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[musical introduction]
David Blatner: Welcome to InDesignSecrets episode 77. I am Anne-Marie Concepción.
I am here with my marvelous co-host David Blatner.
Anne-Marie Concepción: [laughter] Anne-Marie, your voice sounds higher than normal. Want to start, again?
David: {laughter] Well, no. I think it is perfectly reasonable for me to
be Anne-Marie for this particular episode.
Anne-Marie: That is the hazard of cutting and pasting the script from episode
to episode.
David: There you go. I guess this is officially David Blatner. That must
make you Anne-Marie Concepción.
Anne-Marie: That’s right. Hi there. Hi there.
David: …[emphasis] the Anne-Marie Concepción. Our podcast and blog at
InDesignSecrets.com are the independent resource for all things in
design.
Anne-Marie: In design. In design.
David: In design. Indeed. That is what we are going to talk about, today.
What else are we going to talk about, today?
Anne-Marie: Well, we are going to jump into the news and we are going to
announce the results of the Quizzler.
David: Oh, yeah, yeah.
Anne-Marie: We are going to have some excerpts from our live podcast that we
did at the Toronto show. And we have the ‘Obscure InDesign Feature
of the Week’. [sound effect] Eek, eek, eek.
David: [sound effect] Eek, eek, eek.
Anne-Marie: Which is what?
David: Oh, download PPD fonts.
Anne-Marie: Download “PPD fonts”. [laughter]
David: That’s right, “PPD fonts”. That’s right. That is what we are going
to talk about.
Anne-Marie: All right, so the news. First of all, Toronto. Toronto, Canada.
David: It was fun. We had…
Anne-Marie: It was a great time.
David: That was a good show with lots of very smart folks. Interested
folks, people who had great knowledge of InDesign trying to get
even deeper knowledge. It was lots of fun. We had a good time in
our session. We will have some excerpts from that session, here in
this podcast. We have just a few little snippets that we thought
you might enjoy-some tips and tricks. That was good. That was good.
Anne-Marie: Did you see that there were quite a few Adobe staffers there too,
giving presentations. I loved seeing Lynn Garillo there.
David: Yeah, that was terrific.
Anne-Marie: That was really neat-talking about long documents. You know what I
thought was interesting during the keynote was when one of the guys
asked ‘How many people here in the audience had ever been to an
InDesign conference before?’ And maybe about three people raised
their hands.
David: Yeah.
Anne-Marie: So it was like the first time for most of them. It was fantastic.
They were thrilled to be there.
David: It was the first time that we were able to do an InDesign
conference in Canada and we were thrilled to be there. It was
terrific. We have done some independent things before but never a
whole show like that. So, I am hoping we will be back. It is a big
country with lots of places to do shows. Toronto was really a
lovely city. I had a great time there.
Anne-Marie: Yeah, it was beautiful.
David: So, next week Anne-Marie and I will both be at the Creative Suite
conference that Mogul Media is putting on in Nashville-Nashville,
Tennessee.
Anne-Marie: The opposite of Toronto, Canada. [laughter]
David: [laughter] Basically, basically-the opposite.
Anne-Marie: And we are doing the show at The Grand Ole Opry, aren’t we?
David: I wish. That would be fun. That would be fun. We are at The
Sheraton, unfortunately. I am sure it is going to be very lovely
but not The Grand Ole Opry. And then next month in New Zealand-
Auckland, New Zealand. I will be there doing the InDesign
conference. Sandy Cohen is flying down for that as well. That is
going to be terrific. Mike McHugh will be there and Tim Cole.
Martino DeGloria, who wrote that fabulous Layout Zone script that
we mentioned before. That was a huge hit at the Toronto conference.
We showed that and people were like ‘Oh, my goodness’. So the
Layout Zone script, the guy who wrote that, Martino is there. He is
from New Zealand. Well not originally but he lives there now. And
that is going to be terrific.
Anne-Marie: That will be fun.
David: Yeah. What other news is there?
