Indesign Secrets

200th episode spectacular extravaganza; Memories, time travel, and outtakes; Obscurity of the Week: Credits ----- Our 200th episode! (and our 25th year (each) in the field) Milestone memories from David and Anne-Marie Time traveling through the podcast episodes Podcast outtakes! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Credits News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft: Open and convert PDF and Windows XPS documents directly in Adobe InDesign CC right from InDesign?s File menu with their latest version (4.0) of PDF2ID, the amazing InDesign plug-in. Earlier 3.5 version still available for InDesign versions CS4 to CS6. Be sure to check out their other amazing plug-in for InDesign users, ID2Office: export your InDesign files to Word or Powerpoint! Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners, until Sept 30, get 25% discount off PDF2ID v3.5 or ID2Office v1.5 with code ID_Secrets Links mentioned in this podcast: News clip from when Quark announced they were considering buying Adobe (story of Tim

News; Five Gotchas and their fixes; Obscurity of the Week: Comb -------------- The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News Call for PePcon 2014 speakers New lynda.com video tutorials by Anne-Marie (ID and Word) and David (Interactive PDFs) Update to InDesign CC and InCopy CC released Five Common (and easily-fixed) InDesign Gotchas! Jumping text, disappearing guides, copy/paste between versions, and more Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Comb News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, EPUB, and Adobe DPS training. Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol.Their "Uncovered Series" seminars cover the cutting-edge technologies in Adobe's latest products — view them all at seminars.certitec.com. If you sign up for a seminar or class and mention you heard about them on InDesignSecrets, you get 20% off the fee! >>  Rorohiko has two things they want InDesignSecrets podcast list

QR Codes; Sandee Cohen guest co-host; Obscurity of the Week: Warn if Link Update Will Overwrite Local Edits ----------- Sandee Cohen, our guest star in the studios! Innovative use for InDesign CC's QR Code feature! More tips for QR codes than you can imagine The cool TaDa! QR plugin from Rorohiko Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Warn if Link Update Will Overwrite Local Edits News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software is the developer of DocsFlow and WordsFlow, two plug-ins for Adobe InDesign that dynamically link your text frames to online Google Docs (DocsFlow) or placed Word files (WordsFlow). These products enable a breakthrough publishing workflow, one where your authors and editors can keep changing the source document, and you can merge in their changes automatically and painlessly, even after you?ve made changes to the InDesign story (without losing your changes or formatting!). Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code ids0813 in the EmSoftware.com

Getting HTML out of InDesign; Obscurity of the Week: Create Acrobat Layers -----  Getting HTML out of InDesign Layout "geometry" issues Useful plug-ins HTML and CSS options Resources (aka Michael Murphy) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Create Acrobat Layers News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft: Open and convert PDF and Windows XPS documents directly in Adobe InDesign CC right from InDesign’s File menu with their latest version (4.0) of PDF2ID, the amazing InDesign plug-in. Earlier 3.5 version still available for InDesign versions CS3 to CS6. Be sure to check out their other amazing plug-in for InDesign users, ID2Office — export your InDesign files to Word or Powerpoint! Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners, until July 31, get 25% discount off PDF2ID or ID2Office with code ID_Secrets >> Rorohiko has this neat add-on called Frame Reporter. It adds a little label next to any page object which you can configure to show whatever information you need to see without having

HOWDesign and print; Paper love; Obscurity of the Week: Candy ----- David re-fell in love with print at HOW! Sappi, washi, and plastic! Hamilton Type Museum Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Candy News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software is the developer of DocsFlow and WordsFlow, two plug-ins for Adobe InDesign that dynamically link your text frames to online Google Docs (DocsFlow) or placed Word files (WordsFlow). These products enable a breakthrough publishing workflow, one where your authors and editors can keep changing the source document, and you can merge in their changes automatically and painlessly, even after you’ve made changes to the InDesign story (without losing your changes or formatting!). Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code ids0613 in the EmSoftware.com store when buying either of these plug-ins and get 20% off! This code is only good until July 31, so grab them both! >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a

