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InDesignSecrets Podcast 211 Jun 29, 2014

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In this episode:

News: PePcon 2015 announced, Adobe releases CC 2014, InDesign Conference, new Lynda.com videos
PePcon 2014 highlights and our favorite sessions and new tips
New features in InDesign CC 2014
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Ink Alias

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Managing Editor (MEI): Their new service TruEdit is a turnkey solution that integrates with InDesign and DPS, allowing your teams to collaboratively create, manage and deliver digital content -- regardless of whether contributors are remote or working within InDesign. Learn more about TruEdit here. Links mentioned in this podcast:

PePcon 2015 will be in Philadelphia, June 1-4, 2015 -- sign up to the announcement list
Anne-Marie's lynda.com course InDesign CC: EPUB Fundamentals is updated for CC 2014
InDesign Conference: Nov 3–5, 2014, in Seattle
Adobe's new CC 2014 line-up, and their answer to the question, "Why do I have 2 copies of my CC apps?"
InDesign CC 2014 new features
InDesign Magazine and issue 62: A Fresh Start (coming up in July, issue 63 is all about FREE stuff for InDesign users)
David's post on placing multiple pages of a PDF in a grid
Kat Topaz is the Creative Director at Storycode
How Ink Alias works

InDesignSecrets Podcast 210 May 30, 2014

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In this episode:

News: InDesign Conference 2014, CC update, Mike Rankin new EIC of InDesignSecrets.com
A few great third-party companies you should know about
The State of the Flattening Universe: Still need to flatten transparency when exporting to PDF for press?
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: False Italic

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> eDocker: With eDocker CREATE ! it's very easy to build interactive publications directly from Adobe InDesign to be published as standalone HTML5 web-app or eDocker PUBLISH! publication. With eDocker PUBLISH! service anyone can easily share eDocker CREATE! files or plain PDF to all computer and iPad users, publications can be free/public, paid/subscribed or private. Special offer for InDesignSecrets podcast listeners saves hundreds of dollars off either or both services, check it out! >> Recosoft makes the amazing PDF2ID, PDF-to-InDesign conversion tool for InDesign CS4 through CC (Creative Cloud). Recosoft also just released ID2Office v2.0 which converts InDesign files to Word, PowerPoint and Keynote format. ID2Office v2.0 now adds support for InDesign CC and converts InDesign nested tables into Word nested tables and Apple Keynote format. ID Secrets Users get 15% off PDF2ID v3.5 or ID2Office Standard v2.0 with coupon code ID_Secrets, offer good until June 30, 2014. Links mentioned in this podcast:

InDesign Conference: Nov 3–5, 2014, in Seattle
InDesign Magazine
InDesignSecrets membership
Sign up for a link and reminder of the Adobe CC update webinar on June 18
The PePcon 2014 Sponsors page has details and links for XMPie, Rorohiko, Ripon Printers, Recosoft, Em Software, eDocker, Aquafadas, and Adobe (reverse alpha FTW!)
Claudia McCue's Adobe Creative Suite Printing Guide (direct link to the PDF)
Claudia's book Real World Print Production and some great posts here and on her blog
David's Creating Print PDF video title on lynda.com will be released shortly
Adobe PDF Print Engine info
See "False Italic" appear in Anne-Marie's flame war-igniting ID Secrets video on making fake bold and italic

InDesignSecrets Podcast 209 Apr 28, 2014

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In this episode:

AM's field report from the Edward Tufte one-day course
Huge InDesign Magazine issue coming up, all about Adobe DPS
Interview with Ben Schott, author of Miscellany and Schottenfreude
Hidden uses for Live Preflight
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Entry End

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> PePcon: The Print + ePublishing Conference is the place to be to learn more about using Adobe InDesign for print, PDF, epub, and tablet publication projects. Come to Chicago June 15–18 and join us and hundreds of your hard-working colleagues from around the world, from all sorts of companies and universities, all there for the same purpose: to learn, to share, and be inspired. Special for InDesignSecrets podcast listeners: Use the coupon code CH73G to receive $50 off your PePcon registration! >> The long-running InDesign Conference is now part of the InDesignSecrets family, and plans are in the works for the next event. We'll make an announcement in the upcoming few months. Keep an eye on the blog and in your email's inbox! Links mentioned in this podcast:

Edward Tufte's books on Amazon
InDesign Magazine
InDesignSecrets membership
Ben Schott's site and Wikipedia page
Blog posts on dotted tab leaders here and here
How to convert to outlines when exporting EPS
Check out all our posts on preflight in InDesign
David's Blatner Tools has a Quality Assurance module
Other Preflight utilities: Zevrix's InPreflight and Markzware's Flightcheck

Here are some of examples of Ben Schott's writing and artwork (click each thumbnail to enlarge):

InDesignSecrets Podcast 208 Mar 27, 2014

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EpubSecrets.com, InCopySecrets.com, Spring-loaded shortcuts, Chad Chelius interview, Obscurity of the Week: Indic Script Preferences

