragraphs; Obscurity of the Week: Assignments Panel

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-066.mp3 (12.0 MB, 26:11 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • TypeFi AutoFit, free plug-in from Typefi
  • Numbering Paragraphs across unthreaded frames
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Assignments panel

Links mentioned in the Podcast: TypeFi AutoFit plug-in (CS1, 2, or 3) Cari Janssen's AutoFit tip Anne-Marie's blog post on numbered paragraphs

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:53am EDT

Plug-in-palooza! What, how, why; Twenty-plus great InDesign plug-ins; Obscurity of the Week: Configure Plug-ins

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-065.mp3 (15.8 MB, 34:30 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • Plug-in-palooza!
    • What's a plug-in? Why are they valuable?
    • Finding InDesign plug-ins on the Internet
    • Installing plug-ins
    • Fast descriptions of over 20 InDesign plug-ins that users are loving (the tip of the iceberg, there are at dozens more we didn't have time to cover)
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Configure Plug-ins

Sponsor Link and Offer: This episode was sponsored by Audible.com, which lists over 40,000 audio books you can download and listen to just like a podcast. Go to audiblepodcast.com/indesign to download your free audio book (time-limited offer).

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Adobe's comprehensive InDesign Plug-ins list DTP Tools (Page Control, Layer Comps, History, Tetris, Cross References, Keyboard Shortcuts) Markzware (Q2ID, ID2Q) EmSoftware (InData, XTags) Teacup Software (DataLinker, TypeFitter, PatternMaker, BarcodeMaker) Rorohiko (TextExporter, LikeFindsLike, Color2Gray, ChatterGoofy) Recosoft (PDF2ID) i.t.i.p GmbH (InMath) Gluon (ProScale ID) Triple Triangle (Color Spec Cubed) Knowbody Software (CoolKerning) Zevrix Solutions (LinkOptimizer)

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Direct download: InDesignSecrets-065.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:58am EDT

Leopard reports; Mailbag answers; Obscurity of the week: Reset Indents

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-064.mp3 (13.7 MB, 29:53 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • News: Leopard and CS3 (reports from the field)
  • "You Asked For It!" We answer a slew of listener e-mails:
    • Resize from center
    • Select overset text
    • Images on a path
    • Vertical justification
    • Clear Character style color spec
    • Vertical gradients in tables
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Reset Indents

Sponsor Link and Offer: This episode was sponsored by Audible.com, which lists over 40,000 audio books you can download and listen to just like a podcast. Go to audiblepodcast.com/indesign to download your free audio book (time-limited offer).

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Tim Cole's Using InDesign on Leopard post on his blog Steve Werner's Leaping to Leopard post here Adobe's TechNote on Vista and CS3 (installation troubleshooting) (Sorry, Vista Home Basic users) Adobe Feature Request form Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in from DTP Tools/InDesignSecrets How to Rebuild Prefs in InDesign Fontlab's TransType font converter utility

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Direct download: InDesignSecrets-064.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:15am EDT

Chicago CS Conf Recap; David's New Toy; Calendar Layouts; CS3 and Leopard; Obscurity of the Week: Reset to Base

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-063.mp3 (12 MB, 26:15 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • News: Recap of the Creative Suite Conference in Chicago
  • David's favorite new tech toy
  • Creating calendar layouts in InDesign
  • Hot Button Post of the Week: Adobe CS3 Support for Leopard
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Reset to Base

Sponsor Link and Offer: This episode was sponsored by Audible.com, which lists over 40,000 audio books you can download and listen to just like a podcast. Go to audiblepodcast.com/indesign to download your free audio book (time-limited offer).

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Upcoming InDesign Conference (Miami, Feb 2008) Fujistu ScanSnap for Mac or Windows Guided Tour of Apple's new OS, Leopard (10.5) Parallels Desktop software Anne-Marie's Calendar Layout post CalendarMaker script (Mac only) on the Adobe Exchange

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:29pm EDT

5.01 Update; New ID CS3 Books; Custom Page Sizes; Transform Individually; Quizzler Winner and Answer; Obscurity of the Week: Miter Join and Limit

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-062.mp3 (13.8 MB, 29:10 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • News: 5.01 Update, New CS3 books, Keyboard Shortcuts Plug-in, London UK User Group
  • Great source for freebies: Adobe Exchange
  • Hot Button Posts of the Week: Custom Page Sizes; Transform Individually
  • Which letter/number isn't used? Quizzler Winner and Answer
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Miter Join/Miter Limit

