The Twelve Days of InDesign

Mike Rankin

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In honor of the holiday season, I give you my new favorite Geekmas Carol, The Twelve Days of InDesign. Click the links to re-visit some of your favorite posts from 2008 (or discover some you might have missed).

Feel free to sing along!

On the twelfth day of InDesign, my guru gave to me,

Twelve Podcast Transcripts

Podcast 85 Transcript
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Eleven Burning Questions

How do I do that?
Can You Turn Off Color Management?
What If InCopy Went Away?
What the Heck is Going On in These Text Frames?
Why Don’t Arrow Keys Work Next to Blank Fields?
Why Can’t I Get Dot Leaders to Line Up?
CS4’s Application Frame: Yea or Nea?
What’s My Resolution?
How Can I Align Double Digits in a Numbered List?
Need to Build a Calendar in InDesign?
Should You Use Mac or Windows?
Which Preferences Are Application Wide?

Ten Keyboard Shortcuts

InDesign CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts Posters Available
Make a New Document Fast with a Keyboard Shortcut
InDesign1200 Brings Shortcuts to Life
Navigate to Page Objects with Keyboard Shortcuts
No, You Can’t Use F Keys for Style Shortcuts
Scale Graphic and Frame in CS3 with Shortcuts
Activate Last Used Field Shortcut
Control Panel Keyboard Shortcut
Keyboard Shortcut for [None] Character Style
Top 20 Command/Control Clicks

Nine Tasty Text Tips

5 Cool Things You Can Do with GREP Styles
Type Any Unicode Character You Want in InDesign
Nested versus Next
The Case of the Missing Characters
Yes Virginia, There is a Translate Feature
Auto Numbers and Bullets Pick up Local Formatting
Sequential Numbering Inside Paragraphs
All Caps Isn’t Really Uppercase
Small Caps vs. OpenType All Small Caps

Eight Awesome Font Facts

CS4 Font Installation
Creative Suite 4 Bundled Font List Posted
What’s The Deal On Font Auto Activation?
CID Identity H Fonts are Back?
Preview Applied Fonts
Font Priority in InDesign (What’s It Really Using?)
Applying Expert Fonts to Numerals with Nested Styles
InDesign’s Font Manager

Seven Posts on Printing

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Print Guide Available
RGB to CMYK (.0)
Printing Documents 2-Up (or n-up) on a Page in InDesign
Screen Artifacts on Transparent PSDs in Exported PDFs Can Be Deceiving…Most of the Time.
Preventing 4-color Blacks in PDFs
Viewing Transparencide
Set a Swatch to Overprint

Six Tricks For Layouts

How to Mirror a Layout
Merging Multiple Text Frames Into One
Move Everything From One Layer to Another
Auto-Reflowing Images in a Grid
Transform a Frame Into a Grid of Frames
Setting Inline Object Offset Numerically

Five Goodies, Free

Free Guide to InDesign Special Characters
Free InDesign Video Tutorials
Free Selection to PDF Script from Auckland
New Free Tip of the Day Plug-in from Blatner and DTP Tools
Free Layout Zones Add-On is Incredible Productivity Tool

Four Posts With “Sighs”

Typesetting Math in InDesign
Amazon.com Leaks CS3 Information
Leopard 10.5.3 Fixes Some Navigation Services Crashes
The Case of the Disappearing Text

Three Angry Rants

The Useless Drop Shadow Button
Don’t Use PICT. Please.
The Gradient Panel Is Such a Drag

Two Funny Films

Taking InDesign on Holiday
InDesign Music Video, by Johnny Encore and the Acrobats

and A Search Engine That Actually Works!

All in all that’s 78 posts, which is less than one-quarter of 361 (and counting) great posts from 2008. So the search engine truly is the gift that keeps on giving.

Happy holidays to all! May your days be merry and bright, and may all your kernings be tight!