3. insert an Indent to Here character after the bullet space. Use Find/Change to do this…   Find what: ^8  (There’s a space after the 8​) Change to: ^8 ^i   If you want to make more space after the bullet add another space or use a N-space (^>) or M-space(^m). ... View more

In my experience things don’t just change in an InDesign document. Something changes because something else was changed which propagated to the unexpected alteration. So, how were the titles made italic? Did you apply a character style for italics or select the text then make it italic? If you made it italic, how did you do that? Did you press Comman-Shift-I or Control-Shift-I or did you select the Italic flavour of your font from the Character or Propertiesd panel?   Then, what did you change? For example, did you change the main font for the text? This could be it. Some fonts have a default italic and some don’t. So if you used a font with a default italic (that is, the font definition for Normal contains data defining which different font to use for italics) then changed the font family you may have switched to one that has no  default italic, or a weight that has no default italic (e.g. Family Normal might have a default italic which is Family Italic, but Family Book does not). You might also have deactivated one or more fonts the file uses or be opening the file on a system that does not have the font installed.   My suggestion for the proper workflow… Use Paragraph Styles extensively. Even if there is a style you use only once, like the title use a Paragraph Style. This allows you to make some formatting, like leading or spacing, consistent as one style can be based on another style. Use a Character Style for the italics. Character Styles are different from Paragraph Styles in that only the changes you make are remembered. A Character Style can include only colour or only a font change. Applying the Character Style to text that already has a Paragraph Style will keep the link to any attribute not defined by the Character Style. In this case, select both the font family and the style. See the example below. I created a Paragraph Style called “Body copy” which uses the font Minion Pro Regular. The highlighted word uses the Character Style “italic” which changes only the font to Minion Pro Italic. If I later change Body Copy to use Garamond the italic will remain in Minion Pro because the family is part of the style’s definition. I prefer this, despite the added complexity and steps required because I cannot always predict how a font change will affect CHaracter Styles. Some fonts have an italic while others have an oblique. If I change the family to one that names its italics oblique the style will break.     ... View more

Are you sure the filernames and extensions are the same between RGB adn CMYK images? ... View more

No. Save it as a native Illustrator file. ... View more

How was the image brought into InDesign? It should be saved as an Illustrator file then placed. ... View more

If you need transparency (as for a background around an icon), you have to use PNG or PSD. You can also use TIFF but that's an increasingly obsolete format and can be very bulky in size. By @James Gifford—NitroPress I disagree. TIFF files can be more compact than PSDs if you use LZW or ZIP compression. They also support higher bit depth, clipping paths, and transparency. The files are not as compact as JPEG but are lossless.   My workflow is to use TIFF for any file that doesn’t use transparency or contain layers. If I only ass a clipping path that doesn’t count as transparency and I use TIFF. PSD is used when I add layers (most editing uses layers) or use transparency other than clipping paths. If I have type or vector layers I usually use PDF to preserve paths. This way when I preflight I can see where transparency is used just by the file type. ... View more

You might have to expand the Stroke panel to see this but you can position a stroke to be on the outside of a path. You can also use the Offset Path command (there are two) to expand the stroke by half its width.   If you do this in the Effect menu the offset is an editable effect and the path shape does not change, only its appearance does. If you use Object > Path > Offset Path the path shape will change. This will make a duplicate of the original path. ... View more

I would replace the returns in each list item with line breaks then use Nested Styles or Line Styles to make the first line bold.    Use Find/Change to make each two paragraph breaks (^p^p) into something you aren’t using anywhere, like three square brackets. Then change every paragraph break (^p) into a line break (^n). Finally change the string you used earlier into one paragraph break.   Make your formatting so the first line is bold and add a space before of one line. This will prevent a blank line from starting a page or column. Maybe make the Keep Options so the paragraph doesn’t break. ... View more

Even if the graphic imported without the white bars you would have a problem. Drop shadows usually use the Multiply opacity mode, which will always add ink (or subtract light) from the background image. But Illustrator PDFs only have one opacity mode. The drop shadow will import using Normal opacity, jsut like everything else.   The solution is to either produce the drop shadow in InDesign or put the drop shadow on its own layer and use Layer Options in InDesign to place two versions of the graphic then set the drop shadow version to Multiply. ... View more

More information would help. What version of InDesign are you using? What OS? What printer do you have? Can you show a scan or photo of the printout and a screen grab of the document showing the problem area? ... View more

It’s hard to do that using mixed measurement systems (metric and points). Stick with using the same measurement for everything. that way you’ll know the live area for your text. Make sure the offset plus some multiple of the spacing is the same size as the text area. ... View more

In addition to the options given you can put the text on a hidden or non-ptinting layer. ... View more

Illustrator files are PDFs. ... View more

Are you willing to share the file? Or maybe just that one page if the content is sensitive? You can also email one user personally if you don't want the file in a public space. Pick one and you'll probably get a yes. ... View more

