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David BlatnerKeymasterYou may not need to rename the styles. Instead, you could create a “style mapping” that maps from the Word doc names to your ID doc names. You can do that in the Import Options dialog box (when placing). After you do it, save it as a Preset in that dialog box so you can recall it again next time
David BlatnerKeymasterYou may not need to rename the styles. Instead, you could create a “style mapping” that maps from the Word doc names to your ID doc names. You can do that in the Import Options dialog box (when placing). After you do it, save it as a Preset in that dialog box so you can recall it again next time
David BlatnerKeymasterGreat question, Roland. One of the main reasons that IDML is so small is that the (non-embedded) images aren't included… if your colleague opens the file and doesn't have the images available, he or she will just see gray boxes. That might be fine, though; the images will pop back when you relink.
However, I don't think anyone should rely on IDML to be seamless and perfect. There is always a chance that text may reflow a little bit or something might get messed up.
If they use CS4 to edit your CS5 doc, things may get even more wonky. Any CS5 features you've used will of course get stripped out when it's opened in an earlier version.
David BlatnerKeymasterGreat question, Roland. One of the main reasons that IDML is so small is that the (non-embedded) images aren't included… if your colleague opens the file and doesn't have the images available, he or she will just see gray boxes. That might be fine, though; the images will pop back when you relink.
However, I don't think anyone should rely on IDML to be seamless and perfect. There is always a chance that text may reflow a little bit or something might get messed up.
If they use CS4 to edit your CS5 doc, things may get even more wonky. Any CS5 features you've used will of course get stripped out when it's opened in an earlier version.
David BlatnerKeymasterIt may be that the recent 6.05 update is causing the problems. (Yes 6.05 came out right around the same time as CS5 shipped.) Not sure why it would do that; I haven't heard of any problems there. Or perhaps something happened to your network around the same time (are you opening files over the network)? You might try rebuilding your Preferences files on one of the machines and see if that helps.
Or perhaps InDesign is feeling bad because you haven't upgraded to CS5? It really wants you to! :)
David BlatnerKeymasterThere was an update to 6.05.
Hold down the Ctrl key when you choose About InDesign from the Help menu (on mac, cmd-about id from InDesign menu) and see what your current version is.
David BlatnerKeymasterIt may be that the recent 6.05 update is causing the problems. (Yes 6.05 came out right around the same time as CS5 shipped.) Not sure why it would do that; I haven't heard of any problems there. Or perhaps something happened to your network around the same time (are you opening files over the network)? You might try rebuilding your Preferences files on one of the machines and see if that helps.
Or perhaps InDesign is feeling bad because you haven't upgraded to CS5? It really wants you to! :)
David BlatnerKeymasterThere was an update to 6.05.
Hold down the Ctrl key when you choose About InDesign from the Help menu (on mac, cmd-about id from InDesign menu) and see what your current version is.
David BlatnerKeymasterHere's a bit more on the “making index of images” trick:
https://creativepro.com/creating-and-advertiser-index-or-other-difficult-toc.php
David BlatnerKeymasterHere's a bit more on the “making index of images” trick:
David BlatnerKeymasterSorry, there's no way to make it go away.
But you can drag it to the bottom of the list (do it while no docs are open to make it the default). And you can set up a Preflight profile to catch any use of it.
David BlatnerKeymasterSorry, there's no way to make it go away.
But you can drag it to the bottom of the list (do it while no docs are open to make it the default). And you can set up a Preflight profile to catch any use of it.
David BlatnerKeymasterHere's another (kind of) way:
David BlatnerKeymasterPDF file size depends entirely on the export settings, such as: image encoding (zip vs. jpg), image resolution, transparency flattening, color conversion (rgb s. cmyk), and (one that people don't usually look at, but should) whether color profiles are included. CMYK color profiles, especially, can add a lot to file size.
David BlatnerKeymasterHere's another (kind of) way:
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