good job, David! :)

Things like that happen. No biggie.

Thanks for the explanation, kjgEnergy. I'm in book publishing and I do the actual layout and pagination, and not involved in the sort of things that you do.

I really appreciate your explanation and the insight.

And, apologies, but I don't have any suggestions, but I'm sure the folks here will.

Thanks again for your reply.

doc

I think it's an OS problem. I have noticed that even though I tell the OS to open .jpg, .tif, etc in Photoshop it sometimes opens in Preview. And the same thing with PDFs. I tell my Mac to open PDFs in Acrobat, but sometimes it will open one in Preview.

But I've noticed this problem more since going to Snow Leopard.

David–thanks for the link for that article. I had read it before. That's why I was confused about why you were having problems. I thought that you had followed the advice and was wondering why you were having problems as well.

I still get 'em. And who stretched the screen??? Someone posted something that really stretched it. I've got a 23-inch display and I've gotta scroll sideways to read this thread.

Hey Magenta–I'm in book publishing as well. And with your column width I don't see how you could have too many loose lines. I think 28p8 is very good.

I would definitely use the paragraph composer. And with that being said, I'd set your hyphenation for only one hyphen limit (two if worse comes to worse). Then slide the slider over to “less hyphenation.” I think it will definitely give you what you want.

I'm not sure what your H&Js are, but you can always tweak them. I usually use 80% minimum, 95% optimum, and 120% for maximum. Our clients don't like letterspacing or allow it, although we sometimes manually kern an entire paragraph with a -5 or so to pull a line back.

In any event–I would definitely use the paragraph composer. If you use single composer you'll be doing a lot of tweaking of lines and it will take you twice as long to do the job.

doc

That was my first thought, adamjury. But I've been to sites where something as simple as a space band in front of a new paragraph caused it.

No offense intended at all to anyone, but I don't understand the problem with it. It doesn't bother me at all, but I know folks who think it's horrible and complain about it. I just don't get it. I suppose the InDesign designers can't make everyone happy.

I'm more concerned with getting jobs done and using InDesign and not fretting about redundant lines or (as someone at work wanted) the font in the menus to be a tad bigger.

kjgEnergy–Can I ask why you have an issue with it or feel the need to turn it off? I'm just curious is all.

Thanks.

Glad you got the answer, Dave. I confess I hardly think of printer drivers when I do upgrades :(