Is this just a 1-sheet document (one page, folded over)? Or are there a bunch of pages? If the latter, you probably want to make your document page size 4 x 3 (or 6 x 2, depending on how you're folding it). Then lay out each page as you would read it: Page 1 is the first page of the booklet, page 2 is the second, and so on. Then use File > Print Booklet to print it all in “order” if you're printing to your own printer. If you're printing at a commercial printer, just give them a PDF and they put it all together in the right order (called imposing it).

Perhaps the 8th page has a Section Start on it. Look at the Pages panel and see if there is a small black triangle above that page, where it starts at pg 1.

To get page numbers above other objects, put those text frames on a higher layer in the Layers panel.

You can create a new book (File > New > Book), then put the four docs into your new book panel, then use the export book to pdf feature (in the book panel menu) to export a single pdf. That's the way most people do multi-document books.

This has been reported on this forum a couple of times:

Fritz mentioned it back in July: https://creativepro.com/forum/general-indesign-topics/preview-panel-bug-in-cs5

and here's another one:

https://creativepro.com/for…..orking-cs5

The answer appears to be to reset your preferences. Frustrating bug!

No, InDesign is not a distiller. It's writing PDF directly to disk. Distiller requires postscript.

Reasons not to make pdfs by distilling postscript (instead of the file > export method):

• Takes longer (make postscript, then distill it)
• You lose all interactive features (buttons, hyperlinks, bookmarks, etc.)
• You lose all transparency (pdf is necessarily version 1.3)
• You lose layers, tags, and all other things that make PDF extra-functional

That said, if the number one goal is to make a PDF as small as possible, then Distiller may do a better job. However, if you make your PDF right, it's often not that much smaller than exporting directly from InDesign. (See “drop 20 pounds” article in the current InDesign Magazine about how to make smaller pdfs.)

I virtually always use file > export.

No easy ways to do that in InDesign, sorry.

For some images, you can use the color2gray plug-in: https://www.rorohiko.com/wordpr…..olor2gray/

But there is no way to convert whole pages. You can kind of get a grayscale PDF out with this hack or the Color Conversion feature in Acrobat (as noted in the comments after this post):

https://creativepro.com/gra…..layout.php

Eugene, I think you're focusing on the formatting of the quote, rather than the original question, which is simpler: How to make both the quote mark and the first letter drop.

@pik80: Fortunately, you can set the number of characters to drop to 2. You'd probably want to do this in the Drop Caps & Nested Styles pane of the paragraph styles dialog box, but you could also do it manually in the Control panel.

In fact, if you subscribe to InDesign Magazine, you'll find an article about drop caps by the wonderful Nigel French in the issue coming out next week! He describes this very situation.

Wow, that sounds bad. I have to tell you that this is not the norm. InDesign isn't getting buggier in general. So it's likely that something is up with your system in general. For example: additional scripts or plug-ins that you may be running/have run. Sometimes stuff gets added to the Scripts or Plug-ins folder and then forgotten about.

Or perhaps corrupt fonts, or corrupt templates that you keep using, or… hm.

Here's a fun trick: Try creating a new user account on your computer and logging into that instead of your normal account. Then run InDesign for a few hours and see if the problems go away. If so, then it's likely that something to do with that user account (perhaps not even related to InDesign!) is causing the issue.