[Mike Moqu]

Guys,
one thing to take into consideration is that exporting eps files can resolve many issues, often easily overlooked by team when in a rush for deadline – such as transparency or font issues.
As EPS cannot handle many of the things that PDFs do that cause big press RIPs to ‘misrepresent’ the print we can avoid little errors by using eps from indesign and distilling with distiller.

I was put onto inExport from http://www.mymacmac.com recently for this as these days so many variations are coming through in our supplied indesign jobs (outsourced) – had to change to eps just to check over everything that extra time.

cheers

Mike m

[Mike Moqu]

1. make sure you have Postscript fonts.
2. check you embed the fonts
3. check flattening and transparency settings on the objects that do not work as expected – you do not want RGB and CMYK objects to overlap or be used in the same document (use CMYK) – drop shadow requires high resolution flattening to be applied.
4. export as eps and distill in distiller – best way to ensure everything will work.

fast export with InExport free from apple downloads page (Apple only), try java script from the java dev website – they offer a wide range of scripts (if you are familiar with java).

cheers

mike m

[Mike Moqu]

Michael,
Look up InBooklet in your indesign help menu, should do the trick.
If you are looking to export as eps or pdf as individual files try inExport – think its available free from apple software downloads

mike m

[Mike Moqu]

Paul,
I am not entirely sure I understand the plan, but it sounds like you have linked text boxes throughout your document of which you occasionally have a reversed page for the start of ‘chapter’?

If you know how many pages you have in each chapter you can always use https://www.mymacmac.com/InDemand/InDemand.html which you don’t need to link the text boxes on each page, as long as there are not more than 20 paragraphs per section. Or just collect the text into files as pages/chapters and have indemand place those.
If you just use indesign you could try XML tagging as Chapter page1 for each chapter but that will require you to tag each chapter page 1 manually.
Have not had a lot of experience with XML sorry.

best of luck
Mike M

[Mike Moqu]

Mike 1 is spot on. 🙂
where I work we have found that because we do not use consistent styles that we have a default setup as suggested, however because we mainly focus on display advertisements we use a tool called indemand which records a paragraph and its variations then creates a style modal for us. This works out better for us because we can paste the text from one document from another without the text inheriting the styling from the new document. we got indemand from http://www.mymacmac.com but there are other style modal apps on tucows.com also.
I personally just build a style modal that is plain Helvetica PS so I can be sure to remove all bad font attributes such as “courier” from imported text from our reps!

cheers

Mike M

[Mike Moqu]

Have you tried sourcing a reverse font? From Linotype or something?

Consider pasting in a black rectangle (create in indesign) into the text box then on the next line (after return) have the white text with a large baseline shift, then the following line just have 0 leading. Should do the trick.

If the publication is modular based then we use InDemand from http://www.mymacmac.com. Also have heard of some people using scripts on the adobe forums at http://www.adobe.com