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David BlatnerKeymasterI’m sorry to hear about this problem, but InDesign doesn’t really have a “just make it better” feature. Much probably depends on whether the Word document uses paragraph styles; if so, you might be able to redefine the styles relatively quickly in InDesign. But my guess is that you’re going to be better off hiring an InDesign expert to swoop in and fix it.
David BlatnerKeymasterThere is no keyboard shortcut for that, but you could make your own object style to apply it with a click or with quick apply.
David BlatnerKeymasterThanks so much for watching my video title, @dufois! I’m hoping there was just a misunderstanding somewhere, because I don’t think I said that about this feature. In fact, hyperlinks in general are among the features that best translate onto tablets (most tablet pdf readers can handle hyperlinks). I have problems with the Convert All URLs to Hyperlinks feature, but it’s not that.
My issues with this feature are primarily that it doesn’t catch a lot of web addresses that I would expect it to. For example, if I type indesignsecrets.com in my text, I would want it to get a hyperlink, but that feature can’t see it unless I add an http colon slash etc… Also, I’m annoyed that it always creates shared hyperlink destinations. But those may or may not be make or break problems for you.
But it sounds like PDF is probably perfect for your job.
David BlatnerKeymasterYes, you want a “List” in the numbered lists feature. Anne-Marie talked about that here:
https://creativepro.com/setting-up-numbered-lists-that-jump-frames-in-cs3.php
Notice the “Continue Numbers from Previous Documents in a Book” feature.David BlatnerKeymasterAre they resizing to the original size of the video? Does it work in the SWF Preview panel in InDesign?
David BlatnerKeymasterI’m glad our work has been helpful for you!
Here are some resources for learning GREP:
https://creativepro.com/grepDavid BlatnerKeymasterJongware, I think there are additional tabs inserted before and after the hyphen.
So perhaps you could search for:
^(.+?) - (.+?)$
and replace with
$1-$2David BlatnerKeymasterYes, using GREP with Find/Change might let you do that. It depends on if the pattern is very regular (if you can define the pattern of exactly where the tabs should go).
October 16, 2013 at 5:16 pm in reply to: How can I keep hyper links intact when I run the sortparagraph script? #65849David BlatnerKeymasterAlso, remember that you can sort the TOC alphabetically when you create it (rather than chronologically). Click More Options to see the “Sort Entries in Alphabetical Order” feature.
David BlatnerKeymasterLooks like maybe there is some unwanted formatting in the character style you’re applying… like subscript or baseline shift.
David BlatnerKeymasterPerhaps it’s the old PostScript Type 1 fonts. The only way is to zip them up before putting them in dropbox, I think.
David BlatnerKeymasterI have seen this before, when sharing fonts through dropbox. I thought they had fixed it, but maybe not. If they package the whole thing, then zip it up as an archive, then share it, and you copy that to a new folder and unzip it, the fonts should be there.
David BlatnerKeymasterMy guess is that you’d be better of converting the XML to something like Word (doesn’t Word have an XML import filter? is that just on Windows?). Then save as .docx and import that into InDesign. But if the XML is garbage coming in (as it obviously is, if they are using the same tags for everything) then there’s no much you can do to fix it.
David BlatnerKeymasterYou really, really do NOT want to type words in all caps. Type them in normal Title Case (or sentence case) and then apply the All Caps style to them:
https://creativepro.com/all-caps-isnt-really-uppercase.phpUnfortunately, if the titles are already typed in upper case, it is hard to convert them to the proper case. There are some tricks, but no easy way:
https://creativepro.com/convert-text-to-lowercase-with-grep-utility.phpDavid BlatnerKeymasterHi Perry,
XML is really, really hard in InDesign and requires a very strict workflow where little will change. Often you need to do a lot of massage work to the XML (with something like Oxygen) before you import.But I think a bigger problem is that you are not mapping styles to all your paragraphs. Or perhaps you are, but then applying additional formatting in InDesign. That is a problem in an XML workflow, just as it is if you want to link to a Word file. Changes you make in InDesign are likely to be lost. Map everything!
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