I'd insert a column break or a frame break or even a page break wherever I wanted the text flow to jump to the next column, frame or page, respectivelly.   ( They are all special characters : https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/editing-text.html ) ... View more

If the linked files (pictures, graphics, incopy's icml , etc.) are in a subfolder of the folder where the indesign file is, the answer is "no".   In other cases, it might vary... In any case, InDesign has some options in the "Links" palette that are very interesting and useful to relink, update links and copy links in a new folder. Besides, there are some scripts over the net that might help ... View more

"Is there any way to overprint a placed .PSD file on InDesign?" (...) "I need the clear ink to overprint the image. Not block it out." Beg your pardon, as I have not used that kind of ink and I am not sure about the precise composition of your design, but for what I see... You are using it as if it where some kind of spot varnish, aren't you?   If so, yo might prepare the InDesign file with all the elements together but the spot ink in its own layer ("Spot-layer") and the rest in another ("CMYK-elements-layer"). Then, when you prepare the final PDF/X, you make two as follows:   1. A PDF/X with the cmyk elements hiding the ("Spot-layer")  so that it does not appear in the file. It will be a 4-inks PDF.   2. A PDF/X with the spot elements hiding the ("CMYK-elements-layer")  so that it does not appear in the file. It will be a 1-ink PDF.   Thus spot and CMYK elements do not interact between them. ... View more

Hi, Xenia   After using "Image Trace",  I'd use the "Color Guide". It's very powerful and intuitive for this (There are lots of videotutorials in the web).   Best regards ... View more

"All these images have been edited in Photoshop, using adjustment layers, curves; some images are cut outs of the flowers on transparent backgrounds. We are working in sRGB and inserting them into InDesign at this point, as psd documents." I think that is a very good approach but I would add that it won't serve much if you don't validate what you see in Photoshop previewing your pixel pictures using "Customize proof condition" with the "device to simulate" set as the same CMYK colour profile you are goint to export the PDF to and print the job (ins your case, we will suppose it's US Web Coated (SWOP) v2).   That is a goood idea to do when evaluating colour in InDesign as well (not the whole time because this previewing is very machine demanding for normal work). ... View more

Hi, I'll try to keep it as simple as possible: To print a colour managed work nowadays you need four things: 1. A profiled monitor. 2. A profiled printer or press. 3. Knowing which CMYK ICC colour profile describes your papel-press-inks combination. 4. Knowing which RGB ICC colour profile describes your pixel-based images.   Once you have (1), you don't have to do much afterwards with the monitor but keeping it as it is (that is: profiled and properly mantained).   As for (2), you don't profile the press. That's something that the printer (human beings, not machines) do. Fortunately, nowadays standardization of presses is very common, so, presses are usually profiled and set to print well known standards, whith colour data and procedures well-stablished.   That leads to (3): The ICC CMYK colour profile of the printer. This is perhaps the most important of the four points. This is something your printing company must tell you, as in "we print offset using ISO Coated v2 CMYK profile, blah blah, blah...".  You've got to set your CMYK according to this CMYK profile. If you don't have the precise data, you can make an educated guess, setting your CMYK output profile to a reasonable standard common in the area you work. That is what US Web Coated (SWOP) v2 "could be", but that depends on the kind of work you want to print (paper, inks, method of printing, etc.). Then (4) should describe the RGB colour profile your pixel images have.   Once you've got all this four things, you prepare your work in InDesign. No need to convert the images to CMYK prior to making the PDF. When you have the work ready, you export to PDF/X-4 with "Convert to destination, (preserve numbers)" and the CMYK colour profile "Destination" set as the colour CYMK profile you selected point (3). That should give you a press-ready CMYK PDF profile. Of course, this is a very trimmed version of what you've got to do, but I tried to give you a summary so that you get the idea of what you've got to do.   Hope it helps ... View more

We used to have a similar (this same?) issue some time ago, but it disappeared when upgrading to an upper release of the same version (CS6) of both programms.   In any case, it was a real pain in the neck because it was an elusive trouble, almost imposible to pinpoint to a given set of events and much less almost impossible to reproduce on purpose. Besides, InCopy is an excellent piece of software but it is not so much used as Photoshop or inDesign. That means less support for bugs, a shorter base of users, less sound conventional wisdom about its peculiarities, etc.   This said, from our experience and from similare experiences of some other users around the net, avoiding non-ASCII and white spaces when naming InCopy files (IDML) used (seemed?) to alleviate it (less instances of crashing).   But upgrading both programmes is the first option I'd try. PS. Catalina OS might be still a bit bleeding edge for both programms. So, downgrading some machines to Mojave might render good results. Just an idea. ... View more

"PDF/X-4 won't technically convert RGB to CMYK in the PDF; it's meant for the printer to do a (hopefuly) color managed conversion"   Beg your pardon, but PDF/X-4 can be absolutelly CMYK press-ready if you choose to make that conversion when exporting to PDF from InDesign. If you decide to to it so or not it's optional depending on your workflow. If you choose your colour profiles all right, it won't need any color management (meaning "any colour conversion"). Of course, good communication with the press house is esential. ... View more

Exporta a PDF/X (preferiblemente PDF/X-4) usando un perfil de escala de grises razonablemente adecuado. ... View more

Still working and free of charge. The only change is that the bookmarks appear in a separate file called bookmarks.htm inside a subfolder for the HTML file. Sweet & nice 🙂   Thanks a lot ... View more

