Comments on: InDesignSecrets Podcast 039

By: Alfred Langen

Alfred Langen — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:02:40 +0000

Thank-you very much for this podcast! I used to hate the basic paragraph style but now that you have explained how they work, I can live with it and can even make it work for me.
SUPERB!

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:26:40 +0000

The transcripts are being produced right now … sorry, we fell way behind with them, and had to get some outside help. Transcripts from episodes 28 to current should be posted within the next couple weeks. We’ll update the show notes with a link to them as soon as they’re up!

Thanks for your patience.

By: Sacha

Sacha — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:48:22 +0000

Hi there,

Just one remark:
Where are the transcripts of the podcasts since podcast 027? I miss them because I loved them to review things and search for themes or even to copy paste in InDesign and make my own littel Podcastbook. And at work podcast-downloads don’t work.

For the rest: Keep on the good work. Great resources, great tips! Thank you!

Greetz from Luxembourg,
Sacha

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:55:58 +0000

I noticed on the web you mention

(a transcript of this podcast will be posted in a few days)

Where do I find those?

Thanks
Sue

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:44:03 +0000

Hey Diane, there actually *is* a No Paragraph Style in ID CS2. When you want a paragraph completely unassociated with any paragraph style (but you want to keep the formatting intact), choose Break Link to Style from the Paragraph Style palette menu. That’s the command’s whole reason for being, to act as a “None” style.

Also you can search for text and/or formatting and apply an actual [No Paragraph Style] to found instances with Find/Change … click the More Options button to access the formatting commands and you’ll see [No Paragraph Style] is an option in the Paragraph Style dropdown menu.

By: Diane King

Diane King — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:14:35 +0000

I don’t even love the basic paragraph style. I just HATE it. It gets in my way, and I’m an avid styler. In addition to the hate comments on the podcast, I also hate it simply because I miss [No paragraph style]. There are always these few items in a document that I simply do not want connected to any style. Maybe that is odd, but why have to create a style for a banner that is only used once in the entire document–I already have too many styles. In CS, I could create such a banner manually off of whatever style is currently selected and then click on [No paragraph style] and be done with it. Now, if I change the style it was based on, it gets changed, even when I want it to stay the same. That’s just one of the many uses that I like having a [No paragraph style] option for. Basic paragraph style is fine and possibly has some good uses, but I sure wish they would give me back the [No paragraph style] option. I miss it greatly!

By: Mike Klassen

Mike Klassen — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:46:26 +0000

Thanks for fielding my PDF question on this episode.

Another vote for sending PDFs came from a print broker I talked to a couple of months ago. He said that when he’s on the road and there’s some print problem that he’s working on between his client and the printer, a PDF is easier for him to examine rather than having to have Quark, InDesign, etc. on his laptop. (As a broker, he would not typically have his client’s native files on his system.)

But he took it one step further and said he’s actually proofed some problems on projects on his PDA while on the road, so that’s why he wants his clients to work with PDFs since he can view them on his PDA.

I can’t imagine trying to troubleshoot a PDF problem on a PDA, but I guess you do what you gotta do.