InDesignSecrets membership; our new forum; Guide to the InDesign ACE Exam eBook; Adobe layoffs; Obscurity of the Week: Choke ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-113.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-113.mp3 (18.6 MB, 36:04 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. 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 News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko ("Slash the time it takes!") has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! In this episode we take a close look at their new Mac/Windows utility called Soxy ($19 US) that helps you open files (InDesign, and others) in the correct version of the program when you have more than one version installed. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS113 (that's "one one three" at the end) in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the Soxy utility. >> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you donât win, you can always register for any 2009 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention âInDesignSecretsâ when registering. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > All about the new free membership program for InDesignSecrets > InDesignSecrets forum > The InDesignSecrets Guide to the InDesign ACE Exam eBook (PDF, 150 pp, $9.95) by Mike Rankin > Download a sample chapter from the eBook (11-page PDF, 3.7MB) > Mike's personal blog, Publicious.net > Adobe's Certified Expert instructions and links

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Posts of Note: Windows 7, Story Editor, PowerPoint, Balance Lines; Unicodes, GIDs and CIDs; Obscurity of the Week: Missing Glyph ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-112.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-112.mp3 (17.2 MB, 32:59 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. 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 InDesign Feature of the Week: Missing Glyph News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a very cool plug-in called Running Headers which does variable headers, multi-line headers, chapter headers, and more. Special deal: If you can come up with a Running Heads situation that this plug-in can't handle, they will give you a free copy or apply the cost ($59 US) to any other plug-in they sell! That's confidence. As always, InDesignSecrets fans can get $20 off the price for either one of In-Tool's InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, (both of which include Running Headers) if you purchase from this special page on their site. The full list of plug-ins bundled in the packages is here. >> Rorohiko (aka Lightning Brain) has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! For example, FrameReporter ($29 US) lets you see small informational tags when you click on a frame, such as the image's effective resolution or how many words are overset. You can even use it to name frames, and then navigate around your layout via the names. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS111 (that's "one one one" at the end) in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the FrameReporter plug-in. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Balance Ragged Lines was the Obscure Feature in episode 55, here's the podcast transcript > Keith Gilbert's blog post about Sorting the Glyphs panel > Unicode Code Charts > Check out Anne-Marie's new Lynda.com video title, Social Media Marketing with Facebook & Twitter > Read about and download the public beta of David's "Blatner Tools" suite of InDesign plug-ins on the DTPTools site > Anne-Marie will be one of the presenters at the InDesign Conference in Washington DC, Nov 4-6 2009 > Steve Werner's Preflighting Deep Dive webinar has early-bird tickets on sale until Nov 4, the webinar will be on Nov 10 2009

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Blatner Tools; Screen Appearance Tweaks and Tips; Webinars and Seminars; Obscurity of the Week: Ignore Orientation ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-111.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-111.mp3 (14.6 MB, 28:12 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. 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 News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko (aka Lightning Brain) has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users. For example, FrameReporter ($29 US) lets you see small informational tags when you click on a frame, such as the image's effective resolution or how many words are overset. You can even use it to name frames, and then navigate around your layout via the names. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS111 (that's "one one one" at the end) in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the FrameReporter plug-in. >> In-Tools has a very cool plug-in called AutoFlow Pro. It lets you set autoflow attributes for individual stories within your layout, letting you fully control which stories will automatically generate new threaded frames and pages as you enter text, and which ones simply overset. The plug-in is $99, but InDesignSecrets fans can get $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, (both of which include AutoFlow Pro) if you purchase from this special page on their site. The full list of plug-ins bundled in the packages is here. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > David's upcoming webinar, Long Documents Pt. 2: Automating Your Work, is Oct. 21 2009 > Anne-Marie will be one of the presenters at the InDesign Conference in Washington DC, Nov 4-6 2009 > Steve Werner's Preflighting Deep Dive webinar has early-bird tickets on sale until Nov 4, the webinar will be on Nov 10 2009

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6.04 Update; Snow Leopard and PDFs; Word and InDesign Part 2; Obscurity of the Week: Cancel Package ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-110.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-110.mp3 (15.9 MB, 30:41 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. 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 of the Week: Cancel Package News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a very cool plug-in called AutoFlow Pro, which we talked about in the show. It lets you set autoflow attributes for individual stories within your layout, letting you fully control which stories will automatically generate new threaded frames and pages as you enter text, and which ones simply overset. The plug-in is $99, but InDesignSecrets fans can get $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, (both of which include AutoFlow Pro) if you purchase from this special page on their site. The full list of plug-ins bundled in the packages is here. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Blog post about the InDesign/InCopy 6.04 Update > Post about the Snow Leopard/Adobe PDF Printer issue, and the Adobe help page about it > Anne-Marie's "Convert InDesign to Word" article > Footnote to Endnote scripts: Peter Kahrel's (see his comment to the post about endnotes); and Miguel Sousa's > All-day InDesign Seminar in Chicago, starring Anne-Marie on 10/6/2009, use AMCTIME09 for 15% off > Full list of InDesignSecrets webinars (including recorded eSeminars)

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Happy Birthday InDesign; Essential Tips for Importing Word files; Upcoming Seminars and Webinars; Obscurity of the Week: Select All Unused ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-109.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-109.mp3 (16 MB, 30:15 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. 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 seminars and webinars -- all recordings now available! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select All Unused News and special offers from our sponsors: >> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you donât win, you can always register for any 2009 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention âInDesignSecretsâ when registering. >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Happy Birthday to ID post > Post about stripping out hyperlinks from Word files > PaperSpecs reprinted Anne-Marie's "Clean Up Word Files" article > David insists we include a map showing Where Milwaukee Is > September Webinars and Seminars > All InDesignSecrets webinars (including recorded eSeminars)

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New eSeminars and live Seminars by David and Anne-Marie; Character Styles Deep Dive; Obscurity of the Week: Go to Selected Bookmark ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-108.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-108.mp3 (14 MB, 26:53 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. New InDesignSecrets eSeminars: InCopy/InDesign, Long Documents (links below) InDesignSecrets Live Seminars! Deep Dive into Character Styles: To-do's and Not-to-do's Applying multiple styles Using them for "tagging" (instead of formatting) A few great scripts! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Go to Selected Bookmark (with bonus new features discovered by accident!) News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Sign up for Anne-Marie's eSeminars: InCopy/InDesign: Getting Started (Sept 9), and/or InCopy/InDesign: Tips and Techniques (Sept. 23) (early-bird pricing expires Aug 25 2009) > David's two eSeminars on Long Documents will be in October, links coming soon!> InDesignSecrets LIVE (Sept 17) starring David Blatner! All-day seminar, link includes $10 savings > Collaborative Workflows with InCopy/InDesign (Sept 15) AM's all-day live seminar, enter coupon IDS15 for $25 off> InCopy/InDesign Master Class (Sept 16) AM's all-day live seminar, enter coupon IDS16 for $25 off > Indexmatic script for indexing from Character Styles (link goes to blog post) > Dave Saunder's Preserve Local Formatting script for CS1, CS2, and CS3 (link downloads .jsx script) > Jongware's PrepText script for CS4 (link downloads .zip of script); Adobe forum thread discussing its use

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Interview with contributor James Fritz; Unwanted color seps/plates; Obscurity of the Week: Float ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-107.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-107.mp3 (14.1 MB, 27:38 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Interview with James Fritz, InDesignSecrets contributor Tracking down unwanted color seps (plates) in your layout files Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Float News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: In-Tools blog with links to free scripts from Harbs Sign up for Typography Deep Dive, James Fritz's InDesignSecrets eSeminar And here's Sir Fritz's bio and InDesignSecrets posts Steve Werner's eSeminar recording, Preparing for Print: InDesign Best Prepress Practices

