Indesign Secrets

Ole Kvern interview; Member prizes; Cross-References; Obscurity of the Week: Connections ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-120.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-120.mp3 (16.4 MB, 32:08 minutes) [media id=41 width=* height=20] The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Updates about the InDesignSecrets seminars and Print and ePublishing (PeP) Conference Interview with Ole Kvern, Computer Scientist at Adobe Systems, InDesign scripting guru, and author and co-author of Real World InDesign, Real World Freehand, and many more How he got involved with Adobe and InDesign How InDesign users can get started scripting His seminars on InDesign automation at the PeP Conference InDesignSecrets member prize drawing: Congrats, Tim and Brian! Harbs' new, free Cross-References script that adds a much-needed feature Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Connections News and special of

Mordy Golding interview; Obscurity of the Week: Tiling ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-119.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser:InDesignSecrets-119.mp3 (13.8 MB, 28:47 minutes) [media id=40 width=* height=20] The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Interview with Mordy Golding, Illustrator guru and New York City fanboy How he got involved with Flash Catalyst Why designers will love using it Details on his all-day Illustrator/Flash Catalyst tutorial at the PeP Conference Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Tiling News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko offers a free plug-in called TextExporter that we love. But to get even more functionality from that free plug-in (and many other free Rorohiko plug-ins) you need to license their APID Assistant. Normally $25, you can get $5 off the APID Assistant if you enter INDESIGNSECRETS119 in the coupon code area of Rorohiko's

Colin Fleming interview; Conference/Seminar news; Members drawing winner; Obscurity of the Week: Shared Hyperlink Destination ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-118.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-118.mp3 (14 MB, 26:35 minutes) [media id=39 width=* height=20] The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Interview with Colin Fleming, Senior Solutions Engineer from Adobe How he became an expert on ePub ePubs on Kindles, iPads and Sony eBooks Videos and whitepapers on ePubs that Colin recommends Update on our Print & ePublishing Conference Early bird registration saves $200! Pre-conference all-day tutorials from Mordy Golding, James Fritz, and Michael Ninness New cities/speakers for our InDesignSecrets Live Seminar tour A lucky InDesignSecrets member gets a TruMatch swatch book as this episode's random winner Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Shared Hyperlink

InDesignSecretsLive.com 2010 seminars and conference; Diane Burns interview; Prize winners; Obscurity of the the Week: Paste without Formatting ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-117.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-117.mp3 (15 MB, 29:48 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Happy New Year! Our new sister site: InDesignSecretsLive.com, with info and links for: 2010 InDesign seminar tour cities and dates Our new Print and e-Publishing ("PeP") Conference, May 12-14, 2009, Seattle, Wash. Interview with Diane Burns, ID trainer/multilingual publishing expert/table diva Winners of our first InDesignSecrets Member drawing Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Paste Without Formatting News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko has a new version of

Fantastic and Free Production Scripts; Obscurity of the Week: Display Unsupported Files ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-116.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-116.mp3 (9.6 MB, 18:22 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Fantastic Free Scripts for Final (or Near-Final) Production Tasks Remove End-of-Line Underlines Freeze Composition (Line Breaks) Compare InDesign Documents Package Multiple for Archive Marc Autret's Incredible List of Scripts and Scripter Resources Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Display Unsupported Files News and special offers from our sponsors: >> We're loving the In-Tools plug-in Power Headers, which does everything you wish InDesign's Running Header variable could do but can't! InDesignSecrets fans can get $20 off the price for eithe

InDesignSecrets Conference; Find Where That Color is Used; Obscurity of the Week: Information ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-115.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-115.mp3 (12.3 MB, 23:47 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. InDesignSecrets Conference! Find where that color is used Separations Preview panel Swatches panel tricks Find/Change Package Summary panel (thanks Nicola!) Blatner Tools Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Information News and special offers from our sponsors: >> We're loving the In-Tools plug-in Power Headers, which does everything you wish InDesign's Running Header variable could do but can't! InDesignSecrets fans can get $20 off the price for either one of In-Tool's InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, (both of which include Powe