InDesign CC ships; Upcoming appearances; All About Frames; Obscurity of the week: Link Images Direct Link http://traffic.libsyn.com/indesignsecrets/InDesignSecrets-195.mp3 --------- Show Notes: News: InDesign CC released! (and InCopy CC too!) David at HOWLive Anne-Marie at AAUP and Maine Media Workshops New lynda.com title: InDesign CC Essential Training Frame-stravaganza: Prepare to be Amazed! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Link Images News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko: Check out their newest plug-in, RepeatAfterMe (CS1 to CS6). It lets you make simple changes to a single object, and then repeat those changes for all similar objects throughout your entire document! You get to pick in which way the other objects must be similar from a dropdown list. It's like a combination of Illustrator's "Select Similar" and "Transform Again. RepeatAfterMe is $19.00 per seat, but you can use the coupon code: INDESIGNSECRETS195 to get 30% off. Links mentioned in this podcast: Our post abo

PEPCON 2013 recap; InDesign CC new features; Creative Cloud pros and cons; Obscurity of the week: Autotag In this episode (41:01 minutes): PEPCON 2013 recap! We share some of our favorite moments InDesign CC is coming June 17! What's it all about? What are the new features? Adobe moves all-in to the Creative Cloud: The good, the bad, the undecided; we duke it out! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Autotag News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft: Open and convert PDF and Windows XPS documents directly in Adobe InDesign CS4/CS5/CS5.5/CS6 right from InDesign’s File menu with their latest version (3.5) of PDF2ID, the amazing InDesign plug-in. Be sure to check out their other amazing plug-in for InDesign users, ID2Office — export your InDesign files to Word or Powerpoint! Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners, until June 30, get 25% discount off PDF2ID or ID2Office with code ID_Secrets Links mentioned in this podcast: PEPCON (our Print + ePublishing Conference), in Chicago in 201

Diane Burns guest co-host; Multilingual Publishing; Sharing DPS apps; Obscurity of the Week: Swap Fill and Stroke -- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-193.mp3 (17.8 MB, 33.54 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Special! David and guest co-host Diane Burns rock this episode. How to publish in more than one language How to share a DPS app with a group (bypassing the App Store) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Swap Fill and Stroke -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko has this neat add-on called Frame Reporter. It adds a little label next to any page object which you can configure to show whatever information you need to see without having to dig through panels: Effective resolution, Name and/or path of the placed image, Name of the currently selected story, word count, and many more (you can even make your own if you know a little Javascript!). They’ve written up a detailed explanation of all the options and how their customers have used FrameReporte

News, Kelly Vaughn co-host, Conditional Text; Quizzler 190 Answer; Obscurity of the Week: Hidden Destination ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-192.mp3(14.4 MB, 27:45 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. A very special episode with guest co-host Kelly Vaughn! News PEPCON News: IGNITE InDesign, Sunni Brown keynote, Scavenger Hunt game All about Kelly Vaughn and her blog, DocumentGeek Deep Dive into Conditional Text Quizzler 190 Answer! (see below) .. And the winner is announced Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Hidden Destination News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software is the developer of DocsFlow and WordsFlow, two plug-ins for Adobe InDesign that dynamically link your text frames to online Google Docs (DocsFlow) or placed Word files (WordsFlow). These products enable a breakthrough publishing workflow, one where your authors and editors can keep changing the source document, and you can merge in their changes automatically and painlessly,

CreativePro and InDesign Magazine now part of InDesignSecrets; PEPCON networking and sponsors; Spell checking tips; Quizzler reminder; Obscurity of the Week: Sort Items ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-191.mp3(13.1 MB, 23:53 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News CreativePro.com and InDesign Magazine are now part of the InDesignSecrets.com family Bought from the fine folks at PrintingForLess.com PEPCON News: Pre-conference networking, Sponsor news K-cup solution for David! All about Spell Checking and Check Spelling Quizzler reminder: Still time to send an answer! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Sort Items News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft: Open and convert PDF and Windows XPS documents directly in Adobe InDesign CS4/CS5/CS5.5/CS6 right from InDesign’s File menu with their latest version (3.5) of PDF2ID, the amazing InDesign plug-in. Be sure to check out their other amazing plug-i

