Thanks, Jongware & Eugene for replying. I now realize what you are hinting at. Deleting the swatch in the swatch panel & replacing it looks like the best option. I never thought that this could somehow change the swatch in all the styles. A very simple solution indeed.

I work with Indesign CS4 on a Windows machine. I would like to change the font colour of the text (Figure No : *) wherever it appears in the text. I thought that the best way to do this would be by a Grep style. Am I right?. We can do this via Find/Change, but I wanted to insert a grep style in all my Paragraph styles (there are about 50 of them) so that the colour of the above text in Parantheses changes automatically whenever I make changes to the book.

Ragarding the second query, I have a few Paragraph styles where the text colour of the font is a swatch C60, M40, Y0, K0. I want to change this in all those Paragraph styles to Swatch C15, M100, Y100, K0 (which already exists in the document). Can we script it.

Before exporting to PDF, should all Printers marks be included, only the crop marks (provided bleed is not required) should be included, or should the printer guide us as to the marks required.

Thanks all of you. Honestly, this is the best blog & forum as far as Indesign is concerned. There is hardly anything that is not discussed & there is usually a solution for any kind of problem (barring hardware-of course).One more thing, before exporting to PDF, should you include all Printers marks, only the crop marks (provided bleed is not required), or should the printer guide us as to the marks required.

I also tried to do a sort of a trial. I did a Save as & I saved a single image as both JPEG & PSD. placed about 30 JPEG images in 1 Indesign document & 30 PSD images in another Indesign document. Though each PSD was on an average 1.2 MB bigger than the corresponding JPEG image, the final size of the exported PDF of PSD-containing images was only 1.6 MB larger than the exported PDF of JPEG-containing images. So, PSD definitely scores over JPEG.

I think i will make myself clear. I frequently get digital images which are too large (pixel-size). Hence, I need to crop, retouch the images & reduce the image size in Photoshop before placing in Indesign. I save the image as JPEG & place it in an Indesign document. Now sometimes the same image is to be reused, but its size needs to be further reduced according to the format. What I want to know is that should I first save the retouched image as PSD, so that while placing multiple times in Indesign in varying sizes, I can do a Save As in JPEG form the second or third time or should I use the original every time, do the changes in Photoshop, get the final size & save as JPEG. Would saving as PSD after making changes to the original image in Photoshop the first time & then later on saving as JPEG the second time cause image degradation.

The intended output is indeed print – its going to be printed via sheetfed offset on coated paper. The reason for my asking whether to save in JPEG vs PSD was that saving in PSD format results in a much bigger file size when compared to saving in JPEG. It hardly matters nowadays, but still reducing the file size results in faster InDesign response