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InDesignSecrets Podcast 111 Oct 15, 2009

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Blatner Tools; Screen Appearance Tweaks and Tips; Webinars and Seminars; Obscurity of the Week: Ignore Orientation

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Blatner Tools
Settings that Change the Screen Appearance (& Tips!)
- Hide/Show Frame Edges
- Preview Mode: what disappears, customizing
- Display Performance
- Overprint Preview
- Proof Setup; Anne-Marie's color management rant
- Show/Hide Notes
- Rotate Spread View
Upcoming seminars and webinars
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Ignore Orientation

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko (aka Lightning Brain) has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users. 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. >> In-Tools has a very cool plug-in called AutoFlow Pro. It lets you set autoflow attributes for individual stories within your layout, letting you fully control which stories will automatically generate new threaded frames and pages as you enter text, and which ones simply overset. The plug-in is $99, but InDesignSecrets fans can get $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, (both of which include AutoFlow Pro) 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: > David's upcoming webinar, Long Documents Pt. 2: Automating Your Work, is Oct. 21 2009 > 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

InDesignSecrets Podcast 110 Sep 29, 2009

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6.04 Update; Snow Leopard and PDFs; Word and InDesign Part 2; Obscurity of the Week: Cancel Package

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InDesign/InCopy 6.04 Patch
SnowLeopard (Mac OS 10.6) and the Adobe PDF printer
Placing Word files: Essential Tips, Part 2
- Mapping Word styles to InDesign styles
- Working around the Style Group glitch
- Converting InDesign files to Word documents
- Converting Footnotes to Endnotes
Upcoming seminars and webinars
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Cancel Package

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a very cool plug-in called AutoFlow Pro, which we talked about in the show. It lets you set autoflow attributes for individual stories within your layout, letting you fully control which stories will automatically generate new threaded frames and pages as you enter text, and which ones simply overset. The plug-in is $99, but InDesignSecrets fans can get $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, (both of which include AutoFlow Pro) 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: > Blog post about the InDesign/InCopy 6.04 Update > Post about the Snow Leopard/Adobe PDF Printer issue, and the Adobe help page about it > Anne-Marie's "Convert InDesign to Word" article > Footnote to Endnote scripts: Peter Kahrel's (see his comment to the post about endnotes); and Miguel Sousa's > All-day InDesign Seminar in Chicago, starring Anne-Marie on 10/6/2009, use AMCTIME09 for 15% off > Full list of InDesignSecrets webinars (including recorded eSeminars)

InDesignSecrets Podcast 109 Sep 08, 2009

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Happy Birthday InDesign; Essential Tips for Importing Word files; Upcoming Seminars and Webinars; Obscurity of the Week: Select All Unused

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Happy 10th Birthday to InDesign!
Placing Word files: Essential Tips, Part 1
- Deleting Word styles while retaining local bolds and italics
- When you might want to export to RTF and re-import
- Fastest way to remove hyperlinks (but leave the link text)
- Maggy-ing the Word file
Upcoming seminars and webinars -- all recordings now available!
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select All Unused

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> 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. >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Happy Birthday to ID post > Post about stripping out hyperlinks from Word files > PaperSpecs reprinted Anne-Marie's "Clean Up Word Files" article > David insists we include a map showing Where Milwaukee Is > September Webinars and Seminars > All InDesignSecrets webinars (including recorded eSeminars)

InDesignSecrets Podcast 108 Aug 20, 2009

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New eSeminars and live Seminars by David and Anne-Marie; Character Styles Deep Dive; Obscurity of the Week: Go to Selected Bookmark

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New InDesignSecrets eSeminars: InCopy/InDesign, Long Documents (links below)
InDesignSecrets Live Seminars!
Deep Dive into Character Styles:
- To-do's and Not-to-do's
- Applying multiple styles
- Using them for "tagging" (instead of formatting)
- A few great scripts!
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Go to Selected Bookmark (with bonus new features discovered by accident!)

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Sign up for Anne-Marie's eSeminars: InCopy/InDesign: Getting Started (Sept 9), and/or InCopy/InDesign: Tips and Techniques (Sept. 23) (early-bird pricing expires Aug 25 2009) > David's two eSeminars on Long Documents will be in October, links coming soon!> InDesignSecrets LIVE (Sept 17) starring David Blatner! All-day seminar, link includes $10 savings > Collaborative Workflows with InCopy/InDesign (Sept 15) AM's all-day live seminar, enter coupon IDS15 for $25 off> InCopy/InDesign Master Class (Sept 16) AM's all-day live seminar, enter coupon IDS16 for $25 off > Indexmatic script for indexing from Character Styles (link goes to blog post) > Dave Saunder's Preserve Local Formatting script for CS1, CS2, and CS3 (link downloads .jsx script) > Jongware's PrepText script for CS4 (link downloads .zip of script); Adobe forum thread discussing its use

InDesignSecrets Podcast 107 Jul 31, 2009

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Interview with contributor James Fritz; Unwanted color seps/plates; Obscurity of the Week: Float

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Interview with James Fritz, InDesignSecrets contributor
Tracking down unwanted color seps (plates) in your layout files
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Float

InDesignSecrets Podcast 106 Jul 14, 2009

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eSeminar recordings available; Chris Kitchener interview; Creating accessible (Sec 508) PDFs; Obscurity of the Week: Crop to Media

