InDesign Secrets

Topics: Big news about podcast name Our favorite obscure features Fun obscure feature "spelling bee" game Obscure Feature: Positional Form   Friendly Alien: Episode 300 Tip of the Week   Barbell: 20 Obscure Features Episode 35   List of All Our Obscure Features (so far)   Positional Form: Exploring OpenType Pro Fonts, Part 2

Just for fun: Bad Advice (and Good Lessons) Interview with Marcus Radich from PageProof Obscure feature: Show Transparency Grid Links: Bad Advice The "Bad Advice" thread on Facebook Sara Rosinsky's Em Dash shirt Interview with PageProof: New Proofing Add-in for Microsoft Office Centralizing the Proofing Process with PageProof News: Adobe engineers did an Ask Us Anything 24-hour marathon on the InDesign subreddit (forum) of Reddit.com. Creative Cloud Members get 3 months of LinkedIn "Premium Career" membership (which includes LinkedIn Learning). See Adobe CC Benefits page Obscure Feature: Show Transparency Grid More information on Creative Cloud Libraries

Topics: Great lessons from the archives (that you may have missed) First look at InDesign 20.3 Obscure Feature: Delete All Guides on Spread Sponsor: PageProof is a simple-to-use but powerful online proofing platform that makes giving feedback on creative work effortless See David's latest conversation with PageProof founder, Marcus Radich Links: Old InDesign Magazine articles that are definitely evergreen: From issue 1: Recipes for Applying—and Ignoring—Text Wrap in InDesign issue 2: Fast Formatting with Nested Styles in InDesign issue 7: InDesign Tips of the Trade issue 8: Working with Anchored Objects in InDesign What's new in 20.3 Fixed Issues What's New Peter Kahrel's Latex to MathML script Issues with Generative Fill in InDesign News: Members can now download the Tables Superguide of articles CreativePro Week (use the code CPSECRETS to get $100 off that or any creativepro event) Obscure Feature: Delete All Guides on Spread Shortcut for selecting all guides

* DOIE: Dept. of InDesign Efficiency * Obscure Feature: Clear Rotation * News Links: Dept. of InDesign Efficiency 10 Essential Tips for Using Quick Apply in InDesign Activate Last Used Field Shortcut Apply Leading to Entire Paragraphs: What Causes Inconsistent Leading and How to Fix It How to Start Using InDesign Scripts How-to Create a Custom Workspace The weird "Place Gun Frame" trick: Applying an Object Style when Placing an Image Join us in our live studio audience for Podcast 332 at CreativePro Week! Clear Rotation: Rotate frames with a trackpad gesture Did you know you can move the spread rotation features with a script? Even more cool: A script to rotate all the spreads that contain frames that are rotated

Topics: The INDDC format: good and bad Interview with Venngage CEO Eugene Woo Obscure Feature: Reset Preferences on Quit Links: Cloud Docs: Collaborating Using Adobe Cloud Documents Creative Cloud Storage: Where Does It Go? Working with Adobe Cloud Documents Anne-Marie's Cloud Docs video "for Design Geeks" on LinkedIn Learning The endgame… collaborative editing, like the current Photoshop beta Venngage: AI powered design at your fingertips Resetting Preferences

Includes: Favorite font tricks Interview with Theresa Jackson InDesign 20.1 Obscure feature: Match Pasteboard to Theme Color News: 20.1 is in release rollout multi-find/change is now free Old (but still relevant!) InDesign Magazine articles, now on site: Designing Photo Albums in InDesign by Khara Plicanic Getting Started with GREP Styles in InDesign by Steve Caplin Working in Microsoft Word by Jamie McKee Designing with Type: Grunge, Punk, and Futurism by Nigel French InDesign Nightmares by David and Anne-Marie Theresa Jackson: Articles and videos Old (but fun!) Interview Font Tricks: How to change the underlying default font for a document (see Don Ayer's comment at end for an easier solution) OpenType text and text frame adornments Obscure Feature: Match Pasteboard to Theme Color

Topics: Anchored Objects Interview with Marcus Radich, PageProof Obscure Feature: Standard Carriage Return Links: Marcus Radich, from PageProof.com Anchored Objects: Working with Anchored Objects in InDesign How to Anchor a Graphic to Text (Video Tutorial) Anchoring Graphics Between Paragraphs Wrapping Text Around an Anchored Object Drag and Drop Anchored Objects Coming in 2025: CreativePro Week The InDesign Conference Books we mentioned: Shift Happens: a book about keyboards by Marcin Wichary How Comics Were Made, by Glenn Fleishman Background on the: carriage return

Table Scripts: Switching Rows and Columns in an InDesign Table Sort tables Setting Table Column Widths Easier Table Formatting Sizing Columns and Rows with a Script Calculations in InDesign Active Tables plug-in from DTP Tools Fixed Issues in InDesign 20.0.1 CreativePro Events: The Design + AI Summit, CreativePro Week, and more Obscure Feature: Cell Division

What's New in InDesign 2025: Adobe's update page How to Avoid Print Problems with MathML in InDesign New Accessibility Features in InDesign 2025 James Wamser's New Features Guide Creative Cloud Storage: Where Does Your Work Go? New "wow" products at MAX Project Neo Substance 3D Viewer Amazing ProjectTurntable from Sneaks Interview with: Karen Brewer, Adobe Obscure Feature: "Show Subset" Five Ways InDesign Libraries Are Better Than CC Libraries

News: CreativePro Week 2025 in Phoenix: registration is open CreativePro online summits  The Design + Accessibility Summit The Design + Marketing Summit The Design + AI Summit CreativePro Magazine Sept. 2025 issue: Accessibility Tools Sponsors of this episode: Adobe MAX: The Creativity Conference PageProof: All your proofing in one place. Online.   Embedding Graphics:  To Embed or Not to Embed Graphics in InDesign Files The Links Panel Reveals Information About Embedded Graphics Paula Scher: Wikipedia entry Pentagram Book suggestions: Logo Beginnings (Amazon link), and Logo Modernism (Amazon link) Math Typesetting: we recommend MathType Obscure Feature: Paste Nudge

News More CreativePro events coming up Update on InDesign 19.5 *beta* feature CreativePro Magazine 25 Years of Tips and Tricks! Catch Anne-Marie Sept 19 at the L.A. InDesign User Group (online) Sponsored by PageProof The Benefits of Online Proofing for the Creative Workflow PageProof review PageProof's website Update note on InDesign 19.5 Remember that GenAI stuff in 19.5 is beta! Three interesting InDesign Secrets forum posts How to get text to sit outside the text frame More on First Baseline Offset How to compare two PDF files PDF Comparator from Premedia Systems Comparing images or pages using effects blend modes The background to my AI or PDF files is no longer transparent Understanding InDesign's Place PDF Options How to Place CC Library Items with Transparency Obscure Feature: Contextual Task Bar (everyone loves it… not)

News InDesign 19.5 released 2024 CreativePro Week available on-demand More CreativePro events coming up CreativePro Magazine latest issue Sponsored by PageProof The Benefits of Online Proofing for the Creative Workflow PageProof review PageProof's website Unboxing InDesign 19.5 InDesign 19.5 Adds Generative Expand, History Panel, and Find/Change Text Case Adobe's What's New in 19.5 page Change Case: Peter Kahrel's script  GREP Solution to Flawed Title Case Feature History panel: The way we used to do History panels  Accessing Document History Obscure Feature: .joboptions More on PDF presets      

News InDesign beta to test opening PDFs to edit in InDesign CreativePro Week July 8–12 in DC! (and livestreamed) Use code CPSECRETS for $100 off any multi-day pass The InDesign + Accessibility Summit, Oct. 8–11 (online) CreativePro Magazine latest issue Interview with Sabine Lenz, "The Paper Queen" PaperSpecs site  Sabine's bio and sessions at CreativePro Week Must-Have Scripts How to Start Using InDesign Scripts (with the MakeGrid script) Copy InDesign Fonts to Folder (by Justin Putney at Ajar) Document Analyzer (by Keith Gilbert) LoremIpsum-izer script Calendar Wizard (by Scott Selberg) Scramble Text in Place to Hide Private Info (uses FindChangeByList) Unanchor Text (by Loic Aigon… we said Peter Kahrel in the podcast… oops!) Break Text Thread (in Community Scripts) StorySplitter (similar to Break Text Thread) Even more scripts: Top Sites for Free InDesign Scripts (from Anne-Marie's InDesign Tips for Design Geeks weekly course on LinkedIn Learning) Download a PDF with all of the top sites linked 100 Free InDesign Scripts The InDesign Scriptopedia Obscure Feature of the Week: Neutral Learn more about "No Language"

News InDesign 19.4 released CreativePro Font Collection Vol 4 Online Events and CreativePro Week CreativePro Magazine latest issue Marcus Radich interview PageProof site  Watch Marcus demo PageProof Exploring InDesign 19.4 New features in this release New EPUB Accessibility features Obscure Feature of the Week: Adjust Dashes and Gaps Setting a Dash Stroke with Exact Gap and Dash Values in InDesign Corner Stroke Effects Adding Strokes to Just the Corners of a Frame Creating Scalloped Edges How to Make Lumberjack Plaid You can do the same adjustments in Photoshop!

