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Note added 9-May-2017: I've revisited GetURL and made a more modern version. More info here:http://coppieters.nz/?p=133----In 2008, I created a sample InDesign ExtendScript called GetURLs.jsx. GetURLs.jsx is a limited http client; it allows you to fetch http URLs straight from an InDesign ExtendScript. I used the script as sample material to demonstrate a programming technique (state machines).It turned out the script was quite popular in its own right; I've been adding little tweaks to it over time.The latest version has been enhanced to handle redirections (when the server returns a status code HTTP 1.0/301 Moved Permanently). Hope it works for you!The original blog post is here:http://rorohiko.blogspot.co.nz/2008_07_01_archive.htmland the download link is here:http://www.rorohiko.com/podcast/geturl.zipCheers,Kris

In this episode: Latest news: PePcon 2016 speakers & sessions announced CreativePro Conference site is live InDesign Magazine content debuts on our blog DPS is now called AEM Mobile TruEdit announces InCopy support Interview with Bart Van de Weile A Shaded Paragraph Conundrum! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: [[:xdigit:]]  News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko is a fine purveyor of many InDesign scripts and plug-ins. One of our favorites is TextExporter, a utility that comes in so handy, so often, that you forget it's not part of InDesign itself! Use TextExporter for those times when you need to extract all the text from a layout and put it into a single external text file, as plain text or formatted (RTF). Free 20-day trial, and when you realize how essential it is, you'll be happy to see the affordable, flexible pricing for single users and groups.   Links mentioned in this podcast: Time for PePcon 2016! Sign up now and we'll see you in San Diego in June (also home of the Creative Developers Summit) CreativePro 2016: The Conference for Photoshop and Illustrator Users, July 11-13, Minneapolis MN InDesign Conference 2016: Washington DC, November 7–9 InDesign Magazine articles are now online (details) (example - click the article title links) Adobe DPS is now Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Mobile MEI's TruEdit now supports InCopy Bart Van de Wiele's author page on CreativePro.com and his blog (which needs updating, Bart!) What's this about Ghent, Bart's hometown? What's a Ghent workgroup? Adobe's Project Comet Find/Change tips More about the new Paragraph Shading feature in CC 2015 (see screen shots in the Show Notes) Or, use the old reversed-out-of-Rule Above trick What's [[:xdigit:]] good for? Finding hexa words or hexadecimal notation (see screen shot in the Show Notes)

In this episode: Latest news: CreativePro Conference! PePcon, InDesign Conference, Creative Developer Summit Template Essentials, our new premium member benefit January 2016 InDesign Magazine: Publish Online David's new Color Management title at Lynda.com Our 2016 InDesign Resolution: Pay Attention to the Little Things! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select and Fit Item News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko, owned by InDesign developer extraordinaire Kris Coppieters, is not just about plug-ins or scripts. They also provide expertise as scripters, software developers and consultants when it comes to automating part of a graphics workflow. Rorohiko's motto is 'Slash the time it takes' and that also applies to their 'Expertise on call' service. They have been instrumental in finding a simple, efficient solution to many of their customer's problems. Call on Kris and Rorohiko (or email dev@rorohiko.com) for help with publishing systems design, implementation, tech support, and debugging. They know their stuff! Links mentioned in this podcast: Time for PePcon 2016! Sign up now and we'll see you in San Diego in June CreativePro 2016: The Conference for Photoshop and Illustrator Users, July 11-13, web site to come InDesign Conference 2016: Washington DC, November 7–9, (also home of the Creative Developers Summit) Our first Template Essentials: Sidebars and Pull Quotes InDesign Template of the Month Check out the January 2016 InDesign Magazine The book: Real World InDesign David's new course, InDesign Insider Training: Color Management Important Checkboxes: Smart Text Reflow, Ignore Text Wrap, Use Document Bleed More about Select and Fit Item

In this episode: The InDesign Conference 2015: Our recap of the highlights New features in InDesign CC 2015.2, just released Tips on Using Adobe Stock photos in your layouts Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Check Links Before Opening Document News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko, owned by InDesign developer extraordinaire Kris Coppieters, is not just about plug-ins or scripts. They also provide expertise as scripters, software developers and consultants when it comes to automating part of a graphics workflow. Rorohiko's motto is 'Slash the time it takes' and that also applies to their 'Expertise on call' service. They have been instrumental in finding a simple, efficient solution to many of their customer's problems. Call on Kris and Rorohiko (or email dev@rorohiko.com) for help with publishing systems design, implementation, tech support, and debugging. They know their stuff! Links mentioned in this podcast: Time for PePcon 2016! Sign up now and we'll see you in San Diego in June InDesign Conference 2016: Washington DC, November 7–9 PSDcon 2016: Minneapolis Minn., July 11–13 PubWest.org's 2016 conference is in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Feb 4-6. (Contact executive director Kent Watson for $100 discount for InDesignSecrets listeners). Keith Gilbert's amazing "Rule around a paragraph" 3 Minutes Max tip from the InDesign Conference You can buy videos of the InDesign Conference and the Photoshop Conference sessions What's new in InDesign CC 2015.2? Read our posts here and here Anne-Marie's post on Using Adobe Stock in InDesign The Publish Online version of James Wamser's "InDesign New Features Chronology" InDesign Magazine Dec. 2015: Top 5 Template Tips (by Anne-Marie!) Check Links (the obscure feature) discussed in this blog post on speeding up InDesign Watch this video from the 3 Minutes Max final session at the InDesign Conference 2015!  (if you can't see this in your feed reader, please visit the Show Notes page at InDesignSecrets.com: http://indesignsecrets.com/watch_listen/indesignsecrets-podcast-228)

In this episode: News: David's Big Climb DTP Tool's Cloud service Our favorite things we saw at Adobe MAX New features and services at Adobe Communities Two side-by-side views of one InDesign layout: Why and how? Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Skip First News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko, owned by InDesign developer extraordinaire Kris Coppieters, is not just about plug-ins or scripts. They also provide expertise as scripters, software developers and consultants when it comes to automating part of a graphics workflow. Rorohiko's motto is 'Slash the time it takes' and that also applies to their 'Expertise on call' service. They have been instrumental in finding a simple, efficient solution to many of their customer's problems. Call on Kris and Rorohiko for help with publishing systems design, implementation, tech support, and debugging. They know their stuff! Links mentioned in this podcast: Our InDesign Conference is in Denver, CO; Nov. 16–18, 2015 And our debut Photoshop Conference is co-located there/then Help support David's "Big Climb" by donating to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society DTP Tools Cloud (Blatner Tools, X-refs Pro, and more) Adobe Community Events page Adobe InDesign Forum and Creative Cloud FAQ Don't forget our own InDesignSecrets forums! Adobe MAX 2015: Video of Anne-Marie and David's InDesign Tips & Tricks session Adobe blog post of what they showed at MAX Sneaks (with video excerpts) More on Panose (precursor of Sneaks' "Project Faces") here Our blog post recapping the new InDesign features shown at MAX Our post about the Split Window feature The old way to create side-by-side windows still works, too Here's a reason to use "Skip First"

In this episode: News: Registration opens for The InDesign Conference, Free InDesign template of the month Getting HTML 5 out of InDesign: Why and How? Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Missing Glyph Protection News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko: Check out Rorohiko's upcoming "Crawler," a new InDesign plug-in that will let you export a layout's content to HTML, ePub, Fixed Layout, and even Markdown (like the "RTF" of HTML). Its Fixed Layout output will have an option to export "Clean CSS" and "Clean HTML" making the files much easier to edit than the ones InDesign creates. Go to the Crawler page to learn more, and click the link there to contact Kris at Rorohiko with your questions about it. Or if you're in the mood for something that you can download and use today to make your InDesign-ing easier (like Sodoku Generator and Text Exporter, mentioned in the podcast), visit the main Rorohiko.com site and just click on the Products List button. Whoa! So much too choose from, and many of them free! Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesign Conference: Nov 3–5, 2014, in Seattle InDesign Magazine's July issue: The Best Things in Life are Free  Be sure to check out the August issue (#64), too, which is all about music publishing and sound files in InDesign. Get your headsets ready! Free InDesign template for Premium members of InDesignSecrets.com HTML5 out of InDesign solutions: eDocker Create from eDocker and In5 from Ajar Productions Read about and download the Swimmer script, one of PePcon 2014's People's Choice scripts, written by Rorohiko Officer Glyph (the Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week) is on the case:

In this episode: News: InDesign Conference 2014, CC update, Mike Rankin new EIC of InDesignSecrets.com A few great third-party companies you should know about The State of the Flattening Universe: Still need to flatten transparency when exporting to PDF for press? Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: False Italic News and special offers from our sponsors: >> eDocker: With eDocker CREATE! it's very easy to build interactive publications directly from Adobe InDesign to be published as standalone HTML5 web-app or eDocker PUBLISH! publication. With eDocker PUBLISH! service anyone can easily share eDocker CREATE! files or plain PDF to all computer and iPad users, publications can be free/public, paid/subscribed or private. Special offer for InDesignSecrets podcast listeners saves hundreds of dollars off either or both services, check it out! >> Recosoft makes the amazing PDF2ID, PDF-to-InDesign conversion tool for InDesign CS4 through CC (Creative Cloud). Recosoft also just released ID2Office v2.0 which converts InDesign files to Word, PowerPoint and Keynote format. ID2Office v2.0 now adds support for InDesign CC and converts InDesign nested tables into Word nested tables and Apple Keynote format. ID Secrets Users get 15% off PDF2ID v3.5 or ID2Office Standard v2.0 with coupon code ID_Secrets, offer good until June 30, 2014.   Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesign Conference: Nov 3–5, 2014, in Seattle InDesign Magazine InDesignSecrets membership Sign up for a link and reminder of the Adobe CC update webinar on June 18 The PePcon 2014 Sponsors page has details and links for XMPie, Rorohiko, Ripon Printers, Recosoft, Em Software, eDocker, Aquafadas, and Adobe (reverse alpha FTW!) Claudia McCue's Adobe Creative Suite Printing Guide (direct link to the PDF) Claudia's book Real World Print Production and some great posts here and on her blog David's Creating Print PDF video title on lynda.com will be released shortly Adobe PDF Print Engine info See "False Italic" appear in Anne-Marie's flame war-igniting ID Secrets video on making fake bold and italic

