Indesign Secrets

Twitter for InDesign users; KBSC of the Week; New eBook; New speakers for the 2011 PeP Conf.; Obscurity of the Week: Row Separator ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-140.php for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-140.mp3 (18.7 MB, 33:57 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. All about Twitter for InDesign users: Who to follow and why Design-oriented Twitter lists InDesign tips found in tweets Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Cmd-Y/Ctrl-Y Newsbits Mike Rankin's new eBook, Guide to InDesign CS5 ACE Exam More speakers added to the roster for the Print & ePublishing Conference in DC in May 2011 Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Row Separator -- News and special offers from our sponsors:   >> In-Tools is owned by our friend Harbs, who helps out so many users here on the blog and in our forum. In this episode we tal

Object style tricks; Quizzler winner (floppy disc icons); KBSC of the week: Recall Zoom; Obscurity of the Week: Spacing Options ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-139.php for full show notes, links and discounts mentioned during the podcast, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-139.mp3 (16 MB, 29:17 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Super tips and tricks for Object Styles, such as: Apply first/next paragraph style Set position of the object Set width of the text frame Quizzler winner: How many floppy disc icons in InDesign? (more than you think!) Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Ctrl-Alt-2 / Cmd-Option-2 Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Spacing Options -- News and special offers from our sponsors:   >> In-Tools is owned by the famous “Harbs” who helps out so many users here on the blog and in our forum. He and his company develop many scrip

2011 PeP Conference; InDesign to EPUB; Acrobat X and InDesign; Quizzler winners (and a new Quizzler); Obscurity of the Week: Output Condition Name, Output Condition Indentifier, Registry Name ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-138.php for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-138.mp3 (19.9 MB, 36:48 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. 2011 Print & ePublishing Conference announcement! InDesign to EPUB: Recap and tips from Liz Castro's webinar Acrobat X and InDesign InDesignSecrets newsletter Quizzler winners ("How many InDesign users to change a lightbulb?") Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Output Condition Name, Output Condition Identifier, Registry Name New Quizzler! Listen to the episode to learn how to win -- News and special offers from our sponsors:   >> Recosoft is the developer of PDF2ID, the miraculous solution for

Hexadecimal colors and a free Hex script; CMYK color management in ID for the rest of us; InDesign to EPUB webinars; Obscurity of the Week: Show Single Plates in Black ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-137.php for Show Notes, links mentioned in the podcast, sponsor's coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-137.mp3 (16.1 MB, 29:13 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Defining, matching, and converting hexadecimal colors in InDesign The 3 things you need to know about CMYK color images in InDesign Liz Castro's upcoming InDesign to EPUB webinars Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Show Single Plates in Black -- News and special offers from our sponsors:   >> In-Tools is owned by the famous "Harbs" who helps out so many users here on the blog (such as the Hex color script). They just came out with an update to World Tools and World Tools Plus, two InDesign plug-ins that represent “the most

Acrobat X; Hyperlinks in InDesign CS5; Adobe's new Digital Publishing Suite; Obscurity of the Week: Preflight Report Template ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-136.php for Show Notes, Links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-136.mp3 (15.9 MB, 29:13 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. It's learning week! Anne-Marie learns a couple Acrobat X tips David learns of a fix that helps InDesign CS5's Convert to Hyperlink feature We all learn the details of Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Preflight Report Template -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft is the developer of PDF2ID, the miraculous solution for converting PDF file to editable InDesign files. Install the software and you'll be able to open (not just Place) PDFs in InDesign. Styles, tables, layers, threaded text, it all gets reconstitut

Quizzler answers (InDesign limits); Steve Werner interview (preflighting digital publications); Obscurity of the week: Postscript Level ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-135.php for the show notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-135.mp3 (17.2 MB, 30:44 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Quizzler Winner (and answers)! Largest number of tab stops in a paragraph Largest document page size, smallest page size Most number of columns on a page Most number of pages in a document, highest page number (screen shot below!) Steve Werner interview, InDesign trainer and blog contributor Preflighting for print and for digital publications Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: PostScript Level -- News and special offers from our sponsors:   >> PrePress Studio sells eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or C

Beyond Print: EPUB; Digital Magazines; Quizzler Announcement; Obscurity of the Week: Resize by 5% ------ Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-134.php for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-134.mp3 (17.6 MB, 31:02 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Beyond Print: EPUB and Digital Magazines from InDesign (and DC Seminar Recap) David's Beyond Print seminar in Los Angeles is in a couple weeks, sign up now! Quizzler Announcement Upcoming InDesignSecretsLive! seminars for Fall 2010: Los Angeles CA, Spokane WA, Santa Fe NM Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Resize by 5% -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> MathMagic, the ultimate equation editor from Info Logic, Inc., is a WYSIWYG equation editor/plug-in that lets you create inline, editable EPS equations from within InDesign (if you use the MathMagic Pro edition). For InDe