News InDesign 19.4 new features Note: 19.4 wasn't fully released when we recorded this podcast! You can learn more about the new features here. Online Events and CreativePro Week CreativePro Magazine latest issue Kara Plicanic interview Khara's web site Interview with Khara Khara's CreativePro articles and videos Secrets of the Live Preflight Panel Finding Overset Text With Preflight Customizing a Preflight Profile Finding Hidden Items With Preflight Profiles Use Live Preflight to Manage Page Sizes How to Create Preflight Profiles in InDesign Using the Book Panel to Preflight Multiple Documents More Preflight articles Obscure Feature of the Week: Recompose All Stories When Modified Anne-Marie's post and comment about it InDesign documentation Recompose All Text keyboard shortcut: Control-Alt-/ or Command-Option-/  

News Fixed issues in 19.3 Earn an InDesign Certificate on LinkedIn Learning Online Events and CreativePro Week Hot Threads: How to create a grid of images (or images and captions) so they'll autoflow and are easy to rearrange? Swapping Images script Auto-Reflowing Images in a Grid Loic's Inline Merge script to create a grid Video on using Data Merge scripts Using Kelly's TOC trick Client wants the font to be "a little heavier" after the almost-final proof, best way to do that? Obscure Feature of the Week: Proxy

News InDesign 19.2 fixes some issues Discontinuation of Creative Cloud Synced files The InDesign + Long Documents Summit (use discount code CPSECRETS for $100 off!) CreativePro Week (use CPSECRETS for $100 off any multi-day pass) Julie Shaffer Shaffer Creative Certified Professional Services Marketer (CPSM) program, from SMPS: https://www.smps.org/certification/ Interview with Julie Shaffer, Certified Marketing Pro Don't Let Adobe InDesign/InCopy Notes Go Unnoticed Secrets of the Scripts Panel What Do the Default Sample Scripts Do in InDesign? Community Scripts for All Organizing Scripts into Folders Managing InDesign Scripts Easily manage dozens of scripts among multiple InDesign versions (from InDesign Tips for Design Geeks) Unicode Injector: such a cool script! Assigning Keyboard Shortcuts to Scripts Using Quick Apply to Run Scripts Obscure Feature of the Week: Wavy How to Fix the Fill on Items with Wavy Strokes InDesign How-to: Use Conditional Text More articles on Conditional Text

In the news InDesign 19.1 (second attempt) released! Fingers crossed Upcoming online-only events:  The Presentation Design Conference, March 6-8 The InDesign + Long Documents Summit, April 5  CreativePro Week 2024, July 8–12, Washington, DC and online CreativePro Magazine February 2024 lead story: Presentation Design January 2024 lead story: AI in AI ;-)  Interview with Nolan Haims, presentation designer extraordinaire Secrets of the "Panel With The Longest Name" Obscure Feature of the Week: Apply to Parent Page Only Links mentioned in this podcast What's new in InDesign 19.1 BUT don't use ID 2024 (19.x) with Hebrew, Arabic, or RTL text (bug reports on facebook) and (bug reports in uservoice) Interview with Nolan Haims Nolan's Better Deck Deck (CreativePro members get 8 free!) Creating Paragraph Styles in PowerPoint Other great articles by Nolan The Presentation Podcast Speaking at The Presentation Design Conference EPUB Interactivity Preview Panel Using the EPUB Interactivity Preview Panel Faster Interactive Previews Saving Your Workspaces Join us for daily discussions and Q&A InDesignSecrets group on Facebook  InDesignSecrets group on LinkedIn 

In the news InDesign 19.1 here and gone Upcoming CreativePro Online Events CreativePro Magazine December 2023: Charts and Graphs In honor of podcast 3.14, all about Pi fonts! Obscure Feature of the Week: Ruler on Spine Links mentioned in this podcast Don't use ID 2024 (19.0) with Hebrew, Arabic, or RTL text (bug reports on facebook) and (bug reports in uservoice) InDesign on Sonoma (Mac) has UI flashing problems; waiting for Apple to update for fix (bug report in uservoice)Bugs: Colin's article about bar graphs: Making Variable Bar Graphs in InDesign with Data Merge All about Pi… Pies in Ace Hardware stores (and elsewhere): https://www.thepieco.com/map-locations David's book about pi: The Joy of Pi How to type pi: https://creativepro.com/6-ways-type-pi-symbol-indesign/ Pi fonts (symbols/dingbats) Some fonts have "pi" in their name (e.g. Universal News & Commercial Pi) https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/adobe-pi-std https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/interstate-pi Adobe Fonts ornaments tag Easy as Pi (Jim Felici) We Heart Dingbats (Pam Pfiffner) Transforming Pages (David was wrong… this can be done without scripting… but you shouldn't): https://creativepro.com/transforming-pages-in-cs5/

In the news InDesign 2024 updated to 19.01 Register for the Design + AI Summit! CreativePro Magazine November 2023: Multilingual Design, Glyph panel in depth  Secrets of the Align Panel and its weirdo cousin, the Gap tool Obscure Feature of the Week: Auto Update URL Status Links mentioned in this podcast Great article about Glyphs panel: https://creativepro.com/digging-into-the-glyphs-panel/ Align Panel Tutorials: Setting Exact Space Between Objects in InDesign What and Where is Distribute Spacing? InDesign How-to Video: Use the Align Panel Align Panel Enhancements InDesign How-to: Make a Mondrian-inspired Grid InDesign Basics: Making a Photo Grid The Right Way to Vertically Distribute Text Frames A quick way to abut the edges of 2 (or more) objects Gap Tool Articles: What Exactly Does That InDesign Tool Do?! Creating a Dynamic Autofit Effect for Image Grids With the Gap Tool The Gap Tool and Groups Split Images That Span Across Two Pages The "Spring Loaded Tool" tip: https://creativepro.com/spring-loaded-tools/ The Tool Hints panel: https://creativepro.com/using-tool-hints-panel/  

In the news Register for our Online Summits: Design + Accessibility, and Design + AI! CreativePro Magazine October 2023: Accessibility for Newbies All about Adobe InDesign 2024 (v19.0) Adobe MAX 2023 review and ID Tips from Attendees Obscure Feature of the Week: Show Structure Sponsor for this episode >>  Priint:Suite is an enterprise platform that reduces the time to create marketing publications up to 80% and enables creative marketers to focus on being creative.  Automate layouts following business/layout rules without limits on creative freedom. Instantly create personalized or language variants. Learn more about where and how to use it with InDesign here!  Links mentioned in this podcast The Design + Data Summit (on-demand) The Design + Accessibility Summit The Design + AI Summit CreativePro Week 2024: July 8-12, 2024 (DC and Online) What's new in InDesign 2024 https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/whats-new.html Request a feature in InDesign https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests David's conversation with Priint CEO of Priint USA: https://creativepro.com/creativepro-conversations-integrate-data-and-design-with-priintsuite/ Adam Pratt, CEO of Chaos to Memories Sarah Hyndman, author of Passive Aggressive Fonts and Why Fonts Matter Mark Heaps, Groq How to print a page range: https://creativepro.com/tip-of-the-week-the-easy-way-to-print-a-page-range/ Friendly Alien Easter Egg: https://creativepro.com/tip-of-the-week-friendly-alien-easter-egg/ Obscure Feature: Show Structure https://creativepro.com/getting-started-with-xml-in-indesign/ How to use Quick Apply to open or close Structure panel: https://creativepro.com/using-quick-apply-for-menu-commands/  