News; Five Gotchas and their fixes; Obscurity of the Week: Comb -------------- The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News Call for PePcon 2014 speakers New lynda.com video tutorials by Anne-Marie (ID and Word) and David (Interactive PDFs) Update to InDesign CC and InCopy CC released Five Common (and easily-fixed) InDesign Gotchas! Jumping text, disappearing guides, copy/paste between versions, and more Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Comb News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK, is a premiere provider of Adobe InDesign, EPUB, and Adobe DPS training. Certitec hold classes in Cardiff, London, or Bristol.Their "Uncovered Series" seminars cover the cutting-edge technologies in Adobe's latest products — view them all at seminars.certitec.com. If you sign up for a seminar or class and mention you heard about them on InDesignSecrets, you get 20% off the fee! >>  Rorohiko has two things they want InDesignSecrets podcast listeners to know about. First, they have a 20% discount off their QR plug-in for InDesign CS5 and later, "Tada QR!" (which Sandee and David talked about in the last podcast episode, and you can watch Rorohiko's video on it here). Enter the code INDESIGNSECRETS199 at the Rorohiko store and get the Tada QR! plug-in for $12.00 instead of $15.00. Second, they're in early beta for a new plug-in that adds an Actions panel to InDesign, similar to the ones in Photoshop and Illustrator. Record a series of actions and then play them back on another selection or page ... very cool. If you want to beta test ActionRecorder, click the link and read the instructions. (Here's a video on how it works!) Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesign CC update adds Synch Settings Call for PePcon speakers — c'mon, fill out the form, it'll be fun! Using Word and InDesign Together; new lynda.com course from Anne-Marie InDesign Insider Training: Interactive PDFs; new lynda.com course from David Somewhat related posts on gotchas: grayed-out features, unwanted default formatting, ignores leading values, share content with older versions, exporting jpegs from InDesign, exporting selections to exact size Using the Comb and other page transitions

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-188.mp3(12.5 MB, 23:20 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News:  PEPCON, IDUG site and our forum All about the "Forbidden Formats" in InDesign: JPEG, GIF, and PNG Bonus! We get sidetracked and rant about Adobe Digital Editions (epub reader utility) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Letter V News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software is the developer of DocsFlow and WordsFlow, two plug-ins for Adobe InDesign that dynamically link your text frames to online Google Docs (DocsFlow) or placed Word files (WordsFlow). These products enable a breakthrough publishing workflow, one where your authors and editors can keep changing the source document, and you can merge in their changes automatically and painlessly, even after you've made changes to the InDesign story (without losing your changes or formatting!). Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code ids0213 in the EmSoftware.com store when buying either of these plug-ins and get 20% off! This code is only good until March 31, 2013, so grab them both! >> Rorohiko offers many free scripts for InDesign (their commercial ones and their custom jobs allow them to do this), and one that's very cool is called TextStitch. This script lets you easily thread multiple text frames together, manually or automatically. It's just the ticket for managing the order of content when you're exporting stories to RTF, EPUB, or HTML. To see how it works, Keith Gilbert wrote a great blog post extolling its wonderfulness. Download TextStitch for free, but tell Rorohiko where you heard about it, please! -- INDESIGN "PRODUCTION NIGHTMARES FROM THE TRENCHES" STORIES: We want to hear your stories! Send us a short (less than 3 minutes) "InDesign doc/client/user/coworker Horror Story" that we can play on the air (you'll be anonymous) in an upcoming episode: leave us a voice message at +1-801-459-4477 to record it, or send in your own voice recording. Please follow-up with an e-mail, which we will keep private, including any additional information that you'd like us to know. You'll get a nifty gifty from us if we play it in a podcast! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Fritz, David, and Anne-Marie will be presenting seminars and labs at Adobe MAX, May 4–8, 2013 (right after PEPCON!) > Come to PEPCON! Our annual Print + ePublishing Conference, this year April 28–May 1 in Austin, Texas > Neat new script for exporting InDesign pages to JPEGs with custom filenames > Never watched Sesame Street? Here's the "brought to you by the Letter V" reference > Other forbidden formats we've ranted about > The file format that goes "Ping" Monty Python reference > Letter V and other View Pages commands in CS6

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-186.mp3 (17.4 MB, 32:37 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: Upcoming speaking gigs, InDesign User Group web site, Scripts for Indexes in EPUBs, Our mascot Zoey (picture below!) New Year's InDesign Resolutions (and non-InDesign related) About the Primary Text Frame "Negative Number" Quizzler Answer and Winner Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Relink File Extension News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko’s TextExporter 3.1 plug-in makes exporting text out of InDesign CS2-CS6 so simple! You can export all the stories in an ID file into one single RTF, plain text, or ID tagged text file, and you control how it orders the text as it extracts and concatenates it.  The RTF Export option now supports nested styles, which InDesign's own RTF Export does not! Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS186 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the TextExporter plug-in. -- INDESIGN "PRODUCTION NIGHTMARES FROM THE TRENCHES" STORIES: We want to hear your stories! Send us a short (less than 3 minutes) "InDesign doc/client/user/coworker Horror Story" that we can play on the air (you'll be anonymous) in an upcoming episode: leave us a voice message at +1-801-459-4477 to record it, or send in your own voice recording. Please follow-up with an e-mail, which we will keep private, including any additional information that you'd like us to know. You'll get a nifty gifty from us if we play it in a podcast! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > David's speaking at Macworld where he'll be talking about his new book, Spectrums: Our Mind-Boggling Universe from Infinitesimal to Infinity > Anne-Marie is presenting a workshop at O'Reilly's TOCCON, Feb 12–14 in NYC, titled, "Beautiful Typography in EPUBs" > David and Anne-Marie will be presenting InDesign seminars and labs at Adobe MAX, May 4–8, 2013 (right after PEPCON!) > Adobe's InDesign User Group web site is still down, as of this podcast > Indicies or Indexes? Actually, both are correct > EPUB Indexes: Overview from EPUBSecrets.com, Ben Milander's Index for EPUB script, DTPTool's CrossReferencesPRO > Devon ThinkPro vs Evernote > Anne-Marie's lynda.com video tutorial, Social Media Marketing with Facebook & Twitter > Three great blog posts on InDesign's Primary Text Frame: here, here, and here > Our Quizzler winner is from Khartoum, Sudan We'll miss you Zoey! Good girl.

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-183.mp3 (17.1 MB, 32:02 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. News: Milestone: 2,000 blogposts! Erica Gamet's ID Power Pack New version of Export to Kindle plug-in Creative Cloud Education discount Teacup Software's new 2D barcodes EmSoftware Wordsflow Five MORE Overlooked and Lonely InDesign Features (Autocorrect anyone?) Another "InDesign Horror Story" (née "Training Client from Hell") Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Use Master Page Size News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Mag+ (magplus.com) is an efficient and affordable digital publishing platform to create apps for tablet devices straight from InDesign. In the latest version (4.0), you can now publish to Smartphones as well –including iPhone 5. The Mag+ tools are FREE to download from their website, and work with CS4, CS5 and CS6. You can use the bundled InDesign templates, and take advantage of their innovative Review button to quickly see fully-functional touchscreen previews. For more information go to www.magplus.com. >> Rorohiko’s StoryTweaker ($99) plug-in lets editors and writers access your InDesign file’s text without needing to own InDesign or InCopy. The plug-in is associated with one InDesign seat, but allows that user to create an unlimited number of AssignmentTweaker sets, which is what the editors open and work on. The workflow is spelled out on the StoryTweaker site, and there’s a 20-day free trial available. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners. -- We still want to hear your stories! Send us a short (less than 1 minute) "worst InDesign training/support story" that we can play on the air (you'll be anonymous) in an upcoming episode: leave us a voice message at +1-801-459-4477 to record it, or send in your own voice recording. Please follow-up with an e-mail, which we will keep private, including any additional information that you'd like us to know. You'll get a nifty gifty from us if we play it in a podcast! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Teachers and students get 1 yr of Creative Cloud for $19.99/mo if they sign up by Nov 4, 2012! > Erica Gamet's new ID Power Pack, enter IDS50 discount code for 50% off! > Amazon's Kindle Plug-in for InDesign v0.972 (beta, still!) > Teacup Software's new 2D barcodes in latest version of their BarCodeMaker > For a free QR Code Maker plugin, check out the offer from Meadows > EmSoftware has a new WordsFlow plugin for InDesign > Overlooked features: Listen to podcast 182 for the first 5 > Posts about these features: Autocorrect, Place and Link, Slug, Discretionary Hyphen, (nothing on Split Window yet) > Post about David's issue during the podcast, Rebuilding Prefs Couple of screen shots that you'll find interesting: From the Export to Kindle plug-in, note the IDML option! and, here's the dialog box containing the Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week:

