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 121

March 13 2010 • 12:14 PM

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-121.mp3 (15.2 MB, 30:19 minutes)

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode.
  • 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’s 95 Theses

March 12 2010 • 10:36 AM

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

Free Script Splits Long InDesign Files into Smaller Ones

March 4 2010 • 5:53 PM

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

InDesignSecrets Podcast 120

February 25 2010 • 7:26 AM

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

See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode.
  • 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

InDesignSecrets Podcast 119

February 19 2010 • 11:24 AM

Listen in your browser:InDesignSecrets-119.mp3 (13.8 MB, 28:47 minutes)

  • 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

InDesign Tips for Optimal Form Wizardy in Acrobat

February 18 2010 • 9:52 AM

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?

InDesignSecrets Podcast 118

January 31 2010 • 12:59 PM

Listen in your browser:
InDesignSecrets-118.mp3
(14 MB, 26:35 minutes)
The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.
  • 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

Apple’s iBooks Store Standardizes on ePub Format

January 27 2010 • 3:24 PM

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.”

Case sensitive spell checks

January 20 2010 • 11:06 AM

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__!

Clean Up in Aisle CS4: Resetting Workspaces

January 14 2010 • 11:43 AM

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!