Comments on: Roundup of InDesign CS5 Features (Honest, this time)

By: Laura Vee

Laura Vee — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:29:30 +0000

Hi there, I just got CS5 after much tumble and toil. It still doesn’t import SVG or save out an SVG without having to get a 3rd-party plugin. Have any of you any experience in using an SVG workflow for print? Theortically it shouldn’t work, I’m just wondering. BTW, I’ll be at the conference hopefully next month.

By: Shobi

Shobi — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 07:03:47 +0000

Seems so much perfection in your work for me its a great tutorial Thank you, and I look forward to reading more.

By: Deb McCabe

Deb McCabe — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:49:05 +0000

Can you no longer print an interactive .pdf?

I’ve created one for a client and no one seems to be able to print it after page 2 (the first two pages will print) except me. I am able to print the entire document. I sent the doc out to few others who also can’t print anything other than pages 1 and 2.

It’s a catalog that will generally be used online as an interactive document but some folks may want to print it out.

any ideas?

thanks
deb

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:40:08 +0000

@journalchick: No, I don’t think you’re missing anything. Let’s say you have three columns, and each column can contain 30 lines. If the first two columns of the frame are full and the last column has only 28 lines, then what can InDesign do? If you leave Vertical Justification at Top, then the last column is not “bottomed out.” If you set it to Justified, then the last last line is “feathered” — leading or spacing is added to get the last line to bottom out.

If you edit it, removing some text so that there are only 27 lines in the last column, then InDesign can “balance” the columns so that you’ll have 29 lines in each column (including the third). But other than editing, I don’t think there’s any solution to get what you’d want.

By: journalchick

journalchick — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:49:04 +0000

David, not really.
I’ve read through this already.
Perhaps the new “balance columns” doesn’t truly balance the way we would expect it to… it seems to by going by old typographer’s term for “balanced” — all columns EXCEPT the last column are even across the bottom.
I work on a magazine, we want the columns to balance all the way across, with no feathering at the end (as what happens when columns are justified).
Currently, we edit the text or kern it out a little to get the columns to balance.
Maybe I’m missing something??

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:44:02 +0000

Does this blog post help? http://indesignsecrets.com/vertical-justification-balance.php

By: journalchick

journalchick — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:30:50 +0000

Question about this:
“Balanced Columns. You have a three-column text frame, but the text doesn’t fill to the end. You can now “bottom out” all three columns, aligning their lower baselines automatically, by turning on the Balance Columns checkbox in the Text Frame Options dialog box.”

What does “bottom out” mean exactly?

I’ve tried this and it doesn’t balance across the columns (even text, no feathering, as with “justify”)

Am I missing something??

By: Rae Benedetto

Rae Benedetto — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:33:54 +0000

Interactive Export Buggy?

Has anyone else experienced problems with the interactive export working one minute and then the next day everything’s not working — under OSX? I’ve worked for a couple of days on this — got up today and now it is totally not working.

Yes, I’ve tried rebooting, reloading and making a fresh, brand new Indesign file. Don’t know what else to do! Yesterday things looked great.

Today, the animation shifts, things are cutoff. Preview looks great in Indesign, but ID will not build an interactive PDF properly.

At first I thought, Wow, this is great. Now I’m beginning to wonder if all those naysayers who talk about bloating aren’t right. Building a product that tries to do everything is not always a good idea. If this is normal behavior for ID, I think serious animation builders would skip this nonsense and work directly in Flash.

By: web development

web development — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 04:57:36 +0000

its really very good desing i apriciated u and thanks to Michael! post such a internsting information

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:18:13 +0000

@Brian (April 12th): so well put. I’m feeling your pain right now as I use the same !@#$ footnote kludge to include some footnotes in separate text boxes…