InDesign Secrets

InDesignSecrets Podcast 081

info@indesignsecrets.com (David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion) — Wed, 9 Jul 2008 20:30:00 GMT

Our new blog design; Free script extravaganza; PDF Presets problem; Obscurity of the Week: Orthogonal Line

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New design for InDesignSecrets.com blog
Free script extravaganza: Swatch Switcher, Label Graphics, Swap Object Positions, IndexMatic (beta) to index on character styles, Select Objects from Keyboard, Selection to PDF
"Smallest File Size" PDF preset caution, and related issues with PDF presets
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Orthogonal Line

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Sweet deal from our sponsor! Recosoft's PDF2ID plug-in discount, just for InDesignSecrets users (this is the last week for the discount!)
Support your local scripter! Home pages for Dave Saunders, Steve Wareham, Marc Autret, Kris Coppetiers, Martinho da Gloria
Anne-Marie's post about PDF Presets

InDesignSecrets Podcast 080

info@indesignsecrets.com (David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:07:00 GMT

NZ Conference; Camera Raw in InDesign; Quizzler answer and winner; "Sphinx" pangram t-shirts; GREP; Obscurity of the Week: Fixed Column Width

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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

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Sweet deal from our sponsor! Recosoft's PDF2ID plug-in discount, just for InDesignSecrets users (limited time offer)
David's post about Mike's Camera Raw tip
Mike McHugh's videocast, CreativeSweetTV.com
Wikipedia explains what a pangram is
Our "Sphinx of Black Quartz" t-shirts!
David's Joy of Pi book
Mac OS X GREP-friendly text editor (free) TextWrangler
Windows GREP-friendly text editor ($50US) UltraEdit
Peter Kahrel's GREP in InDesign CS3 e-book
Links to GREP-related posts on InDesignSecrets.com

InDesignSecrets Podcast 079

info@indesignsecrets.com (David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:06:00 GMT

Acrobat 9; Free script to swap swatches; Colored frames; InCopy videos on Adobe TV; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Update Content in Data Fields

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-079.mp3 (14.6 MB, 31:50 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

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

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Sweet deal from our sponsor! Recosoft's PDF2ID plug-in discount, just for InDesignSecrets users (limited time offer) Acrobat 9 and Creative Suite 3.3 product pages InDesign Conference in New Zealand Swap Swatches Script (zipped) "Stop the Transparencide" video featuring the ghostly head of Russell Viers AM's whitepaper The Collaborative Editorial Workflow with ID/IC CS3 (5MB) InCopy CS3 Revealed video series on Adobe TV Check out our sister site, InCopySecrets.com Data Merge post and a Data Merge video All about pangrams

Have an answer for the Quizzler? Don't post it here as a comment. Instead, e-mail your answer (put "Quizzler" in the Subject line) to us at info [at] indesignsecrets.com by midnight on Monday, June 16. We'll randomly choose a winner from all correct answers received by then, and announce the winner (and the answer!) in the next podcast.

InDesignSecrets Podcast 078

info@indesignsecrets.com (David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion) — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:56:00 GMT

New contributors; Nashville conf.; New Window; 20 Activation limit; Neat script for indexing; Dynamic spelling; Transparencide PSA; Master page text frames; Obscurity of the Week: Place Item(s)

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-078.mp3 (15.5 MB, 33.5 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

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)

Other links mentioned in the Podcast: New sponsor! Recosoft's PDF2ID plug-in discount, just for InDesignSecrets users See what Bob and Ted look like and read their bios (scroll down) Ted Locascio's The InDesign Effects Book The IndexBrutal script (in the original French, or Google-ized into English) Main page for the Adobe PDF Print Engine Our InDesign keyboard shortcut posters (use the secret 50% discount code mentioned in the podcast, or enter the code SWATCHES for 25% off entire order)

InDesignSecrets Podcast 077

info@indesignsecrets.com (David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion) — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:44:00 GMT

Toronto recap; CS3 Re-cert exam; 50% poster discount; Quizzler winner; Tips from the ID Conference; Obscurity of the Week: Download PPD Fonts

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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

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Nashville CS Conference, New Zealand ID Conference
Casey D'Andrea's ID CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts PDF
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)
Free ID Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in
Top Ten Double-Clicks in ID post on Publicious.net

InDesignSecrets Podcast 076

info@indesignsecrets.com (David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:49:00 GMT

News: MTV, Poster discounts, InCopySecrets.com; Binary EPS files; InDesign Preflighting; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Altitude

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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:
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 for Macs or Windows
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.

