What do you mean by "outline?" Do you want to put a stroke around each dot, or change the dots into individual vector circles the way outlining type makes vector shapes from letters? ... View more

Jeff, I used to work in music publishing, and I think I know what you are talking about. If you have a page of music that you want to break across two pages, you don't want to have to go back to Finale to change the break point and re-export as images. Is that correct? If so, using the image frame in InDesign to crop out portions of your page, and using a duplicate of the image with different cropping on the next page will probably be faster. Placing the images in-line with the text will help, but you will probably have to make manual adjustments if (for example) if you have a page of three staves on one page and four on the next, and you need staff 3 to move after the page break. Also, make sure that the page width you use in Finale is slightly smaller than the width of the text frame in InDesign. If you don't, it won't fit properly without being reduced in size, which you can also do if that's not objectionable to you. What might be a problem is if you have elements that don't make for a clean break point (like an articulation above a high note that's hard to crop in, because it also crops in elements from the upper staff). For those, you may need to adjust the staff spacing in Finale. ... View more

Unless you know how to use InDesign, getting the files won't do you much good. If you just want to see what the designer is doing, have her export a PDF from InDesign and send it to you. You can view it on your Windows machine without any trouble at all, without needing any additional software. From there, you have several options if you want to offer editorial suggestions. ... View more

Are you comfortable using the bézier tools? Maybe if you post a screen shot of the letter, we can offer some suggestions. ... View more

The top is just a white (paper-color) stroke on the text. The bottom is this: Do either of these look like what you're looking for? ... View more

When scrolling a PDF, I often see redraw errors that look like lines. If you zoom in, you can see if they are really there or not. If you flatten transparency, you can get artifacts that are visible, but they look much more severe from full view than they do when zoomed in close. That's just the nature of viewing on screen. If you zoom in and don't see it, don't sweat it. ... View more

Are you sure you want to export as spreads? It sounds like you want to export as single pages and view in Acrobat as spreads. If that's the case, go to View>Page Display (in Acrobat) and choose Two-Up or Two-Up Continuous, and to get the vertical divider line, choose Show Gaps Between Pages. You will also want Show Cover Page During Two-Up so that page 1 isn't to the left of page 2. ... View more

I see that you're happy with your answer, but I can add that you can check the actual size of the PDF back in InDesign by making a page large enough to hold the PDF, then placing the PDF onto a page with the bleed. You do this the regular way by going to FIle>Place and selecting the PDF, but before you hit the Open button, check the Show Import Options checkbox. That will give you another window before you place. In that window, there is a Crop Options selection. Just set it to Bleed and place the PDF onto the page. If you look at the W and H settings (while the placed PDF is selected) in the control bar at the top, you will see that it will show three-decimal places in the readout, and will show 8.125 instead of 8.12. My 2¢ ... View more

Until you get a solution, here's a work-around you may want to try. When you click on a placed image, you have a few choices if you want to edit it. The one you seem to be using is Edit Original. If that's not working, try Edit With, and choosing Illustrator from the list of choices. You could also choose Show in Bridge or Show in Finder (or what ever Windows calls it—the finder is a Mac name for the OS). Once you have the image in either Bridge or the Finder, launch it from there (in Mac OS, I would drag it to the icon of the program in the Dock, or onto a the icon of the program, or the icon of a shortcut of the program). I'm not sure if that will help, but it's worth a try in the mean time. ... View more

Here are a few things to consider. A Photoshop image can have many clipping paths, or no clipping path. Once placed into InDesign, you can select the image and go to Object>Clipping Path>Options and select from the number of clipping paths the image has. So, your Photoshop images probably already have clipping paths. ... View more

This latest screen shot only shows two items, so I can't tell without the third. ... View more

And you're sure you don't have two copies of this PDF? If you drag and drop (or File>Place) from two copies from the same location, they will show up like the top item in your screen shot (with the (2) next to the name, showing you have two of the same link). If you drag a third one that's a copy from a different location, it won't be (3) together, it will be like you have in the screen shot. Try selecting each and using Reveal in Finder from the flyout and see if they go to the same image. ... View more

I don't have the latest version, so I can't say for sure, but I doubt it. PDF2ID might have a free trial if you want to check it out. I've never tried it, so I can't say how good it is, but I imagine it's better now than it was when it was first introduced. ... View more

