InDesignSecrets Podcast 303

• News:
  • InDesign 18.1 release
  • Design & Powerpoint Summit coming up Feb 16–17, 2023
  • CreativePro Week 2023 agenda posted
  • CreativePro Magazine January 2023: PowerPoint Tips; Overcoming Creative Burnout.
  • CreativePro Magazine February 2023: Making Forms with InDesign and Acrobat 
• Monitoring the InDesign Dashboard
• ChatGPT and Generative AI
• Obscure InDesign Feature: Adjust spacing automatically when cutting and pasting words

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

News

• Should you update to the newest version of InDesign? https://creativepro.com/should-adobe-fix-older-versions-of-programs/
• Are you feeling creative burnout? Read Maya Lim’s article: https://creativepro.com/breaking-through-creative-burnout/
• Check out Maya’s other great articles here: https://creativepro.com/author/maya-lim/

InDesign Dashboard

• Control vs. Properties panel: https://creativepro.com/video-how-to-bring-the-control-panel-back-and-keep-it/
• How to customize the links panel: https://creativepro.com/customizing-links-panel/
• Red dot = overset text: https://creativepro.com/tip-week-finding-overset-text-preflight/
• Rotate pages/spreads: https://creativepro.com/tip-week-rotate-spread-view-gesture/
• Showing which pages have transparency: https://creativepro.com/why-the-checkerboard/
• Other alerts to watch for: https://creativepro.com/whats-that-alert-or-question-mark-icon-in-indesign/

ChatGPT, DALL-E, and other Generative A.I.

• What you need to know: https://creativepro.com/opinion-the-future-is-genai-enabled/
• The script that David made with ChatGPT: https://creativepro.com/move-every-object-on-every-page-toward-or-away-from-spine/#comments/2427288
• Star Trek: “Hello Computer” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpWhugUmV5U

Obscure Feature: Adjust spacing automatically when cutting and pasting words

• Changing preferences with QuickApply: https://creativepro.com/10-essential-tips-for-working-with-styles-indesign/