InDesignSecrets Podcast 059

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1. Anne-Marie

   September 5th, 2007 • 2:59 pmLink

   A couple addenda to the podcast:

   Default Style Glitches: I forgot to mention a useful, on-the-fly fix to the problem of undesired object formatting changes when copying/pasting from one doc to another. In the “source” layout, select the object(s) you want to copy, but choose Break Link to Style from the Object Style’s fly-out menu. This works even if there’s a mix of object styles in the selection. Then copy it, switch to the target layout, and paste. All the formatting remains intact because it’s all local formatting, impervious to conflicting style definitions.

   Losing Presets: After listening to the podcast, I realized that we never mentioned how to get your custom presets back after you’ve saved/exported them in the relevant File > [presets] > Define dialog box and then later, rebuilt your preferences (which deletes many custom presets).

   The answer is to open the same Define Presets dialog box and click the “Load” button. Then navigate to the file you saved with your custom presets and click Open. All the presets in the file repopulate the dialog box.

   That is all …

2. Eugene Tyson

   September 5th, 2007 • 4:24 pmLink

   “PB” is for pasteboard as noted in the podcast.

   “PN” stands for Page Number for index entries that have overset text. If you include the entries for the index they appear in the index without the page numbers.

3. David Blatner

   September 6th, 2007 • 3:09 amLink

   Anne-Marie, those are great additions. It’s so hard to remember everything as we’re talking about. Thank goodness for show notes and comments!

4. Eugene Tyson

   September 6th, 2007 • 9:18 amLink

   Hey, I’ve copied my feature requests from the InDesign Can’t do what Quard does section of the site. I urge everyone to do the same and get your colleagues in on it too. Together we can make a better InDesign for all of us. (Has anyone started on that laundry script yet?)