My apologies for saying you could save a column width. I don't use tables a lot, and obviously my memory is flawed on that point. You definitely CAN save cell padding as part of a cell style applied in a table style. Peter ... View more

>Peter S., I think you may be off track a bit. I think so too. I took it to mean that you might have a large table, say 6 columns just for fun, and that within the cells in any column you would have a mixture of images and descriptive text of varying lengths, some of which you might want to wrap. I further took android to mean that he wanted to be able to insert a table, with no parameters given other than the row and column counts, and that the table should size itself automatically to fit the content when he put it in, say by pasting from the clipboard. I'm guessing now that isn't really it at all. Peter S. ... View more

Peter G, Do you think this is really what android is looking for? It looks to me like he wants the table to adjust columns for him without making a selection of any sort, and I don't get the impression that he wants the Coriander column to get wider to accommodate a description of where it is found in a single line. Peter S. ... View more

>I'd like to simply say that the table cell width should shrink to fit this content, with a 6pt margin to each side of the longest line. Table styles allow you to specify cell padding, just as in CSS, and they allow you to specify a column width, also as in CSS, but I don't recall anything in CSS that will automatically make the apple column narrower that than the coriander, though it's been quite a few years since I did that kind of programming. You can adjust this manually after filling the cells, but there is no way for InDesign to automatically know what that "longest line" is because it changes as you set the width, re-wrapping, just as paragraph text re-wraps when you adjust an ordinary text frame. Once a table is populated, I'm sure you can script a solution that will look at the contents of header cells, for example, and adjust them, but there's no way to accomplish this with the current coding. I can see a possibility that tables would be in constant flux as they are populated, constantly changing as each cell is filled or edited, and some people might actually like this, but personally I would find it annoying, unpredictable, and counterproductive, not to mention it would probably have a detrimental effect on other program performance. Feel free to make a feature request: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform Make sure you describe in great detail how you would expect this to work, including things like whether all columns should have the same width, or should adjust to the header cell in each column independently, and whether cells should be expanding vertically to accommodate this. Peter ... View more

How big is a bread box? Sorry, old family joke, but it points out that automatically size to the contents is a pretty loose specification. Are you saying all the text should be on a single line in every cell? Split into multiple lines? How many? How long should the line be? You should see why what you are asking is not possible. What is possible is to define a column width as part of a table style, but that would be fixed, not variable. Peter ... View more

I'd try running system restore, first, if things worked OK sometime in the past. Of course it may not restore any longer since you updated ID. ... View more

Any font manager? Any cheapy fonts? ... View more

Start by downloading and installing the 5.0.3 update. ... View more

First thing to do is update to 5.0.2 ... View more

Alonso, Your problem sounds like a transparency flattening problem, which could be happening at either your end, or the printer's, depending on the workflow. Did you deliver PDF or Native files for printing? If PDF, what settings did you use? One way to reduce the risk of this sort of thing is to properly prepare your file. Keeping text above transparency in the stacking order will help, as will eliminating the use of transparency altogether when possible. I see a lot of new users, and some experienced ones, too, using transparency when they should be using tints, and as a shortcut for things like watermark images which can be made in Photoshop. While technically there is nothing wrong with using transparency in this way, unless you need the interaction between the colors of two objects that transparency introduces, you are adding an unnecessary risk that the printer either will not know how or have the equipment able to handle the job correctly. I agree with Simon, though. If the job didn't match the proof they should have stopped and called you. At that point it's time to figure out what happened and find a solution. Peter ... View more

If you are using the PCL driver, I think the device is considered to be RGB, so the appearance of black preference should be effective in telling ID whether to send true black or rich black. Have you tried setting it to output all blacks accurately? I don't know anything more about the printer than what I read on the web yesterday, but it looked to me like there were two versions, on with, one without built-in Postscript. You say you have two drivers. Is one of them the Postscript version, or just a different PCL version? ... View more

I wonder if changing the appearance of black settings would help. I suspect you've got this set for output all blacks as rich black. If you have the Postscript option, I'd also try using that driver. Peter ... View more

And next time, before you turn it on, be sure something is selected :) You'll need to set this with no documents open if it is happening in new files, too. (Worth checking to be sure, anyway). Most panel settings like this act as global defaults for all new work when set with nothing open. Peter ... View more

Jessica, It would be very helpful to others if you listed the fonts you removed, if you can. It would maybe give someone else a chance to find the same problem font quickly. Peter ... View more

Danielle, Domingo's files were copied from a PC which may or may not have a bearing on why the solution isn't working for you. I'd suggest you repost on the Mac side and ask if anyone would be willing to copy and post a set of working files from a Mac installation. Peter ... View more

