Indeed. I was just suggesting what he could offer the client to get a brighter blue in print. ... View more

The printer can only print blues that are in gamut. If they are a good printer, they have a good Colour Management workflow in place and should be able to get as close as they can get, but as Scotty would say, you can't change the laws of physics!   Your client will have to accept that they can't get what they want. Their best bet is to have the blue printed as a spot Pantone colour which may get you closer to what they desire, but that means you are paying for a 5-colour printing job. As far as getting brighter blues in CMYK, well, you can't. I suggest you invest in a Pantone swatch book that shows CMYK matches so your client can see what is and what is not possible.   Here's the deal. The conversion fron LAB to CMYK can be wildly different in practically every scenario, depending on the Color Management settings used along the way, as well as the actual printing process used by your printer, etc.  If it this was printed before from the same file, the CMYK mix that was previously printed WILL be different today if the profiles assigned to them then were different. It will be impossible to give your printer a new CMYK file with values that create that previous blue if you don't know what the values ended up being! It also depends on where the conversion happens. If you created a PDF that converts the colours at your end, then you've already baked in a CMYK mix for that blue based on the colour profiles you have in your OWN workflow. If the PDF was created where the colours are left as is, then the CMYK conversion will happen in your printer's workflow.   Going forward, you should always select colours that are in gamut of your intended printing process, or accept the fact that there will be differences. e.g. If you are working with Pantone colours (e.g. Spot Coated swatches, which are LAB), many of these are also out of gamut as they were always intended to be an actual ink used in printing (mixed using several base inks other than CMYK (there's about 15 of them) that create a wide vibrant set of colours).  Pantone has attempted many solutions over the years to help out the current digital workflows and the latest is a set of ink swatches called Color Bridge that are based in CMYK, so if you use those, you should be able to see and keep a consistent colour match. ... View more

I would create a template file where, for e.g. you place one of their Word files, then edit the incoming imported Paragraph Styles and Character styles. for instance, Word will likely have a "Normal". If your client uses Optimum in that all the time, edit the Style to be your font, then delete the text you placed and save as a template file. Next issue, when you open that template and place a new Word file, it will use the fonts defined in your template. This won't work all the time, Your client may do all sorts of weird things...but it's useful. You don't have to use any of the styles for your publication... they can be there only to do the font swap. ... View more

You can probably ignore it. It's just that you have an image that has an embedded ICC profile that PM doesn't recognize.. which will be almost any ICC profile created in recent years. If it annoys you, reopen that image in Photoshop, or whatever image program you use, and remove the profile. Alternatively, if you're not in a colour managed workflow anyway, you could probably turn Color Management off altogether. e.g. For the document you are working on, go to Preferences > Click on CMS setup > then toggle it off in the next box. Note, this would only affect the document you have open. If you want it to apply to all future documents, do the same but without a document open. Also: seriously... {cough} InDesign {cough}. ... View more

Where are you applying this? Remember that setting a Language only affects things created after that point, is does not automatically change any existing copy unless you select it and change the language, or edit the Style that's applied to it. I assume you ARE using Styles?   Did you have the installation CDs for your new system? ... View more

If you DO have an old installation, yes, you should be able to simply copy the language files for Polish over to the new setup. It would likely need to be the same version. What platform..PC? If so, navigate to Program Files > Adobe > PageMaker X.x > RSRC > LINGUIST > PRX on your old setup. there should be separate folders for each installed language. Copy the one for Polish to the same location on your new setup. If you're on an old System 9 Mac (which I doubt!), the folder is in the Application Folder > PageMaker X.x. > RSRC > Linguists > Proximity folder   ... View more

There are a few places to use on line: this is one: https://markzware.com/support/file-conversion-service/ . Although it doesn't mention PM, they can do it.  That being said, if it's just one, I can convert it for you. Send it my way. I can do one of two things: quickly convert the file to CC without regard to layout accuracy, fonts, images, etc, and let you worry about that, or a more comprehensive convert where I match the PM layout as much as possible, if you can supply linked images. ... View more

You might want to check your InDesign Preferences > Clipboard > When Pasting Text... setting. By default, it's "Text only". Toggle it to the other and see if that helps your issue. ... View more

You should be "Importing" Word files, not copy and pasting. What is copied to the clipboard will be just basic text content. When you Import, most of those formatting things will* import. (* the caveat is that, from personal experince, nonbreaking hyphens from the current Word DON'T import correctly for some reason; they used to in previous versions). The bigger question I have is why you are going to all this tedious work when you should just do all that formatting in InDesign anyway, if that's where your ultimate destination is. Just import the "raw" Word files, and go from there. ... View more

Here are some ideas about the issue from the MathType side of things: http://support.inera.com/support/solutions/articles/11000075632-mathtype-equations-are-correct-in-my-word-file-but-eps-equation-files-contain-errors   ... View more

Ah, I missed the MathType part of this.   Another way to handle this is to PDF the EPS. If the OP has full Acrobat, they could try open the EPS in Acrobat (which will launch Distiller and generate a PDF), then place that in InDesign. If there are truly fonts missing, there will be an error, of course, but it's possible to create a font substitution rule in Distiller to, say, swap the "missing" Minion reference to one you actually have, and same with Symbol. ... View more

This is not the issue here. If these are legacy files, there may be no option than EPS. In any case, there is nothing at all wrong using EPS in a modern workflow. I still do, along with all other formats. Just because using .ai is a better solution for current Adobe workflows does not mean I am going to go back and resave all my legacy files. ... View more

