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Dwayne Harris
Member^^And we’re happy you are here :)
And everyone is new at it at the beginning.
I remember when I had to teach myself back when it was InDesign 1.5. Owners of our typesetting house told a client “sure we can use InDesign….”
The client said it was a very simple job.
Well–it had about three hundred photos, text wraps, etc. Definitely not easy for my first job in ID.
But I slugged through it.
Though I wasn’t thrilled at the time, my being able to do that book meant increased business for us as many other typsetting houses said “nope, we don’t use InDesign and are sticking with Quark.”
May 11, 2017 at 2:35 pm in reply to: CC 2017 IDML files will not open in any InDesign version #94563MemberI have no idea. Maybe try to open without the fonts turned on (or in the Document Fonts folder)?
Several months ago I got a few IDML files from someone that were exported from CC2017–and I think it took almost 20 minutes for each file to open in CC2015.
How long are you waiting until you are force quitting?
MemberYou have a great week as well, Kai.
MemberKaila–There are probably other sources that have the keyboard shortcuts (InDesign used to ship with a list I think back when it came in a box). But this may be prove useful:
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html
EDIT: Not sure if you’re on a PC or Mac–but there is this for the Mac:
https://images.template.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/CC-InDesign-Mac.pdf
MemberGlad you got it fixed, Mat
MemberI’ve always removed the Times font from my system fonts folder or library folder. So I can’t speak about earlier versions.
The Mac OS uses the Times.df font so it shouldn’t be using the postscript font.
It sounds like a font conflict.
I keep my system fonts and library fonts to the bare minimum to what the OS requires. But–I don’t throw them out. I put them in a disabled font folder that I create.
Look in your system fonts folder and library fonts folder and move the Times.df font to a disabled font folder you created.
Try that.
MemberGlad you found your answer :)
MemberMat
Do you have access to DropBox or something like that? If so, could you put your file in there and I can take a look.
If not–reply back and I can give you my email address and I can look at your file.
MemberWe never use the book feature. All of our publishers want one InDesign document. In rare exceptions, two files.
MemberYou can go into the paragraph style and type in the leading, or if you’re not using styles, you can highlight and type in the leading.
MemberIt’s hard to tell with only limited information. Can you provide a screenshot?
How are your variables set up (besides character style)? Are they set for first on page or last on page?
MemberI can definitely see why you can’t remove it or rename it. Thankfully, in my work environment, we work on our individual computers and then back up the files. We don’t work across the network on servers or anything. But I would have thought that renaming it would make it appear as missing and ID would not try to update it.
I’m not sure of your workflow–but I duplicate copies of the ID files I am working on several times throughout the day (on my local drive). That way–if I can’t recover it, at least I’ve only lost a few hours of work and not an entire day.
We use Retrospect for lunchtime and evening backups, but I still do the duplicates.
MemberI had that happen once and it was indeed a piece of art.
Try to rename the art folder (or move it) so ID won’t link to it when you try to open the file.
I’ve had similar issues with bad fonts–so I would open the ID file without the fonts turned on.
April 27, 2017 at 9:44 am in reply to: How to set Full justify with last line aligned left in Paragraph Styles #93917MemberAgreed, Niels.
If Ma Fak had wanted to keep in those hard returns, then the paragraph settings should have been full justify, though that would have messed up the last line.
MemberThat’s a tough one.
I’m in book publishing, and editors and free-lance proofreaders both look at the files. They normally do it the fold-fashioned way–marking changes on the printed page proofs and we then edit the file in InDesign.
I like David’s idea of InCopy–but must admit it would not work for me and my company. The publishing houses probably wouldn’t spend the money for various copies of InCopy for their editors nor have time to train them how to use it. And I doubt the free-lance proofreaders would spend the money or find a way to get trained.
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