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

New Contributor; We're on Twitter; CS4 sales; ID CS4 ACE Exam; RTL text solutions; PICT format; Free guide to hidden character; Obscurity of the Week: Hide Master Items

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-093.mp3 (17.3 MB, 32:33 minutes)
The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.
  • Welcome to new contibutor, James Fritz
  • InDesignSecrets on Twitter!
  • The state of CS4: Who is upgrading?
  • InDesign CS4 ACE Exam -- by InDesignSecrets
  • Right-to-left (RTL) text without InDesign ME
  • The problem with the PICT image format
  • Free Download: Guide to Special Characters in InDesign
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Hide Master Items
Direct download: InDesignSecrets-093.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:03am EDT

Black Wednesday; Stripping Styles; InDesign to Illustrator; Obscurity of the Week: Custom Text

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-092.mp3 (14.7 MB, 28:03 minutes)
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  • News: "Black Wednesday" for Publishers and Adobe
  • Hot Post of the Week: Stripping Styles and Masters
  • Moving formatted text from InDesign to Illustrator
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Custom Text
Direct download: InDesignSecrets-092.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:49am EDT

CS4 Posters; Stolen Laptop; Tips from the Master Class; Obscurity of the Week: Isolated Form

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-091.mp3 (15.9 MB, 33:33 minutes)
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  • InDesign CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts Posters!
  • David's tragic tale: Dealing with the aftermath of a stolen computer
  • New InDesign secrets we learned at the Master Class Conference
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Isolated Form
Direct download: InDesignSecrets-091.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:52pm EDT

News; CS4 Poster; FindChange script; Quizzler Winner; Obscurity of the Week: Continued Footnotes

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-090.mp3 (13.5 MB, 29:29 minutes)
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  • News: InDesign Conference Master Class, ID CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts poster, ID CS4 Bugs
  • Posts You Should Know About
  • The Amazingly Useful and Free FindChangeByList.jsx script
  • The Brazzler (aka Quizzler) Winner and Answer!
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Continued Footnotes
Direct download: InDesignSecrets-090.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:44pm EDT

3 great deals; Table tips; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Clear Attributes Not Defined By Style

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-089.mp3 (13.5 MB, 29:29 minutes)
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  • Three great deals for InDesignSecrets readers and listeners
  • Tons 'o table tips: Selecting, adding/deleting rows, copy/pasting, figuring out widths and heights, little-known keyboard shortcuts, more ...
  • Quizzler! (or, "The Brazzler!")
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Clear Attributes Not Defined By Style
Direct download: InDesignSecrets-089.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:14am EDT

News; New contributor; Master Class discount; Quizzler for quizzlers; Frame types; Obscurity of the week: Flattener Preview

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-088.mp3 (14.5 MB, 31:42 minutes)
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  • News: CS4 documentation, pricing, InDesignSecrets "2.1" site tweaks
  • Welcome to new contributor, Mike Rankin
  • InDesign Master Class Conference (see discount code below)
  • Quizzler for Quizzlers
  • Text vs. Graphic vs. Undefined Frames
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Flattener Preview
Direct download: InDesignSecrets-088.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:27am EDT

InDesign CS4 New Features Overview; Obscurity of the Week: User

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-087.mp3 (15.2 MB, 33:06 minutes)
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  • InDesign CS4 New Feature Overview!
    • Our favorite new features... the small, geeky ones of course
    • The "big guns" new features
    • Ones we think are a little weird
    • A few early bird tips and techniques for the new features--we couldn't help ourselves (replay this podcast after you get your upgrade)
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: User
Direct download: InDesignSecrets-087.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:52am EDT

InDesign CS4; New blogs; Great posts; Obscurity of the week: Merge Swatches

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-086.mp3 (11.8 MB, 25:46 minutes)
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Direct download: InDesignSecrets-086.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:00pm EDT

News, Color Tips, Obscurity of the Week: OnFocus/OnBlur
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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-085.mp3 (13 MB, 28:26 minutes)
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  • News: ID Mag, Webinar recap, Eek-eek-eekers in the wild, Back to School Discount
  • A Few Good Color Tips
  • Guest obscurist Sandee Cohen presents this episode's Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: On Focus/On Blur
Direct download: InDesignSecrets-085.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:40pm EDT

