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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- 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)
- 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/