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Dwayne Harris
MemberExactly what Aaron said. I don’t use align to baseline grid. I have my grids set up for the text leading. The only thing that really needs to align is the top and bottom of the page.
If you temporarily wish to disable align to baseline grid, then you can just go to the paragraph palette and there will be two icons. One to align to baseline grid, and the other is not align to baseline grid. Just click the one you want.
MemberI do a lot of books, and if I have an element (such as extract) that is on different leading than the text, I manually adjust the space above and below to get it back on even lines.
MemberGood luck, Andy. I’m always glad to try to help.
MemberWell, that sucks :(
August 13, 2015 at 9:10 am in reply to: running head variable won't appear until the actual text does at end of doc #77297MemberGlad to help. Yeah–the workaround isn’t the greatest–but it’s the only thing I’ve ever been able to come up with. ID needs to see that author name right away in order to make the running heads.
August 12, 2015 at 3:23 pm in reply to: running head variable won't appear until the actual text does at end of doc #77281MemberIf I understand correctly, the running heads are the book title on the recto and the author’s name on the verso?
If so, I wouldn’t even bother with text variables. I’d just type it in the running head box on the master page.
If the author’s name doesn’t appear until the very last page, then InDesign is doing what it’s supposed to do: Not putting the author’s name in the running head until it sees it. The only way to force it to see it earlier is to also have it on the first page as well. Since you don’t want it to print, you can always highlight the author’s name to print as none or white.
I personally recommend using character styles for running head variables (they can be nested or in unique situations, the title can be highlighted physicall). The character style is empty of course.
As of now, InDesign can’t go to the end of the book, find the variable for the author’s name, and then backtrack to make it a running head. It won’t make a running head until it actually sees the variable.
MemberSo far as Cochin–it sounds like the system font is being used instead of the font you loaded in suitcase. And InDesign will always use the system font first and ignore the suitcase one.
What happens if you remove Cochin from your system folder?
I personally keep my system, library, and user library fonts to the bare minimum. In fact, my library fonts and user library fonts I always move to a disabled fonts folder (in case I ever need to use them). And system fonts are the bare minimum (I even remove zapf, symbol, etc.) And all the fonts that InDesign installs? I move them to a disabled folder instead.
We do that on all the machines at work because of font conflicts that arise otherwise.
MemberMaybe a font conflict? Is it possible that the font ID is seeing is a system font? If so, ID will use the system font and not the font you have loaded into Suitcase.
To check the font path, highlight the font that is being used in ID, go to “find font” and get more information. That will show you the path.
That’s all I can think of at the moment.
Is the font open type or postscript? If the latter, sometimes the printer font will be provided but not the screen font (and vice versa).
I don’t use Fusion 6, so I don’t know if it’s a problem with that.
MemberWell, since it’s text that you want to sink lower–you’d have to have master text frames on your master pages and you would need to go to Object > Text Frame Options > Baseline Options and set in a specified amount you want the text to sink. But you’d still have to have a separate text frame for the chapter title.
I personally think it’s easier to have separate master pages for chapter openers, text pages, part openers, etc.
Suppose you set up your text pages so the text sinks the way you want? Then, for the chapter opener, adjust your chapter title with a baseline shift so it sits up higher?
MemberI feel your pain so far as the deadlines. I have rush deadlines all the time (i.e., get first pass pages (approx 400) out in two days).
MemberMaybe try exporting as an IDML file and then reopening that?
I had a problem a while back where I also was getting that message and the pages were all screwed up. Fortunately it was all text, and not a lot of pictures.
I ended up duplicating the file. Then I deleted the bad pages where they began to the end of the file, and then relinked the text. I used the duplicated file to reposition any art. After that the file was okay.
I still have no idea why that file had acted that way.
But since your file has a lot of art involved, that may not be an option for you.
Hopefully David or one of the other gurus can jump in with a solution.
Good luck.
MemberDo you have “Enable Layout Adjustment” checked?
It’s under Liquid Layout under the Layout drop down menu. If it’s not checked, check it. Once checked be sure the first two and the last checkboxes are checked. See if that helps.
MemberThere are a couple of reasons.
1) When you open any template, it will be untitled.
2) When you open an .idml file, it will also be untitled.
This is normal. When you save the file you can name it (I would call it something else so you don’t overwrite the original file).
Are all the master pages there?
MemberWe don’t need your spam here.
MemberI agree, Eugene. Maybe Alesh will post in this thread again and let us know.
I know that a lot of end-users do export text or Word files out of PDFs. Personally I think it’s a nightmare.
Have a good weekend.
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