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RoManuV
MemberWell, I don't have CS6, but in CS5 the limit is still 10,000…
MemberHi Martin,
I'm afraid that you are making a confusion between the font size ( = the distance from the top of the tallest ascender to the bottom of the longest descender) and the x-size (= the height of the letter “x”), which is obviously inferior to the former.
Try this experiment: set a baseline grid with “increment every” 3 mm and display it, set your font as Myriad Pro 9pt and type “myriad pro” in a text box. You'll see that the lowest part off “y” touches the bottom line and the uppermost part of “d” touches the top line of the baseline grid. (q.e.d.)
Some more technical details here: https://nwalsh.com/comp.fonts/F…..Q/cf_8.htm
Hope this helps,
Manu
MemberCan't you use InDesign DataMerge? And perhaps the Typefi AutoFit plugin, if you have to deal with variable text lengths.
That's how I produce my catalogs and it works pretty fine.
July 3, 2012 at 7:50 am in reply to: Why can't Character Styles be based on Paragraph styles? #62545MemberFor the requirements you express in your post there is no need to base your character styles on anything. Let's take the “Body text Italic” character style – it should be defined as:
Style name: Body text Italic
Based on: [None]
Basic character formats/ Font style: Italic
You may also define a shortcut too, let's say CTRL + 1
So if you apply this character style (or type CTRL + 1) over a selected text, it will become italic while keeping all the other paragraph style characteristics. If you will change the paragraph style definition, the text with the “Body text italic” character style applied will change accordingly but it will keep the character style until you explicitly clear it.
The only drawback is that when you try to apply italic to a bold text, the bold will go away an will be replaced by the italic style. Solution: define both a “Body text italic” and a “Body text bold italic” character styles.
MemberHi,
I encountered the same problem myself while working on my first catalog and I found a very handy solution in the Typefi AutoFit plugin for InDesign. It is free, you can download it from here and it takes only a few minutes to master it. There are some excellent tutorials too, on the same page.
Good luck!
MemberCheck this post, I believe this is what you are looking for: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/526990
June 3, 2012 at 5:02 pm in reply to: Same document, different languages, HUGE differences in sizes #62343MemberWow, the “Audit Space Usage” function led me straight to the origin of the problem: I found out that I used, inadvertently, a wrong Export-to-PDF profile for the arabic file, a profile requiring no downsampling and no image compression. My bad, but on this occasion I discovered this useful tool in Acrobat Pro!
Jongware, your intervention was, as usual, extremely helpful and informative, thank you deeply for your support. I would like very much to learn more about prepress, can you please suggest me some books I could use?
June 3, 2012 at 5:06 am in reply to: Same document, different languages, HUGE differences in sizes #62341MemberHello Jongware, thank you for your answer. As a matter of fact, the sizes I was quoting (FR – 60, EN – 50 and AR 609 MB) were those of the final high-resolution PDFs, and not those of the InDesign files. That is why I don't understand what it is happening…
Furthermore, the french version was the first, the english one (smaller) was the second and the arabic one was the last.
And for the second question, I send the files to the printer on CD, so I am not concerned about e-mail or FTP transfer. I was asking about the maximum acceptable file size from the printer's point of view, wondering if there was any limitation on his side, during the pre-press or the printing process.
MemberI'm very glad it was of use.
As for the script, I don't have a solution for the moment, but I'll make some research. Anyway, if you find an aswer it would be great to come back and share it with us.
MemberI'm not sure if this answers your question, but there are the two controls on the toolbar: Scale X percentage and Scale Y percentage. If your image has been resized, entering 100% as scale percentage restores it to its actual size. Of course, in order to do that, the object inside the frame needs to be selected, and not the frame.
IDCS5, but I suppose there must be something similar in IDCS6.
MemberThank you Allan, your answer is extremely helpful for me and I am going to apply it at once for my project.
Thank you a thousand times.
MemberThank you Tim and David,
As a matter of fact my problem is not how to place an image on the pocket, that part is the easiest.
What I wanted to know is how to design the pocket itself as a document, i.e. the margins, their sizes, will the margins be glued on the cover after they are folded, or is there no folding (the pocket is a plain paper whose margins are simply glued), …
The problem is that I have not a direct contact with the printer, my client takes the files I provide him and lends them to the printer himself. He asked the printer about the pocket and could not get an useful answer. Communication here is rather heavy and slow, that is why I am trying to inform myself from people that already did this operation on their behalf and know how to it must be done.
Thank you again, if you can think of some more useful hints I shall be very grateful.
Memberhttps://blog.gilbertconsulting……round.html
Could you apply this to your brochure? i.e. select all text from the layer to exclude and set it to “No language”.
MemberThank you David for your quick reply, in the meanwhile I finally managed to find this grep too:
- Find: tyes
- Change to: txFC
- Find format: (my paragraph style)
- Change format: +Wingdings
I wonder if there is a way to apply this automatically, like we do with grep styles?
I mean, I need this to be done on files resulting from a data merge, and I am talking about 100+ files…
Membereliforbes423 said:For barcode generator, I've used a .net barcode generator tool for windows applications. Hope you problem solved using it.
The barcode generator you linked to is (quote from site)
.NET Barcode for Windows Forms is a .NET Control library package that generates linear and 2D barcodes symbologies in C# or VB.NET Windows Applications.
This is an InDesign forum, so I suppose the man needs it for an InDesign job!
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