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InDesignSecrets Podcast 121 Mar 13, 2010

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Tips for organizing styles; Gabriel Powell interview; ePub info; Obscurity of the Week: Sort Bookmarks

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Best practices for organizing and naming text styles
InDesignSecrets Seminars & Conference update; new speakers
Mike Rankin's interview with ePub expert Gabriel Powell at the O'Reilly TOC Conference
- Emerging and evolving open standards discussed at the conference, such as the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) for eBooks
- The new "browser wars" (how different eReaders interpret the same content feed)
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Sort Bookmarks
Bonus: David recites from memory the first 20 digits of Pi (in honor of Pi day, March 14—aka 3.14!)

-- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Members! Watch your e-mail for discount codes to InDesignSecretsLive.com events: InDesign Seminars and the Print and ePublishing conference) > Vancouver InDesign User Group (where David's speaking soon) > O'Reilly's Tools of Change conference > Gabriel Powell's InstantInDesign web site > CreativePro.com reprinted Gabriel's ePub articles from InDesign Magazine > Learn about the OPDS > Lexcycle's Stanza application (Note: Lexcycle rhymes with Bicycle) > David's Joy of Pi book

InDesignSecrets Podcast 120 Feb 25, 2010

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Ole Kvern interview; Member prizes; Cross-References; Obscurity of the Week: Connections

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Updates about the InDesignSecrets seminars and Print and ePublishing (PeP) Conference
Interview with Ole Kvern, Computer Scientist at Adobe Systems, InDesign scripting guru, and author and co-author of Real World InDesign, Real World Freehand, and many more
- How he got involved with Adobe and InDesign
- How InDesign users can get started scripting
- His seminars on InDesign automation at the PeP Conference
InDesignSecrets member prize drawing: Congrats, Tim and Brian!
Harbs' new, free Cross-References script that adds a much-needed feature
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Connections

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko has an innovative plug-in, FrameReporter, that can add little non-printing info labels (name of an image, if the frame is overridden from the master, and more) to any kind of frame in your layout, saving any hard-working InDesigner a ton of time. It's FREE for 20 days, and then when you're completely spoiled, you'll want to buy it for the low price of $29. Or, reduce the cost by 25% if you enter INDESIGNSECRETS120 in the coupon code area of Rorohiko's shopping cart. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Olav "Ole" Kvern's Adobe Press page, Amazon page, and LinkedIn page > Adobe's InDesign Scripting home page > Ole is also speaking at the Creative Suite Developer's Summit > Members! Watch your e-mail for discount codes to InDesignSecretsLive.com events (seminars and PeP conference) > InDesignSecrets keyboard shortcut posters (just like Tim and Brian's!) ;-) > David's post about Harbs' amazing Cross-References script > DTPTool's wonderful Cross-References PRO plug-in for InDesign/InCopy CS2-CS4 > InDesign documentation on the Connections feature

InDesignSecrets Podcast 119 Feb 19, 2010

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Mordy Golding interview; Obscurity of the Week: Tiling

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Interview with Mordy Golding, Illustrator guru and New York City fanboy
- How he got involved with Flash Catalyst
- Why designers will love using it
- Details on his all-day Illustrator/Flash Catalyst tutorial at the PeP Conference
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Tiling

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko offers a free plug-in called TextExporter that we love. But to get even more functionality from that free plug-in (and many other free Rorohiko plug-ins) you need to license their APID Assistant. Normally $25, you can get $5 off the APID Assistant if you enter INDESIGNSECRETS119 in the coupon code area of Rorohiko's shopping cart. >> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is once again 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 2010 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Register for Mordy's Illustrator/Flash Catalyst tutorial in Seattle on May 12 -- follow the Registration link in the 2010 Print & ePublishing Conference information page > Mordy's web site, Mordy.com, and his Flash Catalyst Beta video tutorials > Download Flash Catalyst from the Adobe Labs web site > New PeP Conference sponsor, WinSoft (check out their Arabic typography contest) > InDesignSecretsLive.com for seminar and conference info & registration links > Another post that's related to tiling in InDesign, sort of

InDesignSecrets Podcast 118 Jan 31, 2010

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Colin Fleming interview; Conference/Seminar news; Members drawing winner; Obscurity of the Week: Shared Hyperlink Destination