Anne-Marie: More news? Well, as I posted on the blog I think last week. Adobe
let all of its InDesign trainers know that the deadline for
recertification in InDesign CS3 has been extended until the end of
May. You know the way it works is if you pass the Adobe Certified
Expert exam, the ACE exam, for a given version of a product when
they release the next version of the exam for the next version of
the product people who are already ACE’s only need to do a
recertification which is a lot easier. You can do it online. There
is less than one half of the normal number of questions and it is
cheaper.
But you only have 90 days to take the ‘recert’ exam. Otherwise you
lose your ACE status and you have to start all over again with the
full test. The deadline was the end of April for all the CS3
products. Because Adobe has taken the unprecedented step of
listening to us and actually doing something about it quickly, they
re-did the exam.
I think we talked about this in the previous podcasts. I am sure it
was with the help of Tim Cole and his colleagues who pushed it
through. Because I know that there were other exams in CS3 that
people had issues with. But only the InDesign one was actually
rewritten.
David: At least that was the only one that rewritten, really quickly.
Anne-Marie: Really quickly. That is correct. And because people need some time
to prepare for it, they extended the deadline. So if any of you
guys who are CS2 certified and you want to take CS3 you have a
couple more weeks at least from the time of this podcast.
But I know during Toronto I talked with a bunch of people who were
freaking out because the deadline occurred right in the middle of
the show. They were like ‘I have to take it tonight at my hotel. I
hope I have a good Internet connection.’ And then we found out like
right after that they extended the deadline.
David: The other thing, of course, is that for the people who have already
taken the test but may not have done as well as they wanted to;
Adobe is now giving free vouchers. You should already have received
a free voucher to retake it. Claus Nordby from Oslo sent us an
email saying he officially did get his certificate with his little
voucher code on here. With an expiration date at the end of this
year. So he could take it anytime.
Anne-Marie: And that is only because the first exam was so poorly constructed.
David: Exactly.
Anne-Marie: Normally if you fail either the ‘recert’ or the regular
certification, you have to wait 90 days and then you can take it
again and you have to pay 50% of the original price. Free retake
right away? That was pretty cool.
David: Yeah. That was really good.
Anne-Marie: We are very appreciative of everybody at Adobe that pushed that
through.
David: Hey, speaking of pushing something through quickly, there was the
coupon code that we mentioned last time-50% off the poster sales.
Anne-Marie: Right for the first ten customers.
David: Yeah, just for the first ten customers. We needed to fix that.
There was a little problem with that. Some people ordered that and
some people did not. But we have reinstated that.
Anne-Marie: That is right.
David: So the ‘fifty ten’ code if you go in order for the next 10 people
who try and buy those posters, you will get 50 percent off.
Anne-Marie: That’s right.
David: So just first 10 customers, and you have to use the code.
Anne-Marie: This time we retested it and retested it and retested it, so, yeah.
David: Right.
Anne-Marie: And we started again, we’re going to offer the full 10, even though
some people already used it.
David: Yeah.
Anne-Marie: So go ahead, and again, as before, we’re only announcing this in
the podcast. We’re going to wait a while until people start using
it, and then we might actually post it in the blog, but we haven’t
said anything in the blog yet.
David: And if 10 people already order them and you can’t use that code
anymore, it’ll tell you, and then you can use the code SWATCHES, if
you just type SWATCHES in, you’ll get 25 percent off. So that’s
still a pretty good deal, but if you’re waiting to get posters,
trying to get your Christmas gifts early or something, then you
could use 5010 is the coupon code for half off the posters.
Anne-Marie: That’s right. OK.
David: OK.
Oh, the Quizzler.
Anne-Marie: Yeah, the Quizzler. Do you remember what that Quizzler was?
David: It was a long time ago.
Anne-Marie: I know, seems like forever.
David: I have a vague memory that last time we were talking about
altitude.
