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Aleta El Sheikh
ParticipantThank you, David. It looks like that site has exactly what I need!
Meanwhile, I had just edited my original post as you were posting your reply. I’m hoping you can help me re: specifying font in form fields.
October 26, 2013 at 6:30 pm in reply to: Placing a an ai logo in idd for knocking out of photo #65990ParticipantHi Bob,
That was it. I put a check in the transparent background box and it worked. You are correct that the logo is all white.
I knew it would be something simple like that! Thanks a million!
Aleta
ParticipantHello KapitiKit,
I think that talking with your printer might shed some light on the issue. If they can’t, and you still want to use that font in future projects, you can outline the text as you make your PDF by using this trick from David: https://creativepro.com/converting-text-to-outlines-the-right-way.php.
By the way, I think you need to generate a new link to the Hightail file, as the one above still goes to the original PDF you posted. but no worries; I think we can all imagine your troubles. I have seen my share of wonky fonts in the past.
ParticipantI would certainly talk to the printer about it. Something could have happened when they ripped the file, though it doesn’t explain why it does the same thing on your KonicaMinolta. Too bad; it’s a nice font.
For what it’s worth, I printed out the first page on both an old laser printer and a newer inkjet, and they look just like the PDF as far as I can tell.
ParticipantCommand+Page Up should take you back to the last page you viewed. (Ctrl+Page Up on a PC).
Hope this helps!
ParticipantResetting your workspace should solve the problem.
ParticipantI agree with Eugene on this one. I lay out a small community newspaper and used to resize and convert all the images to CMYK TIFs in Photoshop. Then one month, just for giggles, I placed the supplied jpegs (all RGB, of course) in IDD without any PShop intervention and sent the PDF to the printer. The result in the printed paper was no worse than the previous issues, and in fact some of the images looked better. I still save as TIF the images I must grayscale, but I'm not even sure if that's necessary. Of course, we are talking about newsprint here, not a slick magazine.
ParticipantYou'll find that in the Panel Menu, not the Layout Menu product area. I'm on CS5 for PC, and it looks like this on my screen:
ParticipantVasha, thanks for letting me know this. I typed the comma as you suggested and it worked perfectly. (I didn't know you could do that.) Now I can use one paragraph style for all my jumps no matter how many words they are.
ParticipantHaving never used GREP styles before, I thought erroneously that they could be applied to nested styles. But they can only be applied to find/change and therefore isn't the solution I want.
So I'm going to create and apply a new paragraph style with a nested style that will apply to 2-word jumps. I wish there was a way to apply my character style through the comma so I can use one style for all jumps, but it's not a big deal. Anyway, now that I have a better grip on the GREP feature, I'll start using it in other ways.
ParticipantThank you, David! I haven't tried the Place Gun Frame trick yet, and I hope it still works. Strange that they didn't fix the bug in CS5.
ParticipantThank you for the response. I think I knew that at some point and had forgotten, which happens when you reach a “certain age,” ha ha.
I ordered the software, and got it for 15% less because my new employer is a member of the PIA. So, Design Premium upgrade cost $679.15 instead of $799, plus tax and shipping. Sweet!
ParticipantHere's how I did it, in a similar situation:
Make sure that your Idd type preference is set to “When pasting from other applications, Paste Text only”
Select your text in the source doc with the type tool and copy it.
Paste it into TextEdit (Mac) or Notepad (PC). Repeat for all the text you need.
Select all and copy.
Paste into your new Idd doc. It will retain special characters and returns, but it will all be in the paragraph style you specify for the new text.
Kind of an roundabout hack, but it worked for me.
ParticipantHere's how I did it, in a similar situation:
Make sure that your Idd type preference is set to “When pasting from other applications, Paste Text only”
Select your text in the source doc with the type tool and copy it.
Paste it into TextEdit (Mac) or Notepad (PC). Repeat for all the text you need.
Select all and copy.
Paste into your new Idd doc. It will retain special characters and returns, but it will all be in the paragraph style you specify for the new text.
Kind of an roundabout hack, but it worked for me.
ParticipantI also went from CS2 to CS5.
I watched the lynda.com “What's new in CSx…” tutorials on the ones in between, but then decided to watch David Blatner's Essential Training for CS5. Even though I've used InDesign for years, starting from the beginning reminded me of stuff I'd forgotten. So that's what I would recommend. And as you go along, you'll pick up on the differences between CS2 and CS5 without needing to know when the changes came about. It's 10.5 hours, but for $25 you can take a whole month to watch it all if you want.
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