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‎Jul 31, 2024
10:05 PM
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Heads up for anybody else who stumbles upon this thread… Whilst auto-transcription produces straight quotes if I alter one of these in the transcript panel (literally just deleting and retyping, which adds it as a smart quote) and then do a Find & Replace this can all happen in a flash. Annoying that I have to do it all (which is why I ended up on this page in search for an answer), but not nearly as painful as described above. Note that I have only been using Premiere in 2024, so perhaps this is a new 'feature'.
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‎Feb 23, 2023
05:26 AM
So, I have resorted to deleting the Character Style, which has allowed me to use the E key in its conventional fashion. But i'm going to leave the question up, because I'm intrigued about what I did, and want to know in advance what to do should it happen again.
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‎Feb 23, 2023
05:23 AM
So, I don't know what strange combination of keys I managed to inadvertently hit, but I have somehow managed to inadvertently give an existing Character Style a shortcut which is triggered by a single keystroke. And not just any key… 'e'! So if I'was typing this very sentence into InDesign it would look like this: So if I'was typing this vry sntnc into InDsign it would look like this: Arghhh! And yet if I open the Charater Style Options dialog the Shortcut field is empty. Any ideas how to solve? (simply shutting down InDesign and reopening wasn't sufficient)
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‎Jan 21, 2020
04:12 AM
Thanks for trying to help, but as trombinator pointed out my problem was specific to the 3D extrude Map Art window, where those shortcuts don't work. (Thankfully his suggestion worked)
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‎Jan 21, 2020
04:09 AM
Thanks! That solved my problem.
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‎Jan 20, 2020
09:06 PM
I'm making a custom version of the Back To The Future logo. But I've hit a roadblock on my most recent attempt: there is no bounding box visible when I select my custom symbol, but there is when I select a default symbol. This means I cannot scale, rotate or stretch my symbol (and I even had to resort to editing my initial symbols so as to rotate the words vertically, simply to get them to display in the correct orientation on the imaginary cylinder) No bounding box Has bounding box I have checked the symbol options, and they are the same for both symbols. Symbol settings Default symbol settings Frustratingly with earlier versions of my symbols that I made when first experimenting I could see the bounding box. Arggghhhh! Any ideas? Thanks in advance Any ideas on what I can
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‎Aug 14, 2018
01:01 AM
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Turned out my issue was I had a master page with a large Top Margin. Not all documents in the book used this Master page.
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‎Jun 27, 2018
11:18 PM
For completeness here are my margin settings. The only value I've changed from the original values is the Inside Margin. I get the same error message when adjusting page size regardless of whether the Enable Layout Adjustment checkbox is checked or not.
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‎Jun 27, 2018
10:16 PM
I created a book in InDesign for traditional printing (created with ID's book functionality, if that affects anything) I now want to create PDFs of each chapter, suitable for printing on A4 pages. So I need to: reduce the page size (from 152.4mm x 228.6mm to 148.5mm x 210mm - which I'll then print as spreads on A4) reduce the gutter/inside margins (from 28mm to 12mm - because the handouts won't have a spine I need to reduce the gutter) I created a test chapter for this about two months ago, which the client has approved. At that stage I used the Alternate Layout functionality, but after reading more about this subject I thought it might be simpler to simply copy the entire folder, and simply change the page size. However now when I try to do adjust the page size after altering the inside margin I'm getting an error message: "This page size does not fit with the current margin and column settings." What is causing this? What am I doing incorrectly? Changing the entire document's page size doesn't seem like it should be a particularly difficult operation. Please help! _______________ (I've setup the sample chapter so that the layout looks good, and without needing to modify any of the text styles there is almost exactly the same number of words per page. Thus I barely need to make any manual adjustments to the layout – which includes copious models, pull quotes and a full-page spread design at the end of each chapter – for the layout to work, such that a person who has the physical book can quote a page number and be confident the passage will appear on the same page in the chapter handouts).
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‎May 30, 2018
08:34 PM
Laubender wrote you will need a special PPD file to do what you want. And that installed in a special place. "Device Independent" is the wrong option. Download a zip file from my Dropbox folder. Hi Uwe, I downloaded your file, placed in in the appropriate folder and can see result in the print dialog window. I'm not exactly sure what this was intended to solve, but the Page Setup… button is still disabled. Thanks for going above and beyond to try and help me, but feel free to stop. Whilst it would be nice to be able to do this, there are only a couple of times a year that wish I had the functionality, and your other suggestion works well enough for my infrequent needs. Michael
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‎May 30, 2018
08:25 PM
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Laubender wrote you could place them also with one single placing action. One click for every card. 32 clicks in all. This worked brilliantly, thanks Uwe. Previously I'd always selected a frame first and than placed a file – I didn't realise it was possible to 'load the gun'.