Is there a nearby object with text wrap applied? ... View more

Have you verified that the lines are thicker in the exported PDF? Open both in Illustrator and use hte Direct Select tool to select a suspect path and check the stroke weight.   Also, what program are you using to view the PDFs? ... View more

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There is a trick to do that: at the end of each line type a dot (or any other character), then apply negative kerning to the insertion point between the 'real' last character (colon, T, N) and the following dot. You can make those characters invisible by applying the Paper colour. By @Peter Kahrel   I thought of the same thing, but instad use no fill for the period. Yhis is cleaner in case the text appears over an image or background colour. ... View more

No, it does not become native in InDesign. But when you export to PDF the paths are native to PDF. The PDF doesn’t know the Illustrator file was a separate file placed in the source. ... View more

Perhaps (this is just speculation) it’s because placed vector are no longer a self contained group in a PDF, but are a collection of shapes. Draw two circles in Illustrator and place that in InDesign, then draw two identical circles in InDesign. In the PDF you will have four circles, not a circle, a circle, and a pair of circles. Alt text either cannot be applied to a group of mixed objects (paths, text, images) or it can, but InDesign lacks the feature.   A placed image in InDesign becomes an embedded image in the PDF, which can have Alt text applied.   If I’m correct then converting your EPS files to PDF or Illustrator native format won’t fix your problem. ... View more

You might have just discovered the selection is sticky. That means if you use Import Options to change the cropping of a placed Illustrator or PDF file (same thing, really) to something other than you are used to it will become the default for future imports.   A shortcut for accessing Import Options is to hold Shift as you confirm the file in the Place dialogue. That is, hold Shift when you click Open or press Return or Enter.  ... View more

It looks like a guide. You can normally select those, either by clicking on them or dragging across them. On a Mac you can select all guides on the active spread with Command-Option G. On Windows probably with Control-Alt G.   The guides might be on the parent page, in which case they are not selectable on the current page without overriding them. Overriding and delting the guides will only remove them from the current page. Other pages based on that parent page, and hte parent page itself, will still have the guides.   To remove the guides from the Parent Page go to the Parent Page in the Pages panel and repeat the above process to select and delete guides. To override the guides on only one page you can Command-Shift (Mac) or Control-Shift (Windows) click on them to override and select them, then delete. ... View more

How are you exporting the file? What format and what settings?   I will go ahead and assume PDF, and an older version that includes flattening. Flattened PDFs do not contain transparency, so anyplace transparency is used has to be saved in a way that blends the colours, images, objects, and text to retain the same appearance. This usually requires text to be converted to outlines.   Text in Opentype or Truetype formats includes hinting, which optimises the appearance of text at low resolutions to make it more legible and more closely resemble how it will appear at high resolution. Paths, which is what outlined text is, do not benefit from hinting, so usually look a bit bolder.   Imagine drawing a circle on graph paper, then filling in each grid square within the circle. Some grid lines are entirely outside the circle, so those are white. Some are entirely within the circle, so those are black. But any square with the path of the circle on it must either be white or black. That's the decision your PDF viewer is making when it converts the paths of the text to pixels on your monitor. If the grid squares are very small, the bolding appearance is minimised. The RIP in your printer (assuming the file will be printed on a high resolution press) is very high resolution. The lack of hinting on some text is almost imperceptible.   There are ways to minimise the bolding effect by minimizing where text is outlines when flattened. You can save in a PDF format that does not flatten. You can put the text on a layer above any transparency, so the text is unaffected by flattening. You can use Acrobat to convert all text to outlines, which will remove hinting from all text so there is no contrast between flattened and unflattened text. ... View more

You said you added a text wrap to the image. This text wrap might be forcing the caption text out of the text frame. Select the frame and turn on Ignore Text Wrap in Text Frame Options. You can make this an object style. ... View more

Column width and row height are not attributes you can define in a Table Style or a Cell Style. You might be better off making a blank table as a template then adding it to a CC Library. ... View more

What you are calling the third line is actually the second line in the second paragraph. The line beginning Springs is one paragraph (note hte pilcrow at the end of the line).   I suspect you’ve been doing this for a while and are using paragraph rules as a kludge because paragraph shading was not a feature of most layout programs for a long time. it is a feature of InDesign now and it is probably what you want. ... View more

I had this happen when I had multiple GREP Styles applied to paragraph styles in the story. When I disabled them the lag went away. See if that is the issue.   To disable the GREP Styles I duplicated the paragraph styles and removed the GREP Style formatting from the duplicates then use Find/Change to apply the duplicate styles. When I was done I used Find/Change again to switch them back. TO make sure I had changed all of them I deleted the duplicate styles. When I was not warned they were in use I knew I had not missed anything. I undid the delete because I wanted to keep the styles for future lag-free edits. ... View more