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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:

InDesignSecrets Podcast 301 Nov 28, 2022

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In this episode:

News
- CreativePro Week 2023 registration opens October 6, 2022
- Design & Accessibility Summit (online) Nov. 29–Dec. 2, 2022
- CreativePro Magazine covering tips, insights, and more
What's New in InDesign 2023
Interview with Mark Hilton and Gabe Harbs from Santa Cruz Software
Obscure InDesign Feature: Vertical Scale

Sponsor for this episode:

>> Santa Cruz Software is the creator of BrandingUI, LinkrUI, and PrintUI: BrandingUI empowers your global team to customize materials at scale, all while staying brand compliant. More on LinkrUI:

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Showing the InDesign preview thumbnails is based on the Preferences dialog box
What UXP is (for developers)
Loading paragraph styles into the document:
- Working with Text Styles in CC Libraries
- 10 Essential tips for working with styles in InDesign
In-Tools (still some great free scripts!)
Vertical Scale tip involving styles

InDesignSecrets Podcast 300 Sep 27, 2022

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In this landmark 300th episode…

News
- Anne-Marie and David will be live at Adobe MAX in October
- CreativePro Week 2023 registration opens October 6, 2022
- Design & Accessibility Summit (online) Nov. 29–Dec. 2, 2022
Whoa! 300 episodes!
- A look back at 17 years of the InDesign Secrets podcast
- Snippets from the first episode, Nov. 29, 2005
- Audio snippets from friends and colleagues with limericks, favorite features, memories, and more
The FIRST Obscure InDesign Feature: Friendly Alien (A young David explains this in the first episode)

Sponsors for this episode:

>> Canto is a leader in digital asset management (DAM) software, with customers that include many of today's top brands. This is an incredibly intuitive and easy to use platform that gives creative teams a centralized location to organize, find, and share all of their digital brand assets, including videos, images, graphics, etc. Canto integrates directly with Adobe Creative Cloud software. For more information and a personalized demo, visit https://go.canto.com/CreativePro.

>> Adobe MAX is one of the largest gatherings of graphic, web, UX and multi-skilled designers, creative and art directors, illustrators, film, video, and motion graphics pros, photographers, and creative leaders. And this year, for the first time ever, you can attend in person or online (for free), so there's a MAX for everyone. Save $400 off the live event's registration fee by using our promo code M22CPN Register at https://max.adobe.com

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Accessible Kellogg Rice Krispies
History of Podcasts: https://www.onefineplay.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-podcasting
Our first InDesign Secrets Podcast, episode #1
InDesign CS/CS2 Breakthroughs, the book we wrote together that we reference in that first episode.
Shout-out to Libsyn, our podcast host vendor since the start
A Brief History of Podcasting
InDesign User Groups that stream their meetings (so anyone can attend):
- Los Angeles: https://www.laidug.com
- Hamburg: http://idug-hamburg.de
- New Jersey: https://www.meetup.com/Adobe-INDUG-InDesign-User-Group/
- Minneapolis: https://www.facebook.com/tcidug
- (are there more? Let us know!)
Bart Van de Wiele's new book, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Collaboration and Workflow (Classroom in a Book)

InDesignSecrets Podcast 299 Jun 30, 2022

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In this episode…

News
- Last chance to get CreativePro Week 2022 videos and handouts
- Our online Design and Marketing Summit debuts July 18–19
- Illustrator Summit returns Sept 22–23
- Anne-Marie and David will be live at Adobe MAX in October
- CreativePro Magazine's July issue is all about Illustrator and InDesign Type: https://creativepro.com/issues/
- "Smarter Workflows with InDesign and Word," Anne-Marie's newly-published course on LinkedIn Learning
Editorial Tools and Panels in InDesign
Obscure InDesign Feature: Select Subject

Sponsor for this episode:

