I'm not sure if that's correct or not, but if so, it's something unique to Acrobat. I can have multiple InDesign files open as tabs, and Command ` will roll through them without any trouble. The same is true with Illustrator and Photoshop. Do you know that to be a fact, or is that just a guess? ... View more

Yes. ... View more

judeela  wrote I am just taking it to a copy-place. Do you mean you are taking the printouts to the copy shop, or taking the PDF that you exported from InDesign, and letting the copy shop output it to their networked copier? If the former, why? If the latter, they would most likely be better off with pages that are not arranged into printer spreads. They will likely let their machine/software do the imposition. It's best to ask before you make the decision for them. ... View more

Have you included bleed or slug? ... View more

Can you show a screen shot of what you have, or what you are trying to do? ... View more

What about exporting the whole page as PDF and then cropping out the unwanted portions in Acrobat? That would save you from having to monkey around with your InDesign page. ... View more

Can you define "gutters" for us? InDesign uses the term for the space between columns of a multi-column text frame, but I think you mean something else. And did your printer specifically say you couldn't use facing pages? If so, do you know why? In case you are asking about bleed at the center bind, have a look at this: https://indesignsecrets.com/breaking-pages-apart-to-bleed-off-a-spine.php But if you just want to apply a different page margin to every other page and you can't use facing pages, then set up two different single-page masters. Go to Window>Pages to open the Pages pallet Double-click on the master page (probably called A-Master if you haven't created any others or modified the default) to select it Apply the margins for the odd-numbered pages (Layout>Margins and Columns) Click the fly-out of the pallet and select New Master… (set the Number of Pages option to 1 if you need another single master) Apply the margins for the even-numbered pages Now that you have two masters, you need to apply them to your document pages (your pages should be assigned to A-Master at this point). If your pages already exist, go to the Pages pallet and double-click on the first document page to get out of editing the master. Now go to the fly-out and select the Apply Master to Pages… option. Select B-Master as the master to apply, and in the To Pages: field, type the page numbers you want to apply B-Master to with commas separating the numbers (2,4,6,8 etc.) If you have to add or delete any pages before you're done, apply the masters again. ... View more

Will your magazine be printed by a commercial printer, or were you planning to do this on a network printer/copier? If it's being done by a commercial printer, you should start talking to them now (if you haven't done so already). They can tell you what they need. They might want you to make the front and back covers as separate pages, and the spine as a third, for them to assemble. They might also ask you to make one document the width of both covers and the spine, but either way, they will need to tell you what size the spine needs to be. That will be based on the type of paper chosen (different stocks will be of different thicknesses). Also, ask them about the page count. Most books are done with page counts that are divisible by 4 for production reasons. If your 66-pg book needs two pages added to complete a signature, you would be the best person to decide whether you want additional content on those pages, or if you would prefer blank pages, you can decide where they go. But that might not be an issue, so asking early is better than finding out at the end. ... View more

I didn't have any trouble making a document 75x30mm. Are your margins set higher than would fit on your page size? That would throw up an error. ... View more

Let's break it down: Select the Type tool Click into your text frame Select only the glypn Copy Go to Edit>Find/Change Select the Type sub-menu at the top Paste (this will be the contents of the clipboard, which will only contain the last thing you copied, which will be the glyph) With the cursor still in the Find field, go to the @ fly-out to the right of the Find field and select Tab. This will insert the characters ^t into the Find field, just after the glyph you pasted. You could have also just typed those characters instead of using the fly-out @ menu. In the Change field, hit the Delete key to ensure that it is blank Set the Search field to Document or All Documents if you have more than one open, and you want to do this to all open documents. The field may have set itself to Story (in which case it won't find anything outside of the continuous story of text in this frame or any frames that are linked in a text chain with this one) or Selection (in which case it will only search for what is selected by the text cursor at the moment) Click the Find button, and one of your glyphs with the tab that follows should be selected. Click either Change (it will delete just that instance), Change All (it will delete all that it finds) or Change/Find (it will delete only the first one, but will then go on to select the next one it finds, allowing you to examine each instance before you click one of the Change options. ... View more