Scott Citron interview; Our upcoming webinar; Redesign update; Export All Stories; Obscurity of the Week: Visibility

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-084.mp3 (12.9 MB, 28:06 minutes)
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Direct download: InDesignSecrets-084.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:25pm EDT

Gotchas; Obscurity of the Week: Deactivate
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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-083.mp3 (7.2 MB, 15:47 minutes)
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  • Gotchas! We blaze through a pile of InDesign traps that will mess you up if you overlook one tiny little checkbox or button
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Deactivate

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Adobe InDesign forum post about the Button issue
Bob Levine's post about CS3 Activation limits

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-083.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:12am EDT

Do's and Don'ts of Text; Weird Hair Space Kerning; Obscurity of the Week: Join
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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-082.mp3 (14.6 MB, 31:50 minutes)
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  • Do's and Don'ts of Text in InDesign: Double spaces and returns, proper use of character styles, case changes, discretionary hyphens, text framitis, more
  • The Strange Case of the Space-Eating Hair Space
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Join
Direct download: InDesignSecrets-082.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:24am EDT

Our new blog design; Free script extravaganza; PDF Presets problem; Obscurity of the Week: Orthogonal Line

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Listen in your browser:
InDesignSecrets-081.mp3
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Direct download: InDesignSecrets-081.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:30pm EDT

NZ Conference; Camera Raw in InDesign; Quizzler answer and winner; "Sphinx" pangram t-shirts; GREP; Obscurity of the Week: Fixed Column Width

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-080.mp3 (16.3 MB, 35:40 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • New Zealand ID Conference Recap
  • Interview: Mike McHugh describes his Camera Raw in InDesign tip
  • "Pangram" Quizzler Winner--and Answer!
  • New in the InDesignSecrets store: "Sphinx" t-shirts!
  • Getting a Grip on GREP
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Fixed Column Width

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Sweet deal from our sponsor! Recosoft's PDF2ID plug-in discount, just for InDesignSecrets users (limited time offer) David's post about Mike's Camera Raw tip Mike McHugh's videocast, CreativeSweetTV.com Wikipedia explains what a pangram is Our "Sphinx of Black Quartz" t-shirts! David's Joy of Pi book Mac OS X GREP-friendly text editor (free) TextWrangler Windows GREP-friendly text editor ($50US) UltraEdit Peter Kahrel's GREP in InDesign CS3 e-book Links to GREP-related posts on InDesignSecrets.com

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-080.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:07am EDT

Acrobat 9; Free script to swap swatches; Colored frames; InCopy videos on Adobe TV; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Update Content in Data Fields

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-079.mp3 (14.6 MB, 31:50 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • News: Acrobat 9 and Creative Suite 3.3 announced, ID Conference in New Zealand
  • Hot Post of the week: Free script to auto-replace swatches (Russell)
  • Blue frames vs. Red frames
  • "InCopy CS3 Revealed" videos on Adobe TV
  • Quizzler! Something to do with pangrams...
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Update Content in Data Fields

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Sweet deal from our sponsor! Recosoft's PDF2ID plug-in discount, just for InDesignSecrets users (limited time offer) Acrobat 9 and Creative Suite 3.3 product pages InDesign Conference in New Zealand Swap Swatches Script (zipped) "Stop the Transparencide" video featuring the ghostly head of Russell Viers AM's whitepaper The Collaborative Editorial Workflow with ID/IC CS3 (5MB) InCopy CS3 Revealed video series on Adobe TV Check out our sister site, InCopySecrets.com Data Merge post and a Data Merge video All about pangrams

Have an answer for the Quizzler? Don't post it here as a comment. Instead, e-mail your answer (put "Quizzler" in the Subject line) to us at info [at] indesignsecrets.com by midnight on Monday, June 16. We'll randomly choose a winner from all correct answers received by then, and announce the winner (and the answer!) in the next podcast.