In the news Two more online Summits coming up, check them out! CreativePro Magazine September 2023 all about Editorial Workflows Our own InDesign Sneaks Obscure Feature of the Week: Text Rotation Sponsor for this episode >> Adobe MAX 2023 Creativity Conference is happening October 8–12 in Los Angeles, California. Learn from experts and innovators, top creatives in design, photography, illustration, video, 3D, and more. Of course, the highlight is that  many InDesign experts will be presenting, live and online — even the Adobe engineering team from India. Hope to see you there! Links mentioned in this podcast The Design + Data Summit (on-demand) The Design + Accessibility Summit The Design + AI Summit CreativePro Week 2024: July 8-12, 2024 (DC and Online) — Registration is open! Adobe Fonts: now there's a difference between "added" and "installed": read more here Data plugins you should know about: InData from Em Softwar DocsFlow and WordsFlow from Em Software Priint Suite Cacidi LiveMerge and Extreme EasyCatalog from 65bit DesignMerge from Meadows XMPie (check out their cool "kiosk" site for demos) Teacup DataLinker Adding layouts to CC Libraries (with Bridge or drag and drop) https://www.linkedin.com/learning/indesign-tips-for-design-geeks/add-indesign-layouts-to-creative-cloud-libraries Obscure Feature: Text Rotation How to rotate text inside a frame (separate from the frame) Keith Gilbert's script to rotate individual characters

In the news: Design & Data Summit, Sept 21–22, online only More online Summits coming up, check them out! CreativePro magazine September 2023 all about Editorial Workflows Adobe InDesign 18.5 released New free scripts we like Deep Dive into the Scripts panel Obscure Feature of the Week: Verbose Sponsor for this episode >> Santa Cruz Software is the maker of LinkerUI, a best-in-class extension that connects InDesign and other CC applications to your DAM and cloud-based services like Dropbox. Box, GoogleDrive and more. It enables direct searching, opening, placing, and syncing of assets. A new feature in LinkrUI called Smart-Linkr now automatically finds and fixes broken asset links at a single click, so you never need to search for lost assets again. Download LinkrUI for free today at SantaCruzSoftware.com Links mentioned in this podcast CreativePro Week 2024 OPENING SALE: Use code FIRST48 on Sept 7 or 8 to get $400 off any multi-day registration More on UXP plug-ins: https://developer.adobe.com/indesign/uxp/ AM's video of the best websites for free InDesign scripts: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/indesign-tips-for-design-geeks/top-sites-for-free-indesign-scripts Community scripts https://creativepro.com/community-scripts-for-all/ More on GitHub: https://github.com/AdobeInDesignScripts/directory How Unicode Injector Works Some new scripts Peter K: missing fonts: https://creativepro.com/scripts-for-fixing-missing-fonts-in-indesign/ flagging words: https://creativepro.com/a-script-to-flag-certain-words-in-indesign/ blind endnotes: https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/footnotes.html Keith: Export SVG: https://creativepro.com/a-script-to-export-svg-content-from-indesign/ split pages for inside bleed: https://creativepro.com/a-script-to-allow-bleeds-on-the-spine-of-indesign-documents/ remove shared hyperlink destinations: https://creativepro.com/how-to-fix-shared-hyperlinks-in-indesign/ How to install scripts in InDesign Using Quick Apply to Run Scripts Assigning Keyboard Shortcuts to Scripts

In the news: Design & Marketing Summit, July 27–28, online only More online Summits coming up, check them out! Adobe MAX 2023, David and Anne-Marie are doing live sessions, many more InDesign pros presenting live and online only CreativePro magazine July 2023 all about Artificial Intelligence Podcasts we like (and please review ours)! David's story about recovering from Can't Save/Save As disasters Deep Dive: Secrets of the Glyphs panel Obscure Feature of the Week: Styles Override Highlighter Sponsor for this episode >>Santa Cruz Software: Did you know that 66% of sales professionals can't get their sales or marketing collateral in time, often creating assets without oversight? Solve this with BrandingUI. Try it today at SantaCruzSoftware.com! Links mentioned in this podcast Podcasts: ChaxChat Accessibility podcast with Dax Castro and Chad Chelius What other podcasts to you listen to? Let us know! Please rate InDesign Secrets! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/indesign-secrets/id101102043 https://open.spotify.com/show/4Erwd0qHoR22NhTSY67I0v (you have to listen to at least one episode before it lets you rate it) Saving files to Cloud Documents: https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/work-with-cloud-documents.html and https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/manage-cloud-documents-photoshop.html Glyphs panel:  Get to Know InDesign's Glyphs Panel Find Characters Using the Glyphs Panel Tip of the Week: Controlling the Glyphs Panel Display Working With Custom Glyph Sets Talking about CID/GID: Podcast 260 Insert a Character by Unicode or GID Stylistic Sets: TypeTalk: Stylin' Sets Using Stylistic Sets Anne-Marie's video Obscure Feature: Style Overrides Highlighter Next time: InDesign Secrets True Crime podcast!

In the news:  CreativePro rebrand!!  Design & Marketing Summit, July 27–28, online only Adobe MAX 2023, David and Anne-Marie are doing live sessions InDesign 18.4 is slowly being rolled out CreativePro Week was phenomenal! Grab an On Demand Pass to watch all the sessions, including IGNITE! and download the handouts  Next year in Washington DC! More info to come. CreativePro Magazine June 2023, issue 20: Email templates, cover story by our designer Pam Sparks! Also great InDesign tips and tricks Getting geeky with IDML, Tagged Text, ICML, and Snippet files Obscure Feature of the Week: Remove Forced Line Break Sponsor for this episode >> Noble Desktop: For over 30 years, Noble Desktop's project-based classes and certificate programs have given professionals the tools to pursue creative careers in design, coding, and beyond. Learn more about them on our Training Provider page or at NobleDesktop.com. Links mentioned in this podcast YES our original InDesign Secrets mug IS still available! https://www.cafepress.com/mf/14282011/large-indesignsecrets-_mugs?productId=60507004 Watch our free webinar: Creating Social Media Assets with InDesign https://creativepro.com/watch-on-demand-indesign-social-assets/ We're speaking at MAX 2023 David Blatner Anne-Marie Concepcion Pam's article on Building Email Templates: https://creativepro.com/building-email-templates/ Getting Geeky: Snippets: https://creativepro.com/the-joy-of-snippets/ https://creativepro.com/place-snippets-at-the-same-location-or-not/ https://creativepro.com/locking-snippets/ https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-snippets-in-a-printing-workflow/ Tagged Text: Database or spreadsheet to tagged text: https://creativepro.com/automate-text-formatting-with-tagged-text/ IDML: Jeff Potter's amazing web app to IDML trick: https://creativepro.com/harnessing-the-power-of-text-variables-and-idml/ Hard-core editing to fix RGB Black: https://creativepro.com/turning-rgb-black-to-cmyk-black/ Download this great illustrated guide to IDML by Mike Rankin: https://creativepro.com/downloads/Anatomy_of_IDML.pdf Color swatches that won't delete: https://creativepro.com/color-swatches-that-wont-delete/

