Indesign Secrets

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InDesignSecrets-076.mp3 (10.8 MB, 23.4 minutes)
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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

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Tim Cole’s interview with James Wamser
Our InDesign keyboard shortcut posters (use the secret 50% discount code announced in the podcast, or enter the code SWATCHES for 25% off entire order)
Check out the new InCopySecrets.com!
Markzware FlightCheck Pro
Zevrix InPreflight (Mac only)
See you in Toronto!

Quizzler Instructions: Found the answer? Don’t leave it in a comment! Instead, e-mail it to us at info [at] indesignsecrets.com, with the word “Quizzler” in the subject line. We’ll randomly choose one winner from all correct answers we have received by midnight on Friday, May 2, 2008. Winner (and answer) will be announced in the next podcast.

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InDesignSecrets-075.mp3 (11.6 MB, 25.2 minutes)
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• News: Discount codes for InDesign Magazine and conference fees, Adobe TV
• An end to transparency issues! (Steve Werner’s post)
• Using and customizing contextual (right-click) menus
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Ignore Optical Margin
  

This time, David’s audio gets a little glitchy halfway-through. When will these sunspots end? (Seriously, our apologies, and we’re investigating…)

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
For $75 off MogoEvents conference fees (Toronto, Canada; Nashville, TN and Auckland, New Zealand) use our IDSTNCS08 coupon code (case-sensitive)
Nice InDesign mag. discount for our listeners/readers until Apr 28, 2008
Check out Adobe TV!
The “Fibonacci” in Caffe Fibonacci’s logo
Hallelujah, c’mon, get APPE
Why one-button mice are bad

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InDesignSecrets-074.mp3 (15.1 MB, 32:53 minutes)
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• News: Upcoming InDesign Conferences
• InDesign CS3 ACE Recertification Test: A Field Report
• Leopard and Vista and InDesign CS3
• How changing Document Size affects an existing layout
• The Amazing (and free) Layout Zone script for ID CS3
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Greek Images

Sorry for the tinny sound in Anne-Marie’s audio! We blame sunspots.

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
ID Conferences in Toronto, Canada; Auckland, New Zealand; and Seattle, WA
Tim Cole’s blog post about the Recertification exam
Adobe’s Get Certified page (register for exams, download prep guides)
Layout Zone script (Mac/Windows, CS3 only); David’s post about it

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InDesignSecrets-073.mp3 (14.2 MB, 31:05 minutes)
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• News: Lynda.com, Conferences, CreativePro.com, DesignGeek, ID User Groups
• Making a swatch overprint where ever it’s used (full post)
• When CMYK - Preserve Numbers won’t, and how to fix it (full post)
• Em dashes vs. En dashes vs. Hyphens
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: The Measure Tool

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
David’s InDesign: Beyond the Basics at Lynda.com
Free week’s trial of lynda.com
ID Conferences in Miami, Toronto CA
Check MogoEvents for news on the Auckland NZ ID Conf. (June) and the Seattle ID Master Class Conf. (November)
HerGeekness Says column at creativepro.com
Anne-Marie’s free DesignGeek e-zine
InDesign User Groups

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InDesignSecrets-072.mp3 (25.5 MB, 55:43 minutes)
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Special episode! This podcast was recorded live in front of a studio seminar audience at the InDesign Conference in Miami, Florida.

• What’s InDesignSecrets?
• Quizzler answer and winner from episode 71 (Change view from keyboard)
• Contestler for volunteers from the audience: Define one of our obscure features from a past episode, pulled at random
• A few of our favorite tips and tricks; audience Q&A
• The Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week was put on hiatus for this episode, since we covered so many during the Contestler!
  

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Our free Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in
Design Tools Monthly and companion podcast, Design Tools Weekly
Branislav Milic’s InDesign Site (in French)
History plug-in from DTP Tools, EasyHistory from 65bit
Free MultiDo plug-in from 65bit
Adobe’s Feature Request form
InDesign Scripting forum at Adobe.com
Footnote-to-Endnote script at Adobe Exchange
Rorohiko’s free ChatterGoofy plug-in
Post: Converting color layouts to grayscale PDFs

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InDesignSecrets-071.mp3 (13.7 MB, 29:58 minutes)
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• News: Upcoming InDesign Conferences, Free Tip Of the Day Plug-in
• Hot Posts: Anne-Marie’s CS3 ACE Practice Test Rant, David’s Grayscale Shifts
  
• Interview with Jessica Chase, Editor and Publisher of ZigZagZine
• Quizzler! An easier one for the rest of us
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Digital Editions
  

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
The InDesign Conference - Miami Beach (Feb 26 – March 1)
(Also coming up: Toronto ID Conference, Nashville CS Conference)
David’s free InDesign Tip of the Day plug-in for CS1, 2 and 3
Jessica’s ZigZagZine site; download Jan/Feb 2008 issue (PDF, 872K)
Adobe’s Digital Editions Library (free e-books)

Quizzler Instructions: Think you know the answer? Don’t post it here! E-mail it to us at info@indesignsecrets.com, with “Quizzler” in the Subject line. Entries will be accepted until midnight Friday, February 22. A random winner will be chosen from the correct answers and announced in our next podcast.

