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Theunis De Jong
MemberThe Swatches panel has a “Select all Unused” item in its itty-bitty panel dropdown menu. Then you simply click on the thrash can icon.
You might want to ask this designer to clean up after himself and keep his files tidy …
MemberHere's a tip:
Call up the Keyboard Shortcut Dialog, then click the Show Set button. It creates a temporary plain text file, with all of your current keyboard mappings, and automatically open it in your system's default plain text editor. You can then use the Search function (usually Cmd+F or Ctrl+F) to locate the required function by name — they are listed by “Product area”, which is the same one as in the drop-down list.
It's so convenient it's not even worth the trouble to save this document — just call it up again if you want to modify another key.
It never ceases to amaze me how many functions InDesign actually has. On my system, this file has 1,565 lines! No wonder they had to stuff some of the functions into not-really-obvious places.
MemberBy making it two paragraph styles.
If you start out with your First Paragraph Style (not indented), right-click the style name and create a copy of it. Change the name to something meaningful (I use a “First”, “Next” system for my numerous styles), and set the correct indent. Make sure its “Based On” is set to your original style (I don't know from memory if that's the default or not). Change its “Next Style” to itself — “Same Style”. Then go to your First style and set its “Next Style” to the one you just created.
The “Next Style” system goes at work when you type a hard return at the end of a paragraph (the new paragraph will have this style), and also when you select a lot of paragraphs and select “Apply this, then Next style” from the Paragraph panel menu. Saves lots of time when formatting long stories — such a pity you can't assign a keyboard command for it!
As I said, I have numerous styles, but they all strictly adhere to a common system; for example, they are all based on a single common style, so if I have to do some global change — say, language — I only have to do it in one place.
The same goes for Shortcut keys — all major styles have a Shift+Number assigned, and all of their derivatives use the same number, but with Ctrl or Alt added to it.
Member(FYI, 'cause David's solution is easier ;) ) Using GREP styles, you would use this:
^.+?[-:]
or, if this 'hyphen' is actually an en-dash as in your post, replace – with the GREP code for an en:
^.+?[~=:]
It's quite simple — for a GREP match, that is. ^ is “Start of Paragraph” (and — ugh! — also Start of a line after a soft line break), .+? is “any character, as least as possible (indicated by the question mark; without, it'd be “as often as possible”), and the […] stuff is a list of “one of the characters in this list”. Note: most “special” characters inside an OR-list loose their magic properties — a period or question mark is just that — but a few oddballs have to be escaped to work. If you don't escape the single hyphen, it could be interpreted as a character range instead (as in “a-z”), and you will be wondering forever what you did wrong.
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MemberSure — that's even better.
Again, using GREP, replace
(?<=r)r(.+)
and put this in the Replace With field, along with the new Paragraph Style name in the Formatting field:
$0
MemberEasy-peasy, using GREP rather than the regular Find-and-Change. Search for this:
(?<=rr).+
and make sure the Change To field is entirely empty. Put “Bold” in the Change To Formatting field (or, even better, not the attribute “Bold”, but a character style with just this attribute).
MemberWell, technically you can add more Page Number codes on each page, but it won't help because they'd all be the same number (the actual page number, of which there is only one per page).
You could try a few different things; one is using a numbered list, although you cannot “define” it on your Master Page — you'd have to draw them on each page proper.
A better approach would be to create your main document as regular pages, size A6 (this is not in ID's standard list; just divide width and height of your A4 by 2), export as PDF, then place each set of 4 pages into an A4 document.
Required question: why do you need this? It's not for regular book production, which is what ID was meant to do.
MemberDoes that PDF contain any bitmap image at all? If so, Preflight is right to warn you about that.
if I go into illustrator and resize the pdf, file size is huge.
That does indicate there is some bitmap in it doesn't it? Resizing a vector-pure image is virtually “free of any cost”.
MemberINX = InDesign Interchange.
Exporting to an INX, then opening that again (use the regular “Open” command), clears all grit that may have accumulated in unused corners of your file, and may make your file start behaving correctly again.
Make sure you keep a copy of your original (“bad”) file in case something goes awry. The INX Save/Restore trajectory is quite safe, but as always, you should keep in mind anything can go wrong.
