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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!

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InDesignSecrets Podcast 051 May 25, 2007

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Announcements; Hyperlinks; Text Variables; One-Button Mice; Obscurity of the Week: File Info

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-051.mp3 (16.2 MB, 34:02 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

Announcements: "InCopy CS/InDesign CS3 Integration" released (AM's video tutorial title for lynda.com); our InDesign CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts poster is on press this week
Hyperlinks: Creating, Deleting, Swearing at, Modifying, etc.
All about Text Variables, a new feature in CS3
Hot Button Post of the Week: AM's rant about One-Button Mice
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: File Info

Links mentioned in the podcast: InCopy CS3/InDesign CS3 Integration video training (link leads to post with details) Our post about fixing hyperlinks from Word documents

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InDesignSecrets Podcast 050 May 17, 2007

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We're 50!; Quizzler Winner (OS Color Picker); News; Unembeddable fonts; Printing Link Info; Obscurity of the Week: Crop Amount

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-050.mp3 (13.8 MB, 29:01 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

We're 50!
Quizzler Winner — Where's the System Color Picker?
News: Free CS3 Tryouts and manuals, Tim Cole's InDesign blog, Upcoming conferences
Dealing with "protected" fonts (unembeddable in a PDF)
Hot Button Post of the Week: Printing a List of Links
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Crop Amount

Links mentioned in the podcast: InDesign CS3 tryout and documentation from Adobe Tim Cole's InDesign BackChannel blog The InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4–8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off the registration fee. Melbourne, Australia InDesign conference, Tokyo InDesign conference (link to come), Chicago CS3 Summit Letterheadfonts.com and the Typophile.com thread about it Download Martin Fischer's LinkExport.jsx script (zipped file)

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InDesignSecrets Podcast 049 May 08, 2007

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News; Threading and Unthreading; Transparency and Spot Colors; PDF/X-4; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Use Inline Input for Non-Latin Text

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-049.mp3 (13.1 MB, 27:53 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

News: Upcoming InDesign Conference in NY, David's ID CS3 Essentials videos
Threading and unthreading text frames — tips and scripts
Hot Button Post of the Week: Spot Colors and Flattening in CS3 (and, related, PDF/X-4)
The Return of the Quizzler!
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Use Inline Input for Non-Latin Text

Links mentioned in the podcast: The InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4–8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off the registration fee. David's ID CS3 Essentials on lynda.com (link leads to free 7-day trial) InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts poster SplitStory.jsx script: Post with download info, Post about installing Aextra Software's CleverTextLink plug-in for CS/CS2, $39

Quizzler instructions: If you have an answer to this episode's Quizzler, don't post it here! E-mail it to info@indesignsecrets.com with "Quizzler" in the Subject. One winner will be chosen randomly from all the correct answers received by midnight, May 15, 2007. The winner will be mailed our beautiful InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts poster. Remember, don't post your answer here! You'll ruin it for everyone! Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

InDesignSecrets Podcast 048 Apr 18, 2007

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CS3 Ships; Our IDCS3 In-box videos; Conferences; Trapping in ID; New Text Wrap options in CS3; Obscurity of the Week: Detach Selection from Master

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-048.mp3 (11.9 MB, 25:03 minutes) (or read the transcript of this podcast, which will be posted soon)

News: CS3 Ships, Our video tutorials in the box, Upcoming conferences
All about trapping in InDesign (and, do we still need to worry about it?)
New in InDesign CS3: Cool Text Wrap Options
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Detach Selection from Master

Links mentioned in the podcast: Vector Conference and Pixel Conference, back-to-back in Chicago, Illinois, May 1–3, 2007; and the InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4–8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off registration fee for any of these three conferences. David's post about creating composite, trapped PDFs

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InDesignSecrets Podcast 047 Apr 05, 2007

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4.05 Update; CS3 Pricing; Display Preferences; Export to XHTML (CS3 Feature); Obscurity of the Week: First Baseline Offset

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-047.mp3 (12.3 MB, 25:46 minutes) (or read the transcript of this episode — a link will be posted here soon)

Upcoming conferences of interest
InDesign CS2 4.05 Update
Hot Button Post of the Week: CS3 Pricing
Adjusting your Display Performance preference
New in CS3: Export to XHTML
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: First Baseline Offset

Links mentioned in the podcast: Vector Conference and Pixel Conference, back-to-back in Chicago, Illinois, May 1–3, 2007; and the InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4–8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off registration fee for any of these three conferences. InDesign 4.05 Update ReadMe—click to download the PDF listing all the fixes (the ones fixed by 4.05 specifically are asterisked)

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InDesignSecrets Podcast 046 Mar 27, 2007

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InDesign CS3! New features, fixes, pricing; Obscurity of the Week: Fill With Placeholder Text

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-046.mp3 (13 MB, 27:19 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted shortly)

All about InDesign CS3:

Our favorite new features, including Table and Cell Styles, Variables, Placing InDesign files, Find/Change with GREP, Find/Change object attributes, and more
Our favorite improved features, including scaling fixes, folders in Styles panels, page previews in the Pages panel, Align to Page, Synchronize master pages, and more
Pricing information
Other great resources to learn about InDesign CS3

Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Fill With Placeholder Text

Our sponsor for this episode: DTP Tools, makers of cool InDesign plug-ins like History, Layer Groups, Tetris, and PageControl (the latter the brainchild of InDesignSecrets contributor Pariah Burke). Special offer for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code IDSECRETS for 15% off any plug-in from their on-line store.

