I decided there was a better way to do something and now I've created a mess for myself. At the end of sections of my textbook, I have Important Points boxes: Note that there is an anchored text frame at the top, overyling the top of the main text frame. Some of my Important Points boxes need to continue on the next page. I'd been manually copying and manually cutting and pasting between the two (or three) Important Point boxes, so the second one would look like this: Note that this header box text frame is in the same place, but needs to be longer (manually adjusted) and to say 2/2 rather than 1/2. I have an Object Style for both the tinted big text frame and the header text frame, and the header text frame is linked to the main tinted text frame. Originally I was manually copying the main text frame to a second frame and manually cutting and pasting text to get the Important Points text to appropriately divide the text between the two big tinted text frames. But tonight I got the bright idea that I should just link the two (or three) text frames and let the text flow where it will. I found that I had anchored the header to the text in the big tinted text box and had to change this to link it to the big tinted text frame to get it to repeat properly.   I figure someone does this kind of thing all the time and may have some best practices to recommend. Especially when something like this happens:   ... View more

I have some publications that are very nicely formatted in InDesign to produce great PDF ebooks. However, I'd like to also use the same .indd files to produce some very basic HTML versions, with no fancy fonts or formatting: something suitable for viewing on a cellphone, for example: responsive and with the graphics thumbnailed. After playing around with this just a bit, by using the Export > HTML5 and Export > HTML (legacy) I'm thinking: a) I probably need to export not as HTML5 but as "legacy" b) I probably need to create a CSS file that assigns the many paragraph styles in the InDesign document to some basic HTML formatting. c) I would like professional advice from someone who has tried this before so that I may learn from the mistakes of others rather than repeating them myself. Any advice? ... View more

This is really weird. I have headers in my textbook, and they:  From a paragraph with the "H1" paragraph style, pick up text  which is styled by the character style "HeadText1" (which does nothing but allow a Text Variable named "Section" to pull this text and put it in the header), From a paragraph with the "H2" paragraph style, pick up text which is styled by the character style "HeadText2" (which does nothing but allow a Text Variable named "Subsection" to pull this text and put it in the header), and From a paragraph with the "H3" paragraph style, pick up text which is styled by the character style "HeadText3" (which does nothing but allow a Text Variable named "Subsubsection" to pull this text and put it in the header) I have a header that has the text variables <Section> then a tab then <Subsection> then a tab and then <Subsubsection>: Which, on a page with these paragraph and character styles, looks like this: (This section doesn't have any H2 headers so the Subsubsection variable is blank) So far so good. But then, I started noticing that somehow my H1 HeadText1 Section text quit appearing on the second page. I've had this before, and it came down to a tiny bit of text – sometimes even just a paragraph mark – styled with HeadText1. So I just search and destroy that bit of HeadText1 styling. But this time, when that first "6: Wilderness First Aid (1/2)" disappeared, there was no errant HeadText1 styling. I cut all the text in that first section, and the problem disappeared. I tried saving the chapter to an .idml file and back into .indd file to clean it. Still happened. I tried stripping out all of that text, putting into a pure ASCII editor to clean it (I use UEStudio from UltraEdit for this and coding). I copied the text in, and things were going fine until I created a footnote to put some of the footnoted ASCII text into. But simply the act of creating the footnote – a blank footnote – made the problem recur: And that missing header bit stays missing throughout the entire length of the chapter. I thought it might be the footnote pushing something – maybe a paragraph marker – onto the next page. But no, the text does not extend onto the next page when I insert a footnote. It's just the footnote itself that's screwing up the header. Sigh. I thought it might be something weird in the Footnote Text style. But no, it looks pretty plain: I did try "Reset to Base" on the footnote style but the problem still occurred when I did that. I have no clue what's going on. I hope someone else on this forum does! I figured I would try here before calling tech support. Thanks for any help. ... View more

I have already posted this in UserVoice, but cross-posting here so others can see my workaround. And who knows, maybe suggest a better workaround? I am creating flowcharts within InDesign as it seems to work better for me than in Illustrator. The Layers Panel allows me to do this. But I really, really wish I didn't have to do this workaround. These are my personal notes for future reference: Grouping for complex assemblages of objects: creating a new group This is needed because the Layers Panel won't allow you to group items deep in the Layers Panel, only if they're at the top level; you can't create a "Group within a Group." - Use Layers Panel - Keep two objects (doesn't matter what) off the page named "Dummy Object," select them with the mouse, then Menu > Object > Group - Rename this to what you want your group's name to be - Drag TWO OR MORE objects or groups into this group - Drag the two Dummy Objects to the top of the Layers panel to get them out of the group - Drag the new group to the right position in the Layers panel ... View more