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MemberDoes this only happens with the Asian font? If so, does you have the italic font set installed? I do not know how it is on a Mac but on a PC/Windows you must install the italic set to get true italics.
MemberIf you use special fonts often or even if you just wish to have a good utility to examine what a font file contains, here is a good choice:
BabelMap (only for Windows) – https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html
It’s free :-)MemberQamar, my experience with the “keep with next” was/is very bad. Mainly if you use vertical justification for columns or individual text frames. My recommendation is ‘stay away from it!’ Eugene’s suggestion is good, (I have used it) but depending on many variables of given paragraphs it will not behave the way you wish. I use ID CS6, maybe in CC Adobe has improved this poor behavior.
MemberHello,
It could well be that the font file does not have the character set that you are willing to place in the glyph panel.
Unicode comes in mind because the fonts that are loaded by default, such as Arial or Myriad Pro have the full set of Unicode characters.
You would need a utility that reads font files and then check if the glyph(s) you are willing to search exist in the Typekit font. Be aware that font files not produced by the well-known font foundries may have placed the special characters (above ASCII 256) in different positions from those dictated by Unicode.
Regards
TomMemberGuillaume,
I believe having found the reason for your problem.
Please have a look at this image:
The image on the top is the original with a caption created dynamically. All settings are the same as those you have indicated on your previous message.
The two images below were created differently:
the left one: I copied the image from the top (with the caption created) then I clicked (selected the frame) on the figure (not the caption), rotated it and, voilá, this is what you were looking for. The caption frame is still at 0º
the right one: first I copied the original image, then I rotated it WITHOUT THE CAPTION. Then I applied the dynamic caption. The result was the same as the one you obtained, namely the caption box rotated too.
As you wrote previously, you have done exactly this, namely you first rotated the images then you applied the caption. As result, the caption rotated with the image.
So the trick is this: DO NOT ROTATE THE IMAGE but apply the caption, then select the image ONLY and rotate it. The caption will remain at 0º
I hope this was of help
Amuse toi :-)
TomMemberGuillaume, bonjour
I assume by legend you mean “caption”. Right?
Probably your problem resides in how you set the Caption Setup box. It is likely that you marked (ticked) the “Group caption with Image”MemberBethany,
Most members of this forum use this site to upload images:
https://imgur.com/
Sadly IndesignSecrets does not allow for pasting images inside a message :-(
I would still like to see what is happening to your project.
But, as other said too, the way to go is using paragraph styles and then marking characters, words or even strings of text with a character style.
Cheers
TomMemberplease provide an image of what your PDF looks like compared to what your ID page looks like. From your description it is hard to understand your problem
In any case, it is not a very good practice to use Character styles to format text. Instead, you should use Paragraph Styles which warrant consistency.MemberPete, Dwayne is right, I forgot this little detail. As a matter of fact I simply assumed that each text frame contained an independent snippet of formatted text.
In other words, the frame to be linked to the next does not have a paragraph with a hard return then the next paragraph in the box that will be linked will inherit the previous paragraph’s style.
If this is the case, to speed up the process you could use a find/change trick to insert hard returns after each paragraph, no matter if they have it or not. Of course, after this, several paragraphs may end up having an extra hard return, so once you have joined all the text frames into one single text string then you will have to remove those extra hard returns by find/changing double hard returns by only one. In this manner you will have a clean text that maintains untouched all paragraph styles.
Using metachars this is a quite simple and quick way to accomplish such cleaning.
Cheers
TomMemberPete,
There is a javascript that unthreads all text boxes. You will find it in Applications > Samples > Javascript. It is named “SplitStory.jpx”Run it and it will unthread all existing boxes that are threaded.
I am now assuming that each box had a separate text and you wish to thread the texts in a given order.
All you have to do is to start with the first box, click on the small rectangle down at the right corner of the text containing frame. The cursor will change showing a small peace of text. Now click (anywhere) on the second box that you wish to thread after the first. At this point the two texts will integrate as one string, even if they sit inside two different boxes (text frames).
You will repeat this operation with all boxes, threading box 2 with the one that comes next and so on. It does not even matters if the boxes are placed on different pages, this process allows you to establish a flow of text. Once you have finished this you will have a text that contains all previous texts, in the order that you threaded the boxes. In other words, in a continuum that you wish it to be.An example, so that you understand what I am saying:
Initial situation of 5 boxes after all have been unthreaded:
Content of box 1: “Hello people, good”
Content of box 2: “wonderful springtime day”
Content of box 3: “who love butterflies and”
Content of box 4: “day for those”
Content of box 5: “flowers on this”Now thread the boxes in this sequence: box 1 with box 4, then 4 with 3, then 3 with 5 and finally 5 with 2.
Click “Cntrl Y” to access the text editor and you will see that now you have a unified text that reads:
“Hello people, good day for those who love butterflies and flowers on this wonderful springtime day”Enjoy
TomMemberHello Peter,
I am not sure I got your problem correctly.
Nevertheless, if you wish to thread text boxes in a certain sequence that is perfectly possible. Once you have done that and all text boxes are threaded according to the order you wish, then you have created one single text document (even if they reside in different boxes) and then you can export that text.
Interested? I can guide you through this process.
TomMemberHello Hyppe,
What you did is correct. to allow my suggestion to work you need all chapters in one file.
Actually, since this is not the file that you wish to print, rather to please your client to produce him a PDF, this is just an auxiliary file for that purpose.
Good luck
TomMemberHello Hyppe,
If I understood correctly what you wish to do there seems to be a very simple solution. It assumes that your ID file’s document is set to have a spread of left and right pages:
All you have to do is to insert one blank page in the beginning of each chapter. It will push all pages to the right, that is, page 1 will become page 2, page 2 will become page 3 and so on.
Now that you have this, export a PDF choosing the Spreads button in the General > Pages configuration window.
Let me know if this worked :-)
Good luck
TomSeptember 15, 2014 at 2:48 pm in reply to: Grouping objects to anchor them – but they already have Object Styles #70587MemberSorry Eugene, I clicked without writing an answer. I am still investigating it.
RegardsSeptember 14, 2014 at 5:19 pm in reply to: Grouping objects to anchor them – but they already have Object Styles #70575Member.
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