Great! Glad to help out. ... View more

You might also make your life easier by just doing this all in one frame instead of two. At least this is what I would do. ... View more

I can probably help with this, but am having trouble following you. Can you provide some screen shots to help? ... View more

I think you should move your question to the InDesign Scripting Forum. I'll bet someone over there will be able to solve your problem. ... View more

Why are you creating clipping paths in the first place? In the old days designers were forced to make clipping paths in Quark to cut objects out of their backgrounds. Once InDesign showed up on the scene with transparency support, Adobe preached the gospel of  layer masks in Photoshop, and then placing native .psd files. I haven't made a clipping path in nearly 20 years, and suggest you do the same. ... View more

Bob's exactly right. Click to enable Use Document Bleed Settings. That'll solve the problem. ... View more

The maxim of backing up is "Only backup files you can't afford to lose." The way to achieve this is by creating daily, multiple unattended and redundant, back ups. There are lots of books and articles out there about back-ups, but they generally all preach the same 3-2-1 strategy. Create 3 minimum copies of each file; keep 2 copies onsite, and 1 copy offsite. Here's a link to a good article on the 3-2-1 approach from Backblaze, a well-regarded online backup solution: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/ Another excellent resource is the booklet, Take Control of Backing Up Your Mac, by Joe Kissell. Lots of great advice here even if you're on Windows: https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/backing-up For my own work I run multiple, unattended backups all day and every day via Dropbox, Backblaze, Time Machine, and SuperDuper! (from Shirt Pocket Software). Each solution fills a specific need. Since adopting this formula many years ago, I've never accidentally lost a file that could not be recovered. Conventional wisdom says that it's not a question of if your hard drive will fail, but when. My growing collection of over a dozen dead external drives attests to this fact. Fortunately, when this happens I no longer panic, due to my system of automatic and redundant back ups. ... View more

Great! Glad we nailed it. BTW, this happened to me once, which was how I knew what to do. ... View more

You're welcome! ... View more

Next time reply Yes when asked if you want to delete preferences. ... View more

Save a copy of your InDesign preferences folder. On the Mac, here's the path: /Users/homefolder/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign Duplicate the Adobe InDesign folder, leave it in place, and name it something unique (Adobe InDesign copy, e.g.). ... View more

Wonderful! Happy to be of help. ... View more

Glad to hear you found the right script. Yes, Split Story breaks all frames in the thread and should be used with caution. ... View more

Easy-peasy. ... View more

Create a Character style whose only attribute is No Break. In your paragraph style(s) create a GREP style with any words you don't want broken. See screen shots. ... View more

Here are threeother solutions: Create Bold and Italic Character Styles with Shortcuts (see screen shot). Use QuickApply Ctrl (Cmd) + Enter (Return) If the same text or text string always needs to be bold or italic, the easiest solution is to set up a GREP style that will automatically apply the specified character style. ... View more

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The best way to do this is to build the covers and spine as either a one page file or as a three page file. To build as one page simply multiply the cover width by 2 and then add the spine with. For example, if the book is 8-1/2 x 11 and the spine is 1/4", build a document that's 17.25" wide x 11" tall (8.5 + 8.5 + .25 = 17.25). The other way is (as has previously been mentioned in this thread), deselect Allow Document Pages to Shuffle in the Pages panel fly-out menu and then place three pages side by side, using the Page Tool to create the skinny spine page. ... View more

The way I address this would be to apply a right indent to the Chapter 6: paragraph text to force the text to break where you want it to and leave it as a manual override to the style. When faced with this problem I've used Chad's suggestion to apply a right indent with great success. ... View more

Oops. Barb, looks like you beat me to the punch! Scott ... View more

IIRC, it is based on twice a 150 line screen, which was the most common prepress line screen at the time, and 300 ppi gave satisfactory results when printed...not pixelated nor soft. Exactly right, Bevi. The rule of thumb was that an image's resolution could be calculated by doubling the value of the line screen. 150 lpi (lines per inch) was commonly used for better quality printing in magazines and books. Eventually it was proven that more pixels don't always equal a better looking image on the page. There's a point at which more information becomes a case of diminishing returns, whereas too much information can result in a muddy or soft looking image. Many designers (myself included) settled instead on a resolution formula expressed as Lines Per Inch x 1.75 (instead of 2). For example, if your printer is using a 150 lpi screen, the proper image resolution would be around 262.50 pixels per inch. Today, with the ubiquity of digital printing, the rules have changed again. Once more, I refer to my previous advice on this subject: talk to your printer first. Let him or her tell you how best to prepare your images for print. Hopefully, you'll get good results in the end. If, on the other hand, your job goes south, your printer and client won't be able to blame you for dropping the ball. ... View more

These days I think you'd be better off using XML or either InData from Em Software or EasyCatalog from 65bit.com. ... View more

My guess is that these "images" were copied and pasted from Photoshop into InDesign. When this happens, an image "appears" on the InDesign page, but in fact isn't really there. This is why the image isn't listed in Links, and why you get a blank space in the exported PDF. ... View more

lnDesign's Space Before command does exactly the same thing as your beloved Ventura Publisher. Is it possible your text has an invisible paragraph rule set to Above? This would account for why the text refuses to snug up to the top of its text frame. ... View more