In this episode:

News from the land of InDesign
- InCopySecrets.com and ePubSecrets.com are alive again!
- PePcon 2014 early bird deadline coming up!
Spring-loaded shortcuts
- When they save time and not
- Other obscure "dynamic" shortcuts
Interview with Chad Chelius, new Editor-in-Chief of InCopySecrets.com
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Indic Preferences Script

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> InfoLogic's MathMagic Pro lets you quickly insert mathematical equations and scientific symbols into your InDesign document. It anchors an EPS of the equation at the text insertion point, automatically aligning the baseline of the equation to the text baseline, and can accept incoming equations from Word's Equation Editor, MathML, MathType, or LaTeX. Just double-click the anchored EPS to edit! Available for InDesign CS3 to CC, Mac or Windows. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Follow the instructions on this page to receive a free two-month subscription to MathMagic Pro ($100 value). Offer expires March 31, 2014! >> Recosoft makes the amazing PDF2ID, PDF-to-InDesign conversion tool for InDesign CS4 through CC (Creative Cloud). They also just released ID2Office v2.0 which adds support for InDesign CC and converts InDesign files to Word, PowerPoint and (new!) Keynote format. Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners, through April 15 2014, get 15% discount off PDF2ID v3.5 or ID2Office v2.0 with code ID_Secrets Links mentioned in this podcast:

PePcon: The Print + ePublishing Conference
Check out ePubSecrets.com and InCopySecrets.com
Spring-Loaded shortcuts post
Chad's new Lynda.com title, Creating Accessible PDFs
Our accessibility page
Chad's 1/2-day workshop at PePcon, CSS & HTML: What Designers Need to Know
The T-key and U-key
More info on typesetting Indic languages: this post, this help file, and this other help file

InDesignSecrets Podcast 207 Feb 26, 2014

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InDesign Magazine; PePcon 2014; Typekit; Hyperlinks; Workspaces; OFOTW: Clear All

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News from the land of InDesign
- InDesign Magazine goes monthly
- Magazine is now a benefit of InDesignSecrets.com paid membership
- Special instructions for existing InDesign Magazine subscribers
- New site up for PePcon 2014, just 4 months away!
Answers to attendee questions from our InDesign Masters webinar, including:
- Typekit ins and outs
- Shared destination hyperlinks
- Previewing fonts tip
- Sharing custom workspaces
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Clear All

PePcon: The Print + ePublishing Conference
Recording of Anne-Marie & David's "Secrets of the InDesign Masters" webinar (Flash required)
This is a useful PDF for designers new to Typekit
You don't need to have Creative Cloud to use Typekit desktop fonts
We talked about shared hyperlink destinations in podcast 118 (transcript)
How to do the cool font change preview trick
Tool for quickly resizing all your scaled images to 100%
David's favorite Mac utilities including the active app one

InDesignSecrets Podcast 206 Jan 22, 2014

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In this Very Special New Year's episode:

News: PePcon speakers and sessions posted, Anne-Marie at ADIM14, new lynda.com InDesign CC to EPUB title released
All about the latest InDesign CC update (9.2)
- Easier and more stable Hyperlinks
- Typekit integration
- EPUB improvements and new features
3 New Things we each want to learn in 2014
- Anne-Marie: Cloud publishing, In5 plug-in, and Editorial/Design workflow platforms
- David: Web apps from InDesign, Phone Gap and Baker Framework, and the violin!
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Autogrow

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. They have just been awarded the CompTIA Trustmark award in the UK, which affords them recognition as a modern I.T. training company with standards. Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol. Get booked today onto a Certitec course and experience the latest and greatest software experience from Adobe! Follow them on Twitter at @Certitec and keep up with their Facebook page. If you sign up for a seminar or class and mention you heard about them on InDesignSecrets, you get 20% off the fee! Links mentioned in this podcast:

PePcon 2014 initial speakers and sessions
Anne-Marie's speaking at Russell Brown's ADIM Conference, March 9–14 in Boulder, Colorado
Check out her new InDesign CC: EPUB Fundamentals course on lynda.com
Steve Werner's blog post about new Typekit features in InDesign CC 9.2 (we have an article about all the new 9.2 features in the next issue of InDesign Magazine)
Hyperlinks vs. Cross-References are the Odd Couple (music and intro)
Resolutions:
- App publishing: Web apps/In5 plug-in, Baker Framework, Phone Gap
- Cloud-based publishing: LucidPress, LayerGloss, BookType, Inkling Habitat, Story
- The violin!

