After a long hiatus (I’m sorry!), Dirty Words Design is back with a roughly produced (I’m really sorry!) episode that contains three tips for dealing with InDesign Table of Contents and using them in ways that may not be typical!…

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…

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…

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 —…

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…

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.
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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!
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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,…

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…

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.
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