Can you open the .eps file that contains them? If you can, you can likely resolve the missing fonts there, and either resave the file as is, or even convert the text to outlines if it's simple enough. I suspect it's an older file or one from a different system and it may be just a matter of differences in naming conventions (as both fonts are pretty common and readily available anyway). If you try make a PDF of that file now, what happens? ... View more

I still have that converter on a running system, probably the installer as well if I look for it, but I doubt it would install on anything newer than XP ... View more

If you like, I could look at the file and see if it opens here. If so, I can resave it as a new file and also an IDML file you can try to reopen. ... View more

I can't speak to your install issues, but... If you are looking to convert Pagemaker files, the current version of InDesign no longer does that anyway. The last version to do that was CS6. One used to be able to download and install that version as part of one's CC Subscription, but they have removed that version. If you have only a few PM files to convert, there are some people in this forum (myself included) that are able to do that for you. There are also a few people around that have old trial installers that they may be able to be of use. What is your desired end result of this; pdfs? the ability to work on them in the future in InDesign? or...? ... View more

I also feel your pain, but I see no point in carping about Adobe, especially since they gave PM users ways to convert their old files to ID for many years after it was terminated. Even Quark can't open some of their legacy files, so the situation here is not unique. Ready Set Go!?? Good luck!!  What I would have loved to see, as it would have elimiated 90% of the angry messages here, is if Adobe had created a small utility program that converts old PM code into ID code... essentially doing what they did many years ago to allow PM 1.0-4.0 files to be opened by PM 6.5. They took old PM4.2 code and stripped out all the code except for the ability to open old files and resave them as 4.2 files, which 6.5-7.0 could then open. They also offered it for free to people that needed it. The issue I see with the current CC verisons, is now that the software is required to be 64-bit, the old code to open PM in CS6 is no longer compliant in that respect and would have to be reenginnered to work now. Adobe rightly saw so little need for that, why waste the resources on it. Even Markzware, who offered conversion plugins in the past stopped developing ones for PM.  But maybe it's time to revist that thought. Maybe take old CS6 code, drop out everything except the conversion code, and offer taht up to those that can still run it in a 32-bit world. ... View more

Also available to help   Brad       ... View more

Do you by chance have the laptop/desktop/drive that USED to have PM installed on it? You could use a program like Belarc Advisor on it, which among many other useful things, can provide a list of software licenses installed on a machine, some show even if it the prgram has been deleted (in some cases the license is stored in a hidden file somewhere separate than the program files (assuming the drive hasn't been reformatted since)). ... View more

IDML is the only way to go. That being said, there had been some issue ove rthe last couple of years with recent versions of CC creating IDML files that won't open in certain previous versions, but that seemed to be more of a bug situation. I just tried saving a file to IDML from CC2020 and it opens fine in CS6.   That being said, if you are creating a Package and you are using TypeKit fonts, you cannot save them out due to licensing issues. Your client will need to obtain them legally themselves. ... View more

Are you using the latest version of Excel? I had this exact situation recently. It was Excel's fault since a recent update. This is what happened in my case: For some reason, a .csv file saved out of Excel, that is REOPENED into Excel changes the column header "'@image" to a "#NAME?". If you resave that file, the new header sticks, so no longer works when data merging. You can see if this has happened in your case: Open your .csv file in a plain text editor. If "@image" has been replaced, there's your problem. You can change that "#NAME?" to "@image" in the text editor, resave and it works. Anything I've tried in Excel to keep it as written is not working, so stay posted!  ... View more

Re: embedded images. yes, this is an issue, as InDesign can't deal with them. Options: (if you don't have them separately in your archives somewhere) 1. Find anyone with PM6.5 who can unembed the files (I can if Monoka can't). It's not a simple process but it's possible. 2. FlightCheck from Markzware can unembed graphics from almost any program known to human. (I have it if you want me to give it a shot on your PM file). 3. If the old existing PDF you have is of high enough resolution, you can export the images out of there (you would need full Acrobat to do that) and then place them again in InDesign.   ... View more

Check out this thread:   https://community.adobe.com/t5/Acrobat/Error-invalidfont-OffendingCommand-xshow/td-p/8128755 ... View more

Are you Windows or Mac? ... View more

Another approach: If the offending font is being used in a Paragraph or Character Style, try changing it there. ... View more

If you are updating your files going forward, my main advice is to go with the "new normal", and use the latest Pantone color books, but also, make separate files for use in Spot and Process applications, using the "C" Coated for the former, and the Color Bridge CMYK for the latter. As has been mentioned before, the difference between the C and the U (oh, and historically there used to be an "M" for matte coated) is how they look on the screen to approximate how the 187 ink appears on different types of paper. There used to be a need in some big corporations for their particular "corprate colour" to match closer across the different paper stocks by actually choosing different Pantones for each use and make THAT their graphic standard, e.g "Use 187 for coated stocks, but use 485 for uncoated stocks". This doesn't sound like your issue, so avoid using "U" going forward. ... View more

Just a stab in teh dark: This sounds like you might have a "Keep" setting on one or more lines of text or a paragraph style that is making text jump to a new page because your margins have changed. Try this: "Select All" the text, and then go to "Keep Options" (will be at the end of the ribbon, or in the submenu on the Paragraphs panel). If the "Keep With Next" is not 0, type that in there and see if anything changes. ... View more