Indesign Secrets

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-159.mp3 (15.3 MB, 28:32 minutes) [media id=81 width=* height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: Anne-Marie's Las Vegas recap, Podcast survey results, Goodie boxes Interview with Josh Nguni, Namibia's InDesign User Group leader Adobe's Creative Cloud: A brief overview and discussion Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Objects Move with Page News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software is the developer of DocsFlow, a plug-in for Adobe InDesign (CS5 or 5.5, Mac or PC) that dynamically links online Google Docs with InDesign layouts. The two-way active link between the successive drafts of the text in Google Docs (free online text editor from Google) and the story as it appears in the formatted InDesign layout allows writers, editors, and designers to work, individually or collaboratively, all at the same time. For a limited time, you can purchase DocsFlow for $200, and you’ll

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-159.mp3 (14.6 MB, 26:28 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Podcast listener survey, with prizes! Smackdown: The Print dialog box vs. the Printer dialog box WTH? The Color panel Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Reverse Path News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Silicon Publishing boasts over 20 programmers and other technology professionals who deliver electronic publishing applications and custom solutions to clients. In this podcast we talked about the CS5 add-in they developed for Fotolia, a plug-in that offers Fotolia's stock photography in a panel in InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Download the free beta Fotolia plug-in here. Check out the Silicon Publishing web site to learn more about them and their InDesign-centric automation solutions. >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is giving away one free full-day class for either their InDesign f

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-158.mp3 (19.9 MB, 36:34 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News David's Adobe MAX recap Adobe's new Single Edition DPS Anne-Marie at InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Las Vegas, Nov 2 Interview with James Fritz and Mike Rankin New Podcast Feature: "Who Knew?" Quizzler Winner! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Show Full Menus News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft is the company behind the genius PDF2ID conversion tool. It adds an Open PDF command to InDesign's File menu, how cool is that! They also sell ID2Office, a converter that can make editable Office documents out of your InDesign files, which is going to make David's wife quite happy. Check them out at Recosoft.com >> Andromeda Software lets you untether your desktop with their new, still-in-beta  CollabSystem for InDesign users and the clients who love them. It's a collaborative environment; a central, cloud

Live performances coming up; InDesign to Kindle; KBSC of the Week; Obscurity of the Week: Leading Edge ------ Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-157.mp3 (17.1 MB, 31:39 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Live performances David & Fritz at Adobe MAX, Oct 1–5 Anne-Marie at InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Las Vegas, Nov 2 Anne-Marie at PubWest conference. in Las Vegas, Nov 3-5 Anne-Marie and Mike Rankin at O'Reillly TOC for Publishing Conf, Feb. 12-14 2012 Our Print & ePublishing Conf. will be in San Francisco, May 14-16 2012 InDesign to Kindle eBook productionL Tips, software, resources Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Command/Ctrl - ~ (tilde key) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Leading Edge News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft is the company behind the genius PDF2ID conversion tool. It adds an Open PDF command to InDesign's File menu, how cool is that! They also sell ID2Office, a conver

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-156.mp3 (14.5 MB, 26:21 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News and Announcements James Fritz's InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Milwaukee, Sept 27 Anne-Marie's InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Las Vegas, Nov 2 David & Fritz are presenting with Russell Brown at Adobe MAX, Oct 1–5 Mike Rankin's 3-city InDesignFX tour of midwest IDUGs, Sept 13–15 All about Change Case; tips and secrets and scripts and plug-ins and GREP, oh my Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Contextual Alternates Quizzler! All you need is a web connection to figure it out -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko makes awesome plug-ins for creative professionals who use InDesign. Check out the latest beta of their innovative FramedWeb plug-in which allows you to import web pages and convert them into editable InDesign layouts. The beta is free, but they want to offer a deal to InDesignSecrets list

Back to School episode; Best resources for lifelong learners of InDesign; Upcoming events; Obscurity of the Week: Select Next Object ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-155.mp3 (15.5 MB, 28:27 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Well, kind of soon. It takes them a while to transcribe. Back to School episode! Resources for life-long learners of InDesign Books, videos, forums, templates, for users at any level Rededicate yourself to learn! Try our suggested lesson plans for every user Upcoming events, including a peek at PePCon 2012 Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select Next Object -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a number of great InDesign plug-ins, all of which were recently updated to work with CS5.5. In-Tools is one of the best sources for scripts and plug-ins for anyone working with long documents (see the Publisher Suite), anyone creating multilingual publications (see Worl

