I agree with James. Shrinking to fit the print area is a setting in Acrobat's print window, and you can turn it off.  ... View more

Thanks, AkanchhaS. That does work, but I can only see the All Tools options while I have a PDF open. When no PDFs are open, there are only the drop-down menu options at the top of the screen. Is there a preference or keyboard shortcut I can use to get to All Tools without having to open a PDF each time I want to do this? ... View more

Thanks, Brycestiner. ... View more

…but I suppose they can be adjusted with a center tab in the kind of text box you describe. By @Grundoon Groundhog No need for a center tab. You just need the special character. ... View more

We may be saying the same thing. By @Grundoon Groundhog I don't think we are. …and the page numbers appear twice on succeeding pages — once in their correct position toward the outside of the page, and once near the interior margins. By @Grundoon Groundhog This suggests that you have page numbers on a parent page that is applied to a document page that also has copies of the page numbers pasted onto the document page. Your description of the placement suggests you want page numbers opposite of the spine, but maybe you have one text frame on the left page with left-aligned type, and another text frame on the right page with right-aligned type. When your page changed from left to right, the text frame that is on the document page will stay on the left, but the one on the parent page will be reapplied to the right, giving you what you describe. There's a better way. Make one text frame the width of your margin on the parent page, insert the automatic page number character (Type>Insert Special Character>Markers>Current Page Number), and set the alignment to Away from Spine. The page number will move to the correct position if the page changes from one side of the spine to the other. Delete all of the page numbers that are on the document pages and just have the ones from the parent pages. ... View more

There's really no advantage to having parent-page items if you plan to release them to the document pages. If you want to edit the items on each document page, you're better off just placing them on the document pages and not having them on the parent page. This goes especially for page numbers. Why are you releasing page numbers on document pages? Having one set on the parent pages is all you should need. ... View more

No, I'm not using master pages except as a resource to copy master items and paste them onto blank pages. By @Grundoon Groundhog I've never thought about working that way, and I'm not sure I see what the advantage is. If you want something on more than one document page, placing it on a master page (now called a Parent page) and applying that parent to the range of document pages is what parent pages are for. Placing items there just to copy to document pages can more easily be done by placing them in a library. Are you applying the parent pages you're using as a resource to any docment pages? ... View more

See if you can select the un-selectable type in the story editor. ... View more

Can you tell us the InDesign version and OS version that were used to create the files, and what you have now? Are they on you local HD, or on a server/removable drive? What is the file size? ... View more

In the third scenario, what happens if you type "0" in there... does anything change? By Brad @ Roaring Mouse Nothing that can be seen. What happens if you select that entire line? By Brad @ Roaring Mouse The same thing—the input field is blank, indicating that there are mixed values in the selected text. The reason I showed the issue by selecting only the paragraph return and the $ separately was to show that there was no baseline shift in either, and that if there was no bls in either, there shouldn't be any when selected together. Since there is, there must be a bug in there somewhere. Going back to the original post, this is a way that I check a range of text to see if there are any stray deviations. A blank field says yes, so when it's blank when it shouldn't be, that negates my method of checking. It's not a huge problem, but its like a pebble in your shoe. Just anoying enough to be noticed, but not something to stop you in your tracks. Anyway, thanks for chiming in. ... View more

You could try saving it as .IDML and then reopening it. By @barbara_a That didn't work, but if I rebuild a blank with the same fonts and sizes, I can duplicate it and paste the buggy text into each blank without formatting and it doesn't copy the bug. It will take a while, but I'd rather not have a bug, even if you can't see what it's doing. Thanks for responding. ... View more

I don't work with pixels as a unit of measure, but I gave it a try and found that you can place a guide between pixels, but objects seem to snap to whole-number pixels. For example, if you set a guide to X=100px Y=80px, you can snap an object to those guides. But, if you try to drag the object to 99.5x79.5, it will snap to 99x79, whether or not you have guides or not. And, since you can place guides at 99.5x79.5, you would hope that you could snap to them, but I don't seem to be able to. You can, though, place the object at 99.5x79.5 by entering the X & Y coordinates in the Control pannel. I'm not sure if this info is helpful, but it's what I found. ... View more

Jeffrey's suggestion will probably be good for your project, and if you need to format the data after it comes into InDesign, you can make paragraph styles that have as their next style the line that comes after. So, in your example, it looks like you have eleven lines in each record. You could have eleven styles, with the first style using the second style as it's next style, and the second with the third as it's next style. Each style can be unique, or can be based on a previous style to give you some flexibility. And when you're ready to apply the styles, you can select all of the text and right-click on the first style, and from the fly-out menu, choose "Apply [StyleNameHere] Then Next Style" and each line will be styled accordingly. Start with this: …and you can get this: …in one click. ... View more

