The CreativePro Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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)

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
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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:
  https://creativepro.com/using-quick-apply-for-menu-commands/

• 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

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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

• 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 disasters
• Deep Dive: Secrets of the Glyphs panel
• Obscure Feature of the Week: Styles Override Highlighter

Sponsor for this episode

>>Santa Cruz Software: Did you know that 66% of sales professionals can't get their sales or marketing collateral in time, often creating assets without oversight? Solve this with BrandingUI. Try it today at SantaCruzSoftware.com!

Links mentioned in this podcast

• Podcasts:
  • ChaxChat Accessibility podcast with Dax Castro and Chad Chelius
  • What other podcasts to you listen to? Let us know!
  • Please rate InDesign Secrets!
    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/indesign-secrets/id101102043
    https://open.spotify.com/show/4Erwd0qHoR22NhTSY67I0v
    (you have to listen to at least one episode before it lets you rate it)
• Saving files to Cloud Documents:
  https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/work-with-cloud-documents.html
  and
  https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/manage-cloud-documents-photoshop.html
• Glyphs panel: 
  • Get to Know InDesign's Glyphs Panel
  • Find Characters Using the Glyphs Panel
  • Tip of the Week: Controlling the Glyphs Panel Display
  • Working With Custom Glyph Sets
• Talking about CID/GID:
  • Podcast 260
  • Insert a Character by Unicode or GID
• Stylistic Sets:
  • TypeTalk: Stylin' Sets
  • Using Stylistic Sets
  • Anne-Marie's video

• Obscure Feature: Style Overrides Highlighter

• Next time: InDesign Secrets True Crime podcast! 🤣
  
  

• 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, issue 20: Email templates, cover story by our designer Pam Sparks! Also great InDesign tips and tricks
• Getting geeky with IDML, Tagged Text, ICML, and Snippet files
• Obscure Feature of the Week: Remove Forced Line Break

Sponsor for this episode

>> Noble Desktop: For over 30 years, Noble Desktop's project-based classes and certificate programs have given professionals the tools to pursue creative careers in design, coding, and beyond. Learn more about them on our Training Provider page or at NobleDesktop.com.

Links mentioned in this podcast

• YES our original InDesign Secrets mug IS still available!
  https://www.cafepress.com/mf/14282011/large-indesignsecrets-_mugs?productId=60507004
• Watch our free webinar: Creating Social Media Assets with InDesign
  https://creativepro.com/watch-on-demand-indesign-social-assets/
• We're speaking at MAX 2023
  David Blatner
  Anne-Marie Concepcion
• Pam's article on Building Email Templates:
  https://creativepro.com/building-email-templates/
• Getting Geeky:
  • Snippets:
    https://creativepro.com/the-joy-of-snippets/
    https://creativepro.com/place-snippets-at-the-same-location-or-not/
    https://creativepro.com/locking-snippets/
    https://creativepro.com/using-indesign-snippets-in-a-printing-workflow/
  • Tagged Text:
    Database or spreadsheet to tagged text: https://creativepro.com/automate-text-formatting-with-tagged-text/
  • IDML:
    Jeff Potter's amazing web app to IDML trick: https://creativepro.com/harnessing-the-power-of-text-variables-and-idml/
    Hard-core editing to fix RGB Black: https://creativepro.com/turning-rgb-black-to-cmyk-black/
    Download this great illustrated guide to IDML by Mike Rankin: https://creativepro.com/downloads/Anatomy_of_IDML.pdf
    Color swatches that won't delete: https://creativepro.com/color-swatches-that-wont-delete/

• 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

>> Noble Desktop: For over 30 years, Noble Desktop's project-based classes and certificate programs have given professionals the tools to pursue creative careers in design, coding, and beyond. Learn more about them on our Training Provider page or at NobleDesktop.com.

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