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Interview with Colin Fleming, Senior Solutions Engineer from Adobe
- How he became an expert on ePub
- ePubs on Kindles, iPads and Sony eBooks
- Videos and whitepapers on ePubs that Colin recommends
Update on our Print & ePublishing Conference
- Early bird registration saves $200!
- Pre-conference all-day tutorials from Mordy Golding, James Fritz, and Michael Ninness
New cities/speakers for our InDesignSecrets Live Seminar tour
A lucky InDesignSecrets member gets a TruMatch swatch book as this episode's random winner
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Shared Hyperlink Destination

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko sells a neat plug-in called SudokuGenerator, (and offers a free, more limited version called SudokuGeneratorLite) that lets you create those mind-bending number puzzles for fun and profit. Normally $49, you can get $10 off by entering INDESIGNSECRETS118 in the coupon code area of Rorohiko's shopping cart. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Colin's Adobe MAX presentation, "Creating an eBook for Distribution on Sony Reader Digital Book, Amazon Kindle, and Apple iPhone" > Colin's three AdobeTV movies, Using InDesign to Create Digital Books: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 > New Adobe whitepapers on Producing ePub eBooks from InDesign > InDesignSecretsLive.com for seminar and conference info & registration links > Make sure you're in our Members database (free) for upcoming prize drawings! > Katey's DocumentGeek.blogspot.com blog

InDesignSecrets Podcast 117 Jan 10, 2010

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InDesignSecretsLive.com 2010 seminars and conference; Diane Burns interview; Prize winners; Obscurity of the the Week: Paste without Formatting

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Happy New Year!
Our new sister site: InDesignSecretsLive.com, with info and links for:
- 2010 InDesign seminar tour cities and dates
- Our new Print and e-Publishing ("PeP") Conference, May 12-14, 2009, Seattle, Wash.
Interview with Diane Burns, ID trainer/multilingual publishing expert/table diva
Winners of our first InDesignSecrets Member drawing
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Paste Without Formatting

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko has a new version of Soxy out, that oh-so-useful utility that knows (or learns) which program/version should open which file on your computer. Great for when you have multiple versions of InDesign installed, or when you work with mix of vector and raster EPS files, or many other situations! Normally $19, you can get $5 off by entering INDESIGNSECRETS117 in the coupon code are of Rorohiko's shopping cart. Download the demo! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > InDesignSecretsLive.com for seminar and conference info > Diane Burns' company, TransPacificDigital.com > You can watch a recording of Diane's InDesignSecrets webinar, "Table Magic" > Make sure you're in our Members database (free) for upcoming prize drawings!

InDesignSecrets Podcast 116 Dec 31, 2009

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Fantastic and Free Production Scripts; Obscurity of the Week: Display Unsupported Files

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Fantastic Free Scripts for Final (or Near-Final) Production Tasks
- Remove End-of-Line Underlines
- Freeze Composition (Line Breaks)
- Compare InDesign Documents
- Package Multiple for Archive
Marc Autret's Incredible List of Scripts and Scripter Resources
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Display Unsupported Files

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> We're loving the In-Tools plug-in Power Headers, which does everything you wish InDesign's Running Header variable could do but can't! InDesignSecrets fans can get $20 off the price for either one of In-Tool's InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, (both of which include Power Headers -- it's the 2.0 update to Running Headers) if you purchase from this special page on their site. The full list of plug-ins bundled in the packages is here. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Our forum thread about Remove End-of-Line Underlines script> Download the RemoveUnderlines.jsx script (right-click and choose Save Link As) > Harbs' blog post and link to his Freeze Composition script > Kasyans' blog post and link to his CompareTwoDocuments script > Kasyans' post and link to his Package for Archive script > Our Top 10 Must-Have Free Scripts list > Marc Autret's InDiScripts blog post, Top 80 Script Links > Blatner Tools 1.0 was not mentioned once in this episode!

