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February 22, 2017 at 11:28 am in reply to: How to make footnote number to be continued from textbox to another #92332
David BlatnerKeymasterThere is no easy way to do it other than create footnotes manually. The next issue of InDesign Magazine (coming out next week!) will have a feature article all about footnotes by the master, Peter Kahrel.
David BlatnerKeymasterYes, I think paragraph styles or character styles are the way to go. Instead of changing the color of the text, I like to create a “highlighter” effect. Sandee showed how to turn these on/off in this article:
https://creativepro.com/turn-character-styles-highlights-action.phpDavid BlatnerKeymasterInDesign can’t downsample the images to 72 ppi, but you could do that with a batch in Photoshop perhaps. So you could have a low-res images folder and a high-res images folder. Then you could use the Relink to Folder feature in the Links panel to switch between them (as long as the file names were the same).
See: https://creativepro.com/relink-from-one-image-file-type-to-another.phpDavid BlatnerKeymasterMarjian probably refers to Marijan Tompa who used to run the site tomaxxi.com where you could download a bunch of cools scripts. My guess is that you or someone downloaded and installed one of his scripts that no longer works.
David BlatnerKeymasterHere are some articles on this topic:
https://creativepro.com/rid-empty-lines-data-merge.php
https://creativepro.com/data-merge-remove-unwanted-lines.phpFebruary 17, 2017 at 7:10 pm in reply to: Find/Change single "end of paragraph" breaks but not double? #92282David BlatnerKeymasterYou probably want to do something similar to this:
https://creativepro.com/merging-paragraphs-with-findchange.phpDavid BlatnerKeymasterUnfortunately, I believe the Page Transition panel only applies to Interactive PDF in Full Screen view. It would be great if it worked with Publish Online.
David BlatnerKeymasterThis kind of mapping has been a problem in complex font families for many years. It’s similar to the problem that some people have with fonts that don’t have a font labeled “Italic” but instead “Oblique” and the shortcut doesn’t work. It has to do with InDesign getting confused about what maps to what.
I believe in the old PostScript fonts, this was a particular problem because it had to be mapped properly in the font, and sometimes those mappings got confused. I remember about 20 years ago there was some tool called Font Family Harmonizer or something like that, which would let you reset what shortcut would map to what.
David BlatnerKeymasterI went and researched this some more, and I have to say… there are definitely times when the two colors (tint vs. transparency) will not match. wow. This is very good fodder for a blog post… I’ll work on it.
So, I wouldn’t say that you shouldn’t use transparency, but I do agree that you should probably be consistent in which you choose: transparency or a tint.
David BlatnerKeymasterHi Coleen! Thanks for sticking with this discussion.
On the JPEG (or PNG) export… that’s because it’s being pushed into RGB, of course. However, you can still make the two methods (20% tint & 20% opacity) match by turning on the Simulate Overprint checkbox in the Export PNG or Export JPEG dialog box.Whenever you’re pushing colors to an RGB space, I recommend using the Simulate Overprint — it exists in the Print and Export PDF dialog boxes, too.
David BlatnerKeymasterYou’re not a dinosaur! And you’re right that transparency can make things complicated when you don’t have to use it.
But I want to clear up a couple of things:First, if you have 100% cyan and you set it to a 20% tint it will be exactly the same color as a 100% cyan set to a 20% Opacity. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look the same in InDesign at first glance. But if you turn on Separations Preview, or View > Overprint Preview, then it will look the same on screen. And Sep Preview will show that the color is the same: 20% cyan.
Second, as soon as you start talking about gradients, then sure, there are bound to be differences. It’s really apples and oranges at that point.
I don’t think your #1 item above really fits, because you’re asking “how would I do this?” Right? That’s different than it being a print production problem.
David BlatnerKeymasterDavid BlatnerKeymasterHere’s a title I did at Lynda.com about making Interactive PDFs: https://www.lynda.com/InDesign-tutorials/InDesign-Insider-Training-Interactive-PDFs/116479-2.html
David BlatnerKeymasterHi Colleen! Why do you say that transparency can be a print production nightmare? I mean, there’s the spot color problem… but if everything is process color, what kinds of troubles do you have? In general, it shouldn’t matter if people apply a 20% opacity vs. a 20% tint — except that if they do a tint, they may have to also remember to do Overprint Fill, and then they can’t see it unless Overprint Preview is on… so I generally find people like using Transparency/Opacity more.
David BlatnerKeymasterAh! We got the page formatting back… yay! (We had some trouble with css on this page… very mysterious.)
Here is a partial answer to your problem:
- You are correct that currently you DO need Flash to run multi-state objects (MSOs) and video/audio.
- Yes, slideshows are normally created with MSOs
- Yes, fixed layout EPUB (FXL) is a good option for fully interactive documents. However, it requires the person to have a compatible EPUB reader.
You can get more information in this downloadable PDF document created by our friends at Ajar.
If you are able to come to The InDesign Conference and PePcon: The Print + ePublishing Conference this year, you will learn much more about this topic! As a IDS member, you get $150 off the registration (details in the Member Benefits area).
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