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Chris Thompson
MemberAha. Looks like the page numbers are bracketed by vertical bars or something. Maybe a corrupt font or something related to the display? Sorry, no definite ideas. Which version of ID?
MemberGive us a clue! What sort of weird?
Page 3 to the left of page 2 would be normal for RTL binding.MemberDoes this article help, in particular half way through the comments:
https://indesignsecrets.com/understanding-the-first-baseline-position-of-text.php
MemberAh, you’ve got me there.
MemberIf you set the Paragraph Rule to Rule Below, and Column, then set a left or right offset, does that meet your needs?
Good luck,
ChrisMemberSimilar files described here in a 2019 post:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/heavy-old-recovery-files/td-p/10381087
where an Adobe person says they are recovery files and can be deleted if you can successfully open the corresponding InDesign files.Don’t know if that helps.
MemberI see your problem – the Find/Change dialog box has an option ‘include footnotes’ but does not have the option ‘footnotes only’.
Could you do it in 4 stages:
1. make sure all the text is set to language 1.
2. using Find/Change *without* the option ‘include footnotes’, temporarily change everything to language 2 (an attribute that won’t have much effect on the main pages).
3. using Find/Change *with* the option ‘include footnotes’, make the changes you need, specifying language 1. The main body won’t be touched, because you already changed it to language 2.
4. using Find/Change, change everything in language 2 back to language 1.Good luck,
Chris.MemberSelect all 5 cells B-F,
Cut,
Select cells A-E,
Paste.Good luck!
ChrisOr find out what’s causing them to shift back in Excel – perhaps a tab or other invisible character embedded at the start of the text in cell A in Excel
MemberI don’t suppose the little box characters are some Unicode right-to-left instruction? Like U+200F RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK for example?
Why they should be there is anyone’s guess, but as Word’s involved, I wouldn’t be suprised.
Chris.MemberThink I’ve had similar problems in the dim and distant past. When forcing a certain row onto the next page, I worked around it by either 1/ making a row deeper or 2/ inserting a blank row or 3/ reducing the size of the text frame.
MemberYes, trouble is that on any presentation computer that you might have to use, EPUB readers are, well, take pot luck, whereas a PDF reader is pretty much guaranteed to be present.
MemberI’ve an idea that this is down to the ‘deprecation’ of Flash, if that’s the right word. I had a presentation as you describe, i.e. produced in InDesign with embedded video and exporting to PDF for the actual presentation ‘slides’. One year it worked, next year it didn’t. Pretty sure I tracked it down to Flash being more tightly locked down in more recent PDF readers. I ended up dropping out of the presentation to run the video separately. Not ideal, but there you go.
Some would say that InDesign isn’t a presentation tool, and you should use Powerpoint/Keynote instead, but I’m not sure I buy that – what’s a presentation other than a multi-page document projected onto a screen rather than printed on paper?MemberHave you seen this from Adobe on how to install additional Hunspell dictionaries for spelling and hyphenation:
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/add_cs_dictionaries.htmlBona fortuna tibi (or something like that),
ChrisAugust 8, 2019 at 2:24 am in reply to: Is there a script that can fix run-together words (e.g. "happybirthday")? #14324332MemberPoint taken about the spellcheck – quite surprising that it’s so bad at the first choice.
I just did a trial between Word and InDesign using the same chunk of text with runtogether words, and Word was substantially better at suggesting the properly-spaced words as first choice, right maybe 80-90% of the time, while ID was less than 50%.Would a visual approach be less mentally taxing? If you set InDesign to ‘dynamic spelling’, all unrecognised words are squiggly underlined, and you just need to click the right spot and hit space. I say ‘just’ as if it’s an easy task, but worth a try?
I suppose the lesson is to preflight incoming text before putting a lot of work into the layout.
Not always possible I know. From experience, you’d at least expect language translators to understand the meaning of the words ‘final version’!Good luck
August 7, 2019 at 1:05 am in reply to: Is there a script that can fix run-together words (e.g. "happybirthday")? #14324339MemberYes, run a spellcheck – that would get most of your ‘obvious’ ones.
Also, can you go back to the source document? If it’s riddled with them, there might be two things –
a/ human error at work somewhere, i.e. it’s a problem for someone else to fix – “this material is of unacceptable quality for me to process”;
b/ a poor conversion of a PDF, where every new line came out with a hard return, and these have been replaced by nothing, running the words together.e.g.
PDF has
‘I know there’s
a big potential
problem with
such a script’which has been extracted from the PDF as
‘I know there’sa big potentialproblem withsuch a script’Just a theory!
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