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eSeminar recordings available; Chris Kitchener interview; Creating accessible (Sec 508) PDFs; Obscurity of the Week: Crop to Media ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-106.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-106.mp3 (16.1 MB, 30:30 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. InDesignSecrets eSeminar recordings now available Anne-Marie's Graphic Design in 2009 webinar Interview with Adobe's Chris Kitchener, Sr. Product Manager for the InDesign family Lynda.com new "10 Things" videos: Interactive PDFs (David) and Troubleshooting Files (Anne-Marie) Creating Accessible (Sec. 508-compliant) PDFs from InDesign Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Crop to Media News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: In-Tools blog with links to free scripts from Harbs Diane Burns' eSeminar recording, InDesign Table Magic Steve Werner's eSeminar recording, Preparing for Print: InDesign Best Prepress Practices Anne-Marie's Graphic Design in 2009 webinar; you need to phone in registration to use GEEKNESS coupon code ($30 discount) Obama Time Capsule book site Creating Accessible PDFs from InDesign (300K PDF) InDesignSecrets' new Accessibility page with links to many resources Adobe Labs' Presentations, an Adobe app in development

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Multiple-place tip; Acrobat.com; 6.03 Update; Obscurity of the Week: POSIX ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-105.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-105.mp3 (10.1 MB, 11:25 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Multiple-place tips for InDesign CS3 and CS4 Acrobat.com officially released, new features InDesign/InCopy 6.03 Update Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: POSIX News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. >> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you donât win, you can always register for any 2009 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention âInDesignSecretsâ when registering. >> Adobe Systems has a new promotion called A Suite Deal which lasts until August 31, 2009. Until that date you can save $100 when you upgrade to Creative Suite 4. Visit the Suite Deal page for details. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: James Fritz's blog post about multiple-placing Download the InDesign/InCopy 6.03 update Acrobat.com promotion discount (save $50 on annual subscription) Adobe Labs' Presentations and Tables, Acrobat.com apps in development Jay Nelson's DesignTools Monthly newsletter More on POSIX

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News: Seminars, Webinars, Videos; Special Effects; SWF Fixes; Obscurity of the Week: Arrange by Columns ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-104.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-104.mp3 (12.2 MB, 23:22 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: A slew of new InDesign resources Diane's eSeminar on Tables in ID (recording available) and Steve's upcoming eSeminar on Best Print/Prepress Practices for InDesign Anne-Marie's three new InDesign "10 Things" video titles at lynda.com InDesign Seminar tour in full swing; David in LA this week; AM in Boston and Minneapolis next week Eye Candy! ... Mike Rankin's multi-part series of incredibly cool special effects you can do right in InDesign (see links below) SWFs in InDesign: David's discovery and Martinho's wonderful free script Results from the First Annual InDesignSecrets Survey Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Arrange by Columns News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. >> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you donât win, you can always register for any 2009 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention âInDesignSecretsâ when registering. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesign Seminar Tour Use AMCTIME09 coupon code for 15% off registration. Anne-Marie's 10 Things for InDesign videos: 10 Troubleshooting Steps; 10 Habits of Professionals; 10 Things Designers Should Know about Bridge Mike's Eye Candy series: Gravity's Shadow; Shine On; Punch-outs, Stickers, and Rips; Pattern Swatches; and Blending a la Mode David's SWF Discovery post and Martinho's SWF script

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Seminars and Webinars; InCopy CS4 Guide; CS Developers Summit; Moving Pages Between Layouts; Obscurity of the Week: Line End ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-103.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-103.mp3 (20.2 MB, 38:45 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: Upcoming Seminars and Webinars, InCopy CS4 Hands-On Guide Report from the Creative Suite Developer's Summit, complete with interviews with some of your favorite InDesign plug-in developers! Moving pages from one layout to another: tips and tricks Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Line End News and special offers from our sponsors: >> myMacMac is the developer of a really neat InDesign plug-in called InDemand (see the Quicktime demo). InDemand adds an automation panel to the Mac (only) versions of InDesign CS2, CS3, or CS4 with all sorts of useful buttons and functions, such as a Repeater Grid and a Clipboard Filter. Great solution for many types of projects that require tedious formatting and arranging like catalogs and electronics ads. Use the coupon code CPN1141670880 for a 10% InDesignSecrets discount, valid until July 20, 2009. >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. >> Adobe Systems continues to show their support for InDesign users via their sponsorship of the InDesignSecrets podcast and videocast, so thanks, Adobe! They're trying to get the word out about how much time you can save if you move to the latest version of the Creative Suite, CS4. To see the Pfeiffer report we talked about in the podcast which documents the time savings ("CS4 Productivity for Design Professionals"), you can download the PDF here: http://tr.im/cs4time. It's interesting reading! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesign Seminar Tour in San Francisco, Seattle, and Los Angeles (DB); and Boston, Minneapolis, and Chicago (AMC). Use AMCTIME09 coupon code for 15% off registration. InCopy CS4 Hands-on Guide (blog post with links) Andreas Pfeiffer report on CS4 productivity gains Check out the recorded sessions from the 2009 Creative Suite Developer's Summit Interviewed in the podcast: Mark Niemann-Ross (Adobe); Paul Chada (Recosoft); Lawrence Horwitz (Teacup Software); and Kris Coppietiers (Rorohiko) DesignGeek story on the Adobe App Store

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Listener survey (with prizes!); Upcoming ID webinars and seminars by DB and AMC; Scaling and Resampling in ID; Obscurity of the Week: Snap-to Flag ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-102.phpfor Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-102.mp3 (17.2 MB, 33:13 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: Reader/Listener Survey, Upcoming Seminars and Webinars All about scaling and resampling in InDesign Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Snap-to Flag -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesignSecrets Listener Survey now with prizes! InDesign Seminar Tour in San Francisco, Seattle, and Los Angeles (DB); and Boston, Minneapolis, and Chicago (AMC). Use AMCTIME09 coupon code for 15% off registration. InDesign Troubleshooting & Repair Webinar, May 21 (Anne-Marie)Introduction to GREP in InDesign Webinar, May 28 (David) Zevrix LinkOptimizer plug-in Resample Images to 100% script (CS3/CS4 only)

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Videocast stats; InDesign 101; Barcodes; Spell-checking; Obscurity of the Week: Threshold ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-101 for Show notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-101.mp3 (15.3 MB, 29:50 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. InDesignSecrets Videocast 001 stats and reactions InDesign 101: Helping Complete Newbies Get Started Hot Button Posts: Creating barcodes, Please check the spell checker Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Threshold -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. >> Mogo-Media's InDesign Seminar Tour travels through five cities in the US in June 2009, presented by either David or Anne-Marie, with more dates in the fall. Deke McClelland's Photoshop Channels and Masks seminar; and Paul Trani's Getting Started with Flash seminars are also coming up! Use the AMCTIME09 discount code for 15% off registration off any of these. >> Adobe Systems has extended the deadline for their CS4 upgrade special offer: Customers with earlier versions of Adobe Creative Suite, Macromedia Studio, and Adobe Production Studio software can upgrade for the same price as those moving from CS3, up to a US$200 savings. The offer ends on April 30, 2009, in North America, after which they move to "tiered upgrade pricing." You can see the special offer's upgrade pricing chart at a glance, and then buy the upgrade at the Adobe.com store or your favorite reseller. (Sorry, no discount codeâwe tried!) -- Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesignSecrets Videocast 001: Line Styles and GREP Styles Barcodes in InDesign hot button post Spell-checking hot button post Follow InDesignSecrets on Twitter