InDesignSecrets Podcast 075

info@indesignsecrets.com (David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion) — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:35:00 GMT

Discount codes; Adobe TV; An End to Transparency Woes; Context Menus; Obscurity of the Week: Ignore Optical Margin

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-075.mp3 (11.6 MB, 25.2 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

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

InDesignSecrets Podcast 074

info@indesignsecrets.com (David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion) — Wed, 2 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

News; CS3 ACE exam; Leopard and Vista; Document Size; Free Layout Zone script; Obscurity of the Week: Greek Images

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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

InDesignSecrets Podcast 073

info@indesignsecrets.com (David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion) — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:16:00 GMT

News; Overprint by swatch; Preserve Numbers glitch; Em, En and Hyphens; Obscurity of the Week: the Measure Tool

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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

InDesignSecrets Podcast 072

info@indesignsecrets.com (David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:45:00 GMT

Recorded live at the InDesign Conf in Miami, FL! Last episode's Quizzler answer and winner; Contestler for the audience; tips and tricks; Q&A; Obscurity of the Week is on vacation

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-072.mp3 (25.5 MB, 55:43 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

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

InDesignSecrets Podcast 071

info@indesignsecrets.com (David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion) — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:39:00 GMT

News; CS3 ACE Test; Shifting Grayscales; Jessica Chase Interview; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Digital Editions

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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 â 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.

InDesignSecrets Podcast 070

info@indesignsecrets.com (David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion) — Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:43:00 GMT

Free scripts, Beginner's category, Quizzler Winner, EPS Challenge, Uppercase, Obscurity of the Week: Normal

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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 â 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.

InDesignSecrets Podcast 069

info@indesignsecrets.com (David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion) — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:43:00 GMT

New Year's Podcast responses; Deke McClelland interview; Quizzler!; Obscurity of the Week: View Box

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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

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.

InDesignSecrets Podcast 068

info@indesignsecrets.com (David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion) — Thu, 3 Jan 2008 00:58:00 GMT

New Year's Resolutions for InDesign Users; Obscurity of the Week: JPEG 2000

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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!

InDesignSecrets Podcast 067

info@indesignsecrets.com (David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion) — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:16:00 GMT

New InDesign books, Miami Conference, XML and InDesign, Obscurity of the Week: Formatted Only Once

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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

InDesignSecrets Podcast 066

info@indesignsecrets.com (David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion) — Fri, 7 Dec 2007 12:53:00 GMT

TypeFi AutoFit; Numbered Paragraphs; Obscurity of the Week: Assignments Panel

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TypeFi AutoFit, free plug-in from Typefi
Numbering Paragraphs across unthreaded frames
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Assignments panel

Links mentioned in the Podcast: TypeFi AutoFit plug-in (CS1, 2, or 3) Cari Janssen's AutoFit tip Anne-Marie's blog post on numbered paragraphs

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InDesignSecrets Podcast 065

info@indesignsecrets.com (David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:58:00 GMT

Plug-in-palooza! What, how, why; Twenty-plus great InDesign plug-ins; Obscurity of the Week: Configure Plug-ins

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Plug-in-palooza!

What's a plug-in? Why are they valuable?
Finding InDesign plug-ins on the Internet
Installing plug-ins
Fast descriptions of over 20 InDesign plug-ins that users are loving (the tip of the iceberg, there are at dozens more we didn't have time to cover)

Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Configure Plug-ins

Sponsor Link and Offer: This episode was sponsored by Audible.com, which lists over 40,000 audio books you can download and listen to just like a podcast. Go to audiblepodcast.com/indesign to download your free audio book (time-limited offer).

