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David BlatnerEach inline object is treated as a piece of text, like a character. So just as the letters “Abc” sit with their bottoms along the baseline, so do the inline objects.
David BlatnerI believe Unlink should show up inside the links panel menu when (and only when) you select one or more of the XLS or XLSX files in the Links panel. It’s not there?
David BlatnerOr put the lines on their own layer and then set the layer to non-printing in the Layer Options dialog box (from layers panel menu)
David BlatnerCan you explain why the printers would care where the margins are? As long as the page size is correct, and the text falls inside the printable area, why would the printers even measure that?
David BlatnerDo the Excel files show up in the Links panel, as though they were linked graphics?
David BlatnerYou should be able to select all the links in the Links panel and then choose Unlink from the Links panel menu.
David BlatnerSorry, Data Merge isn’t that smart. You’ll have to run a find/change to get rid of those kinds of things after the merge, or use a third-party solution such as InData.
Check out my Data Merge title here at lynda.com
David BlatnerThere is zero reason to spec anything in mm or picas or inches or anything else… that is to say, whatever you spec it in will translate to any other setting. Just right-click the little square where the two rulers touch in the upper left corner of the document window and pick a different setting.
When you say they want you to spec “elements” in mm, do you mean they want text frames to be 76 mm instead of 3 inches? That does seem rather weird.
David BlatnerWhy are you shift-dragging the blue box instead of just dragging the blue box? Shift-dragging makes them “inline” objects. Just dragging them makes them “anchored” objects.
Try doing this with a small graphic and you’ll immediately see the difference.
My guess is that when you made them inline objects, the graphics were too large to fit into the frame, so they became overset (along with all the text after them). That doesn’t happen with anchored objects; just inline.
David BlatnerAre you trying to make a single document look right for print (actually laying out the page the way you want it to look) and also for epub? That is often really tricky. It’s often better to just have one version of a document which is for epub and it doesn’t really matter how it appears in InDesign.
For example you could put the full-page graphics on the same page as where you want them anchored in the text, but just kind of push them off in the margins or onto the pasteboard. Then anchor them (drag the little blue box into position in the text), then export.
Remember: How the document appears in InDesign has nothing to do with how it will appear in epub. So putting the images on their own page in InDesign is not necessary.
David BlatnerIf the images are showing up in the Articles panel, then I assume they’re not anchored in the text story. If they’re in the Articles panel, they will show up between two stories (or at the beginning or end of the document). If you want them in the middle of a story, you need to anchor the images/objects in the story. (That is, turn them into anchored objects.)
David BlatnerYou could set the “Leading” value to zero, I think.
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