[Dwayne Smith]

This is a weird instruction for the 21st Century.
Such a specification belongs to the days when you would supply a printer with filmwork for them to create the plates from. It’s been nigh on 20 years since I’ve supplied anything but digital files to a printer.

Line screen — also known as screen ruling — is a measure of the ‘resolution’ of the printed piece. It’s a measure of lines-per-inch, which translates to the number of dots per inch on the printed page — the more dots you can print in an inch, the finer the image appears. 150LPI is now fairly typical for standard offset printing, it used to be 133LPI. Newspapers use a screen ruling more like 75-85LPI — thats why the images look rougher — fewer dots per inch = larger dots.

SO … color profile is irrelevant to this specification.

The general rule is that the resolution of the digital files should be double the screen ruling being printed at. So, as long as your digital files are 300ppi, you’ll fall within this printer’s dodgy spec.

[Dwayne Smith]

Select your text tool.
Make sure no text frames are selected.
Select the font/size/etc. you want as default in your control panel.
(alternatively, select a paragraph style from the para styles panel).

Now draw a text frame. You’ll see it matches the default you set.

[Dwayne Smith]

G’day
Look at the book numbering options in the book panel (rather than the individual documents)

[Dwayne Smith]

Liquid Layout is found under the Layout menu.

It was designed for people who have to adapt layouts to different specifications (eg. different tablet screen sizes, or whatever). It shifts and resizes things based on rules (eg. align to margins, or whatever).

It is turned ON by default. But this is a STUPID choice by Adobe, because the vast majority of users don’t require this functionality and it just causes more problems than it solves.

Same with Live Preflight. A feature which is ON by default, but basically a pita.

[Dwayne Smith]

100% recommendation.
Your time savings will be astronomical.
Your frustration level will plummet.
:-)+)

and, if you’re on a Mac, you could even set up a script to automagically run through the whole turn off/turn on/export part of your process. saving even more time.

see the sort of stuff that can be done with applescript at my site : macgrunt.com

[Dwayne Smith]

See my response to your other post about items moving with master pages.

For this issue though, you are going about it in a difficult way.
If you just want to change branding content, it is much easier to set that up on separate layers and just turn on/off the layers as appropriate. Trying to reapply different masters throughout a document for such a simple change is really working waayyy too hard.

[Dwayne Smith]

Just draw a text frame and type in the text you want.
??

[Dwayne Smith]

Is there a difference? Yes!
Master pages are used as templates for your ‘regular’ pages. Master pages should hold content that is common to a bunch of pages in your document. Anything you do to a master will be reflected on the ‘regular’ pages you have applied it to.

As for content being moved around when applying a master …
Turn Liquid Layout off

hope that helps.

[Dwayne Smith]

That’s such an unusual way to align text, I can’t think of an easy way to achieve it.

The only other way which comes to mind is to use a narrow invisible frame (no fill, no stroke) with text wrap applied to it — use this to quickly push the second line across (the second line needs to be aligned left)

[Dwayne Smith]

G’day

You can’t ‘justify’ the table the same way you would with a block of text.
Instead you adjust the table column widths until the table is the same as the text frame. (eg. if your text frame is 100mm wide, the combined total of your column widths will add up to 100mm)

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