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August 10, 2012 at 10:56 pm in reply to: David, viewing your numbering video, but I don't have "A Main page" #62844
Gert Verrept
MemberD, In the page panel, you'll find a “master” page called “none” and a master page “A”. If you check all your pages in that panel, you'll see they all will be “A-masters”, unless you've create some others.
To make the page number appear on each page, add the page number on the right master page. How, select the type tool, make a text frame, click in it so you can start typing and add the number (type menu- insert special char – markers – current page number).
This frame, you can move wherever you want on the page, top or bottiom, left or right.
Gert Verrept
MemberSolutions:
1. Are there dotted lines around the headers from Word? If yes, go to the master page and delete them. If you can select them on a regular page, then you'll have to remove them manually (sorry);
2. Go to you master page and set the correct header and insert the page number (type menu – insert special char – -marker – current page number), do this for both pages;
3. Index: I suggest you do some look up on this site, because this is a bit too complex to explain in this answer;
4. If you have worked with different para styles, this cannot be difficult (layout menu, TOC, …).
Good luck
August 8, 2012 at 11:24 pm in reply to: Question about single tab–can't stop it from driving page number to next line? #62810Gert Verrept
MemberD, some things to be checked. In the tabs panel, did you click just above the rule to set the tab? A little arrow should appear and the distance from the maargin is indicated. If this is not the case, then do that first. Putting the dots: select the tab (the little arrow on top of the rule) and put a dot in the leading field.
How many tabs were put in the original file? If more then one, delete them all, and put one back (or leave one).
just watch this and it will become clear:
August 8, 2012 at 11:13 pm in reply to: How to decrease the space after a 36 pt. Chapter number? #62809Gert Verrept
MemberD, ok. Try to increase the leading from “auto” to something else (select the complete title for this). If the 36 pt title is on top of the page this doesn't work, but, it's worth a try.
Gert Verrept
MemberThis seems to be a flattening problem when exporting to pdf. The use of pdf/x-4 should solve the problem. Check the settings in acrobat too, overprint should be on all the time, if not you could end up with some differences between CS and Acrobat.
August 7, 2012 at 11:18 pm in reply to: Question about single tab–can't stop it from driving page number to next line? #62798Gert Verrept
MemberD, select the text with the “text” (T) tool. “ctrl-shift-T” gives you the Tabs panel. Put your cursor (just above the rule in the tab panel) where you want your tab (the little arrows above show you which tab you want (3rd one is right justified) and click. For the dotted lines put a dot in the “leader” option. Click in the text, and if you didn't already put the “tab”, hit “tab” and there's your dotted line. Select all the table of contents and put the tab in the tab panel. You can make para styles with different tab positions for more accurate working.
August 7, 2012 at 11:09 pm in reply to: How to decrease the space after a 36 pt. Chapter number? #62797Gert Verrept
MemberD, Just select the space with the text tool. You'll see it's 36 pt. Decrease it to 12 pt (or something else).
Problem b: select “chapter one”, search for “baseline shift” and set it to 18 pt. If the line above is empty, just change the size into 18 pt instead of 36.
August 7, 2012 at 2:03 am in reply to: How to decrease the space after a 36 pt. Chapter number? #62788Gert Verrept
MemberD, do you mean that the number is on line 1 and the subhead on line 2? In that case, try increasing the baseline shift of the second line (that way the second line goes up to the 36 pt number). If you created a para style for the 36 pt number, check if the “space after” is set to “0”, and that the second line has “0” space before.
August 6, 2012 at 11:44 pm in reply to: Help me understand how to create this particular Style…. #62784Gert Verrept
MemberD, several things, first make sure that there's a return after the bolded word, this should solve your indent problem. No space after the bolded word means you have filled in “0” in the “space after field” or, as I said, there's no “enter” after the bolded word. Since I don't have to source, it difficult to see what really happens. Check all the options in the para styles again.
The use of the “next style”: select the “type” tool (T). Select the text for BOTH paragraphs (the bold word and the description have to be selected – black background and white text). In the para style panel, DO NOT CLICK LEFT on the Glossary Bold style, but CLICK RIGHT, and you should see the option “apply “Glossary Bold style” then next style”. Make sure that the bolded word and the description consist of TWO DIFFERENT PARAGRAPHS, if not, just hit enter after the bolded word and try it again (after the bolded word, if you use “show hidden chars – type menu, last option), you must see a kind of “reversed P”.
Indesign is a wonderful program, but learning it takes some time and pls, forget the way “Word” works, as I always say:”Put your mind into the Indesign gear”.
gert
August 6, 2012 at 12:49 am in reply to: When Word didn't flow into Indesign frame right–how to I get ALL pages to fit? #62768Gert Verrept
MemberDoodlebug, when you imoprt an rtf file, and then apply a para style, it can be that some formatting gets lost. For the “bolds and italics” look on the site for the “preptext” script. Place the rtf file, run the preptext script FIRST and you'll notice some char style to be added. When applying afterwards a para style, the bold and italics should still be there. Make sure the formatting in your rtf files contains the bolds and italics of cource.
August 5, 2012 at 11:53 pm in reply to: Help me understand how to create this particular Style…. #62767Gert Verrept
MemberDoodlebug1, you'll have to create 2 para styles, one for the bold (call it bold) and one for the description.
The indent part can be made by setting the left indent to x (indents and spacing) in the second para style (call it descript), depending on what you want.
In your “bold” style, “general tab”, select the “next style” option and click on the second para style (descript) your created. That way, you can select the “bolded” word and the description with the text selection tool, right click on the “bold” para style and select the option “apply bold and then next style”.
This works if you example is correct, if you want to start the description AFTER the bolded word, and have the description on several lines, it's a different story.
August 5, 2012 at 11:25 pm in reply to: Can't figure out WHY I can't place RTF file–I do see Overset, but can't find problem! #62766Gert Verrept
MemberSorry, indeed, footnotes come at the bottom of the page, but if the footnote text itself it too big, and the option “allow split footnotes” (type menu) is off, indesign can stop flowing text at that point.
If you have the indesign file, why not just opening it, instead of placing it? If the file is an cs3 version, cs5 should open it (with some errors due to the version difference) without much problems.
August 5, 2012 at 11:16 pm in reply to: Don't understand how to link 50 more pages at the end of what I placed?? #62765Gert Verrept
MemberDoodlebug1, strange, if you click on the red box with the black selection tool, hold down shift (your loaded cursor should now have a arrow in it) and then click on the next page, your text should flow into the pages till the end (in fact it should be creating all the pages automatically).
Instead of command-shift-P (adds one page), use insert pages (layout menu) and increase the number of pages to 50 and after which page they should be added.
August 2, 2012 at 11:46 pm in reply to: Can't figure out WHY I can't place RTF file–I do see Overset, but can't find problem! #62751Gert Verrept
MemberDavid's suggestion is very good, but what we often encounter in rtf-files (and others) is that the footnotes are, before formatting, longer than the text on one page. The solution is setting the doc footnote options to “allow split footnotes”.
If layout is of no impotance, save the rtf as a txt-file and import that one.
Another trick, make a parastyle as basic as possible, import the rtf-file, select all and apply the “basic style”.
Gert Verrept
MemberRalla,
I agree with David for the conversion, but if you want to convert spot to cmyk, consider looking for Pantone Bridge. It's free and comes with cs5.5 (I think). That way the spot colors are converted to cmyk with the exact values and these are slightly different from the ink manager ones.
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