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.

Get Your Old Scripts Running Again with “MakeItRun”

January 25 2012 • 7:18 AM

A new, free script from Automatication (Martinho da Gloria) lets you run orphaned older Javascripts in the current version of InDesign

InDesignSecrets Podcast 165

January 21 2012 • 6:53 AM

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-165.mp3 (16.2 MB, 30:11 minutes)

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  • Interview with Chris Kitchener, InDesign Senior Product Manager
    • Thoughts on CS “Next”
    • New releases: Too many? Too few?
    • The delicate balance of adding new features vs. improving existing features
  • Quizzler! Code Breaker! (see below)
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Butt Cap

InDesignSecrets Podcast 164

January 7 2012 • 8:19 AM

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-164.mp3 (15.8 MB, 28:55 minutes)

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  • Layer Tricks!
    • Stacking, dragging, show/hide layout objects
    • Dragging objects from one group to another
    • Managing nested objects
    • Using the “southern double-click”
    • Show (in layout) selected layer object
  • Keyboard Shortcuts You Should Know: Command-3 (Ctrl-3) and Command-Option-3 (Ctrl-Alt-3)
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Stylistic Sets

Create a “Clear All” Find/Change Query

January 4 2012 • 1:24 PM

While you’re waiting for the InDesign team to add a Clear All button to Find/Change, use this tip.

InDesignSecrets Podcast 163

December 30 2011 • 11:15 AM

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-163.mp3 (17.5 MB, 32:06 minutes)
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  • 2012 PePConference update: John McWade (Before & After) added to speaker list
  • InDesign wishlists for CS6, CS7, and beyond
    • Create form fields (for PDFs)
    • In-app, non-destructive image editing
    • Enhance MiniBridge with metadata and keywords panel
    • Set screen resolution in preferences
    • Integrate InDesign digital publishing with Dreamweaver
    • User-modifiable Application Bar icons a la Acrobat X
    • Many more from our user-driven InDesign Wishlist site
  • WTH (What the Heck?) Feature of the Week: “Allow Document Pages to Shuffle”
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Star Inset

InDesignSecrets Podcast 162

December 16 2011 • 5:41 PM

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-162.mp3 (15.2 MB, 28:04 minutes)

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  • 2012 PePConference news; secret goodies for early early registrants
  • Interview with Matthew Diener, editor of EPUBSecrets.com
  • InDesign Shortcut of the Week: Command-Option-I/Ctrl-Alt-I
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Create Guides (the menu command)

InDesignSecrets Podcast 161

November 29 2011 • 9:18 PM

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-161.mp3 (16.4 MB, 30:32 minutes)

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  • New sister site: ePubSecrets.com!
  • All about the new KindleFire tablet from Amazon
  • Creating accessible PDFs with InDesign: Tips and Resources
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Artifact

InDesignSecrets Podcast 160

November 16 2011 • 10:33 AM

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-159.mp3 (15.3 MB, 28:32 minutes)

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  • News: Anne-Marie’s Las Vegas recap, Podcast survey results, Goodie boxes
  • Interview with Josh Nguni, Namibia’s InDesign User Group leader
  • Adobe’s Creative Cloud: A brief overview and discussion
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Objects Move with Page

InDesignSecrets Podcast 159

October 30 2011 • 9:45 AM

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-159.mp3 (14.6 MB, 26:28 minutes)

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  • Podcast listener survey, with prizes!
  • Smackdown: The Print dialog box vs. the Printer dialog box
  • WTH? The Color panel
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Reverse Path

InDesignSecrets Podcast 158

October 16 2011 • 8:23 PM

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-158.mp3 (17.1 MB, 31:39 minutes)

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