Oh, I see - it's not really a step of the process of making an Action, but a different tool to include called "Save & Export -> Save". Thanks. ... View more

I'm still baffled. In Action Wizard, I click "New Action". I add "Document Processing -> Reduce File Size". It shows "Specify Settings" with a "Prompt User" checkbox underneath, which is already checked. I click "Save", and it asks me to name the Action. I do that and click "Save" there. The whole dialog disappears and I have a new Action. Then I try to use it, but it never asks me anything - the only thing I can do is add files or folders and click "Start". When I do that, it asks me for each file (one by one) what version I want for compatibility, then whether I want to save changes before closing. And the resulting file is exactly the same size as the original.   Can you go even more step-by-step? I never see the Output Options. ... View more

Okay, thanks for confirming that at least two of us think it's a bug. I just now reported it: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/43220673-style-based-on-another-doesn-t-inherit-export-ta Feel free to vote! 😉 ... View more

Yes, that does appear to work. And in the use case I described, that would probably be a reasonable workaround, because I rarely change the base style and the custom styles are deleted between each magazine issue. It's a couple more steps (I usually make the new style from content with overrides), but I'll try to modify my workflow to do it that way. Thank you.   But in general that is not a solution, because duplicating is not the same as basing one style on another. If one is based on another and an attribute that is in common between them is changed in the base style, it changes in the derivative style as well, which can be very helpful. This little issue seems like a bug, an oversight in the code for creating/maintaining derivative styles. ... View more

That worked! I tried something similar before writing my last comment, but I must have missed a step somehow, because it seemed that I could ripple to the right but not to the left. (I didn't have any captions to delete - I was just trying to get rid of a gaping hole.) But your point about watching the color of the indicator helped - on my screen it looks more yellow than white, but either way, making sure it was no longer red was helpful. I now have a single timeline with everything editable - woohoo! ... View more

I don't feel comfortable committing to a Beta when I only have one more day to finish this. (It needs to premiere on YouTube less than 36 hours from now, and some sleep is necessary.)   My captions were irreparably screwed up from trying things, and there were not enough undos in history to go back to when I had something usable. So I exported parts that were working, put them together in a text editor, and imported the resulting file back in. I thought I could use nested sequences (make the captions and original length video a sequence, then use that in another sequence and chop it up there), but the captions carry over, so that the resulting sequence cannot be cut up either!   I confirmed that the "control-endpoint-drag" trick works for moving captions to the right, but I can't figure out any way to move them to the left - I have a six-minute chunk I need to remove from my video with over 400 captions after it. I can slide one caption to the left, but if I select more than one, I can't slide them. So I guess my only option is to encode the untrimmed video with burned-in captions, then take that result and chop it up, enduring a generation loss and several extra hours of encoding (I have a slow computer). I'm still collecting some images that are supposed to be overlaid (obviously with the caption on top), so I don't know what I'm going to do about those once the captions are burned in (manually create the captions during those images, I guess). Right now it's the middle of the night here in Japan and I'm trying to do final checking of all the captions' timing before I encode, since I won't have time to do it repeatedly. Any clues to make this easier are enthusiastically welcome. In this hour-long interview video, I have one chunk that needs to be removed and two places where short external clips need to be inserted. In an ideal world I also would have trimmed other little spots that have long pauses or word repeats (this is an interview), but it's too hard with the caption issue. ... View more

I tried the "duplicate and remove the ones not in that segment" method. But after I have removed the empty beginning of the caption stream for non-first segments, things act weird: If I try to adjust the end of the last caption in a segment, the end time changes to the time WITHIN that segment, causing that last caption to disappear (because the end time is prior to the start time). If I first add a blank caption after it, the last real caption can be adjusted, but weirdly, it still shows until the end of the caption stream, so that doesn't work either. If I want to adjust the change from one caption to another, sliding the gray endpoints on the black bars doesn't do anything. I have to go to the Captions pane and adjust the time there, instead of visually. I'm guessing this also has something to do with the fact that the caption stream no longer starts at zero relative to the captions within it. It would be much easier to adjust visually based on the audio waveform (when a sentence ends) than guessing the timecode.   I don't care about export, so that's not an issue. I used open captions so I could import them (originally the times and texts were in a spreadsheet - I used Excel formulas and text export to convert to .srt structure for the import), and also to adjust the font/color/etc. for all of them at once instead of 500 separately. I'm past that point now, so if there is a way to convert them now to essential graphics or legacy titles, that's fine. ... View more

Indeed, it should work without that. It should also work with single-column frames. Definitely a bug. ... View more

Sweet! That seems to do it for me also (assuming, of course, that I use a multi-column frame on each page instead of my normal method of multiple threaded frames). It's a workaround, not a cure, but it's good enough for my current purpose. ... View more

Okay, a document is available at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P27MsVyLvT3IfCluF6R1Mt2VT7BPPtbt/view?usp=sharing I created it when Asian features were still enabled, but then I turned those off, opened the file again, and the bug was still showing. You mentioned the Vertical Spacing Limit. Mine is 0 mm (the default), but that doesn't prevent vertical justification - it just uses the leading instead of the space between paragraphs. If I make the Vertical Spacing Limit larger, the leading goes back to normal and the space between paragraphs increases. But none of that affects the frame with the anchored graphic. ... View more

