• The Design + Accessibility Summit
• CreativePro Week
• What's new in InDesign 2022 (17.0)
  https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/whats-new.html
• What's new in 17.01:
  https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html
• How to make the menus bigger on the Mac (for high-res monitors):
  https://osxdaily.com/2021/10/12/change-menu-bar-size-mac/
• Why versions of Mac OS are all California cities:
  https://www.linkedin.com/posts/davidblatner_apple-mac-activity-6860597173332135936-PYWB
• Interview with Marcus Radich at PageProof:
  • What is an Awk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auk
  • What is an orc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc
  • Who is Martinho da Gloria: https://www.automatication.com/about-us/
• Obvious Things We Learned (or Re-learned)
  • Move Control Panel to the Bottom of the Screen
    https://creativepro.com/moving-control-panel-to-bottom-of-screen/
  • Accessibility tab in hyperlinks… doesn't work the way you might expect:
    https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/44174832-hyperlink-alt-text-is-ignored-in-the-latest-versio
  • InDesign icon in Publish Online embed:
    How to do it: https://creativepro.com/publish-online-supports-embedding-indesign-documents/
    Problem: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/20459239-allow-removal-of-the-publish-online-button-that
  • Adobe Illustrator: customizing the toolbar:
    https://creativepro.com/customize-your-illustrator-workspace/
    and https://creativepro.com/create-a-custom-toolbar-in-illustrator/

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• Obscure Feature: Roger, hungry, ate 236 peaches and cantaloupes in 1904
  If you make the sample text small, the Birch font will fit the whole line in the column. 

• David's session at MAX: Discovering the Best InDesign Tips and Tricks
• Anne-Marie's lab at MAX: InDesign Basics: From Newbie to Pro
• Photoshop Banana (easter egg): https://creativepro.com/photoshop-easter-eggs/
• Adobe MAX 2021
• Final issue of InDesign Magazine has 150 All-Star Tips (and our "Hidden" Features article)
• Should people upgrade right away? https://creativepro.com/should-adobe-fix-older-versions-of-programs/
• InCopy Vulnerability patch: https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/incopy/apsb21-05.html
• Dax Castro and Chad Chelius Accessibility (#a11y) podcast website: https://www.accessibilitychecklists.com (or http://www.chaxchat.com)
• Dax and Chad are the accessibility pros at AbleDocs: https://www.abledocs.com/en
• Obscure Feature: Flip (Text on a Path)
  https://creativepro.com/center-text-on-top-of-a-circular-path-quickly/

• David's session at MAX: Discovering the Best InDesign Tips and Tricks
• Anne-Marie's lab at MAX: InDesign Basics: From Newbie to Pro
• Kieron Lewis
  • MAX session: Empowering Community through Collaboration and Editorial Design 
  • Kieron's web site
  • POCC — People of Culture Collective
  • Kieron designed and laid out this book for Harper Inspire: Still Breathing: 100 Black Voices on Racism — 100 Ways to Change the Narrative  
  • Article about "I can't breathe"
• CreativePro's new "Design + Accessibility Summit"
  https://creativepro.com/design-accessibility-summit/
  • Chad Chelius' article "Tools and Services for Accessibility"
• Our post about Edit in Copy Editor (beta) (and see the screen shot below!)
• InDesignSecrets…
  • YouTube videos
  • Facebook group
  • LinkedIn group

