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MemberHi Jeremy –
Thanks for the reply, but unfortunately what I’ve got going on here is a document with more than 100 tables in it, so I’m hoping for a solution/trick to not have to go through each one and set it static.
I didn’t create these tables, I inherited the document (I work in prepress, so it’s a customer’s file). But if I were going to make a new document, then I’ll be sure to do the “Exactly” set up.
– Susan
MemberI have had the same problem, but it started in Illustrator, and then migrated to InDesign.
I did get lucky in that restarting returned my life to normal. I have the most up to date InDesign and Illustrator, but I’m only running Sierra (at the limit of my current workstation).MemberI’m not sure how to do this as you add pages, but if you were willing to build the document all 365 page at once, you could accomplish the dated running header with a data merge.
MemberFWIW, Adobe knows about it.
And FWIW, it’s driving us crazy here. Saving as an IDML and reopening and saving as a new ID document works for us so far, but we have, literally, thousands of legacy files and double saving them isn’t high on my fun list.
MemberThe only way I can figure to do this would be to methodically open each InDesign files and package them, which would copy the links to a links folder within each package folder. If you want to keep the filing system the way you have it, you’d then take each “links” folder from the packaged files and dump them all together (or two folders – one for art and the other for logos?). When you have gone through every file this way, you’ll have all the copied all the links and logos you use, and you could replace the current links and logos folders with your new ones.
This doesn’t sound like much fun though.
MemberI haven’t had a chance to test this in the 2018 version (busy chasing a different bug), but I know there was a fix for the 2017 version.
MemberActually David, it DOES do that if I override the text frame (not the object style, just the individual text frame) in a newly created 2018 document, and paste that frame into a new 2018 document.
Super boo.
– s
MemberDavid –
In this case, the Basic Text Frame style hasn’t been altered – it shows the standard default of 1 column.
I don’t have a specific style sheet applied to that text frame (because it’s a small document and I just needed that one page to be set up as 3 column), I just selected the text frame and manually over-rode the number of columns. In the previous versions of the InDesign when I brought that text frame into a new document, that over-ridden style was honored. Now it doesn’t.
Is my work around is to create specific styles for all of these one-off occasions and apply them to all my legacy files so I can move them as needed?
MemberAnd I’m back.
Now that I’ve spent more time working in the 2018 upgrade, it’s a little bigger issue.
If I have a text frame in an existing document that is formatted to be 3 columns, if I select that text frame and copy and paste it into a new document (or an older document that has been saved as a 2018 version), it ignores that styling and shows a one-column text frame with overset.
That is super not good news, as I have a ton of legacy files that I take pieces and parts of to created updated versions (like calendars and catalogs). I know this behavior didn’t exist before, because I still have one co-worker who hasn’t upgraded to 2018 and we’ve tested it.
Screen Shot here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/uerwq3tzvargzs7/Screen%20Shot%202017-11-06%20at%204.31.16%20PM.jpg?dl=0
MemberDwayne – That’s not exactly the issue, but thanks for trying.
It’s the content inside the text frame that isn’t aligning the same after the update, not the text frame itself.
The good news is I found away to either fix it or override it (not sure what you’d call it) – with InDesign running but no other documents open, I edited the Default Basic Text Frame Style sheet and that seems to let me work the way I did before.
MemberOh boy are you going to be proud of me!
So it turns out when I said I wanted the fill to be “Paper” I meant “None”.
But I didn’t have to bug you to fix it this time.
I had tried to make this change last time, but when I did it, I got an error. What you sent me looked exactly like what I had done, but since yours worked I just took it, shrugged my shoulders and moved on.
But this time when I got the error, I found it! When I was typing the color name, the single quote mark in front of the color was changing in my text editor to a smart quote. And that was throwing the whole thing off.
But now that I know the secret, I can make this script fill the box with any color I want.
Thanks again.
MemberThank you so much!
I had tried to make it work but I think my spacing was off in that fillColor line which was causing the error. Among the many skills I am missing regarding script generation is a big one – patience.
Sorry I didn’t have any good prizes to share :)
MemberWell, all those bonus points get you …
Another request! Because I forgot to ask for it in the first place.
I need it stroke weight to be 1 pt. die line. (which you got). But I need the fill to be Paper. The die line just shows the edges of the sheet and the artwork is on that art layer and it needs to show through.
And I really did try to fix it on my own, but if I touch that line, I can get nothing but an error. If I take that line out, and make sure my default colors are set up as no stroke and no fill, then the script works, but if it isn’t hard, can you show me how to resolve this?
MemberSome time back (while still using CS6) my custom User scripts quit working. The sample scripts worked just fine, but anything in that User folder wouldn’t run. On a whim, I copied my user scripts into the Application folder, and they work just fine.
When I upgraded to CC, I hoped the problem would magically fix itself, but it didn’t. I created a new folder in “Application” called “My real scripts” and everything appears to work just fine that way.MemberMac User here. And the confusing thing is the User Scripts folder has been working just fine since I installed 6.0 until Monday. So something happened to break it.
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