Podcasts and Videocasts; Changing Page Color; InDesign Seminars; Obscurity of the Week: Prevent Manual Positioning ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-133.php for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-133.mp3 (15.9 MB, 29:02 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Podcasts and videocasts you'll love Mailbag Answer: Changing the page background color Upcoming InDesignSecretsLive! seminars for Fall 2010: Washington DC, Los Angeles CA, Denver CO, Spokane WA, Santa Fe NM, more tba Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Prevent Manual Positioning -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >>UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.cer

Twitter poem; CID fonts; Quizzler results; Seminar updates; Obscurity of the Week: Always subset fonts with glyph counts greater than 2000 ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-132.php for Show notes, links, discount codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-132.mp3 (17.2 MB, 31:27 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Anne-Marie: Twitter poet laureate David's ongoing battle with CID encoding Quizzler Results (Making things invisible) and winners Upcoming seminars debuting in September PDFSecrets: Working Smarter in Acrobat, with guru Clint Funk 2-day InDesignSecretsLive seminar includes a new "Beyond Print" day Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Always subset fonts with glyph counts greater than 2000 -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko’s SudokuGenerator plug-in lets you to generate Sudoku puzzles directly in InDesign. Spice

7.02 patch update; Bob Levine interview; Quizzler and Seminars news; Obscurity of the Week: Comma, period, slash ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-131 for links, discount codes, and to leave a comment! -----   Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-131.mp3 (20.7 MB, 38:16 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. 7.02 patch update for InDesign/InCopy CS5: What does it fix? Interview with Bob Levine, the "InDesignGuy" and InDesignSecrets.com contributor Upcoming seminars debuting in September PDFSecrets: Working Smarter in Acrobat, with guru Clint Funk 2-day InDesignSecretsLive seminar includes a new "Beyond Print" day Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Comma, period, slash (they have a secret life as obscure keyboard shortcuts) -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to

Survey winner; Navigating long docs; Two new seminars; Obscurity of the Week: Select and Fit Item ----- Details below, or go to the Show Notes page at http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-130.php for links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-130.mp3 (16.3 MB, 30:51 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Congratulations to Laurie from Columbus, Ohio, our Survey prize winner! Navigating through long InDesign docs: tips, tricks, and hidden features Two new seminars debut in September PDFSecrets: Working Smarter in Acrobat, with guru Clint Funk 2-day InDesignSecretsLive seminar includes a new "Beyond Print" day Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select and Fit Item (screen shot below) -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko's Color2Gray plug-in lets you convert placed color images to grayscale without modifying the original color image; no trips

User survey; Sorting tables; PDFs from Print Booklet; Obscurity of the Week: Include Menu Commands ------ Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-129.php for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ------ Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-129.mp3 (15.8 MB, 30:07 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Take our quickie InDesignSecrets user survey, win a prize! Sorting Tables, a story with three morals PDFs from Print Booklet: Solutions for Mac users Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Include Menu Commands -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> WinSoft International designs, develops, and localizes software for emerging markets, including InDesign ME (Middle Eastern). Their new plug-in ScribeDOOR for InDesign ($89) adds the ability to edit and treat text in 21 complex languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi and many Indian scripts. It can be installed, as a plug-in, in

InDesign to ePub; Quizzler results (triangles); Obscurity of the week: Single Word Justification-----Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-128.php for links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment!----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-128.mp3 (19.4 MB, 36:36 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. InDesign to ePub What is it, why should you care? Essentials of getting your InDesign file ePub-ready Common glitches and tweaks Quizzler Results! Two winners and many honorable mentions for their creative triangle-creation methods (full list after Links, below) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Single Word Justification InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: San Francisco & Chicago in June; LA, DC, Santa Fe, Denver, and more in the fall! -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesi

All about Leading; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Use Master Color-----------Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-127.php for Show notes, links, and to leave a comment!----------- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-127.mp3 (14.9 MB, 28:32 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. All About Leading Leading-related Preference settings When to use Auto-Leading and when not to Baseline grid and leading, First line offset and leading, and more! Quizzler! Ladies and Germs, man your InDesign tools Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Use Master Color InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: San Francisco & Chicago in June; LA, DC, Denver, and more in the fall! -- Quizzler instructions: Think you have the answer to this episode's Quizzler? Do not post it here in a comment! Instead, send your answer(s) in an e-mail to info@indesignsecrets.com, with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line. (No

