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• • November 20, 2009 at 2:30 pm #53853
    gillinger

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    Hi there. I publish a monthly magazine, my income comes from selling the ad space. Well over half the ads will be designed by me. I use a template page to design each new ad, then rename the file to something appropriate. On approval, I copy and paste into the main magazine file. My default font is set to Lucida Sans 8pt but obviously I use many different fonts in the ads.

    Occasionally, when I copy and paste, some fonts (not all) that are set at 12pt will drop to 8pt and I have no idea what might be causing this. An example of a font that does this is DejaVu Sans. Any help would be appreciated as sometimes I don't pick these up until the proofing stage.

    Thanks

  • November 20, 2009 at 2:45 pm #53854
    Jennie

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    You may want to try applying “no paragraph style” to the frame you will be pasting into. Even if a frame is empty it may hang onto the style of text previously used in it.

  • November 20, 2009 at 2:46 pm #53855
    Anonymous

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    Possibly because the style you used in another advert or in the magazine clashes with a style, when you copy things over InDesign will use the Target document for designating styles, if no style is found, then the original style is copied.

    Instead of copying and pasting the advert, perhaps you could use File>Place and just place the indesign file. If you need bleed then you have to include that in the document your bringing in under File>Document Setup.

    When you place the file make sure you choose Show Import Options in the bottom left corner.

    Then choose Crop to: Bleed Bounding box.

    Draw a frame that is the original size of the advert, center the content, position the advert on the page, expand the frame so that it bleeds in the appropriate places.

  • November 20, 2009 at 4:14 pm #53859
    Tim Hughes

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    It sounds like the kind of behaviour you get when text has been formatted without styles being used or 'basic paragraph' has been used throughout. For your adverts use uniquely named styles for the text. May I also suggest you export your adverts as snippets and import these snippets.

  • November 22, 2009 at 5:12 pm #53896
    gillinger

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    Thanks for the responses. I'll work through them during this week and let you know how I got on.

  • November 25, 2009 at 12:21 pm #53965
    gillinger

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    Sorted – thanks. It was indeed the fact that some of the ads I'd created when I first started using ID were done without Styles. I have a House Style but some older ads had slipped through the net, causing my current problem.

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