• CreativePro Week 2018 registration open and first speakers announced
• Join us in our Facebook group!
• More about Russell Viers
• About ink-aliasing in InDesign

In a heated discussion during the podcast, the question was debated: If you alias a spot ink to another spot ink, will it separate out to CMYK correctly? Answer: YES. David's report from his post-podcast testing (see the episode 251 Show Notes on our site for screenshots that illustrate these steps):

STEP ONE: I placed an .AI file (it could also be a PDF) that contains two spot colors (Pantone Blue, and a yellow called Pantone 114). I then applied that Pantone Blue spot color to some text in a text frame. I also created a new color that is a spot color, but defined with a CMYK value, called "MyColor 50/10/85/0".

STEP TWO: I opened Ink Manager (from the Swatches panel menu), selected the Pantone Blue and then chose MyColor from the Ink Alias popup menu. And then I selected MyColor and clicked on the icon in the left column, which means convert this color to process.

STEP THREE: When I open the Separations Preview panel and turn the View popup menu to Separations, the Ink Aliasing kicks in, converting all instances of Pantone Blue to MyColor… and also showing that MyColor is being converted to CMYK (using the CMYK values I set up when I created the color).

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• CreativePro Week 2018 now open for registration
• More on EPUB Accessibility from our sister site, EPUBSecrets.com
• Scripts mentioned:
  • BreakFrame.jsx and SplitStory.jsx (both in Scripts > Application > Javascript)
  • MergeTextFrames from Ajar Productions
  • Text Stitch from Rorohiko
  • StorySplitter by Adi Ravid (download link from our site)
• David's post about unthreading stories with scripts (has links to the above, too)
• Why you might want to ignore the Package alert that says you have RGB images

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• CreativeProWeek.com now open for registration
• What's new in InDesign CC 2018 (and a quick additional fix)
• Anne-Marie's InDesign CC 2018 New Features title at lynda.com (alt link for LinkedIn Premium subscribers)
• David's InDesign CC 2018 Essential Training at lynda.com (alt link for LinkedIn Premium subscribers)
• The Mystery of the Trailing Space Contest Answer and Winner
• October's Template of the Month (for Premium subscribers)
• Adobe MAX 2017! Here's David's session recording, and some tips one attendee came away with

Go to the show notes on the web site to see some pictures!

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• Duden in InDesign CC 2018
• Here's a list of the InDesign Mysteries so far (the contests)
• Thank you to Ripon Printing for the keyboard shortcut posters!
• Crazy IDML font troubleshooting saga
• Just a little bit more about customizing a Preflight Profile

David did it! To get InDesign's Preflight to report something incompatible with the Flash player. Place a MIDI Quicktime movie file, circa 1994, and click Continue at the alert.

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, offers exceptional instructor-led training for Adobe InDesign and other software programs at London Covent Garden, Cardiff, Bristol, and now, live online! Their students are achieving a 98% pass rate on all Adobe Certified Associate exams, so you know the instructors are the best. Follow them on Twitter at @Certitec and keep up with their Facebook page. Enjoy a 20% discount on any class —including online!—if you mention InDesignSecrets and this podcast episode number while booking the class, on the phone or at their site.

• More great articles for InDesign beginners
• Sandee Cohen's Pasteboard Primer is in issue 95 of InDesign Magazine
• Choose the Advanced Workspace
• David's InDesign Essential Training video course on Lynda.com and LinkedIn/Learning

• Special co-host Jonathan Levit
  • His training and consulting company
  • His professional magician and acting site
• Jonathan's article, "The Magic of InDesign"
• CreativePro Week 2018: June 4-8 in New Orleans
• Erica Gamet's Script-o-pedia
• More cool Auto-Size articles
• More on object styles
• The Tool Hints panel

• Join the InDesign Prerelease ("Beta") program
• Don't Edit [Basic Paragraph] 
• Using Span Columns to force Space before/after lists
• Want conditional spacing? Vote for it!
• The discussion about the mysterious Check In command

• How to script, for the absolute beginner
• Recap of The InDesign Conference at CreativePro Week
• SimpleHTML script from Justin at Ajar Productions
• Virtual Pass (video, handouts, sponsor discounts) to The InDesign Conference and CreativePro Week
• Join the InDesign Prerelease program
• Adobe Wishlist form

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Check out the sessions and speakers at CreativePro Week 2017
• All about InDesign CC 2017.1
• David's "Three Rules" article
• Theresa Jackson: her website, Behance page, and Instagram account
• Theresa's CreativePro Week bio and sessions and her buddy Von Glitschka's
• Want to learn more about CC Libraries? Here's a "getting started" post, and Steve Werner covered them in-depth last year in this issue of InDesign Magazine
• 5 Ways to get Pie Charts into InDesign (Premium Content)
• The "sleeping" CC Charts app
• About the Chartwell typeface (and here's one of our video tips on it)
• Our posts about Adobe Comp and Adobe Draw

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Check out the sessions and speakers at CreativePro Week 2017
• Register now for the InDesign Conference 2017!
• Check out our attendee forum! They're making plans already
• March 2017 InDesign Magazine: Footnotes
• We've written about the Object Inspector in Acrobat before!
• How to control page transitions (related to the OIFOTW, Flip Pages Every)

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Check out the sessions and speakers at CreativePro Week 2017
• Register now for the InDesign Conference 2017!
• Check out the InDesign Magazine issue on Special Characters and Typography
• Find the Greenlight service (cloud-based preflighting) on CircularSoftware.com
• CircularFLO (at circularflo.com) exports InDesign layouts to fixed-layout EPUB3 or the Amazon KF8 fixed layout format, optionally including Read Aloud narration with no coding
• Pagination does database publishing as a service!
• Use Tweak to edit InDesign documents and make print-ready PDFs in the cloud
• All about Justin Seeley, staff author at PluralSight and co-founder of NerdRadio podcasts
• Justin's sessions at CreativeProWeek.com
• Adobe's working on enabling voice control
•  Star Wars First Order logo
• Trajan Pro title for the movie Rogue One (outlined, no less)
• Footnotes: What's new in CC 2017

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Full info (and registration!) for CreativePro Week 2017
• GREP
  • Favorite GREP expressions you can use
  • 5 Cool Things you can do with GREP Styles
  • The InDesignSecrets GREP Resources page
  • Normalizing a phone number
  • Finding stuff between quotes or parentheses
  • Erica's GREP cheat sheet PDF
  • Erica Gamet's YouTube channel
  • GREP visualizer
  • Treasures of GREP group on Facebook
• Happy Hanukah GREP:
  Chanukah is a Hebrew word that has no single English transliteration… so people write it in all kinds of ways. It's tricky because it starts with a "gutteral" sound that doesn't have any representation in English. (David thinks the most accurate spelling is Khanukkah -- but no one else agrees with him.)
  Erica's GREP to search for all the spellings: K*C*X*h*H*ann*uk'*k*ah*
• Answer to problem some folks are having with QuickApply and Hyperlinks panel