InDesign Secrets Blatner and Concepcion

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 InDesign: Best practices and best tips Obscure Feature of the Week: Ornaments Links mentioned in this podcast
Adobe MAX 2023 speakers
Including ...
Anne-Marie and David Angelo Montilla, who we interviewed in podcast episode 290 Dax Castro, interviewed (with Chad Chelius) in podcast episode 292 Erica Gamet, interviewed in podcast episode 226 Fonts:
Great Fonts To Use: CreativePro Font Collection #1: https://creativepro.com/creativepro-font-collection-vol-1/ Font Collection #2: https://creativepro.com/creativepro-font-collection-vol-2/ Our awesome "InDesignSecrets Font Collection" on Adobe Fonts: https://fonts.adobe.com/collections/indesign-20 Google Fonts: https://creativepro.com/using-google-fonts-indesign/ Adobe Fonts: https://creativepro.com/using-adobe-fonts/ Font Tools Astute Graphics Vector First Aid: https://astutegraphics.com/plugins/vectorfirstaid Justin's "Copy InDesign Fonts to Folder" script: https://ajarproductions.com/blog/2013/04/16/copy-indesign-fonts-to-folder/ Identifying Fonts: What the Font: https://www.myfonts.com/pages/whatthefont How to identify fonts: https://creativepro.com/identifying-fonts/ Glyphs panel: Learning about the Glyphs panel: https://creativepro.com/get-know-indesigns-glyphs-panel/ Tips: https://creativepro.com/tip-week-glyphs-panel-display/ Finding characters: https://creativepro.com/find-characters-using-the-glyphs-panel/ Custom glyph sets: https://creativepro.com/working-with-custom-glyph-sets/ Laura Worthington's Hummingbird font: https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/hummingbird Making Fonts: IndyFont: https://www.indiscripts.com/post/2012/06/indyfont-build-opentype-fonts-from-within-indesign If you have a LinkedIn Learning subscription: our video on IndyFont: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/indesign-secrets/055-making-a-font-with-indesign-using-the-indyfont-script?u=0 FontSelf in Illustrator: https://creativepro.com/create-fonts-illustrator-cc-fontself/ Installing Fonts: Document Fonts folder: https://creativepro.com/easy-font-activation-using-document-fonts/ InDesign application's Fonts folder: https://creativepro.com/getting-indesign-to-see-your-fonts/

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: Presentation Sponsor for this episode
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Links mentioned in this podcast
Nicte Cuevas: Web site LinkedIn Learning courses CreativePro Week speaker What is an Ecotone Bart Van de Wiele Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Collaboration and Workflow (Classroom in a Book) LinkedIn Learning course CreativePro Week speaker Making Forms with InDesign and Acrobat Sign Presentation Mode

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: You're bound to learn a few tips Obscure InDesign Feature: Not Shifted Sponsors for this episode
>>PageProof is the top online proofing workflow platform for your creative process: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, PowerPoint, image files, and more. It’s free for reviewers, and flat rate pricing for you and your designers makes it easy to get started! Learn more about PageProof in David’s in-depth interview in this CreativePro Conversation on YouTube. 
>>Microsoft PowerPoint has a mission: To empower people and organizations to tell the world's most compelling stories to anyone, anywhere, at any time. Check out our newest feature, Cameo, which lets you integrate a live camera feed into your presentation. Learn more about Cameo here.
Links mentioned in this podcast
More on Measurements
Changing InDesign’s Default Ruler Measurements: link InDesign Measurements Changing Unexpectedly: link Scaling an Object to an Exact Size: link Measuring Angles: link Measurement Field Secrets: link Measure Distance with Ruler Guides: link Set the Size of Text Exactly (based on cap or x-height): link A Great Script Lets You Add Measurements in InDesign or Illustrator: link

