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Fri, 28 March 2025

Ep. 329: Top Efficiency Tips

* DOIE: Dept. of InDesign Efficiency
* Obscure Feature: Clear Rotation
* News

Links:

Dept. of InDesign Efficiency

10 Essential Tips for Using Quick Apply in InDesign
Activate Last Used Field Shortcut
Apply Leading to Entire Paragraphs: What Causes Inconsistent Leading and How to Fix It
How to Start Using InDesign Scripts
How-to Create a Custom Workspace
The weird "Place Gun Frame" trick: Applying an Object Style when Placing an Image

Join us in our live studio audience for Podcast 332 at CreativePro Week!

Clear Rotation:

Rotate frames with a trackpad gesture
Did you know you can move the spread rotation features with a script?
Even more cool: A script to rotate all the spreads that contain frames that are rotated

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-329.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:00am PDT

Tue, 25 February 2025

Ep. 328: Cloud Docs

Topics:

The INDDC format: good and bad
Interview with Venngage CEO Eugene Woo
Obscure Feature: Reset Preferences on Quit

Links:

Cloud Docs:

Collaborating Using Adobe Cloud Documents
Creative Cloud Storage: Where Does It Go?
Working with Adobe Cloud Documents
Anne-Marie's Cloud Docs video "for Design Geeks" on LinkedIn Learning
The endgame… collaborative editing, like the current Photoshop beta

Venngage: AI powered design at your fingertips

Resetting Preferences

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-328.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:23am PDT

Tue, 28 January 2025

Ep. 327: Font Tricks

Includes:

Favorite font tricks
Interview with Theresa Jackson
InDesign 20.1
Obscure feature: Match Pasteboard to Theme Color

News:

20.1 is in release rollout
multi-find/change is now free
Old (but still relevant!) InDesign Magazine articles, now on site:

Designing Photo Albums in InDesign by Khara Plicanic
Getting Started with GREP Styles in InDesign by Steve Caplin
Working in Microsoft Word by Jamie McKee
Designing with Type: Grunge, Punk, and Futurism by Nigel French
InDesign Nightmares by David and Anne-Marie

Theresa Jackson:

Font Tricks:

How to change the underlying default font for a document (see Don Ayer's comment at end for an easier solution)
OpenType text and text frame adornments

Obscure Feature: Match Pasteboard to Theme Color

Direct download: InDesignSecrets-327.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:15am PDT