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 172

May 17 2012 • 2:50 PM

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-172.mp3 (18.5 MB, 33:21 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode.

  • News
  • InDesign CS6’s PDF Forms Features in depth
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: World-Ready Paragraph Composer
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Finding and Fixing Local Text Formatting (No Script Required)

April 16 2012 • 7:05 AM

Here are three ways you quickly locate and fix local text formatting in even the most complex InDesign layouts, using features already built-in to the program.

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Posted in Long Docs, Text | 5 Comments »

QuarkXPress to InDesign Conversion Guide

April 12 2012 • 1:38 PM

There are more people that need this Guide than you think.

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Posted in Beginner's Corner | 2 Comments »

Fixing TOC Levels That Refuse to Behave

April 9 2012 • 2:16 PM

An innocent little setting can really goof up your automatically-generated Tables of Contents. Here is one graphic designer’s story!

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Posted in Layout, Long Docs, Mailbag Answers | 7 Comments »

Free Webinar: Developing DPS Content for the New iPad

April 5 2012 • 8:31 AM

Webinar is tomorrow, Friday, April 6! Learn from the master, Adobe’s Colin Fleming, on best workflows for the new iPads.

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Posted in News, iPad and Tablets | 1 Comment »

InDesign Pro Community on Facebook

March 27 2012 • 7:25 AM

If you’re on Facebook, you’ll appreciate this new one-click access to all the InDesign goodies there

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Posted in News | 10 Comments »

You Use this InDesign Feature… Now Meet the Person Who Wrote the Feature! (at PEPCON)

March 20 2012 • 11:21 AM

PEPCON is not just great education, it’s about 1:1 connections!

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Posted in Events, News | 8 Comments »

InDesignSecrets Podcast 169

March 20 2012 • 6:14 AM

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-169.mp3 (18.2 MB, 32:32 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode.

  • News
  • Interview with Keith Gilbert, InDesign trainer and consultant
  • Changing Document size: Not as straightforward as you think
    • The problem with File > Document Size
    • Using the Page tool and the Pages panel control
    • Changing document pages vs. changing Master pages
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Scissors Tool
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Video Tutorial: Drop Caps from A to Z

March 17 2012 • 5:28 PM

The two Drop Cap settings in the Control panel are just the beginning of the story. Watch this video to make your Drop Caps do all sorts of tricks!

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Posted in Beginner's Corner, Text | No Comments »

InDesignSecrets Podcast 168

March 13 2012 • 6:45 AM

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-168.mp3 (18.2 MB, 32:32 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode.

  • Announcements
  • Drawing in InDesign
    • Pen tool and its shortcuts and permutations
    • Every frame and text wrap is actually an editable path
    • Pathfinder panel or menu to combine overlapping frames
    • Playing with type outlines
    • Using object styles
  • Finally: A Quizzler Winner!
  • Keyboard shortcut of the Week: Command-Option-V (Ctrl-Alt-V)
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Convert Direction Point
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