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  • Overwrite Default Workspace Settings

    Posted by Bilart on February 6, 2006 at 2:04 pm

    Hi all,
    Can anybody share information how to overwrite defaul settings for the workspace. I kow you can create your custom settings and choose it later. I could overwrite PDF, New Documents, etc. but I cannot find the way to tweak workspaces. Any ideas, guys?

    Thanks
    Artur.

    Kelly Johnson replied 20 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Erica Gamet

    February 18, 2006 at 12:51 am

    The default is not changeable…at least not through the user interface. I’m sure there’s some way to hack it. The workspace is an .xml file kept in your Library folder. Out of curiosity, why change the default? Once you create a workspace and select it, that will be the workspace that appears.

  • Bilart

    February 19, 2006 at 11:40 am

    Unfortunately I work with bunch of ‘muppets’ and explaining that custom workspaces you can load at any time, save for later modify etc, doesn’t work. Every time something happens (and happens very often, belive me I don’t know how they are doing it), reseting to default workspace, I have to change and explain to each one of them, Unfortunately I am responsible for smooth transition from Quark otherwise they wouldn’t even consider using InDesign. Their way is why “why learn something different, Quark is still good and everyone knows how to use it, blah, blah, blah” That’s why I wanted to create Default working set and have this problem off my shoulders.

    I think I’ll create my custom workspace, open it later in Text Edit or whatever else and paste the content over to Default.xml.

    Thanks
    Artur

  • Bilart

    February 19, 2006 at 12:30 pm

    it worked. I’ve copied over content of my custom workspace into the default one and I am all set, using Text Edit (simple as that – thanks)

    Artur

  • Kelly Johnson

    February 19, 2006 at 3:51 pm

    That’s a great find!

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