stuartm54046563  wrote Is there any way I can see what is actually attached to the pointer / text tool? Normally, you only have a loaded text pointer if you have gone to File>Place and navigated to a text file or image file. If you want to see what's attached, click on a blank portion of your page, or into an empty frame. That will place what ever is loaded. You should also be able to see a small thumbnail of the image or text in the pointer itself. ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Bg+roseman  wrote You can do a hard return. That is Shift and return at the same time will help. FYI, terminology is a bit fluid, so not all will agree what something is called. That said, most people I've encountered think of a paragraph return and a hard return as the same thing, and a line break (shift return) and a soft return (soft, because it doesn't create a new paragraph) are two names for the same thing. ... View more

You can turn off the notification if you go to InDesign>Preferences>Composition and uncheck Substituted Fonts, but you really don't want to do that. What you should do is go to Type>Find Font and make a note of all of the fonts that are in the document. There will be a yellow warning triangle next to any font that isn't active. You can either change the font to something else, or find the font (if you have it) and activate it. If you don't know how to activate fonts, do a Google search for InDesign activate fonts. ... View more

That's the visual indicator that you have text set with a font that is no longer active. ... View more

You could also try this: Delete the chapters (Remove Documents) from the book pallet (not the actual files, though) Open each file Go to the Numbering and Section Options and set each to Automatic Page Numbering (make sure the Start Page Numbering field isn't selected, but that it reads 1) Put the chapters back into your book pallet It's a longer way around, but maybe worth a try if nothing else works. ... View more

Sometimes I have to print on address stickers, similar to what you're trying with the round stickers. I've had the same problem getting them to align, and here's something that worked for me. I start by measuring the label sheet and setting frames with a small stroke in position where the stickers are. Here's an example: I export as PDF and print to plain paper. I then hold the plain paper against the blank sheet of stickers and see how far off the expected drift of the printer deposited the image. Here's an example where the black frames represent the sticker sheet, and the red frames represent what prints on the plain paper. Based on this information, I go back to InDesign and select all of my frames and nudge them to the left and up a bit. I then PDF and print on plain paper again and see how close I'm getting. When it's pretty much on target, I run the PDF on the label sheet just to be sure it's working. When the frames print pretty much where the stickers are, I can be relatively sure that what ever I place in the InDesign document where the frames are will print on the sheet in the correct position. This isn't a universal solution, as a different printer might have a different amount of drift, but for my own printer, I can use the template without problems. If you design the content of your sticker so that any drift won't be noticeable, it should work for you. In your case, you can make the green bleed off of the cut portion of the circle, but the closer the white circle sits to the edge of the circle, the more the drift will be noticeable. ... View more

You can place specific pages from a multi-page PDF with the place command. Tick the Show Import Options box in the Place window, and you will be sent to another window where you can specify which pages you want loaded into the cursor the same way you specify which pages you want to print in the print window. Use commas to separate pages, and dashes to show continuous ranges. For example, 1, 5, 9-12, 15, 18. If you have image boxes already in your template, you can click on them in the order that you specify in the place window. That's probably not as automated as you were looking for, but I thought I'd throw that out there. ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Michael+Witherell  wrote Never use a flash drive to read and write an active file. I'm pretty sure you mean small-capacity flash drives like the ones we call thumb drives, but to be clear, you don't mean the SSD drives that are going into many new computers, right? Those are OK to use with active files(?) ... View more

ricks43263218  wrote When I have the InDesign document setup and set my data fields the multiple records is greyed out so I cannot duplicate the address to the second postcard on the page. I just tried with my ancient CS5.5 in Mac OS 10.8.5, and it worked for me. ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Derek+Cross  wrote 98 pages is a strange, uneven number, you might be better with (say) 100 pages. Check with the printing company. 96 would give you 12 sigs of 8 or 6 of 16 if it's going to a large press. ... View more

Did you check the effective resolution as explained above? ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Willi+Adelberger  wrote Never copy and place images to InDesign. For the OP, I think Willi means don't copy and paste. Placing is what you should do. ... View more

A Photoshop droplet would speed things up. ... View more

Make sure your chapters have an even number of pages. ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/%5BJongware%5D  wrote It's actually a Preference See "Apply Leading to Entire Paragraphs": But that setting is off by default. I took it to be a way for old Quark users to feel more at home if they chose to turn it on. Still, being that it's off by default and in the character pallet, it looked like a character attribute to me, but I stand corrected. ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Dov+Isaacs  wrote Actually leading is a paragraph attribute, but it can be overridden by a character attribute!           - Dov I was a Quark user for many years before InDesign, and a paragraph in Quark could have only one leading. When I found that InDesign could have a different leading for each character, I assumed it was a character attribute, but if you say it's not, I'll accept that, but why is it in the Character pallet instead of the Paragraph pallet? ... View more