Did you try pasting the glyph into the Find field in the Text sub-menu and then typing ^t after the paste into the same menu? That was my suggestion. ... View more

Try switching from the Glyph sub-menu to the Text sub-menu. That's up at the top in your screenshot that's highlighted in blue. Paste the glyph into the Find field, then type ^t ... View more

At the top right of the Glyphs window, do you have Entire Font selected? Have you scrolled through the entire set of glyphs with the scroll bar? ... View more

Copy the glyph to the Find field in the Find/Change window. After you paste the glyph, type ^t That's the Find>Change code for a tab. If you click on the @ symbol next to the Find field, you can select special characters to search for or replace with. If you select, for example, a paragraph return, it will load ^p into the field, and a line break will load ^n To replace with nothing, make sure the Change field doesn't have anything in it. ... View more

ashimg23377171  wrote …but how do I find the Unicode of the pink box. Select the character with the Type tool, like this: Then go to Type>Glyphs, and the character should be highlighted in the Glyphs window, like this: Hover the mouse cursor over the glyph and you will see info. This character is GID: 86 Unicode: 0075 Name: LATIN SMALL LETTER U Is that helpful? ... View more

It's likely that the box is an actual character in the Word document, and that it only shows as a box in InDesign because the font that you have applied to your text in InDesign doesn't have a glyph in that Unicode location. Have you seen what the character is in the Word document? Maybe you were given a printout, PDF or screenshot of the Word document, or maybe the character is visible when you open the Word document. The point I'm getting at is that if there is a glyph that you need, you will want to know what it is. If it isn't important, have you tried selecting it, copying it to the Find field and replacing it with nothing? That should remove it if you don't really need it. ... View more

CBecks  wrote …and then copy and paste the text from each page of the old document to new document one by one. The easiest way might be to place the pages of your existing InDesign document into a new one the same way you can place images. Here's how: Create a new document with the size and margins you need Go to File>Place Click the Show Import Options checkbox Navigate to your existing InDesign file Click Open In the Place InDesign Document window that opens next, you can specify which pages will be placed, and whether the size of the placeholder of the page will be the same as the document, the document plus the bleed setting, or the document plus the slug setting. Probably just use Document. Try it with just the first page to get a feel of how it works. Here's an example I made. This is an 8.5x11 page with 1.5" margins on all sides. This next one is a 6x8.5" page with .25" margins, and I have placed the original page onto the new one: The blue frame you see is the 8.5x11" page size, but I have positioned it so that the type is within the pink margins of the new page. If I did this for all the pages of the 8.5x11 document, I could export the 6x8.5 document as a 6x8.5" PDF, which is what I think you are after. One advantage of doing it this way is that if you make edits to your original document, you can update the links in the smaller one, and not have to make those same changes twice. You also have the option to make an image frame on the page before you place. Here's an image frame the size of the page. I selected the frame before I placed, which placed the image into the existing frame instead of creating a new frame. I then went to Object>Fitting>Center Content and because the content was centered in the original, it is now centered in the new page size: Just something to consider. ... View more

nicoleb64926128  wrote The only way I think would possibly be because I placed the images inside of an old image frame. Maybe... Probably not, but here's something to try next time. If you click on an image and the Links window shows it as missing (like here): …select the link, go to the fly-out menu at the top of the Links window and select Copy Info>Copy Full Path (like here): You will get something like this: /Volumes/Server/Division/Client/Location/Links/31820_CF.JPG. That lets you track down where the image was when it was originally placed. Maybe one of the folders was moved, or the name was changed, or maybe the image was actually deleted, but at least you have a place to start looking. Also, if you place an image and the image is missing at output, InDesign will warn you, but will also allow you to output the low-resolution proxy of the image. You wouldn't want that for keeps, but if you are in the proofing stage and you need something to show the image you hope to find later, it's OK in a pinch. ... View more

If you save from Photoshop as PDF, your type will remain live, and since live type is created as vectors, it won't have the blurry look of raster (bitmap) art. ... View more