Creative Cloud; Option-double-click; Obscurity of the Week: Split Cell Vertically -- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-175.mp3(19.5 MB, 35:32 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The Adobe Creative Cloud: What is it? In the "cloud" vs. on your hard drive The good, the bad, the foggy Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Option/Alt-double-click Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Split Cell Vertically News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software: Check out their InData and InCatalog add-ons for InDesign, by themselves or as a powerful team for data-driven publishing. Use InData to build price lists, catalogs, directories, and much more, all hands-off.  InCatalog is a bidirectional linking tool to keep your layouts and spreadsheets in sync, great for last-minute price updates. >> eDocker: With the eDocker Tablet Publisher® program you can create, from InDesign, an HTML5 Web publication that works in all devices, including iPads, and that you can publish through your own server. There is no need for complicated certificates, developer memberships or distribution channels like the Apple AppStore. Special offer: $100 off the Tablet Publisher for the near future (sorry, we don't have anything more concrete) with code 10IDS2012 >> Rorohiko: Download Kris Coppieters' free script, SizeLabels.zip, for adding labels showing each frame's size in a document. (Be sure to extract the contents of the ZIP, then open the .jsx document in a text editor and read the instructions in the beginning). Check out Rorohiko's other wonderful scripts on their website, and donate if you find them useful! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Adobe's comprehensive Creative Cloud FAQ > View your Adobe Creative Cloud portal > David's Cloud licensing problem/bug > Couple of our posts on Option/Alt-double click tips: Here and here > The trick about putting panels on the left side of the screen that David was trying to remember > Kris's ePubCrawler script (automates InDesign > Fixed Layout EPUB) is getting new features almost daily

New lynda.com InDesign videos; Creative Cloud; Acrobat forms tools in InDesign CS6; Obscurity of the Week: World-Ready Composer Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-172.mp3(18.5 MB, 33:21 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Yikes! We recorded this on May 9 (pre-PePcon), but didn't get a chance to publish it until today, a week later (post-PePcon). Apologies for time-shifted content! News News in PEPCONland, Adobeland, and Lyndaland Join us in New York City, June 13-14, for InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC InDesign CS6's PDF Forms Features in depth Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: World-Ready Paragraph Composer News and special offers from our sponsors: >> PrintUI.com / In-Tools.com: Get free setup on an InDesignServer solution from PrintUI.com! Or, if you're more into EPUB, contact Harbs to learn more about a cool soon-to-come tool that provides EPUB preview and editing CSS files inside InDesign! >> Mediatrad, a great new tool for translators and InDesign users who need document language translation. It's free for non-commercial purposes. You can create a free trial 30-day account and translate up to 100 pages. Entering the special code: "indesignsecrets.com" gives you 100 additional pages! >> Rorohiko has a new script that helps InDesign users create fixed-layout EPUBs from InDesign files! Check out the free CSSGeometry.jsx script to quickly get the CSS markup for all your absolutely-positioned text frames, ready for copying and pasting into your CSS document. While you're there, be sure to check out all of their other neat InDesign scripts and plug-ins Kris and his crew at Rorohiko offer that are designed to "slash the time it takes!" -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Adobe Creative Cloud was released > Adobe's redesigned online InDesign Help site > New lynda.com videos: InDesign CS6 New Features and InDesign CS6 Essential Training > David's rant/post about the split in PDF Export methods in InDesign > Another post about single page vs. spread Interactive PDF export > Harb's plug-in for World Ready typesetting, "WorldTools Pro" > Adobe blog post about the surprise indicpreferences.js script in InDesign CS6

PEPCON discount; Underappreciated IDCS6 features; Obscurity of the Week: Auto-Size Link Info Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-170.mp3 (18.5 MB, 33:21 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. News PEPCON (May 14-16) is almost sold out with attendees coming from six continents. First five people to use code SF100 save $100! Or join us in New York City, June 13-14, for InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC Anne-Marie's Top Underappreciated and Underdiscussed Features in InDesign CS6 From the Mailbag: Install CS5.5 or wait for CS6? Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Auto-Size Link Information News and special offers from our sponsors: >> PrintUI.com / In-Tools.com: Get free setup on an InDesignServer solution from PrintUI.com! Or, if you're more into EPUB, contact Harbs to learn more about a cool soon-to-come tool that provides EPUB preview and editing CSS files inside InDesign! >> Mediatrad, a great new tool for translators and InDesign users who need document language translation. It's free for non-commercial purposes. You can create a free trial 30-day account and translate up to 100 pages. Entering the special code: "indesignsecrets.com" gives you 100 additional pages! >> Rorohiko makes a wide range of excellent add-ons, including the must-have "Soxy" — it opens the right file in the right application! Use the code INDESIGNSECRETS170 for 25% off single installs of Soxy. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > PEPCON social networking site > IGNITE InDesign (PEPCON event) info & sign-up sheet > Anne-Marie's InDesign CS6 New Features title at lynda.com > David's hunt for Japanese Dots > Game of Thrones: Dothraki > Easter Eggs in InDesign: Butterfly, Friendly Alien, Silly Strokes > InDesign CS5.5 "7.5.2" updater patch for Windows or Macintosh

Drawing in InDesign; Quizzler Winner (finally); Shortcut of the Week: Paste Into; Obscurity of the Week: Convert Direction Point Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-168.mp3 (18.2 MB, 32:32 minutes) [media id=89 width=* height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Announcements Congratulations to Mike Rankin, new Editor-in-Chief of InDesign Magazine and CreativePro.com Mike is one of the speakers at our Print + ePublishing Conference (May 14-16, San Francisco) On the East Coast? See us June 13-14: InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC Drawing in InDesign Pen tool and its shortcuts and permutations Every frame and text wrap is actually an editable path Pathfinder panel or menu to combine overlapping frames Playing with type outlines Using object styles Finally: A Quizzler Winner! Keyboard shortcut of the Week: Command-Option-V (Ctrl-Alt-V) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Convert Direction Point News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko has a cool plug-in, FrameReporter, that wins the award for Best Plug-in Icon Ever (a newspaper reporter inspecting a text frame with a magnifying glass!). Oh, and it also provides a slew of useful features for anyone who works with text and image frames in InDesign—in other words, everyone. For example, with FrameReporter you can name some frames and then use those names for quickly navigating to them! Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS168 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 20% off FrameReporter's regular price of $39US. >> Recosoft continues to improve and enhance their breakthrough product, PDF2ID, now at v3.0. PDF2ID is a cross-platform plug-in for Adobe InDesign that enables you to directly open and convert PDF documents within Adobe InDesign CS3/CS4/CS5. It supports multiple languages and can even pull in PDF annotations (comments) into the InDesign layout! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Register for PePCon to reserve your place, it's sold out every year since we started > PePCon 2012 Event on LinkedIn; see which of your contacts are attending > Info and registration for our 2-day, single track InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC, June 12-13, 2012 > Other articles about drawing in InDesign: Edit a Shape's Frame The Hidden Join Paths Command The Zipper Effect Copy from Illustrator to InDesign or Vice Versa Pasting from Illustrator into InDesign > Free Speech Bubble (and perhaps Snowman Head) script for InDesign > We talked about Script Labels in this podcast > A post about Paste Into > The Aachen font (city where our Quizzler is from) > Birgit won every one of our InDesignSecrets eBooks! -- Quizzler! Birgit from Aachen, Germany, was the winner of the random drawing of correct answers to this Quizzler from a couple podcasts ago. In response to the question "What does this cryptogram made up of dingbats spell out," Birgit answered "WE LIKE LEGOS."  (David must have been surrounded by the Legos™ his kids play with.) Our friend Brad Walrod, book compositor extraordinaire, kindly created a graphic of the solution for us. Thank  you Brad!

InDesign Events; ID to EPUB scripts; Shortcut of the Week; Quizzler Update; Obscurity of the Week: Japanese Dots Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-167.mp3 (15.9 MB, 28:51 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Upcoming InDesign Events and Deadlines March 2: Early bird ends for Print + ePublishing Conference (May 14-16, San Francisco) March 3: Creating Digital Publications with InDesign, UC Berkeley June 13-14: InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC Three must-have free scripts for InDesign to EPUB (and other uses) TomaxxiLinkRename PerfectPrepText (download link, blog post to come) CSSGeometry (thank you Kris at Rorohiko!) Keyboard shortcut of the Week: Command-Shift-V (Ctrl-Shift-V) Quizzler Update: Code Breaker (see below) due midnight Feb 29! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Japanese Dots News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko’s TextExporter 3.1 plug-in makes exporting text out of InDesign CS2-CS5.5 so simple! You can export all the stories in an ID file into one single RTF, plain text, or ID tagged text file, and you control how it orders the text as it extracts and concatenates it.  Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS167 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the TextExporter plug-in. >> In-Tools is the developer of AutoFlow Pro, an InDesign plug-in that lets you fully control the layout of both text and images by dynamically shrinking and expanding individual text frames and threaded stories using your settings. (And it’s a great solution for easy alternate layouts for DPS.) Check out their AutoFlow page for details, screenshots, documentation, and to download a free trial! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Register for PePCon by March 2 for up to $200 off > PePCon 2012 Event on LinkedIn; see which of your contacts are attending > Diane Burns' Creating Digital Publications with InDesign, UC Berkeley > Info and registration for our 2-day, single track InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC, June 12-13, 2012 > Forum discussion about Jongware's preptext.jsx script > David's PowerStyles plug-in can also do what PerfectPrepText does (and more) > Cari Janssen's article about TomaxxiLinkRename script > Anne-Marie's post about TextExporter & exporting text from ID > Japanese dots post by Cari > Orthogonal paste (or "paste without formatting") post by David -- Quizzler! Listeners: The mystery image is below. CLUE: The last character is Sonata, here's a character map To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and the correct answer to the puzzle (as described in the podcast).  You have until February 29 2012 at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! We will randomly choose a winner from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast in February, and receives the prize: a copy of every single one of our eBooks!

