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Graham Park
MemberTry a GREP that lists all the punctuation to find and then replace with nothing. You can’t use [[:PUNCT:]] as it will find quote marks.
Add more punctuation to the list to make it complete,Find
^\.|\!|\,|\:|\;|\?
Replace
NothingMemberI would make one Indesign document just for the Cover and have that as the first document in your book file.
Then when you print it it will be a spread.
You are setting the pagination correctly? If you are printing the document and then folding each spread yo have to make sure the correct pages face the correct pages.
Eg for a 16 page document printed double sided you will have Pages 16 and 1 on one side and 15 and 2 on the opposite side of the paper. So when you fold and collate them they will be in the correct order. The keep following this for page printed page. This is normally done with imposition software not in InDesign, there some scripts to do this.
If yo have a cover and then 8 sections all that will be staple bound you will have to impose the whole document correctly for it to work when it is folded trimmed and bound. Of course the imposition will be different if it is perfect bound in sections.MemberIf you are folding the pages in half then you need to print the first and last page as a spread.
Make a copy of the Outside Front Cover and place it after the Outside Back Cover (Front on the right, back on the left) and print this with bleed on Top, Bottom and Outside. You may need to adjust the text box sizes to make sure nothing overlaps from front to back.
Fold between the two pages, trim the edges and you have a self cover page for your publication.PS you may need to do the same for the inside front cover if you have text that is to print on the inside
MemberIf you are using an office printer they usually do not print to the edge, they leave a 5mm or so white boarder all round.
You said you are sending this our to have the boarders trimmed so the boarder on the cover will also be trimmed off.
Then the document will have to be bound, so make sure you know how it will be bound and make allowance for this.Your other option maybe to print the cover on larger paper (A4 printed on A3) which will allow it to be printed with bleed and trimmed to the full final size.
April 4, 2018 at 6:09 am in reply to: Need help with GREP code find pronunciations in text. but only pronunciations. #102847MemberWe would need to find the pattern to be sure to create a GREP to do this.
This will find your example but will probably not work for every example, give it a try and see how it goes.
\(.+\-[\u]+\)
MemberWhy not convert one or more of your existing yearbook files into a template. They should already have object styles, master pages (preface, index, section header pages, photo pages etc), paragraph styles etc.
MemberHow about
A Find and Replace for the hyphen to add a discretionary line break after it.
The add NO BREAK style with GREP to the first word up the and including the hyphen.Apply Style
No Break
To Text
\w+\-This will keep the first word and the hyphen together and then break or not as required after this.
MemberYou both could be correct.
I’ll wait for Clark responses to see what he is trying to do in more detail.MemberWill this work for you?
Add a GREP to the style to find words with a Hyphen in them and add a no break character styleApply Style
No Break
To Text
\w+\-\w+MemberThis might help.
https://creativepro.com/list-of-hidden-characters-what-is-that-weird-character-in-my-text.phpTo share screen shots use something like imgur.com
MemberHere is an Adobe’s take on the matter.
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/370714
See this section.
For offset printing, the standard image resolution is 266-300 ppi at 100% image size, for printing at 133-150 lpi; providing a ppi/lpi ratio of 2:1. This allows for a bit of “wiggle room” if you have to make a small or last-minute increase in image size without scanning again. If you remove the safety margin, you can use a ppi/lpi ratio of as little as 1.55/1 without image degradation (according to Agfa, a leading manufacturer of imagesetting equipment). You can certainly use images that are sampled at somewhat higher rates. But there is no benefit. It won’t give you more detail in your printed image due to the limiting resolution of the halftone screen.MemberI did not say to down sample to 150dpi, I said the screen ruling was 150lpi. Rule of thumb image resolution should be about twice the screen ruling so 150lpi means images 300dpi.
Think about the images in an A4 booklet, if an RGB image is a full page it will be 25MB @ 300dpi or 100MB @ 600dpi that is a lot of extra data that will not be able to be seen.
If you are outputting a PDF for the printer then choose PRESS QUALITY and the images (colour and grayscale) downsampling will be set to downscale images 450dpi and above to 300dpi at maximum quality. Why is this the standard? Well the files are larger than needed and the quality is as high as can be produced on a high quality offset printing press.There are many people running digital press these days that lack knowledge of the printing process. You also get this with large format printing where an inkjet might be 1200dpi do you want to supply a 1200dpi image file for a 1.2mx5m print? (600dpi would give you a 9.GB file).
Continuous tone images are forgiving, where you will very high resolution is with BITMAP images. This is why you would try to use vector images for logo etc rather than making bitmap images.MemberBrian
300dpi for continuous tone images is the industry standard for offset printing.
Screen ruling for high quality printing are usually 150-175lpi (or 25-20 micron second order stochastic screen).
A 150lpi screen can only reproduce image data to a certain size, files larger than 300-350dpi will lead to larger files and normally no visible increase in quality on the final printed page.Don’t get the dpi of a platesetter confused with dpi of an image. Platesetters usually run 2,400 to 2,500 dpi to product the screen rulings of 150-175lpi.
Keep the image sizes practical, Many times I have received artwork for a label with almost 1GB of files due to designers not scaling images or not cropping images but only having a fraction of an image showing this just making working on these files much slower than required (bring back a good finished artist to get the files right)
MemberTrue but the printer wants only the Spot Gold plate, no way I know of in InDesign to output separations to a PDF and only end up with the spot colour plate except by using the Distiller.
MemberDavid
How about an old work around.
Print the page required as separations, in Ink Manager turn off the unwanted separations, to a Postscript file then Distill with Acrobat and you have a Spot Colour only PDF file.
A bit crude but it works. -
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