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Grace Peirce
MemberHi – Because of a disappearing font issue with CC2020, I went back to using InDesign CC2019 6 months ago and the hand tool bug came back. I’m on Mohave 10.14.4 on a late 2014 iMac Retina with 24GB ram, using a USB extended Mac keyboard. I turned off the Spotlight shortcut and I still occasionally get the hand tool bug, but if I hit the space bar a few times, and click my USB Shhhh gaming mouse in random places, it resolves. There doesn’t seem to be any particular thing I’m doing that triggers it — it is super random. But since I don’t have to quit InDesign and relaunch, or shut down and restart, I’m living with it. Fortunately it only happens about once a week or so lately. I usually run InDesign with Photoshop, Acrobat, Word, and Firefox running in the background, in case that makes a difference. Not resolved.
MemberI discovered that if the hand tool bug appears, I can hit the space bar a few times and it returns to normal. Go figure!
MemberThanks, David – I had read that post before, but because it is over 10 years old, I dismissed it as too out of date. But I’ll try starting in Safe Mode and seeing if that clears anything up, and some of the other things Steve suggested. For me, the problem appears so randomly, and I never know when it will happen again. I work all day every day except Sunday with InDesign, and it hasn’t happened for about a week now. So we’ll see. Thank you for helping!
GraceMemberThanks for the suggestion of resetting preferences — I wish it had helped.
My OS is up to date and so is my version of InDesign – I reset the preferences and that has not made any difference. It’s a very random occurrence that I haven’t been able to link to any particular action in InDesign. When it happens, it is very frustrating, though!
Still no help from Adobe.January 22, 2019 at 1:49 pm in reply to: GREP or character style for kerning one pair of letters #113811MemberThanks Aaron — I’ll have a look at the Kahrel script and see if it will do the trick!
GraceJanuary 22, 2019 at 1:00 pm in reply to: GREP or character style for kerning one pair of letters #113809MemberThanks — I’ve tried using tracking for just the 2 letters and creating a character style, but it also applies the extra tracking BEFORE the letter pair, so that won’t work.
I’ve tried kerning the pair apart, copying it, and using search for a non-kerned “rn” and replacing it with the copied/pasted kerned pair, and the kerning apparently isn’t copied, or isn’t honored by the search/replace.
but thanks for troubleshooting this with me! I was thinking a GREP search might be possible, but can’t figure out how to signify a kerning value.
There may be a way to manually alter the kerning pair map for the font, but that is beyond my capability.
MemberOkay, thanks David! I’ve downloaded the updated guide.
MemberDavid – The one on the far left and the one on the far right that look sort of like “L”s I have not seen before and they aren’t listed in the handy chart that I got from InDesign Secrets. I know what the tab glyph and the space glyphs and line break glyphs are — what are the ones at the beginning / end for? They look like they come in pairs – one at the beginning and one at the end of the entry.
Memberthanks Aaron – will give it a shot!
MemberThanks, Rick – wondering what the CSS looks like for this too? I’ll experiment and see.
MemberThank you, David!
Grace
MemberThanks, David, no transparency anywhere that I can see. All 3 look exactly the same in Photoshop. But one must be different somehow. I solved it, I think, by saving the offending image as a Photoshop PDF, and converting it to sRGB — then placing it in the InDesign document. I suspected it might have something to do with a color profile, but could not find any different profile applied in the original Photoshop files. My PDF “fix” worked! All 3 now look the same, as they should!
Memberthanks — you are right — that is the fix for this font. unfortunately it was already indexed, so doing that would have reflowed most of the pages and rendered the index unusable. But next time I will know. I discovered that the Type 1 Postscript Font Bembo is flawed — the kerning table was never completed properly for that font.
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