Anne-Marie: That’s right; it had to do with fly. And Altitude, we talked about
how Altitude was a field in the Effects dialogue box. And we wanted
to know where else is Altitude, a field or an option or, where else
does it appear, anywhere else in InDesign, because it is not just
in the Effects dialogue box.
David: Right.
Anne-Marie: And we said, if you have an answer, email it to us, and we got a
ton of answers, so this was a good question.
David: It was, though many of the people who wrote in said, “Oh, well, I
know just where it is. It’s in Object Styles, ” and they pointed
out you can go to Object Styles and create an object style that
has, you click on Bevel and Emboss, and said, Object Styles. You
also see it there. And that’s not actually what we were hoping
people would say, but we counted those anyway, because it is true.
It is technically true.
Anne-Marie: It’s kind of a duplicate of what we were saying, in the Effects
dialogue box, it’s also there in Object Styles, which basically
reprises the same Effects dialogue box.
But it’s available in another place.
David: Yeah. And that is Global Light. If you go to the Effects panel, and
then you click on the fly-out menu within the effects panel, you
have a feature called Global Light.
And Global Light gives you two options, Angle and Altitude. And
that’s what we were referring to, the Angle and Altitude of the
Global Light feature.
Anne-Marie: You know, I thought that was pretty neat. I didn’t even know that
Global Light dialogue box was there, so like; you could have a
whole ton of effects happening in your InDesign document, all sorts
of object styles, or just one-off effects, and without having to
edit each one of these individually, you could just change the
Global Light for all of them. As long as you ticked on Use Global
Light in those settings, then they would all switch.
David: Right. I think Global Light is on by default, isn’t it? If not, it
should be, because typically you do want Global Light on. You want
to have the same, you know, the Global Light is kind of like, where
is the light, for this document, where is the sun?
Anne-Marie: Right.
David: Is it in the upper left corner, the upper right corner, et cetera.
So, yeah.
It’s kind of like Styles. You change Global Light, and everything
in the document would change, so we’re moving the sun. Suddenly
it’s going to be at a different angle.
Anne-Marie: Or the CF light bulb, to be green about it. Well, I guess sun is
pretty green, so never mind.
[laughter]
David: I like that. The CF light bulb.
All right. So that was…
Anne-Marie: Who’s the winner?
David: The winner is our friend Martin Braun of Germany.
Anne-Marie: Yay!
[applause]
David: Martin. Martin? Yes, that’s it.
Was that…
Anne-Marie: Congratulations, Martin.
David: Were you coughing there, or was that just…
Anne-Marie: No, that was supposed to be the crowd applauding.
David: Oh, the crowd going wild! I see. I thought you had something in
your throat.
Anne-Marie: Sorry.
[exaggerated coughing noise]
[laughter]
Anne-Marie: All right.
David: Martin Braun, we are going to be sending you a copy of “The Flying
Book”, I believe was the official prize for this Quizzler, is that
right?
Anne-Marie: Yeah, that’s right.
David: “The Flying Book” from Walker Books and you may be the only person
in Germany with an English-version copy of “The Flying Book”. Who
knows?
Anne-Marie: Signed by the author.
David: There you go.
Anne-Marie: Yes. There you go. All right. Wonderful.
David: All right. Hey, do you want to talk a little bit about the
conference?
Anne-Marie: Yeah. Let’s start pulling some snippets for the Toronto Conference.
David: Well, here’s a little snippet from the conference session. We were
talking about our keyboard shortcuts poster, and then that got me
onto the topic of a free PDF that has all the keyboard shortcuts in
it, because somebody was saying, “Where do I get a PDF of it?”
And this guy in Toronto, Casey D’Andrea, very bright guy, knows his
stuff, he did a PDF, kind of an interactive layered PDF of all the
keyboard shortcuts, which is really, really cool. And so he was
there in the audience, and so I pointed that out. We’ll put a link
in our show notes to how to find his PDF, and it’s pretty cool, so
you should check that out.
