I work on a 27 inch iMac at work, but only using 10.8. And it’s fine.

At home I have one of the original 23-inch displays and my tower, and Yosemite, and that is fine. I realize that it probably would be, as it’s not an iMac issue. But–I do know that my display is not supported for brightness, so I”m stuck with it at its highest brightness level.

Please keep us updated on the what you find out. I really think it’s a Yosemite issue as there have been a lot of complaints about Yosemite and graphic problems (something do to do with certain video cards as well).

Sorry–I’m not taking any chances.

Besides, you’ve only made a couple of posts,and they are all about downloading your stuff.

Thanks for the update. It looks like you have it figured out.

Wow, Tom–there is a lot of smudge, and I see what you mean about additional characters. But–it definitely seems to affect 99 percent of “a” and “l”‘s. The output settings look okay, so I don’t know. I noticed the ones as well.

Are you using the true type version or the open type?

I’m guessing it’s a problem at Lulu’s end and their printing. I personally believe that if the PDF looks okay, then the problem is the printer.

I hope you get it figured out, because I know what a pain in the butt it would be if you had to change fonts at this point.

And in the future you will know not to use that font again :(

@Tom: I may have been mistaken about the commercial version. I had come across a website with a “commercial” tab for the fonts, but apparently it was for other fonts. I checked more around, and the free version is allowed for personal or commercial reasons.

I”m with David that it’s not a random smudge (it affects the “a” and “l”.

It is weird, though, that it only affects two style sheets. Are the H&Js the same for those two styles as elsewhere? Any custom kerning or tracking in those affected paragraphs/styles?

I take it you are dragging and dropping those pages from your drop box directly to your open file?

What about dragging the file to your desktop and then doing your thing?

Another idea might be to turn off the fonts temporarily?

I don’t know if this will help, but…

When I have full page art that needs to be anchored, I anchor it to a hard return following the paragraph in which it was called out. And I create a paragraph style sheet for it that has zero leading. That way I don’t have that extra space between the paragraphs. I center it just so I can see it better.

Then I select the art and go to the anchored object options and select custom. You will have tweak the settings, but if you use custom, you can drag the art to the facing page, where it will stay, unless you have major reflow (i.e., so much reflow that the anchored paragraph return moves to another page.

I haven’t done that in a while because the printer in our shop doesn’t like it, and prints the page with the art as a blank, though I think the PDFs were fine. But I need print proofs to send to the customer, and if they don’t print right, I can’t send. And I print proofs first to be sure everything is okay.

I basically decided not to anchor full size art if I have to drag it to a facing page, though InDesign is supposed to support such a thing I believe.

It can be done, but I don’t know how output would be (depending upon your printer).

EDIT: You may be able to do same dragging thing if you use custom and the anchored object is in-line. The text flow seems to continue below if you drag it over.

I’m biased because I’ve been on a Mac for over twenty years (at work and personal).

In the old days of Quark and InDesign there were always problems with cross-platform issues with the files (usually fonts). And some things did not convert correctly. Unless I”m mistaken, there was an issue with ligatures. Mac supported, but the PC did not (I don’t remember if it was true ligatures or fake ones). I think there were some other characters not supported on PC side

And to be honest–I’d be lost on a Windows machine. I haven’t used Windows since my old laptop which had Windows 95 and 4 megs of ram.