Comments on: InDesignSecrets Podcast 115

By: cindywingo

cindywingo — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:47:32 +0000

In the Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week, Anne-Marie mentions wishing that you could get a “Report” without packaging the document. Just Preflight, then click on the “Report…” button. There is no need to Package. I often do this when I have a really large file with tons of images. It is a great way to do a quick scan of what is going on with images.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:31:25 +0000

@Furry: Oops! Sorry about that. I changed it to Instructions in the post above. I guess we were just typing too fast.

By: Furry

Furry — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:46:57 +0000

In your Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week listing at the top of this page, you indicate that the feature is “information” whereas the podcast actually talks about “instructions”.

You could confuse a stupid person (like me) into searching endlessly for “information” in the package dialog box and its consequent boxes!

By: Harbs

Harbs — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:09:25 +0000

FYI, I just wrote up a “how to” on how to automate really impossible headers using Power Headers. I hope you grok GREP, or your head might really hurt…
http://in-tools.com/wordpress/indesign/plugins/power-headers/composite-headers-never-before-possible

By: Jean-Claude Tremblay

Jean-Claude Tremblay — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:06:02 +0000

David, you are right that this will flag graphics & objects with ANY spot color. But you can do the opposite trick described in the original post, by using the ink manager to turn All spot to Process Except the One you want to search for.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:59:46 +0000

JC, thanks, but I believe that only finds text or graphics with ANY spot color. It doesn’t really help if you have 4 spot colors in a document, and you’re trying to figure out where you used Pantone 114… or worse, if you have Pantone 114C and also 114M listed, you may wonder where each is used.

By: Jean-Claude Tremblay

Jean-Claude Tremblay — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:40:26 +0000

Here a trick available only in Cs4 to find/locate any object in Indesign that use a specific spot color.
- Create a Live Preflight Profile with ONLY the [Color > Color Spaces and Modes Not Allowed > Spot Color] check.
- Use that profile, and bring the Preflight panel
- Now all error the panel will display is the indesign and placed assets using spot color. From the panel you can see a page number (in blue) that is a link you can click to go directly on that page.

But now… with Blatner Tool. We have a bunch more!