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Rhiannon Miller
MemberIf the printer is requiring InDesign files and not using PDFs, I'd say you need to look at finding a new printer (assuming it's your choice, of course). If it's client who's requiring InDesign files, then could you send the InDesign file to the client and quietly pass the print PDF directly to the printer?
If you can't replicate the problem on your own computers then you couldn't have foreseen it even if you had checked the IDML before you sent it. Sounds to me like the error is with the printer/client here. They asked for the wrong file, you sent them what they'd asked for and the correct file as well, they didn't check print proofs or compare the IDML output with the PDF. I'd go back to the client and say that it was fine when it left your offices, and it's their responsibility what happened to it after that. (Only I might be a little more polite than that, if I ever wanted to work for them again!)
January 26, 2011 at 9:29 am in reply to: InDesign CS5: italics missing from imported Word document #58515MemberI've experienced Mathieu's problem many times, as have my colleagues. In fact, for some projects we've taken to having the copy-editors colour italic text a different colour so we can be sure what's meant to be italic and what isn't. The typesetter then does a global find and replace to change that colour to italic. Like Mathieu, we've never been able to get entirely to the bottom of what properties of the formatting cause it to be lost – at times it seems completely random.
MemberIf you want the rectangle to cover the entire page in the final printed version, then you'll need to take it out a little past the edge and add bleeds to your document (in Document Setup), so that the printer can be sure they're not going to leave a while line down one edge due to a slight misalignment when they come to trim the pages. Ask your printer what size bleeds they want; 3mm is standard in the UK and (I believe) 5mm is preferred in the US.
If you're not planning on printing the document, then I suspect it doesn't matter.
January 25, 2011 at 4:45 am in reply to: Any real reason not to build PDF's as single page spreads? #58498MemberThere's all sorts of reasons to let InDesign know whether a given page is recto or verso. Not just page numbers but running heads in general, especially where you want different running heads on the left and right hand pages; you might want different margins on rectos and versos, or even have a highly visual design with, say, a line down the foredge side or a background colour on verso pages only; you might have chapters starting on rectos only, which you'd want to set with a paragraph style; you might want to align text or anchored objects to the spine or foredge, or have a paragraph rule that sticks into the foredge margin…
I suppose if you're working with a very simple design that has absolutely no difference at all between recto and verso pages then yes, go ahead and create it as single pages. But for most of the work I do, I couldn't manage without working in spreads.
MemberJust for interest, the difference between a GREP style as described by Jongware and a nested style is the behaviour when the character you've assigned to end the style isn't present in the paragraph. With a nested style, the entire paragraph will appear with the chosen character style, because it styles everything until it reaches the end character – and if it doesn't reach it, it continues styling right up to the end of the paragraph. With a GREP style, nothing in the paragraph will be put into the character style, because the search pattern doesn't match anything. So whether you choose a GREP or a nested style depends on which of these two behaviours you want.
MemberIDML can be opened in a text editor, but you need to expand it first (it's a zipped archive of folders and files). The swatches will then be listed in a file called 'Graphic.xml' in a folder called 'Resources'. Once you've edited it, you'll need to recompress it. There's a couple of InDesign scripts here for the process. I've never tried to delete swatches in this way, though, so I don't know whether it would work.
I take it that if you're looking into editing the IDML, you've already tried opening the IDML and seeing if you can then edit the swatch. You could also try copying the pages into another document and seeing if the colour goes with them; or adding a graphic to the file which does contain that swatch (or at least a swatch by that name), deleting the graphic again, and then seeing if you can now edit the swatch.
Have you asked the designer what the swatches are used for?
January 24, 2011 at 4:12 am in reply to: Anything I can do to speed up "print" (command) time? #58474MemberLike Gorillamo, I've always found the Print command to take ages to show up, in all the versions of CS I've ever used (from 2 onwards), the first time I run it after starting the program. Subsequent calls in the same InDesign session are much quicker. It's a little irritating because I don't ever use Print, but sometimes call it by accident!
MemberThat would still leave you with two returns. You should put $1 in the Replace With field, not $0.
Otherwise, all good!
MemberDo you need to make the frame smaller, or would it do to make the image smaller within the frame? Because if it's the latter then you could maybe try changing the Frame Fitting Options in the object style?
Member(Duger53, I did try wiping my preferences, as I said in my initial post, and it didn't help. Sorry!)
OK, the files appear to be stable if I change all the conditional text to unconditional. Unfortunately I do need to be able to hide and reveal some parts of my text for different outputs. Is there any other way of doing that?
January 17, 2011 at 3:36 am in reply to: Is it possible to hide section nos. while setting text vaiables? #58390MemberHi Harry
Unfortunately neither of those are possible in InDesign as it stands, as InDesign treats text variables as a single character. I've heard a lot of people recommend the InTools Running Headers plugin to do what you're trying to do, but I've never used it myself.
Hope this is helpful!
January 11, 2011 at 5:04 am in reply to: Is it possible to hide section nos. while setting text vaiables? #58345MemberI assume these section numbers appear as text in the headings, and you want the running heads to inherit from the headings but without the numbers?
You could use GREP to apply a character style to everything in the heading except the numbers, and then base your text variable on that character style. The character style doesn't have to have any formatting, so it won't change the appearance of the text.
For example, you could use the GREP pattern: (?<=d.dt).+$
This will find any text after a number, a dot, a number and a tab, up until the end of the paragraph. You'll also need to put the paragraph style of your heading in the find format box.MemberOK, removing that corrupt font didn't seem to help. I've narrowed it down a bit: it seems to happen when I save after recomposing significant amounts of text (e.g. showing/hiding conditional text, cutting/pasting text). Is this a clue?
MemberThanks for your suggestions David. I'm working on this locally. I'm Saving As very regularly, as you can imagine. The only plug-in I had was Rorohiko's Text Exporter, and I removed that to no effect.
I've just validated my fonts in FontBook and found one corrupted font, but it's one I haven't used for years. I've removed it anyway, just in case it helps. I'm off home for the weekend now to drink a nice glass of wine!
MemberI think it's the operating system that determines what program to use to open a file with by default. I don't know how you set it on Windows, but on a Mac you can right-click on a file in the Finder and choose 'Get info', and in the window that then appears you can choose the correct application from the drop-down menu. If you click 'Change All…' it will make all similar files open with that program by default, including when you choose 'Edit original' in InDesign.
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