Archive for 2009

Join David and Anne-Marie as they explore 10 cool ways to add color swatches to your documents, uncovering some unexpected surprises as they go!

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Anne-Marie Concepcion: Welcome to InDesignSecrets Episode 116. I’m Anne-Marie Concepcion, and I’m here along with my cohost David [...]

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Fantastic Free Scripts for Final (or Near-Final) Production Tasks

Remove End-of-Line Underlines
Freeze Composition (Line Breaks)
Compare InDesign Documents
Package Multiple for Archive

Marc Autret’s Incredible List of Scripts and Scripter Resources
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Display Unsupported Files

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If you’re a “learn by watching” kind of person, check out the wide, wide world of free InDesign training videos!

You can import a wordlist into a custom dictionary and share it with other InDesign and InCopy users on your publication team. Start by appointing a Keeper of the Dictionary.

A dozen articles, videos, and blog posts that you should know about (one for each day of Christmas?)

Learn about IDML on Twitter: bit, by bit, by bit.

[The following is a press release from I.T.I.P, relating to the Readabilities plug-in, which we discussed last year.]
Readabilities 3.0 Released
The new version 3.0 of the cutting-edge plug-in “Readabilities” (from i.t.i.p./aextra) has been released. It is available for InCopy and InDesign CS3 and CS4, on both Mac and Windows.
Fast, reliable, and precise analysis of text has never been so easy [...]

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InDesignSecrets Conference!
Find where that color is used

Separations Preview panel
Swatches panel tricks
Find/Change
Package Summary panel (thanks Nicola!)
Blatner Tools

Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Instructions

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>> We’re loving the In-Tools plug-in Power Headers, which does everything you [...]

To hear the audio episode from which this transcript was made, or to comment on this episode, go to the InDesignSecrets Podcast 115 page.
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David Blatner: Welcome to InDesign Secrets Episode 115 really, 115! Took me by surprise there for a moment. [...]