[Dwayne Smith]

G’day Debbie

This has got nothing to do with InDesign — it’s an Acrobat thing.
Check Page Display under your View menu.
To force it to open that way on other machines change the Initial View settings under File > Properties.

Hope that makes sense.

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[Dwayne Smith]

G’day Matt

That’s a weird one. You don’t somehow have cells within cells do you?
(although I expect you’d see these as distinct frames)

Try selecting the entire table and using your control panel to set all the borders to 0pt.
Do you still see any keylines?
If not then set them all to 1pt and see if things look better.

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[Dwayne Smith]

G’day Jeff

Vector files CAN have a low resolution if you are using things like gradients or dropshadows or whatnot.

Open the file in Illustrator and go to Effect > Document Raster Effects Settings…

See if that fixes things

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[Dwayne Smith]

G’day

This comes from the Adobe site for CS4 — probably similar for later versions

Restarting a numbered list
Place the insertion point in the paragraph and choose Restart Numbering from the context menu or choose Type > Bulleted And Numbered Lists > Restart Numbering…

Continuing a numbered list
Choose Continue Numbering from the context menu or choose Type > Bulleted And Numbered Lists > Continue Numbering…

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[Dwayne Smith]

Yep, that works too… if you have acrobat pro and if all (or most, I guess) of your readers are using acrobat reader. but there’s a whole bunch of pdf readers out there now and not all of them will honour the acrobat settings (eg. Preview doesn’t).

The best thing about that method is it leaves the file as individual pages — making it easier for printing.

It really depends on how you want your reader to interact with the document.

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[Dwayne Smith]

G’day,

Just select ‘spreads’ in your PDF export options — the same way you would in the print dialog if you wanted to print spreads.

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[Dwayne Smith]

G’day

Sounds like an interesting little problem. CS by itself is not gong to get you there but you could automate a huge chunk of this with a script.

I know Applescript can handle the placing of the image and the generation of the PDF — no worries. You’d work it so that the script is triggered when the backend saves the image into a ‘watched’ folder. Applescript may even be able to handle the upload and notification — depending on which software you’re using.

The big issue would be error handling. What happens if InDesign isn’t running when the image comes down? What happens if InDesign crashes as it exports the PDF? etc.

I guess the other issue would be how long your user is prepared to wait for their download.

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[Dwayne Smith]

G’day Olivia

In CS5 yes — there’s a new span/split function. Highlight the text you want to work with then choose ‘Split 2’ (or whatever) from the dropdown at the far right of the control panel.

Any earlier version you have to use a separate text frame.

Hope that’s what you’re looking for.

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[Dwayne Smith]

G’day Rebecca

Looks like you’re still waiting for an answer…

There’s no easy way to do this. You can delete all your coloured swatches and replace with black — but that only gets you part way there.

Any coloured line work and panels could be copied to Illustrator, converted to greyscale and copied back — but that’s only efficient if you’ve got a lot of it. Imported ai and eps files need to be converted in Illustrator.

Photographic images need to be corrected in greyscale to get the best results (just a straight conversion is seldom good enough).

Probably not the answer you were hoping for.
Good luck with it.

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[Dwayne Smith]

G’day Connie

Check out Text Variables under your Type menu.

You’ll probably first want to ‘define’ your own custom variable — most likely based on the Modification Date default that’s already there (which also lists time down to the minute).

Then insert your variable into a text frame on the master page and style it the way you would any other text.

Hope that helps

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