So I mentioned him, and then I started talking about the keyboard
shortcuts plug-in, with all the stuff that you can find. And I
included a quick shortcuts tip that you need to know if you ever
make indexes, so this is sort of about the plug-in and a little
indexing tip.
David: And one more free way to find keyboard shortcuts, it’s a plug-in
from DTPtools.com that I helped them create called, how about that,
Keyboard Shortcuts. And Keyboard Shortcuts, again, free plug-in.
You download it, it installs in the right place, and this gives you
two things, actually more than two things, really.
The two main things it does, is if you type a keyboard shortcut
into a blank field, it’ll tell you what that feature is, so if I
type Command-Shift-Y, it says, “Oh, that’s Apply Normal”, which you
may never even have known there was an Apply Normal.
Command-Y is Edit in Story Editor. So if you type into a blank
field, it tells you what the feature is.
Or if you start typing in here, you can find out what the keyboard
shortcut is for a particular feature, like what is Add Index? I’m
just going to type “add index”, and it says, OK, Add New Index
Entry, Add New Index Entry et cetera, this is actually reversed, I
have to make this wider so we can see this, Reversed. So this is
something I’m going to be putting up, do a post on this.
A lot of people don’t realize that if you’re doing an Index, and
Lynn Garillo, I think, is going to be doing long document stuff
tomorrow, but she probably won’t show this little trick, that as
you’re adding index entries to your Index, if you have the
unenviable task of making an index, which is my least favorite
thing to do on the planet, but if you had to do that, as you’re
adding index entries, you can use this keyboard shortcut, which is
Command-Option-Shift-[, to add the index entry, boom, it just adds
it. You don't have to look at a dialogue box or anything.
But the next one down is very interesting. This one is reverse, so
if you're adding someone's name, you want to reverse the name
automatically, you know, Anne-Marie Concepción. You select Anne-
Marie Concepción, and you use this keyboard shortcut, which is the
closed square bracket, it adds it, but Concepción comes first. So
it automatically reverses it for you, which is a big time-saver, if
you had to do 1500 of these things.
Anne-Marie: Man, that is a good shortcut.
David: Yeah, well, it's a weird little hidden one.
Anne-Marie: Yeah. I had forgotten that InDesign had that ability, because, I
mean, there's no dialogue box for it, there's no menu command...
David: That's right.
Anne-Marie: ...or anything like that. That's a shortcut.
David: Yes, there's no UI at all.
Anne-Marie: I know.
David: Just a shortcut.
Anne-Marie: That reminds me of another tip that I talked about there but we
didn't get, we weren't able to record it properly. But it was just
through...
David: It was a bummer because a lot of the recording stuff did not come
across as clear as we hope to.
Anne-Marie: It's an ongoing saga of why these didn't get recorded correctly.
David: It is clever what are we going to talk about.
Anne-Marie: Lots of snippets... I think the tip that I threw out at that point
was the one about using Quick Apply.
David: Yes!
Anne-Marie: There are a lot of people who just cannot memorize keyboard
shortcuts but they would still like a fast way to do a menu command
without having to actually go to the menu.
David: Right.
Anne-Marie: Or without actually having to hold the mouse. So, I think a nice
compromise is to use Quick Apply. Now CS3, if you press "command
return" or "control enter" on the PC, and your Quick Apply dialogue
box open, there's a little download pointing triangle next to the
field where you start entering the name or the style which is what
you usually use Quick Apply for the apply paragraphic character
styles that shows a list what's to include and what not to include
and what it's going to search for.
So, as long as you have included "include menu commands"...
David: Which is on by default I think.
Anne-Marie: Yes, I think it's on by default, that's one of the first things I
always turn off because that list is too long.
David: Yes.
Anne-Marie: But go ahead and turn it back on, and if you have it turned on then
you can just start typing any characters that you remember from the
name of the menu command. So, one that I use this all the time for
is "No break" because it's buried so far in the control panel menu
when you're in texting mode bladi, blade, blah.
