InDesign and PageMaker are completely different products and they don't interact. I've never heard of InDesign messing up a PageMaker (or QuarkXPress, or any other program) installation.

Of course, it's always best to have a full backup of your hard drive, just in case something goes wrong somewhere. You never know when cosmic rays will hit or something.

When it comes to training, I'd encourage you to check out the many blog posts, including this one on Lots of Free InDesign Video Training and the whole Beginner's Corner category on this site.

InDesign and PageMaker are completely different products and they don't interact. I've never heard of InDesign messing up a PageMaker (or QuarkXPress, or any other program) installation.

Of course, it's always best to have a full backup of your hard drive, just in case something goes wrong somewhere. You never know when cosmic rays will hit or something.

When it comes to training, I'd encourage you to check out the many blog posts, including this one on Lots of Free InDesign Video Training and the whole Beginner's Corner category on this site.

@Raphael: You have unfortunately fallen prey to the oldest myth of them all: That scanning at a higher resolution is always better. Like in the health care debate, where some folks erroneously believe that more trips to the doctor or hospital is always better. Not so.

If you scan that map at 1200 dpi, what will happen at print time? Either InDesign will downsample it to a lower resolution or the printer will (depending on your settings). When that happens, it throws away data in a non-intelligent manner, and your image just gets blurrier. Then, if you're printing with halftones, the image gets “downsampled” again in the form of being split up into halftone spots.

I have no problem with you scanning it at 1200 ppi for archival purposes! But placing a 1200 ppi image into InDesign doesn't help, it hurts.

(You also discount the issue of file size. A 5 x 7 cmyk image at 225 ppi is about 6.5 mb. Increasing it to 300 ppi raises the file size to 12 mb. If you use 1200 ppi, you suddenly have a 192 mb image to play with. That's 185 Mb of wasted data, if you're printing a magazine at 150 lpi. Ten of those images is over a gigabyte of wasted data, of course. Who cares? Disk size, file transfer time, print speeds, pdf creation time… waste not, want not.)

@Raphael: You have unfortunately fallen prey to the oldest myth of them all: That scanning at a higher resolution is always better. Like in the health care debate, where some folks erroneously believe that more trips to the doctor or hospital is always better. Not so.

If you scan that map at 1200 dpi, what will happen at print time? Either InDesign will downsample it to a lower resolution or the printer will (depending on your settings). When that happens, it throws away data in a non-intelligent manner, and your image just gets blurrier. Then, if you're printing with halftones, the image gets “downsampled” again in the form of being split up into halftone spots.

I have no problem with you scanning it at 1200 ppi for archival purposes! But placing a 1200 ppi image into InDesign doesn't help, it hurts. 

(You also discount the issue of file size. A 5 x 7 cmyk image at 225 ppi is about 6.5 mb. Increasing it to 300 ppi raises the file size to 12 mb. If you use 1200 ppi, you suddenly have a 192 mb image to play with. That's 185 Mb of wasted data, if you're printing a magazine at 150 lpi. Ten of those images is over a gigabyte of wasted data, of course. Who cares? Disk size, file transfer time, print speeds, pdf creation time… waste not, want not.)

Please see this blog post about whether to outline fonts or not:

https://creativepro.com/out…..essary.php

then, if you still want to outline fonts, use this technique to make your PDF files:

https://creativepro.com/con…..ht-way.php

Simon,

Here's a post about converting multi-column frames to individidual frames: https://creativepro.com/convert-multicolumn-text-frames-to-individual-frames-script.php

The inserting additional frames is tricky, but can be accomplished with groups of anchored objects, like this: https://creativepro.com/auto-reflowing-images-in-a-grid.php

To be honest, the tagged text import filters has never been InDesign's strongest feature. I don't have CS2 installed anymore to test this, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's broken. I wonder if using Em Software's XTags plug-in would help — anyone who relies on tagged text should at least check it out.

You need to change the default text frame object style. Make a new object style and set it to the proper first baseline offset. Then, when nothing is selected in your document, click on that style in the object style panel with the Type tool. That will make it the new default text frame style.