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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!

Latest Episodes:

Ep. 321: What's New in InDesign 19.5 Jul 27, 2024

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News

InDesign 19.5 released
2024 CreativePro Week available on-demand
More CreativePro events coming up
CreativePro Magazine latest issue

Sponsored by PageProof

Unboxing InDesign 19.5

Obscure Feature: .joboptions

More on PDF presets

Ep. 320: Must-Have Scripts Jun 28, 2024

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News

InDesign beta to test opening PDFs to edit in InDesign
CreativePro Week July 8–12 in DC! (and livestreamed)
- Use code CPSECRETS for $100 off any multi-day pass
The InDesign + Accessibility Summit, Oct. 8–11 (online)
CreativePro Magazine latest issue

Interview with Sabine Lenz, "The Paper Queen"

Must-Have Scripts

How to Start Using InDesign Scripts (with the MakeGrid script)
Copy InDesign Fonts to Folder (by Justin Putney at Ajar)
Document Analyzer (by Keith Gilbert)
LoremIpsum-izer script
Calendar Wizard (by Scott Selberg)
Scramble Text in Place to Hide Private Info (uses FindChangeByList)
Unanchor Text (by Loic Aigon… we said Peter Kahrel in the podcast… oops!)
Break Text Thread (in Community Scripts)
StorySplitter (similar to Break Text Thread)

Even more scripts:

Top Sites for Free InDesign Scripts (from Anne-Marie's InDesign Tips for Design Geeks weekly course on LinkedIn Learning)
- Download a PDF with all of the top sites linked
100 Free InDesign Scripts
The InDesign Scriptopedia

Obscure Feature of the Week: Neutral

- Learn more about "No Language"

Ep. 319: Marcus Radich Interview May 26, 2024

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News

Marcus Radich interview

Exploring InDesign 19.4

Obscure Feature of the Week: Adjust Dashes and Gaps

Ep. 318: Khara Plicanic Interview Apr 25, 2024

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News

InDesign 19.4 new features
- Note: 19.4 wasn't fully released when we recorded this podcast! You can learn more about the new features here.
Online Events and CreativePro Week
CreativePro Magazine latest issue

Kara Plicanic interview

Secrets of the Live Preflight Panel

Obscure Feature of the Week: Recompose All Stories When Modified

Anne-Marie's post and comment about it
InDesign documentation
Recompose All Text keyboard shortcut: Control-Alt-/ or Command-Option-/

Ep. 317: Hot Threads from the InDesign forum Mar 27, 2024

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News

Hot Threads:

Obscure Feature of the Week: Proxy

Ep. 316: Interview with Julie Shaffer Feb 27, 2024

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News

InDesign 19.2 fixes some issues
Discontinuation of Creative Cloud Synced files
The InDesign + Long Documents Summit (use discount code CPSECRETS for $100 off!)
CreativePro Week (use CPSECRETS for $100 off any multi-day pass)

Julie Shaffer

Shaffer Creative
Certified Professional Services Marketer (CPSM) program, from SMPS: https://www.smps.org/certification/
Interview with Julie Shaffer, Certified Marketing Pro
Don't Let Adobe InDesign/InCopy Notes Go Unnoticed

Secrets of the Scripts Panel

What Do the Default Sample Scripts Do in InDesign?
Community Scripts for All
Organizing Scripts into Folders
Managing InDesign Scripts
Easily manage dozens of scripts among multiple InDesign versions (from InDesign Tips for Design Geeks)
Unicode Injector: such a cool script!
Assigning Keyboard Shortcuts to Scripts
Using Quick Apply to Run Scripts

Obscure Feature of the Week: Wavy

InDesignSecrets Podcast 315 Jan 31, 2024

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In the news
- InDesign 19.1 (second attempt) released! Fingers crossed
- Upcoming online-only events:
  - The Presentation Design Conference, March 6-8
  - The InDesign + Long Documents Summit, April 5
- CreativePro Week 2024, July 8–12, Washington, DC and online
- CreativePro Magazine
  - February 2024 lead story: Presentation Design
  - January 2024 lead story: AI in AI ;-)
Interview with Nolan Haims, presentation designer extraordinaire
Secrets of the "Panel With The Longest Name"
Obscure Feature of the Week: Apply to Parent Page Only

