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David BlatnerKeymasterYup, we all wish that InDesign had this feature. For arrowheads, especially!
https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/114445-adobe-indesign-wishlist/suggestions/1937843-custom-stroke-ends-and-stroke-stylesFebruary 18, 2014 at 5:02 pm in reply to: Help with bullet formatting. Superscripting problems #67247David BlatnerKeymasterThat said, I see that if you apply the superscript using a grep style, it does work without affecting the bullet. For example, you could do a grep style for
^\d+and apply a superscript character style, then use(?<=)\d+to apply a subscript character style. Of course, you’d still need to change the slash into a virgule (fraction character), which you can’t do in grep styles.February 18, 2014 at 2:32 pm in reply to: Help with bullet formatting. Superscripting problems #67240David BlatnerKeymasterWhy are you applying the fraction using superscript and subscript rather than the OpenType Fractions styling? That would be more efficient and faster.
https://creativepro.com/download-our-guide-to-opentype-fractions.php
David BlatnerKeymasterAre you viewing this in Acrobat or Reader? Or Preview or a browser window or some other pdf “clone”? Interactive PDF is best viewed in Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
But if that’s not the problem… then, wow, that’s weird… might need to rebuild your preferences or do an IDML of your doc to clear up corruption?
David BlatnerKeymasterThere are a number of third-party options, including epubCrawler (rorohiko.com), Flipick, CircularFlo… Aquafadas also has a solution.
David BlatnerKeymasterThis has been a problem for several years. It is much better to make a normal PDF and then use various tools for Acrobat to do the imposition there.
However, there is more on the topic here:
any way to combine "print booklet" and "export to PDF" functions??
https://creativepro.com/acrobats-adobe-pdf-printer-replaced-in-snow-leopard.php (including lots and lots of ideas in comments)
https://creativepro.com/creating-postscript-files-in-snow-leopard-for-older-print-workflows.phpOr, if you’re trying to make it just look like a book, see this:
https://creativepro.com/make-it-look-like-a-book-in-the-acrobat-pdf.phpDavid BlatnerKeymasterIt could be several things. See:
https://creativepro.com/when-indesign-ignores-your-leading-values.phpDavid BlatnerKeymasterI don’t think there is any book-wide ability to change those. A script might be able to do it.
David BlatnerKeymasterAh yes, this could definitely take longer… it needs to flatten and convert. Often these PDFs are also FAR larger than normal PDFs (because all the text is converted to outlines, so there’s no compression going on). If it is still showing up in Background Tasks panel, then it is not done exporting (and would therefore be only 0 K large).
David BlatnerKeymasterWhat happens if you try to just export a normal PDF with the same PDF settings? I mean, can you export a normal PDF? Do you get a workable (but not-flattened) PDF if you export with compatibility set to Acrobat 6? Only Acrobat 4?
David BlatnerKeymasterIgor: We have an ebook with some sample questions here:
https://creativepro.com/shop
It is for CS5, but almost all the information is still (pretty) good for the current exam.I know there are also online exams here: https://www.examaids.com
Good luck with the exam!
David BlatnerKeymasterOh, yeah… once you go the Distill route, there’s virtually no way to get the text “flow” right. It’s just a bunch of characters on a page. You can’t have it all. ;)
Ultimately, a better solution would be to use PDF2ID (recosoft.com) to convert the files to native InDesign files, then clean it up, and get rid of the stuff you don’t want.
David BlatnerKeymasterWow, that’s weird. You place a PDF in InDesign and crop it down. Then you print postscript to disk and run it through the distiller. And the stuff that is cropped out is still there. Am I getting that right? Can you share that PDF with me to mess with? (Put it somewhere like in dropbox that I can access?) I’m out most of the day, but I’m curious as to what it going wrong.
David BlatnerKeymasterDid you try printing to postscript and using Distiller? That pretty much has to work, unless I’m misunderstanding the problem. I can write up those steps if you don’t know how to do it. (Few people need to do this anymore.)
David BlatnerKeymasterIt is a very frustrating situation. Claudia wrote about it here:
https://www.claudiamccue.com/2012/09/holy-crop-how-to-really-crop-a-pdf/The only good solution seems to be to print the PDF and redistill as PDF, which is not officially supported. Or, to do this from InDesign, print as device-independent PostScript and run it through Acrobat Distiller. Sigh.
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