Chris Kitchener interview; Quizzler, Obscurity of the Week: Butt Cap Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-165.mp3 (16.2 MB, 30:11 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Interview with Chris Kitchener, InDesign Senior Product Manager Thoughts on CS "Next" New releases: Too many? Too few? The delicate balance of adding new features vs. improving existing features Quizzler! Code Breaker! (see below) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Butt Cap News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center based in the UK, is one of the first companies to offer Adobe's official Digital Publishing Suite courses for all you budding tablet publishers out there! See details on their 2-day courses for Single Edition DPS and Enterprise Pro DPS. Mention "InDesignSecrets" when registering for any course and get 25% off the fee! That's an incredible deal. If you're near one of their regional training centers in London Covent Garden or  Cardiff, you're a lucky chap. >> Rorohiko offers dozens of cool plug-ins and scripts for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! For example, have you checked out their free plug-in called Like Finds Like? Just select an item on the page and with a simple click (or with a keyboard shortcut you assign) you can have InDesign select all other "matches" to the selection on the page or spread. Check out the LikeFindsLike product page at Rorohiko.com, and be sure to mosey around their other offerings while you're there. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Check out PePConference.com, register by March 2 2012 for $200 early bird discount > David's The Creative Sweet at the 2012 Macworld/iWorld in San Francisco, Jan 26 > Anne-Marie's InDesign to EPUB & Beyond workshop at the O'Reilly TOCCON, Feb 13 > Mike Rankin's Renovating Print Assets for Digital session at TOCCON, Feb 14 > Save 15% off any TOCCON registration with the coupon code AMCon > Kiyo Toma's sneak peak of InDesign liquid layout from Adobe MAX -- Quizzler! Listeners: The mystery image is below. To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and the correct answer to the puzzle (as described in the podcast).  You have until January 31 2012 at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! We will randomly choose a winner from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast in February, and receives the prize: a copy of every single one of our eBooks!

PePConference News; Matthew Diener interview; Keyboard Shortcut of the Week; Obscurity of the Week: Create Guides --------------------- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-162.mp3 (15.2 MB, 28:04 minutes) [media id=83 width=* height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. 2012 PePConference news; secret goodies for early early registrants Interview with Matthew Diener, editor of EPUBSecrets.com InDesign Shortcut of the Week: Command-Option-I/Ctrl-Alt-I Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Create Guides (the menu command) News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools is the developer of  World Tools Pro, InDesign plug-ins that represent “the most complete solution available for composing multilingual documents including Hebrew, Arabic, Indic languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and more.” Company founder Harbs is also the "Guru" of PrintUI.com, which provides a number of custom InDesign Server-based solutions, like the StoreSigns.com solution we talked about in the podcast. >> Rorohiko 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 Mac/Windows utility called Soxy ($19US) that helps you open files (InDesign, EPS,PDF, 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 INDESIGNSECRETS162 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the Soxy utility. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Go to PePConference.com and check out the new logo by CMYKate Designs > Register for the 2012 PePConference by Dec. 31 2011 for speaker-only t-shirt and bag > Check out EPUBSecrets.com, and say hi to editor Matthew Diener (@epubsecrets) > Matthew lives in Evanston (NU Wildcats) but follows Michigan State football :D > An EPUB Primer written by @epubpupil in EPUBSecrets.com > David's article about PrintUI.com will be in issue #45 of InDesign Magazine > SMIL ("smile") is how you associate sound files with HTML to add Read Aloud ability to EPUB books > SVG files and InDesign > Anne-Marie's video, A Field Guide to Special Characters in InDesign and PDF guide > David wrote a post about some mysterious hidden characters too > All the InDesignSecrets tips videos on Lynda.com (some only available to subscribers) > Blog post about Deleting All the Guides

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-159.mp3 (15.3 MB, 28:32 minutes) [media id=81 width=* height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News: Anne-Marie's Las Vegas recap, Podcast survey results, Goodie boxes Interview with Josh Nguni, Namibia's InDesign User Group leader Adobe's Creative Cloud: A brief overview and discussion Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Objects Move with Page News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software is the developer of DocsFlow, a plug-in for Adobe InDesign (CS5 or 5.5, Mac or PC) that dynamically links online Google Docs with InDesign layouts. The two-way active link between the successive drafts of the text in Google Docs (free online text editor from Google) and the story as it appears in the formatted InDesign layout allows writers, editors, and designers to work, individually or collaboratively, all at the same time. For a limited time, you can purchase DocsFlow for $200, and you’ll be automatically upgraded at no cost to DocsFlow Pro when it’s released, which will be priced at $400. >> Rorohiko has a neat little InDesign utility called LayerLifter, a free add-on that makes it easier to move items from layer to layer. If you own or purchase their APID ToolAssistant ($25), you also get to use LayerShifter, a slick way to shift all items on a particular layer. Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS160 to get 25% off the APID ToolAssistant. You won't regret it! >> Recosoft makes PDF2ID (converts PDFs to editable InDesign files) and ID2Office (converts InDesign files to editable Word or Powerpoint files). They also just announced PDF2ID Enterprise, which batch converts PDFs to InDesign and/or to the IDML format; just the ticket for automating workflows. Check them out! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Adobe's Creative Cloud and their Creative Cloud FAQ > You can log in to Creative Cloud right now to test it > David wrote an article in Macworld about his opinion of CS5.5 subscriptions > Josh Nguni's InDesign User Group in Windhoek, Namibia Josh Nguni

Milwaukee Seminar; Writing in InDesign; WTH feature: Fit Selection to Window; Obscurity of the week: Odd Page Break Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-154.mp3 (17.8 MB, 34:27 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Well, kind of soon. It takes them a while to transcribe. Writing in InDesign: why would you write from scratch in a page-layout program? Our first-ever What-The-Heck (WTH) feature: Fit Selection to Window Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Odd Page Break -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >>Rorohiko makes awesome plug-ins for creative professionals who use InDesign, and also builds custom automated workflow solutions for companies around the world. >>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 2011 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering. Also: Thanks to Ken Venus for the awesome voiceovers! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > InDesignSecrets Live! with James Fritz in Milwaukee, WI, September 27 (check your weekly newsletter for the code to get 10% off; if you don't get the newsletter) > Writing in InDesign: a book by Dave Bergsland, at Amazon or Lulu. > Basic and Not-so-Basic Text Selection Shortcuts (blog post by James Fritz) > More on Story Editor and the Barbell cursor. > More on the Show Paragraph Break Marks feature. > GoogleDocs > Em Software's DocsFlow > Buzzword > Wordpress to InDesign > ickmull and more from John Maxwell > What the Hieronymus Bosch?! > Free Guide to InDesign Special Hidden Characters

Keyboard Shortcut of the Week; Ron Bilodeau interview; Geeky Blog Posts; Obscurity of the Week: Remember Font with Bullet Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-152.mp3 (24.2 MB, 44:52 minutes!) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Keyboard shortcut "of the week" Interview with Ron Bilodeau, InDesign Master at O'Reilly Media Incredibly geeky blog posts you should check out Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Remember Font with Bullet Quizzler! -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a number of great InDesign plug-ins, all of which were recently updated to work with CS5.5. One of the most powerful plug-in is his AutoFlow Pro ($79). It puts you in complete control of automating the flowing and reflowing of your layout’s text and images, using both master frames and non-master frames, across entire documents. It's a great solution for creating horizontal and vertical layouts of the same content, too. >> Rorohiko is offering 50% off their SodukuGenerator ($149) plug-in until the end of July 2011; after that the discount drops to 20% off. As the name implies, the plug-in uses InDesign to create "easy" to "diabolical" level Soduku puzzles, great for any newsletter, magazine, newspaper, or even a book full of these puzzles. To get the discount, use the promo code INDESIGNSECRETS152 when you purchase it. – To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and as many correct answers as you can think of. You have until Monday, July 25 at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! We will randomly choose a winner from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast after July 25, 2011! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > InDesign Keyboard Shortcuts posters > InDesignSecret's collection of GREP-related posts and resources > Twitter #eprdctn posts > Ron used to work at Cook's Illustrated magazine > Now he works at O'Reilly Media > Geeky post #1: Guide to Interpreting InDesign Crash Reports > Geeky post #2: Favorite GREP Expressions You Can Use > Geeky post #3: Picking the Best Video Format for Digital Publishing > Geeky post #4: Free Script to Batch Apply ALT Tags > Seybold Report reviewed Soduku Generator with Patterns > Keith Gilbert suggested the Quizzler > InDesignSecrets webinars > Jim Maivald's book, Designer's Guide to InDesign and XML

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-151.mp3 (24.2 MB, 44:52 minutes!) [media id=72 width=* height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. PePCon 2011 recap: It was great! Let's do it again! ;-D Marijan's new Acrobat script (lets you create form fields in InDesign) Our Uservoice web site for InDesign feature requests Interview with Douglas Waterfall, InDesign senior software engineer Quizzler winner! (and answer) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Load Selected Glyph -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko is offering 20% off their StoryParker 2.0 ($29) plug-in, a neat utility that helps you deal with cluttered pages by letting you "park" any object elsewhere (like on the pasteboard) to get it out of the way temporarily, and then "unpark" it later. To get the 20% discount, use the promo code INDESIGNSECRETS151 when you purchase it. >> In-Tools has a number of fantastically useful InDesign plug-ins, all of which were recently updated to work with CS5.5. Harbs (the owner) has also written a bunch of InDesign scripts that are supremely useful. Be sure to visit the In-Tools page and download what looks useful. >>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 2011 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering. – Quizzler winning answer: How many ways can you "hide" InDesign, from the keyboard? Pat, a Mac user, says ... You mentioned the first way - Quit. Option-click on the desktop will hide InDesign and you leave the program but not quit it. Force Quit - Option+Command+esc Command+H - will hide InDesign. Which surprised me the first time it happened because Command+H used to Hide Frame Edges. Menu Bar> InDesign> Hide InDesign (does that one count because it's basically the same as #4) Use the dock to hide InDesign Use the dock to quit InDesign (does that one count because it's basically the same as #6) Command+Tab highlight InDesign Icon in application switcher and Command+Q Command+Tab highlight InDesign icon in application swticher and then Command+H -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Print & ePublishing conference sponsors > Marijan Tompa's new site > Tony Harmer's poem lamenting InDesign's inability to create Acrobat form fields > Blog post on Creating Form Fields in InDesign (the Acrobat script) > Tony Harmer's updated poem > Send feedback about your InDesign wishlist items to our Uservoice site > Adobe's official feature request form that Chris Kitchener reads > In discussion with Douglas, we talked about the issue of split columns not splitting > Peter Kahrel's footnotes and columns script > The Certitec winner was from Llandrindod Wells in Powys > The winner of the Quizzler gets her choice of InDesignSecrets webinars > David's article on Mystery Glyphs was in issue #41 of InDesign Magazine > More on Load Selected Glyph in Find > Langston Hughes' poem, "A Dream Deferred"

Our Sesquicentennial Episode; Favorite Resources; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Background Tasks Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-150.mp3 (15.2 MB, 27:18 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Our sesquicentennial episode! We talk about 15 of our list of 150 Awesome Links and Resources, including: Bob Bringhurst's InDesign Docs blog, Adobe Master List of Adobe Blogs, InDesign Magazine Tip of the Week archives, Mordy's Fridays with Mordy webinar archive, Pattern Maker plug-in free version, DesignGeek.com, Quark to InDesign conversion guide (PDF), Adobe TV InDesign channel, InDesign Beyond the Basics, Real World InDesign, InDesignUserGroup Twitter list, InDesignSecrets Guide to Special Characters, 10 Tips for Troubleshooting InDesign Files, Dave Dickson's Digital Publishing blog A new Quizzler! Listen up, magicians: you need to make something disappear. Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Background Tasks -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko is offering 50% off their Frame Reporter ($39) plug-in, an essential utility for getting feedback -- little tags on the page -- on the attributes of image and text frames in your document. Download the demo, click Get License... and enter the coupon code SESQUICENTENNIAL for 50% off until May 31, or 15% after that date. >> In-Tools has a neat plug-in called Style Utilities, that does all sorts of cool tricks with text styles such as styles based on the number of lines in the paragraph, conditional styles, a super-powered Next Style function, and more. It's only $39 and has a free trial. Try it out! – To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and as many correct answers as you can think of. You have until Sunday, June 5 (not May 31 as we said in the podcast, since we were delayed in publishing this) at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! The winner will have the most correct answers, or in caes of a tie, we'll randomly choose the winner. Winner will be announced in the first podcast after June 5, 2011! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Sesquicentennial? > 150 Awesome Links and Resources > Bob Levine's post about that Pesky Background Export Issue workaround (read comments for script)

Newsbits; Live Captions; Liza Daly interview; Obscurity of the Week: Create Tagged PDF Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-146.mp3 (21 MB, 38:08 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Newsbits! Print & ePublishing Conference: New HTML5/CSS3/Flash Tutorial day James Fritz's InDesignSecrets Live seminar on April 12 InDesign to EPUB, Kindle, and the iPad, new video tutorials from Anne-Marie Catch AM's Hardcore InDesign workshop at the HOW Design Conference in June Creative Suite 5 Update coming soon, says Adobe Live Captions: Tips, How-To's, Workarounds Mike Rankin's interview with Liza Daly, EPUB expert Obscurity of the Week: Create Tagged PDF -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko's TextExporter is an indispensable InDesign plug-in if ever need to repurpose text content from your InDesign files. Until the end of April, the company is giving away a free license of TextExporter to anyone who donates at least $NZ20 (about $15 US) for either the Japanese or New Zealand earthquake appeals, to any Red Cross society. See this Rorohiko page for instructions and more information. >> PrePress Center sells eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF and wants to add page navigation and zoom controls in the browser, among other goodies. Go to http://www.edocker.com/indesignsecrets-offer/ (or enter the coupon code indes2011) for $100 off of the eDocker software. >> In-Tools developed the awesome Reflective Objects plug-in ($59 US), which lets designers specify “align to/away from spine” for objects as well as paragraphs without having to make them anchored objects. If you’ve every had the layout of a left-facing page turn into a mess when it became a right-facing page, this plug-in is for you! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > April 8 is the last day to get $200 off your registration to our 2011 Print & ePublishing Conference, May 23-25, Washington DC area (Twitter hashtag: #pepcon) > New HTML5/CSS3/Flash post-conference tutorial > Fritz's InDesignSecrets Live all-day seminar (use PODCAST146 discount code for $25 off, only 3 available) > AM's blog post about her new Lynda.com InDesign > EPUB titles includes a free sample movie > Enter HAH11 promo code to get $100 off registration to the HOW Design Conference in Chicago, June 22-27. (AM's 3-hour InDesign session is on Friday June 24. Here's the full schedule.) > Liza Daly's company is Threepress Consulting, and their blog is here > More info on the IDPF and the upcoming EPUB 3 specification > Liza mentioned Inkling, publication design specialists in digital textbooks > Adobe's InDesign/Accessibility resource page > Download David's whitepaper, Creating Accessible PDFs with InDesign CS4 (PDF, 292K)

I admit it: I don't know the InDesign Scripting DOM by heart, so I spend a lot of time browsing around in the ExtendScript Toolkit Object Model Viewer.I frequently work on very diverse projects - sometimes it's GWT/Java, sometimes it's ActionScript, sometimes it's PHP/WordPress, sometimes it's C++ or REALbasic, and so on... - and invariably, when I come back to a particular project, I need to spend some time refreshing basic knowledge.It's like my brain 'switches' programming environment, and when I am deeply immersed in Java, I almost forget how to spell 'EkstentScript'.The ExtendScript Toolkit Object Model Viewer (you find it under the 'Help' menu) is great for browsing the object model - but when it's been a while, it still feels like I am wading through molasses. One of the reasons for that is that I am a visually-oriented person. A picture is worth a few thousand mouse-clicks to me!Lately, I've been revisiting BarredText - one of our latest scripted plug-ins, and to do that, I need to get back up to speed on TextFrames, Columns, Characters, Stories, and so on.I decided I'd put in a little bit more effort, and put everything into a diagram - I've made a 2-page PDF file as a refresher I'll use next time I need to figure out how those buggers relate.Because this might be useful to other people, I decided to release the PDF file under the 'Attribution-Share Alike' Creative Commons license:http://www.rorohiko.com/downloads/rorohiko.blogspot.com-extendscript-textframe.pdfI am not claiming this is error-free - if you find any errors, or can see ways to improve this, please let me know.And if you like this - let me know too! Soon, I need to revisit tables and cells in ExtendScript - who knows, if I get enough positive feedback I might do another visual representation.

11 New Document tips; new Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Easing Path ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-141.php for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-141.mp3 (18.3 MB, 32:58 minutes) [media id=62 width=* height=20] See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. New Year's list of 11 (as in 2011) recommended New Document steps, including: Checking Presets and Defaults Head starts with styles Master pages, layers, and workspaces A new Quizzler! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Easing Path -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools creates InDesign plug-ins mainly for people doing multi-lingual or long document publishing, but many of their products are useful for anyone. In his free time, company owner Harbs is constantly churning out useful and often free scripts, such as the Preference Manager we talked about in this episode. >> Rorohiko has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done. For instance, have you ever wished you could add a vertical bar next to a paragraph and have it flow with the text, even if the paragraph breaks between columns or pages? Rorohiko's new BarredText plug-in ($19US) can do that for you, whether you use CS3, CS4, or CS5. A free trial is available, and when you decide to purchase it, be sure to use the discount code INDESIGNSECRETS141 for a significant discount. – To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and your best answer in the body of the message. You have until Friday, Jan. 28 , at midnight CST to send in your answer, one per user! We will choose the most correct answer, or in the case of a tie, we will randomly choose from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in a subsequent podcast—good luck! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > David's post about application-wide Preference settings > Post about Print vs. Web intent in InDesign CS5 > All about Color Settings in InDesign (David's masterpiece article of 2010!) > Seattle's InDesign User Group > You've registered for our 2011 Print & ePublishing Conference, haven't you?

