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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberThanks for the heads-up, Wanda!
Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberHi Linda, I’m not quite sure what you want to do (despite helpfully providing the screen shot), but to change the height of a row, you just select it and enter an absolute height measure in the Table panel or control panel next to row height. The default is “At Least” meaning they’ll autogrow, but it you enter a measure, the row snaps to that height, letting you get some air around the text. The other rows remain their current height.
Is that what you’re asking?
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberHi Christopher,
Ideally, epubs need to be optimized for devices because they each have somewhat different support for various EPUB3 functions. For FXL ebooks, the devices also have different aspect ratios, so some designers who want to use up as much of the screen real estate as possible will create one FXL for iOS and a diff one for Android or Kindle. (Yes, Kindles can take FXL that haven’t been created with Comic Book Creator or similar.)
You don’t need to optimize multiple ebooks for one reseller like Apple, but if you’re going to sell the same reflowable EPUB on the iBookstore and the Kindle store, then yes, ideally you’d optimize for either platform if possible.
But Christopher, you are right that most middleman distributors like Ingram Spark only accept one EPUB file and distribute it to every ebook reseller. So it’s only those designers or publishers who work directly with Kobo, Apple, Amazon etc. who have the option to upload diff files depending on the recipient.
Hope that helps!
AMMay 12, 2016 at 8:46 am in reply to: Collect individual files contained in a book in one .indd document #84867Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberHere is the script!
https://creativepro.com/downloads/MergeFiles-2016.zipIt’s a jsx.bin file. After you download it, unzip it, and put MergeFiles-2016.jsxbin in your scripts folder. Double-click it to run, and you’ll get a dialog box with some options.
And I’ve done an InDesign Secrets tips video demo-ing it for Lynda.com too … not sure when it’ll come out though. In the meantime I’ll do a post on the blog with screen shots, but probably won’t get to that for a few days.
BTW I asked Michael, the author, for permission to distribute (thank you Michael!), as well as his Paypal account name if you’d like to say thanks for this one, and/or contribute to his ongoing script development work: biozaichenko@gmail.com
About the script, Michael told me,
“The way it works is… run the script. It will pop a panel. You can
choose from “all open docs”, “folder with files” or “a book” if it
is open. From there it is self-explanatory. Features that you should
be aware of is that up and down keys move items up and down in the
list. Delete button, removes them from the list. It chooses the
first file as a “template” for the rest. I’m open for feature
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberIt can’t be saved where you can both reach it, but it can be copied and sent to other users. Once you find the file (a small XML file) on your hard drive, send it to your colleague, and have them put it in the same place on their computer as the one you copied it out of.
But where is that place?
The Word Presets you save on your computer are saved in your User Preferences for InDesign, buried in a folder somewhere on your hard drive. The fastest way to get there is to open the Scripts panel in InDesign, right-click on the “User” folder you’ll find there, and choose Reveal in Finder (or Reveal in Explorer). That jumps you to your OS and selects the folder. Move up a few folder levels until you see the other InDesign User Prefs folders like Find-Change Queries and Glyph Sets. There you’ll find the Word Import Presets folder.
Here’s a screen shot:
https://cl.ly/3b3k02373h2oHope that helps!
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberLorenzo I’m sorry it’s not working.
Uninstalling and reinstalling the program is seldom a fix, not sure why you did that. That operation usually does not rebuild preferences, which is actually much easier and faster.
https://creativepro.com/rebuilding-indesign-preferences.phpDid you try seeing if InDesign will run if you log into a test account on your Mac or Windows?
Adobe support is here: 1 (800) 833-6687. They’re available Monday – Friday, 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Pacific Standard Time.
Online chat support is available 24/7. You can find that by going through a few steps here on their Customer Care site: https://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html
Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberIt may not be helpful, but still useful to know that for most CC 2015 users, there is no speed lag. So it’s something on your system.
I assume you’ve tried rebuilding your prefs.
Try this:
1. In Prefs > General, disable “Show “Start” workspace” and “Show Recent Files Workspace”
2. In Prefs > Type, set the Number of Recent Fonts to Display to 0
3. In Prefs > File Handling, set Number of Recent Files to Display to 0, and disable Check Links Before Opening DocumentRestart InDesign and see if that helped. They all have to do with InDesign searching for things that it’s having trouble finding. All suggestions came from users on various threads where they said they had the same issue and one or more of these fixes worked.
One more possible operation that helped some folks with general slowdowns:
https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/creative-cloud-libraries-panel-doesn-t-load-in-desktop-products.htmlLet us know if any of this helped!
AMAnne-Marie ConcepcionMemberGo to the original reference in the text, select nearby words, and open the Story editor (Command/Ctrl-Y). The same text will be selected but the index marker will be much easier to spot, it looks like a little guy waving 2 semaphore flags. Delete it, then regenerate the index, see if that fixed it.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberYay!
But … what the heck is the “common ID-10-T” error?
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberComing up on empty here. I think what you’re asking goes against all that is holy with InDesign’s text composition engine. ;-)
Still, if anyone comes up with a solution (I too thought of the split paragraphs thing…), it’d make a great InDesign Contest.
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