In the news:  Article Hunt contest winners Adobe MAX 2023, David and Anne-Marie are doing live sessions InDesign 18.3 is slowly being rolled out CreativePro Week, June 5-9 in Phoenix (and online) IGNITE CreativePro is back!  Movie Night Design + Marketing Summit, July 27-28, online event CreativePro Magazine May 2023, issue 19: Virtual Photography, and lots of InDesign content Fonts in InDesign: Best practices and best tips Obscure Feature of the Week: Ornaments Links mentioned in this podcast Adobe MAX 2023 speakers Including ... Anne-Marie and David Angelo Montilla, who we interviewed in podcast episode 290 Dax Castro, interviewed (with Chad Chelius) in podcast episode 292 Erica Gamet, interviewed in podcast episode 226 Fonts: Great Fonts To Use: CreativePro Font Collection #1: https://creativepro.com/creativepro-font-collection-vol-1/ Font Collection #2: https://creativepro.com/creativepro-font-collection-vol-2/ Our awesome "InDesignSecrets Font Collection" on Adobe Fonts: https://fonts.adobe.com/collections/indesign-20 Google Fonts: https://creativepro.com/using-google-fonts-indesign/ Adobe Fonts: https://creativepro.com/using-adobe-fonts/ Font Tools Astute Graphics Vector First Aid: https://astutegraphics.com/plugins/vectorfirstaid Justin's "Copy InDesign Fonts to Folder" script: https://ajarproductions.com/blog/2013/04/16/copy-indesign-fonts-to-folder/ Identifying Fonts: What the Font: https://www.myfonts.com/pages/whatthefont How to identify fonts: https://creativepro.com/identifying-fonts/ Glyphs panel: Learning about the Glyphs panel: https://creativepro.com/get-know-indesigns-glyphs-panel/ Tips: https://creativepro.com/tip-week-glyphs-panel-display/ Finding characters: https://creativepro.com/find-characters-using-the-glyphs-panel/ Custom glyph sets: https://creativepro.com/working-with-custom-glyph-sets/ Laura Worthington's Hummingbird font: https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/hummingbird Making Fonts: IndyFont: https://www.indiscripts.com/post/2012/06/indyfont-build-opentype-fonts-from-within-indesign If you have a LinkedIn Learning subscription: our video on IndyFont: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/indesign-secrets/055-making-a-font-with-indesign-using-the-indyfont-script?u=0 FontSelf in Illustrator: https://creativepro.com/create-fonts-illustrator-cc-fontself/ Installing Fonts: Document Fonts folder: https://creativepro.com/easy-font-activation-using-document-fonts/ InDesign application's Fonts folder: https://creativepro.com/getting-indesign-to-see-your-fonts/

InDesign Public Beta for Cloud Docs Events: CreativePro Week 2023 June 5–9, Phoenix, Arizona (and online!) Design + Marketing Summit (online, July 27–28) Design + Data Summit (online, September 21–22) Creative Pro Magazine issue 19 includes articles about virtual photography, InDesign layers, and a review of IndexMatic 3 Interviews with Nicte Cuevas and Bart Van de Wiele Obscure InDesign Feature: Presentation Sponsor for this episode >> Noble Desktop: For over 30 years, Noble Desktop's project-based classes and certificate programs have given professionals the tools to pursue creative careers in design, coding, and beyond. Learn more about them on our Training Provider page or at NobleDesktop.com. Links mentioned in this podcast Nicte Cuevas: Web site LinkedIn Learning courses CreativePro Week speaker What is an Ecotone Bart Van de Wiele Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Collaboration and Workflow (Classroom in a Book) LinkedIn Learning course CreativePro Week speaker Making Forms with InDesign and Acrobat Sign Presentation Mode

InDesign 18.21 release CreativePro Week 2023 June 4–9, Phoenix, Arizona (and online!) NEW Design + Marketing Summit (online, July 27–28) Awesome lineup, including Jesus Ramirez, Von Glitschka, Amy Balliet, and new speakers incluing the amazing Jim Krause, Brodi-Rose Newsome, Kyle Hamrick Creative Pro Magazine issue 18 feature story is about motion and video in Photoshop!  All about Measurements: You're bound to learn a few tips Obscure InDesign Feature: Not Shifted Sponsors for this episode >>PageProof is the top online proofing workflow platform for your creative process: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, PowerPoint, image files, and more. It's free for reviewers, and flat rate pricing for you and your designers makes it easy to get started! Learn more about PageProof in David's in-depth interview in this CreativePro Conversation on YouTube.  >>Microsoft PowerPoint has a mission: To empower people and organizations to tell the world's most compelling stories to anyone, anywhere, at any time. Check out our newest feature, Cameo, which lets you integrate a live camera feed into your presentation. Learn more about Cameo here. Links mentioned in this podcast More on Measurements Changing InDesign's Default Ruler Measurements: link InDesign Measurements Changing Unexpectedly: link Scaling an Object to an Exact Size: link Measuring Angles: link Measurement Field Secrets: link Measure Distance with Ruler Guides: link Set the Size of Text Exactly (based on cap or x-height): link A Great Script Lets You Add Measurements in InDesign or Illustrator: link

In This Episode: News Design & Powerpoint Summit now available on-demand CreativePro Week 2023 coming up in June! David's Adobe Live session A few InDesign features that just don't work right (it's not you — it's the software) Obscure InDesign Feature: Footnote Number Sponsors for this episode >>PageProof is the top online proofing workflow platform for your creative process: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Powerpoint, image files, and more. It's free for reviewers, and flat rate pricing for you and your designers makes it easy to get started! Learn more about PageProof in David's in-depth interview in this CreativePro Conversation on YouTube.  >>Microsoft PowerPoint has a mission: To empower people and organizations to tell the world's most compelling stories to anyone, anywhere, at any time. Check out our newest feature, Cameo, which lets you integrate a live camera feed into your presentation. Learn more about Cameo here. Links mentioned in this podcast David's dot-matrix printer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageWriter Anne-Marie's butter churn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_churn What's new in InDesign 18.2: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html David's “InDesign Fundamentals” with host Izzy Poirier on Adobe Live: https://www.behance.net/live/videos/19521/Adobe-InDesign-Fundamentals-with-David-Blatner Vote for InDesign wish-list features and bugs:  https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests Dropbox Lock Editing: https://help.dropbox.com/organize/file-locking Placing an Image with an Object Style: https://creativepro.com/applying-an-object-style-when-placing-an-image/

News: InDesign 18.1 release Design & Powerpoint Summit coming up Feb 16–17, 2023 CreativePro Week 2023 agenda posted CreativePro Magazine January 2023: PowerPoint Tips; Overcoming Creative Burnout. CreativePro Magazine February 2023: Making Forms with InDesign and Acrobat  Monitoring the InDesign Dashboard ChatGPT and Generative AI Obscure InDesign Feature: Adjust spacing automatically when cutting and pasting words Sponsor for this episode: >>PageProof is the top online proofing workflow platform for your creative process: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Powerpoint, image files, and more. It's free for reviewers, and flat rate pricing for you and your designers makes it easy to get started! We interview Marcus Radich, CTO, in this episode, and you can hear David's more in-depth interview in this CreativePro Conversation on YouTube.  Links mentioned in this podcast: News Should you update to the newest version of InDesign? https://creativepro.com/should-adobe-fix-older-versions-of-programs/ Are you feeling creative burnout? Read Maya Lim's article: https://creativepro.com/breaking-through-creative-burnout/ Check out Maya's other great articles here: https://creativepro.com/author/maya-lim/ InDesign Dashboard Control vs. Properties panel: https://creativepro.com/video-how-to-bring-the-control-panel-back-and-keep-it/ How to customize the links panel: https://creativepro.com/customizing-links-panel/ Red dot = overset text: https://creativepro.com/tip-week-finding-overset-text-preflight/ Rotate pages/spreads: https://creativepro.com/tip-week-rotate-spread-view-gesture/ Showing which pages have transparency: https://creativepro.com/why-the-checkerboard/ Other alerts to watch for: https://creativepro.com/whats-that-alert-or-question-mark-icon-in-indesign/ ChatGPT, DALL-E, and other Generative A.I. What you need to know: https://creativepro.com/opinion-the-future-is-genai-enabled/ The script that David made with ChatGPT: https://creativepro.com/move-every-object-on-every-page-toward-or-away-from-spine/#comments/2427288 Star Trek: “Hello Computer” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpWhugUmV5U Obscure Feature: Adjust spacing automatically when cutting and pasting words Changing preferences with QuickApply: https://creativepro.com/10-essential-tips-for-working-with-styles-indesign/    

In this episode… News CreativePro Week 2023 registration includes InDesign and more Recordings available for the Design & Accessibility Summit  Go to our Events page to see 4 new online summits for 2023 CreativePro Magazine December 2022 issue dives deep into fonts and the Pantone color aggravation Good Grief: Goodbye to Type 1 Fonts and bundled Pantone spot colors Interview with Marcus Radich, chief tech officer of PageProof Obscure InDesign Feature: Select Unused Parents Sponsor for this episode: >>PageProof is the top online proofing workflow platform for your creative process: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Powerpoint, image files, and more. It's free for reviewers, and flat rate pricing for you and your designers makes it easy to get started! We interview Marcus Radich, CEO, in this episode, and you can hear David's more in-depth interview in this CreativePro Conversation on YouTube.  Links mentioned in this podcast: LinkedIn Learning Video Series for InDesign users InDesign Tips for Design Geeks InDesign Secrets (over 300 videos!) End of PostScript Type 1 Support Adobe's note on end of life for Type 1 Fonts How to Tell Which Files Use Type 1 PostScript Fonts How to Find Files Using Type1 PostScript Fonts in InDesign How to Convert PostScript Fonts to OpenType with TransType Pantone Libraries Disappearing What are Pantone colors? What are spot colors? Claudia McCue explains it all for you: https://creativepro.com/working-with-spot-colors/ Adobe's Pantone Colors Fade to Black: Users Turn Rubine Over Removal of Libraries from Creative Cloud 2023 Pantone Connect add-on in Adobe Exchange A Pantone-like library (Freetone) What is the Trumatch CMYK process color swatch library? https://creativepro.com/indesign-trumatch-system/ Parent pages: How to make running heads that change without using multiple parent/master pages: https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-to-automate-chapter-headers/

