The CreativePro Podcast

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

Master page text frames, Mixing page sizes, Ruler guides secrets, Document history window

Introductions, Embedding graphics, Multi-column frames, CMYK Swatches, Friendly Alien