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InDesignSecrets Podcast 085

August 24 2008 • 5:48 PM

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News: ID Mag, Webinar recap, Eek-eek-eekers in the wild, Back to School Discount
A Few Good Color Tips
Guest obscurist Sandee Cohen presents this episode’s Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: On Focus/On Blur

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InDesignSecrets Podcast 084

August 8 2008 • 1:32 PM

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Interview with Scott Citron, on the road to recovery!
InDesignSecrets’ Upcoming Webinar: David Blatner’s InDesign Tips and Tricks
Site Redesign Update
Hot Button Post of the Week: Export All Stories
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Visibility

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InDesignSecrets Podcast 083

July 28 2008 • 9:23 PM

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* Gotchas! We blaze through a pile of InDesign traps that will mess you up if you overlook one tiny little checkbox or button

* Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Deactivate

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InDesignSecrets Podcast 082

July 20 2008 • 6:34 AM

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* Do’s and Don’ts of Text in InDesign: Double spaces and returns, proper use of character styles, case changes, discretionary hyphens, text framitis, more

* The Strange Case of the Space-Eating Hair Space

* Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Join
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InDesignSecrets Podcast 081

July 9 2008 • 2:12 PM

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InDesignSecrets Podcast 080

June 27 2008 • 2:11 PM

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  • New Zealand ID Conference Recap
  • Interview: Mike McHugh describes his Camera Raw in InDesign tip
  • “Pangram” Quizzler Winner–and Answer!
  • New in the InDesignSecrets store: “Sphinx” t-shirts!
  • Getting a Grip on GREP
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Fixed Column Width

InDesignSecrets Podcast 079

June 10 2008 • 4:22 AM

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  • News: Acrobat 9 and Creative Suite 3.3 announced, ID Conference in New Zealand
  • Hot Post of the week: Free script to auto-replace swatches (Russell)
  • Blue frames vs. Red frames
  • “InCopy CS3 Revealed” videos on Adobe TV
  • Quizzler! Something to do with pangrams…
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Update Content in Data Fields

InDesignSecrets Podcast 078

May 26 2008 • 9:03 PM

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  • News: Welcome to our newest blog contributors Bob Levine (it’s LeVEEN, we learned) and Ted LoCascio; Nashville CS Conf. Recap
  • Snippet from our “Essential Tips for InDesign” session at the conference: New Window Tricks
  • Hot Post #1: 20 Activations Limit (by Bob)
  • Hot Post #2: Indexing Page Ranges (by David) and the IndexBrutal script
  • “Stop the Transparencide” new PSA from Adobe
  • Another snippet from our session: Dynamic Spelling Tricks
  • Master Page Text Frames and Autoflow, once and for all!
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Place Item(s)

InDesignSecrets Podcast 077

May 12 2008 • 9:48 PM

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  • News: Toronto ID Conference recap; ID CS3 Re-cert exam; Secret 50% poster discount
  • Quizzler winner (Where else is “Altitude?”) and answer
  • Tips from the live InDesignSecrets Podcast at the Toronto, Canada conference:
    • Reverse Index Entries (secret keyboard shortcut)
    • Quick Apply for buried menu commands
    • Guide tips extravaganza
    • “How big is an agate?” answer and winner
    • Alt-click and Double-click fun
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Download PPD Fonts

InDesignSecrets Podcast 076

April 26 2008 • 1:51 PM

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  • Fun News: MTV (post), Poster discounts, InCopySecrets debuts
  • Binary EPS files (post), Weak Preflighting (post)
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Altitude
  • Quizzler! With a neat new prize for the lucky winner