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Chris Thompson
Member1) Within the table style definitions box, under General, it offers you cell styles to automatically be applied to all rows (including body, header, footer, left and right column).
2) Set that up, and then, when converting text to table, at the bottom of the “Convert Text to Table” dialog box, there is a line “Table Style” – select your preferred table style in that dialog and it will apply it and the cell styles that you just set up in stage 1.Combine those two and you should be there.
Regards,
Chris.MemberDo the fonts you want to use in fact contain those accented characters in their repertoire?
Chris.
MemberAs a frequent tidier-up of translated InDesign files, I’d favour the IDML and CAT (computer-aided translation) tool route in preference to copy+paste every time.
If you’re outsourcing the translation to a language service provider (aka translation agency), let them deal with choosing the right tools, but if you’re getting translations done in-house by local business units, there are also free open source CAT tools which will do the job. Have a search for “choosing a CAT tool”, maybe on the translators’ website proz.com.
And make sure your source is “clean”, e.g.
– avoid mid-sentence returns/tabs/multiple spaces and use Text Wrap properly instead
– tabular data works better in CAT tools by using proper tables instead of tabs between columns
– leave plenty of room for expansion of the target text (running longer than the source by 20-25% in some cases)
– avoid text embedded in linked graphics(I’m sure there’s a whole training course that could be made on the subject!)
Good luck,
Chris.MemberIs there a setting for sensitivity in the Wacom preferences?
A quick google suggests that “click threshold” might be a setting to try adjusting.
Also the newer tablets have Express keys that you be used in combination with a click/tap of the pen, presumably also configurable.
(https://guides.macrumors.com/Setting_Up_A_Wacom_Tablet_Tutorial)Alternatively, can you configure a combination of pen buttons to do the equivalent of Apple+, the shortcut for “zoom-a-little-bit”? Which works without having to select the zoom tool.
Or even, if you’ve only one hand on the pen, configure a keyboard shortcut for zoom which can be reached with the fingers of the other hand.
Don’t really know – I gave up using a pen, as I found the mouse quicker. The pen didn’t suit the way my InDesign work was going, and I’m not an artist using it elsewhere.
Chris.
MemberIn fact, for me, with InDesign CS6 on OS X, the Find/change allows you to enter a decimal point size in both the Find Format and in the Change Format options.
You just click in the box and type it in (don’t use the drop-down/pop-up menu).
This applies to both the normal Text find and the GREP find.Chris.
December 7, 2015 at 2:01 am in reply to: Suggested Proof Versioning Workflow, Process, or Script? #79989MemberOn the version numbers: to my mind, the “version” describes the artwork, and every set of changes increments that version number. So the low-res PDF proofs you send out should be named “XXX v1 – proof”, “XXX v2 – proof” etc,
If the client approves v2, then the final (ha!) thing is called “XXX v2 – final” or “XXX v2 – approved” or “XXX v2 – print-ready” or something like that.I was once sent a file with the following name (XXX for anonymisation):
XXXv4 1 A4 Cover BAKUP 16AUG 2012_16082012_NC_COR 17 AUGUST-FINAL
(and no, it wasn’t the final version)Good luck,
Chris.MemberVery good!
I’ve had similar behaviour/shenanigans from a Nastaliq font for Urdu – it behaved differently in different programs. I gave up eventually.
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MemberIt’s hard to see exactly what’s happening as the forum software has converted the (Oriya?) characters to ???? question marks.
A couple of thoughts –
1. Have you checked “missing glyph protection”?
2. You said of those two fonts that you are using: “author of one is retired and other is a free one”. I would suspect something not totally correct in the font, which causes problems for InDesign, but is accepted by other programs, perhaps?U200C = ZWNJ – presumably you’re trying to *prevent* a ligature/conjunct there.
There’s a mention of ZWNJ problems in Oriya on a google groups forum here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/oriya_it/k6ysvNZOLMgI have to sympathise – those legacy Indic scripts are a real nightmare to deal with.
Good luck,
Chris.MemberHello Alban,
To re-explain (some of this may be self-evident):
All text in InDesign (including tables) is inside one or more text frames.
These text frames can be linked from page to page as a “story”.
I *guess* that your external software is putting each table in a separate, unlinked text frame (i.e. table 1 in frame 1, table 2 in frame 2 etc).
If you can make your software put all the tables in one story which runs from page to page, then the top of table 2 will remain x mm from the bottom of table 1, even when you change the size of table 1.I don’t know of a method to automatically combine all the INDD text frames into one story.
I don’t quite understand your last sentence about the “…opposite work, from text frame to .indd file again”
Buona fortuna,
ChrisMemberAs I see it, there are two problems:
1. generally, table column width/row height isn’t optimised for the content.
2. when you optimise table 1, there is too much space between table 1 and table 2.I don’t think you can do anything about (1). How is the InDesign file being generated?
A long time back, I had a program generate an INX file (predecessor to IDML), which created the tables, but you had to adjust column widths manually.For (2), I would guess that each table is in a text frame of its own. Can you have the file generated so that all the tables are in one text frame? That way they would move up when you optimise.
Good luck,
Chris.MemberHave a look at https://creativepro.com/search-for-foreign-language-characters-in-text.php
where it mentions searching for Unicode ranges (scroll down a bit).
It seems 0370–03FF is the range you need to cover Greek.May be worth checking if the authors
a. used proper Greek characters from that range
or
b. used the Symbol font, which can sometimes be a pain, as some versions of Symbol reuse the Latin range for Greek symbols for maths etc.Good luck,
Chris.MemberIf you make the column stroke very wide (say 5 points or more) and then make it the same colour as the background? Then it will look like a gap.
Is that what you mean?Good luck,
Chris.MemberWhat if you…
– set the document up with the “wrong” page orientation (landscape for portrait and v.v.)
– set the table up with the rows as the columns, and the columns as the rows BUT the top row of this table has the column names (product characteristics) *in reverse order* with the right-most column having the list of product names
– don’t allow cells to break across pages
– set the first row as a header row to display on all pages (if required)
– rotate all the text in the table 90°
– Print to PDF but impose the pages “the other way round”This way, the table extends across multiple pages, and the final column widths (actually row heights) can be adjusted as you wish.
Hard to explain without a sample, so for 7 days only, my test file is on WeTransfer at https://we.tl/vfFlrN6f5X.
Good luck,
Chris.MemberFrom previous experience at both ends of the process, I’d advise doing a small test file round-trip through the process to make sure the whole thing works. Some CAT (computer-aided translation) tools are a bit sniffy over IDML versions.
Viel Glück,
ChrisMemberDid you apply some kind of text effect?
Does it do the same when you print (that was a screen shot wasn’t it?)?
Does it go away with a different magnification? (I’ve had that before – odd artefacts that only appear on screen at certain magnifications)
Does it appear in a PDF made from the InDesign file?
Does it do it in software other than InDesign?Might help us narrow things down.
Chris.
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