I hope I didn't give the impression that it was a stupid question. No, I think asking the question was smart. I was just venting at printers who ask their clients to do their work for them.

However: Interesting interpretation, Collywolly! I can see how it's a bit ambiguous. I was reacting primarily to the phrase, “The printer is insisting I work with the printer spreads.”

If the question is how to do fold-outs within a book (a longer piece of paper folded and inserted) then forgive me. As I said, CS5 can handled multiple page sizes. In CS4 and earlier, you would need the very good Page Control from dtptools.com.

You need a new printer. It is insane for you to try to manage imposition creep manually.

You can set different page sizes in CS5, but not earlier versions. But even if you were to manage the “creep,” you wouldn't change the page size, you'd just move the objects toward or away from the spine.

But you should not be doing that! That is what imposition software is for, and that's something your printer should be doing, not you as an InDesign user.

If your printer balks at this, please print this message out and hold it in front of their face: Dear Printer, You should be ashamed of yourself, asking people to work in printer spreads!

How would the plug-in know what kind of paragraph style you want applied to each paragraph? If it's repeatable each time, like “heading first, then subhead, then byline, then first paragraph, then other paragraphs” and so on, then you can use the Next Style feature inside the paragraph style dialog box.

Oh! Wow… actually, I did not even know there was a ME version of InCopy. ;)

Sounds like something you should take up with the tech support folks at WinSoft.

You mean, when you create a new text frame, it is always right to left? That is probably based on the default settings of the Basic Text Frame object style. Try creating a new object style that is set to left-to-right, then click it when nothing is selected on the page to make it the new default style.

I like having stuff multi-threaded, so that I can keep working while it's exporting in the background. However, I get the feeling that the background export thing is a work in progress. For example, the fact that it doesn't work when exporting a pdf from a book panel is bizarre.

Sorry to hear about your problem exporting pdfs. I do wonder if there's some oddity in using older pdf presets… does creating a new preset work any better? Or rebuilding preferences in ID? Or changing the pdf export settings? (Using Acrobat 9 compatibility vs. Acrobat 4, etc?)

My workflow is usually: Once I've exported a pdf of a document, I'm off to work on a different document. I like being able to close what I've done and get on with work.

There's an example of some Illustrator graph options in this list of links:

https://creativepro.com/thi…..ber-33.php