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Linda Bergeron Szefer
ParticipantThanks DIeter, I just followed your suggestion. Let’s see if that takes care of the problem…
December 16, 2024 at 12:27 pm in reply to: Corrupted ID file – Cannot globally modify styles #14409733ParticipantI finished that first proof without any crashes by applying all the new styles locally — no global style replacement — and by redoing from scratch the 3 pages that had kept crashing. Made it to the deadline. Fingers crossed that the next proofs will be crashless.
December 9, 2024 at 11:20 am in reply to: Corrupted ID file – Cannot globally modify styles #14409517ParticipantNot sure I had the right email address, I just sent you a link for WeTransfer. If you do not receive it, please send me a current address…
December 9, 2024 at 8:31 am in reply to: Corrupted ID file – Cannot globally modify styles #14409508ParticipantI tried everything you suggested but it did not work.
Last year the publishing house had decided to use Google fonts and the fonts included with the Adobe CC subscription exclusively in all their published material, including replacing all the fonts when reediting their bestsellers (which is what I’m doing at the moment). After a hellish weekend where things kept getting worse crashwise, I gave up and went to watch a movie. While relaxing, a word came to my mind: fonts… I rushed back to work, removed and redownloaded the Adobe fonts I was using and, well, ID stopped crashing, and I did more work in an hour than the whole previous day. And still not crashing today.
So, not sure it was the only problem, I keep my fingers crossed… and I decided to include watching a movie in my bag of tools when facing mysterious technical problems.
December 6, 2024 at 8:09 am in reply to: Corrupted ID file – Cannot globally modify styles #14409465ParticipantTo erase the old style: as you say, I delete when it says it’s in use and choose the new style.
I will delete things like you mentioned and let you know how it goes.
How it crashes: it makes the changes, and then after 4 or 5 seconds the spinning beach ball appears and keeps turning until I force quit the application. I guess until it hits the problem further down the document, or something like that…
ParticipantI already tried the Vertical Justification and Horizontal alignment controls, and they might do a better job now but it doesn’t work with the examples I provided. Wish it did… By the way, Pasting into is also my goto trick for text in circles and ovals.
Participant“ID cannot easily replicate the placement of the type in those irregular text frames” — not sure I understand… The pasted text has no control on its parent. You can add an inset to the autofit text and use the edges as a reference for your odd shaped box if it needs to be evenly tight with the text., but it has to be done manually.
I find this solution easier to manipulate than having the text box on top of and grouped with the odd shaped box.
ParticipantNot sure how to include a link here. Let me know if this is not the right way…
ParticipantI just set up the script and it works perfectly… Again, thanks Keith and David!
ParticipantThanks Ketih and David! Exactly what I was looking for. Doesn’t seem like it would make a big difference, but it does: I’m working on a math workbook with the answers on a separate layer (same layer names thoughout the project); I keep switching it on and off while working on my layout and the following proofs… Let’s say I’m saving about 3 minutes per page, 450 pages = over 22 hours… :)
ParticipantThanks! Actually, I was looking for a shortcut to show/hide a layer without having to open the Layer Panel…
ParticipantYes! That does the trick! Adding it on my favourite shortcuts on a Post-It below my screen… Using InDesign since version 1.0 (yep, showing my age), I’m still learning basic stuff like this. Amazing.
Thanks David and Anne-Marie, you’re a great help as always.
ParticipantMore info: This is the 2nd edition of a math workbook done in 2017. The problem appears mostly with numbers in tables, graphs and figures. Bunch of things are being updated (fonts, sizes, colours, frames, etc.). My guess is that a paragraph style containing a Nested Style was applied, locally modified, copied and pasted… over and over. I am applying a fresh paragraph style but somehow the character style remains active. Complicated? Yessir! :)
Is there a script or something that could let me cancel local modifications on the old text before I import it in the new layout, or better still, as I apply the new style?
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