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Adobe's comprehensive InDesign Plug-ins list DTP Tools (Page Control, Layer Comps, History, Tetris, Cross References, Keyboard Shortcuts) Markzware (Q2ID, ID2Q) EmSoftware (InData, XTags) Teacup Software (DataLinker, TypeFitter, PatternMaker, BarcodeMaker) Rorohiko (TextExporter, LikeFindsLike, Color2Gray, ChatterGoofy) Recosoft (PDF2ID) i.t.i.p GmbH (InMath) Gluon (ProScale ID) Triple Triangle (Color Spec Cubed) Knowbody Software (CoolKerning) Zevrix Solutions (LinkOptimizer)

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InDesignSecrets Podcast 064

info@indesignsecrets.com (David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion) — Thu, 8 Nov 2007 16:15:00 GMT

Leopard reports; Mailbag answers; Obscurity of the week: Reset Indents

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News: Leopard and CS3 (reports from the field)
"You Asked For It!" We answer a slew of listener e-mails:

Resize from center
Select overset text
Images on a path
Vertical justification
Clear Character style color spec
Vertical gradients in tables

Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Reset Indents

Sponsor Link and Offer:
This episode was sponsored by Audible.com, which lists over 40,000 audio books you can download and listen to just like a podcast. Go to audiblepodcast.com/indesign to download your free audio book (time-limited offer).

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Tim Cole's Using InDesign on Leopard post on his blog
Steve Werner's Leaping to Leopard post here
Adobe's TechNote on Vista and CS3 (installation troubleshooting)
(Sorry, Vista Home Basic users)
Adobe Feature Request form
Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in from DTP Tools/InDesignSecrets
How to Rebuild Prefs in InDesign
Fontlab's TransType font converter utility

Listener Comment Line: +1-206-202-6483
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InDesignSecrets Podcast 063

info@indesignsecrets.com (David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion) — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:29:00 GMT

Chicago CS Conf Recap; David's New Toy; Calendar Layouts; CS3 and Leopard; Obscurity of the Week: Reset to Base

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News: Recap of the Creative Suite Conference in Chicago
David's favorite new tech toy
Creating calendar layouts in InDesign
Hot Button Post of the Week: Adobe CS3 Support for Leopard
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Reset to Base

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Upcoming InDesign Conference (Miami, Feb 2008) Fujistu ScanSnap for Mac or Windows Guided Tour of Apple's new OS, Leopard (10.5) Parallels Desktop software Anne-Marie's Calendar Layout post CalendarMaker script (Mac only) on the Adobe Exchange

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InDesignSecrets Podcast 062

info@indesignsecrets.com (David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion) — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:49:00 GMT

5.01 Update; New ID CS3 Books; Custom Page Sizes; Transform Individually; Quizzler Winner and Answer; Obscurity of the Week: Miter Join and Limit

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News: 5.01 Update, New CS3 books, Keyboard Shortcuts Plug-in, London UK User Group
Great source for freebies: Adobe Exchange
Hot Button Posts of the Week: Custom Page Sizes; Transform Individually
Which letter/number isn't used? Quizzler Winner and Answer
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Miter Join/Miter Limit

Links mentioned in the Podcast: InDesign 5.01 Update: Mac or Windows, 5.01 ReadMe PDF New books: Real World InDesign CS3; InDesign CS3 Visual QuickStart Guide; Mastering InDesign CS3 for Print Design and Production; InDesign CS3 Video Training Book; A Designer's Guide to Adobe InDesign and XML; Professional Design Techniques with Adobe Creative Suite 3 Free Keyboard Shortcuts Plug-in from DTP Tools London, UK InDesign User Group Adobe Exchange Beta

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InDesignSecrets Podcast 061

info@indesignsecrets.com (David Blatner, Anne-Marie Concepcion) — Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:31:00 GMT

Our free Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in, Celebrity Shortcuts, When Shortcuts Collide, Poster Discount, Quizzler!, Obscurity of the Week: Context

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Keyboard Shortcut Extravaganza-za-za!

Announcing a new free plug-in from InDesignSecrets and DTP Tools: Keyboard Shortcuts Panel
Celebrity Keyboard Shortcuts
When Keyboard Shortcuts Collide (with OS shortcuts)
New Discount Code for our Keyboard Shortcuts Poster
The Return of the Revenge of the QUIZZLER! Listen to the episode ...
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Context

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in (leads to post with download link)
Celebrity Shortcuts from Tim Cole's blog
InDesign Keyboard Shortcuts Poster (use SCHOOL for 30% discount)

Quizzler Instructions: If you know the answer to this episode's Quizzler, e-mail it (don't post it here!) to info@indesignsecrets.com before midnight on Friday, October 12. Please put the word "Quizzler" in your Subject line. The winner will be chosen randomly from all correct responses received, and announced in the next podcast, along with the answer.

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