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By: vickiekley

vickiekley — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:47:39 +0000

Hi Anne-Marie,

I wasn’t sure where to post this question. Thanks for your help.

By: Anne-Marie Concepcion

Anne-Marie Concepcion — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:41:17 +0000

Hi Vickie, your comment, being off-topic but important to you, is a great example of when to use the new forum.

Could you possibly re-post your question to the General InDesign Questions section of the InDesignSecrets forum? You’ll get more answers there, I’m sure.

http://indesignsecrets.com/forum

By: vickiekley

vickiekley — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:18:29 +0000

I’m working on a file in Indesign and this is the first time ever I’ve had to deal with the XRefPageNumber variable. When I go to help, it will show me where in the menu to find the “Insert Variable” but NOT how to apply it to specific text. What I am trying to do is insert the page numbers for the tables that the paragraph is referring to. I am formatting this in French and of course French is longer than the English, so there are more pages and the page numbers change throughout the entire manual. Does anyone know how to set up this variable so it will find the specified table and insert the page number for which this table can be found? I’ve been messing with this for over an hour and I just can’t seem to figure this one out.

Thanks,
Vickie

By: Pariah S. Burke

Pariah S. Burke — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:42:29 +0000

@Rhadin

That’s interesting that you’re having these color issues. The “Become a Member” in the upper screenshot is 50% gray on 100% black, while the “Already a Member” is 20% gray on 100% black. Those are the colors I used in the CSS.

If you aren’t seeing them with much contrast, it sounds like your monitor might need to be calibrated, particularly with regard to contrast and the white and black points.

At the bottom of this page ( http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html ) are calibration targets with color and grayscale shades. It might be worth running through the calibration process described on that page while viewing one of the target images.

By: rhadin

rhadin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:03:40 +0000

David, you have the right screenshot with the top one. On my screen it is almost impossible to read “Already a member? Login” and “Become a Member!” There isn’t enough contrast between the typeface color and the background color. In your screenshot it is more readable than on my screen but even in the screenshot it isn’t sharp and clear and with high contrast.

And in your bottom screenshot note (at least on my monitors) how faint “Your Account” and “Log out” are compared to “Welcome back, David Blatner!”

Perhaps I am the only one having this difficulty (wouldn’t surprise me).

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:02:12 +0000

@Rich: Hm. Okay, here are two more screen shots… this is what that upper-right corner is supposed to look like when not logged in:

and here’s what it looks like after I log in:

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:59:59 +0000

@Alan, we've been discussing that on this other post. Basically, if the confirmation email doesn't show up, it almost certainly got caught in a spam folder or is held up by a mail server somewhere. Unfortunately, we have to do the confirmation email. But I believe it may be faster to get an email sent to a gmail or yahoo email account -- something like that. I hope!

By: Rich Adin

Rich Adin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:59:43 +0000

@David,

I should also have said that it appears on the page http://indesignsecrets.com/ before being logged in.

Rich