If your data in each record is the same size, you could fit the text frame that holds the placeholders to no larger than will fit in the frame. You could then set the space between records in the multiple-records layout to what ever looks good to you, and the spacing will be consistent. The problem is if you need more space for a larger record. For example, most of the records in your example have the bold entries at the top on three lines, but the first record has four. If you set the size of the frame to hold three lines, the first record will have overset text, and the last line wouldn't show. If you set the size of the frame to hold four lines, you will have extra space in the amount of the space that the fourth line would have occupied in each record. To do this with Data Merge, you may have to manually move the merged frames into position ... View more

I think the biggest hurdle is that the number comes before the text in left pages, and after the text in right pages. Here's an example set up with custom anchored frames: …but when text flow changes which page an item is on, it doesn't automatically change the position of the anchored frame: If I were doing this, I'd wait until all of the type was set and manually move the frames to their correct position. It could be possible to write a script to do this, but a scripting expert would have to tell you that (which isn't me…sorry).   EDIT: I found a way to make it work   You need 3 styles to make this example work. One for the body, one for the bold title and one for the anchored frame with the number. If you set the leading for the title to zero with no space before or after, it will align horizontally with the number anchored frame: ... View more

If you are replying to the forum from email, you may not realize that the signature lines from your email are being posted to the forum. If you don't want (for example) your phone number posted on a public forum, open the forum in a web browser, edit your post to delete your contact info, and reply using the browser instead of email. ... View more

Something you could try quickly is to open a CS5 document in the version you have upgraded to, do a save-as to a new location, and then export to .idml. If you open the .idml file and compare it to the newly-saved version, it may have cleared out the phantom fonts. Or maybe not, but since it will be very quick to try, it wouldn't hurt. ... View more

The first thing I noticed was that the button says "Add CMYK Swatch" instead of RGB. ... View more

I understand your frustration, and I'm sure you know that the forum is mostly for users like us to talk to each other, so my thought was that if someone could look at your files and get the same or different results, maybe someone would know something. I hope someone from Adobe sees this, but it's not a sure thing. ... View more

Maybe you could take a screen shot of a bit of type from InDesign, and one from a PDF that didn't work and post them to the forum, along with your ID version, OS version and what export settings you used. And if you can post a link to a Dropbox or Google Drive folder with the ID file and the PDF, someone can have a look. ... View more

If you have a silicon (M1 chip) Mac, you should check if the OS and InDesign version work together. I think the latest updates to InDesign will work in silicon, but I'd check anyway. And in case it's the file, try exporting to .idml, preferably with a computer that doesn't have the problem if you still have access to it. ... View more

I'm getting the same color conversion with those settings. Specifically, I get 54/45/47/62 instead of 0/0/0/100. Were you asked to use these settings by a printer? I'm not very knowledgeable on color profiles, but someone who is might drop by and answer your question. ... View more

Are you using one of the supplied PDF settings (like High Quality Print or PDF/X-4:2008), or a custom setting that you created or modified from a supplied preset? Also, in the PDF Export window what do you have set in the Output tab in the Color Conversion selection? ... View more

I'm not saying that what I'm describing is what is wrong with your document specifically, but when I open a file that has a font warning, many times it turns out to be that the last person who worked on the file had a text frame with no type in it that had the font as an insert point. This happens if an empty frame that was being used as a shape was accidentally clicked into with the type tool, and changed from an unassigned or graphic frame to a text frame. When I find those, I change the content to graphic (my personal choice, but you can use unassigned if you prefer). Other times it's not a visual character that you could see when looking, but a white space or a break space of some sort. Of course, all of these will be identified if you open Type>Find/Replace Font, click the problem font in the list and hit Find First, but I get the impression that this isn't finding the problem font for those of you posting here. ... View more

…because if I need to switch that text back to title or sentence case using styles, I'd have to go back and retype those words. By @J E L But there's also this: ... View more

We may view the purpose of Master/Parent pages differenly, but I like to place items on the Parent Pages when I want them to appear on the document pages as they are on the Parent pages. If you want to edit them on the document pages, you could override them as Rob has suggested, but if you need to change something that is common to many pages, changing it on the Parent is the easiest, and any changes you have made to overridden Parent items on the document page won't respond to those edits on the Parent page. For example, move an item on a document page, and it will stop responding to movement on the Parent page. The same goes for geometry, fill, stroke, rotation, etc. And if you insert an odd number of pages before an overridden item's page, the parent will be reapplied, and you will have all of the parent items, plus the overridden ones. I like to set it and forget it, but maybe that's just me. If it works for you, use it in good health. ... View more

I can't tell from the screen shot. It looks like the text frame has a white stroke and the line is an actual line. That's the only reason that I know of why it would print. If you can upload a copy of your file to something like Dropbox or Google Drive and paste a link, someone could look at it. ... View more