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  • May 14, 2010 at 3:02 pm in reply to: Export to ePub format? #55706
    Roland
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    You should be able to export to ePub (Digital Editions in CS4) but I'm not sure of the process.

    I did a google search and found this (link opens in a new window), and it's quite good to watch as it shares quite some info on what you have to watch out for (graphics, links, etc.).

    May 14, 2010 at 8:02 am in reply to: Export to ePub format? #52715
    Roland
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    You should be able to export to ePub (Digital Editions in CS4) but I'm not sure of the process.

    I did a google search and found this (link opens in a new window), and it's quite good to watch as it shares quite some info on what you have to watch out for (graphics, links, etc.).

    May 14, 2010 at 1:41 am in reply to: Document Font feature #55699
    Roland
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    As far as I'm aware, the document fonts feature (assuming I'm thinking of the same thing) is supposed to be a helping hand when using shared (packaged) InDesign documents, loading up a font from a nearby directory if it's not yet installed on the computer itself.

    If you know in advance which fonts to use for each job, you could theoretically place copies of them in each directory you create for every job, but
    A) do you always know in advance which fonts you'll need?
    B) would you really want all those font file duplicates on your drives?

    May 13, 2010 at 6:41 pm in reply to: Document Font feature #52695
    Roland
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    As far as I'm aware, the document fonts feature (assuming I'm thinking of the same thing) is supposed to be a helping hand when using shared (packaged) InDesign documents, loading up a font from a nearby directory if it's not yet installed on the computer itself.

    If you know in advance which fonts to use for each job, you could theoretically place copies of them in each directory you create for every job, but
    A) do you always know in advance which fonts you'll need?
    B) would you really want all those font file duplicates on your drives?

    May 11, 2010 at 2:39 pm in reply to: Can conditional text be assigned "automatically"? #55685
    Roland
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    Thanks for the reminder. I'll add the hyphen just in case :)

    I couldn't use index brutal last time I made the catalog for this client, as I had a list of words they wanted used but none were related to the actual products' “names”, so I had to do it manually (yay) but this time he put the index words in the Excel file so it'll be less of a hassle.

    I'll also make sure to check the index itself won't have any conditions applied to it. It wouldn't be the first time something went wrong with an order for that particular client (though so far it's always been their fault for signing off on something that contained errors) and I'd like this to go well the first time around :)

    On a slightly different note: I might have come up with a way to use plain text rather than tables. Using one Paragraph Style with tabs and Line Styles, and offsetting the Underlines and Strikethroughs in the Line Styles' associated Character Styles, you can quite easily create a table look-alike with alternating row colors. That way editing and working with conditional text will be a lot easier, and the GREP won't give problems (for me at least) due to tables. It's also easier than managing multiple table, row and cell styles.

    May 11, 2010 at 9:46 am in reply to: Can conditional text be assigned "automatically"? #55679
    Roland
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    Okay, I just did some testing, and selecting a column to set it to be conditional doesn't work. So I guess I'll have to use GREP instead.

    I'm not very good at GREP but here's what I've got so far:
    Find: (^w+t)|(^w+ w+t)
    Replace: $0
    The replaced text will then also get the condition applied.

    This works for one or two keywords followed by a tab, as long as I first convert the imported table to regular tab-delimited text.

    I'm sure there's a better way to go about this, but I think for someone who's GREP-challenged it's a good way to go about this. Still, any suggestions you can offer are welcome :)

    May 11, 2010 at 7:39 am in reply to: Can conditional text be assigned “automatically”? #52685
    Roland
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    Thanks for the reminder. I'll add the hyphen just in case :)

    I couldn't use index brutal last time I made the catalog for this client, as I had a list of words they wanted used but none were related to the actual products' “names”, so I had to do it manually (yay) but this time he put the index words in the Excel file so it'll be less of a hassle.

