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Tom Pardy
MemberSorry, but that feature was introduced in CS5.
I am still using CS4 and find that to achieve this I need to create a new text block running across the top of the two columns. Often I do this by making the original text block a two-column block, moving its top edge down a little (experience teaches you how much) and then, with the text tool, clicking the “continued from” box in its top right edge and then dragging a new text block in the newly-created space above the original text block.
Hope that makes sense. If not, then i may need to create some screen snaps to demonstrate it.
January 27, 2011 at 4:17 pm in reply to: Coloured box around selected text without using frame tool #58524MemberI would achieve this with paragraph styles, though it doesn’t so much give you an empty box so much as a colour-filled one.
Create a paragraph style that includes a paragraph rule. You can use Rule Above or Rule Below (doesn’t matter which as you can adjust the position of either up or down using the offset section of the dialog box). Make the rule the colour you want and increase its weight until it is the size you want. By tweaking the weight and the offset with “Preview” turned on, you can get whatever size you want.
Set the width 0f the rule to “Column” and I would suggest indenting the paragraph on both sides so that the coloured background sticks out from the text a little on each side. I would also set the space before and after the paragraph so that previous and following paragraphs are clear of the coloured background of this paragraph. Since you want the text of this paragraph bold, set that in the Basic Character Formats part of the dialog box. Name the paragraph style appropriately (say “Heading highlight”) and then apply it whenever you want to turn a paragraph into a heading with a coloured box.
I would also suggest that you set the indents on each side of the other paragraphs to same sizes so that the text looks uniform throughout your document.
Somewhere on this web site some time ago there was an article about using paragraph rules above and below in combination to achieve all sorts of interesting effects but I haven’t had time to hunt for it. I seem to recall that it suggested using Japanese dots for one rule (say rule above) with the width set to “Column” and solid for the other (say rule below) with the width of the latter set to “Text”, both of them in the same colour, giving the effect of a coloured box with rounded corners. Very clever.
MemberEven if the boss won’t pay for it, it is no great burden for you to pay for it yourself and you will be more than rewarded by the ease of workflow it offers you. It only costs $US19 for a single license (or $US159 for a 10-install coupon if you are thinking of equipping several co-workers with it).
I have been using Soxy (on a single machine) for a little over 12 months now and am very happy with it. It is not absolutely flawless (what software is?) but the fellows at Rorohiko (a New Zealand company) respond quickly to requests for support. As well as making sure your InDesign documents open in the appropriate version of application, it will do the same for Illustrator files, .pdf, .eps and .rtf files as well (if you want — I only use it for InDesign).
And no, I have no connection with the company or receive any kick-back for saying nice things about Soxy! :-)
Check it out at https://www.rorohiko.com/wordpr…..rain-soxy/
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Why is the link broken so quickly?
October 28, 2010 at 3:35 pm in reply to: Anything I can do to speed up "print" (command) time? #57523MemberNope.
Tried deleting and rebuilding the printer in System Prefs and it still takes anything up to 30 seconds (though usually less than that — more like 15-20 seconds) for the Print dialog box to appear after using the “Print” command (either from the Menu or keyboard). But that is only on the first call. Provided I don’t Quit InDesign, subsequent calls bring the Print dialog box up almost instantly.
Why is it so slow the first time?
MemberI don’t know if it is just a Mac thing, but mine updated automatically a few days ago.
October 24, 2010 at 4:35 pm in reply to: Anything I can do to speed up "print" (command) time? #57483MemberGee, thanks Hyland B!
I thought it was just a peculiarity of my particular machine but I, too, get a long wait between hitting the “Print” command and the appearance of the Print dialog box — at least the first time. Once the dialog box has appeared, even if I hit “Cancel” to dismiss it, it appears quickly enough next time to be called “normal”; unless I Quit InDesign. After relaunching InDesign, the slowness returns.
And no, my installation of Snow Leopard was not an in-place upgrade but was a clean install following a hard disk erasure. Indeed, it was following the installation of a new 1TB hard disk and the painstaking reinstallation of all data (the opportunity for some stocktaking of just what to keep on storing on my internal HD).