Best and Worst little CS5 features; Blog posts of the week; Obscurity of the Week: Folder 0-------Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-126.php for show notes, links, and to leave a comment!--------Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-126.mp3 (19 MB, 36:14 minutes)See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.Favorite little features in InDesign CS5New control panel widgets, Patient user mode always on (AM), Minion Pro default, moreLeast-favorite, little annoyances in InDesign CS5Change in panel tabs, New Window menu organization, Patient user mode always on (DB), moreHot Blog Posts of the WeekConfigurator for InDesign, TweetChats, InDesign to iPadObscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Folder 0InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: San Francisco & Chicago in June; LA, DC, Denver, and more in the fall!News and special offers from our sponsors:>> Rorohiko (“Slash the time it takes!”) keeps improving their so-useful So

PeP Conference recap; ePub cover art tip; Graphic FX ebook; Top 40 Tips ebook; Dropbox; Chicago and San Francisco seminars; Obscurity of the Week: Master Page Overlay-------Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-125.php for show notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment!-------Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-125.mp3 (14.6 MB, 27:39 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. 2010 Print & ePublishing Conference Recap Tip for creating ePub cover art in InDesign Two new eBooks debut this week: InDesignSecrets Guide to Graphic Effects, Mike Rankin's new eBook InDesignSecrets Top 40 Tips, most useful/popular tips from the blog in one place Using Dropbox with InDesign projects/workflows Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Master Page Overlay and Kris Coppieter's cool EnslaveMaster plugin InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: San Francisco, Chicago, more! Tuesday Tweets! Use

CS5 ships; Michael Ninness interview; Conference and Seminar updates; Obscurity of the Week: Set Tab Order------Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-124.php for details, Show Notes, and to leave a comment!-----Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-124.mp3 (19.9 MB, 39:28 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Adobe CS5 is shipping! Books, videos, online help files, and more Interview with Michael Ninness, Adobe's past Product Manager for InDesign 2010 Print and ePublishing Conference update InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: Atlanta, San Francisco, and Chicago! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Set Tab Order News and special offers from our sponsors: >> CtrlPublishing offers a highly useful plugin called CtrlChanges that lets you track text changes in InDesign CS3, CS4, and CS5, just like in Microsoft Word and InCopy. With the CtrlChanges plug-in you can see the tracked changes

InDesign CS5 Released; New contributor Keith Gilbert; Russell Viers interview; Obscurity of the Week: Straight Hash ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-123.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-123.mp3 (16.9 MB, 34:16 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. InDesign CS5! Welcome to new blog contributor Keith Gilbert Yes, a use for Style Groups! Interview with world traveller/InDesign guru Russell Viers InDesignSecretsLive Seminars -- new cities added! 2010 Print and ePublishing Conference update (close to selling out!) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Straight Hash News and special offers from our sponsors: >> PrePress Studio just released eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF. eDocker makes the SWFs more user-friendly in the browser because it lets

    Conference Agenda; InDesign CS5 Launch; Quark Features Missing in InDesign; Hot Forum Post; Obscurity of the Week: Best Joins ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-122.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-122.mp3 (13.8 MB, 27:27 minutes) See our Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. InDesignSecretsLive Seminars -- news/updates Sessions announced for the Print and ePublishing Conference InDesign CS5 (and those other minor Suite programs) launch on April 12 QuarkXPress features that aren't in InDesign (and workarounds for some of them) Hot Forum Post: Cool Keyboard Shortcuts Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Best Joins News and special offers from our sponsors: >> DTPTools offers a suite of 12 InDesign plug-ins in a single package called BlatnerTools (because our own David Blatner designed it)! It works with CS3 and C

  Tips for organizing styles; Gabriel Powell interview; ePub info; Obscurity of the Week: Sort Bookmarks ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-121.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, or to leave a comment! -----  Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-121.mp3 (15.2 MB, 30:19 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Best practices for organizing and naming text styles InDesignSecrets Seminars & Conference update; new speakers Mike Rankin's interview with ePub expert Gabriel Powell at the O'Reilly TOC Conference Emerging and evolving open standards discussed at the conference, such as the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) for eBooks The new "browser wars" (how different eReaders interpret the same content feed) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Sort Bookmarks Bonus: David recites from memory the first 20 digits of Pi (in honor of Pi day, March 14—aka 3.14!) -