Indesign Secrets

A Very Special Episode! (Happy Anniversary to Us): New Videocast; Trip Back in time to Episode 001; Funny Outtakes; Winners of the 1st Annual Eeek-eek-eek Awards; Obscurity of the Week: Font Version ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-100.php for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-100.mp3 (19.3 MB, 37:22 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. "A Very Special Episode" in honor of our 100th podcast ... InDesignSecrets Videocast Debuts Travel back in time with us to Episode #1 and giggle Flub-O-Fest: Outtakes from previous episodes you'll enjoy The Winners of the First Annual InDesignSecrets Eeek-eek-eek Awards Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Font Version -- 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 pur

News; Simplest GREP Style; Styles Hierarchy; Vote for the 2009 Eeek-eek-eek Awards; Obscurity of the Week: Paragraph Spacing Limit ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-099.php for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-099.mp3 (17.5 MB, 33:19 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: InDesign/InCopy 6.01 update; Bridge Home is foreclosed; New Adobe forums; Twitter update World's Simplest GREP Style (great for non-GREPpers) The style hierarchy: Which automatically applied character style "wins"? The Eeek-eek-eek awards for our upcoming 100th Podcast: Fill out the Ballot! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Paragraph Spacing Limit -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Mogo-Media's InDesign Seminar Tour begins in June 2009, presented by either David or Anne-Marie, in various cities across the U.S. Getting Started with Dreamweaver & CSS is a one-day web

ACE Exams, Wherefore Magenta; Linking Templates to Layouts; More on Special Characters; Obscurity of the Week: Share My Screen ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-098.mp3 (16.7 MB, 32:33 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: InDesign CS4 ACE (Adobe Certified Expert) tests are now available; Test Prep e-book coming soon Is magenta a color? An trippy trip into rods, cones, spectra, and process inks How to update files created from the same template when it's modified Three interesting special characters Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Share My Screen -- News from our sponsors: >> Mogo-Media's Getting Started with Dreamweaver & CSS is a one-day web publishing workshop that has open dates in March 2009 for various cities, starring CS genius Brian Wood. Flash Without Tears, a one-day workshop hosted by the inimitable Sandee Cohen,

Sandee Cohen interview; Interactive PDFs; Obscurity of the Week: Show/Hide Paragraph Break Marks ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links mentioned in the podcast, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-097.mp3 (15.8 MB, 30:50 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Interview with Sandee "Vectorbabe" Cohen InDesign CS4: Visual QuickStart Guide (Sandee's book) is now available Her VQS chapter on Interactive and Multimedia is available as a downloadable PDF (which of course is itself interactive and has multimedia features) How Sandee created the interactive PDF in InDesign CS4 and Acrobat Pro 9 Sandee's upcoming book, From Design Into Print Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Show/Hide Paragraph Break Marks -- News from our sponsors: >> Recosoft’s PDF2ID Professional 2.0 is a new version of the the amazing program that converts PDFs to editable InDesign (Mac

Paper white; Printing screen captures; Downsave snippets; Callout lines; Contact Sheet Placing; Poster Giveaway; Obscurity of the Week: Reset Workspace ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-096.mp3 (18.9 MB, 36:00 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Why "Simulate Paper White" usually looks gray Prepping screen captures for commercial printing Blog posts (and discussions) of interest: Downsave snippets Photographic frames Callout lines with white edges Yearbook layouts/Contact Sheet placing in CS4 New Podcast Giveaway: Each episode, an ID Keyboard Shortcuts poster goes to someone we randomly pull from our mailing list or twitter followers. This week's winner is cjmadigan Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Reset Workspace -- News from our sponsor: >> In-Tools: Adobe Design Premium CS4 ME is now available! (And Design St

Trip reports; Software updates; Master page text frames; Quizzler winners; Obscurity of the Week: Skip by Leading ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, sponsor discount links, and other links mentioned in this episode. And to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-095.mp3 (17.6 MB, 32:28 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Trip reports: David in Dubai and at Macworld; Anne-Marie at lynda.com recording studio and at the Chicago InDesign User Group News: InDesignProxy update; Leopard update fixes InDesign hiding glitch Follow InDesignSecrets on Twitter The vestigial Master Text Frame checkbox in the New Document dialog Five Quizzler winners and their favorite InDesignSecrets posts from 2008! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Skip by Leading -- Sweet Deals from our sponsors: >> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a luc

