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David BlatnerKeymasterThis article might help: https://creativepro.com/indesign-how-using-alternate-layout/
David BlatnerKeymasterLOL. That is… um… painful! Yes, I see that happens on the Mac, too. I do not know any way to edit the suggestions.
August 31, 2015 at 7:45 am in reply to: Major pagination issue – any help or troubleshooting ideas appreciated #77724David BlatnerKeymasterI have heard of all kinds of weird pagination stuff like this, though I don’t remember seeing that one. Does the force reflow shortcut work? https://creativepro.com/force-text-reflow-when-indesign-forgets-to-flow-the-text.php
David BlatnerKeymasterMarisa, sorry, PDF files cannot start a sound playing and keep it playing after you change pages.
The other problem with sound is that I believe it currently only works when Flash Player is installed on the computer.
David BlatnerKeymasterMatt, I completely agree that it’s important that Adobe know how you and other people feel. And Adobe does listen. They’re not deaf, they’re just listening to a lot more people/constituencies than you (or me). I, too, am extremely frustrated by a number of the teams at Adobe. We need to keep telling them what’s wrong (and what’s right!). But I just want you to get your facts right in the argument.
Adobe has been rolling out new features several times a year. They’re just apparently not the features that you want them to be working on.
By the way, the whole “roll out features more often” thing has a huuuuge problem when it comes to InDesign: Most big new features require a file format change. Most users don’t realize this. Would you like Adobe to change InDesign 4 or 5 times a year so that the January version couldn’t open the March version? Reality got in the way of a good idea. If they could be sure that 90%+ customers upgraded every month or two, then it would be okay, but as you pointed out, that just doesn’t happen. So they’re trying to compromise and have 1 big format-changing release per year. Make sense?
David BlatnerKeymasterI completely agree, Eugene. People did not stop using QuarkXPress because of QX’s polices (for the most part). They were willing to put up with the company until there was a better alternative.
I also want to be clear that there is no doubt that “pressure” from the community does work. Adobe does listen and they really do try. A number of prominent designers pushed for better typographic features last year and Adobe is now actively working on new typographic features! I just think that saying “we’re not getting hardly anything for our money” is not the way to apply pressure. :-)
David BlatnerKeymasterIn the find/change dialog box, choose “Multiple Space to Single Space” from the Query popup menu. Then replace the {2,} with a + (for “one or more times”) or * (for zero or more times)
David BlatnerKeymasterMatt, I respect you and your great work, but this comment made me both laugh and shake my head: “charging us all $600/year and not giving us anything in return”
What on earth are you talking about? You get to use over a dozen pieces of incredible software all you want, plus many services which make work more pleasant and easy, and have the option to use hundreds of fonts and other cool things for $50 per month, which is literally less money than a Starbucks coffee each work day.
Yes, I know that people who don’t make money with these apps find this difficult. But you, Matt, you make your living with these tools. I used to spend more than $50/month on just printing laser prints!
Are you saying that it truly is not worth $2.50 per day to you to have access to tools that can make you hundreds, or thousands of dollars?
And as for an “adobe pressure group”… um… they have millions of CC members now. Even if several thousand people stopped their memberships, would Adobe even notice? And more importantly those thousands of users would suddenly not be able to get their jobs done. Or, they’d find they can get their work done with other tools, and that would be great information, too.
I’m not trying to be a downer. As you know, I am constantly trying to get Adobe to do better. But this is not the right way to do it.
David BlatnerKeymasterI was pleased to see that Matthew Rechs contributed to the conversation, but I have to say that I don’t find his argument particularly compelling.
First of all, most of the fonts we’re talking about are, I believe, created and owned by Adobe, so they can do what they like with them.
Second, we’re not saying how they should install them; we’re just saying they should be installed without additional work.
August 25, 2015 at 11:14 am in reply to: find: any italic letter followed by any roman paren? #77546David BlatnerKeymasterNo answer because I think there is no answer. :-(
David BlatnerKeymasterCan you use Object Export settings (object menu) to set it to Rasterize?
David BlatnerKeymasterCool. Thanks!
One question: Can you open that excel document in Word, or save it as an RTF or docx file? Maybe that would let you import it into ID. -
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