Posts by Anne-Marie Concepcion

Anne-Marie "HerGeekness" Concepcion owns a busy cross-media design studio in Chicago and is one of the industry's best-known Adobe trainers and consultants. She also presents many video tutorials at Lynda.com. In addition to her work here, Anne-Marie hosts our sister site, InCopySecrets.com, for editors and designers working in an InDesign/InCopy worfklow, and writes the free monthly e-zine InCopyFlow. The tips and insights she shares in her free DesignGeek e-zine are enjoyed by thousands of designers, publishers, and prepress professionals around the world. Learn more about Anne-Marie at her company's web site, Seneca Design & Training.

InDesignSecrets Podcast 132

August 31 2010 • 4:59 PM

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-132.mp3 (17.2 MB, 31:27 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode.
  • Anne-Marie: Twitter poet laureate
  • David’s ongoing battle with CID encoding
  • Quizzler Results (Making things invisible) and winners
  • Upcoming seminars debuting in September
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Always subset fonts with glyph counts greater than 2000
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InDesignSecrets Podcast 131

August 17 2010 • 9:25 AM

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-131.mp3 (20.7 MB, 38:16 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode.
  • 7.02 patch update for InDesign/InCopy CS5: What does it fix?
  • Interview with Bob Levine, the “InDesignGuy” and InDesignSecrets.com contributor
  • Upcoming seminars debuting in September
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Comma, period, slash (they have a secret life as obscure keyboard shortcuts)
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InDesignSecrets Podcast 130

July 29 2010 • 8:05 PM

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-130.mp3 (16.3 MB, 30:51 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode.
  • Congratulations to Laurie from Columbus, Ohio, our Survey prize winner!
  • Navigating through long InDesign docs: tips, tricks, and hidden features
  • Two new seminars debut in September
    • PDFSecrets: Working Smarter in Acrobat, with guru Clint Funk
    • 2-day InDesignSecretsLive seminar includes a new “Beyond Print” day
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select and Fit Item (screen shot below)
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Tips for Using the New Rupee Symbol

July 19 2010 • 7:36 AM

A cool-looking new glyph that stands for the Indian Rupee was announced last week, but it’s not in any of your fonts. Here’s how you can use it in InDesign.

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Posted in Text | 14 Comments »

Make a Better InDesign Pangram

July 16 2010 • 9:52 AM

Good-bye, black quartz sphinx; hello, fez-wearing InDesign vixen.

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Posted in Beginner's Corner, Text | 21 Comments »

InDesignSecrets Podcast 129

July 6 2010 • 8:37 PM

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-129.mp3 (15.8 MB, 30:07 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode.
  • Take our quickie InDesignSecrets user survey, win a prize!
  • Sorting Tables, a story with three morals
  • PDFs from Print Booklet: Solutions for Mac users
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Include Menu Commands
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“Born Presents” Interactive Publication with Source Files

July 2 2010 • 12:50 PM

Check out this beautiful interactive publication created with InDesign CS5. You can see it in its final form as a SWF online, and you can download the INDD file for a insider’s glimpse!

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Posted in Interactive | 6 Comments »

New InDesign CS5 Shortcuts Poster and Type Webinars!

June 27 2010 • 9:16 PM

Check out these new webinars, and the new CS5 keyboard shortcuts poster!

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InDesignSecrets Podcast 128

June 25 2010 • 7:50 AM

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-128.mp3 (19.4 MB, 36:36 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode.
  • InDesign to ePub
    • What is it, why should you care?
    • Essentials of getting your InDesign file ePub-ready
    • Common glitches and tweaks
  • Quizzler Results! Two winners and many honorable mentions for their creative triangle-creation methods (full list after Links, below)
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Single Word Justification
  • InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: San Francisco & Chicago in June; LA, DC, Santa Fe, Denver, and more in the fall!
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InDesignSecrets Podcast 127

June 8 2010 • 7:12 PM

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-127.mp3 (14.9 MB, 28:32 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode.
The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.
  • All About Leading
    • Leading-related Preference settings
    • When to use Auto-Leading and when not to
    • Baseline grid and leading, First line offset and leading, and more!
  • Quizzler! Ladies and Germs, man your InDesign tools
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Use Master Color
  • InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: San Francisco & Chicago in June; LA, DC, Denver, and more in the fall!
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