I've never worked the way your team is working, so please forgive me if this is a dumb question, but what do you mean by: User A(Me) - drops a pdf into the document Are you placing a PDF onto an InDesign page (and if so, is it via the menu, or drag-&-drop)? Where is the PDF (on a local drive, a network)? Does this have something to do with packaging? ... View more

Oh, I see what you mean. Wouldn't setting the inside bleed to 0 to solve this? ... View more

It is normal… I can't replicate this. My PDFs don't have material crossing the spine when my InDesign files don't. Can you show me an example? ... View more

It all depends on how you set up your layout. If you let content from the left page extend into the right page, then it will be there. Likewise for right-page content extended to the left. If you don't want it to cross the spine, you need to manually set each image, type or shape to stop at the spine. ... View more

Was your document set to Facing Pages? ... View more

That will change the page numbers, but if you still have that little triangle icon above the page, it means you have a section start in the middle of your document. Section starts are what you use to define page-number regions in a document, and you now have two. The way you might use one is if you were making a book that had a preface, and you wanted the preface to be numbered i-vii, and the next section to start numbering at 1. If you want one continuous string of page numbers, then the extra section start is unnecessary. The way most people would fix this problem is to uncheck the Section Start box at the top of the window. That would allow you to make changes to the way numbers are displayed only one time for the whole document. For example, you might want to add a prefix to your page numbers, like A-, and they would be displayed as A-1, A-2, etc. With a section start, it would only apply to the pages in one section. You probably don't care about this because you aren't going to do any of that, but sometimes little things can come back to bite you when you least suspect, and at the most inconvenient time. If you make a choice, it's best to do it for a reason, and there's really nothing you gain from doing it the way you did, and maybe you'll never see a downside, but I recommend you just remove the section start and take out the variable. Or not…it's up to you. My 2¢ ... View more

I'm using an older version of InDesign, so what you see might be different from what I see, but do you mean the bit I have circled in red in this screenshot? …and if so, does it bring up a window that looks something like this: …and you are changing the 1 to a 16? ... View more

Was it that you had two Section Starts, and you removed one? It helps people searching the forum for help to know how something was accomplished. ... View more

Thanks Dov. I thought it was going to go that way, but I thought I should ask. We're kind of in limbo thanks to our old IT guy, but it is what it is, and we'll probably have to upgrade before we thought we would need to. ... View more

If this seems like a highjack, please disregard, but I think it might also be helpful. The IT guy from my current company retired a while back, and the new IT guy can't find serial numbers or registration codes for some of our workstations. The old guy didn't keep the boxes and CDs well organized, and some can't be found, and we're not sure if CS5 or 5.5 were available as downloads. We all use CS5.5 currently, and when he asked Adobe, they said one of the 24-digit numbers that we have is "not a valid Adobe ID." We don't know if the old IT guy just never registered it (he didn't make an Adobe log-in), and a Read-Me on a backup looks like this: We want to upgrade, but it's financially difficult to justify if we can make it work with what we have, but one of our workstations has gone to demo mode, and we'd like to get it back to working before it times out. Any ideas? ... View more

Also consider that a PDF can look differently when viewed at different zoom magnifications. If something looks bad at full-screen, zoom in and see if it still looks bad. If it looks better close up, it's probably OK if the purpose of the PDF is printing. If it's just for viewing with a screen, that's a different story. ... View more

PennSoil  wrote nDesign CC does not recognize the PDF… InDesign will allow you to place a PDF as you would a piece of art. InDesign is not a PDF editor. Your best bet is to contact the parent company and explain that you would like to modify or use their work to suit your own needs, and ask if they will supply you with native InDesign files (with fonts and links). ... View more

To have a 14-page brochure, you would need 3 sheets of 4 pages each, and a sheet of 2 pages. This is common for things like flyers or grocery ads, but while 3 of the sheets can be bound together or tucked into each other, the sheet of 2 pages will be loose. If you don't mind it falling out, you could go that way, but it may need a separate setup if you are going to sheet-fed press (one setup to print on the 4-page sheet, and a different setup to print on the 2-page sheet). If you print on a network printer or copier, you may need to insert the loose sheet manually, so keep that in mind if you will have many copies. ... View more