Erica Gamet
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Do you still need help with this? I’m a little late, I know! Not sure what you mean…are you talking about the dialog that comes up when you choose Export, etc.? Are you on Windows or Mac? Thanks…let us know if you still have this problem…or if you found your disks!!
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Normally I would recommend ALAP’s InTools…which allows you to select objects on your page and put crops around them…HOWEVER…very recently Quark bought ALAP and from the looks of their site, there are no Plug-ins for InD available anymore…though I’m sure you can get a good deal on the XTension!! This sucks because ALAP makes the InBooklet plugin that comes built into CS2…I’m sure it will be absent from CS3.
Check places like ThePowerXChange.com and pluginsworld.com to see if anything does the trick. Maybe someone you know would sell you their copy of InTools…
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Any luck with this yet? I’ve had no problem moving palettes from a left (main) display to a right display. I can either dock the palettes on the right hand side of the left display, or force them to jump to the right hand display.
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Are you just trying to find a nice grey to print CMYK? If you Shift+Click on the color spectrum in the colors palette, you will switch between CMYK, RGB, and L*A*B. If you’re tired of mixing colors, go to your Swatches palette, choose New, select Pantone as your Swatch library and choose a nice grey from there. Just be sure to tell InDesign to print as process (either in the Swatches palette or when outputting in the Ink Manager). If you choose a Pantone (from the Process book) you’ll know what the color will actually look like, instead of relying on your screen to portray color accurately.
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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.
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What device are you printing to? If it’s to a RIP device (or using a RIP PPD) the setting could be there. Also, make sure you’re using the correct PPD and make sure Flip and negative are NOT set in the output section of the print dialog box. There may also be a setting you have chosen in the printer specific section (Print dialog>Printer button>Print Options pull down option) that is controlling that.
Just a couple of things to check…
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You need a third-party plug-in for that. It’s Woodwing Software’s SmartStyles. It’s great for re-using tables and also for formatting text frames. For instance, you might want paragraph 1 to be in one style, the next using another style, etc. You can save that style and apply it to other text frames. Works like a Library. They’re at: https://www.woodwing.com/. Good luck!
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One way to “cheat” it might be to use tabs inside the cells of the table to work the text manually around the graphic. To use a tab inside a cell, choose Option-Tab. Doing just Tab will send your cursor to the next cell.
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If I understand correctly, you have a line art file (say from Photoshop) that you want to be able to make black or white in InD when you need it to switch…I assume so that you don’t have to import different artwork each time (have a blac version and a white one). If you have a .psd file with a transparent background, place the .psd file directly in InD. Then, with the Direct selection tool, choose the graphic (when you first select a frame with the Direct Selection tool, you’ll actually be selecting the path that makes up the frame…clicking a second time will select the graphic) and then choose a color from your swatches palette. The .psd can’t be flattened, since flattening strips out any transparency that InD will need to show the background through your graphic. Hope that makes sense.
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You can also assign each tool a second (or new) keyboard shortcuts under Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts. Go to the tools dropdown menu and choose the tool you want to assign a new shortcut to. The default shortcut will be listed, but you can enter another one (I use the F keys) and choose Assign and then OK. Make sure the shortcut you assign does not say Assigned To any other key, first, though…