Glad you liked the demo. It was a lot of fun to show all those cool features off for the first time.

Your question made me laugh, because it’s one of the first things I tried to do. Unfortunately, the communication between the caption and the image breaks down in a multi-state object. It seems that the states don’t “talk” to one another after the first state. It might look great in InDesign (you can get the individual text states to reflect metadata captions), but it doesn’t translate out to SWF. The first caption is the only one you see (and you see it on all the images) in the SWF slideshow.

I enjoyed your presentation of new features of CS5 last night at New York Users’ Group meeting.

I liked the ability of CS5 to pull metadata, as you demo’d for photo captions. Could the program also draw metadata for the slide presentation you showed later?

This list seems to be almost complete!
May be we should tell the people that Adobe Buzzword could be fine for collaboration on the level of Adobe Buzzword documents itself. As soon we convert .rtf or .doc into the Buzzword format via “Save as…” on Acrobat.com all format styles are converted to “Normal”. A bit dangerous!
The import of a Buzzword doc into InDesign is resulting in a paragraph style “Normal”.

There’s a way to exclude any page from auto-numbering, and it’s been around long before CS5. You just change start a section on that “flap” page (or any other page you want to not be counted) and assign it a separate numbering scheme. On the next page after that, start a new section that begins with the number you want the auto-numbering to pick up from. In other words…let’s say it’s a cover, the flap, the other side of the flap, then the inside cover and all other interior pages. The cover is auto-numbered as page 1. The first flap is set as a section (and maybe uses a numbering like A,B,C or i,ii,iii), the second flap is part of that same section, then you start a new section on the inside cover that starts numbering at page 2. Everything after that auto-numbers.

I’ve been following your podcasts for some time now, and I love them. I learned a lot from you so I wanted to say thanks.

Is it possible to add a flap page and make it not count in page numbering in this new option?
I know I could just set a different size for the initial page instead of adding a new one to it’s side but was wondering if there is a workaround, something like “this page does not count for page numbering”.

Personally, I don’t let printers make software decisions for me. Nor do I ever turn over native InDesign files to a printer. Everything I do goes out as a press-ready PDF. A printer should stay up to date with software in order to meet its customer’s needs, not the other way around. If your printer tells you otherwise, I suggest shopping around for another printer who supports what you decide instead of dictating that you provide only what they’re comfortable with.