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A Very Special Episode! (Happy Anniversary to Us): New Videocast; Trip Back in time to Episode 001; Funny Outtakes; Winners of the 1st Annual Eeek-eek-eek Awards; Obscurity of the Week: Font Version ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-100.php for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-100.mp3 (19.3 MB, 37:22 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. "A Very Special Episode" in honor of our 100th podcast ... InDesignSecrets Videocast Debuts Travel back in time with us to Episode #1 and giggle Flub-O-Fest: Outtakes from previous episodes you'll enjoy The Winners of the First Annual InDesignSecrets Eeek-eek-eek Awards Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Font Version -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. >> Mogo-Media's InDesign Seminar Tour travels through five cities in the US in June 2009, presented by either David or Anne-Marie, with more dates in September by other presenters. Deke McClelland's Photoshop Channels and Masks seminar; and Paul Trani's Getting Started with Flash seminars are also coming up! Use the AMCTIME09 discount code for 15% off registration off any of these. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: Winners of the 2009 Eeek-eek-eek Awards InDesignSecrets Videocast 001: Line Styles and GREP Styles Read about (and download) our Guide to OpenType Fractions Follow InDesignSecrets on Twitter

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News; Simplest GREP Style; Styles Hierarchy; Vote for the 2009 Eeek-eek-eek Awards; Obscurity of the Week: Paragraph Spacing Limit ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-099.php for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-099.mp3 (17.5 MB, 33:19 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: InDesign/InCopy 6.01 update; Bridge Home is foreclosed; New Adobe forums; Twitter update World's Simplest GREP Style (great for non-GREPpers) The style hierarchy: Which automatically applied character style "wins"? The Eeek-eek-eek awards for our upcoming 100th Podcast: Fill out the Ballot! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Paragraph Spacing Limit -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Mogo-Media's InDesign Seminar Tour begins in June 2009, presented by either David or Anne-Marie, in various cities across the U.S. Getting Started with Dreamweaver & CSS is a one-day web publishing workshop with one more date in Chicago on March 26, and Flash Without Tears will tour five cities in June 2009. Use the AMCTIME09 discount code for 15% off registration. >> Woodwing has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: 20% off the price for their neato fast-styling plug-in, SmartStyles. SmartStyles works with all CS versions of InDesign and InCopy on both platforms. Use the INDESIGN-SECRETS code at their web store to get the 20% discount (expires April 30, 2009) . >> Adobe Systems has extended the deadline for their CS4 upgrade special offer: Customers with earlier versions of Adobe Creative Suite, Macromedia Studio, and Adobe Production Studio software can upgrade for the same price as those moving from CS3, up to a US$200 savings. The offer ends on April 30, 2009, in North America, after which they move to "tiered upgrade pricing." You can see the special offer's upgrade pricing chart at a glance, and then buy the upgrade at the Adobe.com store or your favorite reseller. (Sorry, no discount codeâwe tried!) -- Links mentioned in this podcast: Please complete the 2009 Eeek-eek-eek Awards ballot! (deadline is March 31, 2009) New Adobe Forums Preview: adobeforums.adobe.com Follow InDesignSecrets on Twitter David's author page on Lynda.com (watch for the GREP Styles video in April) Anne-Marie's InDesign CS4 New Features videos, style hierarchies are in Chp. 8 We heart Jay Nelson and Jeff Gamet's DesignTools Weekly podcast

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ACE Exams, Wherefore Magenta; Linking Templates to Layouts; More on Special Characters; Obscurity of the Week: Share My Screen ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-098.mp3 (16.7 MB, 32:33 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: InDesign CS4 ACE (Adobe Certified Expert) tests are now available; Test Prep e-book coming soon Is magenta a color? An trippy trip into rods, cones, spectra, and process inks How to update files created from the same template when it's modified Three interesting special characters Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Share My Screen -- News from our sponsors: >> Mogo-Media's Getting Started with Dreamweaver & CSS is a one-day web publishing workshop that has open dates in March 2009 for various cities, starring CS genius Brian Wood. Flash Without Tears, a one-day workshop hosted by the inimitable Sandee Cohen, will tour five cities in June 2009 and is open for early registrations. >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this page. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books, and the InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publicatons. >> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is once again giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you donât win, you can always register for any 2009 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention âInDesignSecretsâ when registering. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: Register for the InDesign CS4 ACE Exam (or download the Prep guide)The original "Magenta Ain't a Color" article and the Ars Technica rebuttalIt was in Podcast episode 25 (transcript) that we talked about leaders for right-aligned tabs Start sharing your screen with the free ConnectNow I see sixth spaces and Battlestar Galactica (read comment #74) We heart Jay Nelson and Jeff Gamet's DesignTools Weekly podcast

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Sandee Cohen interview; Interactive PDFs; Obscurity of the Week: Show/Hide Paragraph Break Marks ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links mentioned in the podcast, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-097.mp3 (15.8 MB, 30:50 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Interview with Sandee "Vectorbabe" Cohen InDesign CS4: Visual QuickStart Guide (Sandee's book) is now available Her VQS chapter on Interactive and Multimedia is available as a downloadable PDF (which of course is itself interactive and has multimedia features) How Sandee created the interactive PDF in InDesign CS4 and Acrobat Pro 9 Sandee's upcoming book, From Design Into Print Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Show/Hide Paragraph Break Marks -- News from our sponsors: >> Recosoftâs PDF2ID Professional 2.0 is a new version of the the amazing program that converts PDFs to editable InDesign (Mac/Windows) files. New features include conversion presets, smart frame linking, and bringing in just the annotations (comments) from a PDF. >> In-Tools: Adobe Design Premium CS4 ME is now available! (And Design Standard CS4 ME too, of course.) Or just get InDesign CS4 ME, it's up to you. Order any of these from In-Tools and enjoy free shipping to anywhere other than the Middle East. In-Tools is also the developer of the WorldTools plug-in, which allows InDesign CS4 users to set Right-to-Left text without needing InDesign ME. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: Jay Nelson's DesignTools Monthly newsletter Jay Nelson and Jeff Gamet's DesignTools Weekly podcast Sandee's InDesign CS4 Visual QuickStart book, available now. Download the Interactive & Multimedia chapter as a PDF by clicking the link next to "Already own this?" on the IDCS4: VQS Peachpit Press web page and registering it to your (free) account. You'll need the book's ISBN number to register it. Or, on the same page, you could just purchase the entire book as a PDF. Pre-order Sandee's From Design Into Print book Contact Premedia Systems for the JavaScript Buttons script ($15) What "our" Robin Williams is up to these days David and Ole's Real World InDesign CS4

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Paper white; Printing screen captures; Downsave snippets; Callout lines; Contact Sheet Placing; Poster Giveaway; Obscurity of the Week: Reset Workspace ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-096.mp3 (18.9 MB, 36:00 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Why "Simulate Paper White" usually looks gray Prepping screen captures for commercial printing Blog posts (and discussions) of interest: Downsave snippets Photographic frames Callout lines with white edges Yearbook layouts/Contact Sheet placing in CS4 New Podcast Giveaway: Each episode, an ID Keyboard Shortcuts poster goes to someone we randomly pull from our mailing list or twitter followers. This week's winner is cjmadigan Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Reset Workspace -- News from our sponsor: >> In-Tools: Adobe Design Premium CS4 ME is now available! (And Design Standard CS4 ME too, of course.) Or just get InDesign CS4 ME, it's up to you. Order any of these from In-Tools and enjoy free shipping to anywhere other than the Middle East. In-Tools is also the developer of the WorldTools plug-in, which allows InDesign CS4 users to set Right-to-Left text without needing InDesign ME. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: Mike's Downsave Snippets post David's posts on Photographic frames and Callout lines Anne-Marie's post on Yearbook layouts/Contact sheet placing SnapzProX from Ambrosia Software (Mac only) Snag-It from TechSmith (Windows only) Layers from, umm, Layers (Mac only) Subscribe to InDesignSecrets' Twitter feed or Mailing list to be eligible for the poster giveaways

