The CreativePro Podcast

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 intere...

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 Cas...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, Certi...

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 , presentati...

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 U...

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...

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 Sponsor for this episode >>  Priint:Suite is an enterprise platform that reduces the time to create marketing publications...

In the news Two more online Summits coming up, check them out! CreativePro Magazine September 2023 all about Editorial Workflows Our own InDesign Sneaks Obscure Feature of the Week: Text Rotation Sponsor for this episode >> Adobe MAX 2023 Creativity Conference is happening October 8–12 in Los Angeles, California. Learn from experts and innovators, top creatives in design, photography, illustration...

In the news: Design & Data Summit , Sept 21–22, online only More online Summits coming up, check them out! CreativePro magazine September 2023 all about Editorial Workflows Adobe InDesign 18.5 released New free scripts we like Deep Dive into the Scripts panel Obscure Feature of the Week: Verbose Sponsor for this episode >> Santa Cruz Software is the maker of LinkerUI , a best-in-class extension th...

In the news: Design & Marketing Summit , July 27–28, online only More online Summits coming up, check them out! Adobe MAX 2023 , David and Anne-Marie are doing live sessions, many more InDesign pros presenting live and online only CreativePro magazine July 2023 all about Artificial Intelligence Podcasts we like (and please review ours)! David's story about recovering from Can't Save/Save As disast...

In the news:  CreativePro rebrand!!   Design & Marketing Summit , July 27–28, online only Adobe MAX 2023 , David and Anne-Marie are doing live sessions InDesign 18.4 is slowly being rolled out CreativePro Week was phenomenal! Grab an On Demand Pass to watch all the sessions, including IGNITE! and download the handouts  Next year in Washington DC! More info to come. CreativePro Magazine June 2023,...

In the news:  Article Hunt contest winners Adobe MAX 2023 , David and Anne-Marie are doing live sessions InDesign 18.3 is slowly being rolled out CreativePro Week , June 5-9 in Phoenix (and online) IGNITE CreativePro is back!  Movie Night Design + Marketing Summit , July 27-28, online event CreativePro Magazine May 2023, issue 19 : Virtual Photography, and lots of InDesign content Fonts in InDesig...

InDesign Public Beta for Cloud Docs Events: CreativePro Week 2023 June 5–9, Phoenix, Arizona (and online!) Design + Marketing Summit (online, July 27–28) Design + Data Summit (online, September 21–22) Creative Pro Magazine issue 19 includes articles about virtual photography, InDesign layers, and a review of IndexMatic 3 Interviews with Nicte Cuevas and Bart Van de Wiele Obscure InDesign Feature: ...

InDesign 18.21 release CreativePro Week 2023 June 4–9, Phoenix, Arizona (and online!) NEW Design + Marketing Summit (online, July 27–28) Awesome lineup, including Jesus Ramirez, Von Glitschka, Amy Balliet, and new speakers incluing the amazing Jim Krause, Brodi-Rose Newsome, Kyle Hamrick Creative Pro Magazine issue 18 feature story is about motion and video in Photoshop!  All about Measurements: Y...

In This Episode: News Design & Powerpoint Summit  now available on-demand CreativePro Week 2023  coming up in June! David's  Adobe Live  session A few InDesign features that just don't work right (it's not you — it's the software) Obscure InDesign Feature:  Footnote Number Sponsors for this episode >> PageProof  is the top online proofing workflow platform for your creative process: InDesign, Phot...

News: InDesign 18.1 release Design & Powerpoint Summit  coming up Feb 16–17, 2023 CreativePro Week 2023  agenda posted CreativePro Magazine   January 2023 : PowerPoint Tips; Overcoming Creative Burnout. CreativePro Magazine   February 2023:  Making Forms with InDesign and Acrobat  Monitoring the InDesign Dashboard ChatGPT and Generative AI Obscure InDesign Feature:  Adjust spacing automatically wh...

In this episode… News CreativePro Week 2023 registration includes InDesign and more Recordings available for the Design & Accessibility Summit   Go to our Events page to see 4 new online summits for 2023 CreativePro Magazine December 2022 issue dives deep into fonts and the Pantone color aggravation Good Grief: Goodbye to Type 1 Fonts and bundled Pantone spot colors Interview with Marcus Radich, c...

In this episode: News CreativePro Week 2023 registration opens October 6, 2022 Design & Accessibility Summit (online) Nov. 29–Dec. 2, 2022 CreativePro Magazine covering tips, insights, and more What's New in InDesign 2023 Interview with Mark Hilton and Gabe Harbs from Santa Cruz Software Obscure InDesign Feature: Vertical Scale Sponsor for this episode: >> Santa Cruz Software is the creator of Bra...

In this landmark 300th episode…  News Anne-Marie and David will be live at Adobe MAX in October CreativePro Week 2023 registration opens October 6, 2022 Design & Accessibility Summit (online) Nov. 29–Dec. 2, 2022 Whoa! 300 episodes! A look back at 17 years of the InDesign Secrets podcast Snippets from the first episode, Nov. 29, 2005 Audio snippets from friends and colleagues with limericks, favor...

In this episode… News Last chance to get CreativePro Week 2022 videos and handouts Our online Design and Marketing Summit debuts July 18–19   Illustrator Summit returns Sept 22–23 Anne-Marie and David will be live at Adobe MAX in October CreativePro Magazine's July issue is all about Illustrator and InDesign Type: https://creativepro.com/issues/ "Smarter Workflows with InDesign and Word ," Anne-Ma...

In this episode… News CreativePro Week 2022 recap Design and Marketing Summit coming up in July!   CreativePro Magazine issues: https://creativepro.com/issues/ Cool InDesign tips we learned at the conference Obscure InDesign Feature: Create Button Trigger  Sponsor for this episode: > >  Canto is a leader in digital asset management (DAM) software, with customers that include many of today's top br...