In this episode: News CreativePro Week 2023 registration opens October 6, 2022 Design & Accessibility Summit (online) Nov. 29–Dec. 2, 2022 CreativePro Magazine covering tips, insights, and more What's New in InDesign 2023 Interview with Mark Hilton and Gabe Harbs from Santa Cruz Software Obscure InDesign Feature: Vertical Scale Sponsor for this episode: >> Santa Cruz Software is the creator of BrandingUI, LinkrUI, and PrintUI: BrandingUI empowers your global team to customize materials at scale, all while staying brand compliant. More on LinkrUI: Survey Finds Over Four in Five Creative Pros Spend Time Weekly Finding Lost Assets Streamline Design Team Workflows with LinkrUI Links mentioned in this podcast: Showing the InDesign preview thumbnails is based on the Preferences dialog box What UXP is (for developers) Loading paragraph styles into the document: Working with Text Styles in CC Libraries 10 Essential tips for working with styles in InDesign In-Tools (still some great free scripts!) Vertical Scale tip involving styles

In this landmark 300th episode…  News Anne-Marie and David will be live at Adobe MAX in October CreativePro Week 2023 registration opens October 6, 2022 Design & Accessibility Summit (online) Nov. 29–Dec. 2, 2022 Whoa! 300 episodes! A look back at 17 years of the InDesign Secrets podcast Snippets from the first episode, Nov. 29, 2005 Audio snippets from friends and colleagues with limericks, favorite features, memories, and more The FIRST Obscure InDesign Feature: Friendly Alien (A young David explains this in the first episode) Sponsors for this episode: >> Canto is a leader in digital asset management (DAM) software, with customers that include many of today's top brands. This is an incredibly intuitive and easy to use platform that gives creative teams a centralized location to organize, find, and share all of their digital brand assets, including videos, images, graphics, etc. Canto integrates directly with Adobe Creative Cloud software. For more information and a personalized demo, visit https://go.canto.com/CreativePro.  >> Adobe MAX is one of the largest gatherings of graphic, web, UX and multi-skilled designers, creative and art directors, illustrators, film, video, and motion graphics pros, photographers, and creative leaders. And this year, for the first time ever, you can attend in person or online (for free), so there's a MAX for everyone. Save $400 off the live event's registration fee by using our promo code M22CPN Register at https://max.adobe.com Links mentioned in this podcast: Accessible Kellogg Rice Krispies History of Podcasts: https://www.onefineplay.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-podcasting Our first InDesign Secrets Podcast, episode #1 InDesign CS/CS2 Breakthroughs, the book we wrote together that we reference in that first episode. Shout-out to Libsyn, our podcast host vendor since the start A Brief History of Podcasting InDesign User Groups that stream their meetings (so anyone can attend): Los Angeles: https://www.laidug.com Hamburg: http://idug-hamburg.de New Jersey: https://www.meetup.com/Adobe-INDUG-InDesign-User-Group/ Minneapolis: https://www.facebook.com/tcidug (are there more? Let us know!) Bart Van de Wiele's new book, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Collaboration and Workflow (Classroom in a Book) 

In this episode… News Last chance to get CreativePro Week 2022 videos and handouts Our online Design and Marketing Summit debuts July 18–19   Illustrator Summit returns Sept 22–23 Anne-Marie and David will be live at Adobe MAX in October CreativePro Magazine's July issue is all about Illustrator and InDesign Type: https://creativepro.com/issues/ "Smarter Workflows with InDesign and Word," Anne-Marie's newly-published course on LinkedIn Learning Editorial Tools and Panels in InDesign Obscure InDesign Feature: Select Subject  Sponsor for this episode: > > Santa Cruz Software has a solution for the “83% of respondents who have said they have to spend time finding a lost sset.” The answer is LinkrUI, a plugin that enables direct searching, opening, placing, and syncing of assets stored in a DAM or other storage services such as Box and Dropbox from within Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Download the free version here. Links mentioned in this podcast: Smarter Workflows with InDesign and Word by Anne-Marie! InDesign for Editors by Nigel French Notes tool and panel https://creativepro.com/find-notes-indesign-files/ https://creativepro.com/how-do-you-know-if-there-are-notes-in-an-indesign-document/ https://creativepro.com/show-indesign-notes-tool-some-love/ https://creativepro.com/use-notes-to-hide-text/ Kris Coppieters' free ShowNotes.jsx startup script Story Editor: https://creativepro.com/hidden-gems-the-story-editor/ https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-to-use-the-story-editor/ InCopy articles: https://creativepro.com/category/incopy-workflow/ Track Changes: https://creativepro.com/tip-of-the-week-tracking-changes/ https://creativepro.com/use-track-changes-when-accepting-pdf-comments/ Obscure Feature: Select Subject https://creativepro.com/how-to-use-subject-aware-text-wrap-in-indesign/

In this episode… News CreativePro Week 2022 recap Design and Marketing Summit coming up in July!   CreativePro Magazine issues: https://creativepro.com/issues/ Cool InDesign tips we learned at the conference Obscure InDesign Feature: Create Button Trigger  Sponsor for this episode: >> Canto is a leader in digital asset management (DAM) software, with customers that include many of today's top brands. This is an incredibly intuitive and easy to use platform that gives creative teams a centralized location to organize, find, and share all of their digital brand assets, including videos, images, graphics, etc. Canto integrates directly with Adobe Creative Cloud software. For more information and a personalized demo, visit https://go.canto.com/CreativePro.  Links mentioned in this podcast: CreativePro Week: on-demand still available https://creativeproweek.com/2022ondemand/ CreativePro Week 2023 announced: https://creativeproweek.com/savethedate2023/ Learn to use Canva: https://creativepro.com/getting-started-with-canva/ CreativePro "3 Minutes Max" videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU-BUwkpVTo&list=PLFof_0NMmT7Uwyy6bc1Uo5OlfBUEtU2Li Cool tips and scripts:Keith Gilbert's Isometric/Diametric InDesign script:  https://gilbertconsulting.com/scripts The settings for a custom stroke that Bart demonstrated, which can be used for a static rule length in Rule Above/Below:

In this episode… News Adobe InDesign 17.2.1 update patch released CreativePro Week May 9-13, live in DC and online CreativePro Events: https://creativepro.com/events CreativePro Magazine: https://creativepro.com/issues/ CI-HUB Prize Raffle: https://ci-hub.com/creativepro/   Deadline is May 2 2022! Details on that page Field Guide to Non-Printing Highlights (there are more than you think!) Obscure InDesign Feature: Float in Window  Sponsors for this episode: >> Microsoft and Adobe! Both of these fine companies are CreativePro partners and will be represented at CreativePro Week 2022. Adobe is flying in a group of Adobe CC engineers from India, and MS Office product manager Stephanie Horn is doing a session on using video in Powerpoint.  Links mentioned in this podcast: You can use CC Libraries in Word and PowerPoint: https://creativepro.com/using-cc-libraries-in-word-and-powerpoint/ Cool tip: "How to Make an Object Style That Resizes Objects from the Center (or Any Other Reference Point) in InDesign" https://creativepro.com/how-to-make-an-object-style-that-resizes-objects-from-the-center-or-any-other-reference-point-in-indesign/ What's new in 17.2.1: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html Andreas Michalski from CI-HUB, our guest from the last podcast episode Company site https://ci-hub.com Enter their raffle here: https://ci-hub.com/creativepro/) for free tickets to CreativePro Week and free subscriptions to CI-HUB! Deadline for entries is May 2, and they'll contact the winners on May 3, 2022 Composition Highlights: https://creativepro.com/field-guide-to-composition-highlighting/ https://creativepro.com/why-is-my-indesign-text-highlighted-in-blue/ What Anne-Marie taught David in this episode (how to quickly jump to the active InDesign document's location on your hard drive):https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-to-video-find-file-size-location/ 3 Minutes Max tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=580PSVBohDI&list=PLFof_0NMmT7Uwyy6bc1Uo5OlfBUEtU2Li

