Unfortunately this is not the answer, although I had hoped it was. It was set to "Align: Top" but all new boxes are set to center. And any changes here will affect hundreds (well over 500) existing text boxes too. ... View more

Thanks Uwe. That did it! This has been driving me crazy for weeks. Somehow the default value got changed. Greatly appreciate your help. One more question to go (in a separate thread).   As for CS6 being past end of life, it does more than I will ever need, and has for years. I see no reason to upgrade. The only thing that the newer versions have that I like is the dark interface, but for $600/year, I don't like it that much <grin>. Thanks again! ... View more

  I drew a perfectly horizontal line using the line tool (the same thing happens if I use the pen tool to create a line). I switched to the white arrow tool, and tried to pull the left end of the line down. Instead of changing the direction of the line it pulled a handle instead. If I want to get rid of this I have to switch to the Pen/"minus" tool (- key), and delete three handles. Then the line becomes just a line again.   I use this technique to call out a drawing highlight with an explanatory text box. This issue had never happened in the past, and I've been working on version of this file for many years; it literally just started happening to me in early March. I obviosuly changed a setting but I'll be darned if I can figure out where. At the same time I also cannot change the default paragraph vertical justification from "center" to "top" in the text frame option dialog. ... View more

This is a screenshot with the white arrow tool selected, after I attempted to use it to drag one handle to alter the direction of a line. ... View more

There should not be (and never has been) a frame for a simple line in the white arrow tool. Or at least there never has been in the past. Yes, it is there in the black arrow tool, but this isn't what I'm asking about. This happens in the direct selection (white arrow) tool. In normal circumstances if I draw a horizontal line I can go to the direct selection tool, pull on an endpoint and the line just "changes direction" so I can call out something with a text box. This is no longer possible. ... View more

John, this is a brilliant idea. I don't know how to implement it, but I love the idea.   I have outlined the reasons for the need for different graphics in reply to a different post, but the quick version is the visibility of a precise color of yellow needed for color lines (railway track maps). They show up great on files intended for viewing on a tablet or screen, but are difficult to see on bright white paper; and stroked lines that look great in print show up almost black on screen.   So my next question, as related to your suggestion, would be how do I go about implementing it? I use only about 10 graphic files for 57 pages (vertical-master, vertical-print; horizontal-master, horizontal-print, etc, where print is the same as master except yellow lines have a 0.1 pt stroke). I have placed the files in a precise location on each page, and overlayed InDesign text on top of it. It's all on one layer at the moment; text and graphics, etc. Would it be possible to move all the graphics from the current single layer to their own layer, duplicate that layer, and then re-link the files on that duplicated layer to the print variants? Or am I overthinking this somehow? ... View more

This is precisely the issue. I have some map lines that are solid yellow. When printed on bright white paper stock the yellow virtually disappears, so I have to stroke it .1 or .05 black (thus converting it to a shape rather than a stroke). That same stroked line appears black when viewed as a PDF file on a phone, or tablet, and even on a PC screen when not zoomed in to greater than 400%. So for the moment, the easiest way is to have one version with these graphics stroked and one normal. I would prefer to be able to print the yellow lines without needing to add the stroke (to keep them editable) but so far I can't figure out a way around this problem. And while that isn't a problem in and of itself, the text portions of the book will now need to be done twice (one for the print version, once for the electronic version). It's just too easy for these two files to fall out of sync. ... View more

I've tried doing as you suggest and it doesn't print as I'd intended. Yellows produce a lighter shade than, say, reds or greens, and I don't like the look, Anything shaded in the original text has a specific meaning (a disused facility, or where one path crosses another, the lower path is to be partially shaded, etc). Anything not shaded in the original must be printed as 100% black. Attempts to do as has been suggested above, unfortunately, have failed to yield the result I need. ... View more

Yes, under Windows 10/64. I didn't realize it was unsupported. No need for a subscription for the few times I still need to use AI, so until it refuses to run I'll make do, I guess. ... View more