InDesignSecrets Podcast 205 Dec 07, 2013

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In this episode:

News: InDesign Conference; PePcon; Lynda Weinman creative keynote!
Neglected Panels (some you may not even know about)
- Worth a(nother) look: Info, Tool Hints, Kuler, Background Tasks, Story, Attributes
- Forgettable for most users: Trap Presets, Timing (until HTML 5 export!), Script Label, Tags, Transform (redundant!), Flattener Preview
- Wait-and-see: Adobe Exchange
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Consolidate All to Here

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software is the developer of DocsFlow Pro (among other cool InDesign plug-ins) that allows you to do real-time collaboration with off-site editors using Google Docs. Place early-draft stories or spreadsheets from Google Docs into your layout, map its styles to your InDesign styles and start your production work while your authors and editors continue working on the original documents. Merge their updated work at any time into your InDesign layouts with a single command, without losing anything, and with InDesign notes left at any points of conflicts. Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners: Pro 2.0 is 25% off in the EmSoftware.com store (for new licenses only) using the code DFP1213 until the end of December 2013! >> 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, through January 2014, get 25% discount off PDF2ID v3.5 or ID2Office v1.5 with code ID_Secrets Links mentioned in this podcast:

Chicago Blues Fest during PePcon 2014!
Posts, Podcasts, and PDFs about these poor, poor panels
- Adios, Navigator panel
- Your forgotten friend, the Info panel
- What is the Script Label panel for?
- Here's a clever use for the Attributes panel
- The Flattener Preview panel was hot stuff in Podcast 88 (and Sandee Cohen originally coined it Blatner Preview)
- Trap Presets panel? Grab this PDF excerpt of the Trapping section from Real World InDesign
Candid shot of the wily Background Tasks panel in its lair:

InDesignSecrets Podcast 204 Nov 15, 2013

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CreativePro.com reader survey; Getting started with InCopy; Obscurity of the Week: Apply Gamma Correction

In this episode:

News: CreativePro.com survey
Getting Started with InCopy
- Cost (comes with Creative Cloud!)
- Basic setup for small and large groups, local and remote
- Using its unique features for InDesign purposes
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Apply Gamma Correction

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Lynda.com is the nation's premiere provider of online instruction for creatives in the design, photography, and publishing fields. Check out David's latest title: Insider InDesign Training: Interactive PDFs, and Anne-Marie's Using Word and InDesign Together. They also have an ongoing series of free and subscriber-only videos called InDesign Secrets. Check out all the InDesign videos at lynda.com! Links mentioned in this podcast:

Direct link to the CreativePro.com reader survey (you could win an iPod Nano!)
InCopySecrets.com
Our InCopy forum on InDesignSecrets.com
Using InCopy as an InDesign "Reader"
Convert InDesign notes to PDF comments with InCopy
The sad story of PNG Gamma Correction
Here it is!

InDesignSecrets Podcast 203 Oct 30, 2013

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The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

In this episode:

Adobe Creative Cloud — 6 Months Later
- Working? Broken? Anne-Marie and David argue it out
- Reports from the field
- Some options that could help those who are stuck
- Issues specific to InDesign users and developers as opposed to other Adobe apps
- Open source and other page layout competition
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Adobe Product Improvement Program

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, so many more, and now, stacking order, crucial to creating accessible PDFs. They've written up a detailed explanation of all the options and how their customers have used FrameReporter to streamline their work. Normally $39.00 US, you can get it for 30% off if you enter the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS203 upon purchase.

>> 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 Nov. 30, get 25% discount off PDF2ID v3.5 or ID2Office v1.5 with code ID_Secrets

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Creative Cloud pricing and the Teams option
Our 200+ commented post on InDesign's debut as a Cloud-only app
String theory and the fifth dimension
Adobe Product Improvement Program FAQ ("apipfaq")

InDesignSecrets Podcast 202 Oct 23, 2013

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Call for speakers; TypeKit; Text Wrap Rap; Obscurity of the Week: Largest Area

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A little bit of news:
- TypeKit is now available for all Adobe CC subscribers
- PePcon 2014 open for registration!
- Last call for PePcon speakers! Fill out our friendly form
Text Wrap Rap
- Confusing bits clarified
- Little-known tips and tricks
- What are all those contour options?
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Largest Area

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software is the developer of DocsFlow and WordsFlow, two "time machine" plug-ins for your production workflow. Place early-draft stories or spreadsheets from Google Docs with DocsFlow, or Word/Excel documents with WordsFlow, and start your production work while your authors and editors continue working on the original documents. Merge their updated work at any time into your InDesign layouts with a single command, without losing anything, and with InDesign notes left at any points of conflicts. Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners: DocsFlow Pro 2.0 is 25% off in the EmSoftware.com store until the end of October 2013! Grab it now. >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, EPUB, and Adobe DPS training. They are officially in the Cloud! (Creative Cloud that is.) Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol. Get booked today onto a Certitec course and experience the latest and greatest software experience from Adobe! Follow them on Twitter at @Certitec and keep up with their Facebook page. If you sign up for a seminar or class and mention you heard about them on InDesignSecrets, you get 20% off the fee! Links mentioned in this podcast:

PePcon.com (2014 Print + ePublishing Conference site) is open for business!
Get involved — be a PePcon speaker!
We talked about Text Wrap in podcasts 180 and 048 too, if you can't get enough
Detailed posts about Text Wrap here on the blog!
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs? (movie ref)

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