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**The CreativePro Podcast**

Join the CreativePro team for fun and insightful discussions about our favorite tools and technologies: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, PowerPoint, Acrobat, print, digital publishing, presentation design, accessibility, AI, and more!

Latest Episodes:

InDesignSecrets Podcast 261 Jan 21, 2019

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In this episode:

News:
- Tons of new videos on InDesignSecrets YouTube channel
- InDesign Conference 2019
  - 20th anniversary of InDesign! We'll have some special events
  - New speakers include Ina Saltz, Tony Harmer, Conrad Chavez, and Dax Castro
Commenting on PDFs in the cloud with Acrobat DC
Import PDF Comments (new feature in CC 2019) in depth
GREP in InDesign, 3rd edition released
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Change Arabic Diacritic Color

News and special offers from our sponsor:

> The InDesign Conference: If you use Adobe InDesign, mark off June 10–13, 2019 in Seattle, WA, for the InDesign event of the year! Join InDesignSecrets hosts Anne-Marie Concepción and David Blatner, and dozens of top InDesign experts and members of the Adobe InDesign team, for over 30 sessions and four in-depth half-day tutorials. All registrations include session videos and in-depth speaker handouts. Invest in yourself, register today! Discounts available for groups, government, non-profits, schools, and alumni, contact us for details.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Subscribe to the InDesignSecrets YouTube and CreativePro YouTube channels
Check out our Facebook group (now over 6,500 friendly members!) for help and tips
The InDesign Conference at CreativePro Week 2019
Seattle's Amazon Spheres
Video of David's Facebook Live interview with Tony Harmer, Design Ninja
New issues of InDesign Magazine
Anne-Marie's InDesign CC 2019 New Features tutorial (two videos about Import PDF Comments)
Post and vote for InDesign feature requests at UserVoice
GREP in InDesign, by Peter Kahrel
Mohamed Khayal's video about the "Change Arabic Diacritic Color" feature

InDesignSecrets Podcast 260 Oct 31, 2018

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In this episode:

News:
- InDesignSecrets YouTube channel and Facebook group
- Video courses: InDesign CC 2019 New Features, and Essential Training InDesign CC 2019
- Adobe MAX 2018 recap
- Presentations with InDesign magazine feature by Mark Heaps
What's new and what to watch out for with InDesign CC 2019
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: By Unicode (or by CID/GID)

News and special offers from our sponsor:

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Subscribe to the InDesignSecrets YouTube and CreativePro YouTube channels
Join our Facebook group (now over 5,000 friendly members!) for help and tips
CreativePro Week 2019: The HOW-TO Conferences
Mark Heaps wrote the InDesign Magazine cover story on Presentations with InDesign
Mark is also the emcee of Click: The Presentation Design Conference
David and Mark's Facebook Live interview
InDesign Magazine and our site support all versions of InDesign
Annotations plug-in from DTP Tools
Blog posts mentioned:
- What's New in CC 2019
- Updated New Features Guide
- Search for Glyphs
- Font Hovering (pre-CC 2019)

InDesignSecrets Podcast 259 Sep 30, 2018

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In this episode, Anne-Marie flies solo!

News:
- InDesignSecrets YouTube channel and Facebook group
- New online course: Accessible EPUBs from InDesign
Sneak Peek: Adobe InDesign CC 2019
Interview with the authors of Book Design Made Simple
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Live Edit Mode

News and special offers from our sponsor:

> Adobe MAX brings together the world's top creatives and best-in-the-business experts to get inspired, learn skills, and play. October 15–17 in Los Angeles. Anne-Marie and David are both speaking at separate hands-on InDesign labs. Come to the Community Pavilion and say hi to us at the CPN booth (#408)! Use our code CDCcreate2018 to save $400 off registration!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Subscribe to the InDesignSecrets YouTube channel
Join our Facebook group for help and tips
CreativePro Week 2019: The HOW-TO Conferences
Thanks to Ripon Printers for the awesome printing of our InDesign Keyboard Shortcut posters!
Laura Brady's new Lynda/LiL course: EPUB Accessibility Using InDesign
Sneak peek: Content-Aware Fit
Book Design Made Simple by Glenna Collett and Fiona Raven
- Their book site's blog
- Their recommended H&J settings for books
- The post about using GREP to clean up the Show Set Keyboard Shortcuts text file
- "Our Book Sales: Three Years In" post
- All InDesign-related site content
- Follow them on Twitter!