Milwaukee Seminar; Writing in InDesign; WTH feature: Fit Selection to Window; Obscurity of the week: Odd Page Break Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-154.mp3 (17.8 MB, 34:27 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Well, kind of soon. It takes them a while to transcribe. Writing in InDesign: why would you write from scratch in a page-layout program? Our first-ever What-The-Heck (WTH) feature: Fit Selection to Window Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Odd Page Break -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >>Rorohiko makes awesome plug-ins for creative professionals who use InDesign, and also builds custom automated workflow solutions for companies around the world. >>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.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Qui

Tons o' Table Tips; Obscurity of the Week: Automatic Document Conversion; Quizzler winner and answers Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-153.mp3 (16.9 MB, 30:27 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Tables Tables Tables! Answers to: Table styles with column widths? Find (and change) tables with Find/Change? Merge two tables into one, easily? Fill table cells with placeholder text? Insert consecutive numbers in a column? Make a cell show the sum of its column or row (or other math)? Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Automatic Document Conversion Quizzler Winner - and Answers!!!! ("How many ways can you tell the current page number?") -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software’s InCatalog plugin for InDesign frees you from endless (and error-prone) cutting and pasting from databases and spreadsheets to InDesign text frames and back. With a little invisible link magic via InCatalog, prices, descript

Keyboard Shortcut of the Week; Ron Bilodeau interview; Geeky Blog Posts; Obscurity of the Week: Remember Font with Bullet Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-152.mp3 (24.2 MB, 44:52 minutes!) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Keyboard shortcut "of the week" Interview with Ron Bilodeau, InDesign Master at O'Reilly Media Incredibly geeky blog posts you should check out Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Remember Font with Bullet Quizzler! -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a number of great InDesign plug-ins, all of which were recently updated to work with CS5.5. One of the most powerful plug-in is his AutoFlow Pro ($79). It puts you in complete control of automating the flowing and reflowing of your layout’s text and images, using both master frames and non-master frames, across entire documents. It's a great solution for creating horizontal and vertical layouts of the same content, too. >> Rorohik

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-151.mp3 (24.2 MB, 44:52 minutes!) [media id=72 width=* height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. PePCon 2011 recap: It was great! Let's do it again! ;-D Marijan's new Acrobat script (lets you create form fields in InDesign) Our Uservoice web site for InDesign feature requests Interview with Douglas Waterfall, InDesign senior software engineer Quizzler winner! (and answer) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Load Selected Glyph -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko is offering 20% off their StoryParker 2.0 ($29) plug-in, a neat utility that helps you deal with cluttered pages by letting you "park" any object elsewhere (like on the pasteboard) to get it out of the way temporarily, and then "unpark" it later. To get the 20% discount, use the promo code INDESIGNSECRETS151 when you purchase it. >> In-Tools has a number of fantastically useful InDesign plug-ins, all of which

Our Sesquicentennial Episode; Favorite Resources; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Background Tasks Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-150.mp3 (15.2 MB, 27:18 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Our sesquicentennial episode! We talk about 15 of our list of 150 Awesome Links and Resources, including: Bob Bringhurst's InDesign Docs blog, Adobe Master List of Adobe Blogs, InDesign Magazine Tip of the Week archives, Mordy's Fridays with Mordy webinar archive, Pattern Maker plug-in free version, DesignGeek.com, Quark to InDesign conversion guide (PDF), Adobe TV InDesign channel, InDesign Beyond the Basics, Real World InDesign, InDesignUserGroup Twitter list, InDesignSecrets Guide to Special Characters, 10 Tips for Troubleshooting InDesign Files, Dave Dickson's Digital Publishing blog A new Quizzler! Listen up, magicians: you need to make something disappear. Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Background Tasks -- News an

News; Book Cover Layout; Obscurity of the Week: Change Bars; Quizzler Winner Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-149.mp3 (21.2 MB, 37:06 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. InDesignSecrets News Print & ePublishing Conference update Google in, Bing out, for our blog's search engine Laying out book covers (spine, covers, flaps): tips and scripts Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Change Bars Quizzler winner and answer! -- 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). It even converts equations set by Word’s Equation Editor, LaTex, MathML and MathType, to MathMagic-style equations. Special offer for InDesignSecrets: get 25% off MathMagic Pro ($199 or more), enter the INDS discount code (details). >> Roro

Russell Viers interview; Keyboard Shortcut of the Week; Obscurity of the Week: Select First Range of Same-Size Pages; Quizzler! Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-148.mp3 (21.2 MB, 37:06 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Interview with Russell Viers On teaching InDesign, the suite, and his favorite tips The struggles of regional newspaper publishers (his specialty) Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Command-Option-7/Control-Alt-7 Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select First Range of Same-Size Pages Quizzler! With a prize worth hundreds of dollars ... listen for details -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> PrePress Center sells eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF and wants to add page navigation and zoom controls in the browser, among other goodies. Go to http://www.edocker.com/indesignsecrets-offer/ (or enter the coupon code indes2011) for $10