Links mentioned in the Podcast: InDesign 5.01 Update: Mac or Windows, 5.01 ReadMe PDF New books: Real World InDesign CS3; InDesign CS3 Visual QuickStart Guide; Mastering InDesign CS3 for Print Design and Production; InDesign CS3 Video Training Book; A Designer's Guide to Adobe InDesign and XML; Professional Design Techniques with Adobe Creative Suite 3 Free Keyboard Shortcuts Plug-in from DTP Tools London, UK InDesign User Group Adobe Exchange Beta

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Direct download: InDesignSecrets-062.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:49pm EDT

Our free Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in, Celebrity Shortcuts, When Shortcuts Collide, Poster Discount, Quizzler!, Obscurity of the Week: Context

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InDesignSecrets-061.mp3 (12.6 MB, 27:46 minutes)
(the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

Keyboard Shortcut Extravaganza-za-za!

  • Announcing a new free plug-in from InDesignSecrets and DTP Tools: Keyboard Shortcuts Panel
  • Celebrity Keyboard Shortcuts
  • When Keyboard Shortcuts Collide (with OS shortcuts)
  • New Discount Code for our Keyboard Shortcuts Poster
  • The Return of the Revenge of the QUIZZLER! Listen to the episode ...
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Context

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in (leads to post with download link)
Celebrity Shortcuts from Tim Cole's blog
InDesign Keyboard Shortcuts Poster (use SCHOOL for 30% discount)

Quizzler Instructions: If you know the answer to this episode's Quizzler, e-mail it (don't post it here!) to info@indesignsecrets.com before midnight on Friday, October 12. Please put the word "Quizzler" in your Subject line. The winner will be chosen randomly from all correct responses received, and announced in the next podcast, along with the answer.

Sponsor Link and Offer:
This episode was sponsored by Audible.com, which lists over 40,000 audio books you can download and listen to just like a podcast. Go to audiblepodcast.com/indesign to download your free audio book (time-limited offer).

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Direct download: InDesignSecrets-061.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:31pm EDT

Newsbits; XML; GREP; Tagged Text; CS3 Indexing bug; Obscurity of the Week: the Eraser Tool

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-060.mp3 (13.1 MB, 28:19 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • Newsbits: Tokyo Conference recap; PDF2ID plug-in; more
  • "What is That?" Definitions of XML, GREP, Tagged Text and more
  • Major bug with CS3 indexes, and workarounds
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: the Erase Tool

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Creative Suite and Web Design Conferences (Chicago, Oct. 15–20) Recosoft's PDF2ID plug-in for InDesign CS2/CS3 The InDesigner post about using GREP outside of InDesign CS2 Em Software's XTags for InDesign Adobe forum thread about the CS3 Index bug (script is at post #31) The InDesigner videocast about indexing in InDesign

Sponsor Link and Offer: This episode was sponsored by Audible.com, which lists over 40,000 audio books you can download and listen to just like a podcast. Go to audiblepodcast.com/indesign to download your free audio book (time-limited offer).

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Direct download: InDesignSecrets-060.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:47am EDT

Default Style Glitches; Rebuilding Preferences; Not Possible in ID; Obscurity of the Week: PN and PB

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-059.mp3 (14.2 MB, 29:53 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • Common Glitches with Default Styles
  • What Gets Lost when you Rebuild Preferences
  • Hot Button Post of the Week: Things You Can't Do in InDesign
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: PN and PB

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Free 7-day pass to Lynda.com videos David and Olav Kvern's upcoming Real World InDesign CS3 InCopy CS3 video reviews on Amazon.com Adobe's Feature Request page

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:35am EDT

AutoCorrect; Hidden Characters; Right-to-Left Typesetting; Shrinking PDFs; Obscurity of the Week: Non-Joiner

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-058.mp3 (13.7 MB, 28:53 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

*NOTE* [8/25/07]: We're having a (hopefully) temporary technical glitch with our iTunes feed, and it's not picking up this episode. In the meantime, you can right-click on the .mp3 link above and choose Save Link As to download the .mp3 to your computer and add it to iTunes that way if you want, or of course you can just click the link to listen to it in your browser.

