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David BlatnerKeymasterYup, that's the magic of Data Merge. Search our site for that and you'll find lots of tutorials and help.
November 14, 2012 at 4:58 pm in reply to: Tab thru fields in panels and pop up, but how to activate list menus? #63553David BlatnerKeymasterI believe that works okay on Windows, and it's a setting in Mac OS System Preferences.
David BlatnerKeymasterConverting them to CMYK in advance is not necessary. I recommend leaving them in RGB. However, you might want to size them properly and adjust the resolution so that they are about 2x the newspaper halftone frequency, and then apply Unsharp Masking in Photoshop. Sometimes what seems “vibrant” is just better sharpened. We discuss this in “Real World Photoshop” (no CS6 version, sadly). But the best thing is to check with your printer about whether you can use something other than SWOP, which is really “middle of the road, lowest common denominator” kind of color.
David BlatnerKeymasterBig complicated issue, Daffi. When you say “vibrant and sharp” are you referring to images? Or is text also blurry or not sharp? Are you converting the images to CMYK before placing them into InDesign or letting InDesign do it?
I don't think ink manager will help. But you might ask the newspaper if there is a better ICC profile to use besides SWOP.
David BlatnerKeymasterIf you're trying to place and scale at the same time, you might consider this script:
David BlatnerKeymasterThe biggest problem is that many (perhaps most?) high-end printers now strip out the halftone frequency commands in PostScript, and many people print to non-postscript devices anyway. But if you're relatively sure that they're printing to desktop laser printers with postscript, then you could insert an EPS file that could probably do this.
David BlatnerKeymasterThat sounds about right. The point that has been made repeatedly to me is that most readers only use the tags order, not the Order panel order. That's why Adobe focused the Articles panel on that. But sometimes you need to do both, and that the only way to manage the Order panel order is with the Layers panel. A pain.
November 2, 2012 at 11:45 am in reply to: Import Excel list of names and format with bullets in between #63488David BlatnerKeymasterI would probably just search (using Find/Change) for ^p (caret p) and replace it with space-asterisk-space or something like that. Plus, select the text, then open find/change and choose Selection from the Search pop-up menu in the find/change dialog box (to limit the scope to just that text). No grep neceesary. :)
David BlatnerKeymasterUpdating information in tables is notoriously painful in InDesign. Not so bad when you have one or two tables, but when you have hundreds…? Oy. Here are a couple links that might help:
https://creativepro.com/fre…..-table.php
November 2, 2012 at 6:12 am in reply to: Interactive PDF to iPad question. WARNING newbie question. #63483David BlatnerKeymasterYeah, you'd probably need to do it with two graphic frames (the same image in two frames).
November 2, 2012 at 6:10 am in reply to: Anyone else getting an ID6 bug where pressing Enter doesn't "OK" dialogue boxes anymore? #63482David BlatnerKeymasterVery odd. Haven't seen that. I would try a different keyboard (or plug in an external one if you have a laptop). If it's not the hardware, then try rebuilding your preferences.
David BlatnerKeymasterArticles panel definitely does work. You are turning on Tagged PDF in the export pdf dialog box, right? Note that there is also a difference between
More info here: https://www.theindesigner.com/blog/faster-easier-accessible-pdfs-from-indesign-cs55
However, this paragraph really caught my eye in Bevi Chagnon's article on accessibility in InDesign Magazine (issue 46, feb/march):
“I know that Adobe insists that you only need to use the Articles panel, but some assistive technologies depend on the Articles panel to create the reading order for their users (which controls the order of the tags in the PDF); some other ATs depend upon the Layers panel (which controls the object order). So, for maximum accessibility, you should manage both… Drag and drop the items to set the reading order. This panel creates a bottom-up reading order, the exact opposite of the Articles panel. That is, the bottom-most text frame or graphic will be read first.”
October 25, 2012 at 5:59 am in reply to: Interactive PDF to iPad question. WARNING newbie question. #63453David BlatnerKeymasterIt's trickier than it seems like it should be. The trick is to make everything a button, and then use those buttons to hide and show the others:
https://creativepro.com/sho…..ve-pdf.php
There's a good title on interactive documents by Mike Rankin at lynda.com. I'm working on one now that might work for you, too, but it won't be out until spring, sorry!
David BlatnerKeymasterWell, InDesign CS5 has a split and span columns feature… but the giant left margin is tricky. Not sure how you would do that part.
David BlatnerKeymasterWe've had good luck with Ripon Printing (which used to be Sells printing). We haven't done books with them, but they printed out InDesignSecrets keyboard shortcuts posters.
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