mattbrunt
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mattbrunt
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‎Apr 09, 2023
09:35 AM
I might have assumed the same if I'd happened upon this post. But as I shared in the second-to-last sentence, "All information..." is checked. I'll try a complete reinstall and see if it changes anything.
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‎Apr 05, 2023
01:45 PM
Thanks for the response, but that's an irrelevant discussion. That discussion is clearly regarding the unavailability of the "Paste without Formatting" command, grayed out in the Edit menu. That's not my issue. I can access the command, but it doesn't act as expected.
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‎Apr 05, 2023
01:31 PM
Good afternoon, Community. In the past, I have had no problem pasting text into my InDesign docs while maintaining my ID font styling. That is, a simple Command-V just replaced the content, while leaving the formatting untouched. At least, that's how I operated in-between Word and ID until recently. Now, whether I use Command-V, Shift-Command-V, or Shift-Option-Command-V; whether I "Paste without Formatting" or "Paste" or "Paste in Place," I get newly generically styled text. That is, the text formatting matches neither the original Word doc nor my existing ID styling. ID has just randomly selected 16pt Times New Roman Bold and applied that to the incoming text. To be clear, the only fonts being used in this document are Mr Eaves and Korolev Condensed. TNR isn't used anywhere. Additionally, I understand this silly new flyout menu (the "nudge") is supposed to give me the power to toggle between "with formatting" and "without formatting." However, toggling between the two states in that little menu changes nothing about my pasted text. For the record: Paste with "All information..." is selected in Preferences. Specs: InDesign 18.2.1 Mac OS Ventura 13.3 16Gb RAM I just reset preferences after the last update. Thank you! Matt
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‎Feb 17, 2023
08:30 AM
Thanks, Bob! I figured there might be some better forum for directly reaching Adobe. Any idea how responsive they are to requests there? I suspect when I check it out, I'm going to find a spit-ton of opinions and feature-requests.
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‎Feb 17, 2023
08:27 AM
I appreciate your quick response, Derek. As I said, this was more of a plea to Adobe to include already-available data in InDesign's error reporting (at least as regards the decade-old "failed to export pdf" error). I'm familiar with how to painstakingly troubleshoot the problem: a series of incremental exports while isolating the problem element. This might seem practical when the document in question in a page or two. But for long-format projects? There's just literally no reason I can imagine that InDesign can't report the actual error it encountered while exporting a PDF. For my latest encounter with this error, I was thankfully only exporting a relatively small flyer. Took me about 10 minutes to isolate a couple of PNGs as the problem. My question is: Is there some reason InDesign couldn't have either... told me there is a PNG on page 2 causing a problem; told me the precise nature of the problem with those PNGs? The pre-flight error reporting does this (although, pre-flight's green dot indicated there were no errors in this case), so why shouldn't the export error reporting do the same? Again, the data is available. I'd appreciate if InDesign would share it with the end-user. Again, yesterday's was an easy fix. Larger projects, I've blown 30 minutes of productivity chasing down a mysterious error. I'll post this in the User Voice forum and keep my fingers crossed!
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‎Feb 16, 2023
09:49 AM
This is really a plea to the folks at Adobe: Please, please, please enhance the error reporting in InDesign's export module. "Failed to export .pdf" tells a user nothing about the problem inherent in the file responsible for the export failure. Obviously, the error data is available. That is, the application encountered something that prevented export. Please include that something in the error reporting, so that your faithfully subscribing users can more efficiently address the enigmatic problem. It's utterly ridiculous that folks have been muddling through this exact problem for over a decade (I saw postings about this very issue from 2010), and your team has not built in more informative error reporting. Can we get this improved, please? Also... if there's a better place for me to be making this request/complaint, please feel free to nudge me in the right direction.