> > Santa Cruz Software has a solution for the "83% of respondents who have said they have to spend time finding a lost sset." The answer is LinkrUI, a plugin that enables direct searching, opening, placing, and syncing of assets stored in a DAM or other storage services such as Box and Dropbox from within Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Download the free version here.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Smarter Workflows with InDesign and Word by Anne-Marie!
InDesign for Editors by Nigel French
Notes tool and panel
Story Editor:
- https://creativepro.com/hidden-gems-the-story-editor/
- https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-to-use-the-story-editor/
InCopy articles:
- https://creativepro.com/category/incopy-workflow/
Track Changes:
- https://creativepro.com/tip-of-the-week-tracking-changes/
- https://creativepro.com/use-track-changes-when-accepting-pdf-comments/
Obscure Feature: Select Subject
- https://creativepro.com/how-to-use-subject-aware-text-wrap-in-indesign/

InDesign Secrets Podcast 298 May 31, 2022

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In this episode…

News
- CreativePro Week 2022 recap
- Design and Marketing Summit coming up in July!
- CreativePro Magazine issues: https://creativepro.com/issues/
Cool InDesign tips we learned at the conference
Obscure InDesign Feature: Create Button Trigger

Sponsor for this episode:

Links mentioned in this podcast:

CreativePro Week: on-demand still available https://creativeproweek.com/2022ondemand/
CreativePro Week 2023 announced: https://creativeproweek.com/savethedate2023/
Learn to use Canva: https://creativepro.com/getting-started-with-canva/
CreativePro "3 Minutes Max" videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU-BUwkpVTo&list=PLFof_0NMmT7Uwyy6bc1Uo5OlfBUEtU2Li
Cool tips and scripts:Keith Gilbert's Isometric/Diametric InDesign script: https://gilbertconsulting.com/scripts

The settings for a custom stroke that Bart demonstrated, which can be used for a static rule length in Rule Above/Below:

InDesignSecrets Podcast 297 Apr 27, 2022

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In this episode…

News
- Adobe InDesign 17.2.1 update patch released
- CreativePro Week May 9-13, live in DC and online
- CreativePro Events: https://creativepro.com/events
- CreativePro Magazine: https://creativepro.com/issues/
- CI-HUB Prize Raffle: https://ci-hub.com/creativepro/ Deadline is May 2 2022! Details on that page
Field Guide to Non-Printing Highlights (there are more than you think!)
Obscure InDesign Feature: Float in Window

Sponsors for this episode:

>> Microsoft and Adobe! Both of these fine companies are CreativePro partners and will be represented at CreativePro Week 2022. Adobe is flying in a group of Adobe CC engineers from India, and MS Office product manager Stephanie Horn is doing a session on using video in Powerpoint.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

You can use CC Libraries in Word and PowerPoint: https://creativepro.com/using-cc-libraries-in-word-and-powerpoint/
Cool tip: "How to Make an Object Style That Resizes Objects from the Center (or Any Other Reference Point) in InDesign" https://creativepro.com/how-to-make-an-object-style-that-resizes-objects-from-the-center-or-any-other-reference-point-in-indesign/
What's new in 17.2.1: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html
Andreas Michalski from CI-HUB, our guest from the last podcast episode
- Company site https://ci-hub.com
- Enter their raffle here: https://ci-hub.com/creativepro/) for free tickets to CreativePro Week and free subscriptions to CI-HUB! Deadline for entries is May 2, and they'll contact the winners on May 3, 2022
Composition Highlights: https://creativepro.com/field-guide-to-composition-highlighting/ https://creativepro.com/why-is-my-indesign-text-highlighted-in-blue/
What Anne-Marie taught David in this episode (how to quickly jump to the active InDesign document's location on your hard drive):https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-to-video-find-file-size-location/
3 Minutes Max tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=580PSVBohDI&list=PLFof_0NMmT7Uwyy6bc1Uo5OlfBUEtU2Li

InDesignSecrets Podcast 296 Mar 31, 2022

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In this episode…

News
- Adobe InDesign 17.2 update patch released
- CreativePro Week agenda is up! May 9-13, live in DC and online
- The cover story in the March 2022 issue of CreativePro magazine dives deep into alternatives to Adobe software (including how Affinity Publisher stacks up to InDesign)
- And the April issue is all about making data visual; a must-read for anyone who makes charts, graphs, infographics, and so on
Interview with Andreas Michalski of CI-HUB
Control Panel vs. the Properties Panel: Total Smackdown!
Obscure InDesign Feature: Key Object

