Comments on: InDesignSecrets Podcast 021

By: Brooks Jensen

Brooks Jensen — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:17:00 +0000

Another use of the scripts label palette: We use the NOTES feature all the time to pass notes about text items, things yet to be done or checked, etc. Unfortunately, we cannot use the notes feature to add comments about an image. Instead, we use the SCRIPTS LABEL palette and use it as the place for notes about images and other linked items. We used to do this on a “production notes” non-printing layer, but when a box gets moved from one page to another, we’d always forget to move the notes. Now we don’t lose the notes when the item moves!

By: Jochen F Uebel, Germany

Jochen F Uebel, Germany — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:46:57 +0000

David, Anne-Marie: Convert Numbering/Listing to Text is also part of the context menue.

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:51:04 +0000

Diane, I’m so sorry we didn’t make that clear! We’ll be more careful about that from now on.

When InDesign CS first came out, Adobe offered something called a PageMaker plug-in pack separately for $49. It included the Position tool, auto bullets and numbering, the Pagemaker toolbar and a few others. After a few months they raised the price of ID CS slightly and bundled the plug-in pack with the program. But I don’t think it got installed automatically, so you might be able to find a CD around if you still have the packaging. (I was one of the unlucky ones who bought ID CS before it was bundled with the plug-in pack, and I never sprung for the add-on, so I never had the plug-ins either, with CS). We mentioned in our show that with CS2 they just rolled in the plug-ins with the actual program, so now they get installed automatically.

By: Diane S

Diane S — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:17:06 +0000

Podcasts are great but..
You guys are usually SO great about saying whether a tip is about CS or CS2. Per the autonumbering, you didnt. I spent the better part of 15 minutes trying to find it. until I spotted Davids comment #12 above. I am using CS, at least for the next 6 months. Is there something like that in CS or am I just too dim to find the autonumbering in CS?

By: Chris Schmauch

Chris Schmauch — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:00:18 +0000

Re: Branslav’s PDF

Great tips from Branislav, although a nasty typo at the top of page 4 - CMD-SHIT-A…oops!

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:46:48 +0000

Yes, good point, Tricia. I agree with Sandee. But the point we were focusing on is slightly different. See this post for more information and a description.

That’s the problem with podcasts; sometimes you just need to see an example! (That’s why we’re looking at also doing videos pretty soon. Stand by for more on that!)

By: Vectorbabe (Sandee Cohen)

Vectorbabe (Sandee Cohen) — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:43:18 +0000

Tricia’s suggestion to use the soft return for sub-paragraphs in the numbered list is a good one.
It also allows you to take advantage of the feature in InDesign that applies leading as a character attribute.
In this case you can change the leading for the first character of the forced new line to add space between the fake paragraphs.

By: Tricia

Tricia — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:12:59 +0000

I’m a total newbie and love your podcasts.
In podcast 21 about auto numbering you mentioned you can’t add a paragraph without messying up numbered lists. I use (on the pc) shift enter which gives a soft return however, in indesign, you will need to add a tab if you want it lined up and for each line of the paragraph

By: Jean-Claude Tremblay

Jean-Claude Tremblay — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:38:35 +0000

Anne-Marie, you are right that most of the time you don’t have to worry about setting theses setting, at least in a composite workflow where the doc get separated at the rip. But from what I can understand from Gary comment he was printing in separation and he need to set the correct angle for his spot color.

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:29:41 +0000

Thanks for the great information, Jean-Claude!

Re ink angles … I’ve always heard that with InDesign or PDF files, “the commercial printer takes care of it.” Sort of like not bothering setting up trapping presets because the printer is going to be ignoring your settings and using their own software for it. So communicating with your vendor about this would be optimal, I’d imagine.