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Dwayne Harris
MemberWell, if it only stayed at one percent, then yeah–something is wrong. Have you tried to do a “save as” on it? Sometimes doing that will make the file smaller and strip out junk in it.
Have you tried to make the PDF on a different machine?
I know I’ve had jobs where for some reason InDesign refused to make a PDF that had a ton of art in it, but I could make a PDF on a spare work machine with no problem.
You mentioned that the file includes “complex art” that was done in illustrator. How complex? Are you placing .ai files or did you save as EPS or something else? It’s possible InDesign and the Illustrator .ai files aren’t playing nicely together.
Just throwing out some suggestions as I know how frustrating things can get when it’s deadline time and things go wrong. Good luck!
MemberWhat was the completion percentage in the background task manager after 30 minutes? Was it moving at all or staying in the same place?
MemberJane
To keep your rule in the text frame, in your style sheet for the rule above, check the square that says “keep in frame.”
That will keep the rule from extending above the text frame and will move the head down. Try that.
If that doesn’t work tonight, I’ll email you tonight after work to get the screen shot.
Dwayne
MemberA couple of questions for you.
1) For your rule above: Is it set up to it stays in the text frame, or set so it can go above it?
2) Which column is not aligning? The one with the head or the one with the text next to it?
3) Do you want the text in the other column to align with the head itself, or with the first line of text below the head?
4) How much do you need to nudge it down?
Where I work we never use lock to baseline grid, but then again I’m in book publishing and not magazine publishing.
If you can’t post a pic, could you send me a sample file (I’d need the fonts also). Or a PDF with comments? The ID file would be easier. But–I only have CS6 and below. I don’t have the cloud thing so you’d need to downsave it.
I can post my email address if I can be of help. I thought it would show when you click my profile, but apparently it doesn’t.
Dwayne
February 11, 2014 at 4:09 pm in reply to: Can't drag any objects. Trashing preferences doesn't solve it. #67124MemberJust a thought–have you tried a different mouse?
I only ask because I was having problems last year selecting items (and sometimes dragging) and it ended up being my mouse buttons were out of whack. I tried a different mouse and things worked.
I don’t know if that’s your problem, but it’s worth a shot to try something like that.
If you already have, disregard.
MemberHey Carrie
I’m in book publishing, and I admit I stink at GREP. However, I have come across these very things. And there are a few options.
Now, if you are using metric kerning, you could try to do a regular search and replace. Search for any letter/apostrope/any letter and replace with optical kerning. Sometimes that is enough to give the desired spacing. If it’s not enough, here’s what I do.
Regular Search and replace:
1) Search for any letter/apostophe/any letter and replace with the color red.
2) Search for red apostrophe and replace with thin space + apostrophe [don’t forget to add that apostrophe]
3) Search for red and replace with blackBasically you will have turned red every instance of a letter preceded by an apostrophe and the letter following it. So you will simply add that space before the red apostrophe. And then since you won’t want the red any longer you change all red back to black.
If you are doing a book in color, then you’d want to subsitute a different color.
Hope that’s a good workaround for you.
MemberAh, David beat me to it.
To add, however. Even if you call it up and the section mark is checked, you don’t have to uncheck it before you close it. Even if you click okay, you haven’t given it a number to start on. Just to continue with the numbering. So opening and closing it with it checked won’t cause it to be a section start.
It’s been this way for as long as I can remember and I’ve been using InDesign since InDesign 1 (I’m not saying it was like that in 1, just that I’ve been using InDesign so long that it seems like eons that the dialogue box comes up checked when opened).
MemberIs it an entire sentence or an entire paragraph?
MemberHow large in your file, Bambang?
I’m thinking that by the time you write scripts and do GREPs, it would take less time to do the foreign words.
How many foreign words do you think are in your file?
@ThompsonText: Great info on the spellcheck. I was going to mention that.
MemberHi, Bambang
How is the file being set? Are you importing a word file or a tagged text file? If so, is the italic already in place for those words. If so, the italic should come through when importing.
If they are not tagged for italic or bold or a character style sheet, then I hate to say that InDesign won’t know what constitutes a foreign word.
Are you asking if InDesign will automatically know what is a foreign word and what isn’t? And then be able to automatically apply a character style?
If so, then InDesign can’t do that, so far as I know.
It will either have to be tagged in the word file or the tagged text file that you import.
Dwayne
MemberJaime
Go to “Layout” and scroll down to “Liquid Layout”
When that pallete opens, you will see a tiny arrow on the far right hand side of the pallete.
Click that and “Layout Adjustment” will appear. Click that.
MemberThat sucks :( I do wish there was a way to sort by name as the style sheets do. But if it’s only a hundred or so, I would think it would only take an hour or less.
That’s why when I make new style sheets, I always drag them to where I want them as soon as I make them. I realize that doesn’t help you after the fact.
Good luck and have a great New Years.
MemberUnfortunately, I don’t think there is such an option.
And you have a hundred master pages? Wow! That’s a lot. I think the most I’ve ever had was thirty or so.
MemberDo you mean how they are arranged in the pages palette?
You just need to click the title of your master page (in the palette) and drag it up or down to where you want it.
You will see a black line, and then you know it’s time to release it to that position.
Or is the question about something else?
MemberSince you are having the titles typed, have you considered maybe typing a few em spaces on either side of the title? Then you can create a character style sheet with a custom underline and nest them and apply a custom underline on those emspaces. That would give you a rule on both sides. But you’d have to key the em spaces when typing the titles.
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