My guess is that the printer is going to print sheets of cards, with each sheet being a different card in each possible location. They will then cut them and end up with stacks of cards, with each stack being all of the same card. This is the way that (for example) many people print business cards (here's a visual): If that's what they want, you would need to either know a little about InDesign or let the printer do it. If you do it wrong, it might cost you in time and money to let the printer fix it for you. Maybe a local freelance designer who knows InDesign can help you for less than the printer is asking. ... View more

Does the thickness of the white line seem to change or stay the same as you zoom in? Some things that seem like a problem at one view magnification turn out to disappear at another. ... View more

"Use a negative right indent to pull the bullet back out towards the margin—partway or all the way" I think you meant to say negative Left indent. ... View more

I agree with Randy, that you should make a 6-page letter-size document with facing pages if you intend for someone else to print. If you are going to print, you might be better off still using the same setup, but instead of copying pages to a new document, try this: Create a new Tabloid document with 2 pages Go to File>Place and navigate to your 6-pg original document and click on it Put a check by the box that reads Show Import Options Click OK You will get an additional window that looks like this: Select p-6 with the Crop to: option set to Page bounding box and hit OK You will now have a single 8.5x11 image of your page 6 that you can position on the page where it needs to go. Repeat for page 1 and put it to the right of 6. Then go to the second page of the tabloid doc and place p2 on the left and p5 on the right. If you need to update anything in the original 6-pg document, you can update the link to those pages in the tabloid document the way you would do any graphic. But, don't do that if you are sending it off to be printed. They will set it up the way that works best for them. Hope this helps. EDIT: You should also know that you may have to insert the center page manually if you print this yourself. Not a big deal if it's just a few copies, but if you want thousands, it's going to add some time. ... View more

Have you considered using a font that has a circle around the number itself? Try a search for circled numbers font. ... View more

For what it's worth, the way Barb suggested is the way I do it, and I get her results too. ... View more

stuartm54046563  wrote Either I'm an even bigger idiot than my wife thinks I am or there is something strange happening here. This isn't something I've ever seen, so I doubt it has anything to do with you, so it must be something about your OS or InDesign. stuartm54046563  wrote I tried to then place whatever was attached to the tool by dragging out frames. On doing this, I merely had a number of empty frames. If you have a loaded cursor, but nothing places when you click, l suppose it's not ideal, but it shouldn't prevent you from working as normal. Just to be clear, you can place something when you want, but you get an unwanted loaded cursor at random times that doesn't contain any content, is that correct? ... View more

stuartm54046563  wrote If I paste into a frame… It could be that we're talking about the same thing, but using different terminology, but I'm not talking about pasting. Pasting is what you do with content that you have copied or cut to the pasteboard. If you cut or copy something, it stays on the clipboard, and isn't replaced by using the place command. But that said, I'm pretty sure we are talking about the same thing. stuartm54046563  wrote When I do paste into the frame, I text tool remains loaded. You can select more than one item when placing, and when you click the first one onto your document or into a frame, the cursor will remain loaded with the next thing in the queue. So, if you select two text files and three image files, your cursor will remain loaded for the next 5 clicks. stuartm54046563  wrote I can see the thumbnail in the pointer but it is so small that I can't made out what it is of. If you click and drag out a small area—like just a 2" square, you can see what it's trying to place. If it's an image, it will fit into the frame that's created by clicking onto a blank portion of your page, and if it's text, it will fill as much of the frame that's created by clicking onto a blank portion of the page that will fit in the given area, based on what default type style you have in your document (likely with overset text not visible). If the cursor is still loaded, just keep repeating the above to see what is in the loaded cursor, and maybe that might help determine why it's there. There is also a gridify function where a cursor that is loaded with multiple items can be placed in a grid. Just click without releasing the mouse button, and drag to the right and down. You increase the number of columns and rows of the grid by tapping the right and up navigation buttons on your keyboard. In this screenshot, I've loaded 9 images into the cursor and tapped the right button 3 times and the up button twice. Because there weren't all 12 items it could have placed, it left three blank spots on the grid. If I had more than 12, the cursor would have remained loaded with the remaining items. ... View more