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-079.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:06pm EDT

New contributors; Nashville conf.; New Window; 20 Activation limit; Neat script for indexing; Dynamic spelling; Transparencide PSA; Master page text frames; Obscurity of the Week: Place Item(s)

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-078.mp3 (15.5 MB, 33.5 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • News: Welcome to our newest blog contributors Bob Levine (it's LeVEEN, we learned) and Ted LoCascio; Nashville CS Conf. Recap
  • Snippet from our "Essential Tips for InDesign" session at the conference: New Window Tricks
  • Hot Post #1: 20 Activations Limit (by Bob)
  • Hot Post #2: Indexing Page Ranges (by David) and the IndexBrutal script
  • "Stop the Transparencide" new PSA from Adobe
  • Another snippet from our session: Dynamic Spelling Tricks
  • Master Page Text Frames and Autoflow, once and for all!
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Place Item(s)

Other links mentioned in the Podcast: New sponsor! Recosoft's PDF2ID plug-in discount, just for InDesignSecrets users See what Bob and Ted look like and read their bios (scroll down) Ted Locascio's The InDesign Effects Book The IndexBrutal script (in the original French, or Google-ized into English) Main page for the Adobe PDF Print Engine Our InDesign keyboard shortcut posters (use the secret 50% discount code mentioned in the podcast, or enter the code SWATCHES for 25% off entire order)

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-078.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:56pm EDT

Toronto recap; CS3 Re-cert exam; 50% poster discount; Quizzler winner; Tips from the ID Conference; Obscurity of the Week: Download PPD Fonts

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-077.mp3 (13.5 MB, 29.3 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • News: Toronto ID Conference recap; ID CS3 Re-cert exam; Secret 50% poster discount
  • Quizzler winner (Where else is "Altitude?") and answer
  • Tips from the live InDesignSecrets Podcast at the Toronto, Canada conference:
    • Reverse Index Entries (secret keyboard shortcut)
    • Quick Apply for buried menu commands
    • Guide tips extravaganza
    • "How big is an agate?" answer and winner
    • Alt-click and Double-click fun
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Download PPD Fonts

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Nashville CS Conference, New Zealand ID Conference Casey D'Andrea's ID CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts PDF Our InDesign keyboard shortcut posters (use the secret 50% discount code announced in the podcast, or enter the code SWATCHES for 25% off entire order) Free ID Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in Top Ten Double-Clicks in ID post on Publicious.net

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-077.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:44pm EDT

News: MTV, Poster discounts, InCopySecrets.com; Binary EPS files; InDesign Preflighting; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Altitude

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-076.mp3 (10.8 MB, 23.4 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • Fun News: MTV (post), Poster discounts, InCopySecrets debuts
  • Binary EPS files (post), Weak Preflighting (post)
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Altitude
  • Quizzler! With a neat new prize for the lucky winner

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Our InDesign keyboard shortcut posters (use the secret 50% discount code announced in the podcast, or enter the code SWATCHES for 25% off entire order) Check out the new InCopySecrets.com! Markzware FlightCheck Pro for Macs or Windows Zevrix InPreflight (Mac only) See you in Toronto!

Quizzler Instructions: Found the answer? Don't leave it in a comment! Instead, e-mail it to us at info [at] indesignsecrets.com, with the word "Quizzler" in the subject line. We'll randomly choose one winner from all correct answers we have received by midnight on Friday, May 2, 2008. Winner (and answer) will be announced in the next podcast.

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-076.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:49am EDT

Discount codes; Adobe TV; An End to Transparency Woes; Context Menus; Obscurity of the Week: Ignore Optical Margin

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-075.mp3 (11.6 MB, 25.2 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • News: Discount codes for InDesign Magazine and conference fees, Adobe TV
  • An end to transparency issues! (Steve Werner's post)
  • Using and customizing contextual (right-click) menus
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Ignore Optical Margin

This time, David's audio gets a little glitchy halfway-through. When will these sunspots end? (Seriously, our apologies, and we're investigating...)

