Can't Release Anchor--HELPPP!!!

Hi Peter and Bob,

To make things curiouser, I truly did construct the whole deal in InDesign (I'm far more comfortable with it than Illustrator). Peter, you're right - I used the blank crossword as a sort of springboard for the answer key, hence the differing types (I'll have to fix that!).

Thank you so much for taking a look! Quite a snarl, but I feel justified if I wind up having to rebuild it. :)

Laura

Yest, that's what I was thinking, exactly.

But it would have to have been made separately from the table Laura put on the pasteboard in the ID doc.

Hi Laura,

I've been playing around a bit more, and I have to tell you this is about the strangest thing I've seen in quite some time.

You can cut the "table" from ID and paste it into Illustrator and it comes in as paths and type. The numbers are all one big group, and the letters are another, and I can't find a way to ungroup either one, but I can edit the individual numbers or letters, or select them and move them around. The black boxes are one large compound path, and all of the gridlines are tiny individual strokes. There are also a couple of clipping masks.

This looks A LOT like what I often see when opening a PDF in Illustrator that was created in another application, like InDesign, but that's probably because my settings in ID are to copy PDF to the clipboard. If I change those settings I can copy and paste inside ID, but not into Illustrator.

Although the pattern is the same between the key and the blank puzzle, I don't really think they are, in fact, the same table. This is based on the size and position of the numbers, and the fact that the numbers are in the table are Myriad Pro, but the type in the key is all Bookman Oldstyle.

I really think the key was created in Illustrator and then selected and pasted, but I have no way to confirm this, and you say you did it all, so you ought to know.

I don't know that any of that is useful information.

Peter

Laura,

As Bob said, it's inline. If you select it and change the options you can release it, but it still appears to be an image and I can't figure out any way to break it apart so far for editing. Are you sure you didn't do something like export the page to PDF, then select the puzzle and paste it into ID?

I'll try to play some more, but no promises.

Hi Peter,

Thanks so much for being willing to take a look at it. You can find it at www.canonpress.com/LookHere/Chapter21.zip. The anchor that won't unanchor is on the last page of the doc. I also included the blank crossword it was built from to the right on the pasteboard.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving (I won't look for any feedback until next week :))!
Laura

Thanks.

For you lurkers, Bob allowed me into the inner sanctum to look at his system yesterday. He's a very cordial host, but that's all I'm going to reveal here. :)

There's nothing like a little rain after dark around Washington to make a trip interesting.

Thanks, again for the hospitality, and you'll be gald to know we've made it safely to North Carolina.

Peter

Hi Bob and Laura,

Just getting to my email now -- accident on the beltway last night slowed us down a bit. :)

Laura should post the file on a server (zip it first), then post a link to it here.

I should have network access again around 4 pm eastern time.

Peter

Thanks, Bob. That makes more sense. What address should I send it to?

Oh, I'm embarrassed...how do I post it here?