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Dwayne Harris
MemberMac or PC? If Mac–it’s not under “edit.”
If on a Mac–look at your toolbar at the top of the screen. The very far left will have the Apple logo–the one right next to it says “Indesign.” Scroll down five places to where it says “preferences” and then move your mouse to the right (there is an arrow) to select which preference.
If you’re on a PC–I don’t have an answer.
On a Mac–clicking on Edit and then scrolling all the way down to the bottom only gives you “Menus”
MemberI think this will help:
https://creativepro.com/why-is-my-indesign-text-highlighted-in-blue.php
MemberWhat’s the footnote issue?
August 12, 2016 at 2:03 pm in reply to: Italicise letters inside parentheses in numbered lists #87427MemberAlbert–They probably didn’t use the automatic feature in your examples.
MemberI can’t think of any way to do such a thing. Why not just export the entire thing as spreads?
I mean–all the pages are facing each other, right?
Do you mean you want a regular text page to just appear by itself, then a spread, then a single page of text? It sounds awkward to me.
I guess I just don’t understand the rational. And I swear to God I mean no offense. I just don’t understand why you want to do what you want to do. Since I have no idea of what your document even looks like or anything, I am curious. I, myself, only work in book publishing, so to me, it’s confusing.
MemberI remember several years ago when we stopped exporting files as RTF as it was buggy.
The company I work for does a lot of keyboarding of manuscript, which we send back to the designers and they import. They were stuck in their ways that they could only import Word or RTF files. They never heard of tagged text files.
Since we used XTags, we’d have it keyboarded using Quark codes (as it’s easier and faster than keying ID codes). For example, just key @TX: instead of <parastyle:text>.
Anyway–we’d flow it in into a blank ID document, and export as RTF.
But starting with CS6–InDesign no longer liked RTF files. The file would flow in–but the default justification (i.e., metric, optical) would not come through. And the RTF file would not pick up the designer’s point size/leading. Even though the style sheet was set up properly. The RTF files simply would not work.
It had always worked from CS3 through CS5.5–so something in CS6 was changed. It was not a case of importing it wrong.
So we finally convinced them to accept tagged text files. For that–we import using xTAgs, and then export as tagged text files.
Only problem is that half the time, when they import the tagged text file, it comes through with all the codes and not formatted. So we have to go into the tagged text file, add a space somewhere, delete it, and save. And then re-send it. And viola–it works.
And the real kicker–we have to use on Mac to do this. Only saving the .txt file in Word 2004 will work. Anything higher and it’s a crap shoot. And it’s weird–some folks can import the same file with no problems, but others have it come in wrong. No rhyme or reason–except InDesign doesn’t recognize a properly tagged text file half the time. Never mind–InDesign was the one who exported the tagged text file. One would think it would know how to do that.
Sorry for the rant.
MemberSince I don’t know how your character style is set for the drop cap–I’m guessing.
Did you make sure that your character says “Roman” or “Regular” and is not blank (or just the font family or size showing)?
I know I have to set up characters styles for my bullets for bulleted lists and make them roman & regular case. If not–if the first phrase is italic, the bullet turns into italic, if it’s a bold lead-in, the bullet turns bold. If small cap lead-ins, the bullet takes on the small caps character.
That’s the only thing I can think of.
MemberI meant “show frame edges”
MemberMake sure you have “show text frames” checked under “view” > “extras”
MemberUnfortunately, there’s a ton of open type fonts out there without the “real” small caps or fractions.
@Spencer: When you do that 75 percent thing, are you just clicking on the “CAPS” button, or going to “type” and changing case to all caps?
Our publishers insist that if any title (i.e., part title, chapter title, main & subheads) that are caps, they have to be keyed all caps. We just can’t use the palette for all caps. Same thing with small caps. Use the 70/75 percent thing, but actually have them typed as caps and not just the palette.
Which is a pain, because I need to be sure that that any punctuation or spaces are 100 percent and not fake small caps.
I can keep the palette checked/turned on, but the actual words have to be in actual caps to work across all ePub/eBook platforms.
If not–they come across as Upper & Lower Case on some platforms.
MemberI’ve seen that problem on occasions. Besides what the others have said, I”ve seen it happen when you have text or a subhead that has hyphenation turned off. And the head is too big to fit in the text frame.
Did you expand the text box (side to side) until the text reappeared? Usually that will give you a clue as to what might be wacky.
Member^^^Same here.
MemberI have that same problem a few times a day. I end up having to click and click different things for 20 or 30 seconds.
Or I’ll try to add kerning in the tool bar box and I can’t. I click and click and click. So I click something else, and then click back in and it’s fine.
It is frustrating. Originally I thought it was my mouse or something, but I don’t think it is.
I can’t offer any suggestions except to grin and bear it, and try not to start cursing and swearing and scaring your co-workers (like I do).
You may get advised to rebuilding your preferences, but I don’t think that’s the problem.
I don’t use a Wacom, so I don’t know about that. I’m just on my Mac and I have those issues.
EDIT: And others at work have also experienced this.
MemberThe first thing you need to do is get the missing artwork so you can link them.
MemberWhen I do books like that, I just make a separate master page for each tab. I don’t bother with one master page and layers, because if it’s just one master page, then you have to shift-click and release the tabs in question. And if there is reflow, it’s a pain in the butt.
I make a separate master page for each tab–no other tabs on it. No layers. And I apply those master pages on the pages I need them for.
So far as I know, there is no way to automate it.
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