Ep. 332: Live from CreativePro Week
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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Ep. 331: Bad Advice
InDesign Secrets
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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Ep. 330: Evergreen Tips
InDesign Secrets
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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Ep. 329: Top Efficiency Tips
InDesign Secrets
* 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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Ep. 328: Cloud Docs
InDesign Secrets
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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Ep. 327: Font Tricks
InDesign Secrets
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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Ep. 326: Anchored Objects
InDesign Secrets
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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Ep. 325: Table Tricks
InDesign Secrets
Table Scripts: The Design + AI Summit, CreativePro Week, and more Obscure Feature: Cell Division
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Ep. 324: New InDesign 2025 Features
InDesign Secrets
What's New in InDesign 2025: New "wow" products at MAX Interview with: Obscure Feature: "Show Subset"
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Ep. 323: To Embed or Not to Embed?
InDesign Secrets
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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- 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/