And if I can just press "command return" then start typing "no
space". As soon as I type "No" and "space" the very first
highlighted command is "panel menus" "character" no break.
David: Right.
Anne-Marie: As soon as it's highlighted, you can just hit "return" or "enter"
and it applies to wherever your cursor is. Or whatever your text is
selected in this case.
So, as long as you can remember any little bit about the command,
like "fill with place older text" or "find font" or things that are
very pretty deeply in panel menus, try just typing in a part of the
name in Quick Apply. I love that feature.
David: Me too. That's an excellent one, excellent tip. Because there is so
many things that you have no idea where they are and I know
[indecipherable] has this feature, I think it’s in…I don’t know,
I just know what’s it called, it’s “No break” or whatever and
that’s very good, that’s great. Then, later in this session, we
started talking about guides.
Anne-Marie: All right.
David: And how to add guides. And I was talking about how you can double
click on the rulers or you could shift double click on a ruler to
snap to the nearest tick mark. Right, and then, and so I started
talking about how to customize those tick marks because you may
want to have a very clear sense of where those tick marks are.
And you can customize the one on the vertical ruler by right
clicking on it or control clicking with the one-button mouse and
then choosing your centimeters or points or whatever. Here’s one of
the things that you can customized:
David: Customs is useful for…if you’re working on a lettering grade the
strict, lettering grade, and everything on your document is set to
16 points of letting. So I could set a custom to let’s say, 16
points. And now, 16 points, oh yes, 16 points [laughing] 16 points
and now I’m going to get a tick mark at every 16 points, right, so
that’s just a nice way to break it down.
So you always know exactly where one of those lines could be. So we
can come down. OK, let’s go to 16 units of 16 points down, shift
double click and put one right there.
So you have a lot of control if you have a “Custom Lettering Grade”
and then, of course agates, new in CS3 incredibly important
feature. Anybody here ever use here agates, anyone? Do you know
what an agate is…right, good. Anyone, what is an agate?
Newspaper layout, you know how big an agate is? Anybody? Agate, how
big is an agate? Exactly one agate large. That is the answer. It’s
good, one agate [laughing]
It’s good; you’re going to write to me about that. You got to keep
more shortcuts [indecipherable] you should that way. One agate, an
agate is 1/14th of an inch.
So the next time you’re playing a game show and guest up in
Jeopardy or Survivor. You never know that could show up in the big
game show here after this session. The game show, what is an agate?
You could win a full copy of the greatest sweep premium with that
one question.
Anne-Marie: Well, that was pretty good.
David: Agates, yes, agates indeed.
Anne-Marie: I always thought agates are made out of petrified wood. [laughing]
David: yes, exactly, petrified wood is…
Anne-Marie: Right, which InDesign user is measuring in petrified wood units
like some tribe in the Amazon, using InDesign. [man laughing]
David: Very old InDesign users, this is five agates… [laughing]
Anne-Marie: Yes.
David: Some of us feel like a petrified wood sometimes. [Woman lughing]
Anne-Marie: All right, I’m leaving that one alone. [laughing]
David: Anyway, oh my goodness! So, here’s one last tip from Toronto that I
think all InDesign users should try. These are little piece of
wisdom, sort of essential piece of wisdom that you can use in
pretty much any situation when you’re working with InDesign.
David: When in doubt, double click on it and if you are really stretching
option click, option or alt click. We call the option key the “make
better” key because whatever you do, it’s going to make it better,
right. Like if I’m going to underline this text in here come in
here and I want to underline this, so I go and click on the
character and I could just click on the underlined button but if
your option or alt click on it, you get the dialogue box which
let’s you control things like turn underline on, so option or alt,
just try option, alt clicking on all kinds of stuff in there,
throughout the control panel.
You got all stuffs starts flying open, it’s fun.
Anne-Marie: Excellent. Excellent. [laughing]
David: You’ll never know, you never know.
Anne-Marie: That’s right.
David: You’ll never know what’s going to happen.
