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Rhiannon Miller
MemberI think you might have to place the marginal notes manually. But if you do them as anchored objects and take care what text you anchor them to, I think you might be able to make an ebook with them in place.
MemberMark, what we're trying to say is that while there may theoretically be situations in which it is preferable to have a 900-ppi file, for most people those situations will never come up in practice. Either your file will have been supplied by the client or author as a bitmap, in which case you're limited to whatever resolution they saw fit to give you (and I'd put money on that being 300 ppi – at best – over 90 per cent of the time); or your file is in vector format, in which case you don't need to rasterise it.
MemberMark, what we're trying to say is that while there may theoretically be situations in which it is preferable to have a 900-ppi file, for most people those situations will never come up in practice. Either your file will have been supplied by the client or author as a bitmap, in which case you're limited to whatever resolution they saw fit to give you (and I'd put money on that being 300 ppi – at best – over 90 per cent of the time); or your file is in vector format, in which case you don't need to rasterise it.
MemberFix your baseline grid – otherwise your grid will never be 100% right.
You can find it in Preferences > Grids and Guides.
(Why are some document-specific properties kept in the application preferences? It makes no sense to me.)
MemberSorry, you're right; I'd thought that horizontally merged cells triggered it as well, but I'd missed a vertically merged cell in my test table!
But I can't seem to set the first two rows to header rows at once: it keeps telling me that I can't set this property for plural class names. Obviously I can set the first row, then the second row, but that doesn't work for vertically merged cells.
MemberApplying the stroke just once at the very end would be acceptable, but how can I get it to do that if I don't set the last row as a footer row, or set the cell style manually? I don't see an option in the Table Setup to not have the footer row repeat at all.
MemberTheoretically, if you keep your InDesign file clean enough, and have a decent enough conversion from IDML to your final XML, then you can export to IDML at any stage and make only a couple of minor tweaks to it before converting it to the publisher's XML. But yes, you do tend to end up with a bit of a versioning mess, as inevitably the strict requirements mean that you spot errors while working on the IDML file that had been overlooked up until now.
I'll email you separately with our consultant's details.
MemberI've been working for a while now on XML deliverables for a big publisher we work for (quite possibly the same one as you). Short answer: no, there is no way to produce this XML without a hell of a lot of fiddly work.
We tried working with XML tags in InDesign, but very quickly found that they were far too limited for what we needed. A much better place to start is with an IDML file, which is very well-formed XML, but even then there's a heck of a lot of work involved in making sure the files are pristine and impeccably styled.
Not being programmers, we use a consultant for the conversion to XML compliant with the publisher's DTD. I can put you in touch with him if you like?
MemberI know, but I've tended to assume that blurry is marginally better than jaggy, so I do upsample when the author keeps sending the same low-resolution image over and over when I ask for better, and the client is beating me over the head because the printer is telling them that the images are below 300 dpi. I'm interested in this business of making them look better by adjusting the contrast and tonal range, though: do you have any links about this?
MemberIf I have that much control over the files, I'm going to be keeping the type as vector. Otherwise, I have to deal with the raster images the author or client sends me, whatever resolution they're at. Which is better, a 300-ppi image or a 300-ppi image upsampled to 900ppi?
MemberI know, but I've tended to assume that blurry is marginally better than jaggy, so I do upsample when the author keeps sending the same low-resolution image over and over when I ask for better, and the client is beating me over the head because the printer is telling them that the images are below 300 dpi. I'm interested in this business of making them look better by adjusting the contrast and tonal range, though: do you have any links about this?
MemberIf I have that much control over the files, I'm going to be keeping the type as vector. Otherwise, I have to deal with the raster images the author or client sends me, whatever resolution they're at. Which is better, a 300-ppi image or a 300-ppi image upsampled to 900ppi?
March 3, 2011 at 3:11 am in reply to: Power Zooming with two mice (and a Q about PZ'ing with one mouse) #58864MemberGranted, I have quite small hands, but I find I can use just the method you describe with my Magic Mouse. It's great because the scrolling requires only the lightest of touches – though I will admit that in InDesign this can be a drawback. All other software scrolls very nicely, though. Now if only this mouse came in a wired form…
MemberAre you using the Selection tool, or the Direct Selection tool? If you use Direct Selection, then it will show you the scaling value of the image within the frame, which might be any value. If you use Selection, then it will show you the scaling value of the frame itself, which always resets itself when you change it so that the new value is 100%.
March 2, 2011 at 1:58 am in reply to: Power Zooming with two mice (and a Q about PZ'ing with one mouse) #58847MemberWhat a fandabby idea! Which mouse do you hold in which hand, and how do you distribute the tasks between them?
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