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Dwayne Harris
MemberYou can change it in InDesign, but you will have to tweak your gutters and margins a bit.
Just go to document setup and change your size, and be sure you have the layout adjustment options checked (it’s under liquid layout). Then you will need to compensate by adjusting your gutters and margins so the column measure remains the same. And the top and bottom margins.
I’m always working on books where they change trim sizes.
Another option, if you have PitStop, is to remove the cropmarks of your PDF, and put in new ones at your new trim size. Though that will depend if the printer has no problem with that.
October 10, 2014 at 11:50 am in reply to: Running Headers with single characters but no duplicates #70980Member^^Yeah, it does look like it could come in handy. I’ve been considering getting it, but I will have to find out if there will be any error messages if someone else opens the file. The company I work for has several employees, and it’s very common for someone else to work on my files after I am done. I usually do first pass pages, and then someone does the corrections/edits for second pass a few weeks later.
The ability for it to do a an italic version of the font in the running heads would definitley be handy as I am always forced to make a separate master page for running heads with an italic word in it.
MemberI rarely use the book feature, so I’m no expert on that. The majority of my files are single file large documents (books).
But it sounds like using the book feature is exactly what you are looking for, especially since you want to sychronize the styles.
It would definitely be a pain if you had to open the other 29 files and change the styles manually (though you could open each and append the styles from the other file).
October 10, 2014 at 11:31 am in reply to: Running Headers with single characters but no duplicates #70977MemberI don’t think so. I’ve had similar jobs and I created a different master page for those instances. And on that master page, I didn’t use the second variable.
This plug-in may work for you, but note that is costs money:
MemberMaybe I’m missing something, but I don’t get the impression that the OP is using too many character styles. She just said throughout.
It’s quite possible she’s using them for italic, bold, small caps, bullets,etc. (i.e., the normal stuff we all do).
MemberWhat PDF setting are you using?
If the smallest size possible, it will do some wacky things.
EDIT: To post screen shots, you will need to host them in something like Drop Box or 4shares or something. And then send post the link.
MemberDo all the headings and paragraphs have a hard return after them? If there is no hard return, then the following paragraph or element will take on the previous characteristic. I know I’ve seen a lot of files where there are separate un-linked text boxes, and they don’t have hard returns after the type inside them. I have to physically add a hard return and then link the boxes.
Oh, and your explanation makes perfect sense.
MemberI’ve had success of just clicking the port to link and clicking the middle of the unlinked text frame. If you try to link from port to port it doesn’t work. Just click the outport and then click the middle of the next text frame you want linked.
Am not sure if you can use option + link or the shift key to speed things up as I don’t think I’ve tried that.
I also believe there is a script for it, and that it came with InDesign. You can look in your script folder.
Then once it’s all linked, do “select all” and copy and paste to the new document.
Just out of curiosity–is there a reason why you want to copy and paste everything to a new document? Is the trim size different or something?
EDIT: Tom got here first :)
MemberThat was my first thought, Justin. That is locked. OR possibly on a different layer that is locked?
MemberI’m in book publishing, and in most cases, the art is scaled and kept that way.
BUT–sometimes if we positioned low-res art and the printer is going to create and tweak the high-res from film, we give them our scaling sizes.
Then they send us the new art to reposition, but unfortunately, it’s the wrong size. They take our scaling numbers (let’s say 33 percent), and they scale the original art at 33 percent at their place, and when we reposition it we have to bring it in at 100 percent.
Needless to say it’s a nightmare when they do that.
Sometimes the publisher itself will resize the artwork on their end and do the same thing.
It’s gotten to the point that when we get the high-res art we don’t update all. We do them one at a time
MemberYou just need to go to your “Document Footnote Options,” which is under “Type” at the top of your screen.
Once the dialogue box opens, click the “Layout” tab. Then choose the “Rule Above” and select “Continued Footnotesk” and make any changes there.
MemberI’m not sure, but wouldn’t that be a browser preference?
I came across this link from 2011 that talks about doing it in Acrobat PDF Pro:
MemberWell, we never use word files created from PDFs. We’d rather get it double-keyed. If we have it keyed, then we mark it up with the paragraph styles, and the keyboarders key in the italic, bold, small caps, etc., as well as the paragraph styles.
If we get a word file from the author/copy editor to use, we run a macro that captures the italic, bold, etc., as well as em and en dashes. We strip out double spaces, double returns, etc. Sometimes they use basic tagging for paragraph styles that we can search and replace on.
Then we save it as a regular text file.
The final macro puts spaces between the periods in the ellipses, proper space between single and double quotes, adds space between quotes and superior figures, etc. We resave it as a .txt file and then flow into InDesign with xTags.
Note: We use QuarkXpress tagging as we use xTags, and it’s easier to mark up a job with that coding than with InDesign’s coding. xTags saves us a lot of keystrokes and mistakes in keying.
MemberThat’s why I (the company I work for) have the word files tagged, macros run, and then save the word file as a tagged text file. Then we flow that in and all is well with the world.
September 15, 2014 at 7:28 am in reply to: Which of the styles contains rotation angle for an image? #70584MemberI went through the object styles, and it appears there is no option to rotate something and make it a style. Not the box nor the image.
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