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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-132.mp3 (17.2 MB, 31:27 minutes)

• Anne-Marie: Twitter poet laureate
• David’s ongoing battle with CID encoding
• Quizzler Results (Making things invisible) and winners
• Upcoming seminars debuting in September
  • PDFSecrets: Working Smarter in Acrobat, with guru Clint Funk
  • 2-day InDesignSecretsLive seminar includes a new “Beyond Print” day
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Always subset fonts with glyph counts greater than 2000

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-131.mp3 (20.7 MB, 38:16 minutes)

• 7.02 patch update for InDesign/InCopy CS5: What does it fix?
• Interview with Bob Levine, the “InDesignGuy” and InDesignSecrets.com contributor
• Upcoming seminars debuting in September
  • PDFSecrets: Working Smarter in Acrobat, with guru Clint Funk
  • 2-day InDesignSecretsLive seminar includes a new “Beyond Print” day
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Comma, period, slash (they have a secret life as obscure keyboard shortcuts)

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-130.mp3 (16.3 MB, 30:51 minutes)

• Congratulations to Laurie from Columbus, Ohio, our Survey prize winner!
• Navigating through long InDesign docs: tips, tricks, and hidden features
• Two new seminars debut in September
  • PDFSecrets: Working Smarter in Acrobat, with guru Clint Funk
  • 2-day InDesignSecretsLive seminar includes a new “Beyond Print” day
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select and Fit Item (screen shot below)

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-129.mp3 (15.8 MB, 30:07 minutes)

• Take our quickie InDesignSecrets user survey, win a prize!
• Sorting Tables, a story with three morals
• PDFs from Print Booklet: Solutions for Mac users
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Include Menu Commands

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-128.mp3 (19.4 MB, 36:36 minutes)

• InDesign to ePub
  • What is it, why should you care?
  • Essentials of getting your InDesign file ePub-ready
  • Common glitches and tweaks
• Quizzler Results! Two winners and many honorable mentions for their creative triangle-creation methods (full list after Links, below)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Single Word Justification
• InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: San Francisco & Chicago in June; LA, DC, Santa Fe, Denver, and more in the fall!

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-127.mp3 (14.9 MB, 28:32 minutes)

• All About Leading
  • Leading-related Preference settings
  • When to use Auto-Leading and when not to
  • Baseline grid and leading, First line offset and leading, and more!
• Quizzler! Ladies and Germs, man your InDesign tools
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Use Master Color
• InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: San Francisco & Chicago in June; LA, DC, Denver, and more in the fall!

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-126.mp3 (19 MB, 36:14 minutes)

• Favorite little features in InDesign CS5
  • New control panel widgets, Patient user mode always on (AM), Minion Pro default, more
• Least-favorite, little annoyances in InDesign CS5
  • Change in panel tabs, New Window menu organization, Patient user mode always on (DB), more
• Hot Blog Posts of the Week
  • Configurator for InDesign, TweetChats, InDesign to iPad
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Folder 0
• InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: San Francisco & Chicago in June; LA, DC, Denver, and more in the fall!

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-125.mp3 (14.6 MB, 27:39 minutes)

• 2010 Print & ePublishing Conference Recap
• Tip for creating ePub cover art in InDesign
• Two new eBooks debut this week:
  • InDesignSecrets Guide to Graphic Effects, Mike Rankin’s new eBook
  • InDesignSecrets Top 40 Tips, most useful/popular tips from the blog in one place
• Using Dropbox with InDesign projects/workflows
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Master Page Overlay
  • and Kris Coppieter’s cool EnslaveMaster plugin
• InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: San Francisco, Chicago, more!
• Tuesday Tweets! Use hashtag #idsl on Tuesday 10 a.m. PST

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-124.mp3 (19.9 MB, 39:28 minutes)

• Adobe CS5 is shipping! Books, videos, online help files, and more
• Interview with Michael Ninness, Adobe’s past Product Manager for InDesign
• 2010 Print and ePublishing Conference update
• InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: Atlanta, San Francisco, and Chicago!
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Set Tab Order

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-123.mp3 (16.9 MB, 34:16 minutes)

• InDesign CS5!
• Welcome to new blog contributor Keith Gilbert
• Yes, a use for Style Groups!
• Interview with world traveller/InDesign guru Russell Viers
• InDesignSecretsLive Seminars — new cities added!
• 2010 Print and ePublishing Conference update (close to selling out!)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Straight Hash