InDesignSecrets Podcast 060
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- Newsbits: Tokyo Conference recap; PDF2ID plug-in; more
- “What is That?” Definitions of XML, GREP, Tagged Text and more
- Major bug with CS3 indexes, and workarounds
- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: the Erase Tool
Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Creative Suite and Web Design Conferences (Chicago, Oct. 15–20)
Recosoft’s PDF2ID plug-in for InDesign CS2/CS3
The InDesigner post about using GREP outside of InDesign CS2
Em Software’s XTags for InDesign
Adobe forum thread about the CS3 Index bug (script is at post #31)
The InDesigner videocast about indexing in InDesign
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This index bug is indeed realy bad. We are are now in the closing stages of my new book, and today we hit the index a bookfile bug. Merging pages with the script resulted in a crash! Seems when the first document has a different baselinegrid the script crashes, but maybe this is a very local crash on our Mac? Anyway: BAD, BAD bug!
Yikes, Wa!
So how are you working around it? Are you trying the “save back to CS2″ method? Or compiling them all in one huge CS3 doc manually? I’m curious.
Saving as incx, back to CS2. Looking VERY carefully to the PDF of the file to trace any text that has shifted. Then generate the index and copy/paste it back into the index document in CS3.
Painful and a BAD, BAD production bug. One of the worst ever in a InDesign release in my opinion… ;-(
Hi, the link to the InDex-Bug post does not work…?!
What we also find was that the ‘See’ and ‘See also’ have bad bugs! And not in bookfiles but in single documents! See also entries get sropped etc. So there are more bugs than only bookfiles?
You mean the See [also], where InDesign leaves out “also”, right?
I noticed that, too. I had to go back and change them all.
>You mean the See [also], where InDesign leaves out “also”, right?
Exactly. Also a very bad bug!
Christoph: Sorry, I think the whole Adobe forum is down temporarily. Try again in a day or two.