Found a super-easy fix in the end...   I happened to have an ancient yamaha UX96 usb midi interface lying around. a very simple little unit just midi in/out/thru BUT thankfully has LEDs for each MIDI signal.   Dowloaded generic USB midi driver from yamaha's site since even the driver is now obsolete (i think i've had this thing since the late 90s!)   In Audition I set up device class "mackie" under the control surface section of preferences and then, "configure">"add">"device class=mackie control", then selected the UX96 midi output channel.   Now, when I'm recording the MIDI OUT LED lights up on the midi interface, but goes out when paused or stopped. Apart from wiring up the LED to an extra bit of wire so I can mount it near the mic, and maybe swap it for a red LED... JOB DONE! 🙂   One of those times I'm actually glad I never throw anything away. ... View more

I think I've corectly answered my own question... On the proofing copy: In comments panel>comments list>options select "export all to data file". This creates a .fdf file On the "master" copy: comments panel/comments list/options, select "import data file" Import the .fdf file created from the proofing copy   This will add ALL comments, highlights, notes, etc from the proofing copy will keeping any current comments info on the master copy.   The only possible issue would be comments that were added to the proofing copy before it was sent to the proofer but have subsequently been removed on the master copy - they will "re-appear" on import. Also note that if a comment has been modified on the master copy, but not on the proofer's copy, the comment will be overwritten by whatever is on the proofer's copy on import.   ... View more

Update on what I said above...   I now have it confirmed that ACX use TOTAL RMS, not average. So I'm back to mastering to -23db total rms in Audition - that's the most dynamic range possible when juxtaposed with the -3db peak limit. Unfortunately "2nd opinion" is not going to guarantee approval by ACX's system. I can only assume they must check their uploads themselves before submitting to ACX, I don't know if other platforms have different criteria.                                              ... View more

..or even better: IF there is a letter (as opposed to a break or space) on BOTH sides of the apostrphy, do not replace, but replace all others... that should work ... View more

sorry, but the document word count returns "0" and the page word count does nothing. ... View more

thanks so much... works like a charm 🙂 ... View more

Hi Steve, I'm a bit furher down the rabbit hole at this stage and significantly "toned down" my EQs and dynamics processing. Here's my latest effort: https://soundcloud.com/user-357226645/alt-sample-mixdown I made a chance discovery when I submitted a project outside of ACX. It was through Spoken Realms, and they provide a piece of software "2nd Opinion" that analyses the audio for suitable specs. It seems the way Audition calculates average RMS is different to the method used by Spoken realms, and by extention, the one used by ACX since the Spoken realms specs are identical and they publish to ACX anyway. Here's what Audition shows for the above sample: and here's what 2nd opinion has to say: For practical purposes, I work with the Total RMS in audition since that has a direct correlation with adding or subtracting db amplitude. As you can see from the stats, I'm bringing it to -25db which results in -22.07 average according to 2nd opinion - well within the tolerance for ACX. This seems to preverve the dynamic range fairly well while keeping things nicely audible. Previously I was bringing levels up to -22.9 Total RMS in Audition, thinking this had a direct correlation with ACX specs (they're a little vague on the point of whether they are looking for average or total RMS). Hence my comment about "a bit of a squeeze". ... View more

This does the job in console.... I'm just wondering how I might get it to output to a popup window, something like: app.alert("There are " x " words in this page."); Sorry - I really don't understand Javascript at all! ... View more

Brilliant, thanks a mill! ... View more

... or if not the position of the cursor then some other way of recognizing the individual page to do the calculation for. ... View more

Thanks,  I'm compiling a book comprising a series of short stories. I find it more manageable to have each of the stories as a seperate indesign document at first, but of course if I make paragraph style chages in one, that change doesn't reflect in the others. The closest workaround I've found is to create a folder of Paragraph styles as a "master" which is applied to an empty document. As long as I keep the "master" updated with any chages, I can then load the styles from the empty document into any particular story I'm working on and swap the styles for the updated ones. A fairly cumbersome task! ... View more

just answered my own question - ctrl, shift + e ! ... View more

Thank you so much, that's brilliant - works a charm, and the hyperlinks still work too 🙂   Is there any way to navigate the hyperlinked endnotes while working in indesign? For example when i add an endnote, obviously it takes me to the endnote frame - but then the only way to get back to the origin of the endnote is to manually scroll there. And vice versa if i see an existing endnote reference in the text and want to quickly check the endnote, then return back to the main text. ... View more

Thanks for that, it all makes sense in theory. However, changing the frames to primary on all masters didn't quite do the trick for some reason - the text flow on page 3, corresponding to the right hand page of my master A still didn't seem to want to go anywhere. What did work was this: I manually threaded page 3's text frame to left hand text frame page 4, then left hand frame to right hand frame on page 5, finally right hand frame page 5 to left hand frame page 6 Then i dragged pages 2 & 3 and 4 & 5 into the masters section, creating C and D masters. I now have masters that i can apply to my document and the text flow works.   ... View more

Here's an intersting article, someone who's into using Indesign from the ground up... https://www.thebookdesigner.com/2011/08/authors-why-you-should-be-writing-in-adobe-indesign/ ... View more

That seemed to work fine with a single master page and with the text starting in the left-hand page of the spread. I now have issues linking two masters, but I've started a new thread since this one is marked correct answer (which it was!) https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/setting-up-a-default-text-flow-using-master-pages/m-p/10916674?page=1#M175012 ... View more