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‎May 23, 2018
08:27 AM
Thanks for the detailed suggestions https://forums.adobe.com/people/Bevi+Chagnon+%7C+PubCom When I get to the print dialog screen and select the Setup tab all the options are greyed out.
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‎May 22, 2018
07:48 PM
https://forums.adobe.com/people/Bevi+Chagnon+%7C+PubCom wrote Here's a method that might work, but it will require a PostScript driver for your printer. (Maybe non-PS drivers/printers will allow this, too.) From InDesign: Select File/Print. Select a PostScript printer and PS driver. You can also select Acrobat PDF Printer, too, and this will create a PDF with the multiple items per page, too. Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't actually own a printer (I've always had a paperless office) and there's something peculiar to MacOS that won't let you use File > Print to create a PDF. I looked into this about a month ago (when I last tried to do something like this) but can't remember now exactly what the technical reason was. The upshot was that Mac users on this forum and others were suggested saving a PDF and then using Apple's own Preview app to print N-up, but my experience is that, at least for N-up imposition, that app is seriously lacking/buggy.
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‎May 22, 2018
06:23 PM
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Laubender wrote just place the InDesign document(s) of the business cards on a page. Do I need to manually lay out every page manually in the new document using this method? Real world problem: 32 name cards to be inserted in plastic lanyard pockets. Client wants to print these on their own A4 printer, which they don't know how to use very well. How can I (with Adobe CC and late model Mac) simply produce a 4 page PDF with the name cards laid out 8up on each A4 sheet? I can't seem to do it in Acrobat. And following this thread would tend to suggest I need to: make a second ID document place 8 correctly sized frames on a Master Page create 4 new pages manually place the original file 32 times, selecting the appropriate page each time Is that what people are suggesting? Surely there's a better way???
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‎May 17, 2018
04:47 AM
Bingo! Thanks Bernd
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‎May 16, 2018
01:11 AM
This probably sounds dumb, but when I try this I don't see multiple versions of my original PDF on the page (either in the preview window as shown, or in the resulting file). My original file is 104mmx76mm (WxH). So I should be able to fit 6-up on a portrait A4 sheet. But when I try to follow your instructions as best I can: File > Print Set Scale to 100% Select Layout from the dropdown whose first item is labelled Preview Select 6 from Pages Per Sheet dropdown Select Save as PDF from PDF dropdown in bottom left I get a single image in the right spot, but blank space where I'd expect the other 5 to be. What am I doing differently to the two previous posters?
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‎Jan 08, 2018
11:49 PM
Why would you assume this comment is in any way helpful? If you don’t know what those terms mean then it’s a pretty safe bet you’re not going to be able to help. 😉
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‎Oct 24, 2017
06:16 PM
smoothsea wrote Is this something that you could do with text variables? Hi Malcolm, That sounded like a promising idea, but just reading through the relevant help page I came across this warning, which is a deal breaker for my purposes: Note: Text variables do not break across lines. But thanks for the idea
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‎Oct 24, 2017
05:49 PM
Hi amaarora, Thanks for the idea, but it doesn't address my scenario. As best I can tell from a quick read and play Place and Link is only useful for duplicating the content of entire frames. What I need is a way to duplicate text strings which are part of a much larger story. This is true both for my actual endnotes problem, and for my hypothetical pullquote scenario (which I included because I thought that might be an easier way for members to immediately understand what I was hoping to achieve).
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‎Oct 24, 2017
12:43 AM
I want reproduce selected portions of text in a different part in the doc, and if the 'master' text is edited have the copies update automatically, or at least be alerted that the original text has changed. Specific usage case: I am using it for a peculiar style of endnotes – rather than use numbered paragraphs the client wants to reproduce the relevant part of main text in endnotes and then provide the citation. Sometimes the quoted text will be an entire paragraph, but more typically it will only be a portion of a paragraph, and sometimes as little as a word. FWIW I this idea might be more broadly useful for pullquotes, where if the author edited the main text then the pull quote would be automatically updated, or at least there would be an alert that the relevant text had changed. Suggested method seems to be to Create a hyperlink destination​ and then Insert a cross reference. My problem is that none of the Cross-Reference Formats seem to be useable. Partial Paragraph initially sounded the most promising, but it's very limited. The closest candidate is Text Anchor Name. (When creating a New Hyperlink Destination the selected text becomes the default name for that text anchor. Problem is the name field is limited to 100 characters, and often my selected text will exceed this). Any ideas? Any scripting or plug-in options if it's not possible with regular tools?