Conference News; Overlooked InDesign Resources; Wacky New Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Desaturate Black --- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-190.mp3 (12.5 MB, 23:17 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Conference News: SXSW, MAX, HOW, Maine Media Workshop, new PEPCON speakers Overlooked InDesign Resources (sites, pubs, books,etc.) Quizzler! "Awesome and Wacky," says David Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Desaturate Black News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko has this neat add-on called Frame Reporter. It adds a little label next to any page object which you can configure to show whatever information you need to see without having to dig through panels: Effective resolution, Name and/or path of the placed image, Name of the currently selected story, word count, and many more. They've written up a detailed explanation of all the options and how their customers have used FrameReporter to streamline

PEPCON Facebook page, Creative Cloud news, Vectors and Bitmaps in InDesign, Obscurity of the Week: Show Linked Files ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-189.mp3 (13.9 MB, 25:45 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: PEPCON networking site and Facebook page, New Adobe pricing for Creative Cloud Vectors vs. Bitmaps: What they are, how to get them, when to use one over the other Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Show Linked Files News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, EPUB, and Adobe DPS training. Their InDesign classes are so great, their Intro to InDesign course is the most popular one they offer, even beating out their Photoshop classes! Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol. If you sign up for a class and mention you heard about them on “InDesignSecrets,” you get 20% off any class! -- IND

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-188.mp3(12.5 MB, 23:20 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News:  PEPCON, IDUG site and our forum All about the "Forbidden Formats" in InDesign: JPEG, GIF, and PNG Bonus! We get sidetracked and rant about Adobe Digital Editions (epub reader utility) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Letter V News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software is the developer of DocsFlow and WordsFlow, two plug-ins for Adobe InDesign that dynamically link your text frames to online Google Docs (DocsFlow) or placed Word files (WordsFlow). These products enable a breakthrough publishing workflow, one where your authors and editors can keep changing the source document, and you can merge in their changes automatically and painlessly, even after you've made changes to the InDesign story (without losing your changes or formatting!). Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon co

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-187.mp3(18.6 MB, 34:47 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Special episode with Anne-Marie and co-host James Fritz! News: Upcoming speaking gigs at Macworld, PEPCON, and Adobe MAX Solving Paragraph Composer Annoyances Fritz's UberCool Moo.com Business Card Project with InDesign Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Protractor News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, EPUB, and Adobe DPS training. Their InDesign classes are so great, their Intro to InDesign course is the most popular one they offer! Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol. If you sign up for a class and mention this podcast, you can get 10% off any class! -- INDESIGN "PRODUCTION NIGHTMARES FROM THE TRENCHES" STORIES: We want to hear your stories! Send us a short (less than 3 minutes) "InDesign doc/client/user/coworker Horror Story" that we can play on the air

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-186.mp3 (17.4 MB, 32:37 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: Upcoming speaking gigs, InDesign User Group web site, Scripts for Indexes in EPUBs, Our mascot Zoey (picture below!) New Year's InDesign Resolutions (and non-InDesign related) About the Primary Text Frame "Negative Number" Quizzler Answer and Winner Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Relink File Extension News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko’s TextExporter 3.1 plug-in makes exporting text out of InDesign CS2-CS6 so simple! You can export all the stories in an ID file into one single RTF, plain text, or ID tagged text file, and you control how it orders the text as it extracts and concatenates it.  The RTF Export option now supports nested styles, which InDesign's own RTF Export does not! Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS186 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% of

