Podcasts Posts

• 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

• Happy New Year!
• Our new sister site: InDesignSecretsLive.com, with info and links for:
  • 2010 InDesign seminar tour cities and dates
  • Our new Print and e-Publishing (“PeP”) Conference, May 12-14, 2009, Seattle, Wash.
• Interview with Diane Burns, ID trainer/multilingual publishing expert/table diva
• Winners of our first InDesignSecrets Member drawing
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Paste Without Formatting
  

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InDesignSecrets-116.mp3 (9.6 MB, 18:22 minutes)

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Fantastic Free Scripts for Final (or Near-Final) Production Tasks

Remove End-of-Line Underlines
Freeze Composition (Line Breaks)
Compare InDesign Documents
Package Multiple for Archive

Marc Autret’s Incredible List of Scripts and Scripter Resources
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Display Unsupported Files

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InDesignSecrets-115.mp3 (12.3 MB, 23:47 minutes)

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InDesignSecrets Conference!
Find where that color is used

Separations Preview panel
Swatches panel tricks
Find/Change
Package Summary panel (thanks Nicola!)
Blatner Tools

Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Instructions

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>> We’re loving the In-Tools plug-in Power Headers, which does [...]

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InDesignSecrets-114.mp3 (14.5 MB, 26:42 minutes)

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All about object transformations

Scaling & rotating from the keyboard
Using math in the X, Y, W, H, and % (Scale) fields to transform
The too-subtle-for-their-own-good transformation buttons & context menu
And many more!

Blatner Tools free beta 3 now available
Obscure InDesign Feature of [...]

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InDesignSecrets-113.mp3 (18.6 MB, 36:04 minutes)

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InDesignSecrets Membership — free with benefits!
All about the InDesignSecrets forums

Guide to the InDesign ACE Exam eBook by Mike Rankin
Interview with Mike Rankin!
Recent Adobe layoffs
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Choke

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>> Rorohiko [...]

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InDesignSecrets-112.mp3 (17.2 MB, 32:59 minutes)

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Blog Posts You Should Know About:

Windows 7 and InDesign (Bob Levine)
Story Editor Secrets (Steve Werner)
Importing PowerPoint into InDesign (James Fritz)
When to Use Balance Ragged Lines (Anne-Marie)

Time to Get Geeky: Unicodes, GIDs and CIDs
Upcoming seminars, webinars, new videos and software
Obscure [...]

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InDesignSecrets-111.mp3 (14.16 MB, 28:12 minutes)

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Blatner Tools
Settings that Change the Screen Appearance (& Tips!)

Hide/Show Frame Edges
Preview Mode: what disappears, customizing
Display Performance
Overprint Preview
Proof Setup; Anne-Marie’s color management rant
Show/Hide Notes
Rotate Spread View

Upcoming seminars and webinars
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Ignore Orientation

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InDesignSecrets-110.mp3 (15.9 MB, 30:41 minutes)

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InDesign/InCopy 6.04 Patch
SnowLeopard (Mac OS 10.6) and the Adobe PDF printer
Placing Word files: Essential Tips, Part 2

Mapping Word styles to InDesign styles
Working around the Style Group glitch
Converting InDesign files to Word documents
Converting Footnotes to Endnotes

Upcoming seminars and webinars
Obscure InDesign Feature [...]

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InDesignSecrets-109.mp3 (16 MB, 30:15 minutes)

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Happy 10th Birthday to InDesign!
Placing Word files: Essential Tips, Part 1

Deleting Word styles while retaining local bolds and italics
When you might want to export to RTF and re-import
Fastest way to remove hyperlinks (but leave the link text)
Maggy-ing the Word file

Upcoming [...]