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Melbourne and Tokyo InDesign Conferences Chicago Creative Suite Conference (enter IDSECCSWEB in the coupon code field for $100 off any 2-day, 3-day, Gold, Platinum or Plus pass) Adobe Live Docs page with list of Hidden Characters Adobe Live Docs page with GREP examples Sharon Steuer's upcoming Illustrator CS3 Wow! book Tim Cole's blog post about Non-Joiner U.S. source for InDesign ME (Middle Eastern)

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:26pm EDT

Tips Extravaganza; Customizing the Control Panel; Obscurity of the Week: Isolate Blending

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-057.mp3 (13.8 MB, 29:00 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • Summer 2007 InDesign Tips Extravaganza!
    • Swatches, styles, editing and flowing text, and more
  • Hot Button Post of the Week: Less is More for the Control Panel
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Isolate Blending

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Miami InDesign Conference

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Direct download: InDesignSecrets-057.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Conferences; Quizzler Answer; Huge File Sizes; Scaling in CS3; Obscurity of the Week: Gap Color

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-056.mp3 (14.6 MB, 30:54 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • News: Upcoming InDesign Conferences
  • Quizzler Answer! (Keep Violations' highlight color) and Winner
  • Hot Button Post of the Week: Why is My File Size So Huge?
  • Scaling in InDesign CS3: A Different Kind of Craziness
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Gap Color

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Tokyo and Melbourne InDesign Conferences InDesign Keyboard Shortcuts Poster (for CS2 or CS3)

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Direct download: InDesignSecrets-056.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:32pm EDT

Upcoming ID Seminars; Help Files Live; Composition Highlighting; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Balance Ragged Lines

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Listen in your browser:
InDesignSecrets-055.mp3
(5.9 MB, 24:42 minutes)
(the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • News: Upcoming Seminars for David and Anne-Marie
  • InDesign CS3 Live Docs
  • The Joys of Highlighting Composition Violations
  • The Revenge of the Quizzler!
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Balance Ragged Lines

Quizzler Instructions: If you know the answer to this episode's Quizzler, e-mail it (don't post it here!) to info@indesignsecrets.com before midnight on Friday, July 27. The winner will be chosen randomly from all correct responses received, and announced in the next podcast, along with the answer.

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
David's ID seminar: Refine Design Conference
Anne-Marie's ID seminar: Mastering Prepress Essentials Conference (1.2MB PDF)
Example ID CS3 Help/Live Doc page w/a comment
David's ID CS3 Essentials DVD

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:30pm EDT

Quizzler update; Mixing CS2 and CS3; Hot Button Post: Text Do's and Don'ts; Corner Effects Tips; Obscurity of the Week: Point/Pica Size

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InDesignSecrets-054.mp3 (18.0 MB, 37:57 minutes)
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  • Episode 52 Quizzler Update -- Yet another way to duplicate!
  • Mixing InDesign CS2 and CS3: Possible, with caveats
  • Hot Button Post of the Week: Do's and Don'ts of Text in InDesign
  • Corner Effects Tips and Fixes
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Point/Pica Size

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Episode 52 Quizzler answers are in the Show Notes
Update CS1 (Mac/Win) and CS2 (Mac/Win) to read later version .inx files
CS3 Online Help page about vertical align and corner effects
History of the pica measure from Wikipedia

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:49pm EDT

News; Non-breaking vs. No Break; Quick Apply menu commands; Obscurity of the Week: Ignore Ruler Guide Alignments

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InDesignSecrets-053.mp3
(14.4 MB, 30:14 minutes)
(the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • Lots 'o News (conferences, plug-ins, poster, more)
  • Non-breaking space vs. the No Break character formatting attribute
  • New in CS3: Using Quick Apply to apply menu commands, tips and glitches
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Ignore Ruler Guide Alignments

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Upcoming InDesign Conferences, Creative Suite Conference
Seattle's Refine Design Conference
InDesign CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts poster
DTP Tools Xref plug-in public beta (Mac/Windows, CS2/CS3)
InDesign Magazine (info on special subscription offer)
TheInDesigner videocast about Insert White Space in CS2

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:28am EDT

Recorded live at the ID Conference! Intro; News; Audience Q&A; Live Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Convert Text

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InDesignSecrets-052.mp3
(26.6 MB, 56:43 (!) minutes)
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Recorded live at the 2007 InDesign Conference in New York City!

