I find that the way it works is inconsistent--sometimes reapplying a Parent page to a Child page removes an edited text box, and sometimes it leaves it. But it doesn't make sense to me that reapplying a Parent  should remove all overrides, because if you wanted a totally unedited page that reflected the Parent, you could just insert a fresh Child page.   re: philosophy To me, it gets crazy to have a zillion Parent pages. I have examples in this document where the only thing being changed is header wording on one page. I don't feel like one or pages should need an entirely different Parent just to change a few words.    >if something is going to be altered by the user on the document page, it does not belong on the Parent page at all.... I don't even like having a Primary Text Frame   So how do you handle primary text boxes? I often put them on the Parent page so they're all in the same place and have the same default styling, and then unlock them to put in the appropriate text, but for this document that had some problems (and also had some advantages).  ... View more

Thanks for the reply, and sorry for the delay. This is interesting: I made a copy of the file and threw away a lot of pages to put in placeholder text, and now the problem is gone. So maybe there's a glitch in one of the other text boxes that's affecting the demonic header text box, or something. So I guess I'll just have to delete things until I find it.    But while I'm at it, I have another Parent page problem (maybe I should start a new thread): a page number disappeared, so I tried re-applying the Parent page to the Child page to get it back. But re-applying the Parent page removed the text box I had unlocked and edited on the Child page. My memory from previous years is that, once you've unlocked something from the Parent page and made changes to it, it will sit on the Child page until you delete it. Has that changed? And if so, how can I re-apply the page number box (or another missing item) from the Parent page without erasing all the changes I made to the Child page? ... View more

Thank you! I was trying to figure out what was going on, and landed on this thread. Based on your reply, I changed my placed images into TIFFs, and now I can see the correct scale in Illustrator (and found out that one is more low-res than I thought, argh). ... View more

Huh--thanks! I did not think of that.    ... View more

Thanks! The problem randomly went away again, but I'll try this method the next time.    ... View more

You know, I had never gotten around to testing this, but I just pulled out the mouse that came with my Wacom tablet, that I've pretty much never used, and its scroll wheel did allow me to go through the list, so thanks for the idea! It's slow and cumbersome, especially since the uncollapsed list is long and frustrating, so it's still pretty useless, but I did learn a new way to use my Wacom tablet.  ... View more

> The fonts list needs to be automatically collapsed down showing only the type family names. Exactly--I don't know why that isn't the default. I have a Wacom pen, as well, but the keyboard arrow keys didn't even work for me.  ... View more

Thanks for the tip. ... View more

Thank you! I'll pass it on. ETA: she may have wanted breaks for some words in the paragraph but not others.  ... View more

Okay, she says she selected certain words and applied "No break" from the Character menu. But when I went into that assignment and switched out a few words in one paragraph, the "no breaks" in that entire assignment no longer worked.  ... View more

Thanks for the reply; I'll try to find out. I didn't see any marked breaks from within InCopy when I showed all the characters. ... View more

I'm having this same issue, and it's super annoying because there are a lot of little text things that use the same spot color, and apparently I'll have to change them all individually, instead of replacing the color all at once--the swatch they're colored in won't delete, because it's attached to the Illustrator links, even though the formula didn't update in InDesign. I'm sorry there doesn't seem to be a fix for it.  ... View more

I just wanted to add another workaround for future readers, in case the IDML system doesn't work (which it didn't for me). Duplicate your master, and apply the new master to the page.  ... View more

Thank you SO MUCH for this answer about assigning the content type! I accidentally turn shapes into text boxes all the time (I think InDesign makes that far too easy, although now I see below that I can turn off this feature, hooray), and then it causes problems when trying to outline all the fonts. BTW, I "liked" your post a while ago, but then just now I accidentally unliked it, and can't get it to like again; ironic. So you really have 10 likes.  ... View more

I've been trying to use the InDesign Secrets system, but the resulting PS file only contains a portion of the poster I'm trying to print. I think it's somehow stuck on an 11x17 page size, although the document is 24x36. The page setup option is greyed out when I try to print to a PS file, so I can't figure out any way to change it to 24x36. Does anyone know how to fix this? I am not trying to print the poster at my home office; I'm just trying to make a printable 24x36 PDF that doesn't have that box around the company's logo. Thanks! ... View more

I just had this same issue, and it turned out I had accidentally "hidden" a font object. I have no idea how; I thought I had deleted the text object. It didn't show at all--not even in outline view--and could not be selected, so I couldn't figure out why "find font" kept saying a font was in there. Just in case it helps anyone else, here's the solution I found: Go to Object<Show all. In my case, the text object reappeared, and I could then delete it normally. ... View more

Hi--sorry for the delay; I didn't get this message for a while. I'm working on an assignment I checked out that's in an InDesign file opened within InCopy. My operating system is Apple 10.15.7 (Catalina). I have 16GB of RAM and 621GB of empty space on the hard disk.  ... View more

Nope--I had the same thought, but I turned on the hidden characters view, and there was nothing. Thanks for the suggestion, though. ... View more

Update: the only thing that applies to my system is that I'm using an old Wacom tablet, but updating the driver did not fix the problem. ... View more

Same here. I'm not running Forcepoint, so I find it frustrating that that's given as the final answer to this issue. Update: it looks like they have a newer page that lists these various issues--one of them might be causing my problem: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/cant-drag-layers.html ... View more

The printer settings/photos of the print aren't necessary, because the problem shows onscreen, as I demonstrated with the screenshots I posted in my last reply to you. (A larger version of a similar image is attached to my original post.) If I can see in Illustrator the same thing that Acrobat shows onscreen, I can fix the lines. "Without the real PDF and Illustrator..." I was not aware that posting the actual files would be something anyone would want. They're too large as is, but I can probably cut them down and post a modified version if you want to look at them. ... View more

"All in all maybe you made this much more complicated than needed from the beginning." I resent this. The line drawing was intended to be vector, and printed as a PDF from the start. It was only decided to drop it in Word at the last second, when the client decided they wanted to be able to edit some text on the page themselves. And from the standpoint of how the artwork is created, it made a lot more sense for me to do it in Illustrator than Photoshop. But the Word issue is somewhat of a red herring--the problem with the line weights came up in the PDF. I find it problematic that Illustrator's preview doesn't show the same thing that Acrobat's does. I only mentioned the Word aspect here because the Word preview and the Acrobat preview showed the same thing, which indicated to me that the problem might lie somewhere in Illustrator's preview. "You can really mess it up when you use both of them." Strange. In that case, Illustrator shouldn't allow the user to make this adjustment. I have seen nothing in the Illustrator documentation that says to avoid this. (It might be there, but it doesn't appear to be prominent; it's not on the two pages about brushes that I just checked.) And it doesn't seem to be a problem with every stroke or every brush. I've done quite a few of these silly line drawings, and the client has only complained about the weights in this one.     ... View more

The test version the client printed was actually the PDF, not the Word version. I still think it's a problem that Illustrator doesn't show what a PDF is previewing, whether or not this particular project will be printed in Word--shouldn't Illustrator/Acrobat be the same???! ... View more