• David's session at MAX: Discovering the Best InDesign Tips and Tricks
• Anne-Marie's lab at MAX: InDesign Basics: From Newbie to Pro
• Angelo Montilla's lab at MAX: Digital Publishing and Interactivity in InDesign
• CreativePro's new "Design + Accessibility Summit"
  https://creativepro.com/design-accessibility-summit/
• Online passes (recordings + handouts) are still available to:
  The Adobe Illustrator Summit
  https://creativepro.com/adobe-illustrator-summit/
  and
  The InDesign + Type Summit
  https://creativepro.com/indesign-type-summit/
• Angelo Montilla:
  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/amontilla81
  Adobe Live: Day 1: https://youtu.be/5QCNh9ovr2c & Day 2: https://youtu.be/yc6JCf30CWk
  www.montilladesign.com
• Installing newest version of Acrobat: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/install-updates-reader-acrobat.html
• Animated GIF maker from Ajar Productions (maker of in5): https://ajarproductions.com/blog/2019/10/11/how-to-create-an-animated-gif-with-indesign-in5/
• Extensions:
  Look in the Marketplace tab in the Creative Cloud app or on the web: https://exchange.adobe.com/creativecloud.html
  • Photo Flinger from Premedia: https://www.premediasystems.com/scripts-and-more
  • Stock Solo: https://stocksolo.com or  https://adobe.com/go/cc_plugins_discover_plugin?pluginId=a2cbefeb
  • Pantone Connect: https://exchange.adobe.com/creativecloud.html?zpluginId=103029
• InDesignSecrets…
  • YouTube videos
  • Facebook group
  • LinkedIn group

• The Adobe Illustrator Summit, August 26-27 
• The InDesign + Type Summit, July 29-30
• KidPix still lives! https://www.mackiev.com/kidpix/
• How to Replace AI art with SVG for sharp web graphics, from Anne-Marie's weekly series "InDesign Tips for Design Geeks"
• We have lots of articles about using InDesign and Illustrator together:
  • https://creativepro.com/copy-vectors-from-illustrator-to-indesign-or-vice-versa/
  • https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-getting-the-most-the-interface/
  • https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-moving-vectors/
  • https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-linking-and-embedding-files/
  • https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-moving-text-between-the-programs/
  • https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-colors-and-swatches/
  • https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-the-pen-tool/
• Shift-E… Preview on CPU vs GPU: https://creativepro.com/gpu-support-and-animated-zoom-arrives-for-mac/
• Understanding InDesign’s Place PDF Options: https://creativepro.com/understanding-indesigns-place-pdf-options/
• InDesignSecrets…
  • YouTube videos
  • Facebook group
  • LinkedIn group

• Videos on Demand now available for CreativePro Week 2021
• The InDesign + Type Summit
• InDesign Tips videos on LinkedIn Learning/Lynda.com:
  • InDesign Tips for Design Geeks  (AM's new weekly course)
  • InDesign Secrets (David and AM's weekly course)
• InDesign 16.3.1 notes:
  https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html
  https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/Indesign-for-apple-silicon.html
• Working with Hyphenation & Justification settings
  Editing H&Js: https://creativepro.com/abcs-hj/
  Favorite H&J Settings: https://creativepro.com/what-are-your-favorite-word-and-character-space-settings-for-hjs/
• When to Use Balance Ragged Lines
  https://creativepro.com/when-to-use-balance-ragged-lines/
• Change Balanced Ragged Lines to Pyramid Shaped
  https://creativepro.com/change-balanced-ragged-lines-to-pyramid-shaped/
• All kinds of white spaces: https://creativepro.com/typetalk-blizzard-white-space-characters/
• AM's pick for a type-related script: LorumIpsumizer
  https://creativepro.com/resources/plug-ins-and-scripts/
  https://www.linkedin.com/learning/indesign-secrets/285-replace-formatted-text-with-lorem-ipsum
• David's pick for a type-related script: Humane Type
  https://creativepro.com/a-script-that-adds-a-human-touch-to-indesign-type/
• Making Ellipses with Nonbreaking (Fixed Width) spaces: https://creativepro.com/dot-dot-dot/
• InDesignSecrets…
  • YouTube videos
  • Facebook group
  • LinkedIn group

Using the Nonbreaking (Fixed Width) space to auto-feather a headline (set the Paragraph alignment to Justify All Lines first)

• Videos on Demand now available for CreativePro Week 2021
•  The InDesign + Type Summit
• Creating Presentations with InDesign
  • InDesign Magazine feature story
  • Free InDesign presentation template
  • InDesign Template of the Month: Flexible Presentation
  • InDesign presentation templates at Adobe Stock (many free)