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Trip reports; Software updates; Master page text frames; Quizzler winners; Obscurity of the Week: Skip by Leading ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, sponsor discount links, and other links mentioned in this episode. And to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-095.mp3 (17.6 MB, 32:28 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Trip reports: David in Dubai and at Macworld; Anne-Marie at lynda.com recording studio and at the Chicago InDesign User Group News: InDesignProxy update; Leopard update fixes InDesign hiding glitch Follow InDesignSecrets on Twitter The vestigial Master Text Frame checkbox in the New Document dialog Five Quizzler winners and their favorite InDesignSecrets posts from 2008! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Skip by Leading -- Sweet Deals from our sponsors: >> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don't win, you can always register for any 2009 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention "InDesignSecrets" when registering. >> Recosoft's PDF2ID Professional 2.0 is a new version of the the amazing program that converts PDFs to editable InDesign (Mac/Windows) files. New features include conversion presets, smart frame linking, and bringing in just the annotations (comments) from a PDF. Limited-time offer for InDesignSecrets fans, get $30 off the $369 cost for the Pro version by ordering it at this link by January 31, 2009. -- Download the PDF of the Quizzler results! (Which popular posts of 2008 did you miss?) Includes links to the posts and comments from the entrant about why it was their favorite. Quizzler winners were selected randomly from qualifying e-mails: Grand Prize, the Spyder3 Elite: Noel Burgess Runners-up, a copy of Schott's Almanac 2009: Jean-Claude Tremblay, Nigel Harris, Les O'Neil, and David Parker -- Links mentioned in this podcast: Fun article about David's Dubai seminar InDesignSecrets' Twitter Tweets Fritz's post about Master Text Frames Anne-Marie's InDesignProxy and Leopard update posts

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Upcoming Events; Resolutions; Table Calculations; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Smart Match Style Groups ----- Details below; or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-094.mp3 (15.7 MB, 30:08 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Upcoming events for David and Anne-Marie Our Resolutions Table calculations -- various solutions and a neat free script A Quizzler for everyone, with prizes for 5 lucky winners Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Smart Match Style Groups -- Info and deals from our sponsors: The WorldTools plug-in from In-Tools (owned by InDesign guru "Harbs") allows InDesign CS4 users to set Right-to-Left text without needing InDesignME. The plug-in retails for $149 and has an introductory price of $99, until 1/31/09 is further discounted to $94 for InDesignSecrets users if you use our link. Flux Consulting's supremely useful EyeDropper Plug-in (Mac only) is now available for CS4. It lets you pick up and apply formatting for text and objects without switching tools. The demo is fully enabled for 60 days, after that is costs $29.95. (CS3 version is $20, CS/CS2 version, text-only, is $5.) -- Links mentioned in this podcast: David's Dubai seminar and at Macworld Anne-Marie's videos at Lynda.com Pre-order Real World InDesign CS4 Nancy at Southern Progress' Pure Silver Jewelry David's post (with links to scripts etc.) about Calculating Numbers in Tables (Ben) Schott's Miscellany/Almanac 2009 Uber-cool Spyder3 Elite color-calibration tool from Datacolor -- To play the Quizzler, email your answer to info@indesignsecrets.com with "Quizzler" in the subject line. We will randomly choose the five winners from all entries we've received by midnight on Sunday, January 11, 2009.

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New Contributor; We're on Twitter; CS4 sales; ID CS4 ACE Exam; RTL text solutions; PICT format; Free guide to hidden character; Obscurity of the Week: Hide Master Items ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links mentioned in the podcast, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-093.mp3 (17.3 MB, 32:33 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Welcome to new contibutor, James Fritz InDesignSecrets on Twitter! The state of CS4: Who is upgrading? InDesign CS4 ACE Exam -- by InDesignSecrets Right-to-left (RTL) text without InDesign ME The problem with the PICT image format Free Download: Guide to Special Characters in InDesign Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Hide Master Items -- Links mentioned in this podcast: All about James Fritz Follow the InDesignSecrets Twitter feed Adobe's press release mentioning slower CS4 sales Learn about becoming an ACE Bob Levine's post about RTL text plug-ins for CS4 More ways to set RTL text in any ID version (read the comments!) David's rant about PICT and other formats We found an interesting online image format converter Our Guide to Special (Show Hidden) Characters in InDesign

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Black Wednesday; Stripping Styles; InDesign to Illustrator; Obscurity of the Week: Custom Text ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-092.mp3 (14.7 MB, 28:03 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: "Black Wednesday" for Publishers and Adobe Hot Post of the Week: Stripping Styles and Masters Moving formatted text from InDesign to Illustrator Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Custom Text -- Links mentioned in this podcast: Details about "Black Wednesday" for publishers and Adobe David's post about Stripping heh heh MergeText script for Adobe Illustrator CS1âCS4 Selection to PDF script for Adobe InDesign CS3 PDF2ID plug-in for Adobe InDesign CS2âCS4

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CS4 Posters; Stolen Laptop; Tips from the Master Class; Obscurity of the Week: Isolated Form ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links mentioned in the podcast, or to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-091.mp3 (15.9 MB, 33:33 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. InDesign CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts Posters! David's tragic tale: Dealing with the aftermath of a stolen computer New InDesign secrets we learned at the Master Class Conference Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Isolated Form -- Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesign CS4 Poster details page (or jump right to the store) SuperDuper back-up program (Mac only) CrashPlan off-site automated back-ups (cross-platform) David's post about the stolen laptop ... great comments! Anne-Marie's post about composition highlighting GRACOL home page Microsoft's page about developing positional form glyphs (caution: will make head explode) Karim Regular is an OpenType font that has isolated form glyphs

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News; CS4 Poster; FindChange script; Quizzler Winner; Obscurity of the Week: Continued Footnotes ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-090.mp3 (13.5 MB, 29:29 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: InDesign Conference Master Class, ID CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts poster, ID CS4 Bugs Posts You Should Know About The Amazingly Useful and Free FindChangeByList.jsx script The Brazzler (aka Quizzler) Winner and Answer! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Continued Footnotes Sweet Deals for you: InDesignSecrets eSeminar: What's New in InDesign CS4, available as a recording for one week afterward you register to view it. Get $10 off by entering IDS11 in the coupon field on the registration page. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: Posts we talked about: ID CS4 Master Page Bug, SmallCaps, Thread Between Documents, Free CS4 Movies, InDesign on Vacation -- Quizzler Answer for CS3 and CS4 (use GREP panel of Find/Change): Find: \S Change: $0 Then click the Change All button. For CS2, use the TextCount.js script (find it in the Goodies folder of the installation CD)

