Indesign Secrets

Listen in your browser:
InDesignSecrets-009.mp3 (12.6M, 24:39 minutes)
• Listener E-Mail: Enlarge the pasteboard width, Change layer visibility in placed Illustrator files
• Discretionary Returns in InDesign? (”They said it couldn’t be done!”)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Transparency Blend Space
Links mentioned in the podcast:
• DiscretionaryNewLine.js for ID CS/CS2 (Link leads to the script’s Adobe Studio Exchange […]

Picking up right where Part 1 left off, this second installment on Nested Style Sheets shows how you can build in additional instructions to your paragraph styles, allowing you to apply multiple style sheets to multiple paragraphs in a specific order with a single click.

At long last, the video podcast that was “a week away” (according to my optimistic first episode) is finally here. This first-ever video episode is the start of a two-part (maybe even three-part) tutorial covering what, to me, is the hands-down, deal-breaking, no-brainer, single most compelling reason to make the switch from QuarkXPress to InDesign […]

Listen in your browser:
InDesignSecrets-008.mp3 (10.8M, 21:28 minutes)
• Listener E-Mail: Correction for inserting tabs into tables cells in InDesign CS2/Windows
• Presets: Making them, using them, sharing them, editing them
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Gravity
Links mentioned in the podcast:
• Cari Jansen’s site (InDesign guru from Australia)
• The InDesign Conference/Creative Suite Conference (Chicago, Illinois; May 15–20, […]