Links mentioned in this podcast

What's new in InDesign 19.1
BUT don't use ID 2024 (19.x) with Hebrew, Arabic, or RTL text (bug reports on facebook) and (bug reports in uservoice)
Interview with Nolan Haims
- Nolan's Better Deck Deck (CreativePro members get 8 free!)
- Creating Paragraph Styles in PowerPoint
- Other great articles by Nolan
- The Presentation Podcast
- Speaking at The Presentation Design Conference
EPUB Interactivity Preview Panel
Join us for daily discussions and Q&A
- InDesignSecrets group on Facebook
- InDesignSecrets group on LinkedIn

InDesign Secrets Podcast 314 Dec 29, 2023

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In the news
- InDesign 19.1 here and gone
- Upcoming CreativePro Online Events
- CreativePro Magazine December 2023: Charts and Graphs
In honor of podcast 3.14, all about Pi fonts!
Obscure Feature of the Week: Ruler on Spine

Links mentioned in this podcast

Don't use ID 2024 (19.0) with Hebrew, Arabic, or RTL text (bug reports on facebook) and (bug reports in uservoice)
InDesign on Sonoma (Mac) has UI flashing problems; waiting for Apple to update for fix (bug report in uservoice)Bugs:
Colin's article about bar graphs: Making Variable Bar Graphs in InDesign with Data Merge

All about Pi…

Pies in Ace Hardware stores (and elsewhere): https://www.thepieco.com/map-locations
- David's book about pi: The Joy of Pi
- How to type pi: https://creativepro.com/6-ways-type-pi-symbol-indesign/
- Pi fonts (symbols/dingbats)
  - Some fonts have "pi" in their name (e.g. Universal News & Commercial Pi)
  - Easy as Pi (Jim Felici)
  - We Heart Dingbats (Pam Pfiffner)
Transforming Pages (David was wrong… this can be done without scripting… but you shouldn't): https://creativepro.com/transforming-pages-in-cs5/

nDesignSecrets Podcast 313 Nov 30, 2023

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In the news
- InDesign 2024 updated to 19.01
- Register for the Design + AI Summit!
- CreativePro Magazine November 2023: Multilingual Design, Glyph panel in depth
Secrets of the Align Panel and its weirdo cousin, the Gap tool
Obscure Feature of the Week: Auto Update URL Status

Links mentioned in this podcast

Great article about Glyphs panel: https://creativepro.com/digging-into-the-glyphs-panel/
Align Panel Tutorials:
Gap Tool Articles:
The "Spring Loaded Tool" tip: https://creativepro.com/spring-loaded-tools/

The Tool Hints panel: https://creativepro.com/using-tool-hints-panel/

InDesignSecrets Podcast 312 Nov 01, 2023

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In the news
- Register for our Online Summits: Design + Accessibility, and Design + AI!
- CreativePro Magazine October 2023: Accessibility for Newbies
All about Adobe InDesign 2024 (v19.0)
Adobe MAX 2023 review and ID Tips from Attendees
Obscure Feature of the Week: Show Structure

Sponsor for this episode

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Links mentioned in this podcast

The Design + Data Summit (on-demand) The Design + Accessibility Summit The Design + AI Summit
CreativePro Week 2024: July 8-12, 2024 (DC and Online)
What's new in InDesign 2024 https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/whats-new.html
Request a feature in InDesign https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests
David's conversation with Priint CEO of Priint USA: https://creativepro.com/creativepro-conversations-integrate-data-and-design-with-priintsuite/
Adam Pratt, CEO of Chaos to Memories
Sarah Hyndman, author of Passive Aggressive Fonts and Why Fonts Matter
Mark Heaps, Groq
How to print a page range: https://creativepro.com/tip-of-the-week-the-easy-way-to-print-a-page-range/
Friendly Alien Easter Egg: https://creativepro.com/tip-of-the-week-friendly-alien-easter-egg/
Obscure Feature: Show Structure https://creativepro.com/getting-started-with-xml-in-indesign/
How to use Quick Apply to open or close Structure panel: https://creativepro.com/using-quick-apply-for-menu-commands/

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