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David BlatnerWhat do you want to do to the text?
If you have a text frame on page 1 and a text frame on page 5, and they are not threaded together, then there is no way to select the text on both those pages.
David BlatnerSorry, I do not understand what you are trying to do.
David BlatnerAlan’s likely right. Here’s more background:
https://creativepro.com/the-case-of-the-disappearing-text.php
and
https://creativepro.com/the-curious-case-of-occasional-overset.php
David BlatnerNot sure what you mean; their web site says it works for all versions up to CC2014, which is the newest one, yes? I suggest contacting them directly, as they are usually very responsive and helpful.
https://emsoftware.com/products/emdata/
Thanks for the kind comments on my videos!
David BlatnerIt is a great idea, but no, InDesign cannot do this.
David BlatnerIt’s possible that Data Merge may just not be powerful enough for what you need. You might look into third-party tools such as InData or EasyCatalog.
David BlatnerThis is not a simple task, Sandeep. I am sure it can be done with a script, but do you have a budget to pay someone to write it? What format do you want the text in? One long txt file? Or many txt files? A CSV file?
David BlatnerThat’s weird. Mac? Windows? Have you restarted your computer?
Maybe try rebuilding your preferences files https://creativepro.com/resources/faq
David BlatnerNope, nothing changed in CC to fix those frustrations.
David BlatnerI say “should” should not be used when talking about design. Phrases like “Looks right” and “doesn’t feel right” should be used. :-)
David BlatnerYes, it’s common for pages to move slightly farther in or out based on the kind of binding and where the page sits on the signature. But there are problems with their request: First, you’d have to move some images out just a tiny bit, and others out a lot more. Moving them all out the same amount makes no sense to me.
Second, you splitting the images into multiple frames that do not actually span the gutter makes no sense because you’re exploring to PDF… and InDesign does all that splitting for you in the PDF.
And third, again, this is what printers do, not designers. There is no way that you can do this correctly unless you know how they’re imposing it, how thick the paper is, etc. This is really basic imposition, as far as I know. I mean, jeez, even InDesign’s File > Print Booklet feature has a basic Creep feature built in.
David BlatnerThe guy you hired to write the script at Automatication was probably Martinho, and I can vouch that he’s excellent at what he does.
That said, what you’re describing seems like it should be part of the imposition process, which the printer should be doing for you. Are you saying you move the images but not the text or other objects on the page? Or you move everything on the page?
Do you provide PDFs to the printer, or are you giving them InDesign files to work from? I would hope PDFs.
David Blatner100% K typically doesn’t look washed out in text and fine lines; just in larger areas. The problem with rich black for text is that if the press misregisters even a little bit then you have “fringes” of color peeking out around the edges of the black and that ends up making fine lines/text look fuzzy.
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