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‎Sep 27, 2017
06:55 PM
FWIW changing the Synchronise Options so that Master Pages is not selected looks like it prevents the graphic frames being moved (but simply doing this isn't a longterm fix, because I may need to tweak other Master Pages once I've finished adding all the content to the 22 chapters). This suggests to me that I haven't set up the Master pages for the Figure pages in an accepted fashion.
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‎Sep 27, 2017
06:05 PM
jeff_moore wrote What if you separate a couple of the individual illustrations into their own .AI files? and replace the current one with these, as a test to see if they still move. -- j Had my hopes up for this, as it seemed like an easy fix, but I exported the artboards as individual PDFs and the behaviour persisted when syncing.
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‎Sep 27, 2017
12:31 AM
I'm creating a book with approximately 22 chapters. There are about 40 figures in the book. They are all on stand-alone pages, with a different Master than the main text. Because the design is evolving as I add more content I have been using Synchronize Book, primarily to tweak and/or add Paragraph and Character styles, but also adding some Master Page tweaks. I have all selections ticked in Synchronise Options. I am seeing what feels like very strange behaviour, where some graphics frames are moving upwards immediately after I synchronise. Some graphics do not move. If the frames move then it is by a consistent amount, but that amount is determined by whether the figure is on a recto or verso page. This is how the page looks pre-sync (selected frame manually added, and then illustrator file placed). After syncing graphics frame on the left hand (verso) pages move upwards a small amount: If I manually move this page to the right-hand (recto) side then I see similar, but more extreme, behaviour after a sync: However, to reiterate, about half the pages I have with figures aren't displaying this behaviour. I feel like I have created them in identical fashion, but the figures don't move after synching. Can't for the life of me work out how they differ from the pages that are being modified. As best I can tell they do not have any Object Styles applied. (I also have text frames with pullquotes on most (regular) pages of the book which are placed in essentially identical fashion, all of which do have an Object Style applied, none of which move after synching.) Can anybody suggest what might be going on? a possible fix? There are about forty figures in total (so enough to be a pain, but few enough that I will happily rebuild all figures pages from scratch if anybody has any suggestions). They are all on the same size artboards in a single Illustrator file.
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‎Jun 20, 2017
09:55 PM
Jeffrey_Smith wrote This will work if you are preparing a document that you will print on your desktop unit. But if you are preparing a PDF for commercial print, I would not recommend leaving interactive elements, these can be ignored by a RIP or DFE and you will end up with no box on form. And as mentioned previously, an interactive PDF by default is RGB. Submitting a RGB file for digital print will cost more because the black will print all four colors as opposed to one color. For offset lithography, the RGB black most likely will convert to something less than desirable. Hi Jeffrey, Thanks so much for your input. I only know as much about PDFs as I've picked up along the way (i.e. not much) To be clear for the print version of the file (which is just printed digitally at a local copy centre) I am using the preset High Quality Print PDF but choosing Include Appearance from the Include Interactive Elements dropdown. (I am exporting the interactive web versions separately.) If I open that file in Acrobat and look at an Output Preview the boxes are 0 0 0 100 So my assumption is that there should be no problem printing the file (but I haven't confirmed this). FWIW the form has coloured sections (not visible in earlier screengrabs) so converting it to B&W in Acrobat was not an option (and yes, the blacks in the interactive file were not 0 0 0 100) Cheers, Michael
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‎Jun 20, 2017
09:23 AM
Thanks to JR_Boulay​ and Jeffrey_Smith​ for their input. However it appears I can achieve what I wanted simply by changing the highlighted state in the Buttons dialog from the [Normal On] state to the [Normal Off] state, which should be a much easier way to maintain my InDesign file and create the documents I need each month. This behaviour might be in the help files somewhere, but I didn't stumble across it in my travels. Sorry if my question overcomplicated my issue. (I just worked it out by chance when I noticed one of my other radio buttons on a different part of the form was not exhibiting the same behaviour when exporting for print as the other buttons, as I described in my original post).
