Indesign Secrets

My co-host here, Anne-Marie Concepción, is so modest and humble that she’s not going to stand up here and shout about the other work she’s been doing, so I figger I’d better do it for ‘er. Here’s the deal: If you haven’t been reading her new column at CreativePro.com (titled “HerGeekness Says”, you’re missing out. […]

Adobe informed its trainers today that people who are InDesign CS2 Adobe Certified Experts (ACEs) have until May 31, 2008 to take and pass the InDesign CS3 re-certification exam and thus remain current with their ACE status. (Otherwise they lose their certification and have to “start over” with the the full exam, which is more expensive, longer, and can only be taken at a proctored location.) The new date is a full month past the original deadline of April 30, 2008.

Le Roi est mort. Can software that was never the market leader be considered “the king”? Perhaps only in our hearts. GoLive had long been our personal favorite, when it came to HTML development, and we were deeply saddened when Adobe dropped it from the Creative Suite. We got a tad bit excited when Adobe […]

We’re happy to announce that our new “sister” site, InCopySecrets.com, is live and on the air!

InCopySecrets.com provides news, links, tips, and techniques for people working in an Adobe InDesign/InCopy workflow: editors, writer, designers, and production staff and management.

Adobe TV debuted today with a wealth of ready-to-view video content, much of it aimed at InDesign-using graphic designers. What’s nice is that you don’t need to run out and buy an HDTV — just go to http://tv.adobe.com and watch the shows in your browser. (You may be prompted to install the Flash Player v9 plug-in, because the Adobe TV “network” is also a proof-of-concept showcase for its just-released product, the Adobe Media Player.)

I just finished watching three of the 47 programs currently available, each belonging to one of their four Adobe TV “channels:” Designer, Photographer, Video Professional, and Developer. I only meant to watch just one show, because I have work to do, but it was like potato chips. Just one more. Okay one more. Finally I tore myself away to write this up!

While some of the content appears to be repurposed video from existing podcasts and training companies (lynda.com, Total Training, the Creative Suite podcast), what I loved were the “made-for-Adobe TV” shows like Caffe Fibonacci, Tim Cole and Rufus Deuchler’s “digital kitchen:”

Have any damaged InDesign files laying around? Markzware wants ‘em.
Markzware, developer of the Quark to InDesign conversion plug-in, Q2ID, is enjoying recent publicity for their role in helping a desperate designer recover a toasted InDesign layout, one so damaged that InDesign just couldn’t open it any longer.
As reported by David in an earlier post, the […]

We’ve just learned that in the next “dot” release of InDesign (version 5.0.3.1.r42), Adobe is removing all support for printing. The File > Print command will be replaced with File > Export to AIR and the various print-based PDF Presets will be removed, in favor of three new presets, including one for PDF/X-6 (which, as […]

Many of you know that I’m also involved with MOGO media (I’m the editorial director, so I help organize content and speakers for the various MOGO events, including The InDesign Conference). But I’m also helping them with a series of podcasts, including videocasts on InDesign.
For example, I posted a tip based on a technique for […]

Our colleague Tim Cole has passed along some news regarding the InDesign CS3 Certification and Re-certification exams in his blog. As was reported here earlier, a new version of the recertification exam has been posted with revised questions (and some questions have been removed).
Other news: (1) Those who passed the earlier recertification exam for InDesign […]

I don’t like to focus on promotional stuff too much, but I felt compelled to tell you that InDesign Magazine is offering their biggest subscription discount ever right now, and only until March 21! If you use the code IDS (for indesignsecrets readers), you’ll pay only $34 for a year’s subscription (6 issues of the PDF magazine). Or, for just $10 more, you can get two years.

That’s something like $25 off the normal one-year subscription cost, and they’ve…