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* DOIE: Dept. of InDesign Efficiency
10 Essential Tips for Using Quick Apply in InDesign Activate Last Used Field Shortcut Apply Leading to Entire Paragraphs: What Causes Inconsistent Leading and How to Fix It How to Start Using InDesign Scripts How-to Create a Custom Workspace The weird "Place Gun Frame" trick: Applying an Object Style when Placing an Image
* Obscure Feature: Clear Rotation
* News
Links:
Dept. of InDesign EfficiencyJoin us in our live studio audience for Podcast 332 at CreativePro Week!
Clear Rotation:
Rotate frames with a trackpad gesture Did you know you can move the spread rotation features with a script? Even more cool: A script to rotate all the spreads that contain frames that are rotated -
Topics:
The INDDC format: good and bad Interview with Venngage CEO Eugene Woo Obscure Feature: Reset Preferences on QuitLinks:
Cloud Docs:
Collaborating Using Adobe Cloud Documents Creative Cloud Storage: Where Does It Go? Working with Adobe Cloud Documents Anne-Marie's Cloud Docs video "for Design Geeks" on LinkedIn Learning The endgame… collaborative editing, like the current Photoshop betaVenngage: AI powered design at your fingertips
Resetting Preferences
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Includes:
Favorite font tricks Interview with Theresa Jackson InDesign 20.1 Obscure feature: Match Pasteboard to Theme ColorNews:
20.1 is in release rollout multi-find/change is now free Old (but still relevant!) InDesign Magazine articles, now on site:
Designing Photo Albums in InDesign by Khara Plicanic Getting Started with GREP Styles in InDesign by Steve Caplin Working in Microsoft Word by Jamie McKee Designing with Type: Grunge, Punk, and Futurism by Nigel French InDesign Nightmares by David and Anne-MarieTheresa Jackson:
Articles and videos Old (but fun!) InterviewFont Tricks:
How to change the underlying default font for a document (see Don Ayer's comment at end for an easier solution) OpenType text and text frame adornments
Obscure Feature: Match Pasteboard to Theme Color
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Topics:
Anchored Objects Interview with Marcus Radich, PageProof Obscure Feature: Standard Carriage ReturnLinks:
Working with Anchored Objects in InDesign How to Anchor a Graphic to Text (Video Tutorial) Anchoring Graphics Between Paragraphs Wrapping Text Around an Anchored Object Drag and Drop Anchored Objects
Marcus Radich, from PageProof.com
Anchored Objects:Coming in 2025:
CreativePro Week The InDesign ConferenceBooks we mentioned:
Shift Happens: a book about keyboards by Marcin Wichary How Comics Were Made, by Glenn FleishmanBackground on the: carriage return
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Table Scripts:
Switching Rows and Columns in an InDesign Table Sort tables Setting Table Column Widths Easier Table Formatting Sizing Columns and Rows with a Script Calculations in InDesign Active Tables plug-in from DTP ToolsFixed Issues in InDesign 20.0.1
CreativePro Events: The Design + AI Summit, CreativePro Week, and more
Obscure Feature: Cell Division
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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 SneaksInterview with: Karen Brewer, Adobe
Obscure Feature: "Show Subset"
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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 ToolsSponsors 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 GraphicsPaula Scher:
Wikipedia entry Pentagram Book suggestions: Logo Beginnings (Amazon link), and Logo Modernism (Amazon link)Math Typesetting: we recommend MathType
Obscure Feature: Paste Nudge
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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 websiteUpdate 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 TransparencyObscure Feature: Contextual Task Bar
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InDesign 19.5 released 2024 CreativePro Week available on-demand More CreativePro events coming up CreativePro Magazine latest issueSponsored by PageProof
The Benefits of Online Proofing for the Creative Workflow PageProof review PageProof's websiteUnboxing 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 HistoryObscure Feature: .joboptions
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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" -
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!
