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InDesignSecrets Podcast 161 Nov 30, 2011

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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 share your works in progress from within InDesign. Upload your work to the cloud from within InDesign and share access with up to 30 users via a simple URL or free iTunes app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Check out our new baby, EPUBSecrets.com, and say hi to editor Matthew Diener > Learn more about Amazon's new eReader/Android tablet, the Kindle Fire > Adobe's Colin Fleming video shows DPS on the Kindle Fire > Read EPUBs on a Kindle Fire with the Aidiko app (may need to install AndroXplorer or similar first) > Anne-Marie talked about DataViz's Documents to Go Android app > David's Maynard reference, Anne-Marie thought he meant this Maynard > Adobe's InDesign Accessibility page with links to videos and PDFs

InDesignSecrets Podcast 160 Nov 16, 2011

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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 be automatically upgraded at no cost to DocsFlow Pro when it’s released, which will be priced at $400. >> Rorohiko has a neat little InDesign utility called LayerLifter, a free add-on that makes it easier to move items from layer to layer. If you own or purchase their APID ToolAssistant ($25), you also get to use LayerShifter, a slick way to shift all items on a particular layer. Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS160 to get 25% off the APID ToolAssistant. You won't regret it! >> Recosoft makes PDF2ID (converts PDFs to editable InDesign files) and ID2Office (converts InDesign files to editable Word or Powerpoint files). They also just announced PDF2ID Enterprise, which batch converts PDFs to InDesign and/or to the IDML format; just the ticket for automating workflows. Check them out! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Adobe's Creative Cloud and their Creative Cloud FAQ > You can log in to Creative Cloud right now to test it > David wrote an article in Macworld about his opinion of CS5.5 subscriptions > Josh Nguni's InDesign User Group in Windhoek, Namibia Josh Nguni

InDesignSecrets Podcast 159 Oct 30, 2011

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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 for EPUB or their InDesign for iPad + Android class (your choice) to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes are held in Cardiff, London, or Bristol. To enter the drawing for the free class (normally £397), go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have a fortnight — 14 days— from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don’t win, you can always take any 2011-2012 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering. >> 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-based community where you can share your works in progress from within InDesign. Upload your work to the cloud from within InDesign and share access with up to 30 users via a simple URL or free iTunes app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Download the free (but limited enrollment) beta today! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Take the Podcast Listener Survey (short and sweet) and possibly win a goodie box > Here's that Page Border script Anne-Marie mentioned > David blogged about Reverse Path back in 2006 and, more recently, Steve Werner in this post -- WTH:

InDesignSecrets Podcast 158 Oct 17, 2011

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-158.mp3 (19.9 MB, 36:34 minutes)

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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-based community where you can share your works in progress from within InDesign. Upload your work to the cloud from within InDesign and share access with up to 30 users via a simple URL or free iTunes app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Download the free (but limited enrollment) beta today! >> 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 listeners. So if you purchase a completely unrelated — but just as awesome — plug-in of theirs called Frame Reporter(adds useful info to any text or image frame automatically), and use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS156, you’ll get 25% off the cost. – Quizzler Winner! In episode #156, we asked you to tell us what was the very first InDesignSecrets blog post in 2007. (This was a sneaky way to promote our Archives page, a fast way to access the 1200+ blog posts here.) The winner, chosen via a random drawing of the multiple correct submissions, was faithful listener Salah Al-Din Talhami of Virtual Designing Universe with the answer: On January 1, 2007, at 6:14 p.m., David posted the (still relevant) article "Assigning Default Text Formatting." Great work, Salah! You will receive a copy of In-Tools' wonderful Style Utilities for InDesign. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > David's Adobe MAX recap > InDesignSecrets Live! seminar with Anne-Marie in Las Vegas, November 2 > PubWest Conference in Las Vegas, Nov 3-5 > Mike Rankin's blog posts, ebooks, Twitter feed, and Lynda.com videos > James Fritz's blog posts, Twitter feed, and Lynda.com videos > Mike Ninness's video on the Document Fonts folder feature > InDesignSecrets Archives page of all blog posts > We talked about hiding menu items in this blog post from 2009 -- King David at Adobe MAX:

InDesignSecrets Podcast 157 Sep 28, 2011

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Live performances coming up; InDesign to Kindle; KBSC of the Week; Obscurity of the Week: Leading Edge

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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