If you don't share the specifications you used for exporting and the messages you get when trying is a bit of a guess work. "but I can't get this one to work." means? ... View more

Could it be that you have checked the "Nonprinting" option in the Attributes palette with no document/obejct open? If so, all new objects would be non printable. ... View more

Just one caveat with text variables: InDesign deals with them as a single chunck of typo. That means that, if they are at the end of a line or almost, you'd get very bad results visually.   Until Adobe manages them to behave as strings of text that have their own spacing and H&J, they are not so useful as they could be, I am afraid. So beware. ... View more

The traditional procedure with unidentified problems while printing or exporting used to be: restarting the computer, trying again, making a copy of the file, deleting there a set of pages, trying again, deleting another batch, trying again... And so on. When the printing or exporting is possible, get back to the last deleted batch and reduce the elements until you find the culprit and so you can concentrate in how to solve it.   It's a pain in the neck but it usually works. ... View more

How many coloured texts, specially body copy text, do you find in magazines and newspapers? Not many.Why? Because they are already difficult to read. Difficult as in "more difficult than clean pristine black ink only".   If anybody prints long blocks of tiny coloured texts well... legibility is not the aim. And this does beyond "registration" issues. ... View more

"Do you have Acrobat pro?" -"Yes, I think so - I have a full Adobe subscription." I think something could be done with a preflight profile to erase all the images images and then set all texts into black 100% in one click, but I would have to check it with a last Acrobat version (DC) because if I recall it all right, its options are better than XI's. And you'd have to do a PDF first, in any case.   Anyway, I believe you could get into much more troubles doing any of the mentioned operations instead of just printing the grey boxes. To me, Adobe programmers were somehow wise letting them because, for instance, if they are not printed you might run into troubles by skipping pieces of white or clear text that knock out over images.   That's is: By trying to avoid a minor cost you might run into a bigger trouble. But, well, that's just like my opinion... (Lebowski voice here) ... View more

Do you have Acrobat pro? ... View more

"When you choose None under Send Data, the graphics should not appear at all. There should not be a gray box."   @Barbara: Out of curiosity, I tested this but (InDesign CS6 Windows at my job place), they do appear (HP laser printer). I think the best (simpler) option could be (depending on the layout), as you say, moving them to another layer.   @Karen: Just in case you don't remember, the simpler way to move objects beween layers is to select them and then drag the little square that identify them in the right side of the layers palette so that it moves into de desired new layer (that can be already hidden so as to facilitate the operation).   ... View more

"Note that if it will be deployed as PDF or other live-text format, the paper-color text will still be searchable. My suggestion might only make the instructor-only content securely hidden in a printed hard-copy scenario." You could replace the color of the text associated with that style, as you suggest, AND replace each character (GREP search and replace) with an asterisk.   Then the text would not show, the blokes would not move and there would not be anything searchable. ... View more

Resolution and quality are not the same or, in other words: Quality is not a subset of resolution but the other way round. If you are grabbing images from Google search (we will go with the "internal magazine for a school" version), size is just one parameter but, as they are "from anywhere" (no irony here), you are not so sure about their quality as if you were buying from an agency or photographer. That means that, once you have downloaded them in your computer, it would be a very good idea to examine them with Photoshop looking for defects (artifacts). I'd look specially for artifacts caused by excesive compression. And for some uses and jobs, Internet can be a source of good enough pics but you've got to remember that you get what you pay for. And, legally speaking... well, you know where you stand. Best regards ... View more

"I mean there is nothing to compress, everything is vector." and  "I compressed everything to be at 10DPI"?   If everything is vector, there's no such thing as DPI or PPI. Otherwise, you might have rasterized it unadvertedly? ... View more

From the manual of Copycat 101: The usual method for cloning other folks' designs is to place the original PDF in a downmost layer with a partial opacity (50% or son), then placing in a layer above the new elements and formatting them until you reach a perfect cloning, then erase the layer with the PDF.   PS: If you have no idea of the fonts used, examining the PDF "Properties" in Acrobat usually gives the needed information. ... View more

We use an InDesign book whenever we want to do that kind of things. Gathering files in one book eases a lot of operations (preflight, exporting to PDF or HTML, printing...) ... View more

To find a problematic font (or any font used in the document), you should use "Text - Find font" menú. There you can change all the fonts, one by one, till you find the problematic one. I'd do that in a copy of the file, of course. Just in case. ... View more

I'd say (but it is a guess), that your keyboard is operative system-based. Being French, your native keyboard is AZERTY, but I think you can set, as a user, your keyboard layout as a QWERTY one, can't you? ... View more

Hello,   Avoid any preset that it's not PDF/X. If you can, use the PDF/X-4 and tweak it to your necessities. If not, use the older PDF/X-1a preset. Afterwards —at least for the first runs—, go to "Acrobat - Tools - Print production - Preflight" and check that the PDF are PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-4 compliant ("PDF/X Compatibility" section, just "Analysis"). Never ever send a PDF to production without preflighting it. Best regards. ... View more

Quite likely the PDF has the bleed & registration marks but you are not seeing them because they are hidden outside the CropBox.   Easy way to check that: Create a new document with a page big enough to contain the PDF and place it with "show import options" checked. In the "Options" for placing the PDF, check "Crop to MediaBox". You should be seeing the marks of the placed PDF. ... View more

Open the PDF with Illustrator and save it as an EPS... If you really need EPS (a dead end format nowadays). Otherwise, open it and save it as an Illustrator PDF file, that is: Save it as a PDF checking the "Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities" option. ... View more