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Frederick Yocum
Member@Luiz
The decision of delivery mechanism is the third leg of a three legged stool and connected to what format you think would be most appropriate for your content. I am not speaking from experience, because we have done exploring but not settled on a way to take our print magazine into digital. In the research I have done, it seems how you plan to deliver will impact the choice of format and vis versa.
There are lots of companies who are offering delivery services eg. offering the means to get your magazine onto iPads or Android tablets. Some seem to basically a conduit for pdfs, others like Adobe DPS are a format and delivery system.
If you or your organization can afford it, go to Pepcon this June. This will give you a jump start on what is out there and you might meet others like you who have already made the leap into digital.
Or hire a consultant like Kieth Gilbert to help you steer through the choppy waters of deciding which of the many options is appropriate.
March 13, 2015 at 7:38 pm in reply to: easy way to find & track information on many elements on a page at one time #73943MemberEileen
I am in a very similar position for my larger projects. All the images are set to be 300 dpi (fairly standard for printing). At the end of the project I go through and resize the images, re sampling to ensure they are 300 dpi at the new size. I use a preflight profile that complains if they aren’t between 240 and 300 dpi, they would be at a higher dpi if they weren’t resampled to the smaller size.
It is something of a open question whether it makes sense to resample, rather than letting InDesign handle it, if I am sending a print ready PDF. I think the software has improved significantly.
March 13, 2015 at 9:43 am in reply to: easy way to find & track information on many elements on a page at one time #73932MemberEileen
I thought there might be an easy solution using the Preflight Panel. This would seem to be the natural option. However a brief perusal of said panel made me think again.
What do you mean by “images and objects”? Because ”scale’ is a variable thing and whether something is 100% depends on the object.
If you know all of your images are 300dpi and you want them to all be used at 100%. In the Preflight Panel, you could set both the Image resolution maximum and minimum to 300 dpi. This way if one was slightly too large or too small you would get a preflight warning. You could also set the Non-proportional Scaling of Placed Objects alert to “on”. This won’t make much difference, but it would alert you to an image that is non proportionally scaled!
There are no settings in the Preflight Panel that will alert you to text which not exactly to spec, except you can limit the Minimum text size.
Vector based objects? I think you are out of luck from a Preflight Panel perspective. . .
This seems like something a script could be written to do, but you would have to clarify more completely what you mean by images and objects. (InDesign objects? imported eps files? text?). You could then post a request in the scripting forum and hope that a talented scripter (scriptor?) wants a distraction from the more complicated problem they should be working on, and they will write you a script!
December 18, 2012 at 2:10 pm in reply to: How can I integrate paragraph composer settings into a paragraph style? #63769MemberThanks for documenting the fix. I’m sure it will come in handy for someone in the future.
September 21, 2012 at 7:40 am in reply to: Script to Find anything colored as Registration and convert to 100k #63193MemberOf course, it only finds registration colour made within indesign. That is, if a graphic was placed (EPS, PDF etc) which was in registration, then this script won't fix that.
There is a setting in the preflight panel in the color section which will alert you to the object that has registration applied as a color in imported objects. But this is not a script.
MemberThanks for the very fulsome reply Anne Marie. Our workflow isn’t is necessarily working the best way, see top of this thread.
I am sure I heard what you wrote in your lynda.com series but needed more nudging to trust the world will not explode if more that one person opens an InDesign file at the same time. We will take assignments out of the equation the next time around.
If your current workflow is working, fantastic! Don't change a thing. It's just that you're using assignments, which I thinks complicates things. So the rest of this is for *other* users
MemberI think I meant dragging the story to an existing Assignment in the palette. The issue was never figured out. We are now into a new proofing cycle and we will see if the problem reappears.
… not sure you're using the terminology. Are you dragging a text frame on top of the New Assignment icon?
I get nervous when people simultaneously edit a document, but perhaps we are talking about a conceptual problem on my part. What the InCopy editor is actually editing with the content in an icml file of the individual story instead of icma one which contains all the assigned stories?
I almost always recommend users not bother creating assignments.