InDesignSecrets Podcast 156 Sep 07, 2011

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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 listeners. So if you purchase a completely unrelated — but just as awesome — plug-in of theirs called Frame Reporter (adds useful info to any text or image frame automatically), and use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS156, you'll get 25% off the cost. >> Em Software just released the shipping version of DocsFlow 7.0,a plug-in for Adobe InDesign Mac or PC that dynamically links online Google Docs with InDesign layouts. The 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 be automatically upgraded at no cost to DocsFlow Pro when it's released, which will be priced at $400. – To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and the correct answer. You have until Monday, Sept. 19 at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! We will randomly choose a winner from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast after Sept. 19, 2011! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > InDesignSecrets Live! with James Fritz in Milwaukee, WI, September 27 > InDesignSecrets Live! With Anne-Marie Concepcion in Las Vegas, November 2 > David & Fritz at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, Oct 1–5 > Mike Rankin's InDesignFX tour of the InDesign User Groups, Sept 13–15 > Formatting Tools plug-in from InTools (does Change Case magic) > Change Case with GREP, InDesignSecrets post here and forum thread here > Using Configurator in InDesign to change case > Is it Upper Case or is it All Caps? Big difference! > Free script for Smart Title Case > "Engaging Contextuality," great post about fonts with Contextual Alternates

InDesignSecrets Podcast 155 Sep 01, 2011

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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 World Tools Pro), and any user who wants to check out some great scripts, many of which are free. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > InDesignSecrets Live! with James Fritz in Milwaukee, WI, September 27 > InDesignSecrets Live! With Anne-Marie Concepcion in Las Vegas, November 2 > InDesign Secrets, our the new video series at Lynda.com > All videos on InDesign at Lynda.com > Recommended books and videos, our handpicked list > InDesign videos at VTC.com, Video2Brain, Adobe TV, Software Cinema > InDesign User Group web site > Adobe forum for InDesign and our own InDesignSecrets forums > Cool new plug-ins and add-ons for InDesign

InDesignSecrets Podcast 154 Aug 10, 2011

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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. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don’t win, you can always register for any 2011 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering. Also: Thanks to Ken Venus for the awesome voiceovers! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > InDesignSecrets Live! with James Fritz in Milwaukee, WI, September 27 (check your weekly newsletter for the code to get 10% off; if you don't get the newsletter) > Writing in InDesign: a book by Dave Bergsland, at Amazon or Lulu. > Basic and Not-so-Basic Text Selection Shortcuts (blog post by James Fritz) > More on Story Editor and the Barbell cursor. > More on the Show Paragraph Break Marks feature. > GoogleDocs > Em Software's DocsFlow > Buzzword > Wordpress to InDesign > ickmull and more from John Maxwell > What the Hieronymus Bosch?! > Free Guide to InDesign Special Hidden Characters

InDesignSecrets Podcast 153 Jul 29, 2011

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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)

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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, descriptions, graphics, etc., can all be automatically updated (in both directions!) so you never have to worry again about missing a price or mistyping a description. For InDesignSecrets podcast listeners, Em Software is offering 20% off any 1-pack product (including InCatalog) until August 15 2011. Enter the coupon code idsecrets711 on their checkout page. >> In-Tools develops incredibly useful InDesign scripts (like MergeTables, mentioned in today's podcast) and plug-ins, but they would like you to know that they also develop custom solutions for clients. For example, company owner Harbs tells us, they're putting the final touches on a web-to-print solution for a customer that uses browser-editable InDesign templates with the InDesign server in the background (neat!). Check out Harbs's blog to see what he's up to, and contact him directly on his Contact page. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Marijan's Fill Table with Placeholder Text script: TomaxxiFillTable.zip > Browse all of Marijan's InDesign scripts and other goodies > Harbs's Merge Tables script page > Browse all of Harbs's InDesign scripts > DTPTools's Active Tables plug-in > See the comments below for some of our favorite answers to the Quizzler sent in by listeners > Keith Gilbert suggested the Quizzler > Diane Burns's InDesign Table Magic webinar, and a list of all InDesignSecrets webinars

InDesignSecrets Podcast 152 Jul 13, 2011

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Keyboard Shortcut of the Week; Ron Bilodeau interview; Geeky Blog Posts; Obscurity of the Week: Remember Font with Bullet

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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. >> Rorohiko is offering 50% off their SodukuGenerator ($149) plug-in until the end of July 2011; after that the discount drops to 20% off. As the name implies, the plug-in uses InDesign to create "easy" to "diabolical" level Soduku puzzles, great for any newsletter, magazine, newspaper, or even a book full of these puzzles. To get the discount, use the promo code INDESIGNSECRETS152 when you purchase it. –

To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and as many correct answers as you can think of. You have until Monday, July 25 at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! We will randomly choose a winner from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast after July 25, 2011!

-- Links mentioned in this podcast: > InDesign Keyboard Shortcuts posters > InDesignSecret's collection of GREP-related posts and resources > Twitter #eprdctn posts > Ron used to work at Cook's Illustrated magazine > Now he works at O'Reilly Media > Geeky post #1: Guide to Interpreting InDesign Crash Reports > Geeky post #2: Favorite GREP Expressions You Can Use > Geeky post #3: Picking the Best Video Format for Digital Publishing > Geeky post #4: Free Script to Batch Apply ALT Tags > Seybold Report reviewed Soduku Generator with Patterns > Keith Gilbert suggested the Quizzler > InDesignSecrets webinars > Jim Maivald's book, Designer's Guide to InDesign and XML

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