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September 12, 2012 at 6:37 am in reply to: Adding leads to error: "nonetype" object has no attribute 'lower' #63140
Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberAnswer: Do not open in Calibre. I'm serious … Why are you doing so? I don't think I ever once used Calibre in my vids. It's a great program for managing your own personal ebook library, but I don't know any ebook designer/producer who uses it for production purposes.
After you add the Guide section and zip it (convert it back to epub) does it validate?
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberThank you, this thread was a great motivator to focus on the topic during our most recent podcast, episode 179:
https://creativepro.com/ind…..st-179.php
Be sure to listen in to hear all the different ways we know of to help InDesign users to collaborate with non-ID users. The comments in the Show Notes also have some great ideas from our listeners.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberHi Nigel!
I have a fairly comprehensive video tutorial on lynda.com called InDesign to ePub, iPad, and the Kindle that would be good:
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberYou are the master of the find/change script! I saw your post about pointing to a network, too. Any other tricks? Have you written these all down somewhere? (and where/how did you figure out the Conditional Text one)?
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberNo, sorry, you can't set width and height automatically in ID, not even in a style.
Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberYes, it does.
There are lots of ways in CS5 and CS6 to change page sizes, but the ones I mentioned are the basic ways. The other thing to consider is what InDesign does with the existing content of the page when you resize it. You have some control over that via the Layout Adjustment command, much more control via specifying Liquid Layout rules before resizing.
Pariah had a good article on Liquid Layout in issue 47 (couple months ago) of InDesign Magazine, or you can view the three or four video tutorials I did on this in my InDesign CS6 New Features title on lynda.com (https://j.mp/idcs6-nf)
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberYep you're absolutely right, InCopy is usually a godsend to workflows.
If your current workflow is working, fantastic! Don't change a thing. It's just that you're using assignments, which I thinks complicates things. So the rest of this is for *other* users :D …
When I said “I almost always recommend users not bother creating assignments” I mean the ICMA file — those are Assignments — not the ICML files – those are shared stories.
When you share a story from an InDesign file, you export it to ICML. This means that an InCopy user can open up the *layout* file (the INDD file) … which should be on the server in this scenario … and check out that shared story. The end. Multiple InCopy user can open the *same* INDD file simultaneously, even while the ID user has it open. The check in/check out prevents more than one person from editing the same *story* simultaneously.
The vast majority of my clients use this workflow. They do not bother creating that third type of file, an Assignment file (ICMA), and then adding/moving ICML files to it. Instead, all their ICML files live in the Unassigned InCopy Content category in the Assignments panel. (I think they should change the name of the Assignments panel to “InCopy Workflow” … because people keep thinking that the ICML files are Assignments, and that actual Assignment files are necessary to make this work.) You can just drag and drop stories (text frames) from the layout right on to top of that category name in teh Assignments panel. Or you can use Edit > InCopy > Export > All Stories.
Hope that helps!
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberAre you sure you're not trying to open an CS6 file in CS5, or a CS5.5 in CS5? That's when you usually get the very misleading alerts about missing plug-ins.
Try opening CS6 from the Programs/Applications folder, not by double-clicking an INDD file. See if you get the same error.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberSorry, I have not seen this.
I assume you've rebuilt prefs, made sure you're patched to latest update, etc.?
I would try this:
1) export the text in the bad boy frame as RTF
2) delete the frame in the INDD file
3) Save As with the same name
4) place the RTF into a new text frame, save
5) export the new text frame to InCopy format
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberYou change document size via the File > Document Setup dialog box.
In CS5 and later, you can also use the Page Tool (right under the Direct Selection tool) to select individual pages and change their size from the Control panel.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberJeez was this really posted a year ago? Sorry! LOL
You need to upgrade to CS4 or later; Adobe added the ability to track changes to tables (that is, you can see the table contents in Story Editor / Story View) in that version.
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July 29, 2012 at 12:56 pm in reply to: IC CS4 – Place IC file with auto align to Baseline grid #62713Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberYep, just make sure the paragraph styles applied to the InCopy text have “align to baseline grid” enabled.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberDid you ever get this figured out? Sounds intriguing.
I'm not sure about this: “Drag to the Assignments panel, an assignment is created, but the story is not added. So, unable to assign a story to an assignment” … not sure you're using the terminology. Are you dragging a text frame on top of the New Assignment icon?
I almost always recommend users not bother creating assignments, just let the InCopy stories stay in the Unassigned Content category, and then everyone (including InCopy users) opens the INDD file and works on the same layout. Keeps things *much* simpler.
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July 29, 2012 at 12:49 pm in reply to: Exporting an Incopy file into InDesign (not XML) – help required! #62711Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberyou might be able to get something to work with scripting; otherwise I have no idea how you can import a file into an InDesign template and have it map tags to styles without user intervention in InDesign.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberHi Steve, still having this problem?
I've not seen it reported elsewhere. Wonder if it's something with a corrupt .idlk lock file, or if you've tried rebuilding your prefs etc?
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