  • Intro to the podcast, how it's usually created (when not in front of a live audience)
  • News: This conference, New plug-ins for CS3, New InDesign user group in London, UK
  • Who in the audience travelled the furthest to the conference?
  • Q&A from the audience: Converting CS3 to CS2 and CS2 to CS1, Editing .inx files
  • Live Quizzler: How many ways can you duplicate an object in InDesign? (answers below)
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Convert to Text

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Audacity open-source audio recording software
Teacup Software (PatternMaker and BarcodeMaker plug-ins)
Typefi (free AutoFit plug-in)
London InDesign User Group
Brazilian InDesign Blog
PitStop Professional from Enfocus Software
Adding the Notes plug-ins to InDesign CS2

Quizzler answers!
From our genius studio audience:
Cut/copy paste, Step and repeat, Alt/Option-drag, Cut/copy Paste in place, Cut/copy Paste into, Duplicate, Transform > Move (with Copy button), Duplicate a layer containing the object, Alt/Option-drag the object's layer proxy to a new layer, Export snippet and place it back in, Drag it into a Library and drag it back onto the layout, Use it in PatternMaker, Duplicate the page or spread containing the object, Use it on a Master page and then override it on the document page, Option/Alt-arrow key.
From David: File > Export to .inx then copy and paste the call to the object elsewhere in the .inx file, save it and then open it in InDesign.
From Anne-Marie: Paste object into first row of table, convert row to a Header row, then continue table into a new frame and the object gets duplicated in the second frame's Header row.
Two more from David: Hold down the Option/Alt key when pressing Return/Enter after editing any transform field; or Copy object to clipboard, then use Find/Change text (Find: any character or string, Change: Clipboard contents).

Wow! Who knew there were so many ways? Listen to the podcast to learn who won the contest.

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:51pm EDT

Announcements; Hyperlinks; Text Variables; One-Button Mice; Obscurity of the Week: File Info

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-051.mp3 (16.2 MB, 34:02 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • Announcements: "InCopy CS/InDesign CS3 Integration" released (AM's video tutorial title for lynda.com); our InDesign CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts poster is on press this week
  • Hyperlinks: Creating, Deleting, Swearing at, Modifying, etc.
  • All about Text Variables, a new feature in CS3
  • Hot Button Post of the Week: AM's rant about One-Button Mice
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: File Info

Links mentioned in the podcast: InCopy CS3/InDesign CS3 Integration video training (link leads to post with details) Our post about fixing hyperlinks from Word documents

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:14pm EDT

We're 50!; Quizzler Winner (OS Color Picker); News; Unembeddable fonts; Printing Link Info; Obscurity of the Week: Crop Amount

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-050.mp3 (13.8 MB, 29:01 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • We're 50!
  • Quizzler Winner — Where's the System Color Picker?
  • News: Free CS3 Tryouts and manuals, Tim Cole's InDesign blog, Upcoming conferences
  • Dealing with "protected" fonts (unembeddable in a PDF)
  • Hot Button Post of the Week: Printing a List of Links
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Crop Amount

Links mentioned in the podcast: InDesign CS3 tryout and documentation from Adobe Tim Cole's InDesign BackChannel blog The InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4–8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off the registration fee. Melbourne, Australia InDesign conference, Tokyo InDesign conference (link to come), Chicago CS3 Summit Letterheadfonts.com and the Typophile.com thread about it Download Martin Fischer's LinkExport.jsx script (zipped file)

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:27am EDT

News; Threading and Unthreading; Transparency and Spot Colors; PDF/X-4; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Use Inline Input for Non-Latin Text

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InDesignSecrets-049.mp3
(13.1 MB, 27:53 minutes)
(the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • News: Upcoming InDesign Conference in NY, David's ID CS3 Essentials videos
  • Threading and unthreading text frames — tips and scripts
  • Hot Button Post of the Week: Spot Colors and Flattening in CS3 (and, related, PDF/X-4)
  • The Return of the Quizzler!
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Use Inline Input for Non-Latin Text

Links mentioned in the podcast:
The InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4–8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off the registration fee.
David's ID CS3 Essentials on lynda.com (link leads to free 7-day trial)
InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts poster
SplitStory.jsx script: Post with download info, Post about installing
Aextra Software's CleverTextLink plug-in for CS/CS2, $39

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, May 15, 2007. The winner will be mailed our beautiful InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts poster. Remember, don't post your answer here! You'll ruin it for everyone!
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Direct download: InDesignSecrets-049.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:58am EDT

CS3 Ships; Our IDCS3 In-box videos; Conferences; Trapping in ID; New Text Wrap options in CS3; Obscurity of the Week: Detach Selection from Master

