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    • November 24, 2009 at 4:06 pm #53949
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      any tips on how to control the tracking, or does it depend how good the pagemaker was set up? I have certain files that dont pick up the Italic as well, any info would be appreciated

    • November 24, 2009 at 4:19 pm #53950
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      I always found that it was particularly helpful to do a Save As from PageMaker before opening the file in InDesign… just to clean out gunk that might have accumulated. But remember that ID has very different type controls than PageMaker (especially things like “tracking/range kerning”) so some changes are inevitable.

    • November 24, 2009 at 9:16 pm #53959
      Bob Levine
      Participant

      The only tip I can give you is to keep your expectations low. I've found that ID handles Quark conversions better than PM, especially for the majority of PM files that don't use frames.

      And as David points out, the text engines are so different that perfect conversions are almost impossible.

    • November 26, 2009 at 3:17 pm #54013
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      thanks for the replies guys, yes bob expectations are low, thought I might be missing something but I must tell my customer to come into the 21st

    • November 29, 2009 at 12:52 am #54041
      Tom Pardy
      Member

      Since I am running Mac OS X 10.6 on an iMac 24″, doing a Save As… in an OS 9 app like PageMaker is no longer an option. However, I have many, many PageMaker files and find that I am constantly needing to go back to them to retrieve stuff that is now, by computer standards, ancient history. Obviously they only get opened as they are needed, but there is an annoying little quirk.

      Kerning and tracking problems I can live with. But is there any reason why the conversion always places the contents of the PageMaker file on a new layer (with red as the layer colour), leaving the default layer (with that nice blue colour) untouched? It doesn't affect my ability to work with the file in any way except that it jarrs with my aesthetic senses.

    • November 29, 2009 at 4:44 pm #54045
      Bob Levine
      Participant

      Interesting observation but I haven't seen that…at least I haven't noticed it but I admit that I haven't needed to open a PM file in several years.

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