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, Photoshop, Illustrator, Powerpoint, image files, and more. It’s free for reviewers, and flat rate pricing for you and your designers makes it easy to get started! Learn more about PageProof in David’s in-depth interview in this CreativePro Conversation on YouTube. 
>>Microsoft PowerPoint has a mission: To empower people and organizations to tell the world’s most compelling stories to anyone, anywhere, at any time. Check out our newest feature, Cameo, which lets you integrate a live camera feed into your presentation. Learn more about Cameo here.
Links mentioned in this podcast
David’s dot-matrix printer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageWriter Anne-Marie’s butter churn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_churn What’s new in InDesign 18.2: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html David’s “InDesign Fundamentals” with host Izzy Poirier on Adobe Live: https://www.behance.net/live/videos/19521/Adobe-InDesign-Fundamentals-with-David-Blatner Vote for InDesign wish-list features and bugs:  https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests Dropbox Lock Editing: https://help.dropbox.com/organize/file-locking Placing an Image with an Object Style: https://creativepro.com/applying-an-object-style-when-placing-an-image/

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 when cutting and pasting words Sponsor for this episode:
>>PageProof is the top online proofing workflow platform for your creative process: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Powerpoint, image files, and more. It’s free for reviewers, and flat rate pricing for you and your designers makes it easy to get started! We interview Marcus Radich, CTO, in this episode, and you can hear David’s more in-depth interview in this CreativePro Conversation on YouTube. 
Links mentioned in this podcast:
News
Should you update to the newest version of InDesign? https://creativepro.com/should-adobe-fix-older-versions-of-programs/ Are you feeling creative burnout? Read Maya Lim’s article: https://creativepro.com/breaking-through-creative-burnout/ Check out Maya’s other great articles here: https://creativepro.com/author/maya-lim/ InDesign Dashboard
Control vs. Properties panel: https://creativepro.com/video-how-to-bring-the-control-panel-back-and-keep-it/ How to customize the links panel: https://creativepro.com/customizing-links-panel/ Red dot = overset text: https://creativepro.com/tip-week-finding-overset-text-preflight/ Rotate pages/spreads: https://creativepro.com/tip-week-rotate-spread-view-gesture/ Showing which pages have transparency: https://creativepro.com/why-the-checkerboard/ Other alerts to watch for: https://creativepro.com/whats-that-alert-or-question-mark-icon-in-indesign/ ChatGPT, DALL-E, and other Generative A.I.
What you need to know: https://creativepro.com/opinion-the-future-is-genai-enabled/ The script that David made with ChatGPT: https://creativepro.com/move-every-object-on-every-page-toward-or-away-from-spine/#comments/2427288 Star Trek: “Hello Computer” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpWhugUmV5U Obscure Feature: Adjust spacing automatically when cutting and pasting words
Changing preferences with QuickApply: https://creativepro.com/10-essential-tips-for-working-with-styles-indesign/

 







 

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, chief tech officer of PageProof Obscure InDesign Feature: Select Unused Parents Sponsor for this episode:
>>PageProof is the top online proofing workflow platform for your creative process: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Powerpoint, image files, and more. It's free for reviewers, and flat rate pricing for you and your designers makes it easy to get started! We interview Marcus Radich, CEO, in this episode, and you can hear David's more in-depth interview in this CreativePro Conversation on YouTube. 
Links mentioned in this podcast:
LinkedIn Learning Video Series for InDesign users
InDesign Tips for Design Geeks InDesign Secrets (over 300 videos!) End of PostScript Type 1 Support
Adobe's note on end of life for Type 1 Fonts How to Tell Which Files Use Type 1 PostScript Fonts How to Find Files Using Type1 PostScript Fonts in InDesign How to Convert PostScript Fonts to OpenType with TransType Pantone Libraries Disappearing
What are Pantone colors? What are spot colors? Claudia McCue explains it all for you: https://creativepro.com/working-with-spot-colors/ Adobe’s Pantone Colors Fade to Black: Users Turn Rubine Over Removal of Libraries from Creative Cloud 2023 Pantone Connect add-on in Adobe Exchange A Pantone-like library (Freetone) What is the Trumatch CMYK process color swatch library? https://creativepro.com/indesign-trumatch-system/ Parent pages: How to make running heads that change without using multiple parent/master pages: https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-to-automate-chapter-headers/