Upcoming Events; Resolutions; Table Calculations; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Smart Match Style Groups ----- Details below; or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-094.mp3 (15.7 MB, 30:08 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Upcoming events for David and Anne-Marie Our Resolutions Table calculations -- various solutions and a neat free script A Quizzler for everyone, with prizes for 5 lucky winners Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Smart Match Style Groups -- Info and deals from our sponsors: The WorldTools plug-in from In-Tools (owned by InDesign guru "Harbs") allows InDesign CS4 users to set Right-to-Left text without needing InDesignME. The plug-in retails for $149 and has an introductory price of $99, until 1/31/09 is further discounted to $94 for InDesignSecrets users if you use our link. Flux Consulting's supremely useful EyeDropper Plug-in (Ma

New Contributor; We're on Twitter; CS4 sales; ID CS4 ACE Exam; RTL text solutions; PICT format; Free guide to hidden character; Obscurity of the Week: Hide Master Items ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links mentioned in the podcast, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-093.mp3 (17.3 MB, 32:33 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Welcome to new contibutor, James Fritz InDesignSecrets on Twitter! The state of CS4: Who is upgrading? InDesign CS4 ACE Exam -- by InDesignSecrets Right-to-left (RTL) text without InDesign ME The problem with the PICT image format Free Download: Guide to Special Characters in InDesign Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Hide Master Items -- Links mentioned in this podcast: All about James Fritz Follow the InDesignSecrets Twitter feed Adobe's press release mentioning slower CS4 sales Learn about becoming an ACE Bob Levine's post about RTL tex

Black Wednesday; Stripping Styles; InDesign to Illustrator; Obscurity of the Week: Custom Text ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-092.mp3 (14.7 MB, 28:03 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: "Black Wednesday" for Publishers and Adobe Hot Post of the Week: Stripping Styles and Masters Moving formatted text from InDesign to Illustrator Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Custom Text -- Links mentioned in this podcast: Details about "Black Wednesday" for publishers and Adobe David's post about Stripping heh heh MergeText script for Adobe Illustrator CS1–CS4 Selection to PDF script for Adobe InDesign CS3 PDF2ID plug-in for Adobe InDesign CS2–CS4

CS4 Posters; Stolen Laptop; Tips from the Master Class; Obscurity of the Week: Isolated Form ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links mentioned in the podcast, or to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-091.mp3 (15.9 MB, 33:33 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. InDesign CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts Posters! David's tragic tale: Dealing with the aftermath of a stolen computer New InDesign secrets we learned at the Master Class Conference Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Isolated Form -- Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesign CS4 Poster details page (or jump right to the store) SuperDuper back-up program (Mac only) CrashPlan off-site automated back-ups (cross-platform) David's post about the stolen laptop ... great comments! Anne-Marie's post about composition highlighting GRACOL home page Microsoft's page about developing positional form glyphs (caution: will make head explode) Karim Regular

News; CS4 Poster; FindChange script; Quizzler Winner; Obscurity of the Week: Continued Footnotes ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-090.mp3 (13.5 MB, 29:29 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: InDesign Conference Master Class, ID CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts poster, ID CS4 Bugs Posts You Should Know About The Amazingly Useful and Free FindChangeByList.jsx script The Brazzler (aka Quizzler) Winner and Answer! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Continued Footnotes Sweet Deals for you: InDesignSecrets eSeminar: What's New in InDesign CS4, available as a recording for one week afterward you register to view it. Get $10 off by entering IDS11 in the coupon field on the registration page. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: Posts we talked about: ID CS4 Master Page Bug, SmallCaps, Thread Between Documents, Free CS4 Movies, InDesign on Vacation

3 great deals; Table tips; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Clear Attributes Not Defined By Style ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links mentioned in the podcast, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-089.mp3 (13.5 MB, 29:29 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Three great deals for InDesignSecrets readers and listeners Tons 'o table tips: Selecting, adding/deleting rows, copy/pasting, figuring out widths and heights, little-known keyboard shortcuts, more ... Quizzler! (or, "The Brazzler!") Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Clear Attributes Not Defined By Style Sweet Deals for you: Markzware: Makers of the Q2ID plug-in (convert QuarkXPress v3-v7 files to InDesign) and many other fine products have a TIME-LIMITED offer for InDesign Secrets fans: 25% off their plug-ins. To get the discount, purchase online at http://markzware.com and enter SECRET in the coupon code field. MogoMedi

News; New contributor; Master Class discount; Quizzler for quizzlers; Frame types; Obscurity of the week: Flattener Preview ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-088.mp3 (14.5 MB, 31:42 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: CS4 documentation, pricing, InDesignSecrets "2.1" site tweaks Welcome to new contributor, Mike Rankin InDesign Master Class Conference (see discount code below) Quizzler for Quizzlers Text vs. Graphic vs. Undefined Frames Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Flattener Preview Sweet Deals from our Sponsors: Recosoft: Clever developers of the PDF2ID plug-in (convert PDFs to InDesign), has a TIME-LIMITED offer for InDesign Secrets fans: $20 discount only via this URL: http://www.recosoft.com/pdf2idspecial.htm Markzware: Makers of the Q2ID plug-in (convert QuarkXPress v3-v7 files to InDesign) and many other fine products have

