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Simon Duckworth
ParticipantThanks David – turns out I was using an .xlsx file! I’ve tried using a .xls file and it imports correctly… My problem now is whether the formulae in the .xlsx can handle being converted to .xls, but that’s beyond the scope of this forum :o/
Thanks again, I’m going to raise this as a bug to Adobe (unless itsafeaturenotabug)
Simon
ParticipantHi Dwayne, I’ve experienced footnote issues when trying to run them across more than one column, the rules don’t flow across with the text
ParticipantHi Moghees, yes I tried in a new document, and also on separate Macs running ID. I even tweeted Adobe’s InDesign Twitter account but without reply. My problem with CC is just this, that things can change without warning and there seems to be no way to roll back to an older (and IMHO better) version. But if you know an issue’s there, you can work around it with a Select All and copy to select all content in threaded frames.
Like the footnotes issue, I’d happily trade the extras (I’m looking at you, QR code generator) for the basic things to function properly!
ParticipantThanks CreeDo, that’s just what I thought, the older versions do this correctly — I tried a few ways, copy & pasting, duplicating and Alt-drag. Whatever I tried, only the visible portion of the text box actually duplicate. I had to resort to Selecting All then copying to make sure I had all the content. Now I know it’s a problem, I work around it, but it’s quite a nasty bug!
ParticipantThanks David – that’s very helpful in terms of producing a list of link filenames… Do you have any idea how I might go about exporting specific text frame content (ie. captions) into a text file also?
ParticipantThanks David, I’m loathe to use character styles to force alts because you can only apply one character style at a time (I might want to put some of the text containing an alt character in italic, bold etc.)
It turns out there’s a pretty straightforward way!
I’ve done some digging around and (I think) made some sense of stylistic sets. These are available to apply in the Opentype tab on the paragraph style dialogue box, you just have to know what stylistic set does what (and that’s the main problem with this). InDesign names these sets numerically (you can’t change them), so the key is to check the font documentation, it should give you a list of what set does what, just note the number and select it in InDesign. I don’t know why ID/Opentype don’t seem to support custom naming of these because it’s a great feature, just not particularly intuitive to use.
Obviously, this only applies to Opentype fonts with alt features.
Anyway – I hope this helps someone with the same issue…
Participant@Jongware – Wow. I’m blown away by this forum!
Many many thanks for your comprehensive reply, I’m about to give this a go…
Thanks again
Participant@gert – Thanks for confirming what I suspected!
@Jongware – That's great to know where the limits are on Preptext (it's a very useful tool nonetheless), and many thanks for the heads-up on Blatner tools.
Participant@Gert – Thanks, you're quite right, I'm trying to apply two different character styles and expecting ID to combine the formatting. I think you're right – as I can't apply 2 character styles, it seems to be either one style or the other.
I guess the only workaround would be to find/replace based on the different font weight and colour combinations in the doc and make these individual styles so that I never lose the formatting?
Participant@Jongware,
Wow!
Seriously, thank you so much for taking the time to write such a comprehensive reply – that's a fantastic help.
There's a lot to learn with those there GREPs!
ParticipantA massive T H A N K Y O U to you both for putting me straight.
As you can tell, I'm finding inplementing GREPs very difficult, although I can appreciate the benefits they bring to InDesign.
If I may ask one more question – how would the GREP change if I were to target a specific type of header with 5 numbers and periods, for example? Would it be as simple as…
^(d+.){5}+
Thanks again, I really appreciate your help.
Biggedybong
ParticipantPossibly… if you've got a product shot onto black for instance, you might want to control the way that the black looks, ie. warm it up or cool it down, and make sure that panels match up when you bring it into ID. But generally, I have to agree with you, and you could always treat it in a separate way if needs be. My initial perception of an RGB workflow was that of laziness and inviting printing errors, but if InDesign converts exactly as Photoshop would on PDF export, then there's no problem.
Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it.
ParticipantThanks guys for the speedy replies!
@Jongware – That was my thought exactly! I'm trying to get a handle on studio production and put into place the 'Right Way™' of doing things so folk aren't working in different ways to meet the same goals.
@David – Jeez, now I feel prehistoric. I thought 30 was the new 20, but hey, maybe not! Will look at InDesignMag.com, maybe I need to change my ways a little. How would you cope with rich black using an RGB file – if I'm using a 40C 0M 0Y 100K to give a cool rich black, how would you do this with RGB?
Best, BB
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