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‎Jan 10, 2019
07:52 AM
That's it! Thank you, Ton! I had experimented with this same combination of effects, but I think my order was different, and I certainly wasn't sure which variables to set and to what. I could never produce the effect. Not even close. This was the solution, and concisely presented. Thank you! Grace and peace, Matt
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‎Jan 09, 2019
06:00 PM
I've been trying to discover a way to apply the following halftone effect to text in Illustrator 2019: I've got Photoshop, and I can accomplish this in Photoshop, then expand or live trace the resultant image in Illustrator for a scalable vector, but I'm certain that this functionality has got to baked into Illustrator somewhere, and I'm just missing it. Embarrassingly for Adobe, the above image is from a simple tutorial for a free Windows vector editor called Inkscape. It's strange to think that I could download a free app in Windows via Parallels and pretty easily accomplish this, but I can't seem to get it done in the $250/yr Adobe software? Someone, please tell me I'm wrong. Thanks for any help/guidance! Matt
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‎Oct 24, 2018
07:41 AM
Thanks, JointyJr. I suspect this is the case, as well. Of course, the problem is that so long as InDesign features this particular bug, I'm going to be frequently running into this same issue of a file over-write beginning and failing, resulting in a potentially vanished file, altogether. The crash continues to plague my InDesign usage. On average 4 days each week, I'm dealing with it. Here is the Adobe Crash Report window popping up while I'm typing this response! (I took a screenshot of a screenshot, so you could see the time-stamp atop the Finder preview window. I'm on Central Time, btw...) For the record, I've updated InDesign just 10 days ago. The error persists. Anyway... I haven't suffered any more vanished files, fortunately. Matt
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‎Oct 04, 2018
11:07 AM
Thanks for answering, BobLevine. In the last 10 years, I'm not sure I've seen a single job listing requiring "proficiency in Adobe alternatives." Every legitimate graphic design position requires proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud applications. It's just an indicator of the level of the competition's viability. I didn't say there isn't any competition. Just that there's no reasonable or viable alternative. Anyway, Adobe knows it. There is no good, healthy industry pressure to stay on top of their game. I haven't been introduced to pastebin, but I dig it. Here is the crash report: InDesign CC fatal error crash - Pastebin.com. Thanks for patiently humoring my frustration. The best posts rarely come out of a cortisol overload. Matt
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‎Oct 04, 2018
09:23 AM
First, I would like to say that ever since Adobe eliminated all reasonable competition in its space, the product quality has taken an infuriating downturn. Most recent issue (one of so, so many with modern iterations of Adobe's products... but what real choice do I have in my industry?): InDesign CC 2018 13.1 does not play nicely with files hosted on network drives. Almost every other day, I deal with a "fatal error" that crashes the application and endangers my files the moment InDesign detects what may or may not be an interruption in a server connection. I say "may or may not", because it's a bit of crapshoot as to whether or not the server has actually been disconnected. I'm not sure what activity InDesign is responding poorly to, but no other applications are affected. Sometimes, I'm working in between Windows 10 via Parallels. This one seems at least a bit predictable. As tough the Mac cannot maintain a connection to the network drive in both domains simultaneously. However, as I said, no other applications are affected. I can be working on a map design in a combination of InDesign, Illustrator, and ArcGIS Pro in Windows, and InDesign is the only application that cannot handle the switch. It crashes every time I switch to Windows. The last straw was today: I was working on a document design in InDesign, working off of our local network drive. InDesign suffered one of its "fatal errors", claiming that the network connection had been interrupted. It hadn't, however. I opened the drive, still mounted and visible on my desktop, and reopened the file, a combination of text with both vector and bitmap links. I made some revisions to it and attempted to save. I couldn't. InDesign claimed the file was in use by another application. So I tried "Save As..." in the same directory. InDesign craps out and disappears. So did my document. The document I had been working on is gone. The temporary file is still sitting in its folder, but no working file is present. I have tried...: Opening InDesign to activate document recovery. Nothing happens. Opening the temporary file with a right-click and "Open with... InDesign". Restarting. Unmounting and remounting the network drive. Checking my trash can. The file is nowhere to be found. This file represents about $1000 worth of billable time for me. This lazily developed mess of an application just cost me a grand (not to mention the time I am wasting leaving this irritated message here hoping that someone can help me recover the lost file). I know my support message is clouded by my irritation at my circumstances and at this application and its developers, but does anyone have any counsel regarding recovery of this document? Any counsel regarding this infuriating persistent bug? I issue crash reports every time it crashes. I would have gladly migrated to an alternative, already. Unfortunately, there just isn't really a realistically feasible alternative, anymore. Thanks, Matt
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