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3 great deals; Table tips; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Clear Attributes Not Defined By Style ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links mentioned in the podcast, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-089.mp3 (13.5 MB, 29:29 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Three great deals for InDesignSecrets readers and listeners Tons 'o table tips: Selecting, adding/deleting rows, copy/pasting, figuring out widths and heights, little-known keyboard shortcuts, more ... Quizzler! (or, "The Brazzler!") Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Clear Attributes Not Defined By Style Sweet Deals for you: Markzware: Makers of the Q2ID plug-in (convert QuarkXPress v3-v7 files to InDesign) and many other fine products have a TIME-LIMITED offer for InDesign Secrets fans: 25% off their plug-ins. To get the discount, purchase online at http://markzware.com and enter SECRET in the coupon code field. MogoMedia: InDesign Conference Master Class, Nov. 10â14, 2008 in Seattle, WA (at InDesign HQ, Adobe's Seattle campus!). Get $100 off for any 3 or 4-day pass, or $25 off for any full-day tutorial, by entering IDSECRET08 in the coupon field on the registration page. InDesignSecrets eSeminar: What's New in InDesign CS4, presented live by David and Anne-Marie on Oct. 29, 2008, 10:00 a.m. â 11:00 a.m.  (PST), plus follow-up Q&A and access to the recording for one week afterwards. Get $10 off registration by entering IDS11 in the coupon field on the registration page. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: Posts about tables: Merging tables, Moving rows, Rounding table corners, Adding tab stops in cells, Editing overset cell text, More Branislav Milic's web site

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News; New contributor; Master Class discount; Quizzler for quizzlers; Frame types; Obscurity of the week: Flattener Preview ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-088.mp3 (14.5 MB, 31:42 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: CS4 documentation, pricing, InDesignSecrets "2.1" site tweaks Welcome to new contributor, Mike Rankin InDesign Master Class Conference (see discount code below) Quizzler for Quizzlers Text vs. Graphic vs. Undefined Frames Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Flattener Preview Sweet Deals from our Sponsors: Recosoft: Clever developers of the PDF2ID plug-in (convert PDFs to InDesign), has a TIME-LIMITED offer for InDesign Secrets fans: $20 discount only via this URL: http://www.recosoft.com/pdf2idspecial.htm Markzware: Makers of the Q2ID plug-in (convert QuarkXPress v3-v7 files to InDesign) and many other fine products have a TIME-LIMITED offer for InDesign Secrets fans: 25% off their plug-ins. To get the discount, purchase online at http://markzware.com and enter SECRET in the coupon code field. Other Deals: InDesign Conference Master Class, Nov. 10â14, 2008 in Seattle, WA (at InDesign HQ, Adobe's Seattle campus!). Get $100 off for any 3 or 4-day pass, or $25 off for any full-day tutorial, by entering IDSECRET08 in the coupon field on the registration page. Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesign CS4 online documentation Mike Rankin's blog, Publicious.net Claudia's post about frames

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InDesign CS4 New Features Overview; Obscurity of the Week: User ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-087.mp3 (15.2 MB, 33:06 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. InDesign CS4 New Feature Overview! Our favorite new features... the small, geeky ones of course The "big guns" new features Ones we think are a little weird A few early bird tips and techniques for the new features--we couldn't help ourselves (replay this podcast after you get your upgrade) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: User Sweet Deal from our Sponsors: Markzware: Makers of the Q2ID plug-in (convert QuarkXPress v3-v7 files to InDesign) and many other fine products have a TIME-LIMITED offer for InDesign Secrets fans: 25% off their plug-ins. To get the discount, purchase online at http://markzware.com and enter SECRET in the coupon code field. Links mentioned in this podcast: Adobe's web site, of course, for official CS4 info Upcoming Lynda.com InDesign CS4 titles: InDesign CS4 New Features (Anne-Marie), InDesign CS4 Essentials (David), InDesign CS4 Beyond the Basics (David), and InDesign CS4/InCopy CS4 Workflow Essentials (Anne-Marie) InDesign Magazine ... issue 26 is all about InDesign CS4

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InDesign CS4; New blogs; Great posts; Obscurity of the week: Merge Swatches ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-086.mp3 (11.8 MB, 25:46 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: InDesign CS4 Announcement Announced ;-) New blogs on the block: Publicious.net, InDesign1200.com, DearAdobe.com Great posts you might have missed: Make a Frame Grid, Print Style Specs, Find Text/Change to Graphic, PDF Place Fix Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Merge Swatches Sweet Deal from our Sponsors: Markzware: Makers of the Q2ID plug-in (convert QuarkXPress v3-v7 files to InDesign) and many other fine products have a TIME-LIMITED offer for InDesign Secrets fans: 25% off their plug-ins. To get the discount, purchase online at http://markzware.com and enter SECRET in the coupon code field. Recosoft: Makers of the PDF2ID plug-in (convert PDFs to InDesign), has a limited-time offer for InDesign Secrets fans: $20 discount only via this URL: http://www.recosoft.com/pdf2idspecial.htm Links mentioned in this podcast: John Nack's blog post about DearAdobe.com Slendro's StyleReporter plug-in Back-to-School 50% discount for ID Keyboard Shortcuts posters! InDesign Magazine free trial issue

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News, Color Tips, Obscurity of the Week: OnFocus/OnBlur-----Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment!----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-085.mp3 (13 MB, 28:26 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. 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 Sweet Deal from our Sponsor (Last chance!): This is your final chance (for the near future at least) to get in on this deal. UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center (Centre?), is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener per sponsored podcast. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for this episode's free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 7 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. More information is available on their web page. Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesign Magazine free trial issue ||| Find Where That Color is Used (Anne-Marie's post)||| Two things you missed, but will happen again: --The Creative Transitions Conference ||| --Tips, Tricks and Techniques in InDesign CS3 Webinar ||| All about onfocus and onblur Sandee Cohen's InDesign CS3 Visual Quick Start

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Scott Citron interview; Our upcoming webinar; Redesign update; Export All Stories; Obscurity of the Week: Visibility ----- Details below, or go to http://www.indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to post a comment!  ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-084.mp3 (12.9 MB, 28:06 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. 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 Sweet Deal from our Sponsor: UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center (Centre?), is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener per sponsored podcast. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for this episode's free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 7 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. More information is available on their web page. Links mentioned in this podcast: Keep up with Scott's recovery: GetWellScottCitron.blogspot.com ----- Sandee's GetWellScott CafePress store ----- InDesignSecrets' eSeminar, Aug 19, 2008; use coupon code IDS88 for $20 off (or sign up here to include discount automatically) ----- Rorohiko's TextExporter plug-in for ID CS1/2/3 for Mac/Win

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Gotchas; Obscurity of the Week: Deactivate-----Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment!----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-083.mp3 (7.2 MB, 15:47 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. 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 Sweet Deal from our Sponsor: UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center (Centre?), is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener per sponsored podcast. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for this episode's free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 7 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. More information is available on their web page. Links mentioned in this podcast: Adobe InDesign forum post about the Button issue Bob Levine's post about CS3 Activation limits

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Do's and Don'ts of Text; Weird Hair Space Kerning; Obscurity of the Week: Join ----- For details, see below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-082.mp3 (14.6 MB, 31:50 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. 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 Sweet Deal from our Sponsor: UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center (Centre?), is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener per sponsored podcast. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for this episode's free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 7 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. More information is available on their web page.   Links mentioned in this podcast: Anne-Marie's presenting two InDesign sessions at the Creative Transitions conference (Milwaukee, WI; Aug 13-15); enter AMC0808 on the conference registration page for a $100 discount David's original post, Do's and Don'ts of Text in InDesign Robin Williams' The Mac is Not a Typewriter or The PC is Not a Typewriter Nigel French's InDesign Type: Professional Typography in Adobe InDesign The Chicago Manual of Style (U of Chicago Press staff) Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots & Leaves William Strunk's The Elements of Style Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style Teacup Software's TypeFitter plug-in

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Our new blog design; Free script extravaganza; PDF Presets problem; Obscurity of the Week: Orthogonal Line ----- For details, see below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-081.mp3 (13.4 MB, 29:19 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. New design for InDesignSecrets.com blogFree 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 presetsObscure 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

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NZ Conference; Camera Raw in InDesign; Quizzler answer and winner; "Sphinx" pangram t-shirts; GREP; Obscurity of the Week: Fixed Column Width ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links mentioned in the podcast, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-080.mp3 (16.3 MB, 35:40 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) 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

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Acrobat 9; Free script to swap swatches; Colored frames; InCopy videos on Adobe TV; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Update Content in Data Fields ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- 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.

