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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- 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
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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/
- Snippets: