Comments on: InDesignSecrets Podcast 110

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:58:09 +0000

Not sure why you’re getting that, Michele. I just tried it in CS4 and it worked fine.

I removed the default swatches (except for the ones with brackets) … so only 4 are now in Swatches: None, Paper, Black, and Registration.

Then I chose New Color Swatch from the Swatches panel menu. I left Color Type set to Process, and chose Trumatch from the Color Mode dropdown.

When the Trumatch library loaded, I selected the first swatch, scrolled to the end, shift-clicked the last swatch to select all of them, and clicked the Add button.

After a few seconds, the dialog box closed and all the Trumatch swatches were loaded into the Swatches panel.

If that’s not happening for you, try rebuilding preferences before trying again. And leave the required swatches in the panel.

As I said in the podcast, I personally wouldn’t recommend loading all the Trumatch swatches into the panel, it’s too unwieldly. But people asked for a way to have the full spectrum of CMYK swatches in there, so there ya go.

By: Michele

Michele — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:21:31 +0000

Apologies, I have no visible swatches in my swatches palette and would like to add all the recommended Trumatch colors. I followed instructions, hoping to be able to see all colors in my swatches panel and this message appears: “Duplicate swatch name already exists in the document. Swatch is not added.” Yes, I am saying InDesign says I have a dupe when I don’t?

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:46:30 +0000

Hi Michele, sorry, I’m not clear. Did you have a duplicate swatch name in the document or not? (That is, are you saying that InDesign says you have a dupe when you don’t? Or are you saying that InDesign should not put up that alert, should just import the duplicate?)

By: Michele

Michele — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:00:59 +0000

CS4 Issue or am I dumb? Going back to your first podcast concerning loading swatches from predefined Trumatch custom color libraries, I receive a message Duplicate swatch name already exists in the document. Swatch is not added. I spent hours reading comments on the Adobe Support site. watched videos, learned about Keuler…no luck. Please help.

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:12:50 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, Michele!

I gues the cheapest way to get the InDesign book (I’m guessing you’re talking about Real World InDesign) is via Amazon.com, unless you find it used somewhere.

By: Michele

Michele — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:38:46 +0000

Greetings,
I have just completed covering all podcasts and now need to backtrack to read and view all the cool stuff in between. Unfortunately, the last year was consumed by clients insisting on Quark and one year felt like a decade. Needless to say, no one listened to me and we missed our deadlines mostly due to bullet madness and the InDesign book feature could have saved our lives. The early podcasts sounded like you were speaking a foreign language and by episode 100 broken English rang clear. Many thanks for all you have contributed. Will buy the short cuts poster and the CS4 Indesign book. What is the best way (cheapest, is there a code) to buy the book?
Best regards, Michele

By: PI

PI — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:29:42 +0000

You get more control (and probably better quality) with the Save as Adobe PDF because you can select the same settings files (PDF presets) you use in the Export dialog in InDesign, Illustrator, and other CS apps. You can create your own settings files, customized the way you like.

By: Iestyn Lloyd

Iestyn Lloyd — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:20:04 +0000

Thanks, suppose i should have tried it before asking. Seems pretty obvious now.
Thanks again

By: Steve Werner

Steve Werner — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:01:04 +0000

By: Iestyn Lloyd

Iestyn Lloyd — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:54:19 +0000

What’s difference in using the Print dialogue box”Save as Adobe PDF” and the built in “Save as PDF” on OS X?
In InDesign I always export but for quick and easy PDFs from any other app I use the built in OS X print version. Any bonus using Adobe’s?