That doesnt work anymore - yes, it used to be exactly that but now it's stopped working! As you can see, the text frame is slected, but there is no "story" or "to End of Story" option. Weird. ... View more

?? I disagree. Colour separation is perfectly mainstream. Fifth colour. Not rocket science or be able to turn on or off inks in the ink manager. It appears that it’s an oversight. That’s all. The question was If you can create separated colour PDFs via “Print“ dialogue why can’t you in the Export to PDF flow? ... View more

?? It’s got nothing to do with a printshop. I need a one colour separation pdf. For foreign language. If it can be done via “print” why can’t it be done in export? What I do with it is irrelevant. ... View more

Indeed, I know that. But I do need to print the text for a 5 colour book - without images.  I just am unsure why one cannot turn on or off inks in the Ink Manager - you can do this in QX. So it looks like a simple omission from the coding.  I will have to wait til next week to print to postscript from my office, which does do this very simple task.  ... View more

Thanks - I'll try installing it. Am on OSX10.15 ID2020. I have two computers, one in an office and one at home, identical setups but at home the print to ps via adobe pdf or prinergy won't work. Not sure why.  However the issue remains that it would not seem to be a particularly hard addition to make to "export as pdf" - especially given that this option is available in QX.  I have to export individual language texts that are set in a 5th colour.  sometimes this is a historic file, before layering existed (or, converted from QX). Rather than remake the whole book into layers for each type colour, a separated pdf would be so useful! ... View more

So you were wrong, werent you!! Regular harrasment by phone calls and emails to Adobe (by me and  others) has amazingly resolved this issue now. Dont give up so easily sir. ... View more

And? The customers pay for their software, and ultimately Adobe are accountable. If it is not working, then keep harassing Adobe ... View more

yes, i have the same problem! and i like to use the precise cursor too. Sadly Adobe are releasing too many products without full testing - InDesign 2018 is similar in thar regard. No idea why more beta testing is not done to avoid this. Perhaps Adobe will give us a time-frame when this will be updated? ... View more

🙂 well yes, however as I had already started several projects in ID2018, backwards saving causes it’s own problems as I am sure you are aware - manually placed guides on right hand pages disappear - and also there are sometimes complications. Setting text with notes in 2017ID is the only way now, and then to copy the text only. The main point here is that I feel very strongly that Adobe should have fully tested this new feature, BEFORE releasing it is an update and as a new part of InDesign. This would be normal in any software development I would have thought!! I do wish also that Adobe might acknowledge the problem, or oversight if you prefer. As it is a fairly major part of typesetting books, they really ought to have resolved it by now. ... View more

Hi Uwe I have tried saving the word file into every conceivable format, and it wont work, as docx, doc, rtf. The problem is that I regularly typeset books which are single documents of 300-700pages, with many chapters. I need my textt ot flow continuously throughout the book, and I need the endnotes to start from 1 for each chapter - the original word file will always have these notes renumbering at one for each 'section'. I do understand that some users will want 'dynamic' notes, but not everyone, by any means. It would seem sensible to have a toggle off/on for 'dynamic endnotes', and so that way that using notes which has existed in InDesign since the beginning is till an option. There is no way to workaround this other than to typeset in the old 2017ID, and then copy and past into the 2018ID. Which, I am sorry to say, is really quite an unsatisfactory solution!! Isambard ... View more

I understand those markers will not be printed. I was illustrating the 'coding' for the dynamic note system. if one cuts that text and place it in another file you get  <?> instead of the number. and the note reference in the text disappears. the more i try to look at this, the more problems i find with it. the irony is that one of the best features of ID has been the importing of word files into documents. Not you have basically tried to emulate the word programme function within a design tool. this only will create issues if it cannot be fully disabled, and text is treated as text. ... View more

this is the same word file set in ID2017 - note references are all superior figures. apostrophes are in the correct spot ... View more

this is set using the new ID 2018 Notes do not always have raised numerals. also, apostrophes disappear.. ... View more

Further to this Aman, I must point out that the new feature does not work properly either. Many note references in the main text are not raised. Also random numerals appear. I do do not buy for one second that Adobe does not have the resources to test a new function completely BEFORE release. If there is the money for development and research into this new feature, which there clearly is, then to not fully test it is amateurish and bordering on disgraceful. To try to make an excuse for this being a 'mature' programme is just bonkers. Adobe released this updated application in september 2017, - why not test fully and release in 2018 - like the name ID2018!!! An analogy for you. You have a car, that works fine but some drivers want to have heated seats. You develop and test in a factory and it works fine. But whilst you have tested it with the engine running, you have not tested it when driving the car. So customers drive and the seats do not heat properly.  If ID 2018was a car, it would need to be recalled. Publishers and designers around the world, producing all kinds of printed material and books, be they art, academic, legal, mathematical etc, will all encounter this basic flaw (ie consecutive sequential numbering with no chance to renumber per chapter)  very soon, and you will be inundated with complaints. When I say coding, i attach the image below. THe blue symbol at the end of each line and the beginning of each paragraph is the note coding, translated from the word file. It is completely uneditable. ... View more