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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) ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/categor/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- 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)

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Toronto recap; CS3 Re-cert exam; 50% poster discount; Quizzler winner; Tips from the ID Conference; Obscurity of the Week: Download PPD Fonts ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-077.mp3 (13.5 MB, 29.3 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) 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

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News: MTV, Poster discounts, InCopySecrets.com; Binary EPS files; InDesign Preflighting; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Altitude ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-076.mp3 (10.8 MB, 23.4 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) 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.

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Discount codes; Adobe TV; An End to Transparency Woes; Context Menus; Obscurity of the Week: Ignore Optical Margin ----- Details below; or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links mentioned in the podcast and to leave a comment! ----- 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

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News; CS3 ACE exam; Leopard and Vista; Document Size; Free Layout Zone script; Obscurity of the Week: Greek Images ----- Details below; or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts/ for Show Notes, links mentioned in the podcast, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-074.mp3 (15.1 MB, 32:53 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) 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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News; Overprint by swatch; Preserve Numbers glitch; Em, En and Hyphens; Obscurity of the Week: the Measure Tool ----- Details below; or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-073.mp3 (14.2 MB, 31:05 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) 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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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 ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- 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

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News; CS3 ACE Test; Shifting Grayscales; Jessica Chase Interview; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Digital Editions ----- Details below; or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-071.mp3 (13.7 MB, 29:58 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) 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.

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Free scripts, Beginner's category, Quizzler Winner, EPS Challenge, Uppercase, Obscurity of the Week: Normal ------ Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links mentioned in the podcast, the winning Quizzler answer, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-070.mp3 (13.4 MB, 29:22 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) 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.

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New Year's Podcast responses; Deke McClelland interview; Quizzler!; Obscurity of the Week: View Box ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links mentioned in the podcast, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-069.mp3 (15.7 MB, 34:23 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) 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.

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New Year's Resolutions for InDesign Users; Obscurity of the Week: JPEG 2000 ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-068.mp3 (13.3 MB, 28:58 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) 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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New InDesign books, Miami Conference, XML and InDesign, Obscurity of the Week: Formatted Only Once ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-067.mp3 (15.5 MB, 33:48 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) 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

