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  • Ep. 327: Font Tricks
    2025/01/28

    Includes:

    • Favorite font tricks
    • Interview with Theresa Jackson
    • InDesign 20.1
    • Obscure feature: Match Pasteboard to Theme Color

    News:

    • 20.1 is in release rollout
    • multi-find/change is now free
    • Old (but still relevant!) InDesign Magazine articles, now on site:
      • Designing Photo Albums in InDesign by Khara Plicanic
      • Getting Started with GREP Styles in InDesign by Steve Caplin
      • Working in Microsoft Word by Jamie McKee
      • Designing with Type: Grunge, Punk, and Futurism by Nigel French
      • InDesign Nightmares by David and Anne-Marie

    Theresa Jackson:

    • Articles and videos
    • Old (but fun!) Interview

    Font Tricks:

    • How to change the underlying default font for a document (see Don Ayer's comment at end for an easier solution)
    • OpenType text and text frame adornments


    Obscure Feature: Match Pasteboard to Theme Color

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    44 分
  • Ep. 326: Anchored Objects
    2024/12/17

    Topics:

    • Anchored Objects
    • Interview with Marcus Radich, PageProof
    • Obscure Feature: Standard Carriage Return

    Links:

    Marcus Radich, from PageProof.com

    Anchored Objects:

    • Working with Anchored Objects in InDesign
    • How to Anchor a Graphic to Text (Video Tutorial)
    • Anchoring Graphics Between Paragraphs
    • Wrapping Text Around an Anchored Object
    • Drag and Drop Anchored Objects

    Coming in 2025:

    • CreativePro Week
    • The InDesign Conference

    Books we mentioned:

    • Shift Happens: a book about keyboards by Marcin Wichary
    • How Comics Were Made, by Glenn Fleishman

    Background on the: carriage return

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  • Ep. 325: Table Tricks
    2024/11/27

    Table Scripts:

    • Switching Rows and Columns in an InDesign Table
    • Sort tables
    • Setting Table Column Widths
    • Easier Table Formatting
    • Sizing Columns and Rows with a Script
    • Calculations in InDesign
    • Active Tables plug-in from DTP Tools

    Fixed Issues in InDesign 20.0.1

    CreativePro Events: The Design + AI Summit, CreativePro Week, and more

    Obscure Feature: Cell Division

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  • Ep. 324: New InDesign 2025 Features
    2024/10/29

    What's New in InDesign 2025:

    • Adobe's update page
    • How to Avoid Print Problems with MathML in InDesign
    • New Accessibility Features in InDesign 2025
    • James Wamser's New Features Guide
    • Creative Cloud Storage: Where Does Your Work Go?

    New "wow" products at MAX

    • Project Neo
    • Substance 3D Viewer
    • Amazing ProjectTurntable from Sneaks

    Interview with: Karen Brewer, Adobe

    Obscure Feature: "Show Subset"

    • Five Ways InDesign Libraries Are Better Than CC Libraries
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  • Ep. 323: To Embed or Not to Embed?
    2024/09/27

    News:

    • CreativePro Week 2025 in Phoenix: registration is open
    • CreativePro online summits
      • The Design + Accessibility Summit
      • The Design + Marketing Summit
      • The Design + AI Summit
    • CreativePro Magazine Sept. 2025 issue: Accessibility Tools

    Sponsors of this episode:

    Adobe MAX: The Creativity Conference

    PageProof: All your proofing in one place. Online.

    Embedding Graphics:

    • To Embed or Not to Embed Graphics in InDesign Files
    • The Links Panel Reveals Information About Embedded Graphics

    Paula Scher:

    • Wikipedia entry
    • Pentagram
    • Book suggestions: Logo Beginnings (Amazon link), and Logo Modernism (Amazon link)

    Math Typesetting: we recommend MathType

    Obscure Feature: Paste Nudge

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  • Ep. 322: Answers to Forum Posts
    2024/08/27

    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)
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  • Ep. 321: What's New in InDesign 19.5
    2024/07/27

    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

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  • Ep. 320: Must-Have Scripts
    2024/06/28
    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"
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    47 分