Ep. 330: Evergreen Tips

Topics: Big news about podcast name Our favorite obscure features Fun obscure feature "spelling bee" game Obscure Feature: Positional Form   Friendly Alien: Episode 300 Tip of the Week   Barbell: 20 Obscure Features Episode 35   List of All Our Obscure Features (so far)   Positional Form: Exploring OpenType Pro Fonts, Part 2

Just for fun: Bad Advice (and Good Lessons) Interview with Marcus Radich from PageProof Obscure feature: Show Transparency Grid Links: Bad Advice The "Bad Advice" thread on Facebook Sara Rosinsky's Em Dash shirt Interview with PageProof: New Proofing Add-in for Microsoft Office Centralizing the Proofing Process with PageProof News: Adobe engineers did an Ask Us Anything 24-hour marathon on the InDesign subreddit (forum) of Reddit.com. Creative Cloud Members get 3 months of LinkedIn "Premium Career" membership (which includes LinkedIn Learning). See Adobe CC Benefits page Obscure Feature: Show Transparency Grid More information on Creative Cloud Libraries

Topics: Great lessons from the archives (that you may have missed) First look at InDesign 20.3 Obscure Feature: Delete All Guides on Spread Sponsor: PageProof is a simple-to-use but powerful online proofing platform that makes giving feedback on creative work effortless See David's latest conversation with PageProof founder, Marcus Radich Links: Old InDesign Magazine articles that are definitely evergreen: From issue 1: Recipes for Applying—and Ignoring—Text Wrap in InDesign issue 2: Fast Formatting with Nested Styles in InDesign issue 7: InDesign Tips of the Trade issue 8: Working with Anchored Objects in InDesign What's new in 20.3 Fixed Issues What's New Peter Kahrel's Latex to MathML script Issues with Generative Fill in InDesign News: Members can now download the Tables Superguide of articles CreativePro Week (use the code CPSECRETS to get $100 off that or any creativepro event) Obscure Feature: Delete All Guides on Spread Shortcut for selecting all guides

* DOIE: Dept. of InDesign Efficiency * Obscure Feature: Clear Rotation * News Links: 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 Join 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 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