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January 23, 2025 at 9:32 am in reply to: InDesign 2025 Constrain Proportions Won’t Stay Locked #14410913
Marc Dunker
MemberI received a response from the InDesign team on the uservoice yesterday. InDesign 20.1 Build 20.1.0.71 has the fix for this issue.
MemberThank you for all the replies! I have restarted several times.
I’ve never noticed this until InDesign 2025, so I did create a uservoice to report the bug.
To me it defeats the purpose of editing the original from InDesign. If they’re not going to update, it’s easier to close the document, make edits, then open the document rely on the pop up to update modified links. The issue is you don’t always know what needs update until you’re in your layout.
MemberI created a sample document with both a PSD and an AI link and updated and saved both of them, closed the files, and the links didn’t update in a fresh .indd file for either file type.
MemberAnything’s appreciated. In my workflow, I save and close the file before going back to InDesign. The PSDs I’m editing aren’t very large that I can tell. 20-35MB.
November 4, 2024 at 6:12 am in reply to: InDesign 2025 Constrain Proportions Won’t Stay Locked #14408248MemberThe user voice now has comments from some Mac users, so it’s looking like it may be a cross platform issue and perhaps interference from other software…
June 14, 2024 at 8:30 am in reply to: Missing Drop Shadow in Links to other InDesign Files #14404148MemberI just created two test files (File A and B) using a green square and white text on file B. I chose to turn the square into a text frame (rather than another text frame over the shape) and put a drop shadow on the text.
I then placed into file A and added a drop shadow. Sure enough, the exported PDF does not have a drop shadow on the text.
I could share those files if desired. Is there a preferred linking method for this forum?
June 14, 2024 at 8:12 am in reply to: Missing Drop Shadow in Links to other InDesign Files #14404146MemberNo problem David. I’ll clarify.
File A (main file) links to file B (placed file). File B has text shadows/glows. File A has an drop shadow around the file B product. Most of the text effects of file B are inside the product, in other words, the frame file B is placed into has a drop shadow.
If I remove the drop shadow in file A, the shadows/glows in file B appear in inDesign as well as the exported PDF.
I did try adding shadow honors other effects, but it still gets rid of the drop shadow when exported from file A. Interestingly, file B has some white text with both a drop shadow and a white glow. The glow was present on the export but the shadow disappeared as mentioned.
As of right now, the options I can think of are:
1. Be okay that the shadows/glows aren’t present if a drop shadow is applied to file A.
2. Remove the drop shadow from file A.
3. Duplicate everything in file B on a new layer and add the exterior product shadow to file B (have a layer with a shadow and without a shadow for instances a product shadow isn’t needed). File B is used for all marketing collateral as well as assets for the website.
4. Create a Photoshop Path for everything in file B.June 14, 2024 at 7:21 am in reply to: How to save a single Indesign page from a multipage ID document #14404142MemberI agree with Mike on the Move Pages feature.
Open the file, then create a new blank document, select the page(s) you want to move from the pages panel by right-clicking > move pages.
In the move pages dialogue, you can choose to keep or delete the page from the original document.
Then just save the new document.
Note: For me, move pages can be very finicky. It sometimes just doesn’t work… at least on a Windows machine. I have to restart the computer or InDesign sometimes.
MemberThanks David and Mike. I tried the object level, but the issue with that is it also changes the opacity of the shadow unless I’m missing something.
The object level also wouldn’t work if I wanted a stroke with 100% opacity but the fill to be transparent with perhaps a different blend mode and shadow.
I don’t know if it’s a random phenomenon or as designed, but if I create a shadow on an object with the spread at least 6pt, check knockout group on an object, and lastly set the fill to a transparency/blend mode the shadow will not change opacity—which is the desired outcome.
MemberThanks! It’s interesting to me that I have to check “Knockout Group” to get it to work. When I use that, it’s usually with a grouped object and the top layer is set to 0% opacity.
MemberThanks David. I did try restarting, but that doesn’t solve the issue.
I also recovered another document. I think it may have something to do with CC Libraries…
I also found a bug report for 19.4 with this issue.
MemberThanks David. I did try restarting, but the issue still persists.
I was able to recover another document. It all seems tied to CC Libraries. For whatever reason, it’s not recognizing the library item. The layers panel was saying <pasted graphic> and the links panel lists all library items as Adobe PDF, but there were no errors in preflight.
Once I relink it by timing my mouse clicks with the escape key between pop-ups, the message is gone for the most part. I’m now getting a message only when opening and closing, but it does seem to be any older file (one was 2/2023 and the other was 4/2023) with CC Library items is doing it.
January 25, 2024 at 12:07 pm in reply to: Publish Online “mailto” Links Not Working in Safari #14399344MemberThank you for looking into this David!
January 25, 2024 at 11:26 am in reply to: Publish Online “mailto” Links Not Working in Safari #14399336MemberThe use-case for this is for a user to scan a QR code. It’s consistently not working on three iPhones using Safari.
It works fine on an iPhone using Chrome.
MemberI find it interesting that this was the first time I chose to delete the previous version. Windows uses Roaming App Data for a lot of preferences, so I still have that folder from the previous versions.
For me it was mainly panel defaults and general preferences. Today I noticed I hide unnecessary control bar items that are in the properties panel or other panels anyway. It also removed all my saved document presets. Things like Find/Change/GREP queries stayed intact.
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