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• • October 16, 2011 at 3:58 am #60783
    that_17

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    I'm creating a registration program for a conference for a difficult client. They were supposed to supply a complete template but it did not have any styles included. I created all of the paragraph and character styles. Because the registration program is then expanded to the on-site conference program I need to give them the finished InDesign file. (They may or may not hire me to do the second program).

    Is there a way to remove the paragraph and character styles to make everything locally formatted? I've already found the script to make all of my grep styles local so that I can delete the grep formatting from my paragraphs styles.

    I realize this is a bit backwards, and a little vindictive and I'm okay with that. I'm working in on a Mac with InDesign CS 5.5.

    Thanks,

  • October 16, 2011 at 6:11 am #60784
    Kasyan Servetsky

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    Try to select all text in the flow and choose Break Link to Style in the Paragraph (Character) Styles panel. Then Select All Unused and Delete.

  • October 17, 2011 at 5:42 am #60789
    Anonymous

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    I'd make it 100% clear in the contract what you are expected to give out as artwork, whether it's files with styles, layers, flattened files with no layers or styles, InDesign files and/or Print Ready PDF/Web Ready PDF or both; etc.

    Pet Hate

    I particualarly hate getting InDesign files, that I paid a designer to do, that have no paragraph or character styles or other things. I've had it out with them too! My point of view is that I state I want editable files for InDesign, and I expect that to include all the styles. I lose faith in any designer who supplies a file without proper layers or styles. In so much that I've actually stopped using their services. The whole idea of me paying someone else is to make my life easier when things are on a tight deadline. And getting files that are stripped of styles drives me bezerk!

    So on one hand you may not get the programme again. But on the other the people hiring you might lose faith in your ability to use InDesign if you don't supply styles.

  • October 20, 2011 at 7:16 am #60846
    Colin Flashman

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    The OP can try to make it frustrating for future users, but scripts like this one:

    indesigning.net/auto-cr…..ter-styles [[link is now broken]]

    are just as good as re-assigning styles if they're non-existent.

    I sympathise with the OP – we've all had customers which can be frustrating, hopefully they pay their bill. I'd wait until the bill was paid before doing anything else.

    Friends come and go, enemies accumulate.

  • October 28, 2011 at 6:00 am #60939
    Rebecca Evans

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    Enemies certainly do accumulate, and annoyed clients never call back. To that client, a template may mean simply: here's what it should look like. This is not a template, of course, it's a design without any specs. This misunderstanding is also is found within the graphics industry.

    You could have contacted the client to explain what a template is and find out if they actually have one. They may have sent last year's annoyed designer's file stripped of styles instead of the original design template provided by the original designer. If there is no actual template, that gives you an opportunity to provide one to them for a fee, which you would need to charge anyway (as you explain to them) because it will take longer to produce the file than anticipated because they, in fact, did not provide a template. You want your clients to think of you as a valuable asset they can depend on, and you want them to recommend you to others.

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