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Kai Rübsamen
MemberIsabelle, if you want some help, you should be more specific! A correct answer would be e.g. CC Vers. 9.3. or CC 2015.4 or … It would also be helpful, if you can provide an example of one page with image/caption.
To your second question: If you make changes and export a new epub, you will of course lost all your edits in the html.
MemberThe behavior of groups depends on your version of InDesign. So this is the first question, that needs to be answered.
MemberCarol, it is difficult to give you an answer about such comments ;-)
Here is the idea:
1. Clean up your document (remove empty textframes, apply styles, map styles to tags, anchor images …)
2. Export your EPUB (without splitting your document)
3. Check in iBooks, ADE the look and
4. in BBEdit the code of your EPUB
5. Note every error, go back to InDesign, solve the problems and start an export again
6. If everything is ok, then export with chapter breaksIf you haven’t dealt with the code yet, I assume you use the ugly CSS that InDesign will generate for you. To be fair with you: If you do not examine the code, you will sadly never produce beautiful books and maybe more important, find those errors as you described in a short time.
Kai
MemberJonathan, it’s hard for me to discuss such topics in another language, but I discoved two things:
Your creation of the columns-guides is wrong. If you stay with 12 columns, you will not have the possibility of autoflowing text. So I recommend working with ruler-guides on an additional layer and go with 3 columns and if needed, with different masterpages.
What you are tryin’ to archive cannot work! Your grid is based on 6 pt, but the placeholderframe has 72 pt. This sounds good at a first glance, but you forgot, that the first line has no leading. So, in my opinion this 1pt differences between e.g. “J” and the top of the frame is not a problem, but this 6 pt at the bottom is.
So, there are always two rules:
1. Use whenever possible a grid
2. Know when you can or should make some overrides to the gridSaid, you will have a perfect looking result if you go with about 67 pt for the frame and move the textframe a bit to the left. Note also, that life would be easier, if not everything is a single frame. I would do anything in one frame and anchor later the images.
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KaiMemberHi Jonathan,
first of all, thanks for your detailed explanation and your screenshot. Sadly you did say nothing about your non-serif font.
If I have a look at your screen, it seems that the cap-height is heigher than your grid. So it is normal, that the baseline is sitting on the next line.
So either you must resize your font-size or the frame.
Realize that InDesign calculates intern with points instead of inches. So sometimes it is also a rounding problem! To give you more answers, please provide a idml-file instead of a screen.
Kai
MemberCarole, I assume, you did not click on the checkbox during the export? If you set the right checkboxes on para level and during the export, a headline MUST be on a new page.
If you crack up your file, how many normal xhtml-files do you have?
Kai
MemberMichel, I’ve been very annoyed at this special facebook post last week (a guy find $5 to expensive for a script) and see this as you (maybe with minor exeptions).
In Germany scripters take between 70-150 Euro per hour. So if someone spent his time, he should also be paid for it. In the past, a lot of scripters provide their scripts for free (me too). In hindsight, we have thus destroyed the market. That should end.
Kai
MemberSure, you can automate this process, either with character styles or as local overrides. So a script could find all superscripts with a underline and set the underline to the correct position as Michel showed in his video.
MemberYes.
MemberJette, I used indd to package and checked idml. If I use then the second step, I get no error, the new indd is created and the name of the idml is honored.
Kai
MemberWhy do I have the feeling, that you didn’t understand my way, cause I use a character style too ;-) Of course, if this should work with different fontsizes, Michels way with the script is a good idea.
MemberThis isn’t possible with grep, cause as I described above, if you use percentages, you will get
a) no correct value
b) percentages are converted to mm or pt
c) only values in () are dynamic and doesn’t help in your caseAs I said above: You will not have those problems, if you choose a font with a glyph-set that can display correct ordinals.
Otherwise it is good practice, not to underline everything. So it should not be that problem, to create one character style for body text with my above mentioned steps. An yes, you can then includ this style with a grepstyle to your para style, e.g. (\d\Kth)Kai
April 29, 2017 at 2:41 am in reply to: Trying to resize a table, frame resizing but not table..? #93953MemberA table is technically one character in your main flow. So this fitting-thing won’t work. There are several ways to reach the goal:
Insert a new row above row one, merge the cells and give this one cell in row one the width of your frame. Select then your columns, and choose e.g. distribute all columns.Cause this can be time consuming in many tables, there exists scripts (at indesignsecrets and at the scripting adobe forum), that can help you.
Kai
MemberYears ago, I made a training program in different languages, each language in a separate document. After a year, I get several corrections: new courses, delete courses, changes in prices. It was a mess, to change everything in those independent documents.
Now I have everything in one document on different layers as you described. German is the master language. If this layer is finnished, I make the changes in other languages. Because everything is in one document, I must insert or delete pages only once.
Every language has it’s own set of para and char styles. Textframes are sometimes named. Because of this naming-thing, I can control the flow of text and also the visibility of layers with scripts. E.g. if you have multiple layers, you can skip the Export-Dialog and do everything with a script > make 3 layers visible, export to PDF, set the visibilty after the export to false …
To your layout question: Assume you built your document from scratch. It should be possible to work either with named frames or duplicate the finnished layer (everything with scripting), if you do not want to layout with stacking frames.
So with a bit of brainstorming before the project, many things can be improved.
Kai
MemberWhat a interesting question!
Some thoughts: If you create a underline, this is calculated based on the size of the font. E.G.
fontsize: 36 pt
Preferences Superscript – Size: 60% and Position: 30%Underline-weight will give us for the normal characters 1,8 pt and for the ordinals 1,8 pt too. But it is clear, that the underline for the ordinals is smaller.
To change the size of the ordinal-underline:
Every other value instead of standard, in this case (1,8 pt) > e.g. 2 pt will set both to the same thicknessTo bring the line down, it seems to be inaccurate to calculate with the shifted value, so:
1. Draw a character “M” with the same fontsize, fit the frame
2. Copy this frame with shift, enter a “h” and click on superscript > note draw not “th”
3. If you try to fit the character to the frame, this will not work, cause superscript is only an effect
4. Convert the “h” to outlines
5. Flip the h-frame from top to bottom till the bottom edge is aligning with the bottom edge of the M-frame >> this is your offset and in my example 10,8 pt!Hopefully the steps are understandable. To built a right style with exact values, it should not take longer than a minute.
Kai
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