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

• 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

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

• 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

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

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

• 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)

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

• 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

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

• 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

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

• 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

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

• News
  • David’s Adobe MAX recap
  • Adobe’s new Single Edition DPS
  • Anne-Marie at InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Las Vegas, Nov 2
• Interview with James Fritz and Mike Rankin
• New Podcast Feature: “Who Knew?”
• Quizzler Winner!
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Show Full Menus

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-157.mp3 (17.1 MB, 31:39 minutes)

• Live performances
  • David & Fritz at Adobe MAX, Oct 1–5
  • Anne-Marie at InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Las Vegas, Nov 2
  • Anne-Marie at PubWest conference. in Las Vegas, Nov 3-5
  • Anne-Marie and Mike Rankin at O’Reillly TOC for Publishing Conf, Feb. 12-14 2012
  • Our Print & ePublishing Conf. will be in San Francisco, May 14-16 2012
• InDesign to Kindle eBook production: Tips, software, resources
• Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Command/Ctrl – ~ (tilde key)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Leading Edge

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-156.mp3 (14.5 MB, 26:21 minutes)

• News and Announcements
  • James Fritz’s InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Milwaukee, Sept 27
  • Anne-Marie’s InDesignSecrets Live seminar in Las Vegas, Nov 2
  • David & Fritz are presenting with Russell Brown at Adobe MAX, Oct 1–5
  • Mike Rankin’s 3-city InDesignFX tour of midwest IDUGs, Sept 13–15
• All about Change Case; tips and secrets and scripts and plug-ins and GREP, oh my
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Contextual Alternates
• Quizzler! All you need is a web connection to figure it out