In this episode… News Adobe InDesign 17.2 update patch released CreativePro Week agenda is up! May 9-13, live in DC and online The cover story in the March 2022 issue of CreativePro magazine dives deep into alternatives to Adobe software (including how Affinity Publisher stacks up to InDesign)  And the April issue is all about making data visual; a must-read for anyone who makes charts, graphs, infographics, and so on  Interview with Andreas Michalski of CI-HUB Control Panel vs. the Properties Panel: Total Smackdown! Obscure InDesign Feature: Key Object  Sponsor for this episode: >> Canto (they dropped the “Cumulus” name a few years ago) is a leader in digital asset management (DAM) software, with customers that include many of today's top brands. This is an incredibly intuitive and easy to use platform that gives creative teams a centralized location to organize, find, and share all of their digital brand assets, including videos, images, graphics, etc. Canto integrates directly with Adobe Creative Cloud software. For more information, visit https://go.canto.com/CreativePro. Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesign 17.2… what's new: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html The mystery of PlugPlugOwl: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/36861886-indesign-crashes-on-launch-in-plugplugowl-dll How to rebuild your preferences: https://creativepro.com/rebuilding-indesign-preferences/ Canto has been around forever! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulus_(software) Working with a DAM: InDesign Magazine Issue 109: https://creativepro.com/indesign-magazine-issue-109-digital-asset-management/ Anne-Marie shows how to get the Control panel back: https://creativepro.com/video-how-to-bring-the-control-panel-back-and-keep-it/ Andreas Michalski from CI-HUB  https://ci-hub.com 17-minute video by CI-HUB from CreativePro Week: https://creativeproweek.com/session/ci-hub-sponsored-session-2020/ Anne-Marie's course on Collaborative Workflows:  https://www.linkedin.com/learning/collaborative-workflows-for-editors-and-designers/

In this episode… News Creative Pro Events full 2022 schedule is up! The Design + PowerPoint Summit, March 10-11 CreativePro Week, May 9-13 (live in DC and online!) The Design + Marketing Summit, July 18-19 The Adobe Illustrator Summit, September 22-23 The Design + Accessibility Summit, November 29-December 2 InDesign's Most Confusing Features Obscure InDesign Feature: Others  Links mentioned in this podcast: Design + PowerPoint Summit, CreativePro Week, and more! https://creativepro.com/events Confusing Features Start document on a left-hand page: https://creativepro.com/starting-a-document-on-a-left-hand-page/ Gap Tool: https://creativepro.com/exactly-indesign-tool/ Auto-Fit: https://creativepro.com/video-use-auto-fit-on-images/ How Gradients Work: https://creativepro.com/adjusting-the-position-of-gradients/ Why Radial Gradients are crazy: https://creativepro.com/yes-indesigns-radial-gradients-insane-its-you/ Place and Link: https://creativepro.com/linking-images-change/(how you get to this episode's Obscure Feature: Others) Bart Van de Wiele's course "Advanced InDesign: Productivity Techniques" https://www.linkedin.com/learning/advanced-indesign-productivity-techniques/welcome-to-this-course  

In this episode… News Creative Pro Events full 2022 schedule is up! The Design + PowerPoint Summit, March 10-11 CreativePro Week, May 9-13 (live in DC and online!) The Design + Marketing Summit, July 18-19 The Adobe Illustrator Summit, September 22-23 The Design + Accessibility Summit, November 29-December 2 Pantone® and Adobe brouhaha InDesign Collaboration Tips and Solutions Obscure InDesign Feature: Accessibility (it appears in an InDesign panel) Sponsors for this episode: >> Ajar Productions is the developer of the phenomenal in5 add-on for Adobe InDesign, which lets you export interactivity from InDesign to different formats  that actually work. Create websites, digital magazines, mobile apps, animated banners and presentations, by simply using InDesign, no coding involved! They're now adding accessibility features, see their YouTube video. Learn more and download a free trial of in5 at in5.us.  Links mentioned in this podcast: Anne-Marie's InDesign Tips for Design Geeks video on extracting typefaces from text in images in InDesign 2022, a great new feature Pantone removing libraries from Adobe products Great tip for getting colors from the free version of the Pantone Connect app  Collaboration tips: Anne-Marie's Collaborative Workflows for Editors and Designers (course at LinkedIn Learning) Conrad Chavez wrote about InDesign collaboration through cloud services for InDesign Magazine Using InDesign's Share for Review feature Em Software's WordsFlow and DocsFlow Interview with Marcus Radich of PageProof Chad Chelius's and Dax Castro's Accessibility podcast

In this episode… News Adobe InDesign 2022  has an update (v17.01x) CreativePro Magazine issue 1 is out! On-Demand passes now available for the expanded Design + Accessibility Summit Some Totally Obvious InDesign Things We Just Learned This Year Interview with Marcus Radich from PageProof Obscure InDesign Feature: “Roger, hungry, ate 236 peaches and cantaloupes in 1904” Sponsors for this episode: > 3M's VAS: 3M's Visual Attention Software (VAS) is powerful, science-based AI that simulates the human vision system to analyze visual content and predicts with 92% accuracy what is attracting viewer attention. VAS is available as a web app and plugins for Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and XD. Start your free trial today, and enter promo code CREATIVEPRO5 for 5 additional trial credits! Links mentioned in this podcast: The Design + Accessibility Summit CreativePro Week What's new in InDesign 2022 (17.0) https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/whats-new.html What's new in 17.01: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html How to make the menus bigger on the Mac (for high-res monitors): https://osxdaily.com/2021/10/12/change-menu-bar-size-mac/ Why versions of Mac OS are all California cities: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/davidblatner_apple-mac-activity-6860597173332135936-PYWB Interview with Marcus Radich at PageProof: What is an Awk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auk What is an orc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc Who is Martinho da Gloria: https://www.automatication.com/about-us/ Obvious Things We Learned (or Re-learned) Move Control Panel to the Bottom of the Screen https://creativepro.com/moving-control-panel-to-bottom-of-screen/ Accessibility tab in hyperlinks… doesn't work the way you might expect: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/44174832-hyperlink-alt-text-is-ignored-in-the-latest-versio InDesign icon in Publish Online embed: How to do it: https://creativepro.com/publish-online-supports-embedding-indesign-documents/ Problem: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/20459239-allow-removal-of-the-publish-online-button-that Adobe Illustrator: customizing the toolbar: https://creativepro.com/customize-your-illustrator-workspace/ and https://creativepro.com/create-a-custom-toolbar-in-illustrator/   Obscure Feature: Roger, hungry, ate 236 peaches and cantaloupes in 1904 If you make the sample text small, the Birch font will fit the whole line in the column. 

In this episode… News Adobe InDesign 2022 (v17.0x) now available InDesign Magazine is evolving into CreativePro magazine, first issue out November 1 2021! Sign up for our expanded Design + Accessibility Summit, Nov. 16–19 Interview with Chad Chelius and Dax Castro, accessibility experts and hosts of The A11y Podcast Obscure InDesign Feature: Flip  Sponsors for this episode: > Santa Cruz Software has a solution for the "83% of respondents who have said they have to spend time finding a lost asset." The answer is LinkrUI, a plugin that enables direct searching, opening, placing, and syncing of assets stored in a DAM or other storage services such as Box and Dropbox from within Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Read about the freemium version here. Links mentioned in this podcast: David's session at MAX: Discovering the Best InDesign Tips and Tricks Anne-Marie's lab at MAX: InDesign Basics: From Newbie to Pro Photoshop Banana (easter egg): https://creativepro.com/photoshop-easter-eggs/ Adobe MAX 2021 Final issue of InDesign Magazine has 150 All-Star Tips (and our "Hidden" Features article) Should people upgrade right away? https://creativepro.com/should-adobe-fix-older-versions-of-programs/ InCopy Vulnerability patch: https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/incopy/apsb21-05.html Dax Castro and Chad Chelius Accessibility (#a11y) podcast website: https://www.accessibilitychecklists.com (or http://www.chaxchat.com) Dax and Chad are the accessibility pros at AbleDocs: https://www.abledocs.com/en Obscure Feature: Flip (Text on a Path) https://creativepro.com/center-text-on-top-of-a-circular-path-quickly/