Also, something that isn't readily apparent to everyone is that although leading may seem like a paragraph attribute, it is a character-level setting in InDesign. Notice the gap between lines in this screen shot: The leading is set the same for all of the selected text, and there is no space-before or space-after involved. If I select all of the subsequent lines, it shows the same thing: But, what isn't shown is that I didn't select the paragraph return at the end of the line with the space above: …which shows where the extra leading is coming from. Probably the most common reason why people post about unexplained line spacing is because of the settings of a paragraph return. And to your question about baseline grids, yes, you will need to set the grid to the appropriate setting if you want to lock text to it. In the same text I used in the above examples, notice how the gap is no longer visible when I snap the guides to the default 12-pt baseline in this screen shot: Because the leading is set to auto (14.4 for 12-pt type), it won't fit within the 12 points that separate the baseline grid, so it skips to the next available line. And because the extra leading on the one paragraph return is set to 22, it isn't enough to push it two lines down. That would need 24 or better. So if you want to snap your lines to the grid, set the grid to what ever you choose (1x, 1.5x or 2x). If you use space-before or space-after amounts that are less than the leading, you won't get double spaces between paragraphs. ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Loic+Aigon  wrote Not arguing here but "creating new merged documents each time you update your data" isn't what I call a serious updating mechanism I'm not sure why having a choice between two things is bad. If you don't want option 1 because of X Y or Z, use option 2 that doesn't include X Y or Z. ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Loic+Aigon  wrote Datamerge doesn't have any updating mechanisms that I know of. There are two ways to update the content. Suppose you have a data source (data.txt), and an InDesign file (file_1.indd). You create a text frame on the document page of file_1.indd, select data.txt as the data source, and populate the text frame with the data placeholders. You then create a merged document (file_2.indd), and your data placeholders are replaced with the actual data. If you go back to data.txt and update the data, it won't change file_2.indd, but you can open file_1.indd and update the link to the data file, which would allow you to create a third merged document (file_3.indd) that will contain the updated data. If you don't want to keep creating new merged documents each time you update your data, place the text frame that holds the data placeholders on the master page. Now you can open file_2.indd and you will be asked if you want to update the data source the way you were asked on file_1.indd. After you update the data source, go to the sub-menu of the Data Merge window and select Update Content in Data Fields, and the new data will update in file_2.indd. ... View more

Open the PDF in Acrobat and go to View>Page Display, set it to Two-Up Continuous and put a check beside Show Cover Page During Two-Up, and if you want, Show Gaps Between Pages. Unfortunately, there is no way to assure that everyone who opens this PDF will see it the way you want, because they will all have their own view settings, and possibly different PDF viewing applications such as Apple's Preview. I also noticed that (if we don't count the first three documents as you indicated), your book starts with a two-page abstract beginning on a right page, followed by a 5-page TOC (also beginning on a right page), which starts your 9-page Chapter 1 on the left. Odd numbered pages are supposed to be on the right, so you would normally add a sixth blank page to your TOC to put the first chapter on the right. ... View more

Can you give the steps you took in detail? Were you expecting a document that you had already merged to update after the data source was updated, or were you updating before merging a new copy? Was the placeholder text frame on the document page or the master page? ... View more

Don't use PostScript. Export as PDF from InDesign. ... View more

In the screen shots you posted, which items are on the master page, and which are on the document page? ... View more

Acrobat can extract every page from a multi-page pdf as separate files, and Bridge can rename them in batches. ... View more

Try placing it into a new ID file that is large enough to hold it. If it comes in at 211 and not 211.1, double-check Eternal Warrior's advise about the master pages. ... View more

I made a quickie document at 211.1x297 and exported to PDF. When opened in Acrobat, it showed as 211x297. When placed into an InDesign document with Cropping set to Art, it showed as 211.1x297. kaadeewee  wrote My online book printer does not accept the "wrong" width. Have they actually rejected it, or is this just speculation? My desktop calculator says that 211 is 0.99952529085741 as big as 211.1, and if your printer can tell that difference in their production, they are much more sophisticated than anyone I've ever heard of. ... View more