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TypeFi AutoFit; Numbered Paragraphs; Obscurity of the Week: Assignments Panel ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-066.mp3 (12.0 MB, 26:11 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) 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 Listener Comment Line: +1-206-202-6483 Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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Plug-in-palooza! What, how, why; Twenty-plus great InDesign plug-ins; Obscurity of the Week: Configure Plug-ins ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-065.mp3 (15.8 MB, 34:30 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) 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) Listener Comment Line: +1-206-202-6483 Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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Leopard reports; Mailbag answers; Obscurity of the week: Reset Indents ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts/ for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-064.mp3 (13.7 MB, 29:53 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) 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 Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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Chicago CS Conf Recap; David's New Toy; Calendar Layouts; CS3 and Leopard; Obscurity of the Week: Reset to Base ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-063.mp3 (12 MB, 26:15 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) 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 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: 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 Listener Comment Line: +1-206-202-6483 Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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5.01 Update; New ID CS3 Books; Custom Page Sizes; Transform Individually; Quizzler Winner and Answer; Obscurity of the Week: Miter Join and Limit ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-062.mp3 (13.8 MB, 29:10 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) 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 Listener Comment Line: +1-206-202-6483 Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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Our free Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in, Celebrity Shortcuts, When Shortcuts Collide, Poster Discount, Quizzler!, Obscurity of the Week: Context ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts/ for show notes, links mentioned in the episode, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-061.mp3 (12.6 MB, 27:46 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) 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. 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). Listener Comment Line: +1-206-202-6483 Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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Newsbits; XML; GREP; Tagged Text; CS3 Indexing bug; Obscurity of the Week: the Eraser Tool ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-060.mp3 (13.1 MB, 28:19 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) Newsbits: Tokyo Conference recap; PDF2ID plug-in; more "What is That?" Definitions of XML, GREP, Tagged Text and more Major bug with CS3 indexes, and workarounds Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: the Erase Tool Links mentioned in the Podcast: Creative Suite and Web Design Conferences (Chicago, Oct. 15â20) Recosoft's PDF2ID plug-in for InDesign CS2/CS3 The InDesigner post about using GREP outside of InDesign CS2 Em Software's XTags for InDesign Adobe forum thread about the CS3 Index bug (script is at post #31) The InDesigner videocast about indexing in InDesign 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). Listener Comment Line: +1-206-202-6483 Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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Default Style Glitches; Rebuilding Preferences; Not Possible in ID; Obscurity of the Week: PN and PB ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-059.mp3 (14.2 MB, 29:53 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) Common Glitches with Default Styles What Gets Lost when you Rebuild Preferences Hot Button Post of the Week: Things You Can't Do in InDesign Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: PN and PB Links mentioned in the Podcast: Free 7-day pass to Lynda.com videos David and Olav Kvern's upcoming Real World InDesign CS3 InCopy CS3 video reviews on Amazon.com Adobe's Feature Request page Listener Comment Line: +1-206-202-6483 Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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AutoCorrect; Hidden Characters; Right-to-Left Typesetting; Shrinking PDFs; Obscurity of the Week: Non-Joiner ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts to read the Show Notes, see the links mentioned in the podcast, and to post a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-058.mp3 (13.7 MB, 28:53 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) *NOTE* [8/25/07]: We're having a (hopefully) temporary technical glitch with our iTunes feed, and it's not picking up this episode. In the meantime, you can right-click on the .mp3 link above and choose Save Link As to download the .mp3 to your computer and add it to iTunes that way if you want, or of course you can just click the link to listen to it in your browser. Funny AutoCorrect Tip for College Newspapers Hot Button Posts of the Week: Runners-up were the ones on Hidden Characters and the Free Script for Right-to-Left Text; winner was Sandee's Shrink a Vector-Heavy PDF Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Non-Joiner Links mentioned in the Podcast: Melbourne and Tokyo InDesign Conferences Chicago Creative Suite Conference (enter IDSECCSWEB in the coupon code field for $100 off any 2-day, 3-day, Gold, Platinum or Plus pass) Adobe Live Docs page with list of Hidden Characters Adobe Live Docs page with GREP examples Sharon Steuer's upcoming Illustrator CS3 Wow! book Tim Cole's blog post about Non-Joiner U.S. source for InDesign ME (Middle Eastern) Listener Comment Line: +1-206-202-6483 Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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Tips Extravaganza; Customizing the Control Panel; Obscurity of the Week: Isolate Blending ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-057.mp3 (13.8 MB, 29:00 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) Summer 2007 InDesign Tips Extravaganza! Swatches, styles, editing and flowing text, and more Hot Button Post of the Week: Less is More for the Control Panel Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Isolate Blending Links mentioned in the Podcast: Miami InDesign Conference Listener Comment Line: +1-206-202-6483 Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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Conferences; Quizzler Answer; Huge File Sizes; Scaling in CS3; Obscurity of the Week: Gap Color ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts/ for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-056.mp3 (14.6 MB, 30:54 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) News: Upcoming InDesign Conferences Quizzler Answer! (Keep Violations' highlight color) and Winner Hot Button Post of the Week: Why is My File Size So Huge? Scaling in InDesign CS3: A Different Kind of Craziness Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Gap Color Links mentioned in the Podcast: Tokyo and Melbourne InDesign Conferences InDesign Keyboard Shortcuts Poster (for CS2 or CS3) Listener Comment Line: +1-206-202-6483 Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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Upcoming ID Seminars; Help Files Live; Composition Highlighting; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Balance Ragged Lines ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts/ for Show Notes, links, Quizzler instructions, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-055.mp3 (5.9 MB, 24:42 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) News: Upcoming Seminars for David and Anne-Marie InDesign CS3 Live Docs The Joys of Highlighting Composition Violations The Revenge of the Quizzler! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Balance Ragged Lines 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, July 27. The winner will be chosen randomly from all correct responses received, and announced in the next podcast, along with the answer. Links mentioned in the Podcast: David's ID seminar: Refine Design Conference Anne-Marie's ID seminar: Mastering Prepress Essentials Conference (1.2MB PDF) Example ID CS3 Help/Live Doc page w/a comment David's ID CS3 Essentials DVD Listener Comment Line: +1-206-202-6483 Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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Quizzler update; Mixing CS2 and CS3; Hot Button Post: Text Do's and Don'ts; Corner Effects Tips; Obscurity of the Week: Point/Pica Size ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for detailed Show Notes, links, and to leave your comments! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-054.mp3 (18.0 MB, 37:57 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) Episode 52 Quizzler Update -- Yet another way to duplicate! Mixing InDesign CS2 and CS3: Possible, with caveats Hot Button Post of the Week: Do's and Don'ts of Text in InDesign Corner Effects Tips and Fixes Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Point/Pica Size Links mentioned in the Podcast: Episode 52 Quizzler answers are in the Show Notes Update CS1 (Mac/Win) and CS2 (Mac/Win) to read later version .inx files CS3 Online Help page about vertical align and corner effects History of the pica measure from Wikipedia Listener Comment Line: +1-206-202-6483 Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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News; Non-breaking vs. No Break; Quick Apply menu commands; Obscurity of the Week: Ignore Ruler Guide Alignments ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-053.mp3 (14.4 MB, 30:14 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) Lots 'o News (conferences, plug-ins, poster, more) Non-breaking space vs. the No Break character formatting attribute New in CS3: Using Quick Apply to apply menu commands, tips and glitches Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Ignore Ruler Guide Alignments Links mentioned in the Podcast: Upcoming InDesign Conferences, Creative Suite Conference Seattle's Refine Design Conference InDesign CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts poster DTP Tools Xref plug-in public beta (Mac/Windows, CS2/CS3) InDesign Magazine (info on special subscription offer) TheInDesigner videocast about Insert White Space in CS2 Listener Comment Line: +1-206-202-6483 Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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Recorded live at the ID Conference! Intro; News; Audience Q&A; Live Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Convert Text ----- Details follow; or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, Quizzler answers, and to leave a comment. ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-052.mp3 (26.6 MB, 56:43 (!) minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) Recorded live at the 2007 InDesign Conference in New York City! Intro to the podcast, how it's usually created (when not in front of a live audience) News: This conference, New plug-ins for CS3, New InDesign user group in London, UK Who in the audience travelled the furthest to the conference? Q&A from the audience: Converting CS3 to CS2 and CS2 to CS1, Editing .inx files Live Quizzler: How many ways can you duplicate an object in InDesign? (answers below) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Convert to Text Links mentioned in the Podcast: Audacity open-source audio recording software Teacup Software (PatternMaker and BarcodeMaker plug-ins) Typefi (free AutoFit plug-in) London InDesign User Group Brazilian InDesign Blog PitStop Professional from Enfocus Software Adding the Notes plug-ins to InDesign CS2 Quizzler answers! From our genius studio audience: Cut/copy paste, Step and repeat, Alt/Option-drag, Cut/copy Paste in place, Cut/copy Paste into, Duplicate, Transform > Move (with Copy button), Duplicate a layer containing the object, Alt/Option-drag the object's layer proxy to a new layer, Export snippet and place it back in, Drag it into a Library and drag it back onto the layout, Use it in PatternMaker, Duplicate the page or spread containing the object, Use it on a Master page and then override it on the document page, Option/Alt-arrow key. From David: File > Export to .inx then copy and paste the call to the object elsewhere in the .inx file, save it and then open it in InDesign. From Anne-Marie: Paste object into first row of table, convert row to a Header row, then continue table into a new frame and the object gets duplicated in the second frame's Header row. Two more from David: Hold down the Option/Alt key when pressing Return/Enter after editing any transform field; or Copy object to clipboard, then use Find/Change text (Find: any character or string, Change: Clipboard contents). Wow! Who knew there were so many ways? Listen to the podcast to learn who won the contest. Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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Announcements; Hyperlinks; Text Variables; One-Button Mice; Obscurity of the Week: File Info ----- Details follow, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts/ for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-051.mp3 (16.2 MB, 34:02 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) Announcements: "InCopy CS/InDesign CS3 Integration" released (AM's video tutorial title for lynda.com); our InDesign CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts poster is on press this week Hyperlinks: Creating, Deleting, Swearing at, Modifying, etc. All about Text Variables, a new feature in CS3 Hot Button Post of the Week: AM's rant about One-Button Mice Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: File Info Links mentioned in the podcast: InCopy CS3/InDesign CS3 Integration video training (link leads to post with details) Our post about fixing hyperlinks from Word documents Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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We're 50!; Quizzler Winner (OS Color Picker); News; Unembeddable fonts; Printing Link Info; Obscurity of the Week: Crop Amount ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for details, show notes, or to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-050.mp3 (13.8 MB, 29:01 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) We're 50! Quizzler Winner â Where's the System Color Picker? News: Free CS3 Tryouts and manuals, Tim Cole's InDesign blog, Upcoming conferences Dealing with "protected" fonts (unembeddable in a PDF) Hot Button Post of the Week: Printing a List of Links Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Crop Amount Links mentioned in the podcast: InDesign CS3 tryout and documentation from Adobe Tim Cole's InDesign BackChannel blog The InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4â8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off the registration fee. Melbourne, Australia InDesign conference, Tokyo InDesign conference (link to come), Chicago CS3 Summit Letterheadfonts.com and the Typophile.com thread about it Download Martin Fischer's LinkExport.jsx script (zipped file) Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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News; Threading and Unthreading; Transparency and Spot Colors; PDF/X-4; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Use Inline Input for Non-Latin Text ----- Details below; or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-049.mp3 (13.1 MB, 27:53 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) News: Upcoming InDesign Conference in NY, David's ID CS3 Essentials videos Threading and unthreading text frames â tips and scripts Hot Button Post of the Week: Spot Colors and Flattening in CS3 (and, related, PDF/X-4) The Return of the Quizzler! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Use Inline Input for Non-Latin Text Links mentioned in the podcast: The InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4â8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off the registration fee. David's ID CS3 Essentials on lynda.com (link leads to free 7-day trial) InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts poster SplitStory.jsx script: Post with download info, Post about installing Aextra Software's CleverTextLink plug-in for CS/CS2, $39 Quizzler instructions: If you have an answer to this episode's Quizzler, don't post it here! E-mail it to info@indesignsecrets.com with "Quizzler" in the Subject. One winner will be chosen randomly from all the correct answers received by midnight, May 15, 2007. The winner will be mailed our beautiful InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts poster. Remember, don't post your answer here! You'll ruin it for everyone! Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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CS3 Ships; Our IDCS3 In-box videos; Conferences; Trapping in ID; New Text Wrap options in CS3; Obscurity of the Week: Detach Selection from Master ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts to read the Show Notes and to comment on this episode. ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-048.mp3 (11.9 MB, 25:03 minutes) (or read the transcript of this podcast, which will be posted soon) News: CS3 Ships, Our video tutorials in the box, Upcoming conferences All about trapping in InDesign (and, do we still need to worry about it?) New in InDesign CS3: Cool Text Wrap Options Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Detach Selection from Master Links mentioned in the podcast: Vector Conference and Pixel Conference, back-to-back in Chicago, Illinois, May 1â3, 2007; and the InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4â8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off registration fee for any of these three conferences. David's post about creating composite, trapped PDFs Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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4.05 Update; CS3 Pricing; Display Preferences; Export to XHTML (CS3 Feature); Obscurity of the Week: First Baseline Offset ---------- Details below; or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ---------- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-047.mp3 (12.3 MB, 25:46 minutes) (or read the transcript of this episode â a link will be posted here soon) Upcoming conferences of interest InDesign CS2 4.05 Update Hot Button Post of the Week: CS3 Pricing Adjusting your Display Performance preference New in CS3: Export to XHTML Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: First Baseline Offset Links mentioned in the podcast: Vector Conference and Pixel Conference, back-to-back in Chicago, Illinois, May 1â3, 2007; and the InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4â8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off registration fee for any of these three conferences. InDesign 4.05 Update ReadMeâclick to download the PDF listing all the fixes (the ones fixed by 4.05 specifically are asterisked) Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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InDesign CS3! New features, fixes, pricing; Obscurity of the Week: Fill With Placeholder Text ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts/ for Show Notes, Links mentioned in the podcast, and to leave your comments. ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-046.mp3 (13 MB, 27:19 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted shortly) All about InDesign CS3: Our favorite new features, including Table and Cell Styles, Variables, Placing InDesign files, Find/Change with GREP, Find/Change object attributes, and more Our favorite improved features, including scaling fixes, folders in Styles panels, page previews in the Pages panel, Align to Page, Synchronize master pages, and more Pricing information Other great resources to learn about InDesign CS3 Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Fill With Placeholder Text Our sponsor for this episode: DTP Tools, makers of cool InDesign plug-ins like History, Layer Groups, Tetris, and PageControl (the latter the brainchild of InDesignSecrets contributor Pariah Burke). Special offer for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code IDSECRETS for 15% off any plug-in from their on-line store. Links mentioned in the podcast: InDesign Magazine special offer. Go to the link, choose "2-year subscription for $69" option, and enter indesignsecrets to receive two years of back issues, free, along with your subscription. The upcoming issue is full of in-depth articles about InDesign CS3 new features. The InDesigner videocast. Michael's latest episode (#38) shows off InDesign CS3's new interface, and all the neat tricks you can do with it. Adobe.com for Creative Suite 3 info from the horse's mouth Gutenberg Project is Anne-Marie's favorite source for placeholder.txt copy Lorem-Ipsum Generator caught David's fancy Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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Evil Color Picker; Illustrator Bleeds; Obscurity of the Week: Mixed Ink Group ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes and to leave a comment. ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-045.mp3 (10.4 MB, 21:49 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted shortly) Hot Button Post of the Week: Evil, Evil Color Picker Including Bleeds in Placed Illustrator Files Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Mixed Ink Group Links mentioned in the podcast: We didn't mention a single link! Weird. Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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CS3 Announcement; Skewing and Shearing; Annoying Section Prefixes, Obscurity of the Week: Simulate Paper Color ----- Details below, or visit http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for show notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-044.mp3 (9.6 MB, 20:01 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted shortly) Adobe CS3 Announcement David at the Creative Suite Show; Anne-Marie in Duluth Skewing text and objects; skew vs. shear Working around the Section Prefix annoyance Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Simulate Paper Color Links mentioned in the podcast: InDesign Conference in New York, New York (June 4â6, 2007) Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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Newsbits; Contest Winner; Straight Lines; Readable Text; Obscurity of the Week: Metrics ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts/ for Show notes, links, and to post a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-043.mp3 (10.6 MB, 22:18 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted shortly) InDesign Newsbits: Free Plug-in from Teacup, Upcoming InDesign Shows Winner of the contest from last episode: Least Useful InDesign Palette InDesign trainer extraordinaire Russell Viers explains how to draw a straight line What's more readable: Serif or Sans Serif body text type? Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Metrics Links mentioned in the podcast: TypeFitter plug-in for InCopy (free) or InDesign ($59) (link leads to post with details) Creative Suite Conference in Miami, Florida (Feb. 28ÃïïMarch 3, 2007) InDesign Conference in New York, New York (June 4Ãïï6, 2007) Russell Viers' YabbAdobeDoo.com site Literature Review of Serif vs. Sans Serif Legibility Studies Typophile.com forum for typographers (especially this thread on optical vs. metrics0 InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster (use FEATHER coupon code for a 25% discount) Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message! p>Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-043.mp3 (10.6 MB, 25:16 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted shortly)  InDesign Newsbits: Free Plug-in from Teacup, Upcoming InDesign Shows Winner of the contest from last episode: Least Useful InDesign Palette InDesign trainer extraordinaire Russell Viers explains how to draw a straight line What's more readable: Serif or Sans Serif body text type? Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Metrics Links mentioned in the podcast: TypeFitter plug-in for InCopy (free) or InDesign ($59) (link leads to post with details) Creative Suite Conference in Miami, Florida (Feb. 28ÃïïMarch 3, 2007) InDesign Conference in New York, New York (June 4Ãïï6, 2007) Russell Viers' YabbAdobeDoo.com site Literature Review of Serif vs. Sans Serif Legibility Studies Typophile.com forum for typographers (especially this thread on optical vs. metrics0 InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster (use FEATHER coupon code for a 25% discount) Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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Placing Multi-page PDFs; Clear Overrides Button; Useless Palette Award and Contest; Obscurity of the Week: Align Based on Size ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, contest details, and to add a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-042.mp3 (12 MB, 25:16 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted shortly) Solutions for placing multiple-page PDFs The Clear Overrides button: Sweet feature, often overlooked Most Useless InDesign Palette Award/Contest Anne-Marie's nomination: the Color palette David's torn between the Transform and the Navigator palette Enter the contest by leaving a comment here! (Details below) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Align Based on Size Links mentioned in the podcast: PlaceMultipagePDF.jsx script for IDCS2 (link leads to post with details) InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster (use FEATHER coupon code for a 25% discount) The Most Useless InDesign Palette Award/Contest You've heard David and Anne-Marie's nominations, do you agree? Or maybe you depend on the Navigator or Color palette for some task integral to your workflow? Perhaps you have a different one you'd like a nominate? Add your thoughts, votes, rants, or staunch defense to the discussion by adding a comment below. Before the next podcast rolls around (a week or two), we'll randomly choose one of the comments and award that author an InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts poster! Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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Quizzler winner and wrap-up; InDesign News; Designer Wars; Obscurity of the Week: Slug ----- Details follow, or visit http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for show notes, links, and to leave a comment. ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-041.mp3 (14.4 MB, 30:20 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted shortly) Results from last episode's Quizzler -- and the winner! Various InDesign Newsbits Designer Wars! We discuss 3 issues that divide designers: Work locally or off the server? Set up file to trim size or add your own crops in larger page? Layered TIFFs or PSDs? Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Slug Links mentioned in the podcast: Pariah Burke'sQuarkvsInDesign.com (Adobe CS3 Logo Design Contest) John Nack's blog post about the CS3 logos (with images) InDesign Conferences (Stockholm now, NYC in June) Creative Suite Conference (Miami 2/28-3/3) InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster (use FEATHER coupon code for a 25% discount) Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

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