Fun times!

If you have a text frame anywhere in the document, you’ll have a font listed, even if it’s not used. It’s one of the attributes of a text frame that can’t be removed.

You can test this by creating a new document, entering some sample text in a text frame, selecting it all and converting it to outlines, which makes it an anchored object inside the frame. Look at Find Font and you’ll see a typeface listed.

Then select the outlined text with the Selection tool and choose Object > Anchored Object Options > Release, and then delete the text frame, leaving the outlined text. Look in Find Font and you’ll see no fonts are listed.

So unless you can construct a template with no text frames, (it’s possible! Just use guides to indicate where text frames should go) then you’ll always have a font listed.

AM

Master page items do not export to reflowable epub, only fixed layout epub.

I don’t know from your screen shots if it’s reflowable or fixed. If it’s reflowable, I’m curious if the lines on top and on bottom stay in place as you turn the device (was that what your screen shots were showing?) and if you make the type larger/smaller. That is, make it reflow.

If so, my best guess is that the rules are there from the device or software, not the epub. Similar to how some ereaders add a running header with the book title at the top of every page.

AM

Interesting. I did a test a while ago with a colleague to see if we could share a Google Drive folder and put an InDesign file and InCopy files in there, and it worked great.

It does require that both (all) users install the Google Drive *app* on their desktop computers. If you go to your Google Drive home screen, at the bottom left you’ll see link to download the app. Once installed, it creates a folder on your hard drive called Google Drive. It’s at the top level of your user account’s collection of folders. (IOW, same level as Documents or Desktop, on a Mac.)

Then it works kinda like Dropbox. The files on your Google Drive are synced to your hard drive. (This may be an optional setting, don’t remember. But mine are.)

You can save a folder w/an InDesign file into your local Google Drive folder, then right-click and Share it with other Google Drive users. They will need to sync it to their Google Drive as well, and they edit it on their local computer, in the Google Drive folder. There is no manual uploading or downloading involved.

AM

IC/ID works great in Dropbox, and in Google Drive too. So I’m not sure why it wouldn’t work in One Drive.

AM

David and Bill, thanks for your solutions! Great detective work there.

You can make the hunt for broken x-refs go a *little* faster if you set up Live Preflight to look for “Unresolved Cross-References.” Then you don’t need to open the XRefs panel nor sort them. The Preflight panel will list all the broken/missing ones and jump you to each one in the doc for fixing.

I’m impressed! Love it!

What a great solution …

AM