That was the first thing I tried and it didn't work, unfortunately. Ultimately I restarted the PC (I'm using CS6 on the PC) and opened a previously saved version of the document and it worked again; I re-opened the troubled document and it was fine from then on. Not really sure what happened, but I dodged a bullet for sure. ... View more

I don't actually have a contents page (maybe someday, but the nature of the publication doesn't easily lend itself to one).   What I'm really after is if someone is zoomed in to page 1 on their phone or tablet and they come to where the page break is, when they tap the hyperlink it takes them to a specific location on page 2, rather than page 2 in general. This is for following a route on a map. Certain lower-scale maps have links to numerous other pages, so if someone wants to follow one of 10 links on that page to a specific continuation on a different page, I'd like for them to be able to do so.   As it stands right now, let's say I have a hyperlink to Page 18 from page 22, when they tap it, they'll go to page 18 (at the inherited zoom level, which is what I want), but not to the specific part of page 18 where the route continues. Does this make sense? And if yes, is it doable?   And I'm still trying to find the answer to the second part of my original question with regards to hyperlinks embedded in the master document and how they'll print out. Will I need to create and maintain a separate document or can the master document render a PDF with links highlighted in interactive mode but not underlined or in colour for print (since the book is monochrome)?   EDITED TO ADD that there are probably somewhere between 500 and 750 of these jumps, so doing this efficiently is going to be key here. ... View more

Well that's even easier, and it works like a charm. Thanks, Barb! ... View more

Unfortunately this does not seem to work for me (holding down the control key and the left square-bracket simultaneously, or control and right square-bracket, or control, shift, etc). None of those combinations work using ID CS6 on a PC running Windows 10. ... View more

That one works quite nicely. I wish there were other similar choices, but that one will do for this application. Does anybody make a plugin or helper app that offers third party border styles? ... View more

That's a nice style right there, but I have no idea how to create it (or anything like it). Obviously those options alone didn't make that fance effect. I'm using CS6, incidentally, so I don't know if I have all the stroke options that later versions have. Yes, I could use a stock image frame, but my first preference is for a stroke style within InDesign rather than placing a vector image and scaling it to the text box. ... View more

I've never heard of a DRM-protected PDF Portfolio. May I ask what that is? ... View more

Well combining 4 of the 5 documents was trivially easy. But as I suspected, the last one is a major problem; bringing the portrait-oriented pages into a landscape document. There are 33 portrait pages and 125 landscape-oriented pages. And to make matters worse, the 33 portrait pages aren't continuous. 1-22 are, then it's "one here, one there" scattered throughout the rest of the book. The nature of the content is such that there's no better way to visually present the material. I would dearly love to have all the pages in one document if that's in any way possible! ... View more

One question: You stated that The Security settings are disabled since none of the PDF/X standards allow for locking or password protecting a PDF file. (If you really need such security, put the resultant PDF/X-4 file in a password-protected ZIP file after the file is created!) This is an issue for me. The book I've created is available in printed physical form and as a PDF. Until this year, the PDF has been made non-printing and content can't be selected. This is by design. Yes, I know it's trivial for a savvy user to bypass it, but many of my readers aren't savvy, and I prefer selling physical books to PDFs. My book is considered a reference work and quite frankly, I am trying to slow down attempts at piracy. Yes, I know I'll never stop it, but I sure don't want to make it easier, either. How can I enact any form of DRM if X-4 disallows document security? ... View more

So I'm convinced and will use this method from here on. I've been doing it the old way since I first started distilling from the other software in the '90s, so it just naturally flowed. But honestly, control+E is not a whole lot different than control+P so I'm good with the change. I'm not familiar with the differences between X-4 and X-1, however. I don't use ID professionally in a production environment, just for a little home side-project that I revise yearly. Is there an advantage of X-4 over X-1, or are there pitfalls of using one format over another? My printer has been accepting my old distilled files for years without a complaint, and the results have been OK. I can't tell you what equipment is in use on his end, just that it's high-speed copying (print-on-demand) essentially. ... View more

Because that's the only way I know how to do it?? How should I be doing it? ... View more