Indesign Secrets

Creative Cloud discount extended; All About GREP; Quizzler Results (filenames of links); Obscurity of the Week: Jump Object ------------- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-180.mp3 (18.8 MB, 35:30 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Creative Cloud subscription discounted rate extended! All about GREP in InDesign Quizzler results: The right and wrong answers, and the winner! (See list of answers at the end of this post) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Jump Object News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Partner in the UK, offers Adobe DPS (Digital Publishing Suite) 2-day Pro and Enterprise courses in London and Cardiff. NEW for students who are funding their training themselves (not from a company): a 25% discount on any course when you quote "InDesign Secrets." (If you forget to say "InDesignSecrets" then you only get 20% off.) That's a great deal! >> Rorohiko: They just ke

Collaborating with non-InDesign users; Quizzler!; Obscurity of the Week: Complex Rasterized Regions ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-179.mp3(16.8 MB, 31:28 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Creative Cloud subscription special offer ends Aug. 31! How to collaborate with non-InDesign users PDF solutions: useful plug-ins, little-known features Microsoft Word, Google Docs, InCopy MediaTrad, Story Tweaker, more Quizzler! How many ways can you ... Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Complex Rasterized Regions News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko: They just keep making ePubCrawler better, and it's still donation-ware! ePubCrawler is a Fixed Layout ePub Assistant for InDesign. The highly-customizable script takes an InDesign document and converts it to a fixed-layout ePub (think kid's books, cookbooks, photography books, etc.) ready to upload to your favorite reseller. This turns a job that normally takes dozens of hours into minutes! Watch any o

Find Color; Ridiculous Features; Obscurity of the Week: Save Query ----------------- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-178.mp3(16.5 MB, 30:32 minutes) [media id=99 width=* height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Golden Oldie post: Find Where That Color's Used Readers Nominate Most Ridiculous Features in InDesign So many, so little time  (Story panel?) How dare you call my fave feature ridiculous! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Save Query News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software: You must check out their InData plug-in for InDesign. Do a little set-up in InDesign, point it at a tab-delimited text file exported from a database or spreadsheet, and bam, you have a fully-formatted, sorted, tabbed publication, ready for distribution.  InData makes the job easy for simple cases, and makes it possible for tough jobs. They're offering a 25% discount to InDesignSecrets fans for 1-packs of InData, expiring o

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-177.mp3 (16.5 MB, 30:32 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Interview: Brooks Jensen, LensWork magazine Using InDesign to create the print and enhanced PDF publications Nuances of color and duotones with fine-art photography and the printing process Moving to an InCopy workflow over a holiday weekend (!) Optimizing rich-media PDF eBooks for iPad and Android tablets Golden Oldie post: Select Text All the Way to the End Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Clip Contents to Cell News and special offers from our sponsors: >> lynda.com is an online learning company that helps anyone learn software, creative, and business skills to achieve their personal and professional goals. With a lynda.com subscription, members receive unlimited access to a vast library of high quality, current, and engaging video tutorials. Many InDesignSecrets.com contributors have authored titles at lynda.com, including Anne-Marie and David, covering InDesign basics

New bug fixes from Adobe; Cool Keyboard Shortcuts; CS6 Features for EPUBs; Obscurity of the Week: Insert Number Placeholder ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-176.mp3(18.1 MB, 34:25 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. InDesign News: Fix for InDesign Crashing on 2012 Macs Fix for InDesign CS6 "Revert to Trial Mode" bug Some useful new ideas for Cool Keyboard Shortcuts New features in InDesign CS6 for EPUB publishers Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Insert Number Placeholder News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Real World InDesign CS6: Get this book! You'll find everything you need to successfully master InDesign’s advanced page-layout tools; manage color; build XML templates; and run your own custom InDesign scripts. You’ll also find complete coverage of all of InDesign’s new features. This is the reference book of all books on InDesign, written by Olav Martin Kvern, David Blatner, and Bob Bringhurst; published by Peachpit Press in print, EPUB, and Ki

