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Tue, 20 March 2012

InDesignSecrets Podcast 169

News; Keith Gilbert Interview, Changing Document Size, Obscurity of the Week: Scissors Tool

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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
- Sit down with your favorite InDesign authors and scripters at the Print + ePublishing Conference (May 14-16, San Francisco)
- On the East Coast? See us June 13-14: InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC
Interview with Keith Gilbert, InDesign trainer and consultant
Changing Document size: Not as straightforward as you think
- The problem with File > Document Size
- Using the Page tool and the Pages panel control
- Changing document pages vs. changing Master pages
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Scissors Tool

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.

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:

When the Document Size Won't Change

Resizing Document Pages

Change the Document *Window* Size (related bonus tip)

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-169.mp3
Category:Podcast -- posted at: 9:13am EDT

Tue, 13 March 2012

InDesignSecrets Podcast 168

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)

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See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

Announcements
- Congratulations to Mike Rankin, new Editor-in-Chief of InDesign Magazine and CreativePro.com
- Mike is one of the speakers at our Print + ePublishing Conference (May 14-16, San Francisco)
- On the East Coast? See us June 13-14: InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC
Drawing in InDesign
- Pen tool and its shortcuts and permutations
- Every frame and text wrap is actually an editable path
- Pathfinder panel or menu to combine overlapping frames
- Playing with type outlines
- Using object styles
Finally: A Quizzler Winner!
Keyboard shortcut of the Week: Command-Option-V (Ctrl-Alt-V)
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Convert Direction Point

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.

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:

Edit a Shape's Frame

The Hidden Join Paths Command

The Zipper Effect

Copy from Illustrator to InDesign or Vice Versa

Pasting from Illustrator into 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!

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!

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-168.mp3
Category:Podcast -- posted at: 9:44am EDT