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‎Jun 19, 2017
10:10 PM
Is it possible to create / export a form with radio buttons so that it looks okay for print as well as interactive? Here is a screengrab of part of the form, and the Buttons and Forms dialog box: When I export it as an Interactive PDF it works as expected. But if I export it for print I can't get a satisfactory result. When I export I have tried: Selecting Do Not Include from the dropdown for Interactive Elements, which leaves empty spaces where the four radio buttons should be Selecting Include Appearance from the dropdown for Interactive Elements, which prints the 'active' dots in all four squares (identical to how it appears in InDesign, whereas I just want the border) Any ideas? Should I create the buttons differently? Is there an export option I'm overlooking? _____________________________________ I appreciate that it might seem simpler just to make two versions. But I want to find an optimal way to do this because I need to create multiple location-specific versions of the form, and then I need to regularly update these with new dates (which are identical for all the different locations). It seems like I should be able to leverage the power of Master Pages such that I can update new dates on just one master page, and then have these flow through to the location-specific variants. And ideally I'd like to just have one variant for each location, which I then export for print and web respectively, rather than having to manage separate print and interactive versions for each location.
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‎Jun 04, 2017
04:46 AM
srishtib8795206 wrote Article panel option is a customized way and set tab order is the recommended way of setting tab order .If both are used Set Tab Order will override Article Panel ordering. Its an expected behavior Hi Shristi, Is there a way to override/delete the Set Tab order from an existing file? I have a series of application forms which I regularly need to update with new dates. I originally made one form a few years, but now there are multiple variants for different countries, which were copied form the original form. Presumably at some point I set the tab order via the Set Tab dialogue, but I'm guessing it doesn't handle copying pages well, because it's a complete mess now. Do I need to build the form again from scratch if I don't want to use the Set Tab dialog? If nothing else Adobe should update the help files If Set Tab is the recommended approach then Adobe should update the Help Files. At the moment it is the second option presented (and the natural inference is to assume the first approach is probably the preferred). There are enough unsolved posts in these forums alone to suggest this confuses and frustrates lots of InDesign users. Cheers, Michael
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‎Jun 01, 2017
09:28 PM
Tab order in forms seems to be something of a continuing issue on the forums, but I'm yet to come across a satisfactory answer to the following… The help files for Using Forms outlines two different methods to specify the tab order of a form exported to PDF: the Articles panel, which has a convenient drag-n-drop interface for rearranging the order of the fields. the Set Tab Order panel, which requires using the much less convenient Move Up and Move Down buttons But the help files make no mention of what happens when the displayed order in each is in conflict. Is it possible to ensure that the order in the Articles panel overrides the order in the Set Tab Order panel? In my experience Set Tab Order seems to win, even when I follow the export instructions for ensuring that the Articles order is baked into the form. Does anybody know how to get the Articles panel to beat the Set Tab Order panel, or otherwise know a convenient way to get an existing form to behave properly?
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‎May 18, 2017
07:14 PM
xavixanxe wrote I've seen that you have 13 empty table rows on the master page, and I think that's just what cause the overset. Try removing the unnecessary rows from the master page (you need max 39, right?) Bingo! The longer story is that the number of actions a user could add was unlimited, and it must have maxxed out at 52 on one occasion. The 39 Action limit was introduced only in the last quarter or two. In retrospect I can't believe I didn't think to try deleting the superfluous table cells when I was trying to determine the cause of my issues. (Of course I'm still intrigued by why I apparently have a whole host of unnecessary XML tags, but unfortunately I'm unable to share the source file publicly. Many thanks to Laubender​ for so generously trying to sort out my issues)
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‎May 17, 2017
10:29 PM
Laubender wrote puffmoike wrote … What suggests that I have XML tags? Colored brackets like the one in my made-up example below. Open your Story Editor window and see if you can find something like that: If the XML is not necessary I would remove it from the InDesign template document. Regards, Uwe So are you suggesting that those coloured brackets are introduced by the content of the CSV file or by something I do when creating the template? I just tried dragging one of the Data Merge elements (equivalent of 'Action X' in the mockup you very generously produced) onto my Master page and initially it didn't show coloured brackets. But once I ran the data merge it was surrounded by coloured brackets on both the master page and all the relevant pages produced by the merge. In short, I'm not sure how I am meant to create a data merge template without ending up with these coloured brackets. (why does your Action 1 and Action 5 not have brackets, but the other three do?)
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