News

• More CreativePro events coming up
• Update on InDesign 19.5 *beta* feature
• CreativePro Magazine 25 Years of Tips and Tricks!
• Catch Anne-Marie Sept 19 at the L.A. InDesign User Group (online)

Sponsored by PageProof

• The Benefits of Online Proofing for the Creative Workflow
• PageProof review
• PageProof's website

Update note on InDesign 19.5

• Remember that GenAI stuff in 19.5 is beta!

Three interesting InDesign Secrets forum posts

• How to get text to sit outside the text frame
• • More on First Baseline Offset

• How to compare two PDF files
• • PDF Comparator from Premedia Systems
  • Comparing images or pages using effects blend modes

• The background to my AI or PDF files is no longer transparent
• • Understanding InDesign’s Place PDF Options
  • How to Place CC Library Items with Transparency

Obscure Feature: Contextual Task Bar

• (everyone loves it… not)

News

• InDesign 19.5 released
• 2024 CreativePro Week available on-demand
• More CreativePro events coming up
• CreativePro Magazine latest issue

Sponsored by PageProof

• The Benefits of Online Proofing for the Creative Workflow
• PageProof review
• PageProof's website

Unboxing InDesign 19.5

• InDesign 19.5 Adds Generative Expand, History Panel, and Find/Change Text Case
• Adobe's What's New in 19.5 page
• Change Case:
  • Peter Kahrel's script
  • GREP Solution to Flawed Title Case Feature
• History panel:
  • The way we used to do History panels
  • Accessing Document History

Obscure Feature: .joboptions

• More on PDF presets

News

• InDesign beta to test opening PDFs to edit in InDesign
• CreativePro Week July 8–12 in DC! (and livestreamed)
  • Use code CPSECRETS for $100 off any multi-day pass
• The InDesign + Accessibility Summit, Oct. 8–11 (online)
• CreativePro Magazine latest issue

Interview with Sabine Lenz, "The Paper Queen"

• PaperSpecs site
• Sabine's bio and sessions at CreativePro Week

Must-Have Scripts

• How to Start Using InDesign Scripts (with the MakeGrid script)
• Copy InDesign Fonts to Folder (by Justin Putney at Ajar)
• Document Analyzer (by Keith Gilbert)
• LoremIpsum-izer script
• Calendar Wizard (by Scott Selberg)
• Scramble Text in Place to Hide Private Info (uses FindChangeByList)
• Unanchor Text (by Loic Aigon… we said Peter Kahrel in the podcast… oops!)
• Break Text Thread (in Community Scripts)
• StorySplitter (similar to Break Text Thread)

Even more scripts:

• Top Sites for Free InDesign Scripts (from Anne-Marie's InDesign Tips for Design Geeks weekly course on LinkedIn Learning)
  • Download a PDF with all of the top sites linked
• 100 Free InDesign Scripts
• The InDesign Scriptopedia

Obscure Feature of the Week: Neutral

• • Learn more about "No Language"