Twitter for InDesign users; KBSC of the Week; New eBook; New speakers for the 2011 PeP Conf.; Obscurity of the Week: Row Separator ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-140.php for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-140.mp3 (18.7 MB, 33:57 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. All about Twitter for InDesign users: Who to follow and why Design-oriented Twitter lists InDesign tips found in tweets Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Cmd-Y/Ctrl-Y Newsbits Mike Rankin's new eBook, Guide to InDesign CS5 ACE Exam More speakers added to the roster for the Print & ePublishing Conference in DC in May 2011 Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Row Separator -- News and special offers from our sponsors:   >> In-Tools is owned by our friend Harbs, who helps out so many users here on the blog and in our forum. In this episode we talked about his company's awesome Reflective Objects plug-in ($39 US), which lets designers specify "align to/away from spine" for objects as well as paragraphs without having to make them anchored objects. If you've every had the layout of a left-facing page turn into a mess when it became a right-facing page, this plug-in is for you!   >> Rorohiko has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done. We love their handy (and free!) plug-in called "Like Finds Like." It lets you select an object, then tell InDesign to select all the other objects on that page or spread that share the same fill or stroke or frame type or width or ... you get the idea. Check it out! Meanwhile, you can support Rorohiko by buying one of their commercial plug-ins, such as the wonderful TextExporter ($19 US) that we talked about in the last episode ... it's the ideal add-on for anyone who needs to repurpose text from their layouts. You can still go to this special URL: http://www.rorohiko.com/indesignsecrets139.html in the Rorohiko.com store to get a "10 pack" of TextExporter for only $109 instead of $149. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Anne-Marie's Twitter & Facebook Marketing videos at Lynda.com > The GraphicDesign Twitter list at Listorious > Browse the Graphic-Designer list at Twibes > Twitter user @Typography posts type-related info > Blog post about 50 web designers to follow on Twitter > Look for InDesign Tips on Twitter > Learn more about Rufus Deuchler, Cari Jansen, and Russell Viers (new speakers at the Print & ePublishing Conference) > Follow (or just read) @indesignsecrets on Twitter, and also our individual Twitter posts: @amarie, @dblatner, @idguy, @jmvrankin, @jamesfritz, @carijansen > A few of our favorite Tweeple: @mninness, @lizcastro, @scottcitron, @rufusd, @mordy, @indesignmag, @indesign

Object style tricks; Quizzler winner (floppy disc icons); KBSC of the week: Recall Zoom; Obscurity of the Week: Spacing Options ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-139.php for full show notes, links and discounts mentioned during the podcast, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-139.mp3 (16 MB, 29:17 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Super tips and tricks for Object Styles, such as: Apply first/next paragraph style Set position of the object Set width of the text frame Quizzler winner: How many floppy disc icons in InDesign? (more than you think!) Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Ctrl-Alt-2 / Cmd-Option-2 Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Spacing Options -- News and special offers from our sponsors:   >> In-Tools is owned by the famous “Harbs” who helps out so many users here on the blog and in our forum. He and his company develop many scripts and plug-ins that are so useful for InDesign users. In this episode we talked about the amazing Power Headers plug-in for automatically creating running headers with a wealth of options and filters, and AutoFlow Pro, which was reviewed in the current issue of InDesign Magazine. And in his spare time, Harbs writes an engaging blog on his company site at In-Tools.com, check it out!   >> Rorohiko has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! For example, Anne-Marie uses their plug-in TextExporter so often she thought it was part of the program! This wonderful timesaver lets you intelligently export text from multiple stories in InDesign out to a single, concatenated RTF or text file. It’s the ideal add-on for anyone who needs to repurpose text from their layouts. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS139 in the Rorohiko.com store to get a "10 pack" of TextExporter for only $109 instead of $149. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Check out the floppy disc icon in CS3's Command Bar > Watch the full 60 Minutes segment on Brazil from Dec. 12 2010 > List of all InDesignSecrets webinars available for viewing > Review of AutoFlow Pro in issue #38 (Oct/Nov 2010) of InDesign Magazine > Learn cool tricks at Kelly's DocumentGeek blog > Learn about our upcoming Print & ePublishing Conference (and yes, Kelly was the first registration!)

Hexadecimal colors and a free Hex script; CMYK color management in ID for the rest of us; InDesign to EPUB webinars; Obscurity of the Week: Show Single Plates in Black ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-137.php for Show Notes, links mentioned in the podcast, sponsor's coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-137.mp3 (16.1 MB, 29:13 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Defining, matching, and converting hexadecimal colors in InDesign The 3 things you need to know about CMYK color images in InDesign Liz Castro's upcoming InDesign to EPUB webinars Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Show Single Plates in Black -- News and special offers from our sponsors:   >> In-Tools is owned by the famous "Harbs" who helps out so many users here on the blog (such as the Hex color script). They just came out with an update to World Tools and World Tools Plus, two InDesign plug-ins that represent “the most complete solution available for composing multilingual documents including Hebrew, Arabic, Indic languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and more.” Go to the World Tools product page to see screen shots, download a trial, and learn all the neat things InDesign can do with typesetting world languages. >> Rorohiko has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! For example, Anne-Marie uses their plug-in TextExporter so often she thought it was part of the program! This wonderful timesaver lets you intelligently export text from multiple stories in InDesign out to a single, concatenated RTF or text file. It's the ideal add-on for anyone who needs to repurpose text from their layouts. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS137 in the Rorohiko.com store to get TextExporter for only $15 instead of $19. >> 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 2010 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Certitec's Jon Bessant explains the basics of editing a PDF in Acrobat X > David's post about Hexadecimal colors (includes a link to the free script) > Memorize this Wikipedia page on Hex colors so you can impress your friends > David's post (busy guy!) about CMYK color management in InDesign > Easy primer on "Color and the Printing Process" from PrintingForLess.com > EPUB guru Liz Castro's EPUB: Straight to the Point book (and here's her blog) > Liz Castro is doing two webinars on InDesign to EPUB! Register quickly, spots are going fast

Beyond Print: EPUB; Digital Magazines; Quizzler Announcement; Obscurity of the Week: Resize by 5% ------ Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-134.php for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-134.mp3 (17.6 MB, 31:02 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Beyond Print: EPUB and Digital Magazines from InDesign (and DC Seminar Recap) David's Beyond Print seminar in Los Angeles is in a couple weeks, sign up now! Quizzler Announcement Upcoming InDesignSecretsLive! seminars for Fall 2010: Los Angeles CA, Spokane WA, Santa Fe NM Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Resize by 5% -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> MathMagic, the ultimate equation editor from Info Logic, Inc., is a WYSIWYG equation editor/plug-in that lets you create inline, editable EPS equations from within InDesign (if you use the MathMagic Pro edition). For InDesignSecrets listeners, they're offering a time-limited discount of 25% off any MathMagic Pro product that's $199US or more, until Nov. 30, 2010. Here are the details of the offer, or just remember to use the coupon code INDS at the MathMagic order page to get your discount. >> Rorohiko 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 nifty plug-in, Magneto Guides, an ideal add-on for anyone who works with structured, repetitive documents. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS134 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off MagnetoGuides. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > News story about Apple adding newspapers and magazines to iBookstore > Adobe Labs page with Digital Magazine Solution info and links > iGizmo iPad magazine > New Yorker iPad magazine, and here's the very funny "how to read this" video > Adobe.com page with EPUB publishing information > InDesignSecretsLive seminar details and registration links (use IDSMBR9 for 10% off) > Subscribe to the newsletter for more discounts & the Quizzler!

Podcasts and Videocasts; Changing Page Color; InDesign Seminars; Obscurity of the Week: Prevent Manual Positioning ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-133.php for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-133.mp3 (15.9 MB, 29:02 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Podcasts and videocasts you'll love Mailbag Answer: Changing the page background color Upcoming InDesignSecretsLive! seminars for Fall 2010: Washington DC, Los Angeles CA, Denver CO, Spokane WA, Santa Fe NM, more tba Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Prevent Manual Positioning -- 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 don’t win, you can always register for any 2010 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering. >> Rorohiko 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 newly updated Mac/Windows utility called Soxy ($19US single license, $159US for a site license) 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 INDESIGNSECRETS133in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the Soxy utility. -- Recommended Podcasts and Videocasts: > Copyediting podcast > CreativeSweetTV videocast > DesignTools Weekly podcast > DesignSchool videocast > InstantInDesign videocast > The iPad Show podcast > The Kindle Chronicles podcast > MacTech Live videocast > PixelPerfect videocast > TechByter Worldwide podcast Did we overlook your favorite design- or publishing-related podcast? Please add it below in a comment! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > "The DesignGeek's Take on InDesign CS5," Bill Blinn's interview of Anne-Marie (first of 3) on the TechByter podcast > InDesignSecretsLive seminar details and registration links (use IDSMBR9 for 10% off) > Subscribe to the newsletter for more discounts

Twitter poem; CID fonts; Quizzler results; Seminar updates; Obscurity of the Week: Always subset fonts with glyph counts greater than 2000 ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-132.php for Show notes, links, discount codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-132.mp3 (17.2 MB, 31:27 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Anne-Marie: Twitter poet laureate David's ongoing battle with CID encoding Quizzler Results (Making things invisible) and winners Upcoming seminars debuting in September PDFSecrets: Working Smarter in Acrobat, with guru Clint Funk 2-day InDesignSecretsLive seminar includes a new "Beyond Print" day Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Always subset fonts with glyph counts greater than 2000 -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko’s SudokuGenerator plug-in lets you to generate Sudoku puzzles directly in InDesign. Spice up the next newsletter with your own Sudoku, or go into the Sudoku puzzle book business! There are many options and settings you can customize. The $149 plug-in works in CS1 to CS5, Mac or Windows. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS132 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the SudokuGenerator plug-in. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Sigil, the open source EPUB editor > ePubChecker can run as a Java app on Mac/Windows > Anne-Marie's winning poem (but here's her magnum opus) > David's post about CID fonts and here are more CID-related links > Mike's post about navigating panels from the keyboard > Congrats to Quizzler winner Dan V. and runner-up Peter G.! Dan gets Real World InDesign CS5 and Peter wins those neat Keyboard Shortcut Stickers David was playing with during the podcast > InDesign Keyboard Shortcuts posters (CS2, Cs3, CS4, and CS5!) > PDFSecrets seminar details and registration links (use IDSMBR9 for 10% off) > InDesignSecretsLive seminar details and registration links (use IDSMBR9 for 10% off) > Subscribe to the newsletter for more discounts and the Quizzler

Survey winner; Navigating long docs; Two new seminars; Obscurity of the Week: Select and Fit Item ----- Details below, or go to the Show Notes page at http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-130.php for links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-130.mp3 (16.3 MB, 30:51 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Congratulations to Laurie from Columbus, Ohio, our Survey prize winner! Navigating through long InDesign docs: tips, tricks, and hidden features Two new seminars debut in September PDFSecrets: Working Smarter in Acrobat, with guru Clint Funk 2-day InDesignSecretsLive seminar includes a new "Beyond Print" day Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select and Fit Item (screen shot below) -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko's Color2Gray plug-in lets you convert placed color images to grayscale without modifying the original color image; no trips to Photoshop required! A huge timesaver for many publishers, the $29 plug-in works in CS1 to CS5, Mac or Windows. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS130 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 20% off the Color2Gray plug-in. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Our post about Jim Maivald's new XML/InDesign video series from Lynda.com > Use our Lynda.com 24-hour Free Trial to see all their videos > Love the Quizzler? We have a great one coming up in the next InDesignSecrets newsletter > David's Real World InDesign CS5 book (with Bob Bringhurst!) is coming soon > Not using CS5 yet? Here's what "Select and Fit Item" looks like:

User survey; Sorting tables; PDFs from Print Booklet; Obscurity of the Week: Include Menu Commands ------ Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-129.php for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ------ Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-129.mp3 (15.8 MB, 30:07 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Take our quickie InDesignSecrets user survey, win a prize! Sorting Tables, a story with three morals PDFs from Print Booklet: Solutions for Mac users Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Include Menu Commands -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> WinSoft International designs, develops, and localizes software for emerging markets, including InDesign ME (Middle Eastern). Their new plug-in ScribeDOOR for InDesign ($89) adds the ability to edit and treat text in 21 complex languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi and many Indian scripts. It can be installed, as a plug-in, in all Roman versions of InDesign CS4 or CS5, and those files can be opened and viewed by any other CS4 or CS5 user without them needing the plug-in. There is a free trial of the plug-in available. >> Rorohiko's TextExporter 3.0 plug-in makes exporting text out of InDesign CS2-CS5 so simple! You can export all the stories in an ID file into one single RTF, plain text, or ID tagged text file, and you control how it orders the text as it extracts and concatenates it. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS129 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 20% off the TextExporter plug-in. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > InDesignSecrets User Survey deadline is July 15 2010. Only 5 questions, and there's a $150 Lynda.com video raffle prize! > Peter Kahrel's Sort Table script and David's post about it > Steve Werner's posts about Print Booklet (168 comments since April 2007) and Snow Leopard & the Adobe PDF Printer (127 comments since August 2009) > Download the Acrobat 9.0 PPD (you might want to right-click and Save Link As)

InDesign to ePub; Quizzler results (triangles); Obscurity of the week: Single Word Justification-----Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-128.php for links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment!----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-128.mp3 (19.4 MB, 36:36 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. InDesign to ePub What is it, why should you care? Essentials of getting your InDesign file ePub-ready Common glitches and tweaks Quizzler Results! Two winners and many honorable mentions for their creative triangle-creation methods (full list after Links, below) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Single Word Justification InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: San Francisco & Chicago in June; LA, DC, Santa Fe, Denver, and more in the fall! -- 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 don’t win, you can always register for any 2010 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering. >> Rorohiko's StoryTweaker ($99) plug-in lets editors and writers access your InDesign file's text without needing to own InDesign or InCopy. The plug-in is associated with one InDesign seat, but allows that user to create an unlimited number of AssignmentTweaker sets, which is what the editors open and work on. The workflow is spelled out on the StoryTweaker site, and there's a 20-day free trial available. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS128 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the StoryTweaker plug-in. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > All posts tagged with "epub" in InDesignSecrets.com > Liz Castro's Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis blog > The #ePrdctn Twitter hashtag is all about ePub production > Great eReader matrix (what device reads what format) > Adobe Digital Editions ePub reader utility > All InDesignSecrets recorded webinars > James Michener's Alaska > InDesignSecretsLive! Seminars -- How to create a triangle in InDesign 1. Pen Tool: Click four times 2. Pencil Tool: Draw carefully! 3. Line Tool: Draw three lines, then select the endpoints with Direct Selection tool and choose Object > Paths > Join 4. Draw a one-cell table. Put stroke on two sides and leave two sides set to None stroke. Then add diagonal line in Cell Options dialog box. 5. Click once with the Polygon tool and set it to three sides and zero inset 6. Convert any frame to triangle (Object > Convert Shape > Triangle) 7. Use a photo of a triangle, make clipping path with detect edges then convert path to frame 8. Use a triangle character from a font, such as "p" in Wingdings 3 (then use Type > Create Outlines) 9. Draw a rectangle, then use Direct Selection tool to drag a corner point to the frame's middle point 10. Draw a rectangle, then use Direct Selection tool to delete one of the corner points or scale it to 0% 11. Add an angled gradient fill that ends abruptly 12. Draw two rectangles. Rotate one so that it overlaps the first, select both then use Object > Pathfinder > Intersect 13. Paste one rectangle into another and rotate the first one inside the other 14. Arrange three rectangles so negative space creates a triangle shape 15. Draw a very short line, but make it very thick in Strokes panel. Give it an endpoint of a triangle (so that the triangular endpoint covers up the whole of the line) 16. Type capital "A" in a frame and convert the frame to outlines. Select and choose Object > Path > Release Compound Path. Delete the "outside" path and use the triangular counter. 17. Draw an ellipse. Choose the Pen tool and click on one point of the ellipse to delete it. Now hold down the Option/Alt key (to get temporary Convert Point tool) and click the 3 remaining points. 18. View a screen shot of a triangle created by rotating three pages using Mike Rankin's Transform Pages trick Have more? Add them to the comments below!

All about Leading; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Use Master Color-----------Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-127.php for Show notes, links, and to leave a comment!----------- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-127.mp3 (14.9 MB, 28:32 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. All About Leading Leading-related Preference settings When to use Auto-Leading and when not to Baseline grid and leading, First line offset and leading, and more! Quizzler! Ladies and Germs, man your InDesign tools Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Use Master Color InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: San Francisco & Chicago in June; LA, DC, Denver, and more in the fall! -- Quizzler instructions: Think you have the answer to this episode's Quizzler? Do not post it here in a comment! Instead, send your answer(s) in an e-mail to info@indesignsecrets.com, with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line. (Note: InDesignSecrets.com contributors, past and present, aren't eligible. Sorry, Fritz!) Deadline for receipt of entries is midnight PST on Friday, June 18, 2010. The top two winners will each receive a copy of Real World Illustrator CS4 — we will notify you by email if you win. In the case of a three- or more-way tie, we'll choose two winners randomly. Good luck! -- 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! We love FrameReporter ($29 US) because it 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 INDESIGNSECRETS127 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the FrameReporter plug-in. >> CtrlPublishing offers a highly useful plugin called CtrlChanges that lets you track text changes in InDesign CS3, CS4, and CS5, just like in Microsoft Word and InCopy. With the CtrlChanges plug-in you can see the tracked changes markup in the layout as well as the Story Editor, and you can print them too! (Two features that not even the new Track Changes feature in CS5 has.) There’s a free trial available, and listeners of the podcast get a 15% discount on CtrlPublishing’s web store if you use the coupon code CTRLOFFER5. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > All posts tagged with "leading" in InDesignSecrets.com > Blog post about Rogue Leading and When Leading is Ignored > Podcast #95 had Skip by Leading as its OIFOTW > White Labels > InDesignSecretsLive! Seminars

Best and Worst little CS5 features; Blog posts of the week; Obscurity of the Week: Folder 0-------Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-126.php for show notes, links, and to leave a comment!--------Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-126.mp3 (19 MB, 36:14 minutes)See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.Favorite little features in InDesign CS5New control panel widgets, Patient user mode always on (AM), Minion Pro default, moreLeast-favorite, little annoyances in InDesign CS5Change in panel tabs, New Window menu organization, Patient user mode always on (DB), moreHot Blog Posts of the WeekConfigurator for InDesign, TweetChats, InDesign to iPadObscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Folder 0InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: San Francisco & Chicago in June; LA, DC, Denver, and more in the fall!News and special offers from our sponsors:>> Rorohiko (“Slash the time it takes!”) keeps improving their so-useful Soxy utility—the latest beta now supports InDesign CS5. With Soxy installed, users with multiple versions InDesign installed can go back to simply double-clicking INDD files to open them, because Soxy makes sure they open in the correct version of the program. Soxy also supports file/version matching with multiple versions of Illustrator, Photoshop, and QuarkXPress, among others. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS126 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the $19 Soxy utility. >> CtrlPublishing makes CtrlCrossTalk, a magical plug-in that lets InCopy users edit any story in an InDesign layout file, without the designer needing to export the stories to InCopy format first. They have another plugin, CtrlCrossTalkID that lets the InDesign user "lock" the frames that the InCopy user should not be able to edit. Listeners of the podcast get a 15% discount on CtrlPublishing's web store if you use the coupon code CTRLOFFER5.>> PrePress Studio sells eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF. eDocker makes the SWFs more user-friendly in the browser because it lets you add page navigation and zoom controls, among other goodies. Try the free 3-day trial or purchase eDocker at this special URL and enter the coupon code IDS1 for 10% off.--Links mentioned in this podcast:> Lie back and think of England

InDesign CS5 Released; New contributor Keith Gilbert; Russell Viers interview; Obscurity of the Week: Straight Hash ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-123.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-123.mp3 (16.9 MB, 34:16 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. InDesign CS5! Welcome to new blog contributor Keith Gilbert Yes, a use for Style Groups! Interview with world traveller/InDesign guru Russell Viers InDesignSecretsLive Seminars -- new cities added! 2010 Print and ePublishing Conference update (close to selling out!) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Straight Hash News and special offers from our sponsors: >> PrePress Studio just released eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF. eDocker makes the SWFs more user-friendly in the browser because it lets you add page navigation and zoom controls, among other goodies. Try the free 3-day trial or purchase eDocker at this special URL and enter the coupon code IDS1 for 10% off. >> Rorohiko sells a fascinating plug-in called MagnetoGuides that makes it easy to quickly layout grid-based designs because page objects become "magnetized" to the guides. You've got to try it for yourself; it’s FREE for 20 days, and then when you can't live without it, you’ll want to buy it for the low price of $59. Or, reduce the cost by 10% if you enter INDESIGNSECRETS123 in the coupon code area of Rorohiko’s shopping cart. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Our round-up of InDesign CS5 new features > Adobe's official CS5 Design Premium and InDesign CS5 pages > Anne-Marie's InDesign CS5 New Features video tutorials at Lynda.com > Keith Gilbert's first InDesignSecrets blog post (and here's his company's web site) > All about Russell Viers > InDesignLive Seminar is coming to Vancouver, Austin, Atlanta, and (just announced!) Chicago and San Francisco! > Print and ePublishing Conference agenda and speaker bios

Ole Kvern interview; Member prizes; Cross-References; Obscurity of the Week: Connections ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-120.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-120.mp3 (16.4 MB, 32:08 minutes) [media id=41 width=* height=20] The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Updates about the InDesignSecrets seminars and Print and ePublishing (PeP) Conference Interview with Ole Kvern, Computer Scientist at Adobe Systems, InDesign scripting guru, and author and co-author of Real World InDesign, Real World Freehand, and many more How he got involved with Adobe and InDesign How InDesign users can get started scripting His seminars on InDesign automation at the PeP Conference InDesignSecrets member prize drawing: Congrats, Tim and Brian! Harbs' new, free Cross-References script that adds a much-needed feature Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Connections News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko has an innovative plug-in, FrameReporter, that can add little non-printing info labels (name of an image, if the frame is overridden from the master, and more) to any kind of frame in your layout, saving any hard-working InDesigner a ton of time. It's FREE for 20 days, and then when you're completely spoiled, you'll want to buy it for the low price of $29. Or, reduce the cost by 25% if you enter INDESIGNSECRETS120 in the coupon code area of Rorohiko's shopping cart. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Olav "Ole" Kvern's Adobe Press page, Amazon page, and LinkedIn page > Adobe's InDesign Scripting home page > Ole is also speaking at the Creative Suite Developer's Summit > Members! Watch your e-mail for discount codes to InDesignSecretsLive.com events (seminars and PeP conference) > InDesignSecrets keyboard shortcut posters (just like Tim and Brian's!) ;-) > David's post about Harbs' amazing Cross-References script > DTPTool's wonderful Cross-References PRO plug-in for InDesign/InCopy CS2-CS4 > InDesign documentation on the Connections feature

Mordy Golding interview; Obscurity of the Week: Tiling ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-119.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser:InDesignSecrets-119.mp3 (13.8 MB, 28:47 minutes) [media id=40 width=* height=20] The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Interview with Mordy Golding, Illustrator guru and New York City fanboy How he got involved with Flash Catalyst Why designers will love using it Details on his all-day Illustrator/Flash Catalyst tutorial at the PeP Conference Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Tiling News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko offers a free plug-in called TextExporter that we love. But to get even more functionality from that free plug-in (and many other free Rorohiko plug-ins) you need to license their APID Assistant. Normally $25, you can get $5 off the APID Assistant if you enter INDESIGNSECRETS119 in the coupon code area of Rorohiko's shopping cart. >> 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 don’t win, you can always register for any 2010 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Register for Mordy's Illustrator/Flash Catalyst tutorial in Seattle on May 12 -- follow the Registration link in the 2010 Print & ePublishing Conference information page > Mordy's web site, Mordy.com, and his Flash Catalyst Beta video tutorials > Download Flash Catalyst from the Adobe Labs web site > New PeP Conference sponsor, WinSoft (check out their Arabic typography contest) > InDesignSecretsLive.com for seminar and conference info & registration links > Another post that's related to tiling in InDesign, sort of

Colin Fleming interview; Conference/Seminar news; Members drawing winner; Obscurity of the Week: Shared Hyperlink Destination ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-118.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-118.mp3 (14 MB, 26:35 minutes) [media id=39 width=* height=20] The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Interview with Colin Fleming, Senior Solutions Engineer from Adobe How he became an expert on ePub ePubs on Kindles, iPads and Sony eBooks Videos and whitepapers on ePubs that Colin recommends Update on our Print & ePublishing Conference Early bird registration saves $200! Pre-conference all-day tutorials from Mordy Golding, James Fritz, and Michael Ninness New cities/speakers for our InDesignSecrets Live Seminar tour A lucky InDesignSecrets member gets a TruMatch swatch book as this episode's random winner Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Shared Hyperlink Destination News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko sells a neat plug-in called SudokuGenerator, (and offers a free, more limited version called SudokuGeneratorLite) that lets you create those mind-bending number puzzles for fun and profit. Normally $49, you can get $10 off by entering INDESIGNSECRETS118 in the coupon code area of Rorohiko's shopping cart. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Colin's Adobe MAX presentation, "Creating an eBook for Distribution on Sony Reader Digital Book, Amazon Kindle, and Apple iPhone" > Colin's three AdobeTV movies, Using InDesign to Create Digital Books: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 > New Adobe whitepapers on Producing ePub eBooks from InDesign > InDesignSecretsLive.com for seminar and conference info & registration links > Make sure you're in our Members database (free) for upcoming prize drawings! > Katey's DocumentGeek.blogspot.com blog

InDesignSecretsLive.com 2010 seminars and conference; Diane Burns interview; Prize winners; Obscurity of the the Week: Paste without Formatting ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-117.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-117.mp3 (15 MB, 29:48 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Happy New Year! Our new sister site: InDesignSecretsLive.com, with info and links for: 2010 InDesign seminar tour cities and dates Our new Print and e-Publishing ("PeP") Conference, May 12-14, 2009, Seattle, Wash. Interview with Diane Burns, ID trainer/multilingual publishing expert/table diva Winners of our first InDesignSecrets Member drawing Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Paste Without Formatting News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko has a new version of Soxy out, that oh-so-useful utility that knows (or learns) which program/version should open which file on your computer. Great for when you have multiple versions of InDesign installed, or when you work with mix of vector and raster EPS files, or many other situations! Normally $19, you can get $5 off by entering INDESIGNSECRETS117 in the coupon code are of Rorohiko's shopping cart. Download the demo! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > InDesignSecretsLive.com for seminar and conference info > Diane Burns' company, TransPacificDigital.com > You can watch a recording of Diane's InDesignSecrets webinar, "Table Magic" > Make sure you're in our Members database (free) for upcoming prize drawings!

All about object transformations; Blatner Tools beta 3; Obscurity of the Week: Pattern Length ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-114.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-114.mp3 (14.5 MB, 26:42 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. All about object transformations Scaling & rotating from the keyboard Using math in the X, Y, W, H, and % (Scale) fields to transform The too-subtle-for-their-own-good transformation buttons & context menu And many more! Blatner Tools free beta 3 now available Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Pattern Length News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a very cool plug-in called Column Flow which among other things let you create straddle heads on the fly!. 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 Column Flow) if you purchase from this special page on their site. The full list of plug-ins bundled in the packages is here. >> 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. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Blatner Tools free beta or demo on the DTP Tools web site > David's posts about Pattern Length for corners and brackets (thanks Rufus!)

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 don’t win, you can always register for any 2009 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” 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

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

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

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