Comments on: More Often Than Not, Changing InDesign Defaults

By: Ulrike Rodrigues

Ulrike Rodrigues — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:22:16 +0000

Hmmm. I’ll give this a try and let you know, as we’re testing an update of our utility (“Design2Web”). cheers!

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:44:19 +0000

Ulrike, I wonder if this post about basic styles refers to the problem you're having.

By: Ulrike Rodrigues

Ulrike Rodrigues — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:10:29 +0000

Oops: (4) should read: Stroke palette > Align to Inside (default is Align to Center). UR

By: Ulrike Rodrigues

Ulrike Rodrigues — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:03:39 +0000

Hi David. We publish INDD files directly to the web so these are particularly fussy to our utility: (1) Object menu > Text Frame Options > Vertical Justification = Top; (2) Object menu > Text Frame Options > First Baseline > Offset = Leading; (3) Paragraph palette > Auto Leading = 100% (default is 120%); (4) Stroke palette > Align to Center (default is Align to Outside). And since I have your attention… we design in points only, so how can I set an application preference so that free object scaling (text boxes, image boxes) are constrained to 1pt increments (i.e. so a scale results in a box that is 36pt high, not 36.057)?
Thanks very much for your time!

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:20:22 +0000

Ulrike: What “old” preferences are coming along when you copy/paste elements?

By: Ulrike Rodrigues

Ulrike Rodrigues — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:35:04 +0000

Greetings from Vancouver! I wonder if you can answer this Preferences question: I want to recreate an ad in a new INDD document which has all my ideal preferences. However, when I copy and paste any/all elements from the old ad, it brings all its old preferences with it. How can I prevent or override this?

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:09:06 +0000

Setting stroke weight defaults: how DO you do this? I have to draw many strokes pointing to various parts of a diagram in our operator manuals, and when I use the line tool to draw them it comes up as nothing in the point size window. So I go up and choose 1 pt. Then repeat, indefinitely. Alternately I draw one line, copy it many many times and change the direction and orientation. It would be so much easier to SET the stroke weight and just draw them each time. But when I open the stroke pallette, and enter ANY number it appears then *poof* it’s gone. Anyone have a magic suggestion? Thanks!

By: InDesignSecrets » Blog Archive » Assigning Default Text Formatting

InDesignSecrets » Blog Archive » Assigning Default Text Formatting — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:04:28 +0000

[...] For more information, see Pariah’s post on defaults. [...]

By: woz

woz — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:56:23 +0000

Well hee, I thought I accidentily visited my other bookmark: QvsINDD Is this Pariah writing? Yes it is. Great! Looking foreward to some nice articles. (It’s a small word)

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:20:19 +0000

Thanks for the great post (and the flattery) Pariah! It’s a pleasure having Mr. Burke contributing his large InDesign knowledge here. Some of you might know him from his other sites, QuarkVsInDesign.com and Designorati.com. The man can type! Welcome aboard, Pariah!