• Jesus Ramirez: Yes, we have a Banana (in Photoshop)
  https://photoshoptrainingchannel.com/photoshop-easter-eggs/
• in5's post, "Interactive PDF is dead"
  https://ajarproductions.com/blog/2018/03/26/interactive-pdf-is-dead-heres-what-you-can-create-from-indesign-thats-even-better/
• CircularFlow for better fixed-layout EPUBs for Kindles
  https://www.circularsoftware.com/apps/circularflo
•  InDesignSecrets…
  • YouTube videos
  • Facebook group
  • LinkedIn group

News and special offers from our sponsors:

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• Register now for CreativePro Week 2021
• When Stuff Disappears: A Collection of Mysteries Solved:
  • Where Is My Text? Text Disappears When Over Background Object
  • My White Text Disappeared (and solution)
  • The Case of the Disappearing Text
  • Where Did My InDesign Menu Items Go?
• Split Layout Tricks:
  • Use Split Window when Applying Colors to Text
  • How to View Two Parts of a Document at Once

• All About Alternate Layouts: https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-using-alternate-layout/

• Palo Duro Canyon: https://palodurocanyon.com

• Pantone 286: https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/286-C

•  InDesignSecrets…
  • YouTube videos
  • Facebook group
  • LinkedIn group

• Register now for CreativePro Week 2021
  • Want to speak at CreativePro events? Fill this out 
• Justin Putney and in5 links:
  • Product page for in5 interactive export add-on for InDesign
  • Script for Merging Multiple Text Frames Into One
  • Copy (Package) Fonts to Folder
  • Justin's original Kickstarter page
  • Why Justin says "Interactive PDF is Dead"
  • Examples of Customers Using in5
• Spacing Tricks!
  • Setting Exact Space Between Objects
  • Live Distribute
  • Making Cool Patterns with Live Distribute spacing trick
  • How the Gap tools works
  • How the Gap tool works with Groups
  • Convert a bunch of random objects into a grid
•  InDesignSecrets…
  • YouTube videos
  • Facebook group
  • LinkedIn group

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Register now for CreativePro Week 2021
  • Want to speak at CreativePro events? Fill this out 
• Cacidi Charts: https://www.cacidi.com/huge-cacidi-charts-cc2020-upgrade/
  • Check out InDesign Magazine #126 which covered Cacidi Charts in depth
• On LinkedIn Learning (and Lynda.com)
  • InDesign Tips for Design Geeks is Anne-Marie's new weekly series
  • Hundreds of our weekly InDesignSecrets episodes
• Bridge and InDesign:
  • Yes, Bridge is free for everyone!
  • How to Find InDesign Documents That Use Specific Fonts and/or Swatches
  • Video: Find All Files That Contain a Specific Image (with Bridge)
  • Video: Batch Rename Files in Adobe Bridge
  • Take Charge With Bridge: Creating a Keywords List
  • Saving Thumbnails of InDesign Pages
• InDesignSecrets…
  • YouTube videos
  • Facebook group
  • LinkedIn group

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Register now for CreativePro Week 2021
• PowerPoint Presentation Design Deep Dive and other online events
• New features in 16.0.1 and 16.0.2
• Transparency (Jan 2021 feature story in InDesign Magazine)
  • Great article by Claudia McCue: https://creativepro.com/regarding-transparency/
  • Article about transparency effects by Steve Caplin: https://creativepro.com/the-fx-files/\
• Yes, "opaques" are a thing! https://www.sockdreams.com/opaque-nylon-stockings.html
• Problems with spot colors and transparency
  • https://creativepro.com/indesigns-onscreen-untruths-overprinting-or-multiplying-spot-colors/
  • https://creativepro.com/eliminating-the-white-box-effect/
  • https://creativepro.com/eliminating-ydb-yucky-discolored-box-syndrome/
• Starter (monthly) vs annual membership: https://creativepro.com/become-a-member/
• OIFOTW: Lights
  • Mike showed the Lights feature as part of his 3 minutes max tip, during the InDesignSecrets Holiday Special:
    https://youtu.be/KP_O_G4pCZE
  • He also wrote about it here: https://creativepro.com/tip-of-the-week-flashing-holiday-lights/
• InDesignSecrets…
  • YouTube videos
  • Facebook group
  • LinkedIn group