I don’t think there is, though I’m not 100 percent positive of it.

I personally hate it when designers give me an ID file with the stylesheets within style folders. I use xTags and and it doesn’t play well with those folders (or I’m doing something wrong).

I only use Word as a necessary evil, so I don’t know if you can do anything within Word to fix your problem–but I’m guessing no as Word is pretty much a word procesing program. Maybe something could be done via macros?

Are they postscript fonts or open type fonts?

If postscript, you need to be sure you have both the screen fonts as well as the printer fonts.

Karin–

You need to host the picture somewhere (i.e., 4share, drop box, etc. and then post the link.

Seems I was composing a post when you were posting, Shane.

Hopefully you will see it.

If you have a head following another head, then yes–you need to create a separate style sheet. InDesign will add the space below the one head and the space above the second head. In that case, you create a second style sheet for the second head and remove the space above.

And if you have a paragraph or bulleted list with space below it, followed by a head, then you either need to create a different style sheet for the bulleted list with no space below, or a different head style sheet with one less line space.

I’m not too familiar with Framemaker, as it’s been years since I had to use it for a few jobs. But I found it clunky and aggravating. But different style sheets was necessary back in the Quark days, and before that–in the Penta and Sun Miles system. It’s not something new.

I personally don’t find it daunting or sloppy because I’ve been used to it for 25+ years. I can see, however, how someone not used to it could find it that way though.

I don’t know if InDesign could change things so that those spaces were added together, but that may be opening up a whole new can of worms.

That is definitely weird. Does the art on the text master page bleed off the page in either direction (even just part of the image box)?

I had that problem once and could never figure it out, so I ended up creating additional master pages in an unorthodox way.

For example:

On my new master page, on the left hand side I set it up as the chapter opener, and the right hand side was regular text.

On a second new master page, on the left hand side I set it up as the regular text, and the right hand side as the chapter opener.

Then I applied as a spread to the affected pages when I came across them. For some reason it worked.

To me, it sounds like InDesign is getting lost when it comes to that RH side when facing the chapter opener. (which was also the case in the job I mentioned).

That’s what I do as well, Gert. And since we use Xtags, we then save the Word file as a .txt file and import it that way. I also have a macro for the text file.

To no one in particular:

Nine times out of ten our clients tag the the files with codes such as <TX> <CT> <CN> etc. So the macros grab all that stuff, but the styles needed, and we then save as a text file and import it through xTags.

Other times the manuscript is so messy we have to have to it keyed/typed by our keyboarders. We mark it up with the pargraph styles we want and use Quark XPress marking-up. It’s so much easier than trying to mark up using InDesigns markup language. For example, they can just type “@TX:” for a text paragraph, instead of <para:text>; or an <I> for italic, instead of <charstyle:italic>. That sort of stuff. It saves us a lot of money as the keyboarders charge by the keystroke.

And to me Word files are pain in the butt. Nine times out of ten, all the styling is “normal” and tweaked by hand in Word. That is useless to me. There is no way I have time to click on paragraphs and apply the appropriate paragraph style. I don’t have the time with the crazy deadlines I face.

I need files tagged so I can import and begin paging right away. Sometimes I only have a day to get a 400 page book out.