Reply To: Do Adobe every listen?

Thanks for your comments David. I admire you very much, and so to get an answer from you is an honour indeed.

I would like to say that in regards to Acrobat DC I was referring to ‘Edit PDF’ where you can conveniently click on any type and find out the size and weight. In DC it will only tell you the font, in XI it told you the font and the weight of it. So DC has gone backwards compared to XI.
You are correct about using the Output Preview but this seems to me to be an unwieldy way of working when the ‘Edit PDF’ is a quick and ideal way of working.
As regards the font problem, we have found that this can happen with a brand new file (command-N) where you have not used a template but with the older versions of InDesign this does not happen. The company I work for are typesetters and so we deal with files from authors via publishers and deal with thousands of books a year and so we do have a lot of experience, and we really think that is a bug.
Again, in regards to the guide problem, I apologise if I did not explain myself very well. What I meant to say was that the measurements down the side of the InDesign file are sometimes greyed out. You sometimes have to click the measurements down the side of the page first to make them not greyed out, and then you can drag out a guide. You should just be able to just click and drag a guide without ‘unlocking’ the measurements first.

As an aside David, did you ever get anywhere with table creation from the Interset system? It was a typesetting system I worked on in the 1980s that automatically worked out the table column widths and was far superior to anything InDesign and Quark have ever produced in regards to creating tables. They produced a Mac version of the software called ‘Quoin’. You enquired about it a number of years ago and I wondered if anything ever came out of it.