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March 24, 2019 at 4:46 pm in reply to: General approach to automating a repetitious page layout of text and pics #115498
David BlatnerKeymasterIf it’s one image and one caption per page, you could automate this in several ways. Check out these articles:
https://creativepro.com/quickly-place-images-indesign-document.php
https://creativepro.com/import-folder-full-pictures-page.php
https://creativepro.com/the-ultimate-contact-sheet.php
https://creativepro.com/easily-add-captions-to-graphics-frames.phpDavid BlatnerKeymasterI think a lot of people would like to see Affinity Publisher develop into something great, but all the reports I have heard so far indicate that it’s years away from being a truly viable alternative to InDesign. That said, it has a solid start… see this article on our sister site:
David BlatnerKeymasterSorry for the disappearing post, Melise. I think your earlier post was being held for moderation for some mysterious reason.
If you have a blank text frame on a master page, you cannot simply click on it with the Text tool to override it. But you should be able to click on it with the Place cursor to override it.
David BlatnerKeymasterI would just put 4 graphic frames on the master page (2 on left, 2 on right). Then, on the document page, use File > Place. Turn on Show Import Options when you place the PDF, which gives you the ability to import all the pages from the PDF. Then start clicking…
Click, click, cmd-shift-p (to add new page), click click, cmd-shift-p…
Totally tedious, but you’ll get through 350 pages in 10 minutes. Otherwise it would take over 20 minutes just to find a script, figure out if it works, etc. :-)
March 19, 2019 at 1:11 pm in reply to: Apply Multiply Effect and Clipping Path then Group images. #115448David BlatnerKeymaster@Kirsten: Here’s one that will turn them all off: https://creativepro.com/topic/release-clipping-masks-on-all-selected-objects
Maybe that can be modified.March 19, 2019 at 12:43 pm in reply to: ID Text frames that can be moved around… in the PDF(!?!) #115446David BlatnerKeymasterI’m guessing hallucinogenics. :-) LOL
I don’t know of any way to make the PDF editable like that.
David BlatnerKeymasterI haven’t seen the Photoshop Classroom in a Book in a long time, so I don’t remember what methods it suggests. However, in general, yes, it’s better to keep your images as RGB as long as possible, placing them into InDesign as RGB. Then you can convert to CMYK when you make a PDF. Or, even better, if your printer accepts RGB PDFs, then just export as PDF/X4 and let them do the hard work.
The question of out of gamut colors is a huge, hairy one, but often ignores the key issue of “important detail.” For example, in many RGB images, if you check the Gamut Warning in Photoshop you’ll see a lot of problems… but they’re in areas where there is not much important detail. Then, if you soft proof the image (preview how the CMYK conversion will appear) and see that you’re not going to lose very much detail, you might decide not to worry too much about it. For example, a lot of the out of gamut range may be in dark shadows.
If you have important detail that is being lost, then yes, you can adjust the whole image, or just those areas, squeezing and tweaking until that detail is maintained in the conversion. But do that in RGB! That way, you don’t lose all the RGB goodness.
Bruce Fraser and I wrote about this extensively In the book “Real World Photoshop.” You can likely find a used copy online. Almost any version from after 2000 will have this material.
March 18, 2019 at 1:24 pm in reply to: How do I reinstall the complete set of PDF export standards? #115023David BlatnerKeymasterColor Management turned off?! It was disabled in the Color Settings dialog box? Yeah, that’s not recommended at all… there is no such thing as truly turning of color management, so basically setting it to Off just means “do color management without actually telling me what you’re doing and don’t let me tell you how to do it right.”
But that’s fascinating that it has that effect… thank you for telling us here. I’m sure it’ll help someone else someday.
David BlatnerKeymasterProbably a bug… x-refs and hyperlinks to other docs have been notoriously buggy in InDesign, and I have recommended for years that people not use them.
Are you using InDesign’s own HTML export? Or a tool such as in5 from Ajar?
March 18, 2019 at 10:33 am in reply to: How do I reinstall the complete set of PDF export standards? #115018David BlatnerKeymasterOK, yes, that is strange. Quitting and restarting doesn’t fix it? Have you tried rebuilding your InDesign preferences yet? Hard to know…
March 18, 2019 at 9:01 am in reply to: How do I reinstall the complete set of PDF export standards? #115015David BlatnerKeymasterUnfortunately, the image link you posted doesn’t work (it requires us being logged in).
There is a difference between the PDF Presets and the PDF compatibility. The preset will set up the various settings in the dialog box to make it compliant. The compatibility will be enabled or disabled based on what you have manually changed.
David BlatnerKeymaster@Craig: I will ping him again about this… I’m sorry to hear about the trouble.
David BlatnerKeymasterI wonder if Badia or Zevrix plug-ins will let you do this? Here’s an old review, but you’ll need to get updated information:
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