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In the news 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

In the news: Design & Data Summit, Sept 21–22, online only More online Summits coming up, check them out! CreativePro magazine September 2023 all about Editorial Workflows Adobe InDesign 18.5 released New free scripts we like Deep Dive into the Scripts Obscure Feature of the Week: Verbose Sponsor for this episode >> Santa Cruz Software is the maker of LinkerUI, a best-in-class extension that connects InDesign and other CC applications to your DAM and cloud-based services like Dropbox. Box, GoogleDrive and more. It enables direct searching, opening, placing, and syncing of assets. A new feature in LinkrUI called Smart-Linkr now automatically finds and fixes broken asset links at a single click, so you never need to search for lost assets again. LinkrUI for free today at SantaCruzSoftware.com Links mentioned in this podcast CreativePro Week 2024 OPENING SALE: Use code FIRST48 on Sept 7 or 8 to get $400 off any multi-day registration More on UXP plug-ins: https://developer.adobe.com/indesign/uxp/ AM's video of the best websites for free InDesign scripts: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/indesign-tips-for-design-geeks/top-sites-for-free-indesign-scripts Community scripts https://creativepro.com/community-scripts-for-all/ More on GitHub: https://github.com/AdobeInDesignScripts/directory How Unicode Injector Works Some new scripts Peter K: missing fonts: https://creativepro.com/scripts-for-fixing-missing-fonts-in-indesign/ flagging words: https://creativepro.com/a-script-to-flag-certain-words-in-indesign/ blind endnotes: https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/footnotes.html Keith: Export SVG: https://creativepro.com/a-script-to-export-svg-content-from-indesign/ split pages for inside bleed: https://creativepro.com/a-script-to-allow-bleeds-on-the-spine-of-indesign-documents/ remove shared hyperlink destinations: https://creativepro.com/how-to-fix-shared-hyperlinks-in-indesign/ How to install scripts in InDesign Using Quick Apply to Run Scripts Asg Keyboard Shortcuts to Scripts

In the news: Design & Marketing Summit, July 27–28, online only More online Summits coming up, check them out! Adobe MAX 2023, David and Anne-Marie are doing live sessions, many more InDesign pros presenting live and online only CreativePro magazine July 2023 all about Artificial Intelligence Podcasts we like (and please review ours)! David's story about recovering from Can't Save/Save As disasters Deep Dive: Secrets of the Glyphs Obscure Feature of the Week: Styles Override Highlighter Sponsor for this episode >>Santa Cruz Software: Did you know that 66% of sales professionals can’t get their sales or marketing collateral in time, often creating assets without oversight? Solve this with BrandingUI. Try it today at SantaCruzSoftware.com! Links mentioned in this podcast Podcasts: ChaxChat Accessibility podcast with Dax Castro and Chad Chelius What other podcasts to you listen to? Let us know! Please rate InDesign Secrets! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/indesign-secrets/id101102043 https://open.spotify.com/show/4Erwd0qHoR22NhTSY67I0v (you have to listen to at least one episode before it lets you rate it) Saving files to Cloud Documents: https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/work-with-cloud-documents.html and https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/manage-cloud-documents-photoshop.html Glyphs :  Get to Know InDesign's Glyphs Find Characters Using the Glyphs Tip of the Week: Controlling the Glyphs Display Working With Custom Glyph Sets Talking about CID/GID: Podcast 260 Insert a Character by Unicode or GID Stylistic Sets: TypeTalk: Stylin' Sets Using Stylistic Sets Anne-Marie's video Obscure Feature: Style Overrides Highlighter Next time: InDesign Secrets True Crime podcast! 🤣

In the news:  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 to watch all the sessions, including IGNITE! and 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 >> Noble Desktop: For over 30 years, Noble Desktop’s project-based classes and certificate programs have given professionals the tools to pursue creative careers in design, coding, and beyond. Learn more about them on our Training Provider page or at NobleDesktop.com. 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/ this great illustrated guide to IDML by Mike Rankin: https://creativepro.com/s/Anatomy_of_IDML.pdf Color swatches that won't delete: https://creativepro.com/color-swatches-that-wont-delete/

In the news:  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 : Learning about the Glyphs : https://creativepro.com/get-know-indesigns-glyphs-/ Tips: https://creativepro.com/tip-week-glyphs--display/ Finding characters: https://creativepro.com/find-characters-using-the-glyphs-/ 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/

InDesign Public Beta for Cloud Docs Events: CreativePro Week 2023 June 5–9, Phoenix, Arizona (and online!) Design + Marketing Summit (online, July 27–28) Design + Data Summit (online, September 21–22) Creative Pro Magazine issue 19 includes articles about virtual photography, InDesign layers, and a review of IndexMatic 3 Interviews with Nicte Cuevas and Bart Van de Wiele Obscure InDesign Feature: Presentation Sponsor for this episode >> Noble Desktop: For over 30 years, Noble Desktop’s project-based classes and certificate programs have given professionals the tools to pursue creative careers in design, coding, and beyond. Learn more about them on our Training Provider page or at NobleDesktop.com. Links mentioned in this podcast Nicte Cuevas: Web site LinkedIn Learning courses CreativePro Week speaker What is an Ecotone Bart Van de Wiele Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Collaboration and Workflow (Classroom in a Book) LinkedIn Learning course CreativePro Week speaker Making Forms with InDesign and Acrobat Sign Presentation Mode

InDesign 18.21 release CreativePro Week 2023 June 4–9, Phoenix, Arizona (and online!) NEW Design + Marketing Summit (online, July 27–28) Awesome lineup, including Jesus Ramirez, Von Glitschka, Amy Balliet, and new speakers incluing the amazing Jim Krause, Brodi-Rose Newsome, Kyle Hamrick Creative Pro Magazine issue 18 feature story is about motion and video in Photoshop!  All about Measurements: You're bound to learn a few tips Obscure InDesign Feature: Not Shifted Sponsors for this episode >>PageProof is the top online proofing workflow platform for your creative process: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, PowerPoint, image files, and more. It’s free for reviewers, and flat rate pricing for you and your designers makes it easy to get started! Learn more about PageProof in David’s in-depth interview in this CreativePro Conversation on YouTube.  >>Microsoft PowerPoint has a mission: To empower people and organizations to tell the world's most compelling stories to anyone, anywhere, at any time. Check out our newest feature, Cameo, which lets you integrate a live camera feed into your presentation. Learn more about Cameo here. Links mentioned in this podcast More on Measurements Changing InDesign’s Default Ruler Measurements: link InDesign Measurements Changing Unexpectedly: link Scaling an Object to an Exact Size: link Measuring Angles: link Measurement Field Secrets: link Measure Distance with Ruler Guides: link Set the Size of Text Exactly (based on cap or x-height): link A Great Script Lets You Add Measurements in InDesign or Illustrator: link

In This Episode: 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 >>PageProof is the top online proofing workflow platform for your creative process: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Powerpoint, image files, and more. It’s free for reviewers, and flat rate pricing for you and your designers makes it easy to get started! Learn more about PageProof in David’s in-depth interview in this CreativePro Conversation on YouTube.  >>Microsoft PowerPoint has a mission: To empower people and organizations to tell the world’s most compelling stories to anyone, anywhere, at any time. Check out our newest feature, Cameo, which lets you integrate a live camera feed into your presentation. Learn more about Cameo here. 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.voice.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/

News: InDesign 18.1 release Design & Powerpoint Summit coming up Feb 16–17, 2023 CreativePro Week 2023 agenda posted CreativePro Magazine January 2023: PowerPoint Tips; Overcoming Creative Burnout. CreativePro Magazine February 2023: Making Forms with InDesign and Acrobat  Monitoring the InDesign Dashboard ChatGPT and Generative AI Obscure InDesign Feature: Adjust spacing automatically when cutting and pasting words Sponsor for this episode: >>PageProof is the top online proofing workflow platform for your creative process: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Powerpoint, image files, and more. It’s free for reviewers, and flat rate pricing for you and your designers makes it easy to get started! We interview Marcus Radich, CTO, in this episode, and you can hear David’s more in-depth interview in this CreativePro Conversation on YouTube.  Links mentioned in this podcast: News Should you update to the newest version of InDesign? https://creativepro.com/should-adobe-fix-older-versions-of-programs/ Are you feeling creative burnout? Read Maya Lim’s article: https://creativepro.com/breaking-through-creative-burnout/ Check out Maya’s other great articles here: https://creativepro.com/author/maya-lim/ InDesign Dashboard Control vs. Properties : https://creativepro.com/video-how-to-bring-the-control--back-and-keep-it/ How to customize the links : https://creativepro.com/customizing-links-/ Red dot = overset text: https://creativepro.com/tip-week-finding-overset-text-preflight/ Rotate pages/spreads: https://creativepro.com/tip-week-rotate-spread-view-gesture/ Showing which pages have transparency: https://creativepro.com/why-the-checkerboard/ Other alerts to watch for: https://creativepro.com/whats-that-alert-or-question-mark-icon-in-indesign/ ChatGPT, DALL-E, and other Generative A.I. What you need to know: https://creativepro.com/opinion-the-future-is-genai-enabled/ The script that David made with ChatGPT: https://creativepro.com/move-every-object-on-every-page-toward-or-away-from-spine/#comments/2427288 Star Trek: “Hello Computer” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpWhugUmV5U Obscure Feature: Adjust spacing automatically when cutting and pasting words Changing preferences with QuickApply: https://creativepro.com/10-essential-tips-for-working-with-styles-indesign/    

In this episode… News CreativePro Week 2023 registration includes InDesign and more Recordings available for the Design & Accessibility Summit  Go to our Events page to see 4 new online summits for 2023 CreativePro Magazine December 2022 issue dives deep into fonts and the Pantone color aggravation Good Grief: Goodbye to Type 1 Fonts and bundled Pantone spot colors Interview with Marcus Radich, chief tech officer of PageProof Obscure InDesign Feature: Select Unused Parents Sponsor for this episode: >>PageProof is the top online proofing workflow platform for your creative process: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Powerpoint, image files, and more. It's free for reviewers, and flat rate pricing for you and your designers makes it easy to get started! We interview Marcus Radich, CEO, in this episode, and you can hear David's more in-depth interview in this CreativePro Conversation on YouTube.  Links mentioned in this podcast: LinkedIn Learning Video Series for InDesign s InDesign Tips for Design Geeks InDesign Secrets (over 300 videos!) End of PostScript Type 1 Adobe's note on end of life for Type 1 Fonts How to Tell Which Files Use Type 1 PostScript Fonts How to Find Files Using Type1 PostScript Fonts in InDesign How to Convert PostScript Fonts to OpenType with TransType Pantone Libraries Disappearing What are Pantone colors? What are spot colors? Claudia McCue explains it all for you: https://creativepro.com/working-with-spot-colors/ Adobe’s Pantone Colors Fade to Black: s Turn Rubine Over Removal of Libraries from Creative Cloud 2023 Pantone Connect add-on in Adobe Exchange A Pantone-like library (Freetone) What is the Trumatch CMYK process color swatch library? https://creativepro.com/indesign-trumatch-system/ Parent pages: How to make running heads that change without using multiple parent/master pages: https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-to-automate-chapter-headers/

In this episode: News CreativePro Week 2023 registration opens October 6, 2022 Design & Accessibility Summit (online) Nov. 29–Dec. 2, 2022 CreativePro Magazine covering tips, insights, and more What's New in InDesign 2023 Interview with Mark Hilton and Gabe Harbs from Santa Cruz Software Obscure InDesign Feature: Vertical Scale Sponsor for this episode: >> Santa Cruz Software is the creator of BrandingUI, LinkrUI, and PrintUI: BrandingUI empowers your global team to customize materials at scale, all while staying brand compliant. More on LinkrUI: Survey Finds Over Four in Five Creative Pros Spend Time Weekly Finding Lost Assets Streamline Design Team Workflows with LinkrUI Links mentioned in this podcast: Showing the InDesign preview thumbnails is based on the Preferences dialog box What UXP is (for developers) Loading paragraph styles into the document: Working with Text Styles in CC Libraries 10 Essential tips for working with styles in InDesign In-Tools (still some great free scripts!) Vertical Scale tip involving styles

In this landmark 300th episode…  News Anne-Marie and David will be live at Adobe MAX in October CreativePro Week 2023 registration opens October 6, 2022 Design & Accessibility Summit (online) Nov. 29–Dec. 2, 2022 Whoa! 300 episodes! A look back at 17 years of the InDesign Secrets podcast Snippets from the first episode, Nov. 29, 2005 Audio snippets from friends and colleagues with limericks, favorite features, memories, and more The FIRST Obscure InDesign Feature: Friendly Alien (A young David explains this in the first episode) Sponsors for this episode: >> Canto is a leader in digital asset management (DAM) software, with customers that include many of today’s top brands. This is an incredibly intuitive and easy to use platform that gives creative teams a centralized location to organize, find, and share all of their digital brand assets, including videos, images, graphics, etc. Canto integrates directly with Adobe Creative Cloud software. For more information and a personalized demo, visit https://go.canto.com/CreativePro.  >> Adobe MAX is one of the largest gatherings of graphic, web, UX and multi-skilled designers, creative and art directors, illustrators, film, video, and motion graphics pros, photographers, and creative leaders. And this year, for the first time ever, you can attend in person or online (for free), so there’s a MAX for everyone. Save $400 off the live event's registration fee by using our promo code M22N at https://max.adobe.com Links mentioned in this podcast: Accessible Kellogg Rice Krispies History of Podcasts: https://www.onefineplay.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-podcasting Our first InDesign Secrets Podcast, episode #1 InDesign CS/CS2 Breakthroughs, the book we wrote together that we reference in that first episode. Shout-out to Libsyn, our podcast host vendor since the start A Brief History of Podcasting InDesign Groups that stream their meetings (so anyone can attend): Los Angeles: https://www.laidug.com Hamburg: http://idug-hamburg.de New Jersey: https://www.meetup.com/Adobe-INDUG-InDesign--Group/ Minneapolis: https://www.facebook.com/tcidug (are there more? Let us know!) Bart Van de Wiele's new book, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Collaboration and Workflow (Classroom in a Book) 

In this episode… News Last chance to get CreativePro Week 2022 videos and handouts Our online Design and Marketing Summit debuts July 18–19   Illustrator Summit returns Sept 22–23 Anne-Marie and David will be live at Adobe MAX in October CreativePro Magazine's July issue is all about Illustrator and InDesign Type: https://creativepro.com/issues/ "Smarter Workflows with InDesign and Word," Anne-Marie's newly-published course on LinkedIn Learning Editorial Tools and s in InDesign Obscure InDesign Feature: Select Subject  Sponsor for this episode: > > Santa Cruz Software has a solution for the “83% of respondents who have said they have to spend time finding a lost sset.” The answer is LinkrUI, a plugin that enables direct searching, opening, placing, and syncing of assets stored in a DAM or other storage services such as Box and Dropbox from within Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.  the free version here. Links mentioned in this podcast: Smarter Workflows with InDesign and Word by Anne-Marie! InDesign for Editors by Nigel French Notes tool and https://creativepro.com/find-notes-indesign-files/ https://creativepro.com/how-do-you-know-if-there-are-notes-in-an-indesign-document/ https://creativepro.com/show-indesign-notes-tool-some-love/ https://creativepro.com/use-notes-to-hide-text/ Kris Coppieters' free ShowNotes.jsx startup script Story Editor: https://creativepro.com/hidden-gems-the-story-editor/ https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-to-use-the-story-editor/ InCopy articles: https://creativepro.com/category/incopy-workflow/ Track Changes: https://creativepro.com/tip-of-the-week-tracking-changes/ https://creativepro.com/use-track-changes-when-accepting-pdf-comments/ Obscure Feature: Select Subject https://creativepro.com/how-to-use-subject-aware-text-wrap-in-indesign/

In this episode… News CreativePro Week 2022 recap Design and Marketing Summit coming up in July!   CreativePro Magazine issues: https://creativepro.com/issues/ Cool InDesign tips we learned at the conference Obscure InDesign Feature: Create Button Trigger  Sponsor for this episode: >> Canto is a leader in digital asset management (DAM) software, with customers that include many of today’s top brands. This is an incredibly intuitive and easy to use platform that gives creative teams a centralized location to organize, find, and share all of their digital brand assets, including videos, images, graphics, etc. Canto integrates directly with Adobe Creative Cloud software. For more information and a personalized demo, visit https://go.canto.com/CreativePro.  Links mentioned in this podcast: CreativePro Week: on-demand still available https://creativeproweek.com/2022ondemand/ CreativePro Week 2023 announced: https://creativeproweek.com/savethedate2023/ Learn to use Canva: https://creativepro.com/getting-started-with-canva/ CreativePro "3 Minutes Max" videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU-BUwkpVTo&list=PLFof_0NMmT7Uwyy6bc1Uo5OlfBUEtU2Li Cool tips and scripts:Keith Gilbert's Isometric/Diametric InDesign script:  https://gilbertconsulting.com/scripts The settings for a custom stroke that Bart demonstrated, which can be used for a static rule length in Rule Above/Below:

In this episode… News Adobe InDesign 17.2.1 update patch released CreativePro Week May 9-13, live in DC and online CreativePro Events: https://creativepro.com/events CreativePro Magazine: https://creativepro.com/issues/ CI-HUB Prize Raffle: https://ci-hub.com/creativepro/   Deadline is May 2 2022! Details on that page Field Guide to Non-Printing Highlights (there are more than you think!) Obscure InDesign Feature: Float in Window  Sponsors for this episode: >> Microsoft and Adobe! Both of these fine companies are CreativePro partners and will be represented at CreativePro Week 2022. Adobe is flying in a group of Adobe CC engineers from India, and MS Office product manager Stephanie Horn is doing a session on using video in Powerpoint.  Links mentioned in this podcast: You can use CC Libraries in Word and PowerPoint: https://creativepro.com/using-cc-libraries-in-word-and-powerpoint/ Cool tip: "How to Make an Object Style That Resizes Objects from the Center (or Any Other Reference Point) in InDesign" https://creativepro.com/how-to-make-an-object-style-that-resizes-objects-from-the-center-or-any-other-reference-point-in-indesign/ What's new in 17.2.1: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html Andreas Michalski from CI-HUB, our guest from the last podcast episode Company site https://ci-hub.com Enter their raffle here: https://ci-hub.com/creativepro/) for free tickets to CreativePro Week and free subscriptions to CI-HUB! Deadline for entries is May 2, and they'll the winners on May 3, 2022 Composition Highlights: https://creativepro.com/field-guide-to-composition-highlighting/ https://creativepro.com/why-is-my-indesign-text-highlighted-in-blue/ What Anne-Marie taught David in this episode (how to quickly jump to the active InDesign document's location on your hard drive):https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-to-video-find-file-size-location/ 3 Minutes Max tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=580PSVBohDI&list=PLFof_0NMmT7Uwyy6bc1Uo5OlfBUEtU2Li

In this episode… News Adobe InDesign 17.2 update patch released CreativePro Week agenda is up! May 9-13, live in DC and online The cover story in the March 2022 issue of CreativePro magazine dives deep into alternatives to Adobe software (including how Affinity Publisher stacks up to InDesign)  And the April issue is all about making data visual; a must-read for anyone who makes charts, graphs, infographics, and so on  Interview with Andreas Michalski of CI-HUB Control vs. the Properties : Total Smackdown! Obscure InDesign Feature: Key Object  Sponsor for this episode: >> Canto (they dropped the “Cumulus” name a few years ago) is a leader in digital asset management (DAM) software, with customers that include many of today’s top brands. This is an incredibly intuitive and easy to use platform that gives creative teams a centralized location to organize, find, and share all of their digital brand assets, including videos, images, graphics, etc. Canto integrates directly with Adobe Creative Cloud software. For more information, visit https://go.canto.com/CreativePro. Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesign 17.2… what’s new: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html The mystery of PlugPlugOwl: https://indesign.voice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/36861886-indesign-crashes-on-launch-in-plugplugowl-dll How to rebuild your preferences: https://creativepro.com/rebuilding-indesign-preferences/ Canto has been around forever! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulus_(software) Working with a DAM: InDesign Magazine Issue 109: https://creativepro.com/indesign-magazine-issue-109-digital-asset-management/ Anne-Marie shows how to get the Control back: https://creativepro.com/video-how-to-bring-the-control--back-and-keep-it/ Andreas Michalski from CI-HUB  https://ci-hub.com 17-minute video by CI-HUB from CreativePro Week: https://creativeproweek.com/session/ci-hub-sponsored-session-2020/ Anne-Marie’s course on Collaborative Workflows:  https://www.linkedin.com/learning/collaborative-workflows-for-editors-and-designers/

In this episode… News Creative Pro Events full 2022 schedule is up! The Design + PowerPoint Summit, March 10-11 CreativePro Week, May 9-13 (live in DC and online!) The Design + Marketing Summit, July 18-19 The Adobe Illustrator Summit, September 22-23 The Design + Accessibility Summit, November 29-December 2 InDesign's Most Confusing Features Obscure InDesign Feature: Others  Links mentioned in this podcast: Design + PowerPoint Summit, CreativePro Week, and more! https://creativepro.com/events Confusing Features Start document on a left-hand page: https://creativepro.com/starting-a-document-on-a-left-hand-page/ Gap Tool: https://creativepro.com/exactly-indesign-tool/ Auto-Fit: https://creativepro.com/video-use-auto-fit-on-images/ How Gradients Work: https://creativepro.com/adjusting-the-position-of-gradients/ Why Radial Gradients are crazy: https://creativepro.com/yes-indesigns-radial-gradients-insane-its-you/ Place and Link: https://creativepro.com/linking-images-change/(how you get to this episode's Obscure Feature: Others) Bart Van de Wiele's course "Advanced InDesign: Productivity Techniques" https://www.linkedin.com/learning/advanced-indesign-productivity-techniques/welcome-to-this-course  

In this episode… News Creative Pro Events full 2022 schedule is up! The Design + PowerPoint Summit, March 10-11 CreativePro Week, May 9-13 (live in DC and online!) The Design + Marketing Summit, July 18-19 The Adobe Illustrator Summit, September 22-23 The Design + Accessibility Summit, November 29-December 2 Pantone® and Adobe brouhaha InDesign Collaboration Tips and Solutions Obscure InDesign Feature: Accessibility (it appears in an InDesign ) Sponsors for this episode: >> Ajar Productions is the developer of the phenomenal in5 add-on for Adobe InDesign, which lets you export interactivity from InDesign to different formats  that actually work. Create websites, digital magazines, mobile apps, animated banners and presentations, by simply using InDesign, no coding involved! They’re now adding accessibility features, see their YouTube video. Learn more and a free trial of in5 at in5.us.  Links mentioned in this podcast: Anne-Marie’s InDesign Tips for Design Geeks video on extracting typefaces from text in images in InDesign 2022, a great new feature Pantone removing libraries from Adobe products Great tip for getting colors from the free version of the Pantone Connect app  Collaboration tips: Anne-Marie’s Collaborative Workflows for Editors and Designers (course at LinkedIn Learning) Conrad Chavez wrote about InDesign collaboration through cloud services for InDesign Magazine Using InDesign’s Share for Review feature Em Software’s WordsFlow and DocsFlow Interview with Marcus Radich of PageProof Chad Chelius’s and Dax Castro’s Accessibility podcast

In this episode… News Adobe InDesign 2022  has an update (v17.01x) CreativePro Magazine issue 1 is out! On-Demand es now available for the expanded Design + Accessibility Summit Some Totally Obvious InDesign Things We Just Learned This Year Interview with Marcus Radich from PageProof Obscure InDesign Feature: “Roger, hungry, ate 236 peaches and cantaloupes in 1904” Sponsors for this episode: > 3M’s VAS: 3M’s Visual Attention Software (VAS) is powerful, science-based AI that simulates the human vision system to analyze visual content and predicts with 92% accuracy what is attracting viewer attention. VAS is available as a web app and plugins for Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and XD. Start your free trial today, and enter promo code CREATIVEPRO5 for 5 additional trial credits! Links mentioned in this podcast: The Design + Accessibility Summit CreativePro Week What's new in InDesign 2022 (17.0) https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/whats-new.html What's new in 17.01: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html How to make the menus bigger on the Mac (for high-res monitors): https://osxdaily.com/2021/10/12/change-menu-bar-size-mac/ Why versions of Mac OS are all California cities: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/davidblatner_apple-mac-activity-6860597173332135936-PYWB Interview with Marcus Radich at PageProof: What is an Awk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auk What is an orc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc Who is Martinho da Gloria: https://www.automatication.com/about-us/ Obvious Things We Learned (or Re-learned) Move Control to the Bottom of the Screen https://creativepro.com/moving-control--to-bottom-of-screen/ Accessibility tab in hyperlinks… doesn't work the way you might expect: https://indesign.voice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/44174832-hyperlink-alt-text-is-ignored-in-the-latest-versio InDesign icon in Publish Online embed: How to do it: https://creativepro.com/publish-online-s-embedding-indesign-documents/ Problem: https://indesign.voice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/20459239-allow-removal-of-the-publish-online-button-that Adobe Illustrator: customizing the toolbar: https://creativepro.com/customize-your-illustrator-workspace/ and https://creativepro.com/create-a-custom-toolbar-in-illustrator/   Obscure Feature: Roger, hungry, ate 236 peaches and cantaloupes in 1904 If you make the sample text small, the Birch font will fit the whole line in the column. 

In this episode… News Adobe InDesign 2022 (v17.0x) now available InDesign Magazine is evolving into CreativePro magazine, first issue out November 1 2021! Sign up for our expanded Design + Accessibility Summit, Nov. 16–19 Interview with Chad Chelius and Dax Castro, accessibility experts and hosts of The A11y Podcast Obscure InDesign Feature: Flip  Sponsors for this episode: > Santa Cruz Software has a solution for the "83% of respondents who have said they have to spend time finding a lost asset." The answer is LinkrUI, a plugin that enables direct searching, opening, placing, and syncing of assets stored in a DAM or other storage services such as Box and Dropbox from within Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Read about the freemium version here. Links mentioned in this podcast: David's session at MAX: Discovering the Best InDesign Tips and Tricks Anne-Marie's lab at MAX: InDesign Basics: From Newbie to Pro Photoshop Banana (easter egg): https://creativepro.com/photoshop-easter-eggs/ Adobe MAX 2021 Final issue of InDesign Magazine has 150 All-Star Tips (and our "Hidden" Features article) Should people upgrade right away? https://creativepro.com/should-adobe-fix-older-versions-of-programs/ InCopy Vulnerability patch: https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/incopy/apsb21-05.html Dax Castro and Chad Chelius Accessibility (#a11y) podcast website: https://www.accessibilitychecklists.com (or http://www.chaxchat.com) Dax and Chad are the accessibility pros at AbleDocs: https://www.abledocs.com/en Obscure Feature: Flip (Text on a Path) https://creativepro.com/center-text-on-top-of-a-circular-path-quickly/