It has taken a long time for us to shift to including InCopy into the workflow. There was resistance on the part of the editor (“I am going to have to devote more time to editing.” ”I have to learn a new program.”) and ambivalence higher up the chain. Your humble designer needed to do the research, set up the system, and hold the editor’s hand while she found her feet. But, it has paid dividends in a smoother workflow. The little complications we have experienced are eclipsed by the benefits. The designer does not need to fiddle with small word changes and the editor knows exactly how the text will fall in the design as she edits.
May 2, 2012 at 9:29 am in reply to: Spell Check – Can I tell InDesign that 2 separate words are actually 1 word? #62112MemberI have a similar problem in our magazine. Each edition has many names of people that are specific to the edition. Since we work in almost sixty countries the permutations of names gets pretty diverse and some are close to English — Thon, Utooni, Kola are a few in the current issue.
The weakness of using the “No Language” is that it is a Character Style attribute. Option + click to clear local formatting and the No language setting disappears.
My current solution is to store the proper names in the document. This is one of the options as you spell check. You can, when you find a word not in the User Dictionary, choose “Dictionary” and then “Target” the document rather than the User Dictionary, so that the name is stored in the document. The process is somewhat complicated because in the spell check process you need to continually click through to change the User Dictionary to document.
This is crying out for a script, either to import a list of names/words into dictionary area of the document or to go through a document gathering up the words not in the dictionary and giving you the option to add them to the document dictionary area.
Failing that, it would really help to change the default dictionary to the document. Most of my spell checking activity is dealing with proper nouns that are particular to the document not words that never made it into the user dictionary.
Member@Bob
Thanks, for researching this! I haven’t had a reason to use anchored objects much until beginning to work with creating EPub the Adobe way. I will have a play with this later today.
Fred
Member@Anne-Marie
Thanks for the rapid reply, sorry it has taken so long for me to respond. Most of my day was spent trawling through the vagaries of e-mail newsletter formatting. Grrr . . .
What I am seeing in InDesign is depicted (I hope) below. Text wrap functions, but only from the line below where the image is anchored. Red circle where image is anchored.
If there is a large image on the page and it is anchored to a smaller amount of text or if the image is supposed to fall on the page in the middle of text but be anchored (things which happens in frequently in magazine design) I end up with text falling behind the image. The solution might be to reshape the text frame to skirt around the image and no longer use text wrap. That feels like too much work. Or maybe there is a setting I am missing.
In an xml workflow objects can be tagged and placed between tagged paragraphs with no problem. But I am trying to fit into the Adobe way of doing things.
MemberRather than adjusting every separate string in the Find What array, you could paste this at the end of the constructed findWhat string.
Of course, brilliant!
MemberThanks Jongware
American ZIP codes either contain five digits or, five digits hyphen then four additional digits. So then it would be?
[“Washington(?= ddddd[ -]?)”, “WA”]
Member@Jongware
Nice little script which I used on a set of business card templates that needed to go from full state names to abbreviations. I ran into an edge case however. Washington D.C. How to tell the difference?
Since the script uses grep it might be possible to do a look ahead to check for the letters D.C. or District of Columbia, I don’t know if this can be accomplished using scripting. It might be possible to do a look ahead for the postal/zip code, in fact, this would be generally useful because using postal abbrevations are usually only relevant for the state name when it is in an address block. I simply did a normal find and replace and corrected the Washingtons by hand. In any case using the script was still much quicker than 52 find and replaces.
MemberYou can link InDesign character and paragraph styles to XML tags so that applying them is pretty much a one click action — if you have a finished document and you want to export it. Working with XML in a document that is still being edited is a little more complicated in my experience. Once you have 'tagged' paragraphs and characters, you can export your tagged content as XML.
Most people on this forum do not have a high opinon of InDesign's XML tools, however if you want to explore further there is a fairly clear overview of InDesign XML capacity in A Designer’s Guide to Adobe InDesign and XML a book by Jame J. Maivald.
MemberMy exploration of the upgrades yields further wrinkles for nonprofit users. You can get a heavily discounted price when you purchase either individual programs or suites, but you can not upgrade except through an upgrade plan which you pay up front for two years at the time of purchase. Your upgrade path is assured if you continue to pay for the upgrade plan. There are no cross grades. Existing licenses have no upgrade path.
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