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David BlatnerSounds like it’s not really an InDesign 8.0 file… must be a later version than you expected?
The conversion feature is relatively new: https://creativepro.com/cs6-update-opening-newer-cc-files.php
David BlatnerGabor: I am not sure what you mean. InDesign DOES import Word index entries properly. (You can control that in the Import Options dialog box in the Place dialog box.)
David BlatnerHi wyeess: We are not currently working on a new edition, sorry! Fortunately, Real World InDesign CC covers almost all the features you’d need. I hope that works for you.
https://creativepro.com/resources/books-and-videos
David BlatnerInDesign is a professional-level software program, and production artists like this often charge between $25 and $125 per hour.
It may take 30 or 45 minutes to set up the first recipe and then just 15 minutes for additional ones (or more… I’m just estimating). Then there’s the time involved with communicating back and forth, doing proofs, and so on.
David BlatnerDavid BlatnerIt’s important to remember that InDesign does not, by default, embed images. It just links to them on disk. So the Links panel should be clear of alerts before you make PDFs, or else it will just use the low-resolution previews.
If you take a low-resolution preview and scale it down, it may appear high-res even if it’s not linked to the original.
98% of the time, when you make a PDF and it has too-low resolution for some of the images, it’s a linking problem.
David BlatnerWhen you look in Window > Links (the Links panel), do you see any red or yellow icons indicating missing or modified images?
https://creativepro.com/whats-that-alert-or-question-mark-icon-in-indesign.php
David BlatnerI don’t know if these will help, but try:
https://creativepro.com/fixing-toc-levels-that-refuse-to-behave.php
and
https://creativepro.com/formatting-headings-for-inclusion-in-a-table-of-contents.php
and here is a crazy additional idea of how you might lay things out:
https://creativepro.com/auto-reflowing-images-in-a-grid.php
David BlatnerHm. Sounds like you have more than one section in your document. Scan the Pages panel for little black triangles over the pages, which means a new section start. Maybe turn off Absolute numbering, too:
https://creativepro.com/making-the-page-number-and-pages-panel-numbers-match.php
David Blatneri’m not sure if I understand correctly, but have you tried to use a “hanging indent”? That is one where there is a positive Left Indent (like .5″) and a negative First Line Indent (like -.5″)
See:
https://creativepro.com/how-to-hang-text-in-the-margin.php
David BlatnerHi Matt, Rorohiko was starting down this path with this tool:
https://creativepro.com/repeat-supercharges-production-single-step-action.php
Not sure how far they got, or if it would help.
David BlatnerWow. I have never heard anyone ask that before. To pagemaker? I can’t think of any way to do that. Maybe you could export the text out as a Word/RTF file and import that into pagemaker?
David BlatnerYou might just have to reach out to Recosoft and ask them if they have that offer still going for indesignsecrets readers/listeners.
David BlatnerHi John. Glad you’re enjoying my course! However, InDesign cannot edit placed PDFs. They’re just pictures. To convert a PDF into an editable document, you’d need a third-party tool like PDF2ID (we talk about that from time to time in our podcast, such as this one, where they were a sponsor: https://creativepro.com/podcasts/podcast-210 )
David BlatnerWhat do you want to have happen? If a right-hand page becomes a left-hand page, what should happen?
This is a very old problem, and a very difficult one, especially when the design has not accounted for the possibility for this kind of change from the beginning.
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