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Dwayne Harris
MemberThat may be, Eugene. But from the OP’s initial description, it didn’t sound like it.
MemberI agree, Colleen. Personally, backing text out of a PDF is a royal pain in the butt, at least for me. Too much tweaking of the Word file that is created.
I’m wondering why the OP just didn’t export as .rtf or something directly from the InDesign file.
July 30, 2015 at 9:11 am in reply to: Spellcheck wants to capitalise letters that follow quotes with question mark #77056Member“In short, InDesign hasn’t got the brains behind the beauty to recognise grammar. Where Word does to an extent, it’s usually wrong, but that’s neither here nor there.”
Well–I think that is either here or there. Word does it wrong as well.
ID is not a word processing program, but one of layout. I don’t know if it could be programmed to recognize all the variables of grammar.
MemberI’ve never used the drop method, but I select the page I want to change, hold down the option key, and click the master page I want to use.
July 30, 2015 at 4:02 am in reply to: Spellcheck wants to capitalise letters that follow quotes with question mark #77033MemberThe problem is the spelling preferences. Go to your regular preferences and select “spelling.”
I’m betting all four boxes are checked. Uncheck the one that says to look for uncapitalized sentences. These preference settings control spell check.
MemberGlad I was able to help. Good luck :) :)
MemberHolly–I think the problems are what ThompsonText described. If it’s a tagged file for InDesign, the paragraph styles and other coding are enclosed in open and closed angle brackets < >.
If something else has an opening bracket it will cause InDesign to give an error as when it sees the open angle bracket it’s expecting a paragraph style name, character style name, ascii code, etc.
MemberIs “Enable Layout Adjustment” turned on? It’s under liquid layout.
If not, try turning that on.
MemberI’m glad you got it figured out. I was typing up my reply but you already figured it out.
I personally don’t think it’s a glitch. Maybe the thicker rule, but overall, I don’t think it’s a glitch.
MemberI’m a bit confused, and apologies.
But–you said you have been using InDesign files, but then said you just re-designed the file for InDesign. Can you clarify?
If the job was previously done in Quark, then you can’t use Quark tags when importing text into InDesign (unless you use xTags).
What kind of error messages are you getting?
I import tagged text files all the time, but they are word files that we have run macros on. Nothing so far as databases or anything.
MemberNinety percent of the time I’d make them tables. But there are times when if it’s small and I’m rushed for time, I’ll use tabs.
There have been instances where I was doing the rough pages of a job, and the designer (who resided/worked in another state) didn’t know how to do tables in InDesign, so I had to do them all in tabs. This was the same designer who freaked out when I used anchored boxes in a recipe book for the ingredients. There was one other designer who freaked out when I used the table feature for recipe ingredients as well.
MemberSorry–that’s a GREP thing and I’m not good at that.
Is for a job that is already done or for a new job?
You could use nested character styles. For example, create a character style for superior. Then nest:
1) none up to opening bracket
2) superior character style through one closing bracket.That’s all I can think of as I’m not good with GREP.
MemberMaybe this will help:
MemberI noticed you said that you set the vertical alignment to justify. That is what is causing the problem. David’s first link explains that. Basically–your are overriding the leading values. I’m not sure if this page justified because of a bad break (i.e., widow/orphan) or if the straddle head is not on even lines.
I’m not sure how to explain it, but you always want your leading to add up.
For example, let’s say your leading is 12 for body text. And let’s say you have a 2-line display head that is on 14 lead. That means the depth is now off by two points. So you have to have the space above/below the head add up to 12’s (i.e., 12, 24, 36). So if you had 10 points space above the head, you’d be back to even lines (14 + 10 = 24).
I always use absolute leading and don’t have vertical alignment justified, nor do I lock things to baseline grid. It’s all about the leading and the space above/below different elements adding up.
I’ll look around and see if there is an article on it. But hopefully someone else can chime in and explain it better than I am trying to.
MemberI can’t see them being a giant killer, like InDesign was against Quark. At least, not in book publishing.
The book industry is too heavily invested in Adobe (at least the publishers that I work with). There are still some Quark hold-outs (mainly in the UK), and when the U.S. publisher buys the rights to that book, they have us convert to InDesign.
And that’s what will happen with Affinity Publisher. They will ask that it be converted.
Now–once it comes out, I’m sure the company I work for will be asked if we have it, and I will probably buy a copy for myself to learn it, and the company will buy a couple. But only on the off-chance that we get such a request.
I’ve had the same experience with upgrading my Quarks. We haven’t done a full Quark job since InDesign 2 or InDesign 3. So we’re talking a lot of years. We had a few Quark 7 jobs during that time, but not many.
Anyway–I kept my Quarks upgraded to Quark 8, Quark 9, and recently Quark 10 and 2015. In that time, each and every Quark file had to be converted to InDesign. And Quark 10 and Quark 15–one single job came in. ONE! Talk about a waste of money to upgrade :(
Anyway–I’m rambling on. Right now InDesign is King of the Hill and I can’t see anyone toppling them.
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