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April 27, 2015 at 12:07 am in reply to: GREP:Do not break words that begin with a capital and preceded by an apostrophe #74979
Alan Gilbertson
ParticipantThat’s elegant!
For GREP expressions you’re posting in the forum, it’s helpful if you bracket them with an HTML
codetag to make them stand out a bit.April 27, 2015 at 12:03 am in reply to: Font Automatically Changes when Inserting Speech Marks? #74978ParticipantThen it would definitely seem that the font is the source of the problem. You should report this to Linotype and Adobe so they can fix it. Meanwhile, try the GREP Style approach I suggested. I can’t think of a reason it would not work.
ParticipantIt’s not impossible that a problem font could be causing this, although it doesn’t seem likely that would cause an issue in both Acrobat and InDesign. (I’ve never come across a case of Acrobat having conniptions over a sketchy font the way InDesign does.)
A somewhat inelegant workaround that would at least keep things moving while you sort things out might be to export the comments from Acrobat to a data file, then copy/paste from that. (Never use Preview for PDFs. It has too many issues and has been known to drive strong designers to even stronger drink.) Before you waste time trying, the “Export to Word” option will only work if it’s going to the original Word file from which the PDF was created.
Under the Comments section of Acrobat, choose Export to Data File and select .fdf as the format. It’s a text-only file you can open in any text editor and paste into a fresh document in InDesign. (I’m assuming you don’t have grep capabilities outside of InDesign, so I’m using the GREP search in Id for the next step, but you could equally use a programming editor with grep capabilities.)
Run this GREP search on the comments document:
(.+Contents\()([\u ]+)(.+)On each hit, Change using
$2in the “Change to:” field, which will remove all the bric-a-brac and leave you with just the comment text, which you can copy and paste.April 26, 2015 at 3:56 pm in reply to: Font Automatically Changes when Inserting Speech Marks? #74972ParticipantThat’s a good clue that makes two ideas spring to mind. The first is that there’s a glitch in the font itself, which you could check by trying the same procedure using different Arabic fonts. The second is to check if Positional Forms in the OpenType section of the style sheet is set to “Automatic” rather than General, which is the default.
It also suggests a workaround. A GREP style should be able to force the font to Lotus LT, sparing you a great deal of debugging time.
ParticipantI’ll keep you posted! In fact, I’m starting to think that the whole experience may turn into an article here or on CreativePro.
April 25, 2015 at 1:17 pm in reply to: Font Automatically Changes when Inserting Speech Marks? #74957ParticipantOne thing that can cause problems with multi-language documents is that the language specified in the paragraph or character style is not the language of the font used for the foreign characters. If you have mixed languages in your project, that may be the issue.
It’s quite possible to insert Arabic or Chinese into otherwise Western copy, and the characters can be specified correctly and pulled in from the Glyphs Panel, but if the style is not also explicitly set to that language (using the Language dropdown in the Character Panel or in the style dialog) the mismatch can cause this kind of weird glitch.
ParticipantI’ve not run into this one, myself, but faced with a situation like this and a deadline I can’t shift, I’d set up a workaround. That would probably be copy from Acrobat, paste to BBEdit (or similar plain text editor), cut from there and paste to InDesign. Tedious, but a lot less tedious than restarting Acrobat and InDesign constantly.
ParticipantFor a flexible (literally) and transparent pica/point/mm/ tool, the Galaxy Gauge is a very inexpensive choice. The company is disconcertingly retro (the website looks like it was designed in the 90s and hasn’t seen much change since), but the products are handy indeed. When you need to measure the width of a label that’s firmly affixed to a round surface, like a bottle, there’s nothing like it.
The largest size of the eponymous gauges has a cheat sheet for proofreader’s marks, serif and sans serif type gauges, a screen density chart and screen finder, decimal-to-fraction converter, rule and bullet size charts, a circles and corners gauge, a protractor and a leading gauge. I have all of them.
ParticipantThere’s a quirk in how InDesign handles TOC entries. In a nutshell, the Paragraph Style in the text will be converted to the assigned TOC style, but any local override will pass straight through unchanged. That includes manually applying a Character Style to words in the heading. It doesn’t apply to drop caps or nested styles that are part of the text Paragraph Style.
This can get pretty grim. If you have a headline Paragraph Style using 30 point type on 30 points of leading, and you tweak the leading on the second line of a particular headline to 29 points for better appearance, the 14 point TOC entry for that headline will ALSO have 29 points of leading. Scares the pants off you the first time it happens.
I brought this one up years ago, but it seems that fixing it is a non-trivial problem.
ParticipantAs David says, you can place the .ai file directly in InDesign. There’s no need to save as a PDF first, although it should make no difference to the outcome.
An InDesign document is always either CMYK or RGB, but what will actually output to PDF will be whatever is actually in the document. If there are spot colors, there will be spot plates. If there’s no CMYK, then the CMYK plates will be blank and you’ve nothing to worry about.
Before you panic, check a couple of things in InDesign:
– In the Swatches panel flyout menu, select Ink Manager and verify that the spot colors are there and that “All Spots to Process” is NOT checked.
– Now open the Separations Preview (Window > Output > Separations Preview). If you see your spot colors, click the CMYK eyeball to turn off those plates. The logo should remain visible. Turn on CMYK and click the eyeballs for the spot colors. Logo should disappear and only other non-Pantone items should be visible. If that’s the case, you can relax.
If you DON’T see the spot colors in InDesign, then they’re not there in the Illustrator file, no matter what Illustrator’s swatches panel tells you. A spot color can be a solid ink or it can be a CMYK formula (e.g., Pantone Bridge colors).
If a PMS solid color has been converted to CMYK, it will still appear as a spot color in the Illustrator swatches panel, and it will still have its original Pantone designation, but it won’t actually be a Pantone Solid ink. Double-click the swatch to reveal its true nature!
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