Ed_Eubanks  wrote …even though the text itself is rendered as registration black in ID… Registration color is C=100, M=100, Y=100 & K=100. You should use regular black. ... View more

It seems complicated, but if you break it down, it's not so scary. Start with regular unformatted text: Make a paragraph style with a hanging indent: Make a character style. It doesn't have to be in the same paragraph at this point: Now edit your hanging indent paragraph style to add a nesting style with the character style up to the first tab character: And you get this: ... View more

gretar8063123  wrote InDesign screenshot… I see a tab ruler at the bottom of your screen shot, but I don't see the text cursor telling me where those tab stops are being applied. In this screenshot: …you can see the same text in three different text frames, but the text cursor is showing the tab stops only in the top one. Since no tab stops have been added to the top text frame, the tabs are stopping at regular intervals of 1/2" and 1", but they wouldn't stop there if there was more text. In the lower two text frames, tab stops have been randomly applied, but you don't see them in this screenshot because the text cursor isn't in them. In your screenshot from ID, I can see a tab stop at around 1.375", which is where the word Liquor is. In the previous line, the phrase "REPORT AND PAYMENT" is larger from the margin than 1.375", so that's why it doesn't stop there, but "DISPOSITION" does fit, so that's why it stops there. ... View more

It sounds like your backspace button is broken. Could there be a conflict with the OS, or do you need to enable Backspace the way you can enable the 10-key pad? ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/muskoka+lake  wrote When i made a group by drawing a box around it and then placed the group in the text, I do not get a Text Wrap Option. That's just a selection of two objects, not a group. To make a group, select two or more objects and go to Object>Group, or use the keyboard shortcut Command G. Once the objects are grouped, you will see a the normal frame edges, but when you mouse-over or select the group, the bounding box will appear to be dashed instead of solid. Now is the time to add text wrap to the group. ... View more

What about grouping the image frame to the caption text frame, and applying wrap to the group? ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Scott+Citron  wrote Don't bother using Master pages. Did you mean to say master-page text frames—like I used to have to do in the old days of Quark to have auto-flowing text? ... View more

M_G6  wrote Maybe someone can tell me, should my container boxes not overlap the spine? Is that really the right way to use InDesign? Generally speaking, they don't need to, but after reading your workflow, there will always seem to be some last-minute tweaking you will need to do. For example, since you don't need the Photoshop image that you will import into every page to bleed at the spine, but it will bleed top, bottom and away-from-spine, you could set up your image frames to have three bleeds, but not the spine. But, if a page shifts from left to right, you will have what had been a bleed off of the left side of a left page, now bleeding into the left page once the page has become a right page. And, something that had been a right page with no bleed at the spine will need bleed now that it is a left page. What I suggest is that you design with the image frames set to your page size, with no bleeds, while you are designing. Once the client has told you where to shift the pages and you are ready to PDF, then you will have to pull out the bleeds on every page. That's something most people would rather not do if they didn't have to, but with what the client wants, I'm not sure there is a way around it. A script to pull out the bleeds will be the easiest way around that, but I'm not a script guy, so I can't make one for you. You could ask over at the scripting forum, but here's a work-around that isn't that hard to do, and doesn't take too much time. If you select the full-page image frame on your first right-sided page, you can select the center-left dot on the position proxy: …and add your bleed amount to the width, and twice your bleed amount to the height (which will take care of the top and bottom). Because of the position proxy selection, the added width will be added to the left, and the added height will be added from the center, so top and bottom will be equal. If you then select the image frame on the next available right-side page (p3), you can go to Object>Transform Again>Transform Sequence Again (or use the keyboard shortcut Option Command 4), you won't have to plug in the numbers again. Then do the same for all of the right-sided pages. To do the left-sided pages, just change the proxy to right center, select the first left-page image frame and add the same to the width and height, and use the same keyboard shortcut on the even-numbered pages. After that, export to PDF and use Acrobat to split it into individual pages. They won't have bleeds at the spine, but at this point, it will have been decided which pages will be in what left-to-right positions, so it won't matter. Of course, if they ask for a correction that moves a page to a new position, you will have to do this all over again, but I'm not sure there's a way around that. I hope this all makes sense. ... View more

M_G6  wrote (Mac OS, InDesign 2019) If I go to File--> Document Setup, then uncheck "Facing Pages", all my automatic page numbers appear at the lower left side of each page. That could happen if the alignment of your facing-page document's page numbers are set to Away From Spine (as they should be, if that's what you want). If you change a facing-page document to non-facing-pages, and move them into a facing-page view like this: …there will be no spine to align away from, and you will get this: M_G6  wrote (Mac OS, InDesign 2019) Is there a way to tell the program to respect this rule, while viewing the document in non-facing pages mode? I'm not sure why you would want a book that will be printed in facing pages to be designed with non-facing pages, unless you want bleed at the spine, which is rarely necessary. But, if that's what you really want, you have to use a different master for each side of your fake spread, and if you add a single page in the middle, you will have to flip the master pages for everything after. Not a good option. Best to stick with facing pages. ... View more

