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• • May 24, 2012 at 9:09 am #62265
    Matt Golden

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    So I was wondering why you couldn't set document-specific baseline grids (because you adjust the baseline grid settings in the global preferences dialogues). But upon saving and loading a few different documents, I realized those baseline grid settings actually are document-specific.

    That made me wonder, what other settings in the inDesign preferences are actually document-specific? I'd hate to make some settings (like H&J violation higlighting just for example) that I expected to be global, only to find out they are document-specific.

  • May 24, 2012 at 10:42 am #62266
    Theunis De Jong

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    It's confusing that with a document open some of the Preferences are in fact document settings, while others are “global”.

    However, if you have particular settings you would like to see in new documents (it's not retro-active), you can close all of your documents and adjust the settings to taste. Settings changed without any open document automatically become the default for new documents.

    I love this behavior, and for example I have since long abandoned the intrusive blue lines of the Baseline grid for more eye-friendly Grid Green.

    But it certainly would be an improvement if the Preferences were divided into Application and Document sections. All you can do is post a Feature Request at Adobe, and hope it will be implemented in CS7 …

  • May 24, 2012 at 11:40 am #62267
    Matt Golden

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    Ah, that is potentially useful behavior actually. Good to know!

    Only thing better would be as you said, to actually have somethind denoting which settings were which. Does there happen to be a list online anywhere for reference?

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