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Kirk DickinsonMemberFound some that got replaced by Unicode 002E
This is really strange.
Kirk DickinsonMemberThanks. :)
I don’t do a lot of this type of work. I mostly use ID for flyers and a calendar that I publish every year. There is a learning curve for a book and I haven’t done one is years. I am trying to get back up to speed. :)
Kirk DickinsonMemberLindsey,
OK, thanks. I probably don’t want to switch to Arno at this point. I have most of the Minion Pro set. More than comes with typekit.
Whatever I ever knew about “Primes”, I seem to have forgotten.
So what I did with the x0022 and x0027 for inch and foot is not exactly correct either?
thanks for the help.
Kirk DickinsonMemberLindsey,
I am not using a style guide. I have Stunk and White from about 20 years ago that I use for a lot of things, but have done some things becuase they just look right to me.
Using Minion Pro and curly single quote just looks wrong to my eye for an apostrophe. Definately wrong as an inch symbol.
If it is pretty standard to leave the curly single quote instead of apostrophe, then maybe I will just not futz with it.
Kirk DickinsonMemberThanks David. The Grep find and replace worked good for the numbers. I did the entire book and did find and change one at a time to verify and there wasn’t a single time the grep failed. I don’t understand grep, but found a snippet somewhere that works well. I probably should do the Michael Murphy GREP course on Lynda.
Find: (?<=\d)”
Changeto: ~”I can’t use the ctrl-quote trick at this point because everything is already typed.
I probably could fix a significant number of the errors by just looking for curly singles before a lower case t or s and replacing them with an apostrophe.
Thanks for the link, I will check it out.
PS, I went to apply your fix on the findchangebylist.txt and (unless I am crazy) the newest ID download has it fixed already.
Kirk DickinsonMemberWell, I don’t like Baskerville. Once I started setting some type I noticed that the version that I have doesn’t have proper small caps or proportional old style numerals.
I have set a couple chapters in Minion Pro and it is easy to read, but I am not sure I like the way it looks. I am using Hyphenation, Justification, and Keeps settings Nigel French recomended in his article on Feb 7 in InDesign Secrets. https://creativepro.com/designing-books.php
I have a lot of Yellow highlighted lines.
Kirk DickinsonMemberThanks Colleen, that helps. I am trying to find photos that are not in order and that overview will really help.
I guess since PageMaker only had one master Pasteboard instead of one for each spread, that view made more sense.
Never have liked the multiple pasteboards in ID, but I sure don’t want to go back to PageMaker.
Kirk DickinsonMemberI was hoping for a more elegant solution. Live would be better, but I can live with static. It just seems that it would almost be easier to manually create the frames and paste the text into it instead of using a variable and then converting every one. Especially since I am typesetting a book with a lot of photos.
I just reread Anne Marie’s article on making captions easy and I guess I can make that work.
I don’t do this enough to pony up for a pricy plug in, but would be willing to pay for something that made it easier.
Thanks
Kirk DickinsonMemberJust for hand filled out checks. We have several different companies and we like to use several different custom backgrounds and have been printing our own checks for at least a decade. I just very much dislike all the new software I have looked at. There is no great secret to the check format. I keep thinking about doing it in ID.
Kirk
August 26, 2013 at 12:18 pm in reply to: Using Find/Change to put brackets around formatted text #65016Kirk DickinsonMemberThanks David. I knew there had to be a way. I know GREP is powerful but have never taken the time to learn how to use it.
Thanks,
Kirk
August 26, 2013 at 10:52 am in reply to: Using Find/Change to put brackets around formatted text #65014Kirk DickinsonMemberI must be doing it wrong. When I run the Grep Search, it replaces my italitized text with the brackets and the $1, not the original text.
Thanks,
Kirk
Kirk DickinsonMemberDavid,
Thank you for replying, you said:
I don't see why you think InDesign would be able to do this differently.
Well, I may have decided that, because I tried it. :)
In my attempt to work around the problem, I tried several different things. Below are two:
Attempt 3:
Export Layer Comps to files using PDF Format,
In Acrobat, combine all 18 separate files into one.
Optimize PDF
Result: PDF looks good, but is 83 MB which is crazy huge for an 18 page PDF and can't be shared on the internet.
Attempt 4:
Start a new 18 page project in InDesign.
Place the PSD on every single page and the master.
Go through the pages and turn only the layer on that I want, including only the background on the master page
Export to PDF
Result: PDF looks great, and it is only 1.1 MB
I just wondered if there was any way to automate the placement of the comps so it isn't as time consuming.
Thanks,
Kirk
Kirk DickinsonMemberDavid, did you read my first post where it said:
Attempt 3:
Export Layer Comps to files using PDF Format,
In Acrobat, combine all 18 separate files into one.
Optimize PDF
Result: PDF looks good, but is 83 MB which is crazy huge for an 18 page PDF and can't be shared on the internet.
The merged files are too large to be usable.
Kirk
Kirk DickinsonMemberI checked that out and it didn't have the “Export Comps to PDF” in it. I guess that is gone now. I am trying to figure out how to do it with InDesign in a quicker way than manually.
Kirk
Kirk DickinsonMemberThanks Bob, I will check that out.
Kirk
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