[Mike Gondek]

Search InDesign help for states

Choose Window > Interactive > States to display the States panel.
Using the Selection tool , select the button in the layout that you want to edit.
Do one of the following:
In the States panel, select a preset option from the Appearance menu. The preset options create slightly different button appearances for the Up, Rollover, and Down states.

From the States panel menu, choose New State to create the Rollover state. Choose New State again to create the Down state. If the Up, Down, and Rollover states exist, the New State option is dimmed.

To change the appearance of a state, do any of the following:
To place a text file or image in the state, select the state in the States panel, and then either choose File > Place or choose Place Content Into State from the States panel menu. Double-click the filename of the text or graphic.

To paste an image or a text frame, copy it to the Clipboard, select the state in the States panel, and then choose Edit > Paste Into.

To type text, select the state in the States panel. Using the Type tool, click the button and type the text. For buttons converted from other objects such as placed images, choose Delete Content From States from the States panel menu, click OK to delete the contents, and then use the Type tool to click on the button and enter the text.

Use the Control panel to format the text. Use the Text Frame Options dialog box to center the text within the button.
To change the stroke and fill of the state’s contents (such as a text frame), select the state in the States panel and use the Direct Selection tool to select the button contents. In the Swatches panel, select the Fill or Stroke icon and specify whether the stroke applies to text or the frame, and then click a color in the Swatches panel. You can also use the Stroke or Color panel to change the appearance.

[Mike Gondek]

Ouch I hate that. Sorry I just rebuilt my machine only have CS3. Many poeple have downloaded thew tryout version which works for 30 days to get around this problem.

Does anyone have CS2 on their machine out there to help Crystal convert a file?? All you have to do is export and choose interchange format.

[Mike Gondek]

After Effects has a great shatter effect for doing this.

Photoshop is not a 3D program, but Alien Skin makes a set of filters called Xenofx which has shatter and cracks.

[Mike Gondek]

open your vector logo in illustrator
File > Document Color Mode > RGB
Select Your Logo
Edit > Edit Colors > Convert to RGB

If You have an older version of illustrator, I believe convert to colors was in the filter menu.

This should fix it. If illustrator making he colors look different than in your video program, turn color management off in illustrator. In worst case manually change the RGB values in Illustrator as your vector shapes are in RGB now.

[Mike Gondek]

Have no document open and set your prefereneces > units & increments. All new documents will then use your new unti of measurement as the default.

Many people do this to get away from Picas and set their units to Inches in the USA.

[Mike Gondek]

Do a file > Adobe PDF Presets > PDF/X-4 2007

or any of the PDF/X format you have depending on your version of InDesign.

PDF/X is just an ISO standard of settings developed as a standard for excahnging files with print shops, and though most PDF formats are acceptable as long as the image resolution is not reduced or overly compressed and stays CMYK.

Every print shop may have their own rules, but if they did not give you a spec sheet, then they shouold be happy enough with PDF/X.

[Mike Gondek]

Sorry to have been away for so long. Most all printers cannot print to the edge of the paper, becausue the gripper has to grab the paper, and ink/varnish at the edge would make it impossible to for the printer to grab the paper. Also if the printer allowed ink to be printed o the edge then there si a good chance ink would get on the rollers, then inside the printer, and then it hardens with the heat and damages your printer.

Now you mentioned that you are able to print closer to the edge from other programs. In that case

1)Make sure you have the correct driver for the printer selected. The n click print > setup > advanced and look over those settings ( I can’t tell you what setting to look for cause it is different with every printer, and I don’t have yours).

2)I would recommend printing your InDesign document to a PDF file, and printing that from Acrobat.

[Mike Gondek]

try drawing a rectangle slightly larger than your object and choose object >> crop area.

[Mike Gondek]

The activation seems to be good since it is greyed out. Since I do not have save as a version or jump, my best guess is this comes from version que, which is something Adobe will install unless you uncheck it during the install process. The general consensu about version que is that it does more harm, than good.

Try resetting your preferences or remove version que if you do not use it.

[Mike Gondek]

Are you sure that there is nothing there? Do an unlock all and check to see if a layer is locked. Theehn do a select all to see if anything in that area gets selected.

A stray point might casue this.

As a test export this to a bitmapped format and open in photoshop.