[Kelly Johnson]

Thanks Richard! Looking forward to the book… I still use your After Effects on the Spot.

[Kelly Johnson]

Thanks for those details! I only have to make a still scene. After messing around, Photoshop is the fastest. I just wanted the ability to put a camera anywhere so now I’ve just rendered a snow/mountain w/a camera and added tracks via Photoshop.

Thanks again-
Kelly

[Kelly Johnson]

Thanks, yeah just resizing the window is pretty simple!

[Kelly Johnson]

Have you solved this? If you remember what you were naming the file, just search for that via Spotlight.

Remember the “Recent Items” under the blue apple.. that can be a lifesaver in this kind of instance!

[Kelly Johnson]

Are you entering names one after the other on the same line as above, or will you have a list of names?

You might need to add something like a thin-space character before each name and use that special character as the ‘stop applying’ mark for the sheet.

Style sheets are applied to a hard return by default or whatever character you tell it to stop so a block of text gets it all until it detects a return (new paragraph).

Having multiple names of varying lengths would be tricky unless you use the trick above by inserting some special character (a thin space won’t show and is minimal) before or after each name….then you can specify in the nested style to apply the style until that character shows up.

THEN, you use Apply Next Style so that it ‘loops’

When I get to the office tomorrow, I’ll post something I did that was pretty complex (and made me proud I must say) that will illustrate the concept.

[Kelly Johnson]

Well, technically, you can’t have a ‘justified center’ word because Justified means the left and right margins are the same. However, if you are trying to use tabs and center a word (as in over a column) then make sure the little arrow in the Tabs box is straight instead of ‘bent.’

Pull up the tabs window and click on the little arrow that will be just above your word with the tab. Then, while the arrow is highlighted, choose Center.

Bear in mind that it will center the word under that tab; not center the word within a column so you might want to pull some guides to create your left/right ‘margins’ and then pull the tab to the center of that.

[Kelly Johnson]

Well, you could probably get this effect by using a Bottom Rule offset enough to have the text centered. Then, you would use the setting to apply the rule… I can’t think of it offhand but it’s not “indent”

Look under Rules and you’ll get it

[Kelly Johnson]

I might be a little confused. Have you tried setting up styles in Word that match exactly (same name as well) as those in InDesign?

At a publishing company I used to work for, we set that up so styles in both programs would be the same and very little clean up was needed when importing/exporting the doc between the two.

XML is a possibility, but I’m not real hip on how or what the latest Word can do with xml.

Another way, although the upfront time would be more, is to set up a web-based form with fields that correspond to the products that repeat…like Title, sub-head, description etc.

Then, that information can be parsed into xml and flowed into InDesign fields that you set up to receive xml content which would already have the styles applied.

That’s kind of involved to set up, but again the place I worked for had that set up so guest authors could submit their articles via the net from anywhere in the world and the information came into InDesign with tags for stylesheets and it was automatically applied.

[Kelly Johnson]

What do you mean, “processing” a file.. do you mean you were trying to print the file or create a pdf?

inx format is really only used to save a backwards compatible file for someone using CS2 or even CS if the file isn’t using specific CS2 actions.

[Kelly Johnson]

one way I would try is to open the last frame (by exporting the frame), in Photoshop and create the cracks as you would like.

Then, use the Write-On effect to reveal the cracks as needed.

You can make duplicate copies of the layer and reveal different parts of the cracks.

Seems like you might need a little shake added and offsetting the ground over time as well.

That’s just one idea.