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June 8, 2020 at 5:50 pm in reply to: InDesign Spellchecker stops working #1254154

David Blatner
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I know that InDesign CC 2020 (and 19?) had a significant spell checking bug like that, but it should have been fixed in the most recent update.

May 29, 2020 at 6:05 am in reply to: Data Merge Export to PDF Record Limit not working? #1252924

David Blatner
Keymaster

The “merge to pdf” feature is not always as reliable, I think. I generally make an InDesign file and then export to PDF.

There are a number of tools that let you break apart individual pdfs, such as:
https://indesignsecrets.com/data-merging-individual-records-separate-pdfs.php
and
https://indesignsecrets.com/data-merging-individual-records-separate-pdfs-part-2-scripting.php
and
https://indesignsecrets.com/inreview-mydatamerge.php

May 28, 2020 at 6:52 am in reply to: How to Apply Master Pages to Even Pages All at Once #1252705

David Blatner
Keymaster

Great solutions, Print Barron and Lydia!

May 27, 2020 at 1:13 pm in reply to: Adobe font licensing #1252633

David Blatner
Keymaster

Wow… ouch! That is troublesome. Mike Rankin also recently wrote about this problem here:
https://indesignsecrets.com/more-fonts-are-being-retired-from-creative-cloud.php

May 26, 2020 at 8:06 am in reply to: Why InDesign generates heavy internet traffic at startup #125211

David Blatner
Keymaster

Oh, also, your question makes me think of this old post… look in the comments for ideas:
https://indesignsecrets.com/turning-indesigns-screen.php

May 26, 2020 at 8:05 am in reply to: Why InDesign generates heavy internet traffic at startup #125219

David Blatner
Keymaster

Wow that is very strange. Could it be trying to update to a new version?
What version of InDesign?
Do you maybe have some extra plug-ins installed?

May 25, 2020 at 10:54 am in reply to: How to place text inside the outline of a letter #1252028

David Blatner
Keymaster

Will one of these articles help?
https://indesignsecrets.com/the-dual-text-wrap-dilemma.php
https://indesignsecrets.com/evil-eye-contest-answer-and-winner.php

May 25, 2020 at 7:17 am in reply to: How could I see the justification values of space applied? #1251993

David Blatner
Keymaster

Not that I know of. That’s a cool idea, though.

May 25, 2020 at 5:57 am in reply to: Commercial printers and Custom fonts #1251973

David Blatner
Keymaster

Fran, I don’t know what the “element of chance” is that you refer to. Nothing you have said seems to indicate any problem with using properly built OpenType fonts.

You opened the discussion asking if anyone has had any trouble with fonts created with IndyFont, and no one has said yes.

I’m not sure what your concern is, or what you are arguing.

Have you tried IndyFont? If not, why don’t you try it? It’s free for making a single glyph. Make some fonts and test them yourself.

Or, use a different font tool.

May 24, 2020 at 7:59 am in reply to: Commercial printers and Custom fonts #1251943

David Blatner
Keymaster

Hi Fran, I don’t think there is a problem here. When the IndyFont manual talks about glyphs for which there is no Unicode code, they mean glyphs that are not officially recognized by name in the Unicode standard. But these glyphs will still have a unicode number… that is, they will still have an encoding value so that InDesign knows where to find the character inside the font.

For example, you can draw any shape you want and stick it in a private use area, like at Unicode U+100F00. So it has an encoding (a number), and InDesign can use it.

The only time you’d have a missing glyph error (empty rectangle) is if the font is not available.

Also, if you export to PDF and give the PDF to the printer, then you particularly don’t have to worry about it, because the font is embedded inside the PDF.

May 23, 2020 at 2:43 pm in reply to: Commercial printers and Custom fonts #1251923

David Blatner
Keymaster

I haven’t made an IndyFont in a while, but when I did, I had no trouble with it, and have never heard of anyone having problems with them. It’s pretty amazing. Yes, they’re fonts like any others, so you can package them.

May 22, 2020 at 6:48 am in reply to: Grep for adding a ® symbol #1251844

David Blatner
Keymaster

Sometimes I’m fast and sometimes I’m slow. :-)

Yes, this works. In the image below, the character style is called “ProductName”

I should add: The codes are ^.+ and $0~r

May 22, 2020 at 6:24 am in reply to: Grep for adding a ® symbol #1251814

David Blatner
Keymaster

Is it only when that word is both at the beginning of the sentence and also has the character style?

To search for “Word” at the beginning of the paragraph, you can use the grep tab in Find/Change and search for ^Word
May 21, 2020 at 5:57 am in reply to: GREP Styles Quick formatting help #125174 David BlatnerKeymaster Instead of using a specific number of digits, I find it more useful to use “one or more, shortest match”, such as (\d+?)(\u) That will find one or more digits followed by an uppercase letter. May 20, 2020 at 5:07 pm in reply to: Ligatures #1251715 David BlatnerKeymaster Oh that’s super nice of you to say. I’m really glad they’ve been helpful for you. However… You’re right that I don’t get into things like ligatures in my courses there. That’s kind of advanced. If you’re not normally using paragraph styles, then you should at least edit the Basic Paragraph style (in the paragraph styles panel) and turn off ligatures in there. And then save that document and close it. And now edit the basic paragraph style while no docs are open and turn off the ligatures again. Now it should be off for all documents you make in the future. (Unless InDesign’s preferences get wiped out, at which point it might creep back into the Basic Para style)



	
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