InDesignSecrets Podcast 034

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1. John Upchurch

   November 2nd, 2006 • 7:53 pm • Link

   Regarding the question of whether one can easily scan a document to see if/which styles are applied: Could you map styles to XML tags and use Show Structure to provide a visual reference to the applied style? Not exactly elegant, but…

2. David Blatner

   November 5th, 2006 • 4:43 am • Link

   I think the person who asked the original question (that I was answering) was actually wanting something that showed where styles were used visually — not just which styles were used. The XML style mapping is a clever idea, but I don’t think it would work particularly well.

3. John Upchurch

   November 5th, 2006 • 6:38 am • Link

   But, if you made some tags and then mapped the paragraph styles to those tags and turned on Show Structure you would see each paragraph with an applied style framed by the color coded brackets denoting the tag and thus (with the awkward workaround) the associated style. I’m not crazy about it, but it’s all I could think of that would give any visual cue.

4. sophie

   November 5th, 2006 • 1:45 pm • Link

   I wrote the other day about the cursor position and I found out you’ve allready had an obscure feature of the week in podcast 3, sorry, I had skipped this one… I still don’t see when I will use it, but…. (sorry this is not a reply to this post )

5. Annelies Heytens

   November 7th, 2006 • 8:21 am • Link

   I’m very enthousiastic about the InBooklet feature, but is it available for InDesign CS? Still working with the previous InDesign version…
   I just need something to print my documents as a booklet, nothing more

6. David Blatner

   November 9th, 2006 • 6:58 pm • Link

   No, I don’t think there’s a version of InBooklet for InDesign CS. Brian Lawler did a great roundup of imposition tools in a recent edition of InDesign Magazine, but those were pretty much all PDF solutions (imposition from Acrobat).

7. Jeremy Baker

   November 14th, 2006 • 1:32 am • Link

   Listening to your podcast about someone wanting to know where there paragraph styles are found in the document. One way to do this is to just add a paragraph rule to it. This way you can highlight it in any color you like. You can even use all different colors to see which is which.

8. Alfred Langen

   January 16th, 2007 • 4:14 pm • Link

   A strange occurence with the Inbooklet plugin is that the object definitions are not copied exactly. A text frame with “Text on a line” has transparent background but in the new spread, this has been changed to “white”. Simple to modify in my new spread.

9. Alfred Langen

   January 16th, 2007 • 4:21 pm • Link

   Also had a problem with InDesign crashing on a .gif file.
   I publish a tabloid that uses this same file and inblooklet handles it with no problem. However, I am now authoring a booklet and want to print on 8.5 x 11 and this same graphic causes InDesign to crash. I had to re-create the graphic to get around this problem.

10. Superhero

    February 12th, 2007 • 2:30 am • Link

    This is really fresh idea of the design of the site! I seldom met such in Internet… Good Work dude!