    I'll also make sure to check the index itself won't have any conditions applied to it. It wouldn't be the first time something went wrong with an order for that particular client (though so far it's always been their fault for signing off on something that contained errors) and I'd like this to go well the first time around :)

    On a slightly different note: I might have come up with a way to use plain text rather than tables. Using one Paragraph Style with tabs and Line Styles, and offsetting the Underlines and Strikethroughs in the Line Styles' associated Character Styles, you can quite easily create a table look-alike with alternating row colors. That way editing and working with conditional text will be a lot easier, and the GREP won't give problems (for me at least) due to tables. It's also easier than managing multiple table, row and cell styles.

    May 11, 2010 at 2:46 am in reply to: Can conditional text be assigned “automatically”? #52683
    Roland
    Member

    Okay, I just did some testing, and selecting a column to set it to be conditional doesn't work. So I guess I'll have to use GREP instead.

    I'm not very good at GREP but here's what I've got so far:
    Find: (^\w+)|(^\w+ \w+)
    Replace: $0
    The replaced text will then also get the condition applied.

    This works for one or two keywords followed by a tab, as long as I first convert the imported table to regular tab-delimited text.

    I'm sure there's a better way to go about this, but I think for someone who's GREP-challenged it's a good way to go about this. Still, any suggestions you can offer are welcome :)

    March 30, 2010 at 11:27 pm in reply to: CS5 Question #55380
    Roland
    Member

    David Blatner said:However, they have kept the Export to Dot-matrix feature.

    Has anyone thought to check how Neo feels about that?

    March 30, 2010 at 4:27 pm in reply to: CS5 Question #52380
    Roland
    Member

    David Blatner said:However, they have kept the Export to Dot-matrix feature.

    Has anyone thought to check how Neo feels about that?

    March 26, 2010 at 8:59 am in reply to: Question for video-editors: image resolution size #55337
    Roland
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    The video guy said 300×300 pixels at 300 PPI, but it just sounds wrong. Why request a 300PPI file if no screen outputs at that resolution?

    I sent a 300PPI file at 300 pixels wide, with 3 path-based layers so they can resize if necessary, but I wouldn't be surprised if I find an email requesting a bigger file when I get to work on Monday :)

    March 26, 2010 at 1:59 am in reply to: Question for video-editors: image resolution & size #52344
    Roland
    Member

    The video guy said 300×300 pixels at 300 PPI, but it just sounds wrong. Why request a 300PPI file if no screen outputs at that resolution?

    I sent a 300PPI file at 300 pixels wide, with 3 path-based layers so they can resize if necessary, but I wouldn't be surprised if I find an email requesting a bigger file when I get to work on Monday :)

    March 22, 2010 at 1:27 am in reply to: NEWBIE: Black turning to grey #55206
    Roland
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    Unless you need to print using black only, my suggestion is to try adding 10% Cyan, 10% Magenta and 10% Yellow to the black. So a 50% Black would become 5/5/5/50 (CMYK). Alternatively you could add 20% Cyan and skip the rest, if you want a cooler black rather than the warmer, thicker black of 10/10/10/100 (CMYK).

    I found I have to do this to most jobs I print on our Canon CLC4040 to get nice, solid grays and blacks.

    March 21, 2010 at 6:27 pm in reply to: NEWBIE: Black turning to grey #52130
    Roland
    Member

    Unless you need to print using black only, my suggestion is to try adding 10% Cyan, 10% Magenta and 10% Yellow to the black. So a 50% Black would become 5/5/5/50 (CMYK). Alternatively you could add 20% Cyan and skip the rest, if you want a cooler black rather than the warmer, thicker black of 10/10/10/100 (CMYK).

    I found I have to do this to most jobs I print on our Canon CLC4040 to get nice, solid grays and blacks.

    December 7, 2009 at 9:11 am in reply to: From InDesign tables to Excel? #54161
    Roland
    Member

    Jongware: that's so cool. One line of JavaScript and you saved the day :) It worked perfectly.

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