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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-/ -
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
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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, Certified Marketing Pro Don’t Let Adobe InDesign/InCopy Notes Go Unnoticed Secrets of the Scripts Panel What Do the Default Sample Scripts Do in InDesign? Community Scripts for All Organizing Scripts into Folders Managing InDesign Scripts Easily manage dozens of scripts among multiple InDesign versions (from InDesign Tips for Design Geeks) Unicode Injector: such a cool script! Assigning Keyboard Shortcuts to Scripts Using Quick Apply to Run Scripts Obscure Feature of the Week: Wavy How to Fix the Fill on Items with Wavy Strokes InDesign How-to: Use Conditional Text More articles on Conditional Text
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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, presentation designer extraordinaire Secrets of the "Panel With The Longest Name" Obscure Feature of the Week: Apply to Parent Page Only
Links mentioned in this podcast
What's new in InDesign 19.1 BUT don't use ID 2024 (19.x) with Hebrew, Arabic, or RTL text (bug reports on facebook) and (bug reports in uservoice) Interview with Nolan Haims Nolan's Better Deck Deck (CreativePro members get 8 free!) Creating Paragraph Styles in PowerPoint Other great articles by Nolan The Presentation Podcast Speaking at The Presentation Design Conference EPUB Interactivity Preview Panel Using the EPUB Interactivity Preview Panel Faster Interactive Previews Saving Your Workspaces Join us for daily discussions and Q&A InDesignSecrets group on Facebook InDesignSecrets group on LinkedIn -
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 UI flashing problems; waiting for Apple to update for fix (bug report in uservoice)Bugs: Colin's article about bar graphs: Making Variable Bar Graphs in InDesign with Data MergeAll about Pi…
Pies in Ace Hardware stores (and elsewhere): https://www.thepieco.com/map-locations David's book about pi: The Joy of Pi How to type pi: https://creativepro.com/6-ways-type-pi-symbol-indesign/ Pi fonts (symbols/dingbats) Some fonts have "pi" in their name (e.g. Universal News & Commercial Pi) https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/adobe-pi-std https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/interstate-pi Adobe Fonts ornaments tag Easy as Pi (Jim Felici) We Heart Dingbats (Pam Pfiffner) Transforming Pages (David was wrong… this can be done without scripting… but you shouldn't): https://creativepro.com/transforming-pages-in-cs5/ -
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 Panel Tutorials:
Setting Exact Space Between Objects in InDesign What and Where is Distribute Spacing? InDesign How-to Video: Use the Align Panel Align Panel Enhancements InDesign How-to: Make a Mondrian-inspired Grid InDesign Basics: Making a Photo Grid The Right Way to Vertically Distribute Text Frames A quick way to abut the edges of 2 (or more) objectsGap Tool Articles:
What Exactly Does That InDesign Tool Do?! Creating a Dynamic Autofit Effect for Image Grids With the Gap Tool The Gap Tool and Groups Split Images That Span Across Two PagesThe "Spring Loaded Tool" tip: https://creativepro.com/spring-loaded-tools/
The Tool Hints panel: https://creativepro.com/using-tool-hints-panel/
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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 up to 80% and enables creative marketers to focus on being creative. Automate layouts following business/layout rules without limits on creative freedom. Instantly create personalized or language variants. Learn more about where and how to use it with InDesign here!
Links mentioned in this podcast
The Design + Data Summit (on-demand)
The Design + Accessibility Summit
The Design + AI Summit
CreativePro Week 2024: July 8-12, 2024 (DC and Online) What's new in InDesign 2024
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/whats-new.html Request a feature in InDesign
https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests David's conversation with Priint CEO of Priint USA:
https://creativepro.com/creativepro-conversations-integrate-data-and-design-with-priintsuite/ Adam Pratt, CEO of Chaos to Memories Sarah Hyndman, author of Passive Aggressive Fonts and Why Fonts Matter Mark Heaps, Groq How to print a page range: https://creativepro.com/tip-of-the-week-the-easy-way-to-print-a-page-range/ Friendly Alien Easter Egg: https://creativepro.com/tip-of-the-week-friendly-alien-easter-egg/ Obscure Feature: Show Structure
https://creativepro.com/getting-started-with-xml-in-indesign/ How to use Quick Apply to open or close Structure panel:
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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, video, 3D, and more. Of course, the highlight is that many InDesign experts will be presenting, live and online — even the Adobe engineering team from India. Hope to see you there!
Links mentioned in this podcast
The Design + Data Summit (on-demand)
The Design + Accessibility Summit
The Design + AI Summit
CreativePro Week 2024: July 8-12, 2024 (DC and Online) — Registration is open! Adobe Fonts: now there's a difference between "added" and "installed": read more here Data plugins you should know about: InData from Em Softwar DocsFlow and WordsFlow from Em Software Priint Suite Cacidi LiveMerge and Extreme EasyCatalog from 65bit DesignMerge from Meadows XMPie (check out their cool "kiosk" site for demos) Teacup DataLinker Adding layouts to CC Libraries (with Bridge or drag and drop)
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/indesign-tips-for-design-geeks/add-indesign-layouts-to-creative-cloud-libraries Obscure Feature: Text Rotation How to rotate text inside a frame (separate from the frame) Keith Gilbert's script to rotate individual characters -
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 that connects InDesign and other CC applications to your DAM and cloud-based services like Dropbox. Box, GoogleDrive and more. It enables direct searching, opening, placing, and syncing of assets. A new feature in LinkrUI called Smart-Linkr now automatically finds and fixes broken asset links at a single click, so you never need to search for lost assets again. Download LinkrUI for free today at SantaCruzSoftware.com
Links mentioned in this podcast
CreativePro Week 2024 OPENING SALE:
Use code FIRST48 on Sept 7 or 8 to get $400 off any multi-day registration More on UXP plug-ins: https://developer.adobe.com/indesign/uxp/ AM's video of the best websites for free InDesign scripts: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/indesign-tips-for-design-geeks/top-sites-for-free-indesign-scripts Community scripts https://creativepro.com/community-scripts-for-all/ More on GitHub: https://github.com/AdobeInDesignScripts/directory How Unicode Injector Works Some new scripts Peter K: missing fonts: https://creativepro.com/scripts-for-fixing-missing-fonts-in-indesign/ flagging words: https://creativepro.com/a-script-to-flag-certain-words-in-indesign/ blind endnotes: https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/footnotes.html Keith: Export SVG: https://creativepro.com/a-script-to-export-svg-content-from-indesign/ split pages for inside bleed: https://creativepro.com/a-script-to-allow-bleeds-on-the-spine-of-indesign-documents/ remove shared hyperlink destinations: https://creativepro.com/how-to-fix-shared-hyperlinks-in-indesign/ How to install scripts in InDesign Using Quick Apply to Run Scripts Assigning Keyboard Shortcuts to Scripts - Visa fler