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InDesignSecrets-070.mp3 (13.4 MB, 29:22 minutes)
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• News Updates: Upcoming InDesign Conference in Miami, InDesign patch, Free plug-ins and scripts, new Beginner’s Corner category on our blog
• Quizzler Results (from Episode 69: Adding CMYK Swatches) and Winner
• Hot Posts: Sandee’s EPS Challenge, David’s Updating Text
• Uppercase Conundrums (Anne-Marie’s post)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Normal
  

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
The InDesign Conference - Miami Beach (Feb 26 – March 1)
InDesign 5.02 patch for Windows or Mac OS X (ReadMe)
David’s free InDesign Tip of the Day plug-in for CS1, 2 and 3
Dave Saunders’ donationware script, WrapNudger, that fixes Droopy Wraps
Scott Zinelli’s Multipage PDF Import script (David’s post about it)
Our new Beginner’s Corner category
Scott Citron’s new book, Professional Design Techniques

Quizzler Answer: How many ways can you add a CMYK color to Swatches without using the Swatches panel? Turns out there are too many to list in our show notes, so we compiled them into a PDF for you to download: Swatches_Answers.pdf (260K). Our winner received a copy of Deke McClelland’s new book, Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One, though we doubt he needed it!

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InDesignSecrets-069.mp3 (15.7 MB, 34:23 minutes)
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• Response to our New Year’s show
• The Deke McClelland Interview!
• A fun, raucous conversation with a luminary in our field. Listen in as Deke tells us about his latest book and videos on InDesign CS3, and what it’s like laying out a complex book on InDesign in InDesign: the good, the bad, and the aggravating. (”Does this sound like a feature to you?” he asks at one point, laughing.)
• Quizzler -ler -ler!
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: View Box
  

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Deke’s new book Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One
David’s post about modifying Basic Styles
Also, here’s a post that explains Deke’s object styles problem

Quizzler Instructions: Think you have the best answer? Write it up in an e-mail and send it to us at info@indesignsecrets.com with “Quizzler” in the Subject line. (Don’t post your answer as a comment!) Deadline for entries is midnight on Friday, Jan. 18. We’ll announce the winner — and the Quizzler answer, boy howdy we’ll never forget to do that again — in our next podcast.

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InDesignSecrets-068.mp3 (13.3 MB, 28:58 minutes)
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Happy New Year!

• New Year’s Resolutions for InDesign Users (yes, including us).
  Our full list of suggestions appears below, suitable for printing and checking off!
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: JPEG 2000
  

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Looking for a script or plug-in? Try here
Our free Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in
Robin Williams’ The Mac is Not a Typewriter or The PC is Not a Typewriter
Our recommended InDesign books and videos for reference
How to rebuild Preferences in InDesign
Do you use JPEG 2000? Adobe wants to know

2008 New Year’s Resolutions:
Our Suggested List for InDesign Users

• I’ll find and learn how to use one new (to me) script and plug-in that helps my work.
• I’ll use paragraph and character styles properly.
• I’ll start placing PSD, AI, and PDF files instead of EPS.
• I’ll finally break my habit of typing double-spaces after punctuation.
• I’ll get into the habit of using the temporary Hand tool instead of the scroll bars when it makes sense.
• I’ll import XML and export XML at least once this year successfully, even if it’s on my own time, just to learn the process.
• I’ll get a reference on InDesign that I can refer to when I’m stuck.
• I’ll force myself to use New Window, Story Editor, Glyphs panel, and Quick Apply three times so that I learn to fully appreciate their utility.
• I’ll set up, save and use at least 2 different workspaces.
• I’ll learn the keyboard shortcuts to open the panels I use most often, even if it means having to customize them to ones I’ll remember.
• I’ll rebuild my Preferences, then set my application preferences and default styles and swatches, then back up that prefs file.
• I’ll add at least one comment to a post on InDesignSecrets.com, even just to say “thanks” or “whaaa?” so we know you’re out there!

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InDesignSecrets-067.mp3 (15.5 MB, 33:48 minutes)
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• News: Two new InDesign books, Helvetica movie, InDesign Conference in Miami, Florida
• XML and InDesign: Overview, basics, when and how and why
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Formatted Only Once
  

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Maivald and Palmer’s book: A Designer’s Guide to InDesign and XML
Powell’s book: Instant InDesign
Documentary movie, Helvetica
InDesign Conference (Miami, FL; Feb 26-March 1 2008)
We interview Cari Janssen about her XML project
Anne-Marie’s blog post on exporting HTML using XML tags
InData plug-in from Em Software