Anne-Marie: You know what, that reminds me of this post that I read. I’ve
fallen in love with this blog called “Publishes.net”
David: Great.
Anne-Marie: It’s so funny, the guy who writes it is so hysterical and he comes
from our field and for some reason I feel like I should know this
guy. His name is Mike Rankin and we put a link to his site in our
show now. But he wrote this post. Wait a minute; let me quickly
pull it up here, “The Road to Hell is paved with double clicks.”
[laughing]
David: Yes, that was a good one. I love that.
Anne-Marie: And he mentioned about something where he accidentally double click
and ruined everything but if you go further down in the post, he
talks about the top 10 InDesign DC’s what he calls double clicks,
“DC’s”
And he goes through a bunch of things that I think that we just
talked, that you just talked about but also a few other ones that
we didn’t even mentioned.
He even has a nice little diagram of what happens when you double-
click on a handle of an under set or overset text frame.
David: Yes, right.
Anne-Marie: Right. How many handles are there? There’s eight handles, what
happens when you click on each handle, which way does the textbox
grow or shrink, which sometimes is counterintuitive.
David: I thought that was very good. No, the post in general, just the
whole idea of double-clicking on things, when you should double-
click, when you should single-click.
But I do think the option- or alt-click is the next post he needs
to tackle, of just what happens when you option- or alt-click on
everything.
Anne-Marie: I love this one. He did Top Ten like David Letterman, 10 through
one.
David: Right.
Anne-Marie: Number three is “Double Double-clicking in the Pages Panel”. “Your
first DC jumps you to the page. Your second DC fits that page in
the window.” He said, “Your third DC should enable InDesign to read
your mind and select the exact object you want on the page.”
[laughter]
Anne-Marie: Maybe in CS4.
David: Maybe. Maybe in CS4. I’m guessing, I don’t know, CS9.
Anne-Marie: Anything where it can read my mind, I like that kind of stuff.
David: Yeah, yeah. We can just hook you up to some EGs, and it’ll all work
out. OK. No, and that was great. Thank you for pointing out that
post. We’ll put a link to his, to Publicious in our show notes so
everybody can read those.
Anne-Marie: Yeah.
David: Hey, we should move on quickly here to the Obscure InDesign Feature
of the Week [sound] eek, eek, eek, eek, eek, eek, eek, eek.
Anne-Marie: Eek, eek, eek, eek, eek, Eek.
David: Eek.
[laughter]
David: Which is…
Anne-Marie: Download “PPD” Fonts.
David: Oh, yes, the download…
Anne-Marie: Download PPD Fonts. Do you need the “F’in” key for that?
David: You need the F’in key for the PPD fonts. PPD. What is a PPD Fonts?
And how can you download them?
Anne-Marie: I think it’s PostScript Printer Description?
David: That’s good! Excellent work.
Anne-Marie: I won the Quizzler! I won the Quizzler.
[laughter]
David: The PostScript Printer Description is the PPD, and that is a
description for your particular device, your PostScript device.
Anne-Marie: That’s right.
David: And it tells InDesign, or whatever program’s reading the PPD, what
your device can do, what kind of paper it can handle, among other
things, what kind of fonts are native on that printer.
And so if it says that it has Times New Roman and Arial and
Souvenir, or whatever, then InDesign says, OK, well I guess I don’t
need to download those fonts whenever I use those fonts, because
they’re native on a printer. Well, that’s not always a good choice,
not always a good choice. Sometimes you want InDesign to boot
those.
Anne-Marie: No, I think it’s very seldom a good choice. I would hardly ever do
that.
David: Yeah, the problem is, the fonts that are on your computer may not
be exactly the same as the fonts that are on the printer itself.
Anne-Marie: Right.
David: So in general, you would want to actually download your fonts, even
the fonts that are listed in the PPD as being part of the printer,
you want to download your fonts to the printer to have them print.