All about object transformations; Blatner Tools beta 3; Obscurity of the Week: Pattern Length ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-114.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-114.mp3 (14.5 MB, 26:42 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. All about object transformations Scaling & rotating from the keyboard Using math in the X, Y, W, H, and % (Scale) fields to transform The too-subtle-for-their-own-good transformation buttons & context menu And many more! Blatner Tools free beta 3 now available Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Pattern Length News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a very cool plug-in called Column Flow which among other things let you create straddle heads on the fly!. As always, InDesignSecrets fans can get $20 off the price for either

InDesignSecrets membership; our new forum; Guide to the InDesign ACE Exam eBook; Adobe layoffs; Obscurity of the Week: Choke ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-113.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-113.mp3 (18.6 MB, 36:04 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. InDesignSecrets Membership -- free with benefits! All about the InDesignSecrets forums Guide to the InDesign ACE Exam eBook by Mike Rankin Interview with Mike Rankin! Recent Adobe layoffs Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Choke News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko ("Slash the time it takes!") has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! In this episode we take a close look at their new Mac/Windows utility called Soxy ($19 US) that helps you op

Posts of Note: Windows 7, Story Editor, PowerPoint, Balance Lines; Unicodes, GIDs and CIDs; Obscurity of the Week: Missing Glyph ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-112.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-112.mp3 (17.2 MB, 32:59 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Blog Posts You Should Know About: Windows 7 and InDesign (Bob Levine) Story Editor Secrets (Steve Werner) Importing PowerPoint into InDesign (James Fritz) When to Use Balance Ragged Lines (Anne-Marie) Time to Get Geeky: Unicodes, GIDs and CIDs Upcoming seminars, webinars, new videos and software Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Missing Glyph News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a very cool plug-in called Running Headers which does variable headers, multi-line headers, chapter headers, and more. Speci

Blatner Tools; Screen Appearance Tweaks and Tips; Webinars and Seminars; Obscurity of the Week: Ignore Orientation ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-111.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-111.mp3 (14.6 MB, 28:12 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Blatner Tools Settings that Change the Screen Appearance (& Tips!) Hide/Show Frame Edges Preview Mode: what disappears, customizing Display Performance Overprint Preview Proof Setup; Anne-Marie's color management rant Show/Hide Notes Rotate Spread View Upcoming seminars and webinars Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Ignore Orientation News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko (aka Lightning Brain) has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users. For example, FrameReporter ($29 US) lets you see small informational tags when you c

6.04 Update; Snow Leopard and PDFs; Word and InDesign Part 2; Obscurity of the Week: Cancel Package ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-110.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-110.mp3 (15.9 MB, 30:41 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. InDesign/InCopy 6.04 Patch SnowLeopard (Mac OS 10.6) and the Adobe PDF printer Placing Word files: Essential Tips, Part 2 Mapping Word styles to InDesign styles Working around the Style Group glitch Converting InDesign files to Word documents Converting Footnotes to Endnotes Upcoming seminars and webinars Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Cancel Package News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a very cool plug-in called AutoFlow Pro, which we talked about in the show. It lets you set autoflow attributes for individual stories within your layout, let

Happy Birthday InDesign; Essential Tips for Importing Word files; Upcoming Seminars and Webinars; Obscurity of the Week: Select All Unused ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-109.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-109.mp3 (16 MB, 30:15 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Happy 10th Birthday to InDesign! Placing Word files: Essential Tips, Part 1 Deleting Word styles while retaining local bolds and italics When you might want to export to RTF and re-import Fastest way to remove hyperlinks (but leave the link text) Maggy-ing the Word file Upcoming seminars and webinars -- all recordings now available! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select All Unused 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

