This morning I scanned a photo, taken in 1904, I found in a magazine that shows a relative. The image size in the magazine is 4x3 and it is very grainy. I understood that I was not going to get a crisp image but scanned at 1200 dpi to get what I could.   When I scanned it, on an HP Laserjet Pro MFP 4301dw, I did not notice that the Preset setting was "Document" which yielded a PDF - see 01.jpeg attached (jpeg because I photographed it on my computer screen using my cell phone, as is the case for all 3 attached images).   I placed the pdf in an InDesign document and printed it using the HP Laserjet Pro MFP 4301dw; it was dark as I expected - see cell phone image 02.jpeg.   I then rescanned at 1200 dpi with Preset "Photo" which produced a jpeg and, on screen, a somewhat better image - see cell phone image 03.jpeg attached.   I then imported both 01 and 02 into Photoshop and modified the brightness/contrast. However, when I went to print the modified images out of InDesign they came out with an odd pattern. - the same pattern as described below re 04.jpeg.   I then removed the images modified in Photoshop from the InDesign document and replaced them with the original pdf and jpeg - and again got the odd pattern shown in cell phone image 04.jpeg.   Could someone explain what is happening   With thanks in advance. ... View more

Some time ago I began a document which: has a layout (named in the attached images as "Letter V") that is 7.5"w x 9.5"h. The layout dimension related to certain vision issues I had at the time and the size of the monitor availble; multiple chapters each of which are separate files. I was planning on combining the files eventually but this layout size allowed me, given my vision issue, to see a "whole" page at once and to easily navigate between chapters (files).   Recently I got a new and much larger monitor and I now want to work on standard 8.5"w x 11"h page size. I have began the process by creating a new layout, labled "Custom 240320.00," as per Screenshot 01 attached.   I imported some text from an original file in the Letter V layout. I find that, not surprisingly, it adds paragraph and character styles under "Custom 240320.00." These are duplicates of the styles already present in paragraph and character styles panes, see Screenshot 02.   Is there a way in which I can designate all of the paragraph and character styles in Letter V layout as the full range of paragraph and character styles available in Custom 240320.00 layout so that when I bring in text from files using Letter V layout it does not enter them again, this time under Custom 240320.00?   Rephrased, I want to have a new Template file that has page size set as 8.5"w x 11"h but includes all of the paragraph and character styles used in the Letter V layout. How do I do this?   Also, I notice that the the two layouts shown in Screenshot 01 follow one after the other when I scroll down in the work window - see Screenshot 03...Letter V has 43 pages which preceed the pages in Custom 240320.00. Once the paragraph and character styles issue is resolved, how do I get rid of the Letter V pages?   Thanks in advance.         ... View more

I have a new document with 5 pages. I put page number text boxes on the Master 2-page spread. The page number shows on pages 1, 4 and 5, but not on 2 or 3. There are no boxes of any kind obscuring the page number location on any of the pages. I have the layer with the page number text boxes at the top of the layer stack. I could not find any online assistance with this. Thanks in advance for assistance. ... View more

A number of years ago I created a simple bar graph in InDesign. I have decided to use it as the basis for a new but similar graph.   In order to apply the swatch color in the new graph I need to be able to determine the which swatch I had selected previously - my list of color swatches is extensive because it has een built up over years.   I selected the graphic box in the old file that contains one of the colors I want to use but cannot find any info indicating exactly which swatch I selected - i.e., the color does not highlight in the swatches list, or show the CMYK numbers.   For various reasons I do not want to copy paste the graphics boxes from the old file into the new file. Is there a way to determine the CMYK numbers ?   Thanks in advance. ... View more

I have a paragraph style for body text in my document. The default text is black. I have a character style for use with body text which has the character style set to blue - for use in highlighting text that will need editing at a later date.  The blue is fairly saturated so that it pops out on-screen for quick recognition - see Screen Shot 01. For some reason, in some locations, the blue shows as much more muted - see Screen Shot 02 (same file, paragraph style and character style). This does not seem related to the monitor - moving the page up/down and right/left on-screen makes no difference.   How do I correct this ? Thanks in advance. ... View more