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InDesignSecrets-048.mp3
(11.9 MB, 25:03 minutes)
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  • News: CS3 Ships, Our video tutorials in the box, Upcoming conferences
  • All about trapping in InDesign (and, do we still need to worry about it?)
  • New in InDesign CS3: Cool Text Wrap Options
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Detach Selection from Master

Links mentioned in the podcast:
Vector Conference
and Pixel Conference, back-to-back in Chicago, Illinois, May 1–3, 2007; and the InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4–8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off registration fee for any of these three conferences.
David's post about creating composite, trapped PDFs

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:38pm EDT

4.05 Update; CS3 Pricing; Display Preferences; Export to XHTML (CS3 Feature); Obscurity of the Week: First Baseline Offset

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InDesignSecrets-047.mp3
(12.3 MB, 25:46 minutes)
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  • Upcoming conferences of interest
  • InDesign CS2 4.05 Update
  • Hot Button Post of the Week: CS3 Pricing
  • Adjusting your Display Performance preference
  • New in CS3: Export to XHTML
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: First Baseline Offset

Links mentioned in the podcast:
Vector Conference and Pixel Conference, back-to-back in Chicago, Illinois, May 1–3, 2007; and the InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4–8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off registration fee for any of these three conferences.
InDesign 4.05 Update ReadMe—click to download the PDF listing all the fixes (the ones fixed by 4.05 specifically are asterisked)

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:21pm EDT

InDesign CS3! New features, fixes, pricing; Obscurity of the Week: Fill With Placeholder Text

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-046.mp3 (13 MB, 27:19 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted shortly)

  • All about InDesign CS3:
    • Our favorite new features, including Table and Cell Styles, Variables, Placing InDesign files, Find/Change with GREP, Find/Change object attributes, and more
    • Our favorite improved features, including scaling fixes, folders in Styles panels, page previews in the Pages panel, Align to Page, Synchronize master pages, and more
    • Pricing information
    • Other great resources to learn about InDesign CS3
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Fill With Placeholder Text

Our sponsor for this episode: DTP Tools, makers of cool InDesign plug-ins like History, Layer Groups, Tetris, and PageControl (the latter the brainchild of InDesignSecrets contributor Pariah Burke). Special offer for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code IDSECRETS for 15% off any plug-in from their on-line store.

Links mentioned in the podcast: InDesign Magazine special offer. Go to the link, choose "2-year subscription for $69" option, and enter indesignsecrets to receive two years of back issues, free, along with your subscription. The upcoming issue is full of in-depth articles about InDesign CS3 new features. The InDesigner videocast. Michael's latest episode (#38) shows off InDesign CS3's new interface, and all the neat tricks you can do with it. Adobe.com for Creative Suite 3 info from the horse's mouth Gutenberg Project is Anne-Marie's favorite source for placeholder.txt copy Lorem-Ipsum Generator caught David's fancy

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Evil Color Picker; Illustrator Bleeds; Obscurity of the Week: Mixed Ink Group

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  • Hot Button Post of the Week: Evil, Evil Color Picker
  • Including Bleeds in Placed Illustrator Files
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Mixed Ink Group

Links mentioned in the podcast:
We didn't mention a single link! Weird.

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CS3 Announcement; Skewing and Shearing; Annoying Section Prefixes, Obscurity of the Week: Simulate Paper Color

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  • Adobe CS3 Announcement
  • David at the Creative Suite Show; Anne-Marie in Duluth
  • Skewing text and objects; skew vs. shear
  • Working around the Section Prefix annoyance
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Simulate Paper Color

Links mentioned in the podcast:
InDesign Conference in New York, New York (June 4–6, 2007)

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Newsbits; Contest Winner; Straight Lines; Readable Text; Obscurity of the Week: Metrics

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  • InDesign Newsbits: Free Plug-in from Teacup, Upcoming InDesign Shows
  • Winner of the contest from last episode: Least Useful InDesign Palette
  • InDesign trainer extraordinaire Russell Viers explains how to draw a straight line
  • What's more readable: Serif or Sans Serif body text type?
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Metrics

Links mentioned in the podcast:
TypeFitter plug-in for InCopy (free) or InDesign ($59) (link leads to post with details)
Creative Suite Conference in Miami, Florida (Feb. 28�March 3, 2007)
InDesign Conference in New York, New York (June 4�6, 2007)
Russell Viers' YabbAdobeDoo.com site
Literature Review of Serif vs. Sans Serif Legibility Studies
Typophile.com forum for typographers (especially this thread on optical vs. metrics0
InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster (use FEATHER coupon code for a 25% discount)