Layout Adjustment; Dear Santa; Quizzler Winners; New Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Load Conveyor ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-185.mp3(15.8 MB, 29:16 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Layout Adjustment: Where did it go? Letter to Santa: Our InDesign Wishlist Two Quizzler Winners from episode 184 New Quizzler! Hunt this one down Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Load Conveyor News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko’s StoryTweaker ($99) plug-in lets editors and writers access your InDesign file’s text without needing to own InDesign or InCopy. The plug-in lets one InDesign user do a Save As to create an unlimited number of AssignmentTweaker sets, which is what the editors open and work on. The workflow is spelled out on the StoryTweaker site, and there’s a 20-day free trial available. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Get 30% the StoryTweaker plug-in (reducing the cost from $99 to $69) if you use the code INDESIGNSECRETS185 when you bu

PEPCON 2013; Animation in InDesign; Horror Story; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Convert to Motion Path ---------- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-184.mp3(13 MB, 24:17 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. News: PEPCON 2013! Animation Features in InDesign: What Can You Use them For? Another "InDesign Horror Story" with an Acrobat flair Quizzler! Get out your Find Font thinking caps Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Convert to Motion Path News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Mag+ (magplus.com) is an efficient and affordable digital publishing platform to create apps for tablet devices straight from InDesign. In the latest version (4.0), you can now publish to Smartphones as well –including iPhone 5. The Mag+ tools are FREE to download from their website, and work with CS4, CS5 and CS6. You can use the bundled InDesign templates, and take advantage of their innovative Review button to quickly see fully-functional touchscreen previews. For more information go

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-183.mp3 (17.1 MB, 32:02 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. News: Milestone: 2,000 blogposts! Erica Gamet's ID Power Pack New version of Export to Kindle plug-in Creative Cloud Education discount Teacup Software's new 2D barcodes EmSoftware Wordsflow Five MORE Overlooked and Lonely InDesign Features (Autocorrect anyone?) Another "InDesign Horror Story" (née "Training Client from Hell") Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Use Master Page Size News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Mag+ (magplus.com) is an efficient and affordable digital publishing platform to create apps for tablet devices straight from InDesign. In the latest version (4.0), you can now publish to Smartphones as well –including iPhone 5. The Mag+ tools are FREE to download from their website, and work with CS4, CS5 and CS6. You can use the bundled InDesign templates, and take advantage of their innovative Review button to quickly see fully-functional touchscree

News; 5 Overlooked Features; Training Client from Hell story; Obscurity of the Week: Jumbo Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-182.mp3(14.8 MB, 28:12 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: CS6.01 patch for InDesign and InCopy Creative Cloud Education discount Acrobat XI and Reader XI Five Overlooked and Lonely InDesign Features Our First "Training Client from Hell" story Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Jumbo News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Mag+ (magplus.com) is an efficient and affordable digital publishing platform to create apps for tablet devices straight from InDesign. In the latest version (4.0), you can now publish to Smartphones as well –including iPhone 5. The Mag+ tools are FREE to download from their website, and work with CS4, CS5 and CS6. You can use the bundled InDesign templates, and take advantage of their innovative Review button to quickly see fully-functional touchscreen previews.

David and Anne-Marie trips; News; Data Merge Tips and Tricks; Obscurity of the Week: Delete End Punctuation Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-181.mp3(15 MB, 28:06 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Out and About: David's trip to Lindau, Anne-Marie's trip to California News: Adobe Digital Editions 2.0, Kindle Plug-in for InDesign 0.971, new open source Adobe fonts Data Merge: Beyond the Basics! Tips and Tricks Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Delete End Punctuation News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft: Open and convert PDF and Windows XPS documents directly in Adobe InDesign CS4/CS5/CS5.5/CS6 right from InDesign's File menu with their latest version (3.5) of PDF2ID, the amazing InDesign plug-in. Be sure to check out their other amazing plug-in for InDesign users, ID2Office — export your InDesign files to Word or Powerpoint! >> Rorohiko: They just keep making ePubCrawler better, and it's still donation-ware! ePubCrawler is a Fixed Layout ePub Assistan