What you’re asking is how to accomplish this automatically, and that’s not something that the TOC generator will do for you.

You have two possible ways to go here. The first is to run a find/change on the TOC after it’s generated, replacing the Tab character with a Forced Line Break. The other is to create invisible (i.e., on a hidden or non-printing layer) copies of the chapter number and chapter title on the chapter opening pages, giving them their own styles which you then use in the TOC.

Hi Kenny. There is no change as regards the way InDesign (or Illustrator, for that matter, which creates gradients the same way) handle vector gradients, which is what these are. Technically, I think it would be a very hard thing to engineer noise into a vector object without rasterizing it.

For that kind of artwork, I take one of two approaches, the usual one being to create what I need in Photoshop and place it in the InDesign document.

Occasionally, I’ll place a pre-made greyscale, high-res noise image (50% grey with noise added, jpeg or tiff) and color it with the gradient, or a solid color with a gradient feather. In some situations that is the best approach. The image must be greyscale, to allow InDesign to color it properly. Give the image a blend mode of Color Burn or Hard Light at a suitably low opacity to finesse the effect. This does eliminate banding.

All that said, modern computer-to-plate workflows are far less likely to have banding issues on press than in times past, particularly if the shop uses stochastic screening rather than the traditional half-tone angled screens.

That is strange. My first suggestion would be to clean out the editing cruft in the document by exporting to IDML and creating a pristine copy by opening that in InDesign and saving it. The internal database that is an InDesign document accumulates various artifacts in the course of editing the document, and occasionally these start to cause problems (they always create bloat, and you’ll be surprised sometimes how much an INDD will shrink when it’s given the IDML “purge”). Let us know if that doesn’t fix the problem, and we can go from there.

BTW: If you’re sending to a print provider, the better output format to use is PDF/X-1a, which is a universally supported press standard.

I have no familiarity with PageFlex, but have you tried setting the options specifically in the Paragraph Style? On the OpenType Features pane, there is a dropdown for Figure Style. It defaults to, well, “Default Figure Style.” If PageFlex interprets the default as Proportional Oldstyle, then it may be overriding what was typed in the template. Defaults can create various kinds of havoc if they are defined one way on System A, then the document is opened on System B that has a different default.

It’s always safer to define things explicitly whenever possible (like creating a style called “Body Copy” for text, even if it’s exactly the same as InDesign’s “[Default Paragraph Style]”).

It may relate to a bug that I just reported the other day (and is now on the schedule to be fixed). Importing .rtf content that was generated by InDesign in the first place adds various kinds of bric-a-brac to paragraph styles that are seen by InDesign as local overrides.

Even if this is the case, and it’s quite possible that what you’re seeing is something entirely disrelated, you should report your problem result as a bug in CC 2014 so there’s a chance of it being fixed before the next version rains down upon us from the Creative Cloud.

I suppose the entire layout is already done, so there’s not much in the way of totally automated solutions, but here’s how I’d tackle this.

You undoubtedly have a standard gap between your two language frames, so I’d select the first paragraph in the lower frame (on any page) and give it a new Paragraph Style with a Rule Above. Set that rule so it’s where you need it. Set the Next Style to your regular body copy style.

Select the text frame and create a new Object Style. (Turn on Apply to Selection.) Check the Paragraph Style box, and in that options panel turn on Next Style.

Now you can apply the new Object Style to the lower frame on each of the other pages to have the rule appear where it needs to be.