Sponsor for this episode:

>> Canto (they dropped the "Cumulus" name a few years ago) is a leader in digital asset management (DAM) software, with customers that include many of today's top brands. This is an incredibly intuitive and easy to use platform that gives creative teams a centralized location to organize, find, and share all of their digital brand assets, including videos, images, graphics, etc. Canto integrates directly with Adobe Creative Cloud software. For more information, visit https://go.canto.com/CreativePro.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

InDesign 17.2… what's new: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html
The mystery of PlugPlugOwl: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/36861886-indesign-crashes-on-launch-in-plugplugowl-dll
How to rebuild your preferences: https://creativepro.com/rebuilding-indesign-preferences/
Canto has been around forever! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulus_(software)
Working with a DAM: InDesign Magazine Issue 109: https://creativepro.com/indesign-magazine-issue-109-digital-asset-management/
Anne-Marie shows how to get the Control panel back: https://creativepro.com/video-how-to-bring-the-control-panel-back-and-keep-it/
Andreas Michalski from CI-HUB
- https://ci-hub.com
- 17-minute video by CI-HUB from CreativePro Week: https://creativeproweek.com/session/ci-hub-sponsored-session-2020/
Anne-Marie's course on Collaborative Workflows: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/collaborative-workflows-for-editors-and-designers/

InDesignSecrets Podcast 295 Feb 27, 2022

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In this episode…

News
- Creative Pro Events full 2022 schedule is up!
  - The Design + PowerPoint Summit, March 10-11
  - CreativePro Week, May 9-13 (live in DC and online!)
  - The Design + Marketing Summit, July 18-19
  - The Adobe Illustrator Summit, September 22-23
  - The Design + Accessibility Summit, November 29-December 2
InDesign's Most Confusing Features
Obscure InDesign Feature: Others

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Design + PowerPoint Summit, CreativePro Week, and more! https://creativepro.com/events
Confusing Features
- Start document on a left-hand page: https://creativepro.com/starting-a-document-on-a-left-hand-page/
- Gap Tool: https://creativepro.com/exactly-indesign-tool/
- Auto-Fit: https://creativepro.com/video-use-auto-fit-on-images/
- How Gradients Work: https://creativepro.com/adjusting-the-position-of-gradients/
- Why Radial Gradients are crazy: https://creativepro.com/yes-indesigns-radial-gradients-insane-its-you/
Place and Link: https://creativepro.com/linking-images-change/(how you get to this episode's Obscure Feature: Others)
Bart Van de Wiele's course "Advanced InDesign: Productivity Techniques" https://www.linkedin.com/learning/advanced-indesign-productivity-techniques/welcome-to-this-course

InDesignSecrets Podcast 294 Jan 25, 2022

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In this episode…

News
- Creative Pro Events full 2022 schedule is up!
  - The Design + PowerPoint Summit, March 10-11
  - CreativePro Week, May 9-13 (live in DC and online!)
  - The Design + Marketing Summit, July 18-19
  - The Adobe Illustrator Summit, September 22-23
  - The Design + Accessibility Summit, November 29-December 2
- Pantone® and Adobe brouhaha
InDesign Collaboration Tips and Solutions
Obscure InDesign Feature: Accessibility (it appears in an InDesign panel)

Sponsors for this episode:

>> Ajar Productions is the developer of the phenomenal in5 add-on for Adobe InDesign, which lets you export interactivity from InDesign to different formats that actually work. Create websites, digital magazines, mobile apps, animated banners and presentations, by simply using InDesign, no coding involved! They're now adding accessibility features, see their YouTube video. Learn more and download a free trial of in5 at in5.us.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Anne-Marie's InDesign Tips for Design Geeks video on extracting typefaces from text in images in InDesign 2022, a great new feature
Pantone removing libraries from Adobe products
Great tip for getting colors from the free version of the Pantone Connect app
Collaboration tips:
- Anne-Marie's Collaborative Workflows for Editors and Designers (course at LinkedIn Learning)
- Conrad Chavez wrote about InDesign collaboration through cloud services for InDesign Magazine
- Using InDesign's Share for Review feature
- Em Software's WordsFlow and DocsFlow
- Interview with Marcus Radich of PageProof
Chad Chelius's and Dax Castro's Accessibility podcast

