Comments on: Your Forgotten Friend – The Info Panel

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:08:18 +0000

@Suzie X: I don’t think there is a way to find out who edited the file. You can cmd/ctrl select About InDesign to get a document history — that says “when” but not “who.”

By: Suzie X, Freedom Fighter for the Cause

Suzie X, Freedom Fighter for the Cause — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:45:56 +0000

Is there any way to see who last edited and saved the InDesign document if they didn’t complete the File Info (like you can see in that widely-used non-layout typing program Microsoft puts out in File | Summary | Statistics)? As in, which beloved co-worker went into a master document and “enhanced” it in ways that are difficult to appreciate?

Not one to confront without evidence, just wondering.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:23:43 +0000

@James

The data is only displaying for jpg images. It doesn’t work with eps files on any of the office macs. Bizarre.

By: James Fritz

James Fritz — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:45:21 +0000

@simon,

CS5 still shows that information in the info panel. Although if your photo has been converted to a button or has an animation effect you need to select the contents to see that info.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:11:12 +0000

Is it just me or does the info panel in CS5 fail to show actual and effective ppi for eps images whereas CS3 was able to show this info?

By: James Fritz

James Fritz — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:57:11 +0000

@Jongware – I didn’t know that about the single character! Thanks for the tip. I just updated my posted and credited you for the tip.

By: Jongware

Jongware — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:34:26 +0000

Sorry — ate my pointy brackets and no Edit Post …
Type into Find as <….>, where the dots stand for the four Unicode code characters in the Info panel.

By: Jongware

Jongware — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:32:42 +0000

Under Text, you missed this one:
Select any single character and it will show its Unicode in regular U+xxxx format.

I use it to identify pink squares — is it just some random glyph from a badly encoded font, or one I know I can get from another font?
(And you can insert the Unicode into the Find field as — without the U+ part, but I wouldn’t mind if the Info panel supported Copy for that.)

By: Eugene Tyson

Eugene Tyson — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:38:42 +0000

James – that’s a great post. I love the info panel, I use it all the time.

As well as Effective PPI , I’d love to be able to just type in 300 ppi into the Effective PPI area and the image scales to the right size for 300 ppi. I know that an image with 72 ppi placed at 24% is 300 ppi, but I’d still like to be able to just select and image and and resize it to PPI.

Or perhaps a little drop down menu

72
150
300

I think I’d find that useful

Great post though – people should use the Info Panel religiously.

The other expansion to the info panel, it should be able to count all characters in the document, currently it will only count them in a story. Currently I have to do some clever GREP search and replace to get a character count for an entire document – or even book.

By: James Fritz

James Fritz — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:51:41 +0000

When I was writing the post I thought I had remembered it as “ant turd”, but searching the site for “ant turd” didn’t bring up any hits. When I searched for “ant” your old transcript came up and I found the reference to “ant poop”.

Maybe you should make a t-shirt about “ant poop”:)