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Tim Murray
MemberI rather like FileMaker. It’s not the cheapest but there is trial. You can set up a page (as on paper) and put fields where you want.
MemberI’ve been using .docx since its introduction in 2006 and have never had a problem with it, perhaps because I take Word docs and make sure things like italics and bolds and similar have name character styles applied. Any problem encounter was usually a matter of poor work by the author. Also, the .doc format is most likely going be deprecated, so I’d say it’s best to get on the bus.
August 14, 2018 at 7:42 pm in reply to: Can I Undo InDesign's Automatic Superscript for trademarks? #109674MemberStrictly speaking, you don’t have to worry that much about it. There is no legal requirement to acknowledge the marks of others, and for yours, you need to “sufficiently put the public on notice” that your marks are yours. This means stuff like the cover, some frontispiece that says “XYZ is a trademark of so-and-so”, once in a while in, for example, large type of a title of a chapter. Many writers pepper TM and R bugs everywhere and sweat if any are missed, but that’s a wasted exercise. And not that it matters, but in my work, my body copy uses the regular R and TM symbols that the typeface gives me, and it’s good enough. But that’s my personal preference.
Member@Jamie123: Just to clarify, you could have a JPEG described within a PDF file format or described by the PostScript language, and a vector image is still rasterized as it hits the press and something described as 2400 dpi in a file can end up a 300 at the printer. I can’t think of a resource to help better disentangle all this stuff but maybe someone can chime in.
MemberThe company doing 300 dpi and JPEG logos has no business creating artwork. The text should either be in a typeface the printer has or should be embedded (if possible) in, say, a PDF. Logos — unless it’s a photograph — should usually be EPS, SVG, AI, or some vector format. If the customer’s art dept says “it’s perfectly suitable for print” then they settle for less than excellent.
MemberI can’t believe this is 2018 and Adobe hasn’t addressed this. I would bet my left nicotine-stained lung that most writers want a stroke at the very bottom. But in way I feel better, because I thought I must have been missing something. While I do like many features of InDesign, for technical pubs, I still like FrameMaker . . . but as a Mac user I simply don’t want to crank up a virtual Windows environment unless absolutely necessary.
MemberYes; note the first sentence. And I sync. A lot.
MemberAgreed . . . still, in 2018. I’d like to right-click document in book file, rename it to a new version number, and have InDesign keep the old file (not really change, per se) and have InDesign be smart enough to reestablish links to the new file. So while the book lists “Chapter03-v03.indd”, the v01.indd and v02.indd are still there as files not attached to the book. I can drag them to an archive folder with zero damage to the book or links within it.
A Finder rename and reattach to the book isn’t a great option because links from other chapters tend to retain their links to the pre-renamed file.
I also don’t need versions of the .indb file. While not a “100% perfect” version control system, I have no need for the old .indb files.
It’s been a while since I used FrameMaker, but I *think* that if the book were open, I could go to Finder, copy the old chapter off somewhere and rename the original, and Frame’s book does all the changes for me. I think…
MemberBasically it’s Control Panels > Fonts > Add Fonts > point to where the new files are located . . . but that’s a Windows thing, not InDesign.
MemberUnderline is the solution. Thanks.
MemberUmm, it looked like things were sort of oddly shifted, so I put one here:
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