News; CS3 ACE exam; Leopard and Vista; Document Size; Free Layout Zone script; Obscurity of the Week: Greek Images

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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

Sorry for the tinny sound in Anne-Marie's audio! We blame sunspots.

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
ID Conferences in Toronto, Canada; Auckland, New Zealand; and Seattle, WA
Tim Cole's blog post about the Recertification exam
Adobe's Get Certified page (register for exams, download prep guides)
Layout Zone script (Mac/Windows, CS3 only); David's post about it

News; Overprint by swatch; Preserve Numbers glitch; Em, En and Hyphens; Obscurity of the Week: the Measure Tool

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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

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
David's InDesign: Beyond the Basics at Lynda.com
Free week's trial of lynda.com
ID Conferences in Miami, Toronto CA
Check MogoEvents for news on the Auckland NZ ID Conf. (June) and the Seattle ID Master Class Conf. (November)
HerGeekness Says column at creativepro.com
Anne-Marie's free DesignGeek e-zine
InDesign User Groups

Recorded live at the InDesign Conf in Miami, FL! Last episode's Quizzler answer and winner; Contestler for the audience; tips and tricks; Q&A; Obscurity of the Week is on vacation

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Special episode! This podcast was recorded live in front of a studio seminar audience at the InDesign Conference in Miami, Florida.

• What's InDesignSecrets?
• Quizzler answer and winner from episode 71 (Change view from keyboard)
• Contestler for volunteers from the audience: Define one of our obscure features from a past episode, pulled at random
• A few of our favorite tips and tricks; audience Q&A
• The Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week was put on hiatus for this episode, since we covered so many during the Contestler!

Links mentioned in the Podcast: Our free Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in, Design Tools Monthly and companion podcast, Design Tools Weekly, Branislav Milic's InDesign Site (in French), History plug-in from DTP Tools, EasyHistory from 65bit, Free MultiDo plug-in from 65bit, Adobe's Feature Request form, InDesign Scripting forum at Adobe.com, Footnote-to-Endnote script at Adobe Exchange, Rorohiko's free ChatterGoofy plug-in, Post: Converting color layouts to grayscale PDFs

News; CS3 ACE Test; Shifting Grayscales; Jessica Chase Interview; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Digital Editions

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• News: Upcoming InDesign Conferences, Free Tip Of the Day Plug-in
• Hot Posts: Anne-Marie's CS3 ACE Practice Test Rant, David's Grayscale Shifts
  
• Interview with Jessica Chase, Editor and Publisher of ZigZagZine
• Quizzler! An easier one for the rest of us
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Digital Editions
  

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
The InDesign Conference - Miami Beach (Feb 26 â March 1)
(Also coming up: Toronto ID Conference, Nashville CS Conference)
David's free InDesign Tip of the Day plug-in for CS1, 2 and 3
Jessica's ZigZagZine site; download Jan/Feb 2008 issue (PDF, 872K)
Adobe's Digital Editions Library (free e-books)

Quizzler Instructions: Think you know the answer? Don't post it here! E-mail it to us at info@indesignsecrets.com, with "Quizzler" in the Subject line. Entries will be accepted until midnight Friday, February 22. A random winner will be chosen from the correct answers and announced in our next podcast.

Free scripts, Beginner's category, Quizzler Winner, EPS Challenge, Uppercase, Obscurity of the Week: Normal

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• News Updates: Upcoming InDesign Conference in Miami, InDesign patch, Free plug-ins and scripts, new Beginner's Corner category on our blog
• Quizzler Results (from Episode 69: Adding CMYK Swatches) and Winner
• Hot Posts: Sandee's EPS Challenge, David's Updating Text
• Uppercase Conundrums (Anne-Marie's post)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Normal
  

Links mentioned in the Podcast:
The InDesign Conference - Miami Beach (Feb 26 â March 1)
InDesign 5.02 patch for Windows or Mac OS X (ReadMe)
David's free InDesign Tip of the Day plug-in for CS1, 2 and 3
Dave Saunders' donationware script, WrapNudger, that fixes Droopy Wraps
Scott Zinelli's Multipage PDF Import script (David's post about it)
Our new Beginner's Corner category
Scott Citron's new book, Professional Design Techniques

Quizzler Answer: How many ways can you add a CMYK color to Swatches without using the Swatches panel? Turns out there are too many to list in our show notes, so we compiled them into a PDF for you to download: Swatches_Answers.pdf (260K). Our winner received a copy of Deke McClelland's new book, Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One.