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  • InDesign Newsbits: Free Plug-in from Teacup, Upcoming InDesign Shows
  • Winner of the contest from last episode: Least Useful InDesign Palette
  • InDesign trainer extraordinaire Russell Viers explains how to draw a straight line
  • What's more readable: Serif or Sans Serif body text type?
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Metrics

Links mentioned in the podcast:
TypeFitter plug-in for InCopy (free) or InDesign ($59) (link leads to post with details)
Creative Suite Conference in Miami, Florida (Feb. 28�March 3, 2007)
InDesign Conference in New York, New York (June 4�6, 2007)
Russell Viers' YabbAdobeDoo.com site
Literature Review of Serif vs. Sans Serif Legibility Studies
Typophile.com forum for typographers (especially this thread on optical vs. metrics0
InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster (use FEATHER coupon code for a 25% discount)

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Placing Multi-page PDFs; Clear Overrides Button; Useless Palette Award and Contest; Obscurity of the Week: Align Based on Size

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  • Solutions for placing multiple-page PDFs
  • The Clear Overrides button: Sweet feature, often overlooked
  • Most Useless InDesign Palette Award/Contest
    • Anne-Marie's nomination: the Color palette
    • David's torn between the Transform and the Navigator palette
    • Enter the contest by leaving a comment here! (Details below)
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Align Based on Size

Links mentioned in the podcast:
PlaceMultipagePDF.jsx script for IDCS2 (link leads to post with details)
InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster (use FEATHER coupon code for a 25% discount)

The Most Useless InDesign Palette Award/Contest
You've heard David and Anne-Marie's nominations, do you agree? Or maybe you depend on the Navigator or Color palette for some task integral to your workflow? Perhaps you have a different one you'd like a nominate? Add your thoughts, votes, rants, or staunch defense to the discussion by adding a comment below. Before the next podcast rolls around (a week or two), we'll randomly choose one of the comments and award that author an InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts poster!

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:32pm EDT

Quizzler winner and wrap-up; InDesign News; Designer Wars; Obscurity of the Week: Slug

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  • Results from last episode's Quizzler -- and the winner!
  • Various InDesign Newsbits
  • Designer Wars! We discuss 3 issues that divide designers:
    • Work locally or off the server?
    • Set up file to trim size or add your own crops in larger page?
    • Layered TIFFs or PSDs?
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Slug

Links mentioned in the podcast:
Pariah Burke'sQuarkvsInDesign.com (Adobe CS3 Logo Design Contest)
John Nack's blog post about the CS3 logos (with images)
InDesign Conferences (Stockholm now, NYC in June)
Creative Suite Conference (Miami 2/28-3/3)
InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster (use FEATHER coupon code for a 25% discount)

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:06am EDT

Quizzler winner (triple-clicking); Top 5 things InDesign newbies should know; Best online resources for ID help; Newbie-friendly Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Save a Copy

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InDesignSecrets-040.mp3
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Happy New Year! In keeping with this "new" them, this episode is especially for the *new* InDesign users out there -- what you should know, best places to learn more. Grizzled veterans may also learn some new things, too!

  • Results from last week's Quizzler -- and the winner!
  • Top five things every new InDesign user should know (We invite the legions of experienced InDesign users in our audience to add to this list -- do a newbie a favor and post your advice in a comment below!)
  • Best online resources for InDesign information and help (Ditto)
  • A Quizzler that even a newbie can answer, with a poster for a prize
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Save a Copy

Links mentioned in the podcast:
TheInDesigner, Michael Murphy's videocast on our site
Trumatch.com process color swatchbooks
InDesign CS2 Visual QuickStart Guide by Sandee Cohen
Real World InDesign CS2 by David Blatner and Olav Kvern
InDesign Breakthroughs by Anne-Marie and David
InDesign Magazine (select "2 yrs. for $69" option and use INDESIGNSECRETS promo code to get 2 years of back issues too)
InDesignTalk listserv and the InDesign forums on Adobe.com
InDesign User Groups web site
Lynda.com online video training for ID and more (link leads to free 7-day trial)
VTC.com online video training for ID and more
InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster (use FEATHER for a 25% discount)

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 12, 2007. The winner will be mailed our beautiful InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts poster. Remember, don't post your answer here! You'll ruin it for everyone!

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:56pm EDT