Creative Cloud; Option-double-click; Obscurity of the Week: Split Cell Vertically -- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-175.mp3(19.5 MB, 35:32 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The Adobe Creative Cloud: What is it? In the "cloud" vs. on your hard drive The good, the bad, the foggy Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Option/Alt-double-click Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Split Cell Vertically News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software: Check out their InData and InCatalog add-ons for InDesign, by themselves or as a powerful team for data-driven publishing. Use InData to build price lists, catalogs, directories, and much more, all hands-off.  InCatalog is a bidirectional linking tool to keep your layouts and spreadsheets in sync, great for last-minute price updates. >> eDocker: With the eDocker Tablet Publisher® program you can create, from InDesign, an HTML5 Web publication that works in all devices, including iPads, and that you can publish through yo

IDSLive-NYC recap; EPUB3 and Fixed Layout; Options for iPad publishing; hyperlinks myths; Obscurity of the Week: Copy Platform Style Path --- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-174.mp3 (23.1 MB, 41:06 minutes) (Yikes!) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. News in the land of InDesign InDesignSecretsLive NYC: Recap of our June 12-13 event Apple announces iBooks supports EPUB3 on the iPad Kris Coppetier's incredible ePubCrawler, a fixed-layout script for InDesign Best options for getting your publication onto an iPad or other tablet PDF? Fixed-Layout EPUB? Flowable EPUB? Stand-alone or Newsstand App? Top 3 Hyperlinks Myths Debunked! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Copy Platform Style Path News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft: Special offer: 40% off PDF2ID or 25% off ID2Office (until mid-July), for converting PDF files to editable INDD files, or INDD files to Word/Powerpoint documents. Use discount code: IDSecrets >> PrintUI.com / In-Tools.com: If you need

New eBook on InDesign CS6; PePcon 2012 and 2013; Charts and Graphs; Obscurity of the Week: Monochromatic ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-173.mp3 (15.4 MB, 27:20 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News Our newest eBook! Guide to InDesign CS6 (and CS5.5) New Features by Keith Gilbert Our PePcon 2012 recap: Highlights, info, job leads PePcon 2013 Announcement! April 29–May 1, 2013, in Austin, Texas Join us in New York City, June 12-13, for InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC Getting charts and graphs into InDesign: Solution round-up Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Monochromatic News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software: DocsFlow is a plugin for InDesign that marries the layout and design power of InDesign to the shared editing power of Google Docs, resulting in "editorial Nirvana!" >> eDocker: HTML5 Tablet Publisher is made for everyone who wants to create HTML5 publications from InDesign. Use the s

New lynda.com InDesign videos; Creative Cloud; Acrobat forms tools in InDesign CS6; Obscurity of the Week: World-Ready Composer Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-172.mp3(18.5 MB, 33:21 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Yikes! We recorded this on May 9 (pre-PePcon), but didn't get a chance to publish it until today, a week later (post-PePcon). Apologies for time-shifted content! News News in PEPCONland, Adobeland, and Lyndaland Join us in New York City, June 13-14, for InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC InDesign CS6's PDF Forms Features in depth Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: World-Ready Paragraph Composer News and special offers from our sponsors: >> PrintUI.com / In-Tools.com: Get free setup on an InDesignServer solution from PrintUI.com! Or, if you're more into EPUB, contact Harbs to learn more about a cool soon-to-come tool that provides EPUB preview and editing CSS files inside InDesign! >> Mediatrad, a great new tool for translators and InDesign users who need do

Japanese Dots; CS6 Launch Event, Creative Cloud, Grayscale Export; Obscurity of the Week: Change Time -- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-171.mp3(18.5 MB, 33:21 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. News PEPCON (May 14-16) is all about connecting people with the best solutions Or join us in New York City, June 13-14, for InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC David's excursion to find Japanese Dots! Behind the scenes at the CS6 launch event on Monday Exporting Grayscale PDF Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Change Time News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software: Until May 15 2012, InDesignSecrets listeners get 20% OFF any full product, such as the excellent InData plug-in for database publishing! Visit: http://emsoftware.com/offers/indesign-secrets-special-offer. "Let software robots do your work!" >> eDocker: makes HTML5 export for InDesign, so you an make web apps for iPad and other tablets (no app store required!). Special offer: $100 off (valid to 5/31/2012

