Good question today in InDesignSecrets.com, seeking assistance with a missing CC feature that was present pre-CC. Can anyone here help? Here's the use case and question... "I love using Page Color Labels. When I make a 100+ page catalog, and there are corrections on only about 10 pages throughout the document, I run through, make the changes, and flag the page with a change on it with a page color. The old UI on InDesign for Mac (before CC) let you scroll through the Pages Panel whilst in the Export… dialog box. Now it’s locked stationary, inaccessible while the dialog is open. So now I either have to write down which pages have changed to them on a piece of paper, or remember before I choose File > Export. I wish there was a script or a feature to somehow export all pages marked with a particular color label. Has anyone done this? I’d love to be pointed in the right direction if so." (this was posted as a comment to an old post about color labels: http://indesignsecrets.com/keep-your-pages-in-order-with-color-labels.php ) Thanks for any help! AM ... View more

I need to remove the partial download, and wipe CC's memory of the partial download, for the Photoshop CC 2015 update today. See screen shot at the end. Until I can do so, I can't get any updates of any other apps installed. It's maddening, I've been working on this for 3 hours. I'm on a Mac running Yosemite. The story so far: I was troubleshooting CC this morning because of a white window (common problem w/CC app). I quit out of my CC apps, quit CC itself, tried to delete it (in order to reinstall with a fresh download of CC) with Adobe's CC Uninstaller utility and got the alert "Can't uninstall CC because you have applications installed that require it." GAH. I tried running the installer for CC anyway but it just popped open the same white window. Following instructions found here, I went to Activity Window, deleted all CC/Adobe processeses, went to my Library folder and deleted the OOBP.db file or whatever that thing is called. Started CC app, got the login window, yay! Went to apps and clicked Update for the new drops today.  Went back an hour later and it hadn't updated anything, it was stuck on "Photoshop CC (2015) Downloading..." so since what I really wanted asap was the new InDesign update, I clicked the X to cancel the Photoshop download. It immediately switched to "Cancelling..." and that's where it's been for 2 hours. ARGH. How do I tell CC to just forget that Photoshop CC update was ever attempted? Is there a cache file someplace? It's not allowing me to do anything else with my apps in the meantime. I can't update InDesign, it appears, till Photoshop is either updated or cancelled. Halp! AM ... View more

First an overall question: Is there a utility or method that will let me convert a saved F/C query to the sort of written out expression required by the FindChangeByList.jsx script? Like: text {findWhat:" - "} {changeTo:"^="} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false} Find all space-dash-space and replace with an en dash. (This is just to jog your memory ... actually it's not the text string ones I need help with, but formatting find/changes.) I need a fast way to go through a document and remove any instance of glyph scaling whether local or from a style. That is, to turn it back to 100% horizontal and vertical. This is necessary for good output in EPUB (Fixed Layout) format. A script would be great, but lacking that, a way to write out that kind of formatting instruction to add to FindChangeByList.jsx would serve me well in the long run, as I have other similar kinds of doc-wide formatting I often need to do. Thanks AM ... View more

A publisher I'm working with is being slowed down by a necessary change to their workflow. Maybe there's a script around to help? I've looked but can't find any, so I'm posting here. Old workflow: Designers would autoflow a single, large Word doc that contained all front matter (sometimes >10 diff. sections) and chapters and endnotes into a book template. New workflow: The Word doc is now broken up into 30-40 InCopy files, still destined for a single InDesign layout doc. (The InCopy files were created from a tagged Word doc by a different system, so they're all new to the InDesign user.) Is there a script that, after the designers load a Place cursor with the 30-40 files (in the correct order), will allow them to single-click on page 1, and InDesign will place one after the other of the files, autoflowing as necessary? They still need them to be placed as individual InCopy files (so concatenating first wouldn't help). I don't think there would ever be a case of 2 stories being on the same page. thanks, AM ... View more

If I like a family I'm using via my Typekit access/synching, and I want to have a copy "permanently" (so I can include it in my packaged InDesign file), how do I do that? I looked all over the Typekit site but don't see that option. BTW if there's a Typekit forum here, let me know ... this is the one the Search field brought me to. No active forums on the Typekit site as far as I could tell. AM ... View more

I'm subscribed to a bunch of forums but when I go to my main account's forum profile, it lists a diff. email address than the one the emails are going to, and says I'm not subscribed to any forums. So before posting that screen shot (as you guys recommend in the tech note) I'd like to log out of my main account (this one) and log in with what I think might be my "forum subscription account", but I've been searching for 20 minutes and can't find a log out button. Not even a "you're not anne-marie?" link. Where is the log out button/link? AM ... View more