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DWD: Episode 9, InDesign CS5 Background Exporting

AdamJury — Sat, 08 May 2010 08:39:33 +0000

Good: I’ve managed to fix my low audio problems and the videocast should be much more listenable now.

Better: InDesign CS5 includes a nice feature that allows you to export PDF files in the background while you work on other stuff!

Worse: This background export functionality doesn’t work with Book files.

Better: This episode of Dirty Words Design explains how it works and how it doesn’t.

Dirty Words Design: Episode 8, GREP Styles + Preflight Proofing

AdamJury — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:27:46 +0000

This episode of Dirty Words Design shows you how to harness the power of two InDesign CS4 features—GREP Styles and Live Preflight—together to automatically detect if your document contains specified placeholder text, such as the dreaded “page XX” reference or notes from editors to layout or vice-versa.

Dirty Words Design: Episode 7, Rorohiko’s Soxy

AdamJury — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:56:03 +0000

Rorohiko’s Soxy 1.0 for OS X has just been released, with a Windows version in beta. This episode of Dirty Words Design shows you how to use Soxy to easily manage multiple versions of InDesign at the same time — no accidentally opening old files in the newest version of InDesign or vice-versa! I also demonstrate how to assign a different application to open specific PDF versions.

Dirty Words Design: Episode 6, Fixing ‘Edit Original’ in OS X

AdamJury — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:12:11 +0000

The Edit Original command is one of the best ways to quickly move between the Creative Suite applications from within InDesign, but it can misbehave under OS X. Here’s how to use it, and how to fix it if it stops working as expected!

Dirty Words Design: Episode 5, Intro to Acrobat Layers

AdamJury — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:43:27 +0000

Episode 5 of Dirty Words Design runs down the basics on why you would want to create a layered PDF, how to export one from InDesign, and a few tips for manipulating those layers in Acrobat.

Bumper music is by Creature.

The Dirty Words Design Videocast is made available under the Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 license.

Dirty Words Design: Episode 4, Fixing Paragraph Style Pairs

AdamJury — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:37:53 +0000

In this episode I look at a script that can be used to quickly find and replace pairs of paragraph style combinations. It’s a great free script from Thomas Silkjær that can save you a bundle of production time!

Important Links

Thomas Silkjær’s totally awesome Fixing Paragraph Style Combinations script.

Bumper music is by Creature.

The Dirty Words Design Videocast is made available under the Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 license.

Dirty Words Design: Episode 3, Default Preferences and Document Preferences

AdamJury — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:43:48 +0000

This is a short episode; I take a look at setting InDesign document preferences and default preferences that get applied to all new InDesign documents, also how to create Styles [Paragraph, Object, Character] that are automatically imported into new documents, and how to set Styles and some other settings so they get applied to new objects and text by default.

My microphone seems to be acting more sensitive since I upgraded to OS X 10.5.7, so I apologize if the background clicking and typing is more obvious than usual in this episode.

Bumper music is by Creature.

The Dirty Words Design Videocast is made available under the Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 license.

Dirty Words Design: Episode 2, More Packaging, and Converting All Text to Outlines

AdamJury — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:59:03 +0000

Thanks for waiting—here’s Episode 2 of Dirty Words Design; a grab-bag episode that revisits Episode 1 and further explains Packaging vs. Copy Links, and a “feature” of Packaging that you may not be aware of. I also give a brief overview on exporting a document to PDF while turning all the text in it to outlines; based on David Blatner’s article. It’s a technique that hopefully you won’t have to use, but it’s good to know in case you need it in a pinch!

Important Links

Converting Text to Outlines the Right Way by David Blatner

Bumper music is by Creature.

The Dirty Words Design Videocast is made available under the Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 license.

Dirty Words Design: Episode 1, Introduction & File Cleanup Technique

AdamJury — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:33:40 +0000

Episode 1 of the Dirty Words Design Videocast teaches a technique for quickly finding all the linked graphics in InDesign documents from within a directory of mixed linked and unlinked graphics, using any version of InDesign and OS X.

Bumper music is by Creature.

The Dirty Words Design Videocast is made available under the Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 license.

Dirty Words Design: Episode 0, InDesign CS4 Smart Text Reflow

AdamJury — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:02:38 +0000

Here’s Episode 0 of the Dirty Words Design Videocast! This issue tackles InDesign CS4’s new Smart Text Reflow, explains how it works, and then points out a few bugs that you should understand before—if—you start using this feature in a workflow.

Edit: Bob Bringhurst, lead writer for InDesign and InCopy at Adobe posted in the comments section, pointing out that while the documentation is a bit confusing for Smart Text Reflow, one of the behaviors I pointed out as a bug is Adobe’s intended behavior:

This option determines whether facing-page spreads are preserved when text is reflowed in the middle of a document. If this option is selected when text reflows in the middle of the document, a new two-page spread is added. If this option is not selected, a single new page is added, and subsequent pages are “shuffled.”

In other words, this option has no effect when the text reflows at the end of the document.

Thanks for the clarification, Bob!

Bumper music is by Creature.

The Dirty Words Design Videocast is made available under the Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 license.

(Until I can work up a better inline video service, highly recommend you download the full thing instead of watching it in your browser—otherwise you’ll have a hard time seeing any details!)