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angharad09
ParticipantNo, no Span Columns style applied.
October 31, 2013 at 1:43 pm in reply to: any way to combine "print booklet" and "export to PDF" functions?? #66057ParticipantBrilliant! Thank you all very much.
ParticipantBy any chance do you have Smart Text Reflow turned on (it’s under Preferences > Type), and could that be causing it?
ParticipantBrilliant! Thank you!
ParticipantMust have been a bug — after I tried 100 more times, it finally worked. Never mind! and thanks for your time.
ParticipantBrilliant. If I do it your way, I may actually have some hairs left when I finish doing the math. Thanks, David!
ParticipantIf your main concern is figuring out why the files wouldn't upload to the sites you already tried, the only thing I can suggest is to take a very detailed look at exactly what specifications those sites require — it could be almost anything. If your main concern is finding a way to share the files, consider something like a free DropBox account. Gmail can send some pretty huge files, too.
Also, you might want to make sure that, when you're uploading, you're pointing directly at the file itself, not at an alias. (“Alias” is the Mac word, not sure what they call it on PCs.) Good luck!
ParticipantIt's a mix of old and new material. But I don't think there's a cutoff date (to be allowed to take the exam) … is there? You just can't *recertify* unless you're *certified* on the previous version (i.e., you can't skip a version). It's definitely worth studying hard for. Good luck!
ParticipantJust to add a few thoughts — the Structure pane works together with the Tags panel (when you tag something from the Tags panel, you'll see it show up in the Structure pane). The things structure is good for include making a PDF that can be read on a variety of devices and/or that's easy for an assistive device like a screen reader to work with. (Also for improving exports to e-books? not sure.) For example, if you have a creative page design that doesn't flow in a linear, logical direction, a screen reader will still “know” which bits to read in what order. Also, I gather that some companies (mostly larger ones?) use an XML-based template process, and you might need this at some point in that workflow. Caveat: This is what I got from studying for the certification test, not extensive real-world experience, so take it with a grain of salt. I agree that it's amazing how many different ways people can use InDesign. I can't wait to get a chance to try out more of this stuff on real projects.
ParticipantThanks for the heads up! I'll focus more on the exam guide and less on the What's New text. So would you care to say anything else about the exam process — like, is it timed? and are you allowed to use notes or reference books? and is there any wait time between when you sign up for the exam and when you can take it? (I'm talking about the recertification, not the basic exam, and I think you are too.)
ParticipantThat does make more sense than my guess, thank you very much! I agree it would be nice if they'd use more specific language. And super nice if they'd let a copyeditor take a crack at the help files. (Ah, but then it would be too easy, right?)
I've never done a recertification before, but it seems odd how few of the new features are mentioned in the exam guide.
Anyway, thanks again!
ParticipantI can vouch for the InDesign Secrets book — it was very helpful when I studied for the test. The Adobe exam guide is good, too. A few things to keep in mind, confidence and test-survival wise (my opinions only): 1. the test is very comprehensive, but the score required to pass is not super high (it may tell you somewhere on the website or the test guide). Most people use only a portion of INDD's capabilities, but they have to test you on a good cross-section of everything for the credential to be meaningful (that's my $0.02). Focus some of your studying on getting familiar with the parts you're *not* a power user in. 2. You may be used to creating beautiful documents and solving wicked tough problems, now practice answering multiple choice questions. It's a whole different mindset, so get comfortable with it before you walk into the exam room. 3. I dimly remember (check, don't take this on faith) that there may be some option to re-test if you don't pass the first time, you might call your local testing center and ask, if you think that would help you worry less. 4. I don't know if this would work for you, but I basically took every skill mentioned on the test prep booklet, figured out how to do it, and made a table with questions/prompts in the left-hand column and answers in the right, and reviewed it till I had it memorized. That was not enough to get me a brilliant high score, but I passed. 5. Long ago, I took the road test for my moped license with a half dozen Hells Angels looking guys. They were on Harleys, I was on a rooty-toot scooter and could barely make a left turn. I passed, and several of them didn't. why? I followed instructions. There's a lesson in there. 6. Darlin', if I could pass the ACE, you can pass the ACE. Good luck! I found it to be a great experience, both the stressed-out studying part and the celebrating after, and I bet you will, too.
ParticipantSo maybe it's more of a marketplace issue than a technology issue at this point. I confess I go to PDF, if it's available, for anything I want to actually study (follow footnote links, highlight or annotate) — for straightforward, not-interactive reading, which I gather is the main market right now? they all seem to work fine from a reader's perspective. At least, thanks to your answers, I can lay to rest the idea that EPUB currently has some whiz-bang capability I'm unaware of.
Thanks, y'all!
ParticipantThanks for these enlightening answers! I'm still wondering if I'm missing something, though. It seems like there are just a few things a PDF can't do, and a lot of things EPUB can't do (yet) — why wouldn't people focus on “catching up” the PDF format instead to make it fully functional for ebooks? The main virtue of EPUB seems to be its flow-ability — but can't a PDF do that, too, if you set it up right? Don't Acrobat's various accessibility functions, and articles, reading order, and stuff like that pretty much provide the full range? For example, I just picked a random document, set it to View: Zoom: Reflow, and enlarged it as much as I wanted without having to move the page around.
I don't mean that you could take *any* PDF and make it flow as well as any EPUB –but if you designed the PDF with e-book-ability in mind …
My knowledge of these things is 90% reading, not doing (yet) — so I'm probably missing something and I'm curious to know what. This is not meant to diss EPUB. I just think that if I knew the answer to this question I'd understand both EPUB and PDF better.
thanks!
Amanda
ParticipantMaybe someone else will chime in to provide an exact step-by-step, but in the meantime, here are some things you can play around with. Try it on a copy of the document first.
(1) Turn on View: Extras: Show Text Threads. This way, any time you click (with the black arrow tool) on a text box, you'll see the path of text into and out of the box.
(2) If you click *once* on the out-port at the bottom right of a text box, you will break the text thread (and you will see a little red plus sign indicating that there is overset text).
(3) If you click *twice* on the out-port, your cursor will “load” with text (you'll see a tiny text-box icon), and that text will flow into whatever box you click next.
(4) If you loaded your cursor by mistake, just hit Escape and it will unload.
Exactly how to use this information to get text to flow correctly from 47 to 48, and from 37 to 38 to 39, is still a slight mystery to me and I don't want to steer you wrong. But maybe this will be enough to get you going for now.
Good luck from a fellow green person.
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