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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 251 Dec 26, 2017

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In this episode:

A little bit of news:
- Facebook discussion group for InDesignSecrets folks
- InCopy user? Take Adobe's InCopy user survey
- InDesign Magazine: Our January 2018 issue has a new look
Designers vs Production Folks
Interview with Russell Viers
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Grids in Back

Links mentioned in this podcast:

CreativePro Week 2018 registration open and first speakers announced
Join us in our Facebook group!
More about Russell Viers
About ink-aliasing in InDesign

In a heated discussion during the podcast, the question was debated: If you alias a spot ink to another spot ink, will it separate out to CMYK correctly? Answer: YES. David's report from his post-podcast testing (see the episode 251 Show Notes on our site for screenshots that illustrate these steps):

STEP ONE: I placed an .AI file (it could also be a PDF) that contains two spot colors (Pantone Blue, and a yellow called Pantone 114). I then applied that Pantone Blue spot color to some text in a text frame. I also created a new color that is a spot color, but defined with a CMYK value, called "MyColor 50/10/85/0".

STEP TWO: I opened Ink Manager (from the Swatches panel menu), selected the Pantone Blue and then chose MyColor from the Ink Alias popup menu. And then I selected MyColor and clicked on the icon in the left column, which means convert this color to process.

STEP THREE: When I open the Separations Preview panel and turn the View popup menu to Separations, the Ink Aliasing kicks in, converting all instances of Pantone Blue to MyColor… and also showing that MyColor is being converted to CMYK (using the CMYK values I set up when I created the color).

InDesignSecrets Podcast 250 Dec 01, 2017

Show notes

In this episode:

A little bit of news:
- InDesign CC 2018 update released (13.0.1)
- First round of CreativePro Week 2018 speakers announced
- InDesign Magazine Dec 2018: Creating Accessible EPUBs, and an in-depth review of Cacidi's Chart plug-in for InDesign
- Coming in January: InDesign Magazine ground-up redesign! You'll love it
Managing threaded stories manually and with free scripts
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Repair All

News and special offers from our sponsors:

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

CreativePro Week 2018 now open for registration
More on EPUB Accessibility from our sister site, EPUBSecrets.com
Scripts mentioned:
- BreakFrame.jsx and SplitStory.jsx (both in Scripts > Application > Javascript)
- MergeTextFrames from Ajar Productions
- Text Stitch from Rorohiko
- StorySplitter by Adi Ravid (download link from our site)
David's post about unthreading stories with scripts (has links to the above, too)
Why you might want to ignore the Package alert that says you have RGB images

InDesignSecrets Podcast 249 Oct 31, 2017

Show notes

In this episode:

Lots of News!
- InDesign CC 2018 released
- Adobe MAX recap, busy booth, lots o' fun!
- Contest of the month and Template of the month
- New lynda.com courses for Anne-Marie and David
- InDesign Magazine for October: All about user dictionaries
- InDesign Magazine for November: ID CC 2018 in depth, and Adobe Dimension
What's new in InDesign CC 2018
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Triplespace

News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Acuity Training, based in the UK, offers a full range of Adobe training courses, including InDesign and Photoshop, led by Adobe qualified instructors. They've also been awarded a Gold-Star Rating from Feefo.com for four years running. Up until November 30, 2017, InDesignSecrets podcast listeners can get 20% off Adobe training bookings by using the discount code indesignsecrets20.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

CreativeProWeek.com now open for registration
What's new in InDesign CC 2018 (and a quick additional fix)
Anne-Marie's InDesign CC 2018 New Features title at lynda.com (alt link for LinkedIn Premium subscribers)
David's InDesign CC 2018 Essential Training at lynda.com (alt link for LinkedIn Premium subscribers)
The Mystery of the Trailing Space Contest Answer and Winner
October's Template of the Month (for Premium subscribers)
Adobe MAX 2017! Here's David's session recording, and some tips one attendee came away with

Go to the show notes on the web site to see some pictures!

InDesignSecrets Podcast 248 Oct 14, 2017

Show notes

In this episode:

News:
- Adobe MAX 2017 this week, visit us at Booth 214!
- Also at MAX, see Anne-Marie and David on stage
- October's InDesign Magazine: Deep into Dictionaries
Sleuthing InDesign Mysteries: Fonts and TOCs and Style folders
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Incompatibility with Flash Player

News and special offers from our sponsors:

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

Duden in InDesign CC 2018
Here's a list of the InDesign Mysteries so far (the contests)
Thank you to Ripon Printing for the keyboard shortcut posters!
Crazy IDML font troubleshooting saga
Just a little bit more about customizing a Preflight Profile

David did it! To get InDesign's Preflight to report something incompatible with the Flash player. Place a MIDI Quicktime movie file, circa 1994, and click Continue at the alert.