And that’s what that Download PPD Fonts checkbox is all about. We
didn’t even say where it is, did we? We’d better mention that.
Anne-Marie: No. It’s in the printer dialogue box under.
David: Right. I think it’s graphics, isn’t it? It’s a bizarre placement.
Anne-Marie: Yes, you’re absolutely right, graphics. I skip graphics, because
I’m thinking it can’t possibly… Right. Under Images, Send Data,
Optimize Subsampling, that part?
David: Yeah.
Anne-Marie: Fonts. Download. Complete, None, or Subset, and then with a
checkmark underneath for Download PPD Fonts, Yes or No.
David: Right.
Anne-Marie: Is that on by default? I thought it was on by, maybe, it might not
be on by default, but you should turn it on, because who knows
where those fonts have been, the ones sitting in your printer.
[laughter]
Anne-Marie: You know? They’re like round-heel fonts. They will be installed in
any printer that has the right money, so I would use my own pure,
virgin fonts on my computer that I know where they came from, and
send those.
David: Right. And this idea, it’s an idea of core importance on a couple
of posts that came up on InDesignSecrets Blog this week.
Anne-Marie: Yeah.
David: One is having to do with fonts that have the same name, and then
Anne-Marie, you pointed out this whole thing about small caps, and
sometimes people having problems with special characters that
disappear. You print it, and the characters just disappear.
Anne-Marie: Right.
David: One of the solutions for characters just disappearing is to turn on
this Download PPD Fonts checkbox. And in most cases that seems to
fix it.
Anne-Marie: Yeah.
David: So that’s an important one.
Anne-Marie: And that’s a great Obscure Feature.
David: Yeah. It’s good, it’s good. Turn it on, leave it on, make sure that
you’re downloading all of your fonts, even the ones that are listed
in the PPD files. Just say ignore that PPD altogether.
Actually, I should say one other thing there. You mentioned in the
Graphics pane of the Print Dialogue box, there are several options
for what you want to do with downloading your fonts, and you said
None, which means just don’t download them at all, which, I’m not
sure why you’d want to do that. I suppose for speed, if you were
just trying to get something out really, really fast and you
already knew the fonts were there, I suppose. I don’t know.
Anne-Marie: I really have no idea, that’s a very good question.
David: That’s kind of weird. Sub-setting is the other option, which is
sort of tempting, again, I’m using a font, and I want to print as
fast as possible. Don’t send the entire font to the printer…
Anne-Marie: Just the characters that I use.
David: Just send the characters that I use, and I guess my feeling is, you
know, if you’re worried about that level of speed, I don’t know.
Just get a faster network or something. I just, again, I can’t see
why you would want to do that.
Anne-Marie: But I think it’s there because some people have a font with, you
know, 5000 glyphs in the font. They don’t need to download every
single glyph just to print out a sentence in that font.
David: Yeah.
Anne-Marie: I mean, in Preferences, I think maybe it might be better to, well,
no, maybe not. There is a setting in Preferences in General for
when it should always subset fonts, and I would assume that this
overrides whatever you set there in the Print Dialogue box.
David: That’s a very good point. The Preference setting is “Always subset
fonts with glyph counts greater than 2000″, so if you have…
Anne-Marie: And you can type in whatever character count you want, with glyph
counts.
David: Right. That’s a good point. So even if you say, send the entire
font, if you’re working with a really large character set that has
more than 2000 fonts, or whatever you type there, it would then
still subset, and I think that’s probably a good enough failsafe
that I would leave the font downloading set to Complete, and then
make sure there’s always, Subset Fonts is up there. That seems like
a reasonable choice.
Anne-Marie: All right. That is it for Episode 77. Be sure to check out the show
notes on our blog at InDesignSecrets.com where we’ll have links to
all the places we mentioned.
We’d love to hear what you thought about the show. Leave a comment
in the show notes or email us at info@indesignsecrets.com. And
until we meet again, this is David Blatner and…
David: Anne-Marie Concepción for InDesignSecrets.
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