Links mentioned in the Podcast: For $75 off MogoEvents conference fees (Toronto, Canada; Nashville, TN and Auckland, New Zealand) use our IDSTNCS08 coupon code (case-sensitive) Nice InDesign mag. discount for our listeners/readers until Apr 28, 2008 Check out Adobe TV! The "Fibonacci" in Caffe Fibonacci's logo Hallelujah, c'mon, get APPE Why one-button mice are bad

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-075.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:35am EDT

News; CS3 ACE exam; Leopard and Vista; Document Size; Free Layout Zone script; Obscurity of the Week: Greek Images

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-074.mp3 (15.1 MB, 32:53 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • News: Upcoming InDesign Conferences
  • InDesign CS3 ACE Recertification Test: A Field Report
  • Leopard and Vista and InDesign CS3
  • How changing Document Size affects an existing layout
  • The Amazing (and free) Layout Zone script for ID CS3
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Greek Images

Sorry for the tinny sound in Anne-Marie's audio! We blame sunspots.

Links mentioned in the Podcast: ID Conferences in Toronto, Canada; Auckland, New Zealand; and Seattle, WA Tim Cole's blog post about the Recertification exam Adobe's Get Certified page (register for exams, download prep guides) Layout Zone script (Mac/Windows, CS3 only); David's post about it

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-074.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:00am EDT

News; Overprint by swatch; Preserve Numbers glitch; Em, En and Hyphens; Obscurity of the Week: the Measure Tool

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-073.mp3 (14.2 MB, 31:05 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • News: Lynda.com, Conferences, CreativePro.com, DesignGeek, ID User Groups
  • Making a swatch overprint where ever it's used (full post)
  • When CMYK - Preserve Numbers won't, and how to fix it (full post)
  • Em dashes vs. En dashes vs. Hyphens
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: The Measure Tool

Links mentioned in the Podcast: David's InDesign: Beyond the Basics at Lynda.com Free week's trial of lynda.com ID Conferences in Miami, Toronto CA Check MogoEvents for news on the Auckland NZ ID Conf. (June) and the Seattle ID Master Class Conf. (November) HerGeekness Says column at creativepro.com Anne-Marie's free DesignGeek e-zine InDesign User Groups

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-073.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:16am EDT

Recorded live at the InDesign Conf in Miami, FL! Last episode's Quizzler answer and winner; Contestler for the audience; tips and tricks; Q&A; Obscurity of the Week is on vacation

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-072.mp3 (25.5 MB, 55:43 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

Special episode! This podcast was recorded live in front of a studio seminar audience at the InDesign Conference in Miami, Florida.

  • What's InDesignSecrets?
  • Quizzler answer and winner from episode 71 (Change view from keyboard)
  • Contestler for volunteers from the audience: Define one of our obscure features from a past episode, pulled at random
  • A few of our favorite tips and tricks; audience Q&A
  • The Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week was put on hiatus for this episode, since we covered so many during the Contestler!

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Our free Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in, Design Tools Monthly and companion podcast, Design Tools Weekly, Branislav Milic's InDesign Site (in French), History plug-in from DTP Tools, EasyHistory from 65bit, Free MultiDo plug-in from 65bit, Adobe's Feature Request form, InDesign Scripting forum at Adobe.com, Footnote-to-Endnote script at Adobe Exchange, Rorohiko's free ChatterGoofy plug-in, Post: Converting color layouts to grayscale PDFs

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-072.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:45am EDT

News; CS3 ACE Test; Shifting Grayscales; Jessica Chase Interview; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Digital Editions

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-071.mp3 (13.7 MB, 29:58 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • News: Upcoming InDesign Conferences, Free Tip Of the Day Plug-in
  • Hot Posts: Anne-Marie's CS3 ACE Practice Test Rant, David's Grayscale Shifts
  • Interview with Jessica Chase, Editor and Publisher of ZigZagZine
  • Quizzler! An easier one for the rest of us
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Digital Editions

Links mentioned in the Podcast: The InDesign Conference - Miami Beach (Feb 26 – March 1) (Also coming up: Toronto ID Conference, Nashville CS Conference) David's free InDesign Tip of the Day plug-in for CS1, 2 and 3 Jessica's ZigZagZine site; download Jan/Feb 2008 issue (PDF, 872K) Adobe's Digital Editions Library (free e-books)

Quizzler Instructions: Think you know the answer? Don't post it here! E-mail it to us at info@indesignsecrets.com, with "Quizzler" in the Subject line. Entries will be accepted until midnight Friday, February 22. A random winner will be chosen from the correct answers and announced in our next podcast.