InDesign CS4 New Features Overview; Obscurity of the Week: User ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-087.mp3 (15.2 MB, 33:06 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. InDesign CS4 New Feature Overview! Our favorite new features... the small, geeky ones of course The "big guns" new features Ones we think are a little weird A few early bird tips and techniques for the new features--we couldn't help ourselves (replay this podcast after you get your upgrade) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: User Sweet Deal from our Sponsors: Markzware: Makers of the Q2ID plug-in (convert QuarkXPress v3-v7 files to InDesign) and many other fine products have a TIME-LIMITED offer for InDesign Secrets fans: 25% off their plug-ins. To get the discount, purchase online at http://markzware.com and enter SECRET in the coupon code field. Links mentioned in this

InDesign CS4; New blogs; Great posts; Obscurity of the week: Merge Swatches ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-086.mp3 (11.8 MB, 25:46 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: InDesign CS4 Announcement Announced ;-) New blogs on the block: Publicious.net, InDesign1200.com, DearAdobe.com Great posts you might have missed: Make a Frame Grid, Print Style Specs, Find Text/Change to Graphic, PDF Place Fix Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Merge Swatches Sweet Deal from our Sponsors: Markzware: Makers of the Q2ID plug-in (convert QuarkXPress v3-v7 files to InDesign) and many other fine products have a TIME-LIMITED offer for InDesign Secrets fans: 25% off their plug-ins. To get the discount, purchase online at http://markzware.com and enter SECRET in the coupon code field. Recosoft: Makers of the PDF2ID plug-in (convert PDFs to InDesign), ha

News, Color Tips, Obscurity of the Week: OnFocus/OnBlur-----Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment!----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-085.mp3 (13 MB, 28:26 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: ID Mag, Webinar recap, Eek-eek-eekers in the wild, Back to School Discount A Few Good Color Tips Guest obscurist Sandee Cohen presents this episode's Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: On Focus/On Blur Sweet Deal from our Sponsor (Last chance!): This is your final chance (for the near future at least) to get in on this deal. UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center (Centre?), is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener per sponsored podcast. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for this episode's free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 7 d

Scott Citron interview; Our upcoming webinar; Redesign update; Export All Stories; Obscurity of the Week: Visibility ----- Details below, or go to http://www.indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to post a comment!  ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-084.mp3 (12.9 MB, 28:06 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Interview with Scott Citron, on the road to recovery! InDesignSecrets' Upcoming Webinar: David Blatner's InDesign Tips and Tricks Site Redesign Update Hot Button Post of the Week: Export All Stories Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Visibility Sweet Deal from our Sponsor: UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center (Centre?), is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener per sponsored podcast. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for this episode's free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick!

Gotchas; Obscurity of the Week: Deactivate-----Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment!----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-083.mp3 (7.2 MB, 15:47 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Gotchas! We blaze through a pile of InDesign traps that will mess you up if you overlook one tiny little checkbox or button Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Deactivate Sweet Deal from our Sponsor: UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center (Centre?), is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener per sponsored podcast. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for this episode's free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 7 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. More information is available on their web page. Links mentioned in this podcast: Adobe

Do's and Don'ts of Text; Weird Hair Space Kerning; Obscurity of the Week: Join ----- For details, see below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-082.mp3 (14.6 MB, 31:50 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Do's and Don'ts of Text in InDesign: Double spaces and returns, proper use of character styles, case changes, discretionary hyphens, text framitis, more The Strange Case of the Space-Eating Hair Space Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Join Sweet Deal from our Sponsor: UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center (Centre?), is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener per sponsored podcast. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for this episode's free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 7 day

Our new blog design; Free script extravaganza; PDF Presets problem; Obscurity of the Week: Orthogonal Line ----- For details, see below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-081.mp3 (13.4 MB, 29:19 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. New design for InDesignSecrets.com blogFree script extravaganza: Swatch Switcher, Label Graphics, Swap Object Positions, IndexMatic (beta) to index on character styles, Select Objects from Keyboard, Selection to PDF"Smallest File Size" PDF preset caution, and related issues with PDF presetsObscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Orthogonal Line Links mentioned in the Podcast: Sweet deal from our sponsor! Recosoft's PDF2ID plug-in discount, just for InDesignSecrets users (this is the last week for the discount!) Support your local scripter! Home pages for Dave Saunders, Steve Wareham, Marc Autret, Kris Coppetiers, Martinho