In this episode… News InDesign Magazine is evolving into CreativePro magazine Adobe InDesign 16.4 released Adobe MAX 2021 is Oct. 26–Oct. 28; David and AM are presenting! Our new online event! The Design + Accessibility Summit, Nov. 16–19 You can purchase online passes (recordings and handouts) of our previous events on our Events page Interview with Kieron Lewis, designer, teacher, and new MAX speaker on Empowering Community through Collaboration and Editorial Design  Obscure InDesign Feature: Edit in Copy Editor (beta) Sponsors for this episode: > Santa Cruz Software has a solution for the "83% of respondents who have said they have to spend time finding a lost asset." The answer is LinkrUI, a plugin that enables direct searching, opening, placing, and syncing of assets stored in a DAM or other storage services such as Box and Dropbox from within Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Read about the freemium version here. > Adobe MAX 2021: Once again, the Creativity Conference is online and free! Register today to see all the 300+ sessions covering everything from app "how-to's" to managing design and promoting creativity.  Links mentioned in this podcast: David's session at MAX: Discovering the Best InDesign Tips and Tricks Anne-Marie's lab at MAX: InDesign Basics: From Newbie to Pro Kieron Lewis MAX session: Empowering Community through Collaboration and Editorial Design  Kieron's web site POCC — People of Culture Collective Kieron designed and laid out this book for Harper Inspire: Still Breathing: 100 Black Voices on Racism — 100 Ways to Change the Narrative   Article about "I can't breathe" CreativePro's new "Design + Accessibility Summit" https://creativepro.com/design-accessibility-summit/ Chad Chelius' article "Tools and Services for Accessibility" Our post about Edit in Copy Editor (beta) (and see the screen shot below!) InDesignSecrets… YouTube videos Facebook group LinkedIn group  

In this episode… News Adobe MAX 2021 is Oct. 26–Oct. 28; David and AM are presenting! Our new online event! The Design + Accessibility Summit, Nov. 16–19 You can purchase online passes (recordings and handouts) of our previous events on our Events page InDesign Magazine August and September issues are out, excellent content! Interview with Angelo Montilla, InDesign YouTube star and new MAX speaker Nested Styles vs. GREP Styles: What's the difference? Obscure InDesign Feature: Extensions Sponsor for this episode: > Adobe MAX 2021: Once again, the Creativity Conference is online and free! Register today to see all the 300+ sessions covering everything from app "how-to's" to managing design and promoting creativity.  Links mentioned in this podcast: David's session at MAX: Discovering the Best InDesign Tips and Tricks Anne-Marie's lab at MAX: InDesign Basics: From Newbie to Pro Angelo Montilla's lab at MAX: Digital Publishing and Interactivity in InDesign CreativePro's new "Design + Accessibility Summit" https://creativepro.com/design-accessibility-summit/ Online passes (recordings + handouts) are still available to: The Adobe Illustrator Summit https://creativepro.com/adobe-illustrator-summit/ and The InDesign + Type Summit https://creativepro.com/indesign-type-summit/ Angelo Montilla: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/amontilla81 Adobe Live: Day 1: https://youtu.be/5QCNh9ovr2c & Day 2: https://youtu.be/yc6JCf30CWk www.montilladesign.com Installing newest version of Acrobat: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/install-updates-reader-acrobat.html Animated GIF maker from Ajar Productions (maker of in5): https://ajarproductions.com/blog/2019/10/11/how-to-create-an-animated-gif-with-indesign-in5/ Extensions: Look in the Marketplace tab in the Creative Cloud app or on the web: https://exchange.adobe.com/creativecloud.html Photo Flinger from Premedia: https://www.premediasystems.com/scripts-and-more Stock Solo: https://stocksolo.com or  https://adobe.com/go/cc_plugins_discover_plugin?pluginId=a2cbefeb Pantone Connect: https://exchange.adobe.com/creativecloud.html?zpluginId=103029 InDesignSecrets… YouTube videos Facebook group LinkedIn group

In this episode… News Last chance for live tickets to the InDesign + Type Summit (online event) July 29–30, 2021 if you're a nonprofit, government agency, student, or work for a school, contact events@creativepro.com for a $100 discount code The Adobe Illustrator Summit, August 26-27: https://creativepro.com/adobe-illustrator-summit/ InDesign Magazine for July 2021 is Illustrator and InDesign; August 2021 is on creating social media artwork and making dielines for print packaging Best practices for working with Illustrator documents in InDesign Keyboard shortcut of the month: Capital E (yes, Shift-E) Obscure InDesign Feature: Crop to Art Sponsors for this episode: > 3M's VAS: 3M's Visual Attention Software (VAS) is powerful, science-based AI that simulates the human vision system to analyze visual content and predicts with 92% accuracy what is attracting viewer attention. VAS is available as a web app and plugins for Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and XD. Start your free trial today, and enter promo code CREATIVEPRO5 for 5 additional trial credits! >> Ajar Productions is the developer of the phenomenal in5 add-on for Adobe InDesign, which lets you export interactivity from InDesign to different formats, that actually work. in5 supports all of InDesign's native interactivity—like animation, buttons, object states, audio and video; and adds its own. Create websites, digital magazines, mobile apps, animated banners and presentations, by simply using InDesign, no coding involved! Learn more and download a free trial of in5 at in5.us.  Links mentioned in this podcast: The Adobe Illustrator Summit, August 26-27  The InDesign + Type Summit, July 29-30 KidPix still lives! https://www.mackiev.com/kidpix/ How to Replace AI art with SVG for sharp web graphics, from Anne-Marie's weekly series "InDesign Tips for Design Geeks" We have lots of articles about using InDesign and Illustrator together: https://creativepro.com/copy-vectors-from-illustrator-to-indesign-or-vice-versa/ https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-getting-the-most-the-interface/ https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-moving-vectors/ https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-linking-and-embedding-files/ https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-moving-text-between-the-programs/ https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-colors-and-swatches/ https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-the-pen-tool/ Shift-E… Preview on CPU vs GPU: https://creativepro.com/gpu-support-and-animated-zoom-arrives-for-mac/ Understanding InDesign's Place PDF Options: https://creativepro.com/understanding-indesigns-place-pdf-options/ InDesignSecrets… YouTube videos Facebook group LinkedIn group      

In this episode… News Videos on demand for CreativePro Week 2021 InDesign + Type Summit (online event) July 29–30, 2021 InDesign Magazine for June 2021 is all about Type and Typography! Our favorite type tips and scripts Obscure InDesign Feature: Nonbreaking Space (Fixed Width) Links mentioned in this podcast: Videos on Demand now available for CreativePro Week 2021 The InDesign + Type Summit InDesign Tips videos on LinkedIn Learning/Lynda.com: InDesign Tips for Design Geeks  (AM's new weekly course) InDesign Secrets (David and AM's weekly course) InDesign 16.3.1 notes: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/Indesign-for-apple-silicon.html Working with Hyphenation & Justification settings Editing H&Js: https://creativepro.com/abcs-hj/ Favorite H&J Settings: https://creativepro.com/what-are-your-favorite-word-and-character-space-settings-for-hjs/ When to Use Balance Ragged Lines https://creativepro.com/when-to-use-balance-ragged-lines/ Change Balanced Ragged Lines to Pyramid Shaped https://creativepro.com/change-balanced-ragged-lines-to-pyramid-shaped/ All kinds of white spaces: https://creativepro.com/typetalk-blizzard-white-space-characters/ AM's pick for a type-related script: LorumIpsumizer https://creativepro.com/resources/plug-ins-and-scripts/ https://www.linkedin.com/learning/indesign-secrets/285-replace-formatted-text-with-lorem-ipsum David's pick for a type-related script: Humane Type https://creativepro.com/a-script-that-adds-a-human-touch-to-indesign-type/ Making Ellipses with Nonbreaking (Fixed Width) spaces: https://creativepro.com/dot-dot-dot/ InDesignSecrets… YouTube videos Facebook group LinkedIn group Using the Nonbreaking (Fixed Width) space to auto-feather a headline (set the Paragraph alignment to Justify All Lines first)  

