Some words in my files have prefixes attached in parentheses, e.g. "(an)treffen" or "(zer)streuen". Now when these happen to appear near the end of a line, InDesign chooses to break them as follows: xxx (an) treffen xxx (zer) streuen whereas, of course, these should be xxx (an-) treffen xxx (zer-) streuen How make InDesign insert a hyphen in such circumstances? I tried inserting U+00AD discretionary hyphen before the closing parenthesis, but it will remain invisible even though InDesign breaks the word at this point. ... View more

The OT font I need to use has, among others, an fl-ligature. Since in a German word like "auflesen" this ligature should not be used, I insert here a non-joiner (U+200C) between f and l to prevent ID from using the fl-ligature, plus a hair space (U+200A) to prevent the two characters from touching each other (auf<200C><200A>lesen). So far, so good. Now the problem is that this form is not broken at the end of a line – the hair space divides this word into two parts ("auf" and "lesen"), so the only breaking point is "aufle-sen" but not "auf-lesen". How would you trick InDesign into enabling it to break the word, at the end of a line, into "auf-lesen", with the non-ligature characters "fl" not touching each other if the word were not broken? ... View more

The sequence U+0101 plus U+0306 should look like the one pictured on the left. Now I fail to remember what I did to make it look like this rather than like the one pictured on the right. (I took an old file and did copy-and-paste here.) In both these cases, the character style applied is the same, the character panels look identical (incl. Baseline Shift: 0 pt), and the paragraph style simply tells me "Mixed overrides". (It's an OpenType font.) Can anyone tell me what the override is? My plan is to then include the correct setting in a new character style to make sure all occurrences of U+0306 are rendered correctly. ... View more

Upon opening an INDD file, I get the following warning: Hyphenation breaks or hyphenation spelling changes may change if you edit the text in this document. The following hyphenation services are not installed on this system – [product name] The file opens OK, but if you work on a book with many such files, having to click OK for each file you open is cumbersome. I produced the files in question on another computer, years ago, and on my current computer the [product name] is not installed any longer. It would be nice if I could tell ID to stop looking for [product name] (and stop warning me about it) but I fail to find out where ID stores this piece of information. Does anyone know this? Samuel ID 13.1 macOS 10.13.6 ... View more

Hi I've hundreds of anchored objects in my files, all with the same object style (named "sidebar") applied to. The text of the anchored objects takes anything from 1 to 5 lines, and its first line should be aligned with the anchor in the main text. Now when preparing the object style (and the paragraph style) for the anchored object, the alignment worked perfectly. However, when applying the object style to the relevant text (using the script GREPtoAnchoredObject by Id-Extras), everything is fine except for the fact that the anchored object is placed too low, and has overrides. How do I clear overrides in an object style? Right-clicking on the style name gives you various ways to do this, but none of these work. Neither does Find/Change the object style clear the overrides. I'm at a loss ... InDesign CC 2018, 13.1 macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 ... View more

Hi I should have two stories with several threaded text frames each. Story1 looks fine at first sight. At the beginning of Story2 however there is an unexplainable thread back to Story1 (several pages away). There is no overset text. If I did insert this thread (which is probably the case), it was unintended and should be deleted. Double clicking on either the in port (in Story2) or the out port (in Story1) does not break this thread (but rather fills the cursor with text). How do I get rid of this thread? ... View more

Hi Using the Link panel, I was trying to relink an image file. InDesign crashed and produced the following message: Could not complete your request because of a database error The file "[filename]" is damaged (Error code: 2). I can open the file again and work with it, and I can (and will) of course also save it as IDML and reopen it. However, it would be good to know the cause of the error to make sure everything is OK again and there won't be any related issues further on. How can I find this out? InDesign CC 2018 (13.1) macOS 10.13.6 ... View more

Hi I have a file with lots of paragraph styles and character styles. After exporting it as HTML, I got the following error message: HTML export warning(s) The file was exported but one or more problems were detected: CSS name collision : 26 detected The names of the various paragraph styles are unique, and I have not used any special characters in them. Some of the names that were detected in the warning message differ only very slightly, the only difference being a punctuation character or a space, for example: ;  a1 [that is, semicolon, space, space, a1] ;' a1 [that is, semicolon, apostrophe, space, a1] So in order to make sure there are no conflicts, what characters should not be used in style names? What exactly are the limitations? ... View more

Hi I know this sounds very basic but I can't figure out why I'm getting an empty frame only when placing (Cmd+D) an image file (jpg). When the cursor is loaded with the image file, the preview looks fine, but as soon as I click on the pasteboard, an anchored frame is created, but it's empty: How make the image visible? ID 13.1 macOS 10.13.6 ... View more