InDesignSecrets Podcast 293 Nov 26, 2021

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In this episode…

News
- Adobe InDesign 2022 has an update (v17.01x)
- CreativePro Magazine issue 1 is out!
- On-Demand passes now available for the expanded Design + Accessibility Summit
Some Totally Obvious InDesign Things We Just Learned This Year
Interview with Marcus Radich from PageProof
Obscure InDesign Feature: "Roger, hungry, ate 236 peaches and cantaloupes in 1904"

Sponsors for this episode:

> 3M's VAS: 3M's Visual Attention Software (VAS) is powerful, science-based AI that simulates the human vision system to analyze visual content and predicts with 92% accuracy what is attracting viewer attention. VAS is available as a web app and plugins for Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and XD. Start your free trial today, and enter promo code CREATIVEPRO5 for 5 additional trial credits!

Links mentioned in this podcast:

The Design + Accessibility Summit
CreativePro Week
What's new in InDesign 2022 (17.0) https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/whats-new.html
What's new in 17.01: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html
How to make the menus bigger on the Mac (for high-res monitors): https://osxdaily.com/2021/10/12/change-menu-bar-size-mac/
Why versions of Mac OS are all California cities: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/davidblatner_apple-mac-activity-6860597173332135936-PYWB
Interview with Marcus Radich at PageProof:
- What is an Awk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auk
- What is an orc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc
- Who is Martinho da Gloria: https://www.automatication.com/about-us/
Obvious Things We Learned (or Re-learned)
- Move Control Panel to the Bottom of the Screen https://creativepro.com/moving-control-panel-to-bottom-of-screen/
- Accessibility tab in hyperlinks… doesn't work the way you might expect: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/44174832-hyperlink-alt-text-is-ignored-in-the-latest-versio
- InDesign icon in Publish Online embed: How to do it: https://creativepro.com/publish-online-supports-embedding-indesign-documents/ Problem: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/20459239-allow-removal-of-the-publish-online-button-that
- Adobe Illustrator: customizing the toolbar: https://creativepro.com/customize-your-illustrator-workspace/ and https://creativepro.com/create-a-custom-toolbar-in-illustrator/

Obscure Feature: Roger, hungry, ate 236 peaches and cantaloupes in 1904 If you make the sample text small, the Birch font will fit the whole line in the column.

InDesign Secrets Podcast 292 Oct 26, 2021

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In this episode…

News
- Adobe InDesign 2022 (v17.0x) now available
- InDesign Magazine is evolving into CreativePro magazine, first issue out November 1 2021!
- Sign up for our expanded Design + Accessibility Summit, Nov. 16–19
Interview with Chad Chelius and Dax Castro, accessibility experts and hosts of The A11y Podcast
Obscure InDesign Feature: Flip

Sponsors for this episode:

> Santa Cruz Software has a solution for the "83% of respondents who have said they have to spend time finding a lost asset." The answer is LinkrUI, a plugin that enables direct searching, opening, placing, and syncing of assets stored in a DAM or other storage services such as Box and Dropbox from within Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Read about the freemium version here.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

David's session at MAX: Discovering the Best InDesign Tips and Tricks
Anne-Marie's lab at MAX: InDesign Basics: From Newbie to Pro
Photoshop Banana (easter egg): https://creativepro.com/photoshop-easter-eggs/
Adobe MAX 2021
Final issue of InDesign Magazine has 150 All-Star Tips (and our "Hidden" Features article)
Should people upgrade right away? https://creativepro.com/should-adobe-fix-older-versions-of-programs/
InCopy Vulnerability patch: https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/incopy/apsb21-05.html
Dax Castro and Chad Chelius Accessibility (#a11y) podcast website: https://www.accessibilitychecklists.com (or http://www.chaxchat.com)
Dax and Chad are the accessibility pros at AbleDocs: https://www.abledocs.com/en
Obscure Feature: Flip (Text on a Path) https://creativepro.com/center-text-on-top-of-a-circular-path-quickly/

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