PEPCON discount; Underappreciated IDCS6 features; Obscurity of the Week: Auto-Size Link Info Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-170.mp3 (18.5 MB, 33:21 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. News PEPCON (May 14-16) is almost sold out with attendees coming from six continents. First five people to use code SF100 save $100! Or join us in New York City, June 13-14, for InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC Anne-Marie's Top Underappreciated and Underdiscussed Features in InDesign CS6 From the Mailbag: Install CS5.5 or wait for CS6? Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Auto-Size Link Information News and special offers from our sponsors: >> PrintUI.com / In-Tools.com: Get free setup on an InDesignServer solution from PrintUI.com! Or, if you're more into EPUB, contact Harbs to learn more about a cool soon-to-come tool that provides EPUB preview and editing CSS files inside InDesign! >> Mediatrad, a great new tool for translators and InDesign users who need document language translation. I

News; Keith Gilbert Interview, Changing Document Size, Obscurity of the Week: Scissors Tool -------- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-169.mp3 (18.2 MB, 32:32 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News Sit down with your favorite InDesign authors and scripters at the Print + ePublishing Conference (May 14-16, San Francisco) On the East Coast? See us June 13-14: InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC Interview with Keith Gilbert, InDesign trainer and consultant Changing Document size: Not as straightforward as you think The problem with File > Document Size Using the Page tool and the Pages panel control Changing document pages vs. changing Master pages Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Scissors Tool News and special offers from our sponsors: >> eDocker, has a new InDesign digital publishing solution called eDocker Tablet Publisher. With this program you can create, from InDesign, an HTML5 Web publication that works in all de

Drawing in InDesign; Quizzler Winner (finally); Shortcut of the Week: Paste Into; Obscurity of the Week: Convert Direction Point Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-168.mp3 (18.2 MB, 32:32 minutes) [media id=89 width=* height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Announcements Congratulations to Mike Rankin, new Editor-in-Chief of InDesign Magazine and CreativePro.com Mike is one of the speakers at our Print + ePublishing Conference (May 14-16, San Francisco) On the East Coast? See us June 13-14: InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC Drawing in InDesign Pen tool and its shortcuts and permutations Every frame and text wrap is actually an editable path Pathfinder panel or menu to combine overlapping frames Playing with type outlines Using object styles Finally: A Quizzler Winner! Keyboard shortcut of the Week: Command-Option-V (Ctrl-Alt-V) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Convert Direction Point News and special offers from our spo

InDesign Events; ID to EPUB scripts; Shortcut of the Week; Quizzler Update; Obscurity of the Week: Japanese Dots Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-167.mp3 (15.9 MB, 28:51 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Upcoming InDesign Events and Deadlines March 2: Early bird ends for Print + ePublishing Conference (May 14-16, San Francisco) March 3: Creating Digital Publications with InDesign, UC Berkeley June 13-14: InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC Three must-have free scripts for InDesign to EPUB (and other uses) TomaxxiLinkRename PerfectPrepText (download link, blog post to come) CSSGeometry (thank you Kris at Rorohiko!) Keyboard shortcut of the Week: Command-Shift-V (Ctrl-Shift-V) Quizzler Update: Code Breaker (see below) due midnight Feb 29! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Japanese Dots News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko’s TextExporter 3.1 plug-in makes exporting text out of InDesign CS2-CS5.5 so sim

Upcoming events and deadlines; TOCCON recap; John McWade Interview; Quizzler Results; Obscurity of the Week: Sample Buttons ------------- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-166.mp3 (19.8 MB, 35:56 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Upcoming InDesign Events and Deadlines March 2: Early bird ends for Print + ePublishing Conference (May 14-16, San Francisco) March 3: Creating Digital Publications with InDesign, UC Berkeley June 13-14: InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC Recap of the O'Reilly Tools of Change Conference (TOCCON) Interview with John McWade, founder of Before&After magazine Quizzler Update: Code Breaker! C'mon people! (see below) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Sample Buttons News and special offers from our sponsors: >> eDocker, the fine people who sell the InDesign > Flash magazine solution (now known as eDocker2 Desktop Publisher) that we've talked about before, just released a new InDesign digital publishing solution called eDocker Tablet Publisher. With

