News

• InDesign 19.4 new features
  • Note: 19.4 wasn't fully released when we recorded this podcast! You can learn more about the new features here.
• Online Events and CreativePro Week
• CreativePro Magazine latest issue

Kara Plicanic interview

• Khara's web site
• Interview with Khara
• Khara's CreativePro articles and videos

Secrets of the Live Preflight Panel

• Finding Overset Text With Preflight
• Customizing a Preflight Profile
• Finding Hidden Items With Preflight Profiles
• Use Live Preflight to Manage Page Sizes
• How to Create Preflight Profiles in InDesign
• Using the Book Panel to Preflight Multiple Documents
• More Preflight articles

Obscure Feature of the Week: Recompose All Stories When Modified

• Anne-Marie's post and comment about it
• InDesign documentation
• Recompose All Text keyboard shortcut: Control-Alt-/ or Command-Option-/

News

• Fixed issues in 19.3
• Earn an InDesign Certificate on LinkedIn Learning
• Online Events and CreativePro Week

Hot Threads:

• How to create a grid of images (or images and captions) so they'll autoflow and are easy to rearrange?
  • Swapping Images script
  • Auto-Reflowing Images in a Grid
  • Loic's Inline Merge script to create a grid
  • Video on using Data Merge scripts
  • Using Kelly's TOC trick
• Client wants the font to be "a little heavier" after the almost-final proof, best way to do that?

Obscure Feature of the Week: Proxy

News

• InDesign 19.2 fixes some issues
• Discontinuation of Creative Cloud Synced files
• The InDesign + Long Documents Summit (use discount code CPSECRETS for $100 off!)
• CreativePro Week (use CPSECRETS for $100 off any multi-day pass)

Julie Shaffer

• Shaffer Creative
• Certified Professional Services Marketer (CPSM) program, from SMPS: https://www.smps.org/certification/
• Interview with Julie Shaffer, Certified Marketing Pro
• Don’t Let Adobe InDesign/InCopy Notes Go Unnoticed

Secrets of the Scripts Panel

• What Do the Default Sample Scripts Do in InDesign?
• Community Scripts for All
• Organizing Scripts into Folders
• Managing InDesign Scripts
• Easily manage dozens of scripts among multiple InDesign versions (from InDesign Tips for Design Geeks)
• Unicode Injector: such a cool script!
• Assigning Keyboard Shortcuts to Scripts
• Using Quick Apply to Run Scripts

Obscure Feature of the Week: Wavy

• How to Fix the Fill on Items with Wavy Strokes
• InDesign How-to: Use Conditional Text
• More articles on Conditional Text

• In the news
  • InDesign 19.1 (second attempt) released! Fingers crossed
  • Upcoming online-only events: 
    • The Presentation Design Conference, March 6-8
    • The InDesign + Long Documents Summit, April 5 
  • CreativePro Week 2024, July 8–12, Washington, DC and online
  • CreativePro Magazine
    • February 2024 lead story: Presentation Design
    • January 2024 lead story: AI in AI ;-) 
• Interview with Nolan Haims, presentation designer extraordinaire
• Secrets of the "Panel With The Longest Name"
• Obscure Feature of the Week: Apply to Parent Page Only

Links mentioned in this podcast

• What's new in InDesign 19.1
• BUT don't use ID 2024 (19.x) with Hebrew, Arabic, or RTL text (bug reports on facebook) and (bug reports in uservoice)
• Interview with Nolan Haims
  • Nolan's Better Deck Deck (CreativePro members get 8 free!)
  • Creating Paragraph Styles in PowerPoint
  • Other great articles by Nolan
  • The Presentation Podcast
  • Speaking at The Presentation Design Conference
• EPUB Interactivity Preview Panel
  • Using the EPUB Interactivity Preview Panel
  • Faster Interactive Previews
  • Saving Your Workspaces
• Join us for daily discussions and Q&A
  • InDesignSecrets group on Facebook 
  • InDesignSecrets group on LinkedIn