CS4, 24-inch iMac running 10.6.4, 2.4GHz processor and 2GB of RAM.
MemberI don’t think it is possible to have more than one page 001 by using page numbering.
Perhaps it would be easier if you used numbered lists with two different sequences of numbers “interleaved” (ie., list A on the odd pages and list B on the even pages) and each showing only one item per page. (I’m not sure if my description makes sense.)
Mind you, it could be fiddly to set up — perhaps so much so that it is not worth the effort — I’ve not actually tried it.
MemberThank you, David.
Certainly moving the Toolbox panel away from the edge of the screen and then back again until it “clicked” into position has stopped the window from disappearing behind it. But, despite my best efforts to do the same with the panels down the right hand side of the screen, the window still goes behind them.
But at least now I can get access to the “traffic lights” without fiddling with the bottom-right corner to resize the window and then dragging it to the right! Thank you again!
MemberThank you, Vasha. I was beginning to think I had somehow become invisible.
I have taken a screenshot but, because I have a 24″ screen (iMac) it became a huge graphic. I have edited it down to a smaller size and have retained as much detail as I can. I hope it shows you (and anyone else who can now see me :-) ) what I am talking about.
This is the first time I have attempted to attach a graphic to a post, so hope it works!
August 17, 2010 at 5:08 pm in reply to: Prevent stroke from changing dimensions position of frame? (cs4) #56721MemberUm . . . I may have misunderstood the question, but . . .
In the strokes panel, after you select the size (weight) of the stroke, three little buttons with the title “align stroke” become active. The middle one of these, if selected, aligns your stroke to the inside of the frame, thus keeping your frame to its original dimensions. You can tinker with the stroke widths (weights) as much as you like and, rather than expanding the frame by the stroke width (if you choose the first button) or twice the stroke width (if you choose the third button), the stroke, regardless of width, impedes only onto the graphic content.
I am using CS4 but imagine it will be very similar (if not the same) in CS5.
MemberHey, surely this problem is not one that only happens for me?
The larger-than-usual window means (on a Mac) that the “traffic light” buttons at the top left are hidden behind the toolbox panel — most inconvenient. What have I done wrong?
MemberBefore Adobe merged with Macromedia and thereby acquired Freehand, I used to use Freehand for vector graphics. Thereafter, of course, Freehand was doomed to obsolesence — though I quite liked some of its features that have not been picked up by Illustrator. The version of Freehand I used (hadn’t updated for a while) had EPS as its standard output. Consequently, I have a number of EPS files lurking in various obscure folders on my hard drive. Occasionally one of them is the best graphic to use for a particular project and I drag it out for another brief moment of fame.
Ever since I began using Creative Suite and Freehand became obsolete, of course, Illustrator has become my app of choice for vector graphics and now there are many many more .ai files on my hard drive than .fh* files. But, as I said above, the old ones still crop up occasionally. Yes, I know I could use Illustrator to convert them all to .ai but there seems little point in doing that when InDesign still happily accepts EPS files. I have compromised by converting the ones I use most.
But I agree that EPS is now rather “stone age”, even though it was Adobe’s invention in the first place.
MemberBefore Adobe merged with Macromedia and thereby acquired Freehand, I used to use Freehand for vector graphics. Thereafter, of course, Freehand was doomed to obsolesence — though I quite liked some of its features that have not been picked up by Illustrator. The version of Freehand I used (hadn’t updated for a while) had EPS as its standard output. Consequently, I have a number of EPS files lurking in various obscure folders on my hard drive. Occasionally one of them is the best graphic to use for a particular project and I drag it out for another brief moment of fame.
Ever since I began using Creative Suite and Freehand became obsolete, of course, Illustrator has become my app of choice for vector graphics and now there are many many more .ai files on my hard drive than .fh* files. But, as I said above, the old ones still crop up occasionally. Yes, I know I could use Illustrator to convert them all to .ai but there seems little point in doing that when InDesign still happily accepts EPS files. I have compromised by converting the ones I use most.
But I agree that EPS is now rather “stone age”, even though it was Adobe’s invention in the first place.
MemberCommand-Z is my constant friend! :-)
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