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Dwayne Harris
MemberTom–good luck.
I have no idea why this thing happens.
I have my page palette thumb view turned off, so I don’t know about that issue.
BUT–I have had instances where the last line on a text page also appears at the top of the next page. The exact same line. Or several lines. They are duplicated, but doesn’t reflow anything. I have to quit ID and reopen the file and it’s fine. It’s weird.
MemberI’ve had that happen as well, but with just regular text.
If I select the text frame and made it wider, then snap it back into place, the text reappears.
That’s the only workaround I’ve come up with.
And that’s using CC2017.
MemberIs it only happening when printing as spreads or when making a regular PDF?
That error message is useless (as far as I’m concerned). I wish it would tell you what page.
When you export as a PDF again, open the status window to see the progress of the PDF being made. Many times, you can tell roughly what part of the file is causing the problem (i.e., if you get the error message at 50% when doing a 400 page book, it’s somewhere around page 200). If 90 percent of the book, it’s towards the end.
Nine times out of ten it’s an image with a bad preview.
To narrow it down further, make a PDF of the first half the document. If it goes through, then you know the second half has issues. Then try to 3/4ths of it. Eventually you will narrow it down. Don’t start off exporting one page at a time unless it’s a small file.
MemberIs it all PDFs or just the ones you are making now in CC2018?
For system-wide change, click any PDF. Then get info on (command + i).
Then click on open with and select Acrobat.And say to change all. Then all PDFs should open with Acrobat.
MemberAre you on a Mac or PC?
MemberIs it just Chapter 12 that is affected?
I’m guessing there is something in Chapter 12 that the printer doesn’t like. Maybe a piece of art with a bad preview? An accented character it doesn’t recognize? Things not printing can be a royal pain.
You may have to print a few pages at a time of chapter 12 and try to determine the problem page.
I had that problem once. It was an unknown font on one space. Never mind that InDesign never said I had a missing font. It took me an hour to narrow down the page and when I highlighted a paragraph (with no overrides), the font was blank. Fixed and then it printed.
Good luck.
And like you–the job spooled to the printer, but then the printer rejected it.
MemberMy first thought is liquid layout is not enabled?
MemberYou seriously had to bring a 7-year-old zombie thread back to life?
MemberThose random hyphens are probably discretionary hyphens. Many times when you copy and paste from Word, the discretionary hyphens convert to hard hyphens.
Either import the file, or if you want to copy and paste, search for discretionary hyphens and delete in Word first.
Discretionary hyphens don’t show up in Word if you have invisibles turned off.
MemberYou can use something like Dropbox or 4shared. Put your file there and then copy the url of it and post it here.
MemberHow do you currently manage your fonts?
Are you on a Mac or Windows?
April 26, 2018 at 5:23 pm in reply to: Paragraph shading combined with border, won't print to PS printer #103370MemberGood luck, LeeAnn.
April 26, 2018 at 3:03 pm in reply to: Paragraph shading combined with border, won't print to PS printer #103368MemberMaybe it’s the postscript printer? Did you contact the manufacturer? Are your print drivers for that printer up-to-date?
Maybe send to a friend or colleague somewhere who has a different printer? Did you print from a machine other than your own?
Yeah–it could be an InDesign issue, but I’ve had issues where it was the printer itself.
MemberWalter–you need someone to host the image for you (such as dropbox or imgur). You sign up for one of those, upload your image to there, and then it will give you a link you copy and paste here to show the image. You can’t post images directly here, but can post them via a hosting site (such as dropbox or imgur).
MemberGraham–that looks great (so simple). I normally just search for hyphens and replace with hyphen followed by a discretionary hyphen. I like your GREP style.
One question–but the line can break after the hyphen, right? For example: “extra-virgin olive oil” will break after “extra-“?
Asking because I only know the very basics of GREP.
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