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David BlatnerKeymasterRemember that the key is to use multiple paragraph styles. For example, you want to apply a different paragraph style to 1.text than you do to 2.(a) text.
See this blog post: https://creativepro.com/mul…..design.php
David BlatnerKeymasterYes, I understand the workflow; it's common in the XML world, unfortunately. I'm just saying that InDesign isn't really well designed to work that way.
David BlatnerKeymasterThe only way to prevent blank lines is by manually changing the text or adjusting the text formatting. It is a very slow process.
I usually use vertical justification > top and adjust the pages. But it is rare for me to care if there is an extra line at the bottom. Are you sure you need to be that precise?
David BlatnerKeymasterI think the main reason you would want to tag paragraphs of text (based on styles) in InDesign is to export the data out, right? But in general, I maintain that InDesign should not be the container from which you are publishing your XML. Instead, your XML should be coming from someplace else and being dropped into InDesign.
But yes, as you noted, the map styles to tags is a one-time event, like Find/Change, that would need to be done repeatedly.
You know what I always say: “If there is any sane way to do the job without XML, do it that way.”
David BlatnerKeymasterEugene: I don't think the “last modified” text variable updates until you save the document. At least it doesn't for me. But as soon as I do, then export a PDF, the pdf does show the new time.
David BlatnerKeymasterInteresting point, but the PDFs you export WILL have the correct timestamp even if it doesn't (for a moment) look right on screen.
That is, if you open a document at 10:00 and work on one page for 20 minutes and then save at 10:20, the variable you see on screen (assuming you can see the slug while you're working) still says 10:00. (As I said, if you switch apps, or pages or scroll around even, it will update to 10:20.) However, if you export the PDF right away, the PDF does say 10:20 (the correct time) even if the screen hasn't caught up yet.
So I can't imagine this would really cause any realistic problems.
David BlatnerKeymasterAs Harbs would no doubt point out: Power Headers from In-tools.com can also do this automatically (it's more powerful than InDesign's built-in header features).
September 27, 2010 at 8:08 am in reply to: Is there a way to change document window size permanently? #57145David BlatnerKeymasterYou cannot set the window size.
But you can fix your problem by docking your panels, rather than having them floating on the right side. Drag the panel tab over to the right until you see a vertical blue line, then let go, and it'll be docked. Then the windows should not open behind them.
David BlatnerKeymasterNo need to close the file. But you do need to refresh the screen! Text variables (such as last modified) only update when you change the screen view (by zooming in and out, changing pages, pressing command-option-slash, etc.)
David BlatnerKeymasterLast Modified is last saved, no?
David BlatnerKeymasterIndexes are saved in each document — they actually have nothing to do with books. This is a central weakness in how ID handles indexes, in my opinion.
Here's a post on how to delete index entries: https://creativepro.com/how…..ntries.php
But that won't necessarily remove everything (like x-refs, as other forum posters have pointed out)
David BlatnerKeymasterThat is very funny… I take full responsibility for writing that one. But I grew up in California, so I have a very simple view of our national geography: West of the Dakotas is “west coast”; everything else is “somewhere on the east coast.” Except Chicago, which is in the midwest, I guess. ;)
Also, just to be pedantic, Denver was a coastline at some point, around the Late Cretaceous period!
September 23, 2010 at 1:02 pm in reply to: Why don't the page up or page down keys work properly? #57101David BlatnerKeymasterI can't think of any program that uses just page up/down to move from one page to the next — not even Word or QX. Those keys are really more like “screen up” or “screen down.” The modifiers change them to work by page or spread.
September 23, 2010 at 11:49 am in reply to: Exported swf document "floats" in the middle of browser page #57098David BlatnerKeymasterWhat would you like to have happen instead?
David BlatnerKeymasterYou could put the address text (flush left text) inside a text frame and then anchor that frame inside a text frame the width of the envelope, and then center that anchored frame horizontally and vertically. However, the problem is that you would want that anchored text frame to expand horizontally and vertically automatically based on the size of the text… and that is not possible. Maybe with a script.
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