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Are you seeing Text to Image in InDesign 19.4? Is that what you’re referring to? I see it on their “what’s new” page, but they haven’t released it in the USA yet.
Glad you figured that out! Yeah… character styles can sneak in like that.
Tip: You can place your cursor in the text and then look in the lower-left corner of the Character Styles panel to see if a style is being applied as part of a paragraph style.So glad to hear it, Jim! Whew. That was bizarre. I’m sorry we couldn’t have been more helpful from here.
Well, you can always go to indesign.uservoice.com to request or vote on feature requests. But I think the answer here is: probably only a small percentage of InDesign users use x-refs… and of that number, only a small percent need advanced or better features… and so third-party developers have stepped in to solve the problem.
I’m not sure of all the features, but you might want to look at Cross References PRO from DTP Tools (part of their DTP Cloud offering)
https://dtptools.com/product.asp?id=crinOften the best way to ensure everything is in a grid is to put it inside a table. You can turn off the table strokes if you don’t want it to look like a table, of course.
But there are other options. Here’s a couple articles I’ve written on making things look like a grid:
andHi Lindsey! Great that you’re trying this. This might work:
(?<=,\s).+?(?=serves)That searches for anything PRECEDED by a comma followed by a space, and followed by the word "serves"
There are a ton of resources here:
My first thought it that the character may actually be a different character in the font. Try selecting it and looking at the unicode value in the Info panel (it’s the code with the x in it). If that’s the case, the font designer may simply have made a mistake or changed the character width for some reason.
You could use grep styles to apply a character style with a very slight adjustment (like 98% horizontal scaling) to that character perhaps.
There are other ideas here:
andZanelli Releases MultiPageImporter for Importing both PDF and INDD Files
Glad you could come to the event, Aldo!
You cannot convert a document into a book. The book contains multiple InDesign documents. So you would have to break the big document into smaller documents first, and then add them.HOWEVER, I would ask: Do you really need to convert it into a book? I always try to keep InDesign publications in a single document if I can. Once the file gets over 400 pages, then maybe it is better split up. But not necessarily. You can make InDesign files with over 1000 pages and they can be okay.
Have you tried a different browser, or clearing your cache? I wonder if it’s something like that.
(If you were dropped from the program — which seems unlikely — you wouldn’t see it in your listing. So I’m thinking this might just be an issue on your end?)
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