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

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

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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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!

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

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

• 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 Merge

All 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/