Comments on: InDesignSecrets Podcast 064

By: Kriss

Kriss — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:54:47 +0000

I was running the CS2 suite on Vista for about 3 weeks. When my thumbnails started previewing upside-down, I had a friend install wipe out my new laptop and install XP SP2

By: Raphael Freeman

Raphael Freeman — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:31:29 +0000

We have 4 PC workstations running Vista and Adobe CS3 ME (noch) Standard.

Everything works great!

By: Ralf Herrmann

Ralf Herrmann — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:03:22 +0000

As a type designer I can tell you how the so-called “style linking” in fonts works:
As you have suggested this feature is build in the fonts itself, InDesign only uses the information it will find there.
The problem with style linking is, that Microsoft decided that a font family can only have the 4 styles regular/italic/bold/bold italic. So whenever a font family has other styles than those four, font naming and style linking is a problem. So type designers may choose to only link to the appropriate italics or they may not use style linking at all. This is done for best compatibility across different operating systems and applications, which may treat fonts very differently.

Anne-Marie mentioned she would try to make a TT/PS conversion with TransType. NO! Never do that unless it is absolutely neccessary. Switching between TrueType and PostScript will destroy data for screen optimization and may mess up the kerning or even the outlines (because of rounding errors).

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:46:03 +0000

Yes, and the man wrote The Joy of Pi for heaven’s sake. Tsk tsk.

By: Eugene Tyson

Eugene Tyson — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:14:34 +0000

David, I had to relisten to both the end and the beginning of the Podcast before I posted. I couldn’t believe my ears.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:09:01 +0000

Yes, Eugene, 2^8 is 256, not 64… did you hear the bit at the end of the podcast where I’m working that out in real time? How embarassing. I learned my powers of 2 when I was 11 or 12; it just completely slipped out of my brain at the excitement at the beginning of a new podcast.

Wa, that’s great that SmartStyles lets you save that information.

Klaus, we’re sorry, but there are some sounds we Americans are not physically able to pronounce. My favorite was trying to get directions when my wife and I were trying to drive to Växjö in southern Sweden.

At least Japanese is relatively straightforward because all the vowels are the same as the Spanish pronounciation.

By: Eugene Tyson

Eugene Tyson — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:39:20 +0000

2^8 is 256?

Great podcast guys. Loving it.

By: Wa Veghel

Wa Veghel — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:28:32 +0000

Concerning table/cell styles and gradients: I use the perfect SmartStyles Plug-in from Woodwing. And yes: this remembers the offset of a gradient in (a) cell(s)!

By: Klaus Nordby

Klaus Nordby — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:48:55 +0000

Hmm, to answer my own question, I now think the right answer is “yes, it makes total sense that you can’t un-pick a Paragraph Style attribute in that way.” My bad.

By: Klaus Nordby

Klaus Nordby — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:41:56 +0000

Good show, folks! And you even pronounced my name right. Sort of.

Regarding the Control-unselect Style Color attributes, that’s a great and deliciously obscure tip. But it only seems to work for Character Styles — not Paragraph Styles? And that perhaps even makes sense?