Newsbits; InDesign CS5.5; Moving custom settings; Obscurity of the Week: 6-up ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-147.mp3 (15.4 MB, 27:27 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Newsbits! New Social Media sharing links on InDesignSecrets.com Catch AM's Hardcore InDesign workshop at the HOW Design Conference in June AM is talking EPUB at the Chicago InDesign User Group next week Print & ePublishing Conference: Larger, and new sessions added InDesign CS 5.5: Why is it important for Adobe? What's new? Moving custom InDesign settings between computers Obscurity of the Week: 6-Up -- 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). It even converts equations set by Word’s Equation Editor, LaTex, MathML and Ma

Newsbits; Live Captions; Liza Daly interview; Obscurity of the Week: Create Tagged PDF Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-146.mp3 (21 MB, 38:08 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Newsbits! Print & ePublishing Conference: New HTML5/CSS3/Flash Tutorial day James Fritz's InDesignSecrets Live seminar on April 12 InDesign to EPUB, Kindle, and the iPad, new video tutorials from Anne-Marie Catch AM's Hardcore InDesign workshop at the HOW Design Conference in June Creative Suite 5 Update coming soon, says Adobe Live Captions: Tips, How-To's, Workarounds Mike Rankin's interview with Liza Daly, EPUB expert Obscurity of the Week: Create Tagged PDF -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko's TextExporter is an indispensable InDesign plug-in if ever need to repurpose text content from your InDesign files. Until the end of April, the company is giving away a free license of TextExporter to anyone who donates at

Database and spreadsheet publishing; Obscurity of the Week: ATC (Adobe Type Composer) ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-145.mp3 (16 MB, 29:43 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Laying out data from a database or spreadsheet The built-in Data Merge feature InData, InCatalog (emSoftware) EasyCatalog (65bit software) DataLinker (Teacup software) AutoPrice, DesignMerge (Meadows software) XMPie's products Obscurity of the Week: ATC (Adobe Type Composer) -- 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). It even converts equations set by Word’s Equation Editor, LaTex, MathML and MathType, to MathMagic-style equations.   >> Em Software’s powerful InData cross-platform plug-in for InDesign is the gold stan

The tech support episode! Mailbag answers; InDesign TechNotes; Nigel French interview; Obscurity of the week: Add items on page as separate objects ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-144.mp3 (21 MB, 38:24 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. The Tech Support episode! From the mailbag ... Select objects under other objects Frame colors Panel redraw problems Making a layer non-printing Tips for finding the best tech support Adobe InDesign Tech Notes Interview with Nigel French, UK-based designer, grids guru, and InDesign typography expert Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Add items on page as separate objects -- 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). It even converts equations set by Word’s

EPUB and Kindle utilities, cross-reference formats, obscurity of the week: Save Count ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-143.php for Show Notes, sponsor specials, links mentioned in the podcast, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-143.mp3 (16.2 MB, 30:41 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Three discoveries about InDesign to eBook conversions TextWrangler opens ePubs Sigil's housekeeping is a feature-not-a-but Kindle Previewer runs KindleGen for your Cross-references: Roll your own formats! Remove the quote marks Add a delimiter (partial paragraph) Change the wording Print & ePublishing Conf: New schedule is up! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Save Count -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software's powerful InData cross-platform plug-in for InDesign is the gold standard for database publishing. Make your templa

Cool stuff David found at Macworld; Information about new ID2Office plug-in; Quizzler Answers; Great table tip from Diane Burns; Obscurity of the Week: Search in Spotlight ------ Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-142.php for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ------ Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-142.mp3 (15.2 MB, 26:16 minutes) [media id=63 width=* height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Macworld 2011: Even stuff Windows users would be interested in! Interview with Paul Chada from Recosoft A great table tip from Diane Burns of Transpacific Digital Winner of last episode's Quizzler: How many places does Load show up in InDesign? Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Search in Spotlight -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft presents the new and exciting ID2Office product, which allows you export InDesign documents to formatted Word or PowerPoint files. A

11 New Document tips; new Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Easing Path ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-141.php for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-141.mp3 (18.3 MB, 32:58 minutes) [media id=62 width=* height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. New Year's list of 11 (as in 2011) recommended New Document steps, including: Checking Presets and Defaults Head starts with styles Master pages, layers, and workspaces A new Quizzler! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Easing Path -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools creates InDesign plug-ins mainly for people doing multi-lingual or long document publishing, but many of their products are useful for anyone. In his free time, company owner Harbs is constantly churning out useful and often free scripts, such as the Preference Manager we talked about in this epis