Chris Kitchener interview; Quizzler, Obscurity of the Week: Butt Cap Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-165.mp3 (16.2 MB, 30:11 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Interview with Chris Kitchener, InDesign Senior Product Manager Thoughts on CS "Next" New releases: Too many? Too few? The delicate balance of adding new features vs. improving existing features Quizzler! Code Breaker! (see below) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Butt Cap News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center based in the UK, is one of the first companies to offer Adobe's official Digital Publishing Suite courses for all you budding tablet publishers out there! See details on their 2-day courses for Single Edition DPS and Enterprise Pro DPS. Mention "InDesignSecrets" when registering for any course and get 25% off the fee! That's an incredible deal. If you're near one of their regional training center

Layer Tricks; Hides/Show keyboard shortcuts; Obscurity of the Week: Stylistic Sets Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-164.mp3 (15.8 MB, 28:55 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Layer Tricks! Stacking, dragging, show/hide layout objects Dragging objects from one group to another Managing nested objects Using the "southern double-click" Show (in layout) selected layer object Keyboard Shortcuts You Should Know: Command-3 (Ctrl-3) and Command-Option-3 (Ctrl-Alt-3) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Stylistic Sets News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools is the developer of AutoFlow Pro, an InDesign plug-in that lets you fully control the layout of both text and images, using both master frames and non-master frames, with minimal user intervention. (And it's a great solution for easy alternate layouts for DPS.) Company founder Harbs is also the “Guru” of PrintUI.com, which provides a number of custom InDesi

John McWade; InDesign CS6+ Wishlist; WTH - Allow Document Pages to Shuffle; Obscurity of the Week: Star Inset ----------- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-163.mp3 (17.5 MB, 32:06 minutes) [media id=84 width=* height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. 2012 PePConference update: John McWade (Before & After) added to speaker list InDesign wishlists for CS6, CS7, and beyond Create form fields (for PDFs) In-app, non-destructive image editing Enhance MiniBridge with metadata and keywords panel Set screen resolution in preferences Integrate InDesign digital publishing with Dreamweaver User-modifiable Application Bar icons a la Acrobat X Many more from our user-driven InDesign Wishlist site WTH (What the Heck?) Feature of the Week: "Allow Document Pages to Shuffle" Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Star Inset News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Andromeda Software lets you untether your desktop with their new Col

PePConference News; Matthew Diener interview; Keyboard Shortcut of the Week; Obscurity of the Week: Create Guides --------------------- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-162.mp3 (15.2 MB, 28:04 minutes) [media id=83 width=* height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. 2012 PePConference news; secret goodies for early early registrants Interview with Matthew Diener, editor of EPUBSecrets.com InDesign Shortcut of the Week: Command-Option-I/Ctrl-Alt-I Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Create Guides (the menu command) News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools is the developer of  World Tools Pro, InDesign plug-ins that represent “the most complete solution available for composing multilingual documents including Hebrew, Arabic, Indic languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and more.” Company founder Harbs is also the "Guru" of PrintUI.com, which provides a number of custom InDesign Server-based solutions, like the Stor

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-161.mp3 (16.4 MB, 30:32 minutes) [media id=82 width=* height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. New sister site: ePubSecrets.com! All about the new Kindle Fire tablet from Amazon Creating accessible PDFs with InDesign: Tips and Resources Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Artifact News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools is the developer of  World Tools Pro, InDesign plug-ins that represent “the most complete solution available for composing multilingual documents including Hebrew, Arabic, Indic languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and more.” Company founder Harbs is also the "Guru" of PrintUI.com, which provides a number of custom InDesign Server-based solutions. >> Andromeda Software lets you untether your desktop with their new CollabSystem for InDesign users and the clients who love them. It's a collaborative environment; a central, cloud-based community where you can sh