InDesignSecrets Podcast 247 Aug 31, 2017

Show notes

In this episode:

News:
- Report InDesign bugs and feature on UserVoice
- August's InDesign Contest and the Template of the Month
- Our 100th issue of InDesign Magazine just published!
- Adobe MAX 2017: See Anne-Marie and David on stage
5 Things First-time InDesigners Need to Know
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Resize Horizontally (or vertically)

News and special offers from our sponsors:

Links mentioned in this podcast:

More great articles for InDesign beginners
Sandee Cohen's Pasteboard Primer is in issue 95 of InDesign Magazine
Choose the Advanced Workspace
David's InDesign Essential Training video course on Lynda.com and LinkedIn/Learning

InDesignSecrets Podcast 246 Jul 31, 2017

Show notes

In this episode:

David's special guest co-host was Jonathan Levit, InDesign trainer and professional magician
News:
- CreativePro Week 2018 (including the InDesign Conference) will be in New Orleans, June 4-8, 2018
- InDesign Magazine's July 2017 issue was on automated Publishing w/InDesign
- Our 100th issue of InDesign Magazine is in August, so it'll have 100 tips and 100 free scripts!
Auto-sizing of text frames
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Tool Hints (the loneliest panel)

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Special co-host Jonathan Levit
- His training and consulting company
- His professional magician and acting site
Jonathan's article, "The Magic of InDesign"
CreativePro Week 2018: June 4-8 in New Orleans
Erica Gamet's Script-o-pedia
More cool Auto-Size articles
More on object styles
The Tool Hints panel

InDesignSecrets Podcast 245 Jun 28, 2017

Show notes

In this episode:

News:
- Session videos from the 2017 InDesign Conference now available
- InDesign Magazine June 2017: Animation Effects
- Upcoming July 2017 issue is on Automated Publishing w/InDesign
Space before/after lists hack
The [Basic Paragraph] style conundrum
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Check in

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 trainers, 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, 2017, InDesignSecrets podcast listeners can get 20% off Adobe training bookings by using the discount code indesignsecrets20.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Join the InDesign Prerelease ("Beta") program
Don't Edit [Basic Paragraph]
Using Span Columns to force Space before/after lists
Want conditional spacing? Vote for it!
The discussion about the mysterious Check In command

InDesignSecrets Podcast 244 Jun 01, 2017

Show notes

In this episode:

News:
- CreativePro Week Virtual Pass now available
- InDesign Magazine May 2017: Find/Change
CreativePro Week 2017 recap and fave moments
Useless InDesign Tool: Poll Results
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Submit Bug/Feature Request

Links mentioned in this podcast:

How to script, for the absolute beginner
Recap of The InDesign Conference at CreativePro Week
SimpleHTML script from Justin at Ajar Productions
Virtual Pass (video, handouts, sponsor discounts) to The InDesign Conference and CreativePro Week
Join the InDesign Prerelease program
Adobe Wishlist form

InDesignSecrets Podcast 243 Apr 30, 2017

Show notes

In this episode:

News and Updates:
- Acrobat DC 2017 now available (what's new)
- CreativePro Week coming up May 22-26!
- InDesign Magazine April 2017: Type Effects!
We examine the stunning achievement that is InDesign 2017.1
Interview with Theresa Jackson, Adobe guru, trainer, and designer
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Recently Published

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 trainers, 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, 2017, InDesignSecrets podcast listeners can get 20% off Adobe training bookings by using the discount code indesignsecrets20.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Check out the sessions and speakers at CreativePro Week 2017
All about InDesign CC 2017.1
David's "Three Rules" article
Theresa Jackson: her website, Behance page, and Instagram account
Theresa's CreativePro Week bio and sessions and her buddy Von Glitschka's
Want to learn more about CC Libraries? Here's a "getting started" post, and Steve Werner covered them in-depth last year in this issue of InDesign Magazine
5 Ways to get Pie Charts into InDesign (Premium Content)
The "sleeping" CC Charts app
About the Chartwell typeface (and here's one of our video tips on it)
Our posts about Adobe Comp and Adobe Draw

InDesignSecrets Podcast 242 Mar 31, 2017

Show notes

In this episode:

News and Updates:
- Stellar line-up of speakers & sessions at the InDesign Conference
- InDesign Magazine March 2017 is all about footnotes, endnotes, and sidenotes
Using Acrobat's deeply buried Object Inspector on your InDesign PDFs!
The Next Big Thing for interactive PDFs? We hear things ...
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Flip Pages (it's not what you think)

News and special offers from our sponsors:

> CircularFLO from Circular Software is an InDesign add-on that lets you easily create true replicas of existing print layouts. Directly export to fixed layout EPUB3 or the Amazon KF8 fixed layout format. You can include Read Aloud with no coding — add paragraph, sentence or word highlighting in time with an audio track. All new customers contacting Circular Software in April either by entering 'InDesign Secrets Podcast' when downloading CircularFLO or contacting us on our website can get a free trial credit for CircularFLO and extended trials of our print workflow apps GreenLight and MasterPlan, too.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Check out the sessions and speakers at CreativePro Week 2017
Register now for the InDesign Conference 2017!
Check out our attendee forum! They're making plans already
March 2017 InDesign Magazine: Footnotes
We've written about the Object Inspector in Acrobat before!
How to control page transitions (related to the OIFOTW, Flip Pages Every)

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