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Tina DeJarld
MemberHi Aysha,
Do you mean text crossing over from the left page to the right? How is the catalog being bound? Saddle stitched or perfect bound? That’s usually determined by how many pages it is. Fewer number of pages is usually saddle stitched (staples). Larger number of pages becomes too much for saddle stitching and the usual alternative is perfect binding (flat edge spine). If it’s saddle stitched, it’s not that much of a worry to cross from the left page to the right. Set up your file as facing pages. Then you can make a text box cross from one page to the other. I would only do this with large headlines. If the catalog will be perfect bound, it’s much more complicated.
Bleed used when any item will go all the way to edge of the page. You have to have enough image or object to be bigger than the trimmed page size to allow for slight imperfections in cutting and binding. The usual amount is one-eigth inch. The guides in InDesign show you that amount so that you can make sure you drag your items at least that far into the pasteboard.
Slug is not necessary. That’s an additional area in the pasteboard where you can print technical details about the file. It’s mostly used the world of magazine ads.
It sounds like you should do some video self training for beginning users. There are so many things you need to know to create a file that will print without a lot of trouble and expensive fixes at your print vendor. There are lots of them out there. I’d start with Lynda.com or the training at Adobe.
Good luck!
Tina DeJarld
MemberJustin Sligh wrote:
Tina,
I love a good puzzle. If I were in your shoes, I would give the following a try:
1. Create a three or four fresh indesign documents. Book them and create a simple index. Export and see if you still have those issues. If not, than it is solely within your project.
2. Do you have a TOC? If so, check those links work correctly?
3. Generate the index within one of the other documents. Export and see if it only links to markers in that document only. If so, consider trashing the book (indb). Those are easy to recreate without much work. If the new index works fine, consider the original InDesign document the index resides in.
You may want to export as an IDML file*, open, and save back over the original Indesign document (obviously make backups of everything first).
*In regard to IDML. Exporting each file as an IDML, opening them, saving them back out as an InDesign file shouldn’t take too much time. Creating a new Indesign book and dropping the files back in is easy. If we are talking about 1-10 InDesign documents. It is likely a 5 minute process.
Hi Justin,
You pointed me the right direction & it’s now fixed! Thank you!!!!
I tried recreating the book file: did not fix it.
So I tried generating the index in one of the other book files and the links from the resulting PDF DID work correctly. So I knew it was the actual InDesign file that contained the index causing the problem. I tried exporting to IDML, opening back up & saving over the offending file, but that did not fix it.
So I created a fresh new InDesign file, copied the content back in and replaced the file in the book document. Now the index links work correctly in the PDF.
Thank you very much! I really appreciate your help. I did not suspect a damaged file. Nothing else was working incorrectly.
Tina
MemberThanks for taking this up! I’ve had no luck searching the support on the Adobe site.
Yes all the markers I’ve tried are working correctly from the index panel when I go to selected marker. But it made me think of the fact that when I generate the PDF I generally have all of the documents closed. So I tried generating it with all of the files open so that the index panel shows everything, but unfortunately that did not make a difference. The links are still going to the cover in the PDF.
This project came to me already set up as a book and I’ve been updating it for the last four years. Since it’s under 200 pages total, it wouldn’t be so bad to put it all into one file. The files I started with were Windows CS4. I haven’t ever exported to IDML. I really don’t want to export each file and reassemble the books, but I guess it might be better than merging everything into one file.
MemberThey all go the the front cover, and yes the cursor behaves like a link.
Not sure what you mean by plain text. Yes it’s page numbers generated by the index feature, so it’s text.
I don’t usually use the interactive PDF option, just trying things! But good to know.
MemberOK, it's fixed. I decided to go ahead and make the needed changes and worry about these issues later. After opening, changing, and saving each file I also regenerated the Index and updated the Table of Contents.
Apparently InDesign thought changes had been made when they hadn't and didn't know where anything was anymore. This I don't understand. This part was broken even when I opened the original files before making changes.
And, the changes I did have to make had nothing to do with Index or TOC entries. I've only worked on a few projects with Indexes, so I'm not the most experienced with it, but I don't think I've had this problem before, or that I had to regenerate the Index every time any file had a change.
I should not have to regenerate the Index and TOC each time there are changes in order to produce functioning links in the PDF, correct?
MemberMore info: back at the original computer and the original files that have not been touched since exporting the PDF that works correctly and now when I export a PDF with the same settings, it's not working correctly as described.
So we know it's the files and not the copy of InDesign or the computer.
So I exported each file to .inx and opened and saved each one and created a new book file and exported to PDF again, and still have the same problems: bookmarks in bookmarks panel all go to page one of the file except for those from the first InDesign file, most index links also go to page 1, and now some of the cross references that were working are not working and also go to page 1.
If exporting to .inx doesn't fix the problem, what can I do? I think I'll try opening in CS3!
No ideas out there? Has this happened to anyone else?
MemberOK, it's fixed. I decided to go ahead and make the needed changes and worry about these issues later. After opening, changing, and saving each file I also regenerated the Index and updated the Table of Contents.
Apparently InDesign thought changes had been made when they hadn't and didn't know where anything was anymore. This I don't understand. This part was broken even when I opened the original files before making changes.
And, the changes I did have to make had nothing to do with Index or TOC entries. I've only worked on a few projects with Indexes, so I'm not the most experienced with it, but I don't think I've had this problem before, or that I had to regenerate the Index every time any file had a change.
I should not have to regenerate the Index and TOC each time there are changes in order to produce functioning links in the PDF, correct?
MemberMore info: back at the original computer and the original files that have not been touched since exporting the PDF that works correctly and now when I export a PDF with the same settings, it's not working correctly as described.
So we know it's the files and not the copy of InDesign or the computer.
So I exported each file to .inx and opened and saved each one and created a new book file and exported to PDF again, and still have the same problems: bookmarks in bookmarks panel all go to page one of the file except for those from the first InDesign file, most index links also go to page 1, and now some of the cross references that were working are not working and also go to page 1.
If exporting to .inx doesn't fix the problem, what can I do? I think I'll try opening in CS3!
No ideas out there? Has this happened to anyone else?
Memberclarification: the TOC links work from the TOC page, but no bookmarks appear in the bookmarks panel.
I've rebuilt the InDesign preferences and deleted temp files from the system HD.
Also tried creating a new book file, adding in all the InD docs, exporting to PDF, still no bookmarks in panel.
Memberclarification: the TOC links work from the TOC page, but no bookmarks appear in the bookmarks panel.
I've rebuilt the InDesign preferences and deleted temp files from the system HD.
Also tried creating a new book file, adding in all the InD docs, exporting to PDF, still no bookmarks in panel.
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