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Tim Murray
MemberA TIFF, with LZW compression, can be fairly small. Or, link, instead of import.
MemberI put a one-page file at https://www.dropbox.com/s/79hy8m7s972kad2/Workbook.indd?dl=0 that has some items you might be able to use.
MemberIs the customer willing to purchase the fonts so that you can leave them out of the package, and then move on with the project so you can diagnose at your leisure? In my work, if something like this happens — and assuming I’m making okay $ on the project — I would just give them a credit on my invoice.
Also, CS6 was released in 2012. Are you sticking with it because the customer has CS6? Again, in a situation like this, either I tell the customer I’m not working with something that old and forego the project, or I’d drag out my old Mac (which I kept, for real, just in case) and use that. In general, literally all of my software is kept the latest.
MemberYou mentioned “renames the Documents fonts folder to xDocuments fonts”. Do you mean it is “xDocuments – space – fonts”? I have a friend who, in his server environment, finds that if his FrameMaker acts up, as soon as any space is removed from the path, it works. Not the same, but this brings it to mind. If it were a policy at the folder level, I’d be surprised the server let you rename the folder at all.
January 28, 2019 at 9:01 am in reply to: GREP or character style for kerning one pair of letters #113974MemberWhat about using one of the very thin spaces? Too wide?
MemberWhat exactly do you mean by “archive”? Are you simply saving it to a different location other than your usual work area? Dragging the file somewhere, then opening it?
January 22, 2019 at 12:19 pm in reply to: GREP or character style for kerning one pair of letters #113802MemberOr, hand-make an “rn” with a nice-looking space, copy it, then do a search for “rn” and replace it with what’s on the clipboard.
January 17, 2019 at 9:26 am in reply to: Table of contents refuses to bring in certain headings #113709MemberHow about putting a thin frame on the master or on the actual page, where that frame holds a single line of text for the TOC? The text can even be invisible.
December 14, 2018 at 5:05 pm in reply to: Composing 1, 2-3, 4-5 etc, Reading 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 etc #112900MemberTo view it like what you want to see, with a proper verso & recto, choose View > Page Display > Two Page View, *and* View > Page Display > Show Cover Page in Two Page View.
MemberI used a standard to fix a font encoding issue where text in a PDF opened by, say, Illustrator, appears as gobbledygook. I don’t know the reason — I could understand if someone else made the PDF and I didn’t have the font, but when everything is on my machine, I have no clue. Using a standard fixes things. Regarding layers, I basically have never bothered with them other than making some Illustrator files.
MemberI nearly always paste the text into a plain text editor like BBEdit or Notepad and, if the style to be used has the bullet as part of the definition, remove the bullets from the text file.
MemberAlmost always, when I want to copy a bunch of text into InDesign, I first place the text into a plain text editor like Notepad for Windows or BBEdit for Mac. This removes the hidden stuff that sometimes would come along with it.
Another technique is to change your errant paragraph’s style into something else then change it back into what you want.
MemberWhen I make PDFs to be placed, sometimes I make a PostScript file then use Distiller, with one of the “standards” (found in the Advanced tab of Distiller’s settings) selected.
MemberCan you put some samples or screen shots on Dropbox or Box?
MemberCould you please list the steps? For example (and these are completely made up):
1. Worked on InDesign file on server A. Links okay. Made PDF okay. Made a package there.
2. Move package from server A to server B. Unpackage, no error.
3. Work on file on server B. Can open but can’t make PDF, can’t delete content.
. . . that kind of thing.And of course, there is the question of what happens if you do everything on your local disk.
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