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May 25, 2011 at 7:04 am in reply to: CS5: Imported Word styles continue beyond the styled text #59694
Theunis De Jong
MemberYep. Pretty annoying, isn't it?
Also incredibly annoying is that the Adobe Help Line refused to take an in-depth look at this, and several other problems I found, with importing Word files. I've filed bug reports by the dozens and even send in screen shots of “how the file looks in Word and what ID makes of it” — all to no avail.
Hey, did you know you can now add a picture slide show for the iPad in InDesign CS5.5!? After all, it's all about priorities.
(Ed.: Ooo I see you are using CS5. That's too bad — all of my bad experiences are in CS4 so far, and I secretly hoped Newer would be Better.)
MemberWith 8 distinctly separate styles with each a different hanging indent (count 'em: chapter titles and preambulatory stuff, headings — 3 levels of these –, numbered lists, quotes, regular examples, double indented examples, references), I have no stomach to create yet another style for the odd author using a three-level numbered list. So I use the plain numbered list style, insert one or more extra tabs and merrily stab thine dagger right in there.
It's kind of like using the Forced Line Break (Shift+Enter). I'm urging everyone not ever to use this evil thing but nevertheless content with using it myself everywhere I see fit. (When being Caught in the Act by interns, I always say “Yeah well I'm allowed to use 'em and you are not”.)
Member(No solution, but: )
You do realize the obvious answer (use Document/Section Numbering) may be causing you grief because, uh, it's quite unusual what you are asking?
A cover page is never called “page 0” — it's either page 1 (and so the inside cover page would be #2 and the first right hand text page is 3), or it's “page i”, making the inside cover “page ii”, and the first proper text page 1 again. (This latter scheme is to make sure the entire cover can be safely separated from the inner text pages; the inner last page of the cover is “page iii”, and the back of the book is “page iv”. The pages of the normal text can be numbered as usual.)
MemberShort answer: No.
GREP is not magic, it's a simple text pattern matching system. And it uses a pretty narrow definition of 'text' as well — it's not aware, for example, of InDesign's line endings inside a paragraph, and so stuff like “pages” or “text frames” are totally out of its scope.
For something this complicated and specific you could look into TeX, it might be possible after a couple of years of intensive studying.
May 14, 2011 at 3:03 pm in reply to: PDF's created in InDesign print black as grey in Preview (though not Acrobat Reader) #59604MemberMac OS X's Preview is known not to be entirely PDF-compatible. Don't use it.
The grey, by the way, is not a halftone, but a pattern of white dots on black.
You describe it to as the very definition of a halftone and yet dare say it's not one?
May 13, 2011 at 2:25 am in reply to: Can InDesign import information from a text document automatically? #59592MemberIt's called “plain text”. ;)
No, InDesign cannot pull in plain (unformatted, untagged etc.) text automatically. You say you are copying one line at a time, and I think that says enough. Even if you select all text in the e-mail at once, then copy it and paste into your InDesign, that's not good enough, right? You have to paste each line at a special place?
InDesign can work with database formats — you might want to Google for “indesign data merge” — but that doesn't help you here, because you'd only move the same problem to another place.
MemberIn order of questions, the answers are: yup, yeah, and … no.
Your workaround is just what I'm used to do, plus posting the occasional Flame Post on Adobe's Feature Request form. And adding my voice to the tiny chorus in Adobe's Feature Request discussion forum, in the Improve Footnotes Please! plea thread.
MemberPress this button? (There also is a default hotkey combo for this toggle, you might have accidentally used that.)
May 9, 2011 at 3:17 am in reply to: Specifying Color Models for Individual Pages in InDesign CS4 #59536MemberMake a Preflight profile which disallows all possible kinds of color. If you activate this profile, the Preflight panel will list all of your color pages as “erronous”.
MemberIt's a built-in font and you cannot use it for yourself, but I've heard somewhere it's based on Myriad Pro.
MemberThe 'soft line endings' cannot be found with regular Find/Change, but you can access lines through Javascript.
But doing this with a Javascript for this is extremely tricky — it changes the line ending, and that could imply that a previously untouched occurrence would need to be changed as well (and that in turn may influence yet other line breaks, or — because InDesign has a very advanced “complete paragraph” based composition engine — even the one line that caused this particular change …)
I'd use a GREP style for this. Make a character style that only applies “No Break”, and have it applied to this GREP string:
w/w
MemberProbably not.
“Only text and vector graphics” doesn't necessarily imply the file ought to be small. What if you have a lot of text? (And 400 pages certainly sounds like a lot.) Vector images cannot be downsampled, so you're stuck with those as well.
Best is to check with Acrobat Pro's “Optimized PDF” where all the bytes go — sometimes, you can simply discard large chunks of data, such as color profiles per image, or fonts embedded in their entirety.
If that doesn't work, you can always tell your clients the truth: the file is large because there is a lot of stuff in it.
MemberWhat you're overlooking is this: you are selecting a color in RGB mode, but the document itself is set to CMYK mode. Now InDesign doesn't want you to look surprised when the color you selected doesn't come out of the printer the same (printers cannot print full bright green, for example), so it dims the color on-screen to mimick what it will look like.
If your document is to be printed, make sure it's set to CMYK mode (that's under “Edit -> Transparency Blend Space”, for some reason) and don't expect all of your screen colors to look the same. For Best Results, don't select RGB colors either, but mix them in CMYK.
If your document is going to be screen-only (PDF for on-screen, or web, or SWF, or iStuff), change the blend space to RGB.
MemberThat's still not really clear :)
Can you draw up a dummy image, outlining what you mean?
MemberI agree with Shone1505 — first of all, that's not really “a lot”!
Secondly, this is the price that comes with justification. You can choose between a nice even spacing OR lots of hyphens, but you cannot have both. And this preference can be set in the Hyphenation settings dialog.
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