InDesignSecrets Podcast 258 Aug 31, 2018

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In this episode:

News:
- InDesignSecrets YouTube channel and Facebook group
- Designing for Sustainability article
- September 2018 InDesign Magazine: Calendars
Disappearing Text? Might be a formatting "gotcha"!
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Group Alert

News and special offers from our sponsor:

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Subscribe to the InDesignSecrets YouTube channel
Join our Facebook group for help and tips
Maya Lim's excellent article on "green design": Designing for Sustainability
CreativePro Week 2019: The HOW-TO Conferences
Create Outlines the right way and the even better way
Our advice:
- Watch out for Remove Overrides
- Use Character Styles!
- Watch out for Basic here and here
- Disappearing text: fixes here and here
Allow Master Overrides on Selection

And here's that obscure alert!!!

InDesignSecrets Podcast 257 Jul 31, 2018

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In this episode:

News:
- Update adds CC Libraries to Bridge CC 2018
- Help test the Import PDF Comments feature InDesign CC 2019
- Registration open for the InDesign Conference 2019
- See us at Adobe MAX in October!
Table Strokes, why are they such a pain, and secret tips
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Reset Hyperlink

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Bridge CC is free
CreativePro Week 2019 will be June 10-14 in Seattle
Which other features are "In the Beta Build" in InDesign CC 2019?
Sign up for Adobe prerelease (beta testing)
Save $400 off of Adobe MAX registration with our code
Our posts with more how-to's for Table Strokes: here, here, and here

InDesignSecrets Podcast 256 Jul 01, 2018

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In this episode:

News:
- Fun news and cool tips from The InDesign Conference and CreativePro Week
- News about our 2019 conference that you'll want to hear
- Anne-Marie's new course: InDesign CC 2018: EPUB
Applying object styles to groups of object-styled objects
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Use Native Digits When Typing in Arabic Scripts

Links mentioned in this podcast:

CreativePro Week 2019 will be June 10-14 in Seattle. Registration opens July 9, special $400 off multi-day registrations for the first 48 hours!
IR2Office from Recosoft
Managing Conversions Between Adobe CC and Microsoft Office (Anne-Marie's title)
Graphic Artists Guild (GAG)
Mag+
Markzware's Dave Dilling interview with David & Anne-Marie
People's Challenge script "Show me the Notes!"
Adobe's Help page about applying object styles to groups
Our early post about beware of object styles and groups
Wikipedia on Arabic numerals
The multi-language placeholder text trick

Middle Eastern license plate with Eastern Arabic numerals on top and Western Arabic numerals underneath (photo by Jerry "Woody")

InDesignSecrets Podcast 255 May 25, 2018

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In this episode:

News:
- InDesign Conference 2018, June 4–7 in New Orleans: it's happening!
- Get a Virtual Pass to the InDesign Conference (and others!) to see videos and handouts
- New LinkedIn Learning/Lynda.com courses: New Features in InDesign CC 2018.1 (Anne-Marie) and InDesign: Interactive PDFs (David)
- InDesign Magazine: April 2018 issue about Interactive Portfolios, May 2018 issue about Digital Asset Management systems, and the June 2018 issue will be about making InDesign and Illustrator play nicely together.
The problem with default RGB [Black] and CMYK [Black]
Interview with Khoi Vinh, Adobe's Principal Designer
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Greek Vector Objects on Drag

News and special offers from our sponsors:

> Acuity Training, based in the UK, offers training in Adobe InDesign and the full range of Adobe products with Adobe qualified instructors, as well Microsoft and other software suites and programs. They've been awarded a Gold-Star Rating from Feefo.com for four years running. Up until July 31, 2018, InDesignSecrets podcast listeners can get 20% off Adobe training bookings by using the discount code indesignsecrets20.

> Ripon Printers is a full-service commercial printer based in Wisconsin with clients around the country. They do the printing for our InDesignSecrets Keyboard Shortcut posters and a lot of the CreativePro Week conference materials. Our friend James Wamser has been their Customer Education Director for many years. James is the creator and maintainer of the InDesign New Features Guide that lists all the features added to the program with each version, starting with version 1.0! Check out the resources and blog at Ripon's web site, lots of great info there, and consider asking them for a quote for your next print job!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