If by .ptt you mean PowerPoint, save them as PDF if you can, then place those. You can also try moving them through Illustrator and saving as .AI. I don't use PowerPoint, so I don't know all the ins and outs. Peter ... View more

Davaa,<br /><br />First, "bla bla" isn't too helpful, even with standard error messages. I suspect this one asked if you wanted to try to recover again or delete the recovery data. Since recovery isn't working, you need to delete the data.<br /><br />You can do this manually if necessary, by going to the folder at \Documents and Settings\<User Name>\Application Data\Adobe\InDesign\Version 4.0\InDesign Recovery and deleting anything you find there. That should allow you to restart InDesign, but it won't recover your unsaved file. Since it is listed in the error as "Untitled" there will be no file anywhere else on your system for you to access to attempt to recover that work (unless of course you actually DID save the file as Untitled) so that work will be gone forever.<br /><br />This kind of problem is often related to either a bad font or bad graphic file that you placed, very often in .eps format, which might give you a clue about where the problem originated.<br /><br />Peter ... View more

Andrew, If you are still here, Print Booklet doesn't work with a Book file. You'll need to do something like exporting to PDF and importing the result into a new ID file that can be imposed. But the real question is why is the printer asking you to supply imposed files? is this getting printed off the glass on a copier? There is no good reason why a printer should ask you to do the imposition for him. Only he knows what the print conditions will be for the job and an improperly imposed file is useless and an expensive waste of time. Peter ... View more

Greg, Re you talking about printing 2-up of the same page, or two consecutive pages, or two imposed pages? PrintBooklet, and the scripts already mentioned can handle imposed and/or consecutive 2-up. For n-up of the same image I place a single copy on the larger page size and use step & repeat to add and position as many more as I need (You need two passes to do multiple columns and multiple rows on the same sheet). I'm sure it could be scripted to do two-up for a multipage document, but I don't have one. If you search the regular ID forum, not here in Feature requests, or ask in the scripting forum you may find someone has already posted or will write one. Peter ... View more

Jessica, See post #29 in this thread. ... View more

CID encoding is used for characters and glyphs not included in the standard ASCII 256 character map, such as ligatures, ornaments, swashes and the like, in OpenType fonts. With older formats these extra characters required additional special fonts. Support for this has been part of the Postscript specification for quite some time, but many applications (like Microsoft word)and some printer drivers are unable to properly process the font information with a variety of results. You and I are using the same version of Garamond, so I would say that the number of text objects (what you can select at once with the touch-up tool)in the PDF must be a result of differences in the export settings we used. I used the press quality preset, and the same preset modified to Acrobat 1.5 compatibility, to try to match your output, but I didn't go further. My guess would be that you may have used the "Standard" preset when printing to PDF because I'm pretty sure that is the default unless you change it in the printer properties. I saw absolutely no difference in the type between any of the samples on screen, and no differences in my prints from two different printers, but I can't test on your model because I don't own it. I'm also running ID 5.0.2 and Acrobat 8.1.2 on XP pro SP2, so I think it's fair to say the only significant difference in the tests is the printers. Peter ... View more

Andrea, I just got back from school and took a look at what you sent. Number one, you haven't used the same settings when exporting as distilling, and I don't know what they were in either case. Can you let us know. The distilled PDF (Printed to PDF) is in RGB, the exported is in CMYK. Number two, I've printed the exported PDF to my PCL monochrome laser and my Xerox Phaser 790 which is a genuine postscript printer, and they both show jagged type, which is due to the color being only 95% black, and no emboldening anywhere. Number three, I've exported a couple of PDFs myself, and they also show the font embedded in both regular and CID encoded subsets, which is not surprising since there are ligatures, but in my attempts there are only two subsets, one for the first line (not CID) and the CID subset for the remainder. In your export, the five lines are each a separate subset and text object. Your distilled version has three subsets, but only one text object, mine are also a single text object. At this point I don't know if the differences in the my PDFs are due to settings or the font itself. My Garamond font is TrueType flavored OpenType, version 2.30 from Monotype. The actual filename is GARA.TTF. Can you tell us what settings you are using to both export and print these PDFs? I must say, though, that I think your fuzzies are the color tint, and the bolding problems are probably the print driver since I don't see them here. ... View more

You are welcome to mail it to spammercatch at comcast dot net. The advantage to posting would be that more people will have a chance to download and have a look at it, so your odds of getting a really good, and fast, answer are increased. Peter ... View more