[Jacki Schklar]

You can export story by story that way Mike, but I believe it does not export the whole document, which is what I want. You can export all the layout text from a pdf, but it is not formatting exactly how I need for some file comparisons. I did go ahead and download that tool and it’s AWESOME. I think. Only had time to try it once. But it worked and the text was formated really nicely.

I also got the trial of InCopy and it seems like too much trouble to deal with for this purpose.

[Jacki Schklar]

https://rorohiko.com/

I was given this on the Adobe forum, it has a text exporter for InDesign to .rtf or .txt.

Has anyone used these?

Also, more importantly, does InDesign CS3 have the capability to do this? I’ll wait if it does. We’ll get CS3 at some point.

[Jacki Schklar]

I have found learngroup in several google searches for training, but have not met any trainers or known of anyone who went there. I’ve been to about 10 media local media associations and have never heard any buzz about them.

For my multi-page .ai I also had to change some printer settings and make the page sixe really big. Then I made it and it was just white, so I selected all of the art and moved it to that outlined space on the pasteboard and then it shows up. I don’t know if moving it all around is Kosher, but that is the only way I could get it to work.

[Jacki Schklar]

Somehow I hit the right combinantion of unplugging things and holding down the shift key after 20 times, no idea why it finally worked or would not before. I had tried it so many times…Deleted cache. Re-established server connections. It works…Maybe I had tried to reboot with the shift but off the network, and when I plugged the network back in it was ok.

[Jacki Schklar]

Stated that backwards, sorry. CMYK actually works better…The K(black) keeps the dark tones so you are just playing with color…

[Jacki Schklar]

What file/application type are the images you are “importing” and how are you doing that? The grey and white means transparent, so if something you import makes it white, that is bad.

Someone else will know about the best file type for FCP, but I’d try a tif, unflattened.

[Jacki Schklar]

Those are original artwork, not from photos.

But experiment with art filters. It does not take long to click on a filter and look at the results or check out the filter gallery.

-Filter
-Filter gallery

You might like this:
-Image
-Adjustments
-Threshold

[Jacki Schklar]

It’s sorta cheating, but I think it looks cool to actually scan flat objects and import those. Gives you that 3D look. Do your sponge painting with fairly thick paint on white paper, let it dry completely, and scan and import that and get rid of the background. Same for blood…Red acrylic paint sorta thick, make your smudge, scan it. Ink spot too…I think this looks really cool.

[Jacki Schklar]

-Filter
-Extract

You draw across the edges and it looks green where you make your separation. Then it extracts for you. This tool used to be terrible in older versions but has improved. I suggest people who have not played with it in CS2 give it another whirl.

[Jacki Schklar]

-Filter
-Extract

You draw across the edges and it looks green where you make your separation. Then it extracts for you. This tool used to be terrible in older versions but has improved. I suggest people who have not played with it in CS2 give it another whirl.