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InDesignSecrets-082.mp3 (14.6 MB, 31:50 minutes)

* Do’s and Don’ts of Text in InDesign: Double spaces and returns, proper use of character styles, case changes, discretionary hyphens, text framitis, more

* The Strange Case of the Space-Eating Hair Space

* Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Join
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InDesignSecrets-081.mp3 (13.4 MB, 29:19 minutes)
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• New design for InDesignSecrets.com blog
• Free script extravaganza: Swatch Switcher, Label Graphics, Swap Object Positions, IndexMatic (beta) to index on character styles, Select Objects from Keyboard, Selection to PDF
• "Smallest File Size" PDF preset caution, and related issues with PDF presets
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Orthogonal Line

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InDesignSecrets-080.mp3 (16.3 MB, 35:40 minutes)
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• New Zealand ID Conference Recap
• Interview: Mike McHugh describes his Camera Raw in InDesign tip
• “Pangram” Quizzler Winner–and Answer!
• New in the InDesignSecrets store: “Sphinx” t-shirts!
• Getting a Grip on GREP
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Fixed Column Width
  

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InDesignSecrets-079.mp3 (14.6 MB, 31:50 minutes)
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• News: Acrobat 9 and Creative Suite 3.3 announced, ID Conference in New Zealand
• Hot Post of the week: Free script to auto-replace swatches (Russell)
• Blue frames vs. Red frames
• “InCopy CS3 Revealed” videos on Adobe TV
• Quizzler! Something to do with pangrams…
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Update Content in Data Fields
  

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InDesignSecrets-078.mp3 (15.5 MB, 33.5 minutes)
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• News: Welcome to our newest blog contributors Bob Levine (it’s LeVEEN, we learned) and Ted LoCascio; Nashville CS Conf. Recap
• Snippet from our “Essential Tips for InDesign” session at the conference: New Window Tricks
• Hot Post #1: 20 Activations Limit (by Bob)
• Hot Post #2: Indexing Page Ranges (by David) and the IndexBrutal script
• “Stop the Transparencide” new PSA from Adobe
• Another snippet from our session: Dynamic Spelling Tricks
• Master Page Text Frames and Autoflow, once and for all!
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Place Item(s)
  

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InDesignSecrets-077.mp3 (13.5 MB, 29.3 minutes)
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• News: Toronto ID Conference recap; ID CS3 Re-cert exam; Secret 50% poster discount
• Quizzler winner (Where else is “Altitude?”) and answer
• Tips from the live InDesignSecrets Podcast at the Toronto, Canada conference:
• Reverse Index Entries (secret keyboard shortcut)
• Quick Apply for buried menu commands
• Guide tips extravaganza
• “How big is an agate?” answer and winner
• Alt-click and Double-click fun
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Download PPD Fonts

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InDesignSecrets-076.mp3 (10.8 MB, 23.4 minutes)
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• Fun News: MTV (post), Poster discounts, InCopySecrets debuts
• Binary EPS files (post), Weak Preflighting (post)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Altitude
• Quizzler! With a neat new prize for the lucky winner

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InDesignSecrets-075.mp3 (11.6 MB, 25.2 minutes)
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• News: Discount codes for InDesign Magazine and conference fees, Adobe TV
• An end to transparency issues! (Steve Werner’s post)
• Using and customizing contextual (right-click) menus
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Ignore Optical Margin
  

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InDesignSecrets-074.mp3 (15.1 MB, 32:53 minutes)
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• News: Upcoming InDesign Conferences
• InDesign CS3 ACE Recertification Test: A Field Report
• Leopard and Vista and InDesign CS3
• How changing Document Size affects an existing layout
• The Amazing (and free) Layout Zone script for ID CS3
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Greek Images

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InDesignSecrets-073.mp3 (14.2 MB, 31:05 minutes)
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• News: Lynda.com, Conferences, CreativePro.com, DesignGeek, ID User Groups
• Making a swatch overprint where ever it’s used (full post)
• When CMYK - Preserve Numbers won’t, and how to fix it (full post)
• Em dashes vs. En dashes vs. Hyphens
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: The Measure Tool