(Afterthought) What kind of image is that, on the left hand page? Perhaps you should open it with the program you created it with, and save again. You know, just to make sure that's not the cause.
If it's a JPEG, open with Photoshop and save as TIFF, then use that version instead.
MemberBookmarks have been in the PDF format for ages, so it's not a problem then. Neither is your Table of contents — I'm assuming you mean the automatic hyperlinking?
You can export to the PDF version for Acrobat 6 and open it into your version of Acrobat to check; other than that cursed function that tries to recognize web-links, it should work just as in older versions of the Reader.
There are websites devoted to outdated software, so perhaps you could find a Reader v.6 to experiment with; but I reckon it's hardly worth the trouble.
MemberAs in all previous versions of InDesign, there is no (etc) and you can only save one version down. Needless to say, even this will silently remove all CS5-only features.
To save down, choose Export, then select InDesign Markup Language (IDML). To successfully open the file in CS4, this needs to be fully updated, because Adobe tinkered a bit with the IDML-export after releasing CS5.
MemberWell, you are getting there. Take small steps, that's all.
Your GREP would work … apart from two tiny things. The '+' at the end is not necessary! After any GREP command, you can add a 'repetition' code, which may be one of ?, *, or +, or an exact number or number range, like {5} or {3,6}. (And after that you can add another ?; this indicates that the lowest possible number of repetitions ought to be taken, rather than the largest number — which is the default setting.) In this case, I think that InDesign will interpret it as “5 digits-plus-a-period”, and then repeat this as much as possible, marking all possible sets of 5, rather than what you intended, only one set of 5.
The other thing is, you set a lower limit (the {5}) but you don't specify what ought to be next. So five digit-headings would be marked, but the first 5 of a six-digit heading as well. To prevent that, matching should stop right after the five you already have, and the easiest way is: because you don't want to find a match for a number after the 5th digit, it should match “not-a-digit” … (Obvious, really.) The code for not-a-digit is this: D, so your GREP will work like this:
^(d+.){5}D
There is a tiny, tiny catch: if 5 digits (and their periods) are matched, the character right after it (the I-Am-Not-A-Digit) will also be marked, because it's 'inside' the regular expression. Now in ordinary use, like bolding or italicizing the heading number, and assuming the next character will typically be a space, it won't really matter; but if you change the heading marker to be underlined, you will see the underlining stick out into the next character. So a slightly better version is, with the help of my little friend Lookahead:
^(d+.){5}(?=D)
meaning that it will find a set of 5 digits-plus-periods which must be followed by a Not-A-Digit character — the Lookahead matches, but does not mark, the text.
(This is a Positive Lookahead; there is also a Negative Lookahead, slightly more logical in this case:
^(d+.){5}(?!d)
— the same as above, only it now reads “.. which must not be followed by a digit”, which is more natural than the double negative.)
By the way #1: use d+, rather than d! Or else it will fail (silently) on “1.2.5.6.10. “
By the way #2: this forum eats backslashes for breakfast. Only feeding it a double breakfast makes it spit out a single one: type “\d” to get “d”. Be careful when editing your post, all double backslashes will appear as singles again.
MemberDavid, you might want to allow more than 9 consecutively numbered headings:
^(d+.)+
Biggedy, your GREP ^d{5}? will select 5 digits at the start of a line (although I wonder what side-effects the ? has), but GREP is extremely literal: only if there are 5 digits in a row, it will be styled. As you already noticed, 5 times a digit-then-a-period does not qualify; GREP is not for “sort of like, you know, 5 digits”.
January 4, 2011 at 1:37 pm in reply to: CS4: paragraphs break too early at bottom of some pages #58280MemberJoe, there is no text box for the footnotes. It's much simpler than that.
Look at the first line of the next page: you can see a tiny superscript '1' in there. I bet that's another footnote, and that footnote text is longer than can fit (with the text line attached to it) in the space available above the footnote 2 on the previous page, and I also bet that Jahmin does not allow footnotes to break across pages. So … InDesign has no choice but to move the footnote (along with the text line it belongs to) to the next page.
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