The InDesign Conference 2018 agenda
Ripon Printers is on Facebook, but you have to check out their web site's Technical Guides and Resources page too
InDesign New Features Guide (v1.0 to CC 2018.1) as a Publish Online/PDF doc
How to see if black is showing up as 4-color black in Acrobat
Khoi Vinh's site
Show some love to our CreativePro Week tabletop sponsors!
- Wrike
- Ripon Printers
- Recosoft
- PixelSquid
- Pagination
- Markzware
- Mag+
- Graphic Artists Guild
- em Software
- Cacidi Sytems
- Adobe

Here's the 256-level histogram (0 to 255) we were talking about:

InDesignSecrets Podcast 254 Mar 31, 2018

Show notes

In this episode:

News:
- Muse, we sort of hardly knew ye
- InDesign Conference 2018, June 4–7 in New Orleans
- InDesign Magazine: March 2018 issue about making InDesign and Photoshop play nicely together, April 2018 issue about Interactive Portfolios
We review all the features/fixes in just-released InDesign CC 2018.1 update
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Knockout Group

News and special offers from our sponsors:

> Acuity Training, based in the UK, offers training in Adobe InDesign and the full range of Adobe products with Adobe qualified instructors, as well Microsoft and other software suites and programs. They've been awarded a Gold-Star Rating from Feefo.com for four years running. Up until May 31, 2018, InDesignSecrets podcast listeners can get 20% off Adobe training bookings by using the discount code indesignsecrets20.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

The InDesign Conference 2018 agenda
Muse End-of-Life announcement from Adobe
Blog post: What's new in InDesign CC 2018.1
Anne-Marie's New Features in ID CC 2018.x lynda.com course (and on LinkedIn Learning too)
Oops! CC 2018.1 has a bug for Windows users (and the fix)
Report InDesign bugs and feature requests
A few of our posts about Knockout Group effects: here, here, and here
Mike Rankin's InDesign Graphic FX ebook

InDesignSecrets Podcast 253 Mar 02, 2018

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In this episode:

News:
- CreativePro Week poster contest: Win a Platinum Pass!
- Join over 2,000 colleagues in our Facebook discussion group
- InDesign Magazine: Feb 2018 issue all about color, March 2018 issue about making InDesign and Photoshop play nicely together
Top InDesign Feature Requests: Adobe is listening!
I See Blue Things: What are those weird squiggles and borders?
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Reveal Deleted Items

News and special offers from our sponsors:

> The InDesign Conference 2018 is June 4–7 in New Orleans, one of four back-to-back conferences in the same venue during CreativePro Week. Dozens of speakers—returning favorites and new faces—are busy prepping right now for some of the most useful and exciting presentations on InDesign you'll ever encounter. Sign up for just this conference, two of them (maybe add the Ps/Ai: Photoshop and Illustrator Conference for Designers as well?) or the whole week! Premium members of InDesignSecrets.com get a discount code worth $150 off any multi-day registration. To find the discount code, click on the blue My Account button at the top of the InDesignSecrets site and then click Benefits.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

The InDesign Conference 2018 agenda
New speakers Bill Jelen, Khara Plicanic, and Laurie Ruhlin
Win a Platinum Pass ($2495 value): CreativePro Week Poster Contest
Join us in our ever-so-useful InDesignSecrets Facebook group
February 2018 issue of InDesign Magazine focusses on hidden color features
March 2018 issue of InDesign Magazine shows how to help InDesign and Photoshop play nice
InDesign uservoice wishlist (vote for your fave!)
InDesignSecret.com's poll results: Which tool to vote off the island?
Here's a great use for the poor old Content Collector tool
Did you know you can change the color of the Hidden Characters and frame edges?

InDesignSecrets Podcast 252 Jan 31, 2018

Show notes

In this episode:

News:
- The InDesign Conference 2018 agenda and speakers up
- Facebook discussion group for InDesignSecrets folks
- 2018 Creative Developers Summit for scripters and developers
- InDesign Magazine: New design is a success!
Formatting financial data: Tabs vs. Tables
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Ungroup Color Group

News and special offers from our sponsors:

> Acuity Training, based in the UK, offers training in Adobe InDesign and the full range of Adobe products with Adobe qualified instructors, as well Microsoft and other software suites and programs. They've been awarded a Gold-Star Rating from Feefo.com for four years running. Up until March 31, 2018, InDesignSecrets podcast listeners can get 20% off Adobe training bookings by using the discount code indesignsecrets20.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

The InDesign Conference 2018 agenda and speakers are up!
Join us in our ever-so-useful InDesignSecrets Facebook group
Nigel French's "Designing Books" cover story in the January 2018 InDesign Magazine
Converting text to a table
Tab panel tips

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