Links mentioned in the podcast: InDesign Magazine special offer. Go to the link, choose "2-year subscription for $69" option, and enter indesignsecrets to receive two years of back issues, free, along with your subscription. The upcoming issue is full of in-depth articles about InDesign CS3 new features. The InDesigner videocast. Michael's latest episode (#38) shows off InDesign CS3's new interface, and all the neat tricks you can do with it. Adobe.com for Creative Suite 3 info from the horse's mouth Gutenberg Project is Anne-Marie's favorite source for placeholder.txt copy Lorem-Ipsum Generator caught David's fancy

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InDesignSecrets Podcast 045 Mar 20, 2007

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Evil Color Picker; Illustrator Bleeds; Obscurity of the Week: Mixed Ink Group

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-045.mp3 (10.4 MB, 21:49 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted shortly)

Hot Button Post of the Week: Evil, Evil Color Picker
Including Bleeds in Placed Illustrator Files
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Mixed Ink Group

Links mentioned in the podcast: We didn't mention a single link! Weird.

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InDesignSecrets Podcast 044 Mar 06, 2007

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CS3 Announcement; Skewing and Shearing; Annoying Section Prefixes, Obscurity of the Week: Simulate Paper Color

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-044.mp3 (9.6 MB, 20:01 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted shortly)

Adobe CS3 Announcement
David at the Creative Suite Show; Anne-Marie in Duluth
Skewing text and objects; skew vs. shear
Working around the Section Prefix annoyance
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Simulate Paper Color

Links mentioned in the podcast: InDesign Conference in New York, New York (June 4–6, 2007)

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InDesignSecrets Podcast 043 Feb 21, 2007

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Newsbits; Contest Winner; Straight Lines; Readable Text; Obscurity of the Week: Metrics

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-043.mp3 (10.6 MB, 22:18 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted shortly)

InDesign Newsbits: Free Plug-in from Teacup, Upcoming InDesign Shows
Winner of the contest from last episode: Least Useful InDesign Palette
InDesign trainer extraordinaire Russell Viers explains how to draw a straight line
What's more readable: Serif or Sans Serif body text type?
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Metrics

Links mentioned in the podcast: TypeFitter plug-in for InCopy (free) or InDesign ($59) (link leads to post with details) Creative Suite Conference in Miami, Florida (Feb. 28â��March 3, 2007) InDesign Conference in New York, New York (June 4â��6, 2007) Russell Viers' YabbAdobeDoo.com site Literature Review of Serif vs. Sans Serif Legibility Studies Typophile.com forum for typographers (especially this thread on optical vs. metrics0 InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster (use FEATHER coupon code for a 25% discount)

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p>Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-043.mp3 (10.6 MB, 25:16 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted shortly)

InDesign Newsbits: Free Plug-in from Teacup, Upcoming InDesign Shows
Winner of the contest from last episode: Least Useful InDesign Palette
InDesign trainer extraordinaire Russell Viers explains how to draw a straight line
What's more readable: Serif or Sans Serif body text type?
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Metrics

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InDesignSecrets Podcast 042 Feb 06, 2007

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Placing Multi-page PDFs; Clear Overrides Button; Useless Palette Award and Contest; Obscurity of the Week: Align Based on Size

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-042.mp3 (12 MB, 25:16 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted shortly)

Solutions for placing multiple-page PDFs
The Clear Overrides button: Sweet feature, often overlooked
Most Useless InDesign Palette Award/Contest

Anne-Marie's nomination: the Color palette
David's torn between the Transform and the Navigator palette
Enter the contest by leaving a comment here! (Details below)

Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Align Based on Size

Links mentioned in the podcast: PlaceMultipagePDF.jsx script for IDCS2 (link leads to post with details) InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster (use FEATHER coupon code for a 25% discount)

The Most Useless InDesign Palette Award/Contest You've heard David and Anne-Marie's nominations, do you agree? Or maybe you depend on the Navigator or Color palette for some task integral to your workflow? Perhaps you have a different one you'd like a nominate? Add your thoughts, votes, rants, or staunch defense to the discussion by adding a comment below. Before the next podcast rolls around (a week or two), we'll randomly choose one of the comments and award that author an InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts poster!

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