The CreativePro Podcast

2nd Quizzler Winner, Drop Shadows Secrets, Obscurity of the Week: Transform Sequence Again Individually ------- Details follow, or go to

Align to Spine; Quiz Contest #2; Obscurity of the Week: Convert to Profile/Assign Profile -------- Details follow, or visit the Show notes at http://www.indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts -------- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-026.mp3 (13.4 MB, 25:32 minutes) (the transcript of this episode will be posted in a few days) -- The Pleasures of CS2's Spine Alignment (Align to/Away from Spi...

Mailbag Episode: Change underline thickness, ID user groups in Canada, Dotted leaders, Disk error with custom sets, Obscurity of the week: View Threshold ||| Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts to view show notes and links ||| Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-025.mp3 (11.2 MB, 21:41 minutes) (the transcript of this episode will be posted in a few days) The M...

London ID Conf. recap; Sandee on scripting; Branislav on master page text frames; Rufus on pasteboard fixes; Mysteries of the Align palette; Obscurity of the week: Go Forward/Go Back ------ Full details follow, or go to http://www.indesignsecrets.com and view the linked show notes ----- -- London InDesign Conference recap from David, and he recorded interesting tidbits from a few of the conference...

Contest winner; Tip of the Day plug-in; Lab values and spot colors; Add-a-Page script; Obscurity of the week: Position tool ---- Detailed notes follow, or go to http://www.indesignsecrets.com/category/podcast for show notes, links, and to comment on the episode. ----- * The answer to — and winner of — our first InDesign Quiz Contest * Free InDesign Secrets plug-in, "Tip of the Day" for Mac or Wind...

Comment line and transcripts; Copy/paste text formatting; Spot colors and transparency; Our first contest question; Obscurity of the week: Lab color mode  |||  Detailed notes follow, or go to http://www.indesignsecrets.com/category/podcast for show notes, links, and to comment on the episode. • Announcement of new enhancements to the podcast: Transcripts and our Listener Comment Line • Anne-Marie'...

Real-time black reverses; Auto-numbering angst; Ink Manager secrets; Obscurity of the Week: Script Label palette ||| Detailed notes follow, or go to http://www.indesignsecrets.com/category/podcast for show notes, links, and to comment on the episode. • Branislav Milic solves the Real-Time Reverse Out of Black challenge! Download his 7-page PDF, "Transparency Cool Effects" (1.1 MB), the solution is...

InDesign 2006 Conference Recap; Hear from Pamela Pfiffner, Sandee Cohen and Kacey Crouch; Real-time reversed text effect, Obscurity of the Week: Browse

New version (with new tip) of framegrids.pdf tutorial; Text frames and the Fitting command; Beyond the Zoom tool; InDesign Magazine freebie; Obscurity of the week: Appearance of Black

Prevent InDesign from turning everything into a text frame; Ways to "unthread" a single text frame; Fix unalphabetized styles; Custom view scales with a shortcut; Obscurity of the Week: The Magnet

Mix transparency in image frames, Secret "wake up the font menus" keyboard shortcut, Merging InDesign documents -- techniques and cautions, Obscurity of the week: Align First Line to Baseline Grid

Baseline grids, Tim Cole's PDF tutorial on frame grids, Vertical justification, 50 ways to use the Direct Selection tool, Obscurity of the Week: Vertical Depth Ruler

Find/Change Unicode characters, Apply Paragraph styles via Find/Change without losing local formatting, Default frame backgrounds in XPress vs. InDesign, Obscurity of the Week: Purchase This Image

Mailbag: Creating lines for forms and moving custom Workspaces between computers; Secrets of creating interactive PDFs in InDesign; Obscurity of the Week: Lock Zero Point

Listener tips on keyboard shortcuts and gravity, Eyedropper tool (copy/paste formatting) secrets, Obscurity of the Week: Justify Text Next to an Object

SPECIAL EDITION! Anne-Marie takes her turn as solo host with this follow-up of her e-seminar for Adobe, "Adobe Bridge: Your Creative Hub." She reviews what Bridge offers InDesign users and answers some of the ID/Bridge questions sent in by the e-seminar audience.

SPECIAL EDITION! David flies solo here and answers tons of questions he received from the audience (but didn't have a chance to get to) during his recent e-seminar for Adobe, "InDesign for QuarkXPress Users."

Mailbag: Make page one start on the left side, and 2-sided printing in InDesign? Obscurity of the Week: Ink Manager

Listener e-mail: Enlarge pasteboard width, Change layer visibility in placed Illustrator files; Discretionary Returns in InDesign? ("They said it couldn't be done!"); Obscurity of the Week: Transparency Blend Space

Listener e-mail: Correction for inserting tabs into table cells in Windows; Preset Secrets; Obscure Feature of the Week: Gravity

Listener E-Mail: Insert Special Character (Tab), Make Non-Printing, Find/Change Quotes; Best options for exporting InDesign pages for inclusion in a QuarkXPress layout; Obscure Feature of the Week: Allow Pages to Shuffle

Quick Apply, Convert Polygon, Favorite InDesign Secrets of Will Eisley, Group Product Manager at Adobe Systems, Obscurity of the Week: Section Marker

InDesign Recovery Data, Scaling Text Attributes, Curling Straight Quotes en masse, Obscurity of the Week: Hyphenation Slider

Actual Size, Add a Script, Keep with Next Paragraph, InCopy, Obscurity of the Week

Keyboard Shortcuts Secrets, Interchange format, Obscurity of the Week