Ep. 328: Cloud Docs

Topics: The INDDC format: good and bad Interview with Venngage CEO Eugene Woo Obscure Feature: Reset Preferences on Quit Links: 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 beta Venngage: AI powered design at your fingertips Resetting Preferences

Includes: Favorite font tricks Interview with Theresa Jackson InDesign 20.1 Obscure feature: Match Pasteboard to Theme Color News: 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-Marie Theresa Jackson: Articles and videos Old (but fun!) Interview Font 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

Topics: Anchored Objects Interview with Marcus Radich, PageProof Obscure Feature: Standard Carriage Return Links: Marcus Radich, from PageProof.com Anchored Objects: 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 Coming in 2025: CreativePro Week The InDesign Conference Books we mentioned: Shift Happens: a book about keyboards by Marcin Wichary How Comics Were Made, by Glenn Fleishman Background on the: carriage return

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 Tools Fixed Issues in InDesign 20.0.1 CreativePro Events: The Design + AI Summit, CreativePro Week, and more Obscure Feature: Cell Division

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      

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!