InDesign Secrets

Blatner and Concepcion

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The companion to the world's largest independent portal for all things InDesign, InDesignSecrets.com! Co-founders David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepcion discuss news, tips, and how-to's for Adobe InDesign, the layout program that is the standard for print, PDF, and digital publishing.

OCT 29

Ep. 324: New InDesign 2025 Features

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

58 min
SEP 27

Ep. 323: To Embed or Not to Embed?

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

44 min
AUG 27

Ep. 322: Answers to Forum Posts

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)

37 min
JUL 27

Ep. 321: What's New in InDesign 19.5

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

36 min
JUN 28

Ep. 320: Must-Have Scripts

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"

47 min
MAY 26

Ep. 319: Marcus Radich Interview

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 Corner Stroke Effects Adding Strokes to Just the Corners of a Frame Creating Scalloped Edges How to Make Lumberjack Plaid You can do the same adjustments in Photoshop!

44 min
APR 25

Ep. 318: Khara Plicanic Interview

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 a Preflight Profile Finding Hidden Items With Preflight Profiles Use Live Preflight to Manage Page Sizes How to Create Preflight Profiles in InDesign Using the Book Panel to Preflight Multiple Documents More Preflight articles Obscure Feature of the Week: Recompose All Stories When Modified Anne-Marie's post and comment about it InDesign documentation Recompose All Text keyboard shortcut: Control-Alt-/ or Command-Option-/

54 min
MAR 27

Ep. 317: Hot Threads from the InDesign Forum

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 font to be "a little heavier" after the almost-final proof, best way to do that? Obscure Feature of the Week: Proxy

35 min

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38 Ratings

So much fun… and full of interesting InDesign tips!

08/08/2023

Cloud Watcher 123

David and Anne-Marie know more about InDesign than anyone I can think of, and when you put them together in the same room the resulting conversation is a gold mine. They have a great chemistry and easy rapport that’s just pleasant to listen to (and often laugh out loud funny). I listen to it every month and you never know what new piece of info you’re going to learn. David
Great podcast!

08/01/2023

Gobks

The hosts know this stuff better than anyone, but don't come across as haughty. They cover new developments and plug ins to the nines. If you use In Design it's a great resource, I use the back catalog and never miss an episode. More please!
The Best InDesign production podcast out there!

08/01/2023

MerryMoss

Great show, great hosts! ANYTHING you want to know about how-to-do-it in InDesign… they know and are happy to share. No secrets now! Thank you.
Excellent

08/01/2023

nkcreative

I never miss an episode. Great information! Anne Marie and David are so knowledgeable and entertaining. Love the obscure feature 👍

The companion to the world's largest independent portal for all things InDesign, InDesignSecrets.com! Co-founders David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepcion discuss news, tips, and how-to's for Adobe InDesign, the layout program that is the standard for print, PDF, and digital publishing.

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Episodes

Ep. 324: New InDesign 2025 Features

Ep. 323: To Embed or Not to Embed?

Ep. 322: Answers to Forum Posts

Ep. 321: What's New in InDesign 19.5

Ep. 320: Must-Have Scripts

Ep. 319: Marcus Radich Interview

Ep. 318: Khara Plicanic Interview

Ep. 317: Hot Threads from the InDesign Forum

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So much fun… and full of interesting InDesign tips!

Great podcast!

The Best InDesign production podcast out there!

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