Posts by Anne-Marie Concepcion

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• Best practices for organizing and naming text styles
• InDesignSecrets Seminars & Conference update; new speakers
• Mike Rankin’s interview with ePub expert Gabriel Powell at the O’Reilly TOC Conference
  • Emerging and evolving open standards discussed at the conference, such as the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) for eBooks
  • The new “browser wars” (how different eReaders interpret the same content feed)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Sort Bookmarks
• Bonus: David recites from memory the first 20 digits of Pi (in honor of Pi day, March 14)

David had 95 problems with QuarkXPress back in 2003, but being quiet about it wasn’t one.

Missing an Extract Pages command as in Acrobat? Here’s a free script that adds the feature to InDesign CS3 and CS4.

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-120.mp3 (13.8 MB, 28:47 minutes)

• Updates about the InDesignSecrets seminars and Print and ePublishing (PeP) Conference
• Interview with Ole Kvern, Computer Scientist at Adobe Systems, InDesign scripting guru, and author and co-author of Real World InDesign, Real World Freehand, and many more
  • How he got involved with Adobe and InDesign
  • How InDesign users can get started scripting
  • His seminars on InDesign automation at the PeP Conference
• InDesignSecrets member prize drawing: Congrats, Tim and Brian!
• Harbs’ new, free Cross-References script that adds a much-needed feature
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Connections

• Interview with Mordy Golding, Illustrator guru and New York City fanboy
  • How he got involved with Flash Catalyst
  • Why designers will love using it
  • Details on his all-day Illustrator/Flash Catalyst tutorial at the PeP Conference
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Tiling

What’s the best way to design form field elements in InDesign so that after you export it to PDF, Acrobat can turn Pinocchio into a real live boy?

• Interview with Colin Fleming, Senior Solutions Engineer from Adobe
  • How he became an expert on ePub
  • ePubs on Kindles, iPads and Sony eBooks
  • Videos and whitepapers on ePubs that Colin recommends
• Update on our Print & ePublishing Conference
  • Early bird registration saves $200!
  • Pre-conference all-day tutorials from Mordy Golding, James Fritz, and Michael Ninness
• New cities/speakers for our InDesignSecrets Live Seminar tour
• A lucky InDesignSecrets member gets a TruMatch swatch book as this episode’s random winner
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Shared Hyperlink Destination

For InDesign users, the best part of Jobs’ presentation of the iPad was when he said its iBooks app would sell books in “open ePub format.”

Can you add capitalized words to a custom dictionary and have InDesign flag the ones you forgot to capitalize in the document? Why, Y__ Y__ C__!

CS4 makes you work a little harder than before to set the panels back to their default positions. Here’s why, and a bonus keyboard shortcut to fix it!