Forum Replies Created
-
AuthorPosts
-
Lindsey Martin
MemberSusan, What is the title of your suggestion on indesign.uservoice.com? I searched but couldn’t find it. Would like to vote it up.
MemberHave a look at Footwork from Id-Extras.com. Not cheap.
MemberOn the Mac OS what I would do is switch to list view in the folder, sort by Kind, click on the top .ai file, shift-click on the bottom one, right-click and send to Trash. Should work with minor variations on Windows as well. This assumes, of course, that your image files are all in one folder. If they are in several, you will have more work, but sorting by Kind still seems the most straightforward method. Am I missing something?
MemberI think that David is likely right. Many office printers default to ‘Fit’ and will shrink the document’s pages so it will not be clipped by the area at the edges of the paper on which the printers cannot print. Of course, if you are typesetting letter-sized pages and printing at ‘Actual Size’ to letter-sized paper, the edges will be clipped. But, unless you have bleeds or text very close to the edge of the page, no one will notice.
MemberThere are two ‘flavours’ of OpenType font: PostScript (.otf) and TrueType (.ttf); an OpenType font wil show the extension that matches its ‘flavour’. You should have no trouble using either on Windows. A .dfont, on the other hand, is a Mac OS X data fork font and they are only supported on the Mac OS. They can be converted for use on Windows but I would use cross-platform fonts instead.
MemberI have had this happen, though not lately, and usually when switching from a 27″ screen to laptop and back. Here is Keith Gilbert’s method of repair from his blog post of 22 May 2015:
‘I discovered today that there is a file named “DVADialogPrefs.xml” located in the User Library folder in Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version 10.0/en_US/DVADialogPrefs. (Hold down the Option key and choose Go > Library in the Finder to display the Library folder). Quitting InDesign, deleting the “DVADialogPrefs.xml” file, and restarting InDesign fixes the problem, and allows the File Info dialog box to display properly.’
The technique works for Illustrator as well and there is thread on Adobe’s Illustrator forum about the issue. Reinstalling ID works as well but Keith’s technique is a lot faster.
MemberStephen,
I just checked the X-3:2003 in ID 12.1.0.56 and I don’t see the option. I’m running ID on a mid-2012 MBP, OS 10.11.6 (15G1611).
Have a look at this discussion for an alternative.
Lindsey
MemberOne more thing: when I use the author/date system of references, I find it easier to check citations if the list of references at the back of the book is in a separate doc that I can drag to my second screen.
MemberThe book feature is very much in need of an overhaul. Not being able to set the numbering of footnotes to continue from doc to doc in the book is inefficient and leads to errors. Synching styles takes a lot care if one uses many styles. I could go on at length. Nevertheless, I use the book feature a fair bit for the following reasons. [1] Most of front matter and back matter of my publications is boilerplate. It’s easier to plug the separate documents set up for each into a book than to copy and paste to a single document. [2] It’s easier to keep material from each author in a collection in a separate doc in a book, especially as each chapter will have unique stylistic requirements and I will have a doc identified by chapter and author for sending proofs. It’s also easier when the order of the chapters in the book is changed about. [3] ID does not retain the scope of search-and-replace operations very well and it’s safer to isolate global searches to a particular doc.
MemberI believe it follows the order in which the frames were created; at least this is how find/change works. I assume that each frame is named somewhere in the DOM to indicate this order.
MemberJim, this shouldn’t be a problem if you set up the list using auto Bullets and Numbering. Perhaps the space between the label and the text is too narrow.
MemberObi-wan, not at the moment. Have to get back to work. I think Jim’s problem occurs only when one constructs the list manually and does not use Bullets and Numbering.
MemberJim, how do you have the list set up? I am having trouble reproducing the behaviour you describe.
MemberObi-wan, here’s how I understand the situation. The poems each have a list label to the left of first line and the text of the poem is set off from the label by some white space, which prevents the quotation mark at the beginning of the text of the poem from moving to the left of the indent. Masood is suggesting, I think, that the labels be put in one frame and the text of the poems in another so OMA can affect the quotation mark at beginning of the first line of the text. It is not clear how the labels are then to be coordinated with the poems. One could no doubt achieve this using anchored frames for the labels though I’m not sure how one would automate the numbering.
This is a problem I run into all the time with lists but have decided to ignore the inconsistency. In this case, I’d probably change the design to put the label against the right edge of the text frame, as one would when numbering equations, or put it on a line above the text of the poem, which used to be a common style for untitled poems. On the other hand, if the quotation mark is the only character that occurs at the beginning of a first line and needs to be adjusted by OMA, Jim could set up a variant of the list style that simulates OMA with a tab stop moved slightly to the left. He would have to set up another style for instances where the first line did not begin with a quotation mark.
-
AuthorPosts