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-071.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:39pm EDT

Free scripts, Beginner's category, Quizzler Winner, EPS Challenge, Uppercase, Obscurity of the Week: Normal

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-070.mp3 (13.4 MB, 29:22 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • News Updates: Upcoming InDesign Conference in Miami, InDesign patch, Free plug-ins and scripts, new Beginner's Corner category on our blog
  • Quizzler Results (from Episode 69: Adding CMYK Swatches) and Winner
  • Hot Posts: Sandee's EPS Challenge, David's Updating Text
  • Uppercase Conundrums (Anne-Marie's post)
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Normal

Links mentioned in the Podcast: The InDesign Conference - Miami Beach (Feb 26 – March 1) InDesign 5.02 patch for Windows or Mac OS X (ReadMe) David's free InDesign Tip of the Day plug-in for CS1, 2 and 3 Dave Saunders' donationware script, WrapNudger, that fixes Droopy Wraps Scott Zinelli's Multipage PDF Import script (David's post about it) Our new Beginner's Corner category Scott Citron's new book, Professional Design Techniques

Quizzler Answer: How many ways can you add a CMYK color to Swatches without using the Swatches panel? Turns out there are too many to list in our show notes, so we compiled them into a PDF for you to download: Swatches_Answers.pdf (260K). Our winner received a copy of Deke McClelland's new book, Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One.

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-070.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:43am EDT

New Year's Podcast responses; Deke McClelland interview; Quizzler!; Obscurity of the Week: View Box

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-069.mp3 (15.7 MB, 34:23 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • Response to our New Year's show
  • The Deke McClelland Interview!
    • A fun, raucous conversation with a luminary in our field. Listen in as Deke tells us about his latest book and videos on InDesign CS3, and what it's like laying out a complex book on InDesign in InDesign: the good, the bad, and the aggravating. ("Does this sound like a feature to you?" he asks at one point, laughing.)
  • Quizzler -ler -ler!
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: View Box

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Deke's new book Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One David's post about modifying Basic Styles

Quizzler Instructions: Think you have the best answer? Write it up in an e-mail and send it to us at info@indesignsecrets.com with "Quizzler" in the Subject line. (Don't post your answer as a comment!) Deadline for entries is midnight on Friday, Jan. 18. We'll announce the winner -- and the Quizzler answer, boy howdy we'll never forget to do that again -- in our next podcast.

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-069.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:43pm EDT

New Year's Resolutions for InDesign Users; Obscurity of the Week: JPEG 2000

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-068.mp3 (13.3 MB, 28:58 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

Happy New Year!

  • New Year's Resolutions for InDesign Users (yes, including us). Our full list of suggestions appears below, suitable for printing and checking off!
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: JPEG 2000

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Looking for a script or plug-in? Try here Our free Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in Robin Williams' The Mac is Not a Typewriter or The PC is Not a Typewriter Our recommended InDesign books and videos for reference How to rebuild Preferences in InDesign Do you use JPEG 2000? Adobe wants to know

2008 New Year's Resolutions: Our Suggested List for InDesign Users

  • I'll find and learn how to use one new (to me) script and plug-in that helps my work.
  • I'll use paragraph and character styles properly.
  • I'll start placing PSD, AI, and PDF files instead of EPS.
  • I'll finally break my habit of typing double-spaces after punctuation.
  • I'll get into the habit of using the temporary Hand tool instead of the scroll bars when it makes sense.
  • I'll import XML and export XML at least once this year successfully, even if it's on my own time, just to learn the process.
  • I'll get a reference on InDesign that I can refer to when I'm stuck.
  • I'll force myself to use New Window, Story Editor, Glyphs panel, and Quick Apply three times so that I learn to fully appreciate their utility.
  • I'll set up, save and use at least 2 different workspaces.
  • I'll learn the keyboard shortcuts to open the panels I use most often, even if it means having to customize them to ones I'll remember.
  • I'll rebuild my Preferences, then set my application preferences and default styles and swatches, then back up that prefs file.
  • I'll add at least one comment to a post on InDesignSecrets.com, even just to say "thanks" or "whaaa?" so we know you're out there!
Direct download: InDesignSecrets-068.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:58pm EDT