In this episode… News Videos on demand for CreativePro Week 2021 InDesign + Type Summit (online event) July 29–30, 2021 InDesign Magazine for May 2021 (gradients) and June 2021 (type and typography) Making presentations with InDesign Keyboard shortcut of the month: Control-B (Command-B on Mac) Obscure InDesign Feature: On Click (Self)  Links mentioned in this podcast: Videos on Demand now available for CreativePro Week 2021  The InDesign + Type Summit Creating Presentations with InDesign InDesign Magazine feature story Free InDesign presentation template InDesign Template of the Month: Flexible Presentation InDesign presentation templates at Adobe Stock (many free) Jesus Ramirez: Yes, we have a Banana (in Photoshop) https://photoshoptrainingchannel.com/photoshop-easter-eggs/ in5's post, "Interactive PDF is dead" https://ajarproductions.com/blog/2018/03/26/interactive-pdf-is-dead-heres-what-you-can-create-from-indesign-thats-even-better/ CircularFlow for better fixed-layout EPUBs for Kindles https://www.circularsoftware.com/apps/circularflo  InDesignSecrets… YouTube videos Facebook group LinkedIn group

In this episode… News Signed up for CreativePro Week 2021? Speak at Ignite! InDesign 16.2 released and then pulled Why objects and text sometime just … disappear Obscure InDesign Feature: Split Window to Compare Layouts  News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Ajar Productions is the developer of the phenomenal in5 add-on for Adobe InDesign, which lets you export interactivity from InDesign to different formats, that actually work. in5 supports all of InDesign's native interactivity—like animation, buttons, object states, audio and video—and in5 adds additional interactivity to InDesign, like 3-D Flip Cards, Responsive Layouts, Parallax, and more. Create websites, digital magazines, mobile apps, animated banners and presentations, by simply using InDesign, no coding involved! Learn more and download a free trial of in5 at in5.us.  >> Cacidi Systems has been developing solutions for Adobe InDesign users since InDesign began! They offer a number of plug-ins and workflow system for content integration and efficient marketing production. We especially love Cacidi Charts, which has been updated and leveled up for InDesign 2020 and 2021. No more need to jump into Illustrator or Powerpoint; create gorgeous charts right in InDesign. Free trial available! Links mentioned in this podcast: Register now for CreativePro Week 2021 When Stuff Disappears: A Collection of Mysteries Solved: Where Is My Text? Text Disappears When Over Background Object My White Text Disappeared (and solution) The Case of the Disappearing Text Where Did My InDesign Menu Items Go? Split Layout Tricks: Use Split Window when Applying Colors to Text How to View Two Parts of a Document at Once All About Alternate Layouts: https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-using-alternate-layout/ Palo Duro Canyon: https://palodurocanyon.com Pantone 286: https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/286-C  InDesignSecrets… YouTube videos Facebook group LinkedIn group

In this episode… News CreativePro Week 2021 agenda and speakers are up! Bug fix for InDesign 2021 brings it to v16.1 Interview with Justin Putney, in5 plugin creator We space out with some cool spacing tips Obscure InDesign Feature: Sort Swatches by Color Value  Links mentioned in this podcast: Register now for CreativePro Week 2021 Want to speak at CreativePro events? Fill this out  Justin Putney and in5 links: Product page for in5 interactive export add-on for InDesign Script for Merging Multiple Text Frames Into One Copy (Package) Fonts to Folder Justin's original Kickstarter page Why Justin says "Interactive PDF is Dead" Examples of Customers Using in5 Spacing Tricks! Setting Exact Space Between Objects Live Distribute Making Cool Patterns with Live Distribute spacing trick How the Gap tools works How the Gap tool works with Groups Convert a bunch of random objects into a grid  InDesignSecrets… YouTube videos Facebook group LinkedIn group

In this episode… News Agenda is up for the online CreativePro Week 2021! Register now to score early-bird pricing. Throw your hat in the ring for "I want to speak at CreativePro events"  Anne-Marie's new weekly series is live! "InDesign Tips for Design Geeks" Useful Adobe Bridge features for InDesign users Obscure InDesign Feature: The InDesign Button  News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Cacidi Systems has been developing solutions for Adobe InDesign users since InDesign began! They offer a number of plug-ins and workflow system for content integration and efficient marketing production. We especially love Cacidi Charts, which has been updated and leveled up for InDesign 2020 and 2021. No more need to jump into Illustrator or Powerpoint; create gorgeous charts right in InDesign. Free trial available! Links mentioned in this podcast: Register now for CreativePro Week 2021 Want to speak at CreativePro events? Fill this out  Cacidi Charts: https://www.cacidi.com/huge-cacidi-charts-cc2020-upgrade/ Check out InDesign Magazine #126 which covered Cacidi Charts in depth On LinkedIn Learning (and Lynda.com) InDesign Tips for Design Geeks is Anne-Marie's new weekly series Hundreds of our weekly InDesignSecrets episodes Bridge and InDesign: Yes, Bridge is free for everyone! How to Find InDesign Documents That Use Specific Fonts and/or Swatches Video: Find All Files That Contain a Specific Image (with Bridge) Video: Batch Rename Files in Adobe Bridge Take Charge With Bridge: Creating a Keywords List Saving Thumbnails of InDesign Pages InDesignSecrets… YouTube videos Facebook group LinkedIn group

In this episode… News Minor updates to InDesign 2021 released The 2021 InDesign Conference (part of CreativePro Week) is online-only, May 17-21. Registration is open! All about Transparency in InDesign — looks great, but will it print? Obscure InDesign Feature: Lights  Links mentioned in this podcast: Register now for CreativePro Week 2021 PowerPoint Presentation Design Deep Dive and other online events New features in 16.0.1 and 16.0.2 Transparency (Jan 2021 feature story in InDesign Magazine) Great article by Claudia McCue: https://creativepro.com/regarding-transparency/ Article about transparency effects by Steve Caplin: https://creativepro.com/the-fx-files/ Yes, "opaques" are a thing! https://www.sockdreams.com/opaque-nylon-stockings.html Problems with spot colors and transparency https://creativepro.com/indesigns-onscreen-untruths-overprinting-or-multiplying-spot-colors/ https://creativepro.com/eliminating-the-white-box-effect/ https://creativepro.com/eliminating-ydb-yucky-discolored-box-syndrome/ Starter (monthly) vs annual membership: https://creativepro.com/become-a-member/ OIFOTW: Lights Mike showed the Lights feature as part of his 3 minutes max tip, during the InDesignSecrets Holiday Special: https://youtu.be/KP_O_G4pCZE He also wrote about it here: https://creativepro.com/tip-of-the-week-flashing-holiday-lights/ InDesignSecrets… YouTube videos Facebook group LinkedIn group  

Special episode recorded LIVE at our 2020 Holiday Special! Save the Date for our next online conference: Click: Powerpoint and Presentation Design, February 18–19, 2021 December 2020 issue of InDesign Magazine is all about creating web and screen graphics Making gifts with InDesign Interview with John McWade Obscure InDesign Feature: Animated Zoom  Links mentioned in this podcast: Register now for CreativePro Week 2021 Keith Gilbert’s 100 Things Every InDesign User Should Know, our new ebook Making gifts from InDesign PhotoFlinger (laying out photos and objects quickly): https://www.premediasystems.com/scripts-and-more Blurb Photo book maker: https://www.blurb.com/indesign-plugin Spoonflower for fabric, wallpaper, bedding: https://www.spoonflower.com/en/design-tools Zazzle for custom gifts: https://www.zazzle.com/custom/gifts Fun holiday-themed articles on CP: Candy Cane text: https://creativepro.com/holiday-text-fx-part-1-candy-cane-text/ Wrap text in lights: https://creativepro.com/holiday-text-fx-part-2-wrapping-text-in-lights/ Draw a snowman: https://creativepro.com/holiday-fx-do-you-want-to-build-an-indesign-snowman/ Make an ornament: https://creativepro.com/holiday-papercraf/ All kinds of holiday designs: https://creativepro.com/a-winter-holiday-treasure-trove John McWade’s books Before & After: How to Design Cool Stuff Before & After Page Design Pantone color of the year Zoom Animation GPU Acceleration is not yet available on Windows… vote for it!  InDesignSecrets… YouTube videos Facebook group LinkedIn group