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InDesignSecrets eSeminar recordings now available
Anne-Marie's Graphic Design in 2009 webinar
Interview with Adobe's Chris Kitchener, Sr. Product Manager for the InDesign family
Lynda.com new "10 Things" videos: Interactive PDFs (David) and Troubleshooting Files (Anne-Marie)
Creating Accessible (Sec. 508-compliant) PDFs from InDesign
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Crop to Media

InDesignSecrets Podcast 105 Jul 06, 2009

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Multiple-place tip; Acrobat.com; 6.03 Update; Obscurity of the Week: POSIX

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Multiple-place tips for InDesign CS3 and CS4
Acrobat.com officially released, new features
InDesign/InCopy 6.03 Update
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: POSIX

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. >> 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. >> Adobe Systems has a new promotion called A Suite Deal which lasts until August 31, 2009. Until that date you can save $100 when you upgrade to Creative Suite 4. Visit the Suite Deal page for details. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: James Fritz's blog post about multiple-placing Download the InDesign/InCopy 6.03 update Acrobat.com promotion discount (save $50 on annual subscription) Adobe Labs' Presentations and Tables, Acrobat.com apps in development Jay Nelson's DesignTools Monthly newsletter More on POSIX

InDesignSecrets Podcast 104 Jun 20, 2009

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News: Seminars, Webinars, Videos; Special Effects; SWF Fixes; Obscurity of the Week: Arrange by Columns

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News: A slew of new InDesign resources
- Diane's eSeminar on Tables in ID (recording available) and Steve's upcoming eSeminar on Best Print/Prepress Practices for InDesign
- Anne-Marie's three new InDesign "10 Things" video titles at lynda.com
- InDesign Seminar tour in full swing; David in LA this week; AM in Boston and Minneapolis next week
Eye Candy! ... Mike Rankin's multi-part series of incredibly cool special effects you can do right in InDesign (see links below)
SWFs in InDesign: David's discovery and Martinho's wonderful free script
Results from the First Annual InDesignSecrets Survey
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Arrange by Columns

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. >> 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: InDesign Seminar Tour Use AMCTIME09 coupon code for 15% off registration. Anne-Marie's 10 Things for InDesign videos: 10 Troubleshooting Steps; 10 Habits of Professionals; 10 Things Designers Should Know about Bridge Mike's Eye Candy series: Gravity's Shadow; Shine On; Punch-outs, Stickers, and Rips; Pattern Swatches; and Blending a la Mode David's SWF Discovery post and Martinho's SWF script

InDesignSecrets Podcast 103 May 29, 2009

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Seminars and Webinars; InCopy CS4 Guide; CS Developers Summit; Moving Pages Between Layouts; Obscurity of the Week: Line End

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News: Upcoming Seminars and Webinars, InCopy CS4 Hands-On Guide
Report from the Creative Suite Developer's Summit, complete with interviews with some of your favorite InDesign plug-in developers!
Moving pages from one layout to another: tips and tricks
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Line End

News and special offers from our sponsors: >> myMacMac is the developer of a really neat InDesign plug-in called InDemand (see the Quicktime demo). InDemand adds an automation panel to the Mac (only) versions of InDesign CS2, CS3, or CS4 with all sorts of useful buttons and functions, such as a Repeater Grid and a Clipboard Filter. Great solution for many types of projects that require tedious formatting and arranging like catalogs and electronics ads. Use the coupon code CPN1141670880 for a 10% InDesignSecrets discount, valid until July 20, 2009. >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. >> Adobe Systems continues to show their support for InDesign users via their sponsorship of the InDesignSecrets podcast and videocast, so thanks, Adobe! They're trying to get the word out about how much time you can save if you move to the latest version of the Creative Suite, CS4. To see the Pfeiffer report we talked about in the podcast which documents the time savings ("CS4 Productivity for Design Professionals"), you can download the PDF here: http://tr.im/cs4time. It's interesting reading! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesign Seminar Tour in San Francisco, Seattle, and Los Angeles (DB); and Boston, Minneapolis, and Chicago (AMC). Use AMCTIME09 coupon code for 15% off registration. InCopy CS4 Hands-on Guide (blog post with links) Andreas Pfeiffer report on CS4 productivity gains Check out the recorded sessions from the 2009 Creative Suite Developer's Summit Interviewed in the podcast: Mark Niemann-Ross (Adobe); Paul Chada (Recosoft); Lawrence Horwitz (Teacup Software); and Kris Coppietiers (Rorohiko) DesignGeek story on the Adobe App Store

InDesignSecrets Podcast 102 May 08, 2009

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Listener survey (with prizes!); Upcoming ID webinars and seminars by DB and AMC; Scaling and Resampling in ID; Obscurity of the Week: Snap-to Flag

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News: Reader/Listener Survey, Upcoming Seminars and Webinars
All about scaling and resampling in InDesign
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Snap-to Flag

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesignSecrets Listener Survey now with prizes! InDesign Seminar Tour in San Francisco, Seattle, and Los Angeles (DB); and Boston, Minneapolis, and Chicago (AMC). Use AMCTIME09 coupon code for 15% off registration. InDesign Troubleshooting & Repair Webinar, May 21 (Anne-Marie)Introduction to GREP in InDesign Webinar, May 28 (David) Zevrix LinkOptimizer plug-in Resample Images to 100% script (CS3/CS4 only)

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