This probably isn't it, but could the object be on a layer that's set to non-printing? ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/L+Welch  wrote if I make it up facing, then convert to single pages, it does not split the spread. How are you converting to single pages? As Bob said, design in facing pages: …export without spreads: …and you get a PDF with single pages. Not sure if they want you to make each page a PDF, but if so, you can do that in Acrobat. ... View more

I'm not sure there is a simple solution to that. The first lines of the two "columns" need to align, so you cant just tab after the bold on the left without having to sandwich the Roman on the right between two bits of the bold, and that would kill your index. There may be a way to jimmy this into something that works, but I don't have the time right now to look into it. Maybe later I'll get a minute, or maybe someone else will know a solution before that. Good luck. ... View more

Make a hanging indent by setting the left indent to the same amount as your tab setting. Then, set the first-line indent to a negative of that value. For example, if your tab is set to 2", make your left indent 2" and your first-line indent -2". ... View more

I've used PageMaker, Quark and InDesign to do page layout. They all do pretty much the same thing in very similar ways. Can you name something that's easy to do in PageMaker that you can't figure out in InDesign? ... View more

One way that works very quickly is to make a small text frame, add a few keystrokes and apply your paragraph style. If you copy the text frame to the pasteboard, you can open several of your older InDesign files at a time, paste, hit the delete key while the frame is still selected, then save. The new paragraph style will be added once it is pasted into the document, and will add as many paragraph or character styles as you have in the text frame. Just be sure to not base the paragraph styles on [Basic Paragraph]. It will only take a few seconds-per-document, depending on how long it takes to open and save. ... View more

Is this: Something that you will print with a duplex printer? If #1 is yes, is it your printer, or a service provider? Will it be stacked before being cut? If #3 is yes, will it need to be in a particular order (sequentially numbered, alphabetical, etc.)? ... View more

casinclaire  wrote But it clearly occurs because I've accidentally tried to open InD 2018 when 2019 is already open. FYI, you can open 2018 when 2019 is already open. They can both be running at the same time. ... View more

Spacing with a bulleted list is controlled by the Bullets & Numbering window, seen here: You can get to it in several ways, but because best-practice is to use paragraph styles, you might want to apply a paragraph style to your text, and go to the Bullets & Numbering section of the paragraph style. You can also get to it through the Paragraph window, or by Option-clicking on the Bullets portion at the top of the screen. These last options will apply your settings locally, and not be part of the paragraph style. ... View more

meganb55311309  wrote However, new sections will not always start on the left and end on the right. Traditionally, sections begin on a right page in left-to-right reading languages. Just FYI. ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/J+van+E  wrote I'd hate having to trash my preferences because it takes quite some time to set everything up again: my prefs are heavily edited from default. If you have to set up up your preferences again, maybe you can make a backup. That way, should you need to replace your prefs again, you can use the backup set and save some time. Just something to consider. ... View more

OK, gotcha. Thanks. ... View more

I'm not getting that with ID 14.0.1. Here's before: …with double returns circled in red, and column breaks and a frame break circled in blue. Then I do this: …and I get this: …with the double returns reduced to singles, and the column and frame breaks intact. Did I misunderstand your answer? ... View more

michellew7320290  wrote My first question is, how can I drag and drop images so it is exactly in the center, like the older version of indesign where you drag it on the X? I can't tell if you are new to InDesign, or maybe you've used it a while back, and you're a little rusty. It looks like the two screen shots you posted have one difference. The first one has image frames (boxes that images are inside) already on the pages. An image frame has an X going through it, so I think that's the X you are talking about. If you place an image onto a document page that doesn't already have an image frame, it will create one for you, but it will only be as large as the image itself. If you have an image frame already, you can click into it, and the image will be placed inside, but how it fits is determined by the Frame Fitting Options. If you go to Object>>Fitting>Frame Fitting Options, you can set how they work for a selected frame, or for all new frames if you do it while no frame is selected. Existing frames will have to be changed individually, or you can use an object style. Just FYI, but if my assumption about your level of skill with InDesign was correct, you should know that the more you know going into a project can help you avoid problems that can cost you time and money, so if that's the case, consider getting some training. If I'm wrong, no offense intended. ... View more

If you have a given page size with a given live area (page size minus margins), and the margins must be maintained, you might ask to set the page size to the live area instead of the actual page size. That way, you can drop the live-area-sized page into your imposition, and nothing will leak into the margins. I often see things like drop shadows or parts of the page leaking into the margins, but if they leak into the pasteboard, it is more noticeable because when you export to PDF, you won't see them any longer when you view the PDF. ... View more

pattim71533291  wrote …and sent to the printer. Do you mean you sent a PDF to a print provider, or you printed it to your laser/inkjet printer? ... View more

Mugen777  wrote Since (for example) right master page doesn't turn to left one and everything becomes a big mess There are ways to set up a document so that it doesn't become a mess if a left page becomes a right page, but if you didn't set yours up correctly, then yes, it will be a mess. This job will be a learning experience for you, so I'd consider taking the advise above before your next project. Sorry. ... View more