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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- 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