InDesignSecrets Podcast 115 Dec 16, 2009

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InDesignSecrets Conference; Find Where That Color is Used; Obscurity of the Week: Information

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InDesignSecrets Conference!
Find where that color is used
- Separations Preview panel
- Swatches panel tricks
- Find/Change
- Package Summary panel (thanks Nicola!)
- Blatner Tools
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Information

InDesignSecrets Podcast 114 Nov 26, 2009

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All about object transformations; Blatner Tools beta 3; Obscurity of the Week: Pattern Length

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All about object transformations
- Scaling & rotating from the keyboard
- Using math in the X, Y, W, H, and % (Scale) fields to transform
- The too-subtle-for-their-own-good transformation buttons & context menu
- And many more!
Blatner Tools free beta 3 now available
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Pattern Length

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a very cool plug-in called Column Flow which among other things let you create straddle heads on the fly!. As always, InDesignSecrets fans can get $20 off the price for either one of In-Tool's InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, (both of which include Column Flow) if you purchase from this special page on their site. The full list of plug-ins bundled in the packages is here. >> Rorohiko ("Slash the time it takes!") has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! In this episode we take a close look at their new Mac/Windows utility called Soxy ($19 US) that helps you open files (InDesign, and others) in the correct version of the program when you have more than one version installed. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS113 (that's "one one three" at the end) in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the Soxy utility. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Blatner Tools free beta or demo on the DTP Tools web site > David's posts about Pattern Length for corners and brackets (thanks Rufus!)

InDesignSecrets Podcast 113 Nov 21, 2009

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InDesignSecrets membership; our new forum; Guide to the InDesign ACE Exam eBook; Adobe layoffs; Obscurity of the Week: Choke

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InDesignSecrets Membership -- free with benefits!
All about the InDesignSecrets forums
Guide to the InDesign ACE Exam eBook by Mike Rankin
Interview with Mike Rankin!
Recent Adobe layoffs
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Choke

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko ("Slash the time it takes!") has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! In this episode we take a close look at their new Mac/Windows utility called Soxy ($19 US) that helps you open files (InDesign, and others) in the correct version of the program when you have more than one version installed. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS113 (that's "one one three" at the end) in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the Soxy utility. >> 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 2009 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention "InDesignSecrets" when registering. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > All about the new free membership program for InDesignSecrets > InDesignSecrets forum > The InDesignSecrets Guide to the InDesign ACE Exam eBook (PDF, 150 pp, $9.95) by Mike Rankin > Download a sample chapter from the eBook (11-page PDF, 3.7MB) > Mike's personal blog, Publicious.net > Adobe's Certified Expert instructions and links

InDesignSecrets Podcast 112 Nov 01, 2009

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Posts of Note: Windows 7, Story Editor, PowerPoint, Balance Lines; Unicodes, GIDs and CIDs; Obscurity of the Week: Missing Glyph

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Blog Posts You Should Know About:
- Windows 7 and InDesign (Bob Levine)
- Story Editor Secrets (Steve Werner)
- Importing PowerPoint into InDesign (James Fritz)
- When to Use Balance Ragged Lines (Anne-Marie)
Time to Get Geeky: Unicodes, GIDs and CIDs
Upcoming seminars, webinars, new videos and software
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Missing Glyph

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a very cool plug-in called Running Headers which does variable headers, multi-line headers, chapter headers, and more. Special deal: If you can come up with a Running Heads situation that this plug-in can't handle, they will give you a free copy or apply the cost ($59 US) to any other plug-in they sell! That's confidence. As always, InDesignSecrets fans can get $20 off the price for either one of In-Tool's InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, (both of which include Running Headers) if you purchase from this special page on their site. The full list of plug-ins bundled in the packages is here. >> Rorohiko (aka Lightning Brain) has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! For example, FrameReporter ($29 US) lets you see small informational tags when you click on a frame, such as the image's effective resolution or how many words are overset. You can even use it to name frames, and then navigate around your layout via the names. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS111 (that's "one one one" at the end) in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the FrameReporter plug-in. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Balance Ragged Lines was the Obscure Feature in episode 55, here's the podcast transcript > Keith Gilbert's blog post about Sorting the Glyphs panel > Unicode Code Charts > Check out Anne-Marie's new Lynda.com video title, Social Media Marketing with Facebook & Twitter > Read about and download the public beta of David's "Blatner Tools" suite of InDesign plug-ins on the DTPTools site > Anne-Marie will be one of the presenters at the InDesign Conference in Washington DC, Nov 4-6 2009 > Steve Werner's Preflighting Deep Dive webinar has early-bird tickets on sale until Nov 4, the webinar will be on Nov 10 2009

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