Hi Aman I will explain how I work and why this new feature is a problem. For a typical exhibition catalogue I will be sent maybe 10 essays and 5 other pieces of text, all of which have notes. These note’s have been carefully edited BEFORE they reach me. These are academic and art books. The level of research of the material is thus extremely high. The writers can renumber their notes in word all they like, but once the text comes to me, they do not. This is typesetting that i am doing, not word processing. I flow low the text into one long file, strip out all style sheets etc, put the notes into one long document on their own. This will sit with all the rest of the back matter, bibliography, index, etc. The font size for this section is smaller and sits on different line leading. Sometimes these notes and the back matter can sit in the same document, but not always. It depends on the editing process. After I have designed the book, and before it goes to print, various editors will make chnages. These will not normally ever include renumbering notes. Dynamic notes simply mean the connection to the word document stays put. that is fine if it has flexibility enough to be turned off. But the basic premise seems to be this tool is for editors not designer. Which is after all the target InDesign wants. Word is for editors. ... View more

And please remember that as an individual, on a monthly pay plan for CC, when this sort of thing goes wrong it annoys the hell out of me. Why? because I pay for it. And i do not get a refund. And I cannot opt out until i retire!! And by complaining I waste my time, but I know that maybe somehow it will get fixed. And then the price will go up. I anyone who makes a suggestion or reports a fault that could have been tested, gets no thanks. ... View more

🙂 I understand this, and realise the scale of the company is huge, adn they have many products etc, and that ID is not the main thing now that QX has been blown away. And i agree with the fact that maybe there were not enough resources to create the perfect endnote feature. But I do not buy into the fact that the old and trusted way that had been working for 18 years is simply turned off, without a thought to how users interacted with the software. By all means bring in a new feature, but to replace a crucial part of text coding and typographic handling without going through it is still sloppy. It was not perfect before but it worked. Now it does not work at all. Even for a short file with 10 pages, the notes have to be connected to the text by code. Why not simply have a remove all code option. It is making a simple job a nightmare. Be wary Adobe. Remember how QX dominated the market in the late 80s and 90s, and blew away Ready Set Go, Pagemaker etc. Then they got complacent. Charged too much, and brought in features that made the software harder to use, and eventually their market share disappears altogether. Books are still being printed, illustrated books more than ever. Printing has changed beyond recognition since 1453 and yet Lithographic printing is still miles ahead of digital inkjet printing in terms of quality for illustrated and text books. Publishers around the world, and designers need a product they can rely on. Developing 'mature' products with the same care and diligence one puts into any other saleable piece of software would be what most people expect of a mulitbillion dollar company, and it seems a better option. ... View more

Thank you for your note Aman. No I tend to make one continuous file, so I can control the typography better. But I split it when we get close to the end of the project. when editors need ot work on different sections from the designer (me). This means I often have, for example, pp1-99 (prelims and essays), pp100-680 (catalogue section of maybe 10 chapters), then the endmatter pp 681-720. This is the current plan I am working on, and have done so for 25+ years, over many platforms!!! I know what I am doing, trust me! Turning off the feature would mean that I can import/place multiple text files which may or may not have notes, together in one continuous 'galley'.  I cut the notes form the end of each chapter (where they have been put by default in all In Design docs since the very start!!!!!), and paste them into either another file, or the end of the document. Usually the former. The notes all restart at 1 for each chapter. And the note reference stays in the text, regardless of whether I have cut the notes or not. The reference in the text was always there - it simply did not change when you changed the notes. Dynamic notes are really not needed. It is fine for an editor using notes in Word etc, for word processing, but for typesetting and typography for the kind of work i do in the illustrated books, the text is edited and pretty much finished when it gets to me - so renumbering is not an issue. I have been using InDesign for years now, and Quark before that, since 1989. ALways, footnotes withing text files came in at the end of each 'import' as part of the text. The dynamic feature could be useful, especially for online, ebooks etc, so I see the point of it. Hence the option for on / off. The current toggle within the notes in CC2018, as mentioned above, if you deselect footnotes and endnotes, or one or the other, all notes and the references are deleted. ... View more

Sorry Steve, but the software developer in question has plenty of financial resources to sort this out BEFORE release to the subscribers, who pay for the programme. A new feature, not fully tested, and not fully functioning is unprofessional. No need to say they did the best they could - they did not. It is really not acceptable. Likewise 'suggestions' often do not get responded to, and IF they make it into the next version that could easily be 12 months away. Support and response from Adobe Technical in this respect is also not good enough. I spent an hour on the phone to an 'expert' on InDesign who simply did not understand the issue, even though she shared my screen and could see the problems. Bsaically she said there was not work around, the only thing to do is use CC2017. ... View more

I have done, but that is not really the problem. This should not have ever been introduced without full testing. Adobe is becoming very sloppy with this sort of thing. When altering a feature, surely commonsense would suggest that is is a good idea to make sure that all previous features (essential or not) carried on functioning. AS a professional designer who relies on software to make a living, it is essential Adobe get this stuff fixed.  We subscribers pay money for  this, and not nothing at that. Am sorry but I think it not good enough, and the next update won't be for months. ... View more

It seems odd that Adobe have released this feature without full testing. It does not work for multiple chapters that need notes in a separate document, and that need to restart at 1 each time. For a 700 page book with 35 chapters, which I regularly set, this is a disaster! It seems that the idea here is to make InDesign more like Microsoft Word, a word processing programme. Please urgently add an on/off option for 'Dynamic' notes. It wasn't broken, why did you fix it? ... View more