I have InDesign 16.0, English, on Windows 10. At the moment I have Asian features turned on temporarily (because I need "ruby" on this particular article), but others have compained of the same problem, so I doubt that's related. (And even if it is, I can't accomplish my goal without that, as the ruby is also the reason I'm making an exception for this article to not align it with the grid.)   My case is a three-page article with eight threaded frames (three per page), five of which have anchored objects somewhere within their text. Your comment inspired me to try using a frame with three columns instead of three frames on a page, since the code for rendering those types of things could be different. But in my case it still fails - see attachment.   You also mentioned the paragraph composer - indeed, I have to use Adobe Japanese Paragraph Composer for this particular text so the ruby will display. But just for this test, I tried various others (Adobe Paragraph Composer, Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer, and the single-line versions of each), but although things shift around, the columns still don't align. ... View more

Thanks, Ariel. Your plugin indeed looks powerful. However, I rarely use vertical justification - 80% of my use of InDesign is a magazine that is on a grid, and most of the rest is freeform layouts like flyers and posters. And my use of anchored objects is even more rare - perhaps once every couple years or even less. I have been using InDesign since transitioning from Pagemaker in 2003, and this is the first time I have ever done those two things together. I'm sure your plugin's multiple features are worth $99 for someone who does vertical justification a lot, but I just wouldn't use it enough. (Plus, I don't get paid - I'm a self-supported missionary volunteering my time, paying for Creative Cloud out of my own pocket.) But perhaps your plugin with help someone finding this thread who would use it more frequently. ... View more

Okay, done. If others find this thread and agree that this is an issue, please vote to show Adobe your interest: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/42530287-text-wrapping-around-image-should-honor-corner-opt ... View more

"It's because a Rounded Frame is not truly a rounded Frame" - haha, no wonder I'm confused! 🙂   Your idea worked eventually after some trial and error, so I have one additional tip for those who come after me looking for this. Before you cut the graphic out of its original frame, you must turn off wrapping for that frame. If you don't, the wrapping information (including its square shape) somehow gets carried along with the graphic and the new frame inherits the wrapping characteristics you are trying to shed. But if you select the image's frame, set wrapping to none, then select the graphic only, then cut, then select the empty rounded frame, then Paste Into, it works. ... View more

What you're describing is exactly what I plan to do, but I needed a way to scale all the photos to 85% and scale all the frames to 90% without using the scaling part of the Motion effect, because it's already at some number other than 100% for each photo. Richard Knight's suggestion of the Transform effect does what I need. ... View more

Sweet - that works beautifully! ... View more

Apparently that screenshot was taken after I messed around with lots of things trying to shake it loose - sorry for the confusion. That is not the reason for my entire issue. I have tried adding many effects, and they only appear in the preview while I'm sliding a slider on an effects control parameter - as soon as I let go of the mouse button, the effect acts as if it's disabled even though it is enabled.   If I'm running the newest display driver, it seems to work, but for other reasons that's unusable (this problem). Today I tried upgrading everything (PPro and the driver) to see if that bug had been fixed, but the green stripes came back, so I had to revert to the original driver again. Even with the newest Toshiba driver, PPro 2020 complains that the driver is not supported and I should upgrade to a newer one, but Toshiba doesn't have anything newer and something in the system refuses to let me install a generic Intel driver, so I'm stuck with this one from 2015.   I can sometimes get effects to work for awhile if I hold down Shift and Alt while starting PPro and resetting my preferences. But that's not a permanent fix, and it's difficult to predict when it will work and when it won't. I managed to do that today, so I'm going to avoid closing PPro until I finish this project tomorrow or the next day - hopefully nothing will crash before I finish. ... View more

Please - is there anyone with any ideas? I have been working around the issue for simple projects, but now I need to make a photo slideshow for the funeral of a friend, and I can't do any animation or other effects for the photos! I need to solve this today or tomorrow at the latest, or I'll have to abandon PPro altogether for this and try to do it in Powerpoint or something. ... View more

I'm back on this thread, because in 2019 it mostly worked, but 2020 regressed. It doesn't list exported/imported files like PDFs or images (good), but it also doesn't list opened INDD documents (bad). As far as I can tell, it only lists new documents created in ID2020, not existing documents opened. If I open ID2020 and create a new document, it appears as soon as I save it the first time (even before I close it). But for existing documents, I have tried the following in vain: Double-clicking the file in Explorer Right-clicking the file in Explorer, choosing Open With... and explicitly picking ID2020 (even though it's the default anyway) Opening ID2020 first, then opening the document from there If I could explicitly pin a document without it first appearing in the Recent list, this would be no big deal, but as far as I know, Recent is the only place you can pin from. ... View more

Ouch! It hit me again, and this time, launching CC2020 while holding Shift and Alt did not fix it. So I removed the designation of my own answer as "correct" and appeal once again for help from the community. ... View more

It's healed now! Today I realized that when I installed CC2020, I allowed it to import my settings from CC2019, so if there was something wonky with preferences, both versions would be infected. So just now, following the third bullet point on this page, I held Shift and Alt while opening CC2020 to restore all preference settings and plugin cache to default (I don't think I ever had any plugins, but it seemed like the most thorough thing to do). I was surprised to still have my custom workspace, so apparently workspaces are not part of "preferences", but something in that restore-to-default operation fixed the effects/masks problem! The only preferences I have touched in ages are the default durations of transitions and still images, so I have no idea what went wrong, but perhaps some file related to preferences got corrupted or something. ... View more