InDesign Secrets

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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