InDesign Secrets
Topics: Big news about podcast name Our favorite obscure features Fun obscure feature "spelling bee" game Obscure Feature: Positional Form Friendly Alien: Barbell: Positional Form:
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Just for fun: Bad Advice (and Good Lessons) Interview with Marcus Radich from PageProof Obscure feature: Show Transparency Grid Links: Bad Advice Interview with PageProof: News: Adobe engineers did an Ask Us Anything 24-hour marathon . Creative Cloud Members get 3 months of LinkedIn "Premium Career" membership (which includes LinkedIn Learning). See Obscure Feature: Show Transparency Grid
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Topics: Great lessons from the archives (that you may have missed) First look at InDesign 20.3 Obscure Feature: Delete All Guides on Spread Sponsor: is a simple-to-use but powerful online proofing platform that makes giving feedback on creative work effortless Links: Old InDesign Magazine articles that are definitely evergreen: From issue 1: issue 2: issue 7: issue 8: What's new in 20.3 News: Members can now download the of articles (use the code CPSECRETS to get $100 off that or any creativepro event) Obscure Feature: Delete All Guides on Spread
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* DOIE: Dept. of InDesign Efficiency * Obscure Feature: Clear Rotation * News Links: Dept. of InDesign Efficiency Apply Leading to Entire Paragraphs: The weird "Place Gun Frame" trick: Join us in our live studio audience for Podcast 332 at ! Clear Rotation: Did you know you can ? Even more cool:
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Topics: The INDDC format: good and bad Interview with Venngage CEO Eugene Woo Obscure Feature: Reset Preferences on Quit Links: Cloud Docs: The endgame… collaborative editing, AI powered design at your fingertips
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Includes: Favorite font tricks Interview with Theresa Jackson InDesign 20.1 Obscure feature: Match Pasteboard to Theme Color News: Old (but still relevant!) InDesign Magazine articles, now on site: by Khara Plicanic by Steve Caplin by Jamie McKee by Nigel French by David and Anne-Marie Theresa Jackson: Font Tricks: (see Don Ayer's comment at end for an easier solution) Obscure Feature:
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Topics: Anchored Objects Interview with Marcus Radich, PageProof Obscure Feature: Standard Carriage Return Links: Marcus Radich, from Anchored Objects: Coming in 2025: Books we mentioned: : a book about keyboards by Marcin Wichary , by Glenn Fleishman Background on the:
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Table Scripts: The Design + AI Summit, CreativePro Week, and more Obscure Feature: Cell Division
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What's New in InDesign 2025: New "wow" products at MAX Interview with: Obscure Feature: "Show Subset"
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News: 2025 in Phoenix: registration is open The Design + Accessibility Summit The Design + Marketing Summit The Design + AI Summit Sept. 2025 issue: Accessibility Tools Sponsors of this episode: : The Creativity Conference : All your proofing in one place. Online. Embedding Graphics: Paula Scher: Book suggestions: Logo Beginnings (), and Logo Modernism () Math Typesetting: we recommend Obscure Feature: Paste Nudge
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- 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
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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/