InDesign Secrets

• 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 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

>> 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/ 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/

• 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 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/

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 M22CPN Register 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 User 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-User-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
  • 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 Panel vs. the Properties Panel: 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.uservoice.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 panel back: https://creativepro.com/video-how-to-bring-the-control-panel-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
  • Signed up for CreativePro Week 2021? Speak at Ignite!
  • InDesign 16.2 released and then pulled
• Why objects and text sometime just ... disappear
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Split Window to Compare Layouts

News and special offers from our sponsors:

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Register now for CreativePro Week 2021
• When Stuff Disappears: A Collection of Mysteries Solved:
  • Where Is My Text? Text Disappears When Over Background Object
  • My White Text Disappeared (and solution)
  • The Case of the Disappearing Text
  • Where Did My InDesign Menu Items Go?
• Split Layout Tricks:
  • Use Split Window when Applying Colors to Text
  • How to View Two Parts of a Document at Once
• All About Alternate Layouts: https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-using-alternate-layout/
• Palo Duro Canyon: https://palodurocanyon.com
• Pantone 286: https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/286-C
• InDesignSecrets...
  • YouTube videos
  • Facebook group
  • LinkedIn group