News

• InDesign 19.4 released
• CreativePro Font Collection Vol 4
• Online Events and CreativePro Week
• CreativePro Magazine latest issue

Marcus Radich interview

• PageProof site
• Watch Marcus demo PageProof

Exploring InDesign 19.4

• New features in this release
• New EPUB Accessibility features

Obscure Feature of the Week: Adjust Dashes and Gaps

• Setting a Dash Stroke with Exact Gap and Dash Values in InDesign
• Corner Stroke Effects
• Adding Strokes to Just the Corners of a Frame
• Creating Scalloped Edges
• How to Make Lumberjack Plaid
• You can do the same adjustments in Photoshop!

News

• InDesign 19.4 new features
  • Note: 19.4 wasn't fully released when we recorded this podcast! You can learn more about the new features here.
• Online Events and CreativePro Week
• CreativePro Magazine latest issue

Kara Plicanic interview

• Khara's web site
• Interview with Khara
• Khara's CreativePro articles and videos

Secrets of the Live Preflight Panel

• Finding Overset Text With Preflight
• Customizing a Preflight Profile
• Finding Hidden Items With Preflight Profiles
• Use Live Preflight to Manage Page Sizes
• How to Create Preflight Profiles in InDesign
• Using the Book Panel to Preflight Multiple Documents
• More Preflight articles

Obscure Feature of the Week: Recompose All Stories When Modified

• Anne-Marie's post and comment about it
• InDesign documentation
• Recompose All Text keyboard shortcut: Control-Alt-/ or Command-Option-/

News

• Fixed issues in 19.3
• Earn an InDesign Certificate on LinkedIn Learning
• Online Events and CreativePro Week

Hot Threads:

• How to create a grid of images (or images and captions) so they'll autoflow and are easy to rearrange?
  • Swapping Images script
  • Auto-Reflowing Images in a Grid
  • Loic's Inline Merge script to create a grid
  • Video on using Data Merge scripts
  • Using Kelly's TOC trick
• Client wants the font to be "a little heavier" after the almost-final proof, best way to do that?

Obscure Feature of the Week: Proxy

News

• InDesign 19.2 fixes some issues
• Discontinuation of Creative Cloud Synced files
• The InDesign + Long Documents Summit (use discount code CPSECRETS for $100 off!)
• CreativePro Week (use CPSECRETS for $100 off any multi-day pass)

Julie Shaffer

• Shaffer Creative
• Certified Professional Services Marketer (CPSM) program, from SMPS: https://www.smps.org/certification/
• Interview with Julie Shaffer, Certified Marketing Pro
• Don’t Let Adobe InDesign/InCopy Notes Go Unnoticed

Secrets of the Scripts Panel

• What Do the Default Sample Scripts Do in InDesign?
• Community Scripts for All
• Organizing Scripts into Folders
• Managing InDesign Scripts
• Easily manage dozens of scripts among multiple InDesign versions (from InDesign Tips for Design Geeks)
• Unicode Injector: such a cool script!
• Assigning Keyboard Shortcuts to Scripts
• Using Quick Apply to Run Scripts

Obscure Feature of the Week: Wavy

• How to Fix the Fill on Items with Wavy Strokes
• InDesign How-to: Use Conditional Text
• More articles on Conditional Text

• In the news
  • InDesign 19.1 (second attempt) released! Fingers crossed
  • Upcoming online-only events: 
    • The Presentation Design Conference, March 6-8
    • The InDesign + Long Documents Summit, April 5 
  • CreativePro Week 2024, July 8–12, Washington, DC and online
  • CreativePro Magazine
    • February 2024 lead story: Presentation Design
    • January 2024 lead story: AI in AI ;-) 
• Interview with Nolan Haims, presentation designer extraordinaire
• Secrets of the "Panel With The Longest Name"
• Obscure Feature of the Week: Apply to Parent Page Only

Links mentioned in this podcast

• What's new in InDesign 19.1
• BUT don't use ID 2024 (19.x) with Hebrew, Arabic, or RTL text (bug reports on facebook) and (bug reports in uservoice)
• Interview with Nolan Haims
  • Nolan's Better Deck Deck (CreativePro members get 8 free!)
  • Creating Paragraph Styles in PowerPoint
  • Other great articles by Nolan
  • The Presentation Podcast
  • Speaking at The Presentation Design Conference
• EPUB Interactivity Preview Panel
  • Using the EPUB Interactivity Preview Panel
  • Faster Interactive Previews
  • Saving Your Workspaces
• Join us for daily discussions and Q&A
  • InDesignSecrets group on Facebook 
  • InDesignSecrets group on LinkedIn 

• In the news
  • 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)
      • https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/adobe-pi-std
      • https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/interstate-pi
      • Adobe Fonts ornaments tag
    • 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/

• In the news
  • InDesign 2024 updated to 19.01
  • Register for the Design + AI Summit!
  • CreativePro Magazine November 2023: Multilingual Design, Glyph panel in depth 
• Secrets of the Align Panel and its weirdo cousin, the Gap tool
• Obscure Feature of the Week: Auto Update URL Status

Links mentioned in this podcast

• Great article about Glyphs panel:
  https://creativepro.com/digging-into-the-glyphs-panel/
• Align Panel Tutorials:
  
  • Setting Exact Space Between Objects in InDesign
  • What and Where is Distribute Spacing?
  • InDesign How-to Video: Use the Align Panel
  • Align Panel Enhancements
  • InDesign How-to: Make a Mondrian-inspired Grid
  • InDesign Basics: Making a Photo Grid
  • The Right Way to Vertically Distribute Text Frames
  • A quick way to abut the edges of 2 (or more) objects

  Gap Tool Articles:

  • What Exactly Does That InDesign Tool Do?!
  • Creating a Dynamic Autofit Effect for Image Grids With the Gap Tool
  • The Gap Tool and Groups
  • Split Images That Span Across Two Pages

  The "Spring Loaded Tool" tip: https://creativepro.com/spring-loaded-tools/

  The Tool Hints panel: https://creativepro.com/using-tool-hints-panel/

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• In the news
  • Register for our Online Summits: Design + Accessibility, and Design + AI!
  • CreativePro Magazine October 2023: Accessibility for Newbies
• All about Adobe InDesign 2024 (v19.0)
• Adobe MAX 2023 review and ID Tips from Attendees
• Obscure Feature of the Week: Show Structure

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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)
• What's new in InDesign 2024
  https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/whats-new.html
• Request a feature in InDesign
  https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests
• David's conversation with Priint CEO of Priint USA:
  https://creativepro.com/creativepro-conversations-integrate-data-and-design-with-priintsuite/
• Adam Pratt, CEO of Chaos to Memories
• Sarah Hyndman, author of Passive Aggressive Fonts and Why Fonts Matter
• Mark Heaps, Groq
• How to print a page range: https://creativepro.com/tip-of-the-week-the-easy-way-to-print-a-page-range/
• Friendly Alien Easter Egg: https://creativepro.com/tip-of-the-week-friendly-alien-easter-egg/
• Obscure Feature: Show Structure
  https://creativepro.com/getting-started-with-xml-in-indesign/
• How to use Quick Apply to open or close Structure panel:
  https://creativepro.com/using-quick-apply-for-menu-commands/