New eSeminars and live Seminars by David and Anne-Marie; Character Styles Deep Dive; Obscurity of the Week: Go to Selected Bookmark ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-108.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-108.mp3 (14 MB, 26:53 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. New InDesignSecrets eSeminars: InCopy/InDesign, Long Documents (links below) InDesignSecrets Live Seminars! Deep Dive into Character Styles: To-do's and Not-to-do's Applying multiple styles Using them for "tagging" (instead of formatting) A few great scripts! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Go to Selected Bookmark (with bonus new features discovered by accident!) News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, i

Interview with contributor James Fritz; Unwanted color seps/plates; Obscurity of the Week: Float ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-107.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-107.mp3 (14.1 MB, 27:38 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Interview with James Fritz, InDesignSecrets contributor Tracking down unwanted color seps (plates) in your layout files Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Float News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talk

eSeminar recordings available; Chris Kitchener interview; Creating accessible (Sec 508) PDFs; Obscurity of the Week: Crop to Media ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-106.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-106.mp3 (16.1 MB, 30:30 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. InDesignSecrets eSeminar recordings now available Anne-Marie's Graphic Design in 2009 webinar Interview with Adobe's Chris Kitchener, Sr. Product Manager for the InDesign family Lynda.com new "10 Things" videos: Interactive PDFs (David) and Troubleshooting Files (Anne-Marie) Creating Accessible (Sec. 508-compliant) PDFs from InDesign Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Crop to Media News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you p

Multiple-place tip; Acrobat.com; 6.03 Update; Obscurity of the Week: POSIX ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-105.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-105.mp3 (10.1 MB, 11:25 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Multiple-place tips for InDesign CS3 and CS4 Acrobat.com officially released, new features InDesign/InCopy 6.03 Update Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: POSIX News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug

News: Seminars, Webinars, Videos; Special Effects; SWF Fixes; Obscurity of the Week: Arrange by Columns ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-104.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-104.mp3 (12.2 MB, 23:22 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: A slew of new InDesign resources Diane's eSeminar on Tables in ID (recording available) and Steve's upcoming eSeminar on Best Print/Prepress Practices for InDesign Anne-Marie's three new InDesign "10 Things" video titles at lynda.com InDesign Seminar tour in full swing; David in LA this week; AM in Boston and Minneapolis next week Eye Candy! ... Mike Rankin's multi-part series of incredibly cool special effects you can do right in InDesign (see links below) SWFs in InDesign: David's discovery and Martinho's wonderful free script Results from the First Annual InDesignSecrets Survey Obscure InDesign

Seminars and Webinars; InCopy CS4 Guide; CS Developers Summit; Moving Pages Between Layouts; Obscurity of the Week: Line End ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-103.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-103.mp3 (20.2 MB, 38:45 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: Upcoming Seminars and Webinars, InCopy CS4 Hands-On Guide Report from the Creative Suite Developer's Summit, complete with interviews with some of your favorite InDesign plug-in developers! Moving pages from one layout to another: tips and tricks Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Line End News and special offers from our sponsors: >> myMacMac is the developer of a really neat InDesign plug-in called InDemand (see the Quicktime demo). InDemand adds an automation panel to the Mac (only) versions of InDesign CS2, CS3, or CS4 with all sorts of useful buttons and functions, such as a Repe

Listener survey (with prizes!); Upcoming ID webinars and seminars by DB and AMC; Scaling and Resampling in ID; Obscurity of the Week: Snap-to Flag ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-102.phpfor Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-102.mp3 (17.2 MB, 33:13 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: Reader/Listener Survey, Upcoming Seminars and Webinars All about scaling and resampling in InDesign Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Snap-to Flag -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publica

Videocast stats; InDesign 101; Barcodes; Spell-checking; Obscurity of the Week: Threshold ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-101 for Show notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-101.mp3 (15.3 MB, 29:50 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. InDesignSecrets Videocast 001 